• A Man Who Sued Himself (and the IRS) and Won https://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-sued-himself-and-the-irs-and-won/ 8 comments 7/11/2023
• Why You Can’t Buy a Car on Nissan.com – Now I Know http://nowiknow.com/why-you-cant-buy-a-car-on-nissan-com/ 4 comments 10/6/2015
• A story about a man who outsourced his own job http://nowiknow.com/what-about-bob/ 41 comments 19/6/2014
• The Case of the Missing Magenta http://nowiknow.com/the-case-of-the-missing-magenta/ 45 comments 4/2/2014
• Learn Something New Everyday by Email http://nowiknow.com/ 12 comments 3/12/2012

• ⚾️ Why Teams Wear Grey When Not At Home https://nowiknow.com/why-teams-wear-grey-when-not-at-home/ 40 comments 30/9/2021 baseball
• TIL In 1976, marijuana was (accidentally) grown in the Anaheim Stadium outfield. http://nowiknow.com/when-baseball-went-to-pot/ 33 comments 20/4/2021 baseball
• Why You Can't Steal First Base https://nowiknow.com/why-you-cant-steal-first-base/ 18 comments 27/3/2018 baseball
• Why Every Baseball Game Breaks the Rules http://nowiknow.com/why-every-baseball-game-breaks-the-rules/ 17 comments 8/9/2016 baseball
• Today in 1849, a slave from Virginia got into a box and shipped himself north, to freedom. It worked. http://nowiknow.com/the-slave-who-shipped-himself-to-freedom/ 8 comments 23/3/2016 history
• In 1977, the Royals played the Brewers and had their uniforms stolen, so some of them had to wear Brewers jerseys http://nowiknow.com/royal-brew/ 43 comments 27/10/2015 baseball
• "During the 2012–2013 off-season, Jacob deGrom suffered an injury which would plague him for the subsequent season. The injury wasn’t baseball related, though; he was helping a neighbor castrate a calf (!) when the other person slipped and the bull kicked deGrom, breaking a finger on his left hand." http://nowiknow.com/twenty-five-fun-facts-about-the-2015-mets/ 18 comments 27/10/2015 baseball
• How Potatoes Changed the Outcome of a World War II Naval Battle http://nowiknow.com/how-potatoes-changed-the-outcome-of-a-world-war-ii-naval-battle/ 4 comments 30/9/2015 nottheonion
• 45 years ago today a Pirates pitcher threw a no hitter while on LSD http://nowiknow.com/high-and-outside/ 6 comments 12/6/2015 sports
• 45 years ago today, Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter ... while allegedly high on LSD. http://nowiknow.com/high-and-outside/ 560 comments 12/6/2015 history
• Now I Know: How Blind People Play Baseball http://nowiknow.com/how-blind-people-play-baseball/ 3 comments 8/6/2015 baseball
• Apple is selling a $10,000 watch so you'll buy the $1,000 model http://nowiknow.com/the-decoy-effect/ 27 comments 9/3/2015 apple
• TIL that MLB uses special mud which umpires rub on balls before games; otherwise, the ball is too hard to grip. http://nowiknow.com/major-league-baseballs-dirty-little-secret/ 8 comments 5/3/2015 baseball
• The National Anthem is always pre-recorded for the Super Bowl, and it's because Garth Brooks refused to go on stage to sing one year. http://nowiknow.com/o-say-can-you-sync/ 302 comments 30/1/2015 nfl
• Forty years ago today, a drunk driver hit a tree. Why is this a big dea? Because the tree was in the Sahara Desert, and the only one around for 250 miles. http://nowiknow.com/the-isolated-tree/ 83 comments 9/11/2013 history
• What is the most bizarre sequence of events you've ever witnessed in a match? I present Grenada vs. Barbados in 1994. http://nowiknow.com/sometimes-to-win-you-have-to-play-to-lose/ 6 comments 18/10/2013 soccer
• Meet Herb Washington, the original Billy Hamilton. Even his baseball card called him a "pinch runner." http://nowiknow.com/designated-runner/ 10 comments 13/9/2013 baseball
• Bank Shot. One of the savviest NBA business decisions I have ever heard of. http://nowiknow.com/bank-shot/ 6 comments 8/7/2013 nba
• TIL that the tennis word for zero is "love" because a zero looks like an egg, and the french word for egg is "l'oeuf" http://nowiknow.com/all-you-need-is-egg/ 4 comments 4/7/2013 tennis
• Because of the war on drugs, the US is paying Peruvian farmers to grow more asparagus (instead of coca), which is then imported into the US, putting US asparagus farmers out of business. http://nowiknow.com/the-war-on-asparagus/ 230 comments 17/6/2013 politics
• In 1977, the Royals played the Brewers wearing Brewers unis. Was anyone at that game? http://nowiknow.com/royal-brew/ 7 comments 1/4/2013 baseball
• The National Anthem before the Super Bowl is always pre-recorded, and you can blame Garth Brooks for that. http://nowiknow.com/o-say-can-you-sync/ 87 comments 31/1/2013 nfl
• Today in 1955, a bus driver named James F. Blake ordered Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. She famously refused. But it wasn't the first time Blake gave Parks trouble. Here is the other story. http://nowiknow.com/rosa-parks-first-ride/ 7 comments 1/12/2012 history
• Man cracks his knuckles on one hand for 50 years to prove it doesn't cause arthritis. http://nowiknow.com/knuckle-head/ 6 comments 28/8/2012 science
• Before D-Day, the Allies went through a live action dry run... and it didn't go so well. http://nowiknow.com/d-days-doomed-dry-run/ 3 comments 6/7/2012 history
• 32 years ago today, Doc Ellis pitched a no hitter, allegedly while on LSD http://nowiknow.com/high-and-outside/ 35 comments 13/6/2012 baseball
• General Eisenhower had a speech written in case the D-Day invasion failed. Here it is. http://nowiknow.com/eisenhowers-unread-d-day-speech/ 13 comments 6/6/2012 history
• Scone Stone on Loan: a history. http://nowiknow.com/stealing-back-the-stone-of-destiny/ 3 comments 23/5/2012 history
• Now I know: How a generation of chess knowledge was saved http://nowiknow.com/held-in-check/ 6 comments 22/5/2012 chess

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