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NO. 153 · Thursday, 30 July 2026
Today: Baffin Island dwarfs Great Britain 2.4x over, Devon Island is Earth's largest uninhabited landmass, and Reno sits farther west than Los Angeles.
Open today's brief →Devon Island · MYTH BUSTED
Ask someone to name the world's largest uninhabited island and most people say Greenland — except Greenland has about 56,000 residents. The real answer is Devon Island, a 55,247-square-kilometer slab of Canadian Arctic tundra bigger than Croatia, with a permanent population of exactly zero.
Read the full fact →39.53° N, 119.81° W
Reno sells itself as a high-desert gambling town in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada, a few hours' drive inland from the California coast. Inland is the word that misleads.
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NO. 153 · Thursday, 30 July 2026
Today: Baffin Island dwarfs Great Britain 2.4x over, Devon Island is Earth's largest uninhabited landmass, and Reno sits farther west than Los Angeles.
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NO. 152 · Friday, 31 July 2026
India's flag wheel was swapped in 1947 — the emblem read as Gandhi's charkha is actually an ancient 24-spoke Buddhist dharma-wheel, the Ashoka Chakra.
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NO. 150 · Saturday, 25 July 2026
The EU flag's 12 stars were never a member count — fixed as a symbol of perfection since 1955, unchanged as membership grew to 27 countries.
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