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@r_todayilearned_channel
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366subscribers
+6 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001393034716 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @r_todayilearned_channel |
| Created | 27 April 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/r_todayilearned_channel |
Memes & entertainment — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 22 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 52% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 12:00 | 366 | -2 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 13:16 | 368 | +1 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 00:16 | 367 | +1 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 18:08 | 366 | +1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 01:07 | 365 | -1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 23:47 | 366 | +6 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 21:03 | 360 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:00 | 360 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
1 reaction across 1 post, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🤣 | 1 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 1 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
TIL that the Norfolk Broads a vast network of 41 lakes and canals in England are not natural. They are actually flooded, medieval industrial sites created because 12th-century monasteries hand-dug millions of tons of peat out of the ground to use as firewood. https://ift.tt/xNcpVIh
TIL that in 1184, about 60 German nobles drowned in liquid excrement when the floor of a meeting hall in Erfurt collapsed under their weight and dropped them into the latrine cesspit below. https://ift.tt/75fcRD0
TIL that the Fitch barrier, consisting of sand-filled plastic barrels often found between a highway and an exit lane, was invented by race car driver John Fitch after the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans when his co-driver, Pierre Levegh, and 84 spectators died in the worst accident in racing history https://ift.tt/pju6TzU
TIL the last survivor of American slavery died in 1975 https://ift.tt/jX1avVo
TIL that the state of Wyoming has only two escalators https://ift.tt/BwCy4EA
TIL that the province of Saskatchewan in Canada only has 39 functional escalators https://ift.tt/jGYb8KT
TIL the Spinning Jenny, invented in 1764, let one worker spin 8 threads at once instead of one, massively increasing yarn production. Angry workers attacked inventor James Hargreaves' home, destroyed his machines, and forced him to flee to Nottingham. https://ift.tt/IjKyiTV
TIL to ensure footage from the Apollo 11 moon landing was broadcast on the evening news, New Zealand arranged for a military bomber to fly from Sydney to Wellington, having customs arrangements and police escorts on both ends of the flight, which set a speed record for trans-Tasman crossings. https://ift.tt/Fo1lZnS
TIL John Daly took 19 strokes to complete a single par-5 hole at the 2025 PGA Championship. https://ift.tt/pl0K5rs
TIL After the death of Pope Sixtus in 1484, Caterina Sforza, then 7 months pregnant, gathered an army and occuppied Castel Sant'angelo in Rome intending to force the college to pick a Pope of her choosing. After several days of negotiations, she was pressured to give up in exchange for 8000 ducats https://ift.tt/OyTPIRG
TIL that washing a silk shirt is, chemically, closer to washing your hair than to doing laundry. Silk is a protein fibre, not a plant one like cotton or linen. https://ift.tt/r27Pj4u
TIL the Hiroshima atomic bomb blew itself apart so quickly that over 98% of its uranium never underwent nuclear fission. https://ift.tt/Tf1J0Bd
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @r_todayilearned_channel. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Today I Learned” (@r_todayilearned_channel), 366 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/r_todayilearned_channel.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.