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5/5/2022
19 : 24
[Now I Know Offers] Take Noom’s Free Quiz to Kickstart Your Health Journey
It's a great day to start something new As I mentioned last month, this is a paid email from my friends at Noom. They're great and you should absolutely try their service. But if you really don
5/5/2022
15 : 44
Now I Know: The Figuratively-Easter, Literally-Egg Easter Egg
How to eat in code? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives If you don't know what an easter egg is in this context, the title won't make sense. Click here and it will.
5/4/2022
14 : 44
Now I Know: Why the Michelin Man is White (and Maybe an Alcoholic)
Those aren't muscles, despite what my kids thought. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives If you're not one who reads the Bonus Facts, do so today; otherwise, you
5/3/2022
15 : 24
Now I Know: The Secret Life of Honey Buns
"Honey" isn't a portmanteau of "more" and "honey" but it kind of should be. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-run from 2016
5/2/2022
15 : 34
Now I Know: Polly's Neighbor Want a Walnut?
Do parrots share? Maybe. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hope you had a great weekend! I really don't like the title of this Now I Know, but wasn't able to come
4/29/2022
15 : 4
The Weekender from Now I Know!
A week in review 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
4/28/2022
15 : 34
Now I Know: NASA-L
Meet the man (and nose) that smells the stuff that goes to space View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-run from late 2016. Sorry about the double re-run this
4/27/2022
19 : 24
It's the "Live it Up in San Diego" Sweepstakes from Now I Know!
good luck and may the force be with you View this email in your browser Archives · Privacy Policy Hi again! As I forgot to mention this morning, here's an email about a sweepstakes you can enter! I
4/27/2022
15 : 44
Now I Know: The Mystery of the Missing Internet, Rural Wales Edition
Every day, at 7 AM, it went away. And then it came back. But why? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Be sure to check out the "From the Archives" story today,
4/26/2022
14 : 54
Now I Know: Why Nearly Ten Minutes of Silence Was Once Worth 99 Cents
It wasn't a very good song, despite the title. View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives As explained below, I know the first 20 seconds to "Aaron Burr, Sir" very,
4/25/2022
14 : 34
Now I Know: The Man Who Dropped Candy From the Skies
Meet the great, late Candy Bomber View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-run from August 2015. Colonel Halvorsen passed away in February of this year and I keep
4/22/2022
14 : 34
Now I Know: The (Non-)Trivia I Got Wrong But I Don't Feel Bad About
A correction! Kind of. (Also: Here comes the pizza!) 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
4/21/2022
15 : 14
Now I Know: The Moon Over the Rhine River
Uniting these two sides welcomed no ifs, no ands, but at least one butt View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Many of the sources I found for this are in German, so
4/20/2022
14 : 54
Now I Know: Why 420 is High Time for Some People
Yes, this is a story about pot View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This story is about pot, obviously. I don't have anything particularly useful to say about pot use
4/19/2022
17 : 24
Now I Know: Indiana Jones and the Porcelain Throne?
It's not the Ten Commandments inside this "ark" View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives I debated between this title and "Raiders of the Lost Loo."
4/18/2022
14 : 44
Now I Know: The Easter Egg Hunt that Caught a Bad Egg
Kids 2, Bad Eggs 0 View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Hope you had a good weekend! Mine was great but the holiday took over, so I'm back with a re-run today. It's
4/11/2022
14 : 34
Now I Know: The Far Side Dinosaur
Thag Simmons, the world's most important fake paleontologist? View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives This is a re-run from July 2018, which feels like only a few weeks ago
4/8/2022
15 : 44
Now I Know: We Shouldn't Forget Ignaz Semmelweis
It's the Now I Know Weekender! 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
4/7/2022
15 : 34
Now I Know: Why Doctors Wear Green (or Blue) Scrubs
The eyes have it View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives Happy Opening Day! Let's go Mets! And here's a non-baseball story for all of you who, wrongly, do not celebrate
4/6/2022
19 : 54
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A great offer from Curiosity Stream for Now I Know readers As I mentioned last Friday, this is a paid email from my friends at Curiosity Stream. They're great and you should absolutely try their