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July 13, 2020 0

Pictured above is a Nintendo Switch (banana for scale), a gaming console released in 2017. It’s a [...]

July 10, 2020 0

Hi! When I first started Now I Know a bit more than ten years ago, I decided that I was going to read [...]

July 9, 2020 0

In June of 2014, two men were walking around the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Coney Island, likely [...]

July 7, 2020 0

If you watch a sitcom on TV, your attention is probably focused on the actors and the dialogue. Maybe [...]

July 6, 2020 0

For many adults, IKEA is like a playground. The furniture retailer sells thousands of items designed to be [...]

July 2, 2020 0

Hi! As I mentioned yesterday, I’m taking a three-day weekend — the 4th of July is Saturday [...]

June 30, 2020 0

As a general rule, you don’t want to lose your head, especially not literally — it contains your [...]

June 29, 2020 0

On July 25, 1992, the Spanish city of Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics, but these games were a bit [...]

June 26, 2020 0

Hi! If you’re new to this email newsletter, the Friday emails are a bit different, as [...]

June 25, 2020 0

Twenty years or so ago, using the term “butt dial” would have earned you a fair number of odd [...]