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Live counters for population, emissions, water use and books published, ticking faster than is entirely comfortable.
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Worldometer sits in Curious Facts under Learn, and we have it filed as instant — good within five seconds of loading. It reads as mesmerising, brainy and unsettling.
Records, comparisons, scale demonstrations and weird knowledge. The category most likely to produce a sentence beginning "did you know".
A gazetteer of the world's odd corners — bone chapels, abandoned observatories, restaurants built inside caves.
Long, carefully researched articles on forgotten disasters, obsessives and near misses from history.
A browsable index of every named dinosaur, with size comparisons and the period each one actually belonged to.
Short, sourced facts arranged so one leads into the next. Built for the specific pleasure of learning something you can repeat.
A daily gleaning of curiosities, lateral puzzles and pleasing coincidences, kept up since 2005 without fuss.
The official register of the longest, fastest and most improbable things people have done entirely on purpose.
Popular science headlines with the volume turned up, handy for the fact you half-remember reading somewhere.
Jason Kottke has been posting the interesting bits of the web since 1998, with no algorithm involved at any point.