May 12, 2020 0 The Speed Trap That Trapped Itself “To Protect and to Serve” is the motto of the Los Angeles Police Department, and it nicely sums [...]
May 11, 2020 0 The Sandwich You Don’t Want to Eat Throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s, alcohol was effectively illegal in the United States. But this [...]
May 8, 2020 0 The Weekender, May 8, 2020 At the top of yesterday’s email, I asked a trivia question — one I came up with on my own a few [...]
May 7, 2020 0 Les Gardiens de Zoo Accidentels Guinea baboons, pictured above, are native to a small part of Western Africa. But you don’t have [...]
May 5, 2020 0 Nebraska’s Fearless Maid In early January of 1881, residents of Nebraska were suffering through an unusually hard week of winter. On [...]
May 4, 2020 0 Shear Determination Pictured above is a newly shorn Merino sheep, the breed that is most common among domesticated sheep. As [...]
May 1, 2020 0 The Weekender, May 1, 2020 Hi! It is, somehow, May. This means Now I Know is a month-plus from celebrating its tenth anniversary. [...]
April 30, 2020 0 The Belgian Grandmothers That Helped Win the War .. / …. — .–. . / – …. . / — . – … / -.- . . .–. / .. – / ..- [...]
April 28, 2020 0 The Illegal Onions That Go Great With Spaghetti Allium tricoccum sounds like something best avoided, like some sort of infection-causing bacteria. But [...]
April 27, 2020 0 It’s Genuine, but is it Genuinely Good? Discount clothing stores — TJ Maxx, Kohl’s, Marshalls, and others if you’re in the United [...]