April 21, 2016 0 A Weighty Issue Imagine you have in front of you an important document — something that you need someone to not only [...]
April 20, 2016 0 Give Me Liberty or Give Me Triple Sevens Pictured above is a stamp. It was issued on December 1, 2010, and honors the Statue of Liberty, which graces [...]
April 19, 2016 0 Huggable Politics In November of 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt joined the governor of Mississippi on a hunting trip. The [...]
April 18, 2016 0 How Brazil Got to the 1932 Olympics (Mostly) The 1932 Summer Olympics took place in Los Angeles, California, and are probably most notable for how [...]
April 14, 2016 0 The Creepiest Way to Say Happy Birthday In 1986, novelist Stephen King cursed a generation of people with a horror story which centers upon a [...]
April 13, 2016 0 “We Won’t Give Up Until You Bleed” You enter the gymnasium to find a bunch of cots positioned around the room. There are people lying down on [...]
April 12, 2016 0 Not Up to Scratch Natural gas, as long-time readers of Now I Know may have learned about via the bonus item here, is odorless. [...]
April 11, 2016 0 The Life and Lies of Betty Crocker If you’d like to make a cake (or in the above example, “low-fat fudge brownies”), [...]
April 8, 2016 0 The Weekender: April 8, 2016 1) “Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator” (TED, 14 minutes and 3 seconds, [...]
April 7, 2016 0 The Typo on the Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is one of Washington, D.C.’s top tourist attractions. The monument, erected to [...]