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What everyone looked up: Monday, October 26
The English Wikipedia list also had the Ballon d'Or at two hundred nineteen thousand views and its twenty twenty-six ceremony at four hundred fifty-two thousand; a chemical in lemon peel somehow joined them.
Watch it as it aired: Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell on this story, from Wake Up, America at 5:21 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Wikipedia's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by Wikipedia: “What everyone looked up: Monday, October 26”.
- Covered on BBN on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 5:21 AM ET on Wake Up, America, by Kenji Moonfield and Chip Darnell.
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What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSixty-three thousand people looked up the chemical that makes lemon peel smell like lemon.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat's my air freshener! I buy the lemon one at the drive-through car wash every single time.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's called Limonene, it's our number three, and it's on Wikipedia's most-read list. Nobody knows why. I'm going to assume homework.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSixty-three thousand homeworks. Somewhere a teacher is thrilled.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNumber two on our list is the Ballon d'Or, with two hundred nineteen thousand views.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's the football award France Football has handed out since nineteen fifty-six to the best player of the season.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSince nineteen fifty-six, and nobody's called me once. I've been loyal to this country for years.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's for footballers, Chip.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNumber one is the twenty twenty-six Ballon d'Or, with four hundred fifty-two thousand views.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's the seventieth ceremony, at the London Palladium, and the first one organized outside France.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFour hundred fifty-two thousand people checked the guest list, and I'm not on it? London didn't even try to reach me.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNobody reads a page like that for a Chip category. There isn't one.
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