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Every story in the collection, catalogued by number and subject. New files are added on a schedule.
Movies
5 files- 001Star Wars Was Built From Junk2026-09-08
- 003Nobody Knew How Casablanca Ended2026-09-11
- 006The Shark That Didn't Work2026-09-14
- 018The Film That Almost Destroyed Its Studio2026-09-18
- 019The Shower Scene That Took a Week2026-09-18
History
7 files- 002Australia Declared War on Emus — and Lost2026-09-10
- 005The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.2026-09-13
- 008The Pigeon That Saved 194 Men2026-09-16
- 014The War That Lasted 335 Years and Killed Nobody2026-09-18
- 015The Librarian Who Smuggled 350,000 Manuscripts2026-09-18
- 016Boston's Tidal Wave of Molasses2026-09-18
- 017The Dead Man Who Fooled the Nazis2026-09-18
Sport
5 files- 004The Night Amateurs Beat the Soviets2026-09-12
- 007The Match That Took Three Days2026-09-15
- 009The Marathon Won Barefoot2026-09-17
- 012The Marathon That Doesn't Count2026-09-18
- 013Who Actually Snubbed Jesse Owens?2026-09-18
Science
4 files- 010The Dinosaur Found With Its Last Meal Still Inside2026-09-18
- 011The Noise That Turned Out to Be the Universe2026-09-18
- 031A model with 82 million parameters does the voice2026-09-30
- 032The same question never gets the same answer twice2026-10-01
Money
6 files- 020Was Tulip Mania Even a Bubble?2026-09-20
- 021The Great Salad Oil Swindle2026-09-20
- 023The two biggest AI models cost exactly the same2026-09-22
- 024The cheapest AI is 8,824 times cheaper than the most expensive2026-09-23
- 025Twenty-four AI models are free, and nobody is using them2026-09-24
- 033Why you pay half price to wait2026-10-02
Technology
7 files- 022Who Actually Invented "Artificial Intelligence"?2026-09-21
- 026OpenAI publishes open weights now2026-09-25
- 027Most of what you are told is open AI is not open source2026-09-26
- 028Two popular AI coding tools are already dead2026-09-27
- 029The most downloaded AI model nobody has heard of2026-09-28
- 030The 20B model that fits where a 13B model will not2026-09-29
- 034The most popular AI coding tool is one you have not heard of2026-10-03
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