About the publication · Est. MMXXVI
A field guide to the fascinating.
Strictly FYI is for people who read the plaque at the museum, who fall down Wikipedia rabbit holes, who want to know why the airplane window is round.
The internet is drowning in content and starved of the good kind: short, true, and genuinely interesting. Most "did you know" facts are either wrong, decades out of date, or stretched into an endless article to sell you something at the bottom.
Strictly FYI is the antidote. We pick things that are provably fascinating: the chemistry that makes honey immortal, the disaster that rounded every airplane window, the reason your brain sees faces in electrical outlets. We tell you the real story, plainly, and then we get out of your way.
The name says it all: interesting things, strictly for your information.
No hot takes, no outrage, no algorithm bait. Just the small, sturdy pleasure of learning something true and thinking, huh, I'm glad I know that now.
House rules · How we pick and write
- §01 Short and complete Every entry earns its length. We explain the whole idea, then stop. No 2,000-word warm-up to reach the one interesting paragraph.
- §02 Actually true We chase the real explanation, not the fun-sounding myth. If something is disputed or simplified, we say so in the entry.
- §03 Plain English You should not need a degree to enjoy a good fact. We translate the science, history, and jargon into something a curious human can hold.
- §04 The 'huh' test One rule decides what runs: does it make you think 'huh, I didn't know that'? If not, it stays in the drawer.
Get five interesting things a week.
The weekly FYI: a handful of genuinely fascinating, well-sourced things in your inbox. That is the whole pitch.