About
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. It's the good stuff - science, history, tech, culture, and everyday curiosities - decoded and delivered in five minutes.
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 Most "did you know" facts are either wrong, decades out of date, or stretched into an endless article to sell you something at the bottom.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 genuinely, provably fascinating - the chemistry that makes honey immortal, the disaster that rounded every airplane window, the reason your brain sees faces in electrical outlets - and 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.
How we pick and write
Four rules.
Short and complete
Every story earns its length. We explain the whole idea, then stop. No 2,000-word warm-ups to find the one interesting paragraph.
Actually true
We chase down the real explanation, not the fun-sounding myth. If something's disputed or simplified, we say so.
Plain English
You shouldn't need a degree to enjoy a good fact. We translate the science, history, and jargon into things a curious human can hold.
The 'huh' test
One rule for what we publish: does it make you go 'huh, I didn't know that'? If not, it doesn't run.
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The weekly FYI: a handful of genuinely fascinating, well-sourced things in your inbox. That's the whole pitch.
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