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Calendar Curiosities

Every Friday the 13th, palindrome days, the Unix clock's round numbers and the leap seconds, 1900–2100.

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Famous Paintings

The most influential paintings — the ones the most Wikipedias write about — each across the years it was painted, shown as the painting itself.

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Killed by Google

Every product Google launched and shut down, from launch to shutdown — Google Reader, Google+, Stadia and ~300 more. Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).

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Mercury Retrograde

Every Mercury retrograde, from the day the planet seems to stop and back up against the stars to the day it turns forward again.

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NYT Best Sellers #1

Every book that reached No. 1 on The New York Times best seller lists since 1931 — Fiction and Nonfiction side by side, consecutive weeks as one bar.

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Pantone Color of the Year

Every Pantone Color of the Year since Cerulean in 2000, each year painted in its color.

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Time Person of the Year

Time magazine's Person of the Year since Charles Lindbergh in 1927 — the person, group or idea that most shaped each year, with Time's reasons and the cover.

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Video Game Releases

Each week's three most-anticipated new video games — the ones most read about on Wikipedia — from release day through the weekend, a year ahead.

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Wikipedia's Most Read

What the internet was thinking: English Wikipedia's most-read article each day since the end of 2015, from Wikimedia's pageview data — with bot-driven spikes left out.

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Zodiac Signs

The Sun's way through the twelve signs of the Western (tropical) zodiac, each from the moment it enters one.

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