- TIL that India has less than 2% of global traffic volumes, but more than 10% of global traffic deaths http://www.dailyo.in/politics/road-safety-motor-vehicles-amendment-bill-accidents-traffic-solutions/story/1/18548.html 3 comments india
- TIL At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. http://globalheritagefund.org/our_approach/poverty_facts 378 comments worldnews
- TIL: Jeff Bagwell Stole 18 More Bases Than Ken Griffey Jr. Despite Playing in 521 Less Games [Trivia] http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/sunday-notes-tal-smith-scouting-padres-orioles-cloninger-more/ 197 comments baseball
- TIL about some less known Indian mobile phone companies http://www.bqmobile.com/index.html 11 comments india
- TIL that this is the first time that Congress has secured less than 100 seats in general elections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/indian_national_congress#in_general_elections 3 comments india
- TIL that since 1985 there have been 86 double-doubles with 9 points or less and 25 of those were from Jason Kidd http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?request=1&player_id=&match=game&year_min=&year_max=&age_min=0&age_max=99&team_id=&opp_id=&is_playoffs=N&round_is_eds=Y&round_is_edf=Y&round_is_ec1=Y&round_is_ecs=Y&round_is_ecf=Y&round_is_wds=Y&round_is_wdf=Y&round_is_wc1=Y&round_is_wcs=Y&round_is_wcf=Y&round_is_fin=Y&game_num_type=&game_num_min=&game_num_max=&game_month=&game_location=&game_result=&is_starter=&is_active=&is_hof=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&c1stat=pts&c1comp=lt&c1val=9&c2stat=&c2comp=gt&c2val=&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&is_dbl_dbl=Y&order_by=pts#stats::none 11 comments nba
- TIL a life is worth less than 32 million... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-reason-school-buses-dont-have-seat-belts-2012-9#ixzz2mmjpjypa 3 comments politics
- TIL: More than 99% of groups with order less than 2000 have order 1024, and furthermore it is conjectured that almost all finite groups are 2-groups. http://math.stackexchange.com/q/241369/12952 23 comments math
- TIL: The Caps Lock button on a Mac is less sensative than other buttons so you don't accidentally turn it on https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5k0v8k/til_the_caps_lock_button_on_a_mac_is_less/ 89 comments apple
- TIL: 33% of Indians live in less space than US prisoners http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/33-of-indians-live-in-less-space-than-us-prisoners/articleshow/3753189.cms 49 comments india
- TIL one week's worth of middle class pay can buy you less gas in 2012 than it could in 1982 http://www.inflationtrends.com/ 4 comments politics
- TIL that yanking a USB drive w/o manually ejecting on Windows is less likely to cause data corruption than OSX/Linux. http://lifehacker.com/5863810/do-i-really-need-to-eject-usb-drives-before-removing-them 19 comments windows
- TIL Norway, the country with the highest Human Development Index, has higher taxes than the USA and their CEOs are much less greedy http://rethinkecon.org/2011/02/07/creating-good-jobs-how-can-norways-crazy-lefties-create-so-many-entrepreneurs/ 42 comments politics
- TIL that significantly fewer young people are getting their drivers license (and they're driving less) http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6882164/ 3 comments reddit.com
- TIL that George W. Bush created no less than three federal agencies for fighting terrorism. WOO SMALLER GOVERNMENT http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/20101563048564285.html 10 comments politics
- TIL: Bhopal Gas Tragedy is the worst industrial incident in the history with 3,787 to 19,000+ people dead. The next incident in the list has less than half the deaths with 1,549 people dead. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll#industrial_disasters 15 comments india
- TIL that in 2012-13, Chris Copeland played less minutes, attempted less, and made more field goals than Andrea Bargnani. http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pcm_finder.cgi?request=1&sum=0&p1=bargnan01&y1=2013&p2=copelch01&y2=2013 32 comments nba
- TIL the White Sox retired Harold Baines' number less than a month after trading him in 1989 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-08-05-8901020746-story.html 28 comments baseball
- TIL Mike Trout has a slightly higher career fWAR than Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero, despite playing in less than half as many games. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2017&month=0&season1=1871&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&players=0&page=4_50 82 comments baseball
- TIL Steve Jobs had 323 patents under his name. The founders of Google and Microsoft combined have less than 30. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html 282 comments apple
- TIL that Maradona's net worth is less than what Rooney makes in 2 days http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/richest-soccer/diego-maradona-net-worth/ 6 comments soccer
- TIL that when you're eating 'lamb', you're eating the meat of an animal that's less than 1 year old. I always thought it was just another word for 'sheep' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lamb_and_mutton#classifications_and_nomenclature 14 comments reddit.com
- TIL Indian free speech can be restricted in the interest/maintaince of public order. Vague and less freedom of speech compared to USA. https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/free-speech-and-public-order-1 4 comments india
- How the 2011 Lotus Renault livery was designed (TIL that black paint on an F1 car weighs less than white paint) https://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2011/01/gearing-up-for-new-car-launches-how-a-livery-is-decided/ 21 comments formula1
- TIL: At about $14B, the market capitalization of bitcoin is still somewhat less than the $30-40B market capitalization of IPv4 address space. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241941 11 comments btc
- TIL BSNL pays 53% of its revenue as salaries. Pvt operators pay less than 10% http://www.firstpost.com/business/heres-why-bsnl-is-in-red-more-than-half-its-earnings-go-as-wages-1016637.html 32 comments india
- TIL: Despite its reputation as being a rainy city, London receives less precipitation in a year than Rome, Bordeaux, Toulouse or Naples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/london#climate 8 comments europe
- TIL In 2014-2015 season the leading point scorer (Jamie Benn) only had 87 points... is this the only time in history where the art ross winner had less than 90 points (excluding lockout seasons) https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/6loijo/til_in_20142015_season_the_leading_point_scorer/ 24 comments hockey
- TIL that a red card costs a team about 1.45 goals over 90mins (you concede 0.95 more, and score 0.5 less). So after about 60mins, hacking down a striker as last man is the right choice http://thepowerofgoals.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/how-red-cards-effect-soccer-match.html?m=1 149 comments soccer
- A $5.4 billion plan to provide free generic drugs to millions. Also, TIL only seven governments in the world spend less on health than India as a percentage of GDP. http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/breakingviews-generic-drugs-idindee86404y20120705?feedtype=rss&feedname=globalcoverage2&google_editors_picks=true 4 comments india
- TIL women's basketball was originally taught/played using modified rules to make the game less strenuous for women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/women%27s_basketball#early_women.27s_basketball 2 comments sports
- TIL Nuclear Power Kills Less People per Terawatt than ANY Other Form of Power: Even Solar http://squid314.livejournal.com/292620.html 9 comments reddit.com
- TIL: Utah’s government spends less money on education per child than any other state in the nation. Help build a library. http://ourschoolneeds.discoverbing.com/Projects/Default.aspx?prj=993#fbid=wlcS5PdylsJ&wom=false 5 comments reddit.com
- TIL that the song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" by the artist Skrillex was observed as a mosquito repellent due to its low-frequency vibrations. The scientists also found that mosquitoes exposed to the song had sex "far less often" than other mosquitos without music. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47770982 42 comments nottheonion
- TIL Italian speakers with dyslexia tend to have less severe reading impairment than English or French speakers due to Italian's simpler and more phonetic spelling. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-speech-disrupting-brain-disease-patients-native.html 165 comments linguistics
- TIL that despite dominating 2015, Lewis Hamilton won one race less than in 2014, while his teammate Nico Rosberg won one race more in 2015 than in 2014, where he was a title challenger until the last moment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lewis_hamilton#complete_formula_one_results 17 comments formula1
- TIL that the Zambian national team lost its whole squad of 18 players in a flight crash in 1993, regrouped and came second in the African Nations Cup in less than a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_zambia_national_football_team_air_disaster 15 comments soccer
- TIL In his first ten seasons playing in the majors, Albert Pujols never finished a season batting below .300, hitting less than 30 home runs, knocking in 100 RBIs, or scoring at least 100 runs (10 year avg - 40.8 HR - 123 RBI - 118.6 runs - .331 Avg) http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2014-standard-batting.shtml 19 comments baseball
- TIL despite media narrative on farmers' suicide, Indian farm worker is less likely to commit suicide than non-farm worker http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp00808.pdf 7 comments india
- TIL the Seahawks have made the playoffs 7 of the last 10 years. Never would've guessed that...Also, Jayson Stark takes down the myth of NFL parity, which is less surprising http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/stark_jayson/id/8908029/mlb-more-parity-nfl 21 comments nfl