Churchill’s “We shall fight on the beaches . . . we shall never surrender” speech: It’s the anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk by a flotilla of small boats.
June 1 is National Doughnut Day. Here’s where to find free doughnuts and how doughnuts are made.
Artificial Intelligence Is Cracking Open the Vatican’s Secret Archives.
These poorly translated English-language T-shirts spotted In Asia are a hoot.
A Brief History of the Stoplight.
Europe’s Oldest Tree Lives in Italy.
ICYMI, Wednesday’s links are here, and include 18th-century tips on managing servants, Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home after imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse Five) during the Dresden bombing, teaching a spider to jump on demand, and the anniversary of the 1453 fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.