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3/30/2023
14 : 14
Now I Know: The Party Game With a Built-In Swear Filter
It's mind-bogglingly clever! View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Thanks to my brother for digging up an old version of Boggle and sending me lots of pictures (including
3/29/2023
13 : 45
Now I Know: What if the Astronauts Were Marooned on the Moon?
Read the speech that was never given View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I originally shared this story twelve years ago today and somehow, haven't again since. Enjoy!
3/28/2023
12 : 54
Now I Know: Here Comes the Story of the Herricanes
Today's forecast: Cloudy with less sexism than in the 1970s. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I love this title and I hope you get the reference. -- Dan Here Comes
3/27/2023
13 : 44
Now I Know: When Make Up Boxed Out Makeup
A story about Dr. Joyce Brothers View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hope you had a good weekend. This story talks about the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. The 1994 movie
3/24/2023
13 : 24
It's the Now I Know Weekender!
That generic subject line means I didn't know what I was going to write about when I started writing this. View this email in your browser · Missed an issue? Click here! If you're new to Now I
3/23/2023
13 : 34
Now I Know: The Slave Who Shipped Himself to Freedom
Meet Henry "Box" Brown View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a rerun from 2012 -- the event happened today in 1849. -- Dan The Slave Who Shipped Himself to
3/22/2023
14 : 24
Now I Know: A Cute Way to Prevent Traffic Deaths
Meet Xiaolüren (and his family) View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives The "From the Archives" story today is about one of my absolute favorite fun facts. -- Dan A
3/21/2023
13 : 24
Now I Know: Why Movie Theaters Have Red Seats
Well, most of them. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I know not all theaters have red seats, but given the below, maybe they should! -- Dan Why Movie Theaters Have Red
3/20/2023
13 : 44
Now I Know: The Problem With Living in the Center of America
37N 98W or Fight? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hope you had a good weekend! -- Dan The Problem With Living in the Center of America Not many people live in Butler
3/17/2023
14 : 24
Now I Know: Yes, I Called Julius Caesar a Greek. Oops.
And an article about a race. 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
3/16/2023
14 : 59
Now I Know: I Guess You Could Say They... Excel
I can't even type out a SUM(A1:A3) without a typo View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Happy Ides of March, unless you're a Greek emperor, in which case, you may
3/16/2023
14 : 54
Now I Know: Kaninhoppning -- The World's Cutest Sport?
I can't think of a cuter one. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-run from 2012 and I can't believe I haven't re-shared it since. I link to the
3/14/2023
14 : 14
Now I Know: The Little Bit of P-Word in the Coke
He got suspended for this? Really? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives The ad at the top features Max Headroom promoting New Coke, two topics about which there are a lot of
3/13/2023
13 : 24
Now I Know: This Cupcake Recipe Isn't The Bomb
Deliciously dangerous? Well, yes to the former, no to the latter. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Sorry, I don't have the recipes here. (I guess, given the
3/10/2023
14 : 44
Now I Know: I Think I Found My Favorite Wikipedia Entry
This isn't a red-herring. 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
3/9/2023
15 : 15
Now I Know: The Dark History of Groomsmen
What's a wedding ceremony without a capital crime? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives The Nat Geo article linked below goes into detail on modern-day applications of
3/8/2023
14 : 44
Now I Know: New York City's War on ... Pinball?
From SoHo down to FiDi, they must have slayed them all View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is from my first book, shared today for no rhyme or reason. (I also shared
3/7/2023
14 : 54
Now I Know: But Where Did All the White Dog Poop Go?
Hopefully, you weren't already thinking about dog poop. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I've written about animal poop a lot over the last dozen years. I don
3/6/2023
14 : 44
Now I Know: Baseball's Strangest Trade
I don't even know how something like this happens. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This isn't really a story about baseball. -- Dan Baseball's Strangest
3/3/2023
15 : 15
Now I Know: When Space and Physics Don't Mix
Kerning: The Final Frontier 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