Stuff You Should Know

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

Borderline Personality Disorder has been described as emotional “third degree burns ... more

Data centers are the backbone of our digital world. All the sites you visit and social med... more

During the Cold War, the CIA used the legend of a vampire named Aswang to scare locals int... more

West Virginia is home to sensitive radio telescopes that could easily pick up your cell ph... more

For most of history, forgiveness fell under the domain of religion. But in the 1980s scien... more

Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is much more than the winter blues. It's a serious su... more

Since 1972 neighborhoods have been officially banding together to prevent crime together. ... more

Today we dive into the interesting story of paranormal power couple the Warrens, inspirati... more

We love us some MC Escher. Turns out his story is pretty fascinating too. Tune in to this ... more

Whatever you think of TV, you have to admit it has shaped the world (maybe more than the i... more

What exactly is this durable ceramic anyway? See [omnystudio.com/listener] (https://omnyst... more

Home economics seems antiquated – a class that teaches high school kids how to bake ... more

Playing miniature golf is a very fun thing to do and, you’re about to find, learning... more

In this special Christmas Day episode, we get cuddly with one of the all-time great holida... more

Holly is waxy and super sharp, not exactly the kind of thing you'd want all over your hous... more

Deck your tidings and get your halls nice and gladded because it’s time for maybe th... more

When your life is as outsized as the World’s Greatest Showman PT Barnum it’s p... more

The story of Doggerland is pretty fascinating. The idea is that mainland Europe and the UK... more

At the end of WWII in Europe, one of the strangest battles of the war took place between G... more

Everybody’s always bagging on pessimists and telling everybody they should be more o... more