Every day, Dan Lewis tells interesting stories about trivia and other facts in his e-mail newsletter called Now I Know, and he has compiled about 100 of them into a book with the same name. Today on America Weekend, we talked about some of those stories, including:

  • how carrots used to be purple;
  • why South Koreans are afraid of electric fans;
  • how mathematicians figured out how to beat the Massachusetts lottery;
  • where lost luggage goes.

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