# Today I Learned - in 2024 and 2025

DevFeed: [Today I Learned - in 2024 and 2025](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/today-i-learned-in-2024-and-2025-35598.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.rtwilson.com/today-i-learned-in-2024-and-2025/>)

Author: Robin Wilson

Published: 2026-01-08T10:50:55Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Robin Wilson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/robin-wilson.md>)

Topics: [Discord](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/discord.md>)

Tags: [aircraft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aircraft.md>), [discord](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/discord.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [short-interesting-things](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/short-interesting-things.md>), [til](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/til.md>), [uk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uk.md>)

## AI overview

A collection of the author's "Today I Learned" posts from 2024 and 2025, originally shared in a Discord channel. The entries cover topics including atomic numbers, cancer treatment, gun tracing, the Manhattan Project, display technology, RAM security, libraries, Linux, the UK National Lottery, Volkswagen sausage, police aircraft, evacuation aprons, and Irish population history.

## Source excerpt

A Discord server I use has a channel called #til, standing for Today I Learned. It's a place to post interesting or surprising things you recently learned. I took my posts to that channel from the last couple of years, tidied them up and have listed them below. Hopefully you'll find something interesting there: TIL [...]