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Hi! This week, I made a mistake. Let’s see if you can spot it. (And thanks to reader Marc T. who not only [...]

Furnace Creek, California is a community in Death Valley National Park. (Here’s a map.) It’s home to [...]

On July 11, 1972, American chess player Bobby Fischer faced off against the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky in [...]

Hi! If you’ve been reading Now I Know for a long time now, you know that I like variant sudoku puzzles. If [...]

In a typical marriage, when someone says, “we’re getting a divorce,” it’s not great [...]

The Lumbee people are a Native American tribe based in southeastern North Carolina, primarily around Robeson [...]

For nearly a century, the name McDonald’s has been synonymous with hamburgers. The chain of fast food [...]

Hi! I’m taking tomorrow off for the 4th of July, so today’s Weekender is hitting your inbox a day early. [...]

Pictured above is a suite of dairy products from Borden, an American foodstuffs company founded in 1857. The [...]

I’m not a fan of air travel — it’s expensive, you need to show up way ahead of your departure time, and [...]