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July 29, 2024 0 The Easy Way to Get into the Olympics Today, the attention of the world is on the Summer Olympics in Paris. We tune in to watch the best of the [...]
July 26, 2024 0 Results of the Now I Know Reader Survey Hi! Last Friday, I asked you to answer some questions so I could get to know you better. I promised I’d [...]
July 24, 2024 0 The Great Minnesota Goose Scandal of 2017 On October 9, 2017, millions of Americans tuned in to watch the Minnesota Vikings host the Chicago Bears for [...]
July 23, 2024 0 There Is No “Eye” in “Art” Pictured above is “Three Figures”,” a painting by Soviet avant-garde artist Anna Leporskaya. [...]
July 22, 2024 0 The Fastest Human-Created Object is a … What? From 1976 until 2003, if you wanted to travel by airplane across the Atlantic, and you wanted to go quickly, [...]
July 19, 2024 0 The Now I Know Reader Survey, July 2024 Hi! If you read last Friday’s newsletter, you already know what today’s is about: the Now I Know Reader [...]
July 17, 2024 0 The Dirty Lyric Snuck Onto The Radio In August 2010, American singer-songwriter CeeLo Green released a song titled, simply, “[F—] You,” [...]
July 16, 2024 0 The Pencil That Told Kids To Do Something They Shouldn’t The American “War on Drugs” began informally in the early 1970s. On October 27, 1970, Congress passed the [...]
July 15, 2024 0 A Mountainous Problem With Instant Noodles Pictured above is Mount Halla, also known as Hallasan, the highest peak in South Korea. It’s located on [...]