Just curious, how often do the subjects of articles you work on come up in daily life? I work on a lot of pretty obscure and random stuff, but even still, I'm surprised how often I can claim to have written the article about some Australian town, a state park, a ski resort...
On the downside, it's humiliating to be participating in a trivia night, and there's a question about just such a topic, and you can't remember the answer. I did a fair bit of copyediting on [[Hughes H-4 Hercules]], but still couldn't remember the name of the damn thing the other night...:( (But I did know who [[Franck Sorbier]] was...)
Steve