September 3, 2015 0 Guest Post: How a Vice President Changed the English Language This is a guest post by Liesl Johnson, as part of Now I Know’s Patreon program. For more information [...]
September 3, 2015 0 Switzerland’s Kind of Gross, Incredibly Effective Anti-Rabies Weapon The idiom “like the fox guarding the hen house” is meant as a warning — foxes eat hens, so putting [...]
September 2, 2015 0 Why Reusable Bags Often Have Cookies Inside Pictured above is a reusable shopping bag, typically made of canvas or other durable material and designed [...]
September 1, 2015 0 Where Old English Cats Go to Retire Typically, when a cat owner dies and leaves a pet behind, there’s someone willing to adopt the [...]
August 31, 2015 0 How Smoking Gave PEZ a Boost At first glance, the image above — from a 1950s advertisement — is probably related to smoking. [...]
August 26, 2015 0 Making Sense of Dollar Signs $ That’s a dollar sign. You probably knew that.It’s also an S with a vertical line through it. You [...]
August 24, 2015 0 What Happens in Bochum Stays in Bochum The German town of Bochum is the 16th largest in the country by population; roughly 350,000 people call it [...]
August 21, 2015 0 The People You Can Check Out of the Library Libraries are, increasingly, more than just books — they’re repositories of information, with all [...]
August 20, 2015 0 How Do You Send a Warning 1,000 Years into the Future? Think back to what the Earth was like a thousand years ago — the year 1,015. Almost everything would be [...]
August 19, 2015 0 How to Pay Yourself $2.1 Million in Taxes Tax refunds are tantamount to loans to the government, repaid a few weeks or months late. But many people [...]