Monday, September 14, 2026 — National Cream-Filled Donut Day

A heavyweight champion went through the ropes, landed on the reporters, and somehow returned to win the fight.

Today we explore the wonderfully chaotic Dempsey–Firpo championship fight, enter a Soviet military exercise built around a real nuclear explosion, and meet IBM’s one-ton hard drive with room for roughly one modern phone photo.

Along the way, we celebrate Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger actor who went to court over the right to wear his famous mask.

Sometimes the strangest part of a system isn’t how it fails—it’s what everyone agrees to call success.