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In mid-December of 2014, South Korean grocers reported a massive, 250% uptick in the sale of macadamia nuts [...]

On May 27, 1959, a man named G. Clifford Prout appeared on The Today Show, NBC’s long-running news [...]

Hi! Today, I’m going to share a story that I tried to write a few times — but I couldn’t [...]

Pictured above is a hot dog stand that no longer exists. And that’s probably okay — if you were [...]

Right now, around the world, there are probably a million or so people around the world playing Minecraft. [...]

Hi! I don’t really have much to share this week other than the week in review itself, so I’m [...]

North Korea, as recounted in these pages many times over, is unlike most of the rest of the world, and not in [...]

On July 18, 1976, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci took to the uneven bars at the Montreal Olympics. A [...]

Exercise is good for you. That’s not a surprise to read, I hope. The benefits of cardiovascular [...]

Hi! Thirteen years ago yesterday, Now I Know was born. For the first few years of the newsletter, I’d [...]