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August 11, 2022 0 How To Get Your Customers Drunk and Take Them for a Ride Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink typically made from barley and juniper berries. In the late 1600s, it was [...]
August 9, 2022 0 The Musician Whose Big Break Was a Broken Instrument The music industry, like most others, is dominated by a handful of big names. Despite the probably millions [...]
August 8, 2022 0 Why “1984” Debuted in 1983 On January 22, 1984, more than 75 million people gathered in front of television sets around the world to [...]
August 5, 2022 0 The Weird Editing Trick That Messed Me Up on Tuesday Hi! On Tuesday, I started the bonus fact with a different header than usual; instead of simply labeling [...]
August 4, 2022 0 The Danger of Posting Selfies In the fall of 2013, the word “selfie” was named Word of the Year by the editors of the Oxford [...]
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July 29, 2022 0 Let’s Help a (Former) Preschooler Stay Curious Hi! I’ve long said that NowI Know is an exercise in the joys of curiosity, which I’m going [...]
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