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“To Protect and to Serve” is the motto of the Los Angeles Police Department, and it nicely sums [...]

Throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s, alcohol was effectively illegal in the United States. But this [...]

At the top of yesterday’s email, I asked a trivia question — one I came up with on my own a few [...]

Guinea baboons, pictured above, are native to a small part of Western Africa. But you don’t have [...]

In early January of 1881, residents of Nebraska were suffering through an unusually hard week of winter. On [...]

Pictured above is a newly shorn Merino sheep, the breed that is most common among domesticated sheep. As [...]

Hi!  It is, somehow, May. This means Now I Know is a month-plus from celebrating its tenth anniversary. [...]

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Allium tricoccum sounds like something best avoided, like some sort of infection-causing bacteria. But [...]

Discount clothing stores — TJ Maxx, Kohl’s, Marshalls, and others if you’re in the United [...]