March 26, 2026 0 The Painkiller That Killed Half a Million People The dairy industry is an enormous one. Per some estimates, the world produces more than 700 million tons of [...]
March 24, 2026 0 Because Not Everyone Can Be a Burger King If you’re in the mood for a burger and fries, great news — there are a lot of options out there for you. [...]
March 23, 2026 0 The Conspiracy That Led to the End of the World The Earth, to be clear, is round. Humanity has suspected this for millennia and known it for centuries. But [...]
March 20, 2026 0 Help Keep Now I Know Going Strong Hi! Yep: Today, I’m asking you to financially support Now I Know For 15 years, I’ve been writing Now I [...]
March 19, 2026 0 The Day It Rained Blobs of Goo If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you get used to rain. In Oakville, Washington, a small timber town of [...]
March 17, 2026 0 The Man Who Made the Front Page Twice They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. And at first, that proved true for Michael Millhouse, a [...]
March 16, 2026 0 When an Olive Garden Review Became Internet Famous Grand Forks, North Dakota is the third-most populous city in the state, which is to say, it’s not all that [...]
March 13, 2026 0 What a Four-Minute Spaceship Shot Taught Me About Empathy Hi! This one is nerdy, I have to warn you. But I don’t think you’ll need to be a nerd to appreciate it. [...]
March 12, 2026 0 How Ignoring Orders Gave Us an Idiom In English, a “blind eye” is rarely about eyesight. If you turn one, you’re ignoring something obvious [...]
March 10, 2026 0 A Chicken Way to Embezzle In March 2020, much of the world shut down as COVID-19 ran rampant across the planet. Institutions of all [...]