The last couple days, you may have noticed our new podcast posts, starting with Episode 1: Columbus and the Round World Episode 2: Growing Up with Caffeine We’ve teamed up with SpokenMatter.com to start producing this “Daily Knowledge” podcast series featuring interesting facts discussed in detail with a new episode every weekday. Give the episodes a listen at the above […]
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You’ll note in the header bar (TIFO Shop) that we’ve just launched a TodayIFoundOut store. For now, it includes our new book, The Wise Book of Whys, along with some nerdy t-shirts and hoodies. Later, we’ll be adding many other things, particularly focusing on original and entertaining education products, as well as all things nerdy. 🙂 For a limited time, […]
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I’m extremely excited to announce that after a little over eight solid months of work, Today I Found Out‘s first book is now out: The Wise Book of Whys featuring over 100 different topics such as Why New York is Called “The Big Apple” and Why We Sing “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve, along with many an interesting […]
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After years of having it on the “To-Do” list, we’re officially launching our YouTube Channel with this as our debut video. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to make sure you don’t miss future TodayIFoundOut videos, which like our articles will be on a variety of topics and chock full of interesting, well researched facts. Thanks! Transcript: #1: Avast, Definition: “stop” […]
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TodayIFoundOut.com has been hovering for a few months just barely under 2 million page views in a month, but thanks to a traffic surge the last few days has finally broken through the 2 million mark in a 30 day period receiving 2,308,791 page views from 1,557,178 visits in the last 30 days, both of which are new site records. […]
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So a new book was just put out for pre-sale by Dan Lewis, the man behind the Webby Award winning Now I Know newsletter and someone who occasionally lets me re-publish some of his awesome articles here on Today I Found Out, such as this one. So I thought I’d recommend it here. Dan is a phenomenal writer and is […]
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We’ve just launched a new Pinterest page for Today I Found Out, where we’ll be posting various picture quick facts and infographics for your reading pleasure, some from our site and some from elsewhere. So if you’re on Pinterest and are interested, please follow us here. We’ve also just added the ability for you to simply hover the mouse over […]
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One of our authors (pictured on the right), Firefighter/Paramedic Scott Hiskey (who writes most of the medical-related articles you read on Today I Found Out), every year participates in the coincidentally named Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, where more than 1500 firefighters race up Seattle’s tallest building in full firefighter gear (including their heavily thermally insulated suits and air masks that due […]
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I recently put out a job listing for some new writers to add to the team here on Today I Found Out. I received well over 300 applicants, with a shockingly high percentage of them being amazingly good. After going through all the applications a few times, I managed to narrow the list down to the top 10% and gave […]
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Just a quick plug for one of the authors here at Today I Found Out, Samantha. She has published her first book, A Game Worth Watching, which is only $3.99 and is also available via Amazon Kindle’s lending library. My wife has now read the book (the book being geared more towards people of the female persuasion ;-)) and tells […]
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Merry Christmas from everyone here at Today I Found Out! While you’re sipping eggnog and trying your best to continue smiling and nodding while your cousin and cousin-in-law once again tell you how their little Stacey has a photographic memory and already sings and plays the piano as well as Norah Jones, despite being just 4 years old and publicly […]
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As mentioned about a week and a half ago, starting today we’re going to be doing a lot more daily posts here on Today I Found Out than previously. We’ll still be doing the normal 5-6-ish full articles per week like always, but we’ll also be adding a few other posts daily and a variety of new series of posts […]
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Starting November 1st, we’ll be trying something a little different on Today I Found Out, more posts per day… a boatload more. We’ll still have the normal 5-6 regular article / infographic type posts per week that you’re used to, but in addition to that, we’ve been working extremely hard recently to be able to add a lot more other […]
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I’m doing a little website maintenance this weekend, moving Today I Found Out to a more powerful server as the traffic to the site has grown beyond my old dedicated server’s capacity to serve without increased page load times, especially when there are large random surges of traffic *stares accusingly at reddit*. Even when not getting big surges, though, the […]
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The first Today I found out email subscription contest ended October 1st. (If you haven’t already, you can subscribe here to be a part of future contests and get free interesting articles every morning in your inbox.) I’m still waiting to hear back from the two runner up winners ($50 VISA gift card going to both, so check your email […]
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As announced about two weeks ago when I posted the email subscription contest, I’m switching up the way email subscriptions are handled and today should be the last time the old email subscription system is used. If any of you that have subscribed suddenly stop getting your email subscription, please let me know and I’ll re-subscribe you, or you can […]
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I’m very excited to announce that Eddie Deezen will now be contributing articles to Today I Fount Out. Besides appearing in or doing voice acting for a myriad of major motion pictures and TV shows including Grease; WarGames (one of my personal favorites growing up); Kim Possible; Dexter’s Laboratory; What’s New, Scooby-Doo; and Polar Express, Deezen also occasionally writes interesting […]
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Voting for the AllMyFaves “Best Site of 2011” contest ends at midnight tonight (12/31). Today I Found Out is currently in second place under Education just 45 votes behind the leader. It’s also currently in fourth place overall among all the categories (out of 100 sites nominated by AllMyFaves). If you haven’t voted yet, you can vote for any of […]
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