TIL (Today I Learned)

While I have pretty much quit Facebook all together since I decided to take the app off my phone and tablet and only check it infrequently from my computer, I am still checking reddit several times a day, mostly because I learn so much from it.  For example:

• I didn't know it was a law that people could only buy a car from a dealer and not direct from the manufacturer, thus costing people a lot more than it needs to.
• Crowd-sourcing information can be really helpful.
• This was news--how Social Security is quietly cutting benefits.
• And the people over at DataIsBeautiful do some amazing (and amazingly odd) stuff with, well data (examples here, here, and here)