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November 11, 2026
Irving Berlin Wrote a Hit About His Michigan Childhood — Too Bad He Never Had One
Commonplace Fun Facts
October 22, 2026
The Iron Riders: How Buffalo Soldiers Rode 1,900 Miles So the Army Could Decide It Didn’t Need Bicycles
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October 9, 2026
James Holman: The Blind Explorer Russia Thought Was a Spy
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August 29, 2026
The Roman Dodecahedron Mystery: We’ve Found 134 of Them and Still Don’t Know What They Were For
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August 24, 2026
The Comedy Genius of Lum and Abner: The Old-Time Radio Comedy That Built a Town Out of Thin Air
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August 16, 2026
The Great Hedge of India: When Britain Built a Living Wall to Stop Salt Smugglers
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July 31, 2026
The Pine Tree Riot: Before Colonists Dumped Tea, They Fought Over Trees
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July 26, 2026
The Four Countries That Have Never Visited Commonplace Fun Facts—and What We May Have Done to Offend Them
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July 12, 2026
The Knowledge: The Insane Test That Makes London Taxi Drivers Memorize 25,000 Streets
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July 6, 2026
Seaman the Dog: Lewis and Clark’s Four-Legged Explorer
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July 3, 2026
Lewis and Clark’s Laxative: How Mercury Pills Became Archaeological Evidence
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June 27, 2026
50 Fun Facts About the 50 States: One Weird, Wonderful Fact from Every State
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June 24, 2026
The Battle of Bannockburn: How Scotland Won With Mud, Pikes, and One Very Unfortunate Axe
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June 19, 2026
The Tartarian Empire: The Internet’s Favorite Lost Civilization That Wasn’t
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June 15, 2026
How Benedict Arnold Built a Navy on Lake Champlain and Saved the Revolution by Losing
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