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August 19, 2026 The Top 7 Things to See on the Fastest Route From Dallas to Phoenix — 1,065 Miles on I-20 and I-10, Past a 63,500-Year-Old Meteor Crater, a Cave Kept Secret for 14 Years, and a 700-Year-Old Adobe ‘Skyscraper’
August 18, 2026 Raleigh’s Kirby Derby Turns 24 This Saturday — A Free, Gravity-Powered Soapbox Race Down a Neighborhood Hill That Somehow Won a National Award
August 17, 2026 The Top 7 Things to See on the Fastest Route From Charlotte to Dallas — 1,029 Miles on I-85 and I-20, Past a 56-Foot Iron God, a Burned Freedom Riders Bus, and the Window Where JFK Was Shot
August 16, 2026 The Top 10 Things to See From Las Vegas to Salt Lake City — An 1867 Volcanic-Rock Fort, a Great Salt Lake That’s Actually Shrinking, and the Spot Where Brigham Young Said ‘This Is the Right Place’
August 14, 2026 A Single Human Brain Cell May Be as Computationally Powerful as an Entire Deep Neural Network — New Research Found It Takes Far More Artificial-Network Layers to Fake One Human Neuron Than Any Other Mammal’s
August 13, 2026 Yesterday’s Total Solar Eclipse Was a Tale of Two Skies — Spain Got Its First Total Eclipse Since 1905, and It Was ‘Glorious,’ While Clouds Swallowed the View Over Greenland and Iceland
August 10, 2026 Wombats Poop Perfect Cubes, and Venus’s Day Outlasts Its Year — Two Wild Facts From the TikTok Account That’s Basically TodayDaysOld in Video Form
August 9, 2026 Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-Year-Old Microbiome Is Still Alive — Scientists Grew Living Yeast From the Same Microbes That Colonized Him the Day He Died
August 8, 2026 The World’s Largest Megalodon Fossil Was Lost for Over 30 Years — Then a Curator Found It Sitting Forgotten in a Box on a Museum Shelf
August 7, 2026 The Top 10 New Things in Las Vegas for 2026 — a Lisa Vanderpump Hotel Replacing The Cromwell, the World’s Largest In-N-Out, and Waymo Self-Driving Cars Now on the Strip
August 6, 2026 Zinley Gives Your AI Assistant a Real Phone Number of Its Own — It Answers Calls, Books Appointments, Waits on Hold, and CCs Itself Into Your Email, Free to Start
August 5, 2026 Cape Fear, Three Versions Across 64 Years — Named for a Real Place in North Carolina That None of the Three Productions Ever Actually Filmed In
August 4, 2026 James Franco’s Full Story — an Oscar Nomination, a Golden Globe Win the Same Night Everything Changed, a $2.235 Million Settlement, and a Quiet 2026 Comeback
August 3, 2026 The Next Total Solar Eclipse Is August 12 — a 5,130-Mile Path Over Iceland, Spain, and Greenland, Just 2 Minutes 18 Seconds of Totality, and a Partial View Stretching Across Most of the Northern Hemisphere
August 2, 2026 Astronomers Just Found the First-Ever Atmosphere on a Rocky Planet in Another Star’s Habitable Zone — LHS 1140 b Is 48 Light-Years Away, and Scientists Caught Its Helium Actively Leaking Into Space
July 31, 2026 The Top 10 Gadgets, Pedals, and Tools for an Acoustic-Electric Guitar Player — a Preamp Built to Fix the Classic Piezo “Quack,” a Two-Way Humidity System Taylor Itself Recommends, and a Multi-Effects Pedal That Can Reshape Your Pickup’s Tone to Sound Like an Entirely Different Guitar Body
July 30, 2026 SoundGate Guitar — A Free iPhone App That Lights Up an Interactive Fretboard the Instant You Play a Note, Plus an AI Tutor Built on Gemini 3 Deep Think for Real-Time Feedback and Custom Practice Routines
July 30, 2026 The Top 10 Wine Regions of Italy — a DNA Test That Traced Puglia’s Primitivo Grape to California Zinfandel, a Wine So Tannic It Can’t Ship for Three Years, and Two Wines Both Named “Montepulciano” With Nothing in Common
July 20, 2026 The Top 10 Things to Do in Bologna — the World’s Oldest University Still Teaching Classes, a Leaning Tower Sealed Off Since 2023 Over Collapse Fears, and the 1982 Government-Registered Recipe for the Sauce Everyone Gets Wrong
July 18, 2026 Italy’s Red Heat Alert List Has Grown to Nearly 20 Cities, Including Rome — the Country Runs an Official Color-Coded Heat Bulletin Almost No Visitor Knows to Check
July 15, 2026 The 2026 World Cup Final — a 48-Team Expansion, FIFA Renaming Its Own Stadium Mid-Tournament, and the First-Ever World Cup Halftime Show, All Landing at MetLife Stadium in 4 Days
July 14, 2026 Knockoff — A Free Browser Extension That Filters the Fake, No-Name Brands Out of Your Amazon Search Results by Checking Names Against 5,000 Real Brands and a List of Linguistic Red Flags
July 13, 2026 The Top 10 Travel Tips for Americans Heading to Europe — a Single Emergency Number That Works With No SIM Card, a Currency-Conversion Trick That Can Quietly Cost 18%, and the Exact Vatican Dress-Code Rule That Can Get You Turned Away at the Door
July 12, 2026 The Top 10 Things to Do Near Cortona on a 5-Day Tuscany Villa Stay — a Horse Race Where the Horse Doesn’t Need a Rider to Win, Piero della Francesca’s Largest Fresco Cycle, and a 2,200-Year-Old Etruscan Bronze Tablet Found Right in Town
July 11, 2026 The Top 10 Things to Do in Venice on a 2-Night Stay — a Brand-New 2026 Ticket System Reshaping St. Mark’s Basilica, a Secret Itinerary Through the Doge’s Torture Chamber, and the 510-Year-Old Word Venice Gave the World
July 10, 2026 The Top 10 Things to Do in Rome That Aren’t the Vatican, the Colosseum, or the Trevi Fountain — a Reservation-Only Gallery Guarding Bernini’s Best Work, an Ancient Bath Where Opera Still Plays Every Summer, and a Hill Made of 53 Million Broken Roman Jars
July 9, 2026 ToolWaves — A Free Site With 250+ Interactive Simulations and Browser Tools for Engineering, Science, and Biology, Nothing Ever Uploaded, Built Solo by a Civil Engineer Frustrated With Cluttered Tool Sites
July 8, 2026 Four Things I Didn’t Know Before Flying to Italy — the EU’s New Biometric Border System, the eSIM Trick That Beats Roaming, the Truth About the Coperto, and Rome’s 2,500 Free Water Fountains
July 7, 2026 CentryAI Reads Your Inbox and Finds Every Subscription You’ve Forgotten About — No Bank Linking, No Manual Entry, a “Zombie Subscription” Score, and a One-Tap Cancel Finder
July 6, 2026 The Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle Toy My Cousin Just Bought Was Ideal’s Best-Selling Toy Ever — the Caesars Palace Crash, the Snake River Canyon Jump, 433 Broken Bones, and the Brand-New Las Vegas Museum
July 6, 2026 CB Radio Never Actually Died — It’s Having a Real Comeback, and the FCC Requires Zero License, Zero Tests, and Just a Certified $30 Radio to Get on the Air Today
July 5, 2026 The Top 10 Mishaps From America’s 250th Birthday — A Historic Heat Wave Canceled Washington DC’s Own July 4th Parade, a Stage Panel Crashed During National Mall Rehearsal, and Storms Forced a Two-Hour Evacuation Before the Fireworks
July 4, 2026 America’s 250th Through the Years — Adams and Jefferson Died Hours Apart on the Exact 50th Anniversary of July 4th, a World’s Fair Debuted the Telephone at the 100th, a Rainstorm Sank the 150th, and Tall Ships Filled New York Harbor at the 200th
July 3, 2026 The Quirkiest Small-Town July 4th Celebrations for America’s 250th — Bristol RI’s 241-Year-Old Parade, Nebraska’s Congressionally Official Fourth of July City, the Longest Parade Route in the Country, and the Biggest Celebration Outside the US
July 2, 2026 NYC for America’s 250th — Sail4th 250 Puts 32 Nations and 15,000 Sailors in the Harbor July 3–8, Macy’s Lights Both Rivers at 8pm, and Here’s Everything You Need to Know Before You Go
June 30, 2026 BETola — The Free Daily AI Sports Betting Site That Runs NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, College Football, College Basketball, and PGA Golf Through Multiple AI Analysts, Surfaces the Bets With the Biggest Edge Over the Book, and Ships It All as a Daily Podcast You Can Listen to While You Scroll
June 26, 2026 ARRL Field Day — 31,000+ Ham Radio Operators Set Up Portable Emergency Stations Every Fourth Weekend of June, Run on Batteries and Generators, and Try to Make as Many Contacts as Possible in 24 Hours
June 25, 2026 The Wimbledon Queue — The Only Grand Slam Where You Can Buy Centre Court Tickets the Day of Play by Lining Up, and the All England Club Runs a Free Live Tracker So You Know When to Go
June 24, 2026 Cities and Memory — The Sound Map of the World Where Every Location Has Two Recordings: the Real Place and an Artist’s Reimagining of It
June 23, 2026 WebSDR and KiwiSDR — Tune Real Radio Receivers Around the World From Your Browser, Free, No Login
June 22, 2026 UNC Plays for Its First-Ever Baseball National Title Tonight in Omaha — Game 3 vs Oklahoma, 7 PM ET on ESPN
June 20, 2026 The Carolina Hurricanes Won the 2026 Stanley Cup and Raleigh’s Throwing a Parade Today — 20 Years to the Day From the 2006 Championship March
June 19, 2026 The USGA Runs a Free Live Shot Tracker at usopen.com — Every Player, Every Shot, All Four Rounds, GPS-Overlaid on Aerial Hole Views, No Login Required
June 17, 2026 The US Open Is the Only Major You Can Try Out For — Any Amateur With a Low-Enough Handicap Can Pay an Entry Fee and Qualify Their Way In, Around 10,000 Try Every Year, and the 156-Player Field at Shinnecock Hills Includes Dozens Who Earned Their Spot on Golf’s Longest Day
June 15, 2026 The David Rumsey Map Collection — One Private Collector in San Francisco Spent 46 Years Buying Historical Maps Nobody Else Wanted, Digitized 148,808 of Them at 300-800 PPI (Individual Files Up to 5 GB), Built a Free Browser-Based Zoom Viewer, Donated the Physical 150,000-Map Collection to Stanford in 2009, and Won a Webby Award for It
June 14, 2026 Flag Day Is June 14 Because the Continental Congress Passed a Two-Sentence Flag Resolution on June 14, 1777 That Didn’t Specify How to Arrange the Stars — Plus the Betsy Ross Myth, the Francis Hopkinson Truth (and His Bar Tab With Congress), and the 140-by-70-Foot, 340-Pound American Flag Flying on a 400-Foot Pole in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
June 13, 2026 An AI-Designed Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Just Passed Its First Human Trial — A Cambridge Lab Used Machine Learning on the Genetics of Every Known Sarbeco Coronavirus to Compute a Single “Super-Antigen,” Delivered It Needle-Free as a DNA Vaccine to 39 Volunteers, and Got Broad Immune Response Against SARS, COVID, and the Bat Viruses That Could Cause the Next Pandemic
June 12, 2026 The Carolina Hurricanes’ “Bunch of Jerks” Story — How a 70-Year-Old Canadian Broadcasting Legend’s On-Air Rant About Their Post-Win “Storm Surge” Celebrations in February 2019 Became the Team’s Permanent Brand Identity, Got the Word “JERKS” Spelled Out in Fan Seating, and Powered Them From a 10-Year Playoff Drought All the Way to the 2026 Stanley Cup Final
June 11, 2026 The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament — The 68-Year-Old North Carolina Billfishing Competition With a $9 Million Purse Where, on Day 1 of Fishing This Week, a Boat Called “Marlin Fever” Caught a 919.9-Pound Blue Marlin and Broke a Tournament Record That Had Stood Since 2019, Pocketing $871,250 on the Spot With Potentially $6.2 Million More if It Holds Through Saturday
June 8, 2026 DashView Live — The Free YouTube + Rumble Channel That Streams a Live Sports “Second Screen” Companion Dashboard Beside Every NHL, NBA, MLB, College Hoops, and Golf Major, Showing Prediction-Market Odds vs. Sportsbook Lines, Live Box Scores, and the Game’s Social Chatter, All Auto-Cycling on One TV-Ready Page
June 7, 2026 PeakFinder — The Augmented-Reality App That Names Every Mountain on the Skyline, Knows 1,000,000+ Peaks Worldwide, Sees 300 km / 200 mi Away, Works Fully Offline, and Costs $5 One-Time From a Single Swiss Developer
June 6, 2026 The Public Domain Review — The Editorial Magazine of the Public Domain, Publishing Long-Form Essays and Curated Collections on the Strange, the Beautiful, and the Forgotten Since 2011
June 5, 2026 Artvee — The Free Public-Domain Art Search Engine That Aggregates High-Resolution Downloads from 40+ Museums Worldwide, Including the Rijksmuseum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York Public Library, Browsable by Movement or Artist
June 4, 2026 EarthLive.TV — One Free Aggregator for Every Live Cam Worth Watching, From an Aurora Borealis Tracker in Tromso to the ISS to a Wildlife Waterhole in Zambezi National Park
June 3, 2026 Public Domain Image Archive — 11,000+ Out-of-Copyright Images You Can Wander, Shuffle, or Infinite-Scroll Through, From Medieval Manuscripts to 16th-Century Celestial Illustrations to Victorian Gym Equipment, All Free to Download and Reuse
June 2, 2026 2026 Is the New 2016 — The Coordinated Internet-Wide Nostalgia Movement Trying to Bring Back Snapchat Dog Filters, Pokémon Go, the Mannequin Challenge, and the Vibe of a Year Before COVID and Generative AI
June 1, 2026 Runway DFW — The 34,000-Subscriber YouTube Channel That Broadcasts Live, Narrated Plane-Spotting from Dallas/Fort Worth Most Weekends, With On-Site Commentators Calling Every Arrival and Departure
May 31, 2026 DiceData — The Site That Has Run 100,000 Simulated Sessions of Every Craps and Roulette Strategy You’ve Ever Heard Of, So You Don’t Have to Lose Real Money Finding Out Which Ones Lose Slower
May 30, 2026 Google Trends — The Real-Time “Trending Now” Tab Google Doesn’t Tell You About, Showing What Every American Is Searching For Right Now, Updated Continuously, Free, No Login
May 29, 2026 Trends24 — The Free Site That Has Been Quietly Mirroring X’s Trending Topics Country-by-Country for Over a Decade, While X Itself Paywalled the Same Data
May 28, 2026 Know Your Meme — The Encyclopedia of Internet Culture, Preserved by the Library of Congress, With Origin Dates and Citations for Every Meme You’ve Ever Sent
May 27, 2026 Photopea — The Free Browser-Based Photoshop Clone Built and Maintained by One Person in Prague, That Opens Your .psd Files Without Uploading Anything Anywhere
May 26, 2026 LibriVox — The 20-Year-Old Volunteer Project That Has Recorded Free Audiobook Versions of 20,000+ Public-Domain Books, MP3, No Account Needed
May 25, 2026 Zooniverse — The Platform Where 2.7 Million Volunteers Have Helped Classify Galaxies, Identify Wildlife, and Transcribe Historical Manuscripts for Real Science
May 24, 2026 FamilySearch — Billions of Historical Records, Free, in One Place — The World's Largest Genealogy Database
May 23, 2026 Worldometer — The Live Dashboard of Planet Earth, Counting Every Birth, Death, Barrel of Oil, and Tonne of CO2 in Real Time
May 22, 2026 Atlas Obscura — The Internet's Definitive Atlas of 24,000+ Wondrous, Curious, and Genuinely Strange Places You Can Actually Go Visit
May 21, 2026 The Moogseum — The Asheville Museum Where You Can Walk Inside the Story of the Synthesizer and the Man Who Invented It
May 20, 2026 The Siamese Twins Museum — Mount Airy, NC's Story of Chang and Eng Bunker, the Conjoined Twins Who Gave the World a Medical Term
May 19, 2026 NASA Eyes on the Solar System — The Browser Tab Where You Can Fly Past Every Active Spacecraft, Planet, and Moon in Real Time
May 18, 2026 Sofascore — The Free Scores App You Were Ignoring Is Deeper Than Everything Else, and It Covers 27+ Sports
May 17, 2026 Blotter — The Live Map That Transcribes Police Radio Across 21 US Cities Into a Searchable Feed You Can Just Leave Open
May 16, 2026 Salad — The Two-Sided GPU Marketplace Where Gamers Rent Out Their Idle GPU and AI Startups Rent It Back for Pennies
May 15, 2026 CircuitMess — Open-Hardware Kits You Solder Together and Then Program to Show You Whatever Live Data You Want (Vibe Coding Era, Meet Your New Hobby)
May 14, 2026 Flow Free — The Puzzle Game My Dad Has Played Every Single Day for Nearly a Decade (And Why That Quiet Win Deserves Your Attention)
May 13, 2026 Tempest Weather System — The Best Personal Weather Station Out There (With One Caveat That Quietly Annoys Me)
May 12, 2026 Citizen — The App That Knows About the Siren You Just Heard Three Blocks Away
May 11, 2026 Two Free Apps That Tell You Where the Food Truck Is (And Which One I’d Open When I Want a Taco Right Now)
May 10, 2026 Moises — The AI That Strips Any Song Down to Its Individual Instruments in About 10 Seconds
May 9, 2026 WiGLE.net — 658,000 Volunteers Have Been Driving Around With Antennas Since 2001. They’ve Now Mapped 1.7 Billion WiFi Networks.
May 8, 2026 Claude Code — The AI That Doesn’t Just Autocomplete Your Code, It Does the Whole Job
May 7, 2026 Rip.so — The Digital Graveyard Holding Funerals for 80+ Internet Things You Forgot You Loved
May 6, 2026 Stellarium Web — The Free In-Browser Planetarium That Lets You See the Exact Sky Above You at Any Moment in History (Or Any Future Date You Pick)
May 5, 2026 AAA Gas Prices — The Free Daily Gas Tracker That Doesn’t Want Your Location, Your App Install, or Your Phone Number
May 4, 2026 Snake.io — The Multiplayer Version of the Nokia Game You Played to Death in 1999
May 2, 2026 TankerMap.com — The Free Live Map of Every Oil Tanker on Earth (And Why the Persian Gulf Is About to Look Very Different)
May 1, 2026 Pudding.cool — The Data-Journalism Site Where Every Story Is a Custom Interactive Visual Essay
April 30, 2026 Wanderboat — The AI Local Guide That Knows Where to Eat, What to Do, and Where the Hidden Gems Are (And Builds the Itinerary For You)
April 29, 2026 Domainiac — The AI Domain Name Finder With an Insane Mode (and It Actually Works)
April 28, 2026 Our World in Data — The Free Oxford Research Project That Has a Beautiful Chart for Every Problem on Earth
April 27, 2026 On3 Transfer Portal — The Free-Agent Wire for College Sports (With NIL Price Tags Attached)
April 26, 2026 Flightradar24 — See Every Flight in the Air Right Now, For Free
April 25, 2026 Every Noise at Once — A Clickable Map of Every Music Genre That Exists (With a 30-Second Sample for Each)
April 24, 2026 Home Assistant Green — The $99 Box That Lets You Own Your Smart Home
April 23, 2026 The Cheerwine Festival — A Free 100,000-Person Street Party for a 109-Year-Old Cherry Soda
April 22, 2026 Radio Garden — I Built This in 1998. Now the Whole World Has It.
April 21, 2026 Laufey — The Icelandic-Chinese Jazz Singer Who Keeps Winning Grammys
April 20, 2026 MoneyPuck.com — The Free Site That Runs 20,000 Playoff Simulations a Day So You Know the Real Odds
April 19, 2026 Peter Zeihan — Daily Geopolitics Explainers from an Ex-Stratfor VP in Colorado
April 18, 2026 Wispr Flow — The AI Dictation Tool That Auto-Edits Your Rambling Into Clean Writing
April 16, 2026 Agenda Free TV — A Former SNL Writer Runs One of YouTube's Biggest Independent News Channels
April 17, 2026 Lessie AI — Describe Who You're Looking For and the AI Finds Them
April 14, 2026 Submarine Cable Map — See Every Undersea Cable Carrying the Internet
April 13, 2026 Windy.com — The Weather Site That Makes TV Radar Look Like PowerPoint
April 12, 2026 Roam: Day and Age — The Puzzle Game Where One Wrong Move Collapses Everything
April 11, 2026 Masters.com Live Shot Tracker — Follow Every Shot at Augusta in Real Time
April 10, 2026 DailyPuck.com — Hockey News, Read to You Every Day
April 9, 2026 Mistral Voxtral TTS — Open-Source Voice AI That Fits on Your Phone
April 4, 2026 Ryan Hall, Y'all — The Internet's Weather Man
April 3, 2026 Perchance AI — Free AI Image Generator with Ridiculous Flexibility
April 2, 2026 DailyAudio.com — Your News, Read to You
April 1, 2026 Welcome to TodayDaysOld.com