Stuff You Should Know

Movies on planes have changed a lot in the last couple of decades. Today, we'll go over ho... more

What happens when a career grifter tries to throw a "luxury" music festival in only six mo... more

Something spooky was born on the American frontier in the mid-19th century: the idea that ... more

Before the internet could show you anything in the universe - including stuff it made up -... more

You might be familiar with the outlaw Johnny Ringo from the movie Tombstone. He was indeed... more

There was a time less than 100 years ago when you could exchange your paper currency at th... more

Dopamine is perhaps the most talked-about, most misunderstood biochemical in our bodies. I... more

Back in 1973 a male chauvinist played tennis against champion Billie Jean King. This is th... more

What’s a MacGuffin? We don’t know. No one knows. But it has to do with movies ... more

Stanford University was co-founded by Jane Stanford. Not long after she was murdered and i... more

Free range parenting is all about giving your child the freedom to play and explore life o... more

The Flexner Report shook up medicine in the United States when it was released in 1910 and... more

Back in the 1800s, people had an outsized fear of being buried alive. Enter... THE SAFETY ... more

If you’ve ever been out of your house you’ve probably been in a crowd before. ... more

Charles Darwin wasn't the first or only scientist to grasp the theory of evolution through... more

It turns out that lasers are even cooler than they look. And as far as acronyms go, they&r... more

In the late 90s, a strange musical instrument was excavated under the streets of CDMX. Lis... more

Humans have all sorts of weird quirks that cause us to do silly things and make bad decisi... more

If look into the mythology of just about any culture in the world, you will find a myth ab... more

The Cajun Navy was formed after Hurricane Katrina and really got its legs after the Louisi... more

Have you ever cried way longer than usual when you were in a yellow room? You’ve bee... more

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan were one of the most amazing non-magical duos in history. I... more

In World War II, a secret department of British 'corkscrew thinkers' hatched a plan to use... more

If you think the Golden Gate Bridge is named because of its color then you are wrong. That... more

The Magic 8 Ball, the mystical fortune telling pool ball started out as a piece of custome... more

The Charge of the Light Brigade is a famous poem about a lesser famous military action dur... more

You’d think terms like cage-free and free-range means the chickens we eat are frolic... more

Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur had a famous beef with one another in the mid-90s. It was s... more

The Seven Deadly Sins are tied to religion, but not really in the Bible. So where did this... more

Today, Chuck and Josh walk you through the history of keeping time, from sticks in the sun... more