You may know that all roads lead to Rome, but are you a person who knows that every (or rather, every second) Wikipedia link leads to philosophy? Or that Bill Clinton’s father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was married five different times to five different women — two of them sisters? Or that Fig Newtons are named after a town in Massachusetts, not the famous physicist? (Okay, that was an easy one.) More importantly, are you a person that wants to know these things (and other random tidbits)?

If so, this is the place for you.

Sonia is a self-professed Wikipedia addict intent on sharing obscure facts with everyone she knows. If you can’t find her with her nose in a book, watching a ’90s sitcom or Cut for Time Saturday Night Live sketch, or brewing up a good cup of Darjeeling tea, she’s probably down a research rabbit hole in the bowels of the Internet. In addition to her nerdy hobbies, she leads a nerdy professional life: she’s currently a research fellow studying workplace gender bias.

Encyclopedia Sonia started as a way for Sonia to share her random-fact-obsession without texting her friends and family, “did you know [obscure topic here]?” every five minutes. For their sake, let’s hope it continues.

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