April 25, 2025 0 The Accidental Power of Random Whimsy Hi! I’m coming up on Now I Know’s 15 year anniversary, and I’m still learning about what makes the [...]
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April 22, 2025 0 The Fishing Trip With a Big Catch Green Lake is a lake (no surprise there) about from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Here’s a map.) It’s the [...]
April 21, 2025 0 Ben Franklin’s One Simple Trick to Save Sailors from Drowning On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. [...]
April 18, 2025 0 Would You Be Interested in Joining Me on a Zoom Call? Hi! I want to do more with the Now I Know community. I’ve done a few Reddit “Ask Me Anything” [...]
April 17, 2025 0 Maybe There Is an “I” in “Team”? High school track meets in the United States often feature hundreds of kids competing in a dozen events, [...]
April 15, 2025 0 The Childhood Terror That Turned Kind Of Nice If you’re a child of the 1970s or early-to-mid 1980s or so, there are a few things you probably fear that [...]
April 14, 2025 0 The Fashion Accessory That Prevents False Alarms? The first iPhone was released in the United States in June of 2007. Cell phones were already popular by then [...]
April 11, 2025 0 Five Fun Facts About the Guy Who Writes This Hi! Earlier this week, Hank Green shared a YouTube video about the dire wolf that was not-quite-rescued from [...]
April 10, 2025 0 The Church of the World’s Oldest Tennis Ball Lincoln Cathedral, pictured above, is located in Lincoln, England. (Here’s a map.) Construction started [...]