> I had no idea that https://www.openstreetmap.org/history shows a list of the most recent changes

Here are some more views:

- https://live.openstreetmap.fr/

- https://osm-in-realtime.jwestman.net/

- https://theplanetthinks.com/map

If you like this kind of thing, https://osmstats.neis-one.org/ has a lot more stats on edits.