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July 14, 2025 0 History’s Highest Stakes Chess Match? On July 11, 1972, American chess player Bobby Fischer faced off against the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky in [...]
July 11, 2025 0 Two Very Fun, But Very Hard, Sudokus Hi! If you’ve been reading Now I Know for a long time now, you know that I like variant sudoku puzzles. If [...]
July 10, 2025 0 Getting Divorced Over an Illegal Hyphen? In a typical marriage, when someone says, “we’re getting a divorce,” it’s not great [...]
July 8, 2025 0 When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town The Lumbee people are a Native American tribe based in southeastern North Carolina, primarily around Robeson [...]
July 7, 2025 0 The Burger With a Side of Insensitivity For nearly a century, the name McDonald’s has been synonymous with hamburgers. The chain of fast food [...]
July 3, 2025 0 Happy (Almost) Fourth of July! Hi! I’m taking tomorrow off for the 4th of July, so today’s Weekender is hitting your inbox a day early. [...]
July 1, 2025 0 The Bovine Unity of Milk and Glue? Pictured above is a suite of dairy products from Borden, an American foodstuffs company founded in 1857. The [...]
June 30, 2025 0 This Airport SUX I’m not a fan of air travel — it’s expensive, you need to show up way ahead of your departure time, and [...]
June 27, 2025 0 The Best Movies of the Century, According to the New York Times Hi! This week, the New York Times ranked its top 100 movies of the 21st century so far. You can read their [...]