The complete archive

All 34 files

Every story in the collection, catalogued by number and subject. New files are added on a schedule.

Movies

5 files
  1. 001Star Wars Was Built From Junk2026-09-08
  2. 003Nobody Knew How Casablanca Ended2026-09-11
  3. 006The Shark That Didn't Work2026-09-14
  4. 018The Film That Almost Destroyed Its Studio2026-09-18
  5. 019The Shower Scene That Took a Week2026-09-18

History

7 files
  1. 002Australia Declared War on Emus — and Lost2026-09-10
  2. 005The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.2026-09-13
  3. 008The Pigeon That Saved 194 Men2026-09-16
  4. 014The War That Lasted 335 Years and Killed Nobody2026-09-18
  5. 015The Librarian Who Smuggled 350,000 Manuscripts2026-09-18
  6. 016Boston's Tidal Wave of Molasses2026-09-18
  7. 017The Dead Man Who Fooled the Nazis2026-09-18

Sport

5 files
  1. 004The Night Amateurs Beat the Soviets2026-09-12
  2. 007The Match That Took Three Days2026-09-15
  3. 009The Marathon Won Barefoot2026-09-17
  4. 012The Marathon That Doesn't Count2026-09-18
  5. 013Who Actually Snubbed Jesse Owens?2026-09-18

Science

4 files
  1. 010The Dinosaur Found With Its Last Meal Still Inside2026-09-18
  2. 011The Noise That Turned Out to Be the Universe2026-09-18
  3. 031A model with 82 million parameters does the voice2026-09-30
  4. 032The same question never gets the same answer twice2026-10-01

Money

6 files
  1. 020Was Tulip Mania Even a Bubble?2026-09-20
  2. 021The Great Salad Oil Swindle2026-09-20
  3. 023The two biggest AI models cost exactly the same2026-09-22
  4. 024The cheapest AI is 8,824 times cheaper than the most expensive2026-09-23
  5. 025Twenty-four AI models are free, and nobody is using them2026-09-24
  6. 033Why you pay half price to wait2026-10-02

Technology

7 files
  1. 022Who Actually Invented "Artificial Intelligence"?2026-09-21
  2. 026OpenAI publishes open weights now2026-09-25
  3. 027Most of what you are told is open AI is not open source2026-09-26
  4. 028Two popular AI coding tools are already dead2026-09-27
  5. 029The most downloaded AI model nobody has heard of2026-09-28
  6. 030The 20B model that fits where a 13B model will not2026-09-29
  7. 034The most popular AI coding tool is one you have not heard of2026-10-03