Stuff You Should Know

Before Facebook and MySpace, before even Friendster, there was SixDegrees. Dive in today t... more

8 tracks were during vinyl, but preceded cassettes. Why? So people could listen to their m... more

Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the most famous fictional character in the world, and for good ... more

Coelacanths are incredibly interesting as far as fish go. For one, they were thought to ha... more

USAID has saved tens of millions of lives across the globe since its inception. But those ... more

There was a time – a glorious time – when you could turn the dial in any city ... more

Sadly, Phil Hartman may be best remembered for being murdered in his sleep by his wife. Th... more

Tin Pan Alley was an area of New York around the beginning of the 20th Century that served... more

James Bond, the most infamous secret agent ever to grace the silver screen, originated in ... more

There have been many inventions that have advanced filmmaking, but maybe none as important... more

You may be surprised to learn those ubiquitous ratings, from G to NC-17, put on movies in ... more

Once in a while a movie comes along that's so forward-thinking it changes the way that hor... more

Special effects have been around since the first movies. In fact, the techniques the earli... more

An estimated 50,000 films were made worldwide in 2009 alone. Many are surely clunkers, but... more

They get blown up, shot, drowned and thrown out of windows on the silver screen - and we d... more

In today's SYSK Select episode, we learn about exploitation films. During the 1930s-80s, t... more

In 2018, director Spike Lee brought the story of Ron Stallworth to the big screen to great... more

Titicut Follies is a documentary made famous by its banning. But why was it banned? And wh... more

Sunset Blvd is a long road, but is most known for the 1.7 mile stretch called The Sunset S... more

The Oedipus complex is probably Sigmund Freud’s most famous theory – that ever... more

During Vietnam, the U.S. lowered the IQ standards for the draft in order to bulk up their ... more

At the height of the Cold War, a group of concerned scientists promoted their findings on ... more

The story of the Zizians is an unusual one. Are they a cult? Or are they simply a group wh... more

How long was the shortest war in human history? Under an hour. Hard to believe? Not when y... more

When England privatized its commons – lands that by custom belonged to all English t... more

Most people have heard of the story of Kitty Genovese. She was murdered near her apartment... more