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NO. 153 · Thursday, 30 July 2026
The island bigger than Great Britain, hiding
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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Devon Island · MYTH BUSTED
Earth's largest uninhabited island isn't Greenland
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.
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39.53° N, 119.81° W
Reno, Nevada
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
The island bigger than Great Britain, hiding
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
That wheel on India's flag isn't Gandhi's
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
Why the EU flag still has just 12 stars
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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