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🗂 The Issue Archive
Here they are: six complete sample issues of Frank's Five, posted in full so you can kick the tires before you hand over an email address. Every issue follows the same trusty format — one headliner with the story behind it, four more beauties, one myth demolished, one stumper, and a bit of this-week-in-history.
Fair warning from Frank: the stumper answers roll forward from issue to issue, so the archive reads best in order, like any good serial. Start at Issue No. 1 and let the drawers open one at a time.
Issue No. 1 • Friday, June 5, 2026 • Theme: The Deep End
The jellyfish that refuses to die — a creature that can age backwards, the geometry of wombats, and the goldfish myth finally gets what's coming to it.
The jellyfish that refuses to die — a creature that can age backwards, the geometry of wombats, and the goldfish myth finally gets what's coming to it.
Issue No. 2 • Friday, June 12, 2026 • Theme: Timeline Scramblers
Cleopatra and the Moon landing — history in the wrong order: mammoths outliving the pyramids' construction crews, a 40-minute war, and Napoleon's height gets a fair hearing.
Cleopatra and the Moon landing — history in the wrong order: mammoths outliving the pyramids' construction crews, a 40-minute war, and Napoleon's height gets a fair hearing.
Issue No. 3 • Friday, June 19, 2026 • Theme: Words, Words, Words
The 45-letter word invented as a stunt — the dictionary's longest tenant, the dot called a tittle, and no, Einstein never failed math.
The 45-letter word invented as a stunt — the dictionary's longest tenant, the dot called a tittle, and no, Einstein never failed math.
Issue No. 4 • Friday, June 26, 2026 • Theme: The Kitchen Shelf
The honey that outlived the pharaohs — why honey never spoils, ketchup's brief career as medicine, and the sugar-rush myth gets a time-out.
The honey that outlived the pharaohs — why honey never spoils, ketchup's brief career as medicine, and the sugar-rush myth gets a time-out.
Issue No. 5 • Friday, July 3, 2026 • Theme: Look Up
The raspberry-flavored dust cloud — a galactic cloud with a familiar flavor, more trees than stars, and the Great Wall myth fails to launch.
The raspberry-flavored dust cloud — a galactic cloud with a familiar flavor, more trees than stars, and the Great Wall myth fails to launch.
Issue No. 6 • Friday, July 10, 2026 • Theme: Around the World in Five Facts
The tower that was supposed to come down — how a radio antenna saved the Eiffel Tower, France's surprising longest border, and your brain's full 100%.
The tower that was supposed to come down — how a radio antenna saved the Eiffel Tower, France's surprising longest border, and your brain's full 100%.
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