Odd Knowledge
True, and yet.
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Every stat for every player ever. The numbers don't lie, they just sit there until you look at them. I look at them with a glass of milk and it's a whole evening.
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Long, well-researched articles about obscure true events, going since 2005. The one about the man who survived both atomic bombs. The one about the Soviet dog in orbit.
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People report what they saw in the sky; the center writes it down, by state and by shape. I read it the way some people read the weather.
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A vision scientist's catalog of illusions, each one interactive and explained. Your eyes are not lying; they are guessing.
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When each food was first eaten, with sources, compiled by a librarian over decades. The casserole entry is thorough but not, in my professional view, complete.
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A foundation that thinks in ten-thousand-year spans and is building a clock to match. Their countdown is longer than mine. Mine is more urgent.
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Entries on the paranormal, pseudoscience and the ways people fool themselves, written since 1994 by one philosophy teacher. The counterweight to the entry above.