About Words IQ

Each issue opens with the Trivia of the Day. Make your guess in the email and you land on the full story here on the site: a researched article on what actually happened, how it worked, and why it still matters, with links to the sources we used so you can check them yourself.

We look for answers whose real story is more surprising than the version most people have heard. The subjects range across history, science, language, food, inventions and places, and every one is checked against our archive so we never run the same story twice.

Around the trivia sit three shorter features: a Word of the Day with its meaning and an example of it in use, a Joke of the Day, and a short This Day in History. It takes about five minutes to read, and the archive holds every past issue.

Words IQ is published by Mediadealer and edited by Corey Lewis. We're a small, independent operation — no giant media company, no clickbait quotas — just a focused publication built for the people who read it.

Questions, corrections, and advertising enquiries all reach a real person at [email protected].

Every article is researched, drafted with the help of AI tools, edited by a person, and checked against everything we've already published so we never run the same story twice. Articles link to their sources, and those links are verified before an issue goes out.

We've written the whole process down — including how we use AI and how to tell us we got something wrong — on our editorial standards page.

Subscribing is free and takes a few seconds — you'll get each new issue by email, and you can unsubscribe anytime with one click. Prefer to browse? Every past issue lives in our archive.