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9/7/2023
13 : 34
Now I Know: The People Who Live in Floating Reeds
A different take on lakefront property View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-run that I originally shared 11 years ago (!) today and, to be honest, had otherwise
9/6/2023
13 : 24
Now I Know: On Tape From LA, It's Saturday Night!
Because it's OK to run a re-run so you can take a day off View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I may have two Johnny Carson stories this week. Or maybe I'll save the
9/5/2023
14 : 44
Now I Know: How 1930s Syria "Solved" Its Drought Problem
What goes down prevents other things from going down if it also goes back up? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I'm back from vacation... but it didn't do me much
9/4/2023
13 : 34
Now I Know: The Different Coin
Part two of the puzzle (and don't worry if you missed part one). View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives It's Labor Day here in the States, and I'm taking the day
9/1/2023
13 : 54
Now I Know: The Two Coins
A puzzle, but it's short... maybe! View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Happy Friday! Today is a re-run, but it's still something different for a Friday... you'
8/31/2023
14 : 24
Now I Know: A More Equitable Form of Speeding Tickets?
A $100000 fine is a lot, though, no matter how you cut it. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hi! I'm still on vacation and here's another re-run, (from 2012) but
8/30/2023
13 : 54
Now I Know: Leave it to Beaver
A dam shame. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hi! This is a re-run from January 2016 (it's my vacation week!). Definitely read the "From the Archives" for
8/29/2023
13 : 24
Now I Know: The Greedy Cup
Pythagoras vs. drinking? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hi! My vacation continues with this re-run from 2015! Don't try the cup at home (unless your friends have a
8/28/2023
13 : 24
Now I Know: One Spud, You're Out
It's also the punchline to a fun Penn and Teller trick View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hi! I'm on vacation this week, so please enjoy this re-run. I selected it
8/25/2023
14 : 24
Now I Know: Vacation Mode, On!
:-) View this email in your browser · Missed an issue? Click here! If you're new to Now I Know, you'll notice that today's format is different than the rest of the week. On Fridays, I take
8/24/2023
14 : 54
Now I Know: The Man Who Beat the Lottery (and Still Lost)
Too bad, too. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This seems like too much work to me -- if you can do this much math, automation, and organizing, you can build something
8/23/2023
14 : 14
Now I Know: A Def Vacation
hint: say the subject line aloud and quickly View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-reun from 2016; if you say the title aloud (and quickly), you'll get the
8/22/2023
13 : 54
Now I Know: Picasso vs. Titanic
A copyright disaster? Nah, that's overstating it. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives If you're not familiar with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, its Wikipedia entry
8/21/2023
13 : 54
Now I Know: The $10,000 Cantaloupe
It's not that much more ridiculous than a really expensive bottle of wine, I guess? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hope you had a good weekend. I'm not a huge
8/18/2023
13 : 24
Now I Know: What I've Never Read
A Dracula story, I guess. View this email in your browser · Missed an issue? Click here! If you're new to Now I Know, you'll notice that today's format is different than the rest of the
8/17/2023
13 : 44
Now I Know: You Can't Eat Here (And Don't Really Want to Anyway)
Feet, shaving cream, and bleach for dinner? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Check out the Vice article linked; it has a ton of great photos.-- Dan You Can't Eat
8/16/2023
13 : 54
Now I Know: Horse, Off-Course
Why part of Australia's Summer Olympics were held in Sweden View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a rerun from August 16, 2016, which I totally forgot about, so I
8/15/2023
14 : 54
Now I Know: Ulysses Subtracting (Land) Grant?
I'm taking a slight liberty with the title here View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I've taken some liberties with the title today, but it was too much fun to pass
8/14/2023
13 : 24
Now I Know: The Translator That Sucked The Life Out of Dracula
The power of darkness, indeed. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hope you had a good weekend! The fact that there's a Dracula movie (The Last Voyage of the Demeter)
8/14/2023
12 : 54
Now I Know: Panda Dipolmacy
Why all American pandas are just visiting View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-run from August of 2013 -- ten years ago! I updated the bonus fact link because