this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
621 points (98.1% liked)

Today I Learned

26772 readers
617 users here now

What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**



Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.



Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 4) 42 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago

Anybody know what this nonsense says? I'm having a hard time reading it.

[–] nostrauxendar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good lord I'm sick of hearing about that big dumb country. The post filtering via keyword doesn't seem to work reliably on Eternity, might switch apps. But will deffo just take a break from the fediverse I think. Get outside innit.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Mapping this to age to help.

"The internet" says grade 6 = 11-12yo, which for my reference is Year 7 in NZ, or the first year of intermediate (Y7 and Y8; between primary and secondary school) which is a fairly low bar.

So I checked the OECD and we are basically average; just above the US in the 2023 data. So better but not much better.

[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

To be fair, newspapers back in the day aimed to write for a 6-8th grade reading level here in the US.

At this point though, I've been told that this is basically functional illiteracy here.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile I vividly recall my 2nd grade teacher giving me a weird look for reading Stephen King in the classroom.

[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Damn, and I thought I was doing good reading 6 grades above my level.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I googled a map of US literacy by county. Interesting view.

I'd love to see a combo map of literacy and who the county voted for in the last presidential election by county.

I mean, I know how it's going to read but still.

[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So mostly good Vorin men and some women a little below average?

Didn't I see this post yesterday but it was 81% and 3rd grade level?

[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

And as someone pointed out, that is basically functional illiteracy.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm somewhat literate to be fair, as I could probably go above 6th grade. I'm not sure how high I could go, but I'm higher than most Americans (as far as I'm aware). Autism is a limiting factor, but I weaponize it on some level sometimes.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›