| S2019E01 |
From Track Scrub to Olympic Record Setter: Fosbury and His Flop
|
January 1, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E02 |
The Appalling Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
|
January 2, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E03 |
Are You Really Entitled to a Phone Call When Arrested?
|
January 3, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E04 |
That Time Marines Dumped Millions of Dollars of Helicopters Into the Ocean to Save One Family
|
January 4, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E05 |
What Caused the Red Rain of Kerala?
|
January 5, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E06 |
The Remarkable Tale of Phineas Gage
|
January 6, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E07 |
Did Mobsters Ever Really Send People to 'Sleep with the Fishes'?
|
January 7, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E08 |
Does Canadian Beer Really Contain More Alcohol than Beer Made in the United States?
|
January 8, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E09 |
Who Invented Braille?
|
January 9, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E10 |
Who is Little Debbie from the Junk Food Brand?
|
January 10, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E11 |
That Time Pepsi Accidentally Promised Hundreds of Thousands of People $40,000 Each
|
January 11, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E12 |
How Do Clams Reproduce?
|
January 12, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E13 |
A Murder of Crows and the Exploding Toad Epidemic
|
January 13, 2019
|
2
|
|
| S2019E14 |
How Do They Make White Gold White Given That It's an Element?
|
January 14, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E15 |
The Bone Church
|
January 16, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E16 |
What's the Deal with Chess Boxing?
|
January 17, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E17 |
The Bizarre First Super Bowl Halftime Show
|
January 18, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E18 |
The Real Reason Fingers Wrinkle in Water
|
January 19, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E19 |
Why Do Other People's Farts Smell Worse Than Your Own?
|
January 20, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E20 |
Why Are Some Plants Considered Weeds and Others Aren't?
|
January 21, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E21 |
Hold My Beer - The Strange Story of the First Person Disqualified from the Olympics for Doping
|
January 22, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E22 |
The Bizarre Story of the Girl With No Vagina Who Was Stabbed and Had a Baby
|
January 23, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E23 |
Are Drug Sniffing Dogs Trained By Sniffing Drugs?
|
January 24, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E24 |
Why Do the Eyes in Some Paintings Follow You Around the Room?
|
January 25, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E25 |
Did 'Scumbag' Really Originally Mean a Condom?
|
January 26, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E26 |
Harpo Marx and His Habit of Shedding His Clothes at Random Times
|
January 27, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E27 |
A Giant African Elephant and the Truth About "Jumbo"
|
January 28, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E28 |
Suicide Bombers, Living Food Storage Vessels and More: The Amazing Ant
|
January 29, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E29 |
The Ridiculous Way British Sailors Were Ordered to Stop German U-boats During WWI
|
January 30, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E30 |
How Exactly Do You Prove You're Alive if You're Accidentally Declared Dead?
|
January 31, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E31 |
What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History?
|
January 31, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E32 |
Who Invented the Slot Machine?
|
February 1, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E33 |
Who Invented Diet Soda?
|
February 2, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E34 |
Did a Deaf Person Really Invent the Football Huddle?
|
February 3, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E35 |
Inventing James Bond and the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Connection
|
February 4, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E36 |
Is "Beam Me Up Scotty!" Really Never Said in Star Trek?
|
February 5, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E37 |
The Ruthless, Corrupt Landowner That Put the "Jack" in Monterey Jack Cheese
|
February 6, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E38 |
Do Women's Menstrual Cycles Synchronize if They are in Close Proximity for Significant Time?
|
February 7, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E39 |
Do Scientists Ever Name Creatures After People They Dislike Out of Spite?
|
February 11, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E40 |
That Time Someone Actually Achieved the Alchemists' Dream of Turning a Different Material Into Gold
|
February 13, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E41 |
What Were Those Weird Metal Things on the Beaches During the Normandy Invasion?
|
February 14, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E42 |
Has Anyone Ever Actually Tied a Damsel in Distress to a Railroad Track?
|
February 15, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E43 |
The Amazing Story of How Humbert Rocky Versace Earned a Medal of Honor as a POW
|
February 16, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E44 |
How Did the King James Bible Come About?
|
February 18, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E45 |
How Did the Idea of the Loch Ness Monster Start?
|
February 19, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E46 |
The Truth About Big Ben and the Famous Clock Tower
|
February 20, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E47 |
The White Feather and What Really Caused WWI
|
February 21, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E48 |
Ketchup or Catsup?
|
February 22, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E49 |
The Poison Squad: The Men Who Volunteered to Let the Government Poison Them
|
February 23, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E50 |
Baseball's Muddy Business and How It Might End
|
February 24, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E51 |
Why is Cottage Cheese Called That and Who Invented It?
|
February 25, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E52 |
Has Anyone Ever Really Inherited Millions from a Random Person They've Never Heard Of
|
February 27, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E53 |
How Do the Insanely Wealthy Actually Pay for Something Worth Hundreds of Millions of Dollars?
|
February 28, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E54 |
That Time Sweden Changed Its Traffic Direction in a Single Day
|
March 1, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E55 |
What is the Difference Between Bees, Wasps, and Hornets?
|
March 2, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E56 |
How Did the Practice of Having Sports Mascots Start?
|
March 3, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E57 |
Did a Long Inauguration Speech in the Cold Really Result in the Shortest U.S. Presidency?
|
March 4, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E58 |
Could the Queen Get Away with Murder Legally?
|
March 5, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E59 |
How Exactly Did One Become an Executioner in Medieval Times?
|
March 6, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E60 |
Stealing 1st from 2nd: The Hilarious Herman Schaefer
|
March 7, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E61 |
The Peasant Who Became an Emperor
|
March 9, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E62 |
Killing a Cat in Court
|
March 11, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E63 |
What Happens If You are Sleep Walking and You Kill Someone?
|
March 12, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E64 |
When Aluminium Cost More than Gold...
|
March 13, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E65 |
A Chicken Egg In a Chicken Egg in a Chicken ...
|
March 17, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E66 |
Do Wine Makers Really Walk Over Grapes With Their Feet?
|
March 18, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E67 |
Can Shooting Plastic Explosive Really Set Them Off?
|
March 19, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E68 |
Hollywood Medical Myths: Shocking a Heart That Has Flatlined
|
March 20, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E69 |
Why is Ham Traditionally Eaten on Easter?
|
March 21, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E70 |
How Do We Pee and Why Can't We Do It Any Time?
|
March 22, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E71 |
The Fascinating Story of How the Bowie Knife Got Its Name
|
March 23, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E72 |
How Did the Tradition of Cutting the Nets in Basketball Start?
|
March 24, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E73 |
That Time the US Military Made an Atomic Cannon
|
March 25, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E74 |
The Wine Lover Meltdown that Changed the Wine World Forever
|
March 26, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E75 |
Who Invented the Internet and What Did Al Gore Actually Have to Do With It?
|
March 27, 2019
|
18
|
|
| S2019E76 |
Do You Get Your Stuff Back if You're Declared Dead, Then Turn Up Alive? (Like a Certain Hobbit)
|
March 29, 2019
|
17
|
|
| S2019E77 |
That Time a Professional Gambler Turned $50 into $40 Million, Then Promptly Lost It All
|
March 30, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E78 |
That Time a Video Game had an Economy Almost as Strong as Russia
|
April 1, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E79 |
How Does GPS Actually Work and Why Many GPS Devices are About to Stop Working
|
April 2, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E80 |
What's the Deal with the Goodyear Blimp?
|
April 3, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E81 |
That Time a Professional Baseball Player Was Traded for a Turkey
|
April 4, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E82 |
Who Invented Parkour?
|
April 5, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E83 |
There and Back Again IN SPACE!
|
April 7, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E84 |
Is It Possible to Breastfeed with Implants?
|
April 8, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E85 |
Why is Lead Bad For Humans?
|
April 9, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E86 |
The People Who Can't Sleep
|
April 10, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E87 |
Why are Boxing Rings Called That When They are Square?
|
April 11, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E88 |
What's the Deal with Duty Free?
|
April 12, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E89 |
Why are Barns Traditionally Painted Red?
|
April 13, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E90 |
Do Old People Really Have a Distinct Smell or Is It Just a Stereotype?
|
April 14, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E91 |
Yes- Men Can Easily (and Nutritionally) Breastfeed a Baby...
|
April 15, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E92 |
Do Fish Sleep?
|
April 16, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E93 |
The Truth About Floating Soap
|
April 18, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E94 |
What Do Tonsils Actually Do and Why are We Constantly Removing Them
|
April 19, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E95 |
How Did People Know When To Get Up in the Morning Before Alarm Clocks?
|
April 22, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E96 |
What’s It Really Like Being an Extra in a Film or TV Show and How Do You Get the Gig?
|
April 23, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E97 |
Why Didn’t the Apollo 13 Astronauts Just Put On Their Space Suits to Keep Warm
|
April 24, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E98 |
Why Were Executions Held at Midnight?
|
April 25, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E99 |
How Did Extending Your Middle Finger Come to Mean F. U.?
|
April 26, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E100 |
What Does Being Shot Actually Feel Like?
|
April 27, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E101 |
What Causes the Smell After Rain?
|
April 28, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E102 |
Would Eating My Own Limbs Help Me Survive If I Was Trapped With No Food?
|
April 29, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E103 |
What are Smelling Salts and How Do They Work?
|
April 30, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E104 |
Why Doesn't the U.S. Use the Metric System?
|
April 30, 2019
|
22
|
|
| S2019E105 |
Who Invented Jeans?
|
May 1, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E106 |
Why Does Stress Hurt the Body and How Do You Get Rid of It
|
May 2, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E107 |
Who First Got the Idea to Answer the Question - Guess What? with Chicken Butt!
|
May 3, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E108 |
The Bizarre Spending Habits of Nicolas Cage [REISSUE]
|
May 7, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E109 |
Why Doesn't Sugar Spoil?
|
May 8, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E110 |
The Curious Case of Britain's Speaking Clock
|
May 9, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E111 |
When Did Women Start to Grow Out and Paint Their Nails
|
May 10, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E112 |
That Time a Man Became World Famous and Wealthy for His Ability to Fart
|
May 12, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E113 |
Tapioca and Cyanide
|
May 13, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E114 |
Do Your Ears And Nose Really Continue To Grow As You Age
|
May 14, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E115 |
Can Eating Poppy Seeds Really Cause You to Fail a Drug Test
|
May 15, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E116 |
The Curious Case of the Green Children of Woolpit
|
May 16, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E117 |
Where Did the Expression Dressed to the Nines Actually Come From
|
May 17, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E118 |
Melting Cars: The "Walkie Scorchie" Building
|
May 19, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E119 |
That Time the U.S. Made a Nuclear Gun
|
May 20, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E120 |
Does Dried Rice or Alka-Seltzer Really Cause Birds' Stomachs to Explode?
|
May 21, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E121 |
Could You Really Legally Kill Someone with a "Wanted Dead or Alive" Bounty on Their Head?
|
May 22, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E122 |
That Time Art was an Official Olympic Sport
|
May 23, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E123 |
Who Invented Pole Vaulting?
|
May 24, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E124 |
What Happens When Someone DOES Object During a Wedding?
|
May 25, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E125 |
How Do Birds Stop From Falling Off Branches While They Sleep?
|
May 26, 2019
|
3
|
|
| S2019E126 |
That Time Five Guys Volunteered to Stand at Ground Zero of a Nuclear Blast
|
May 27, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E127 |
That Time a Leonardo DiCaprio Haircut Had the Taliban in a Rage
|
May 28, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E128 |
Why Do Graduates Wear Caps and Gowns and Judges Wear Robes?
|
May 29, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E129 |
Who Started the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory?
|
May 30, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E130 |
How Did the Practice of Putting Candles on Birthday Cakes Start?
|
May 31, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E131 |
Why Does the Same Side of the Moon Always Face the Earth?
|
May 31, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E132 |
How Many Times Can You Shoot a Bulletproof Vest Before It Stops Working?
|
June 1, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E133 |
Why Doesn't Your Tongue Quickly Stick to Plastic or Wood in Freezing Temperatures Like With Metal?
|
June 2, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E134 |
Can You Attach Money to a Letter Instead of a Stamp and Still Have it Processed Correctly?
|
June 3, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E135 |
The Real Reason Japan is Called the "Land of the Rising Sun"?
|
June 4, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E136 |
Who Invented the Taser?
|
June 5, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E137 |
Why is a Stand In for an Actor in a Movie Called a "Fake Shemp"?
|
June 6, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E138 |
Where Did the Military Song "Taps" Come From?
|
June 7, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E139 |
The Shockingly Old Origin of the Fax Machine
|
June 8, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E140 |
Who was Sadie Hawkins and Why Does She Have a Dance Named After Her?
|
June 9, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E141 |
Who Invented the Hot Air Balloon?
|
June 10, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E142 |
That Time a Guy Destroyed One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
|
June 11, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E143 |
That Time the U.S. was Going to Build a Massive, Death Ray Equipped, Military Moon Base
|
June 12, 2019
|
17
|
|
| S2019E144 |
Who Invented the Pencil Sharpener?
|
June 13, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E145 |
Winning Olympic Gold Wearing Different Sized Shoes Found in a Dumpster - The Amazing Jim Thorpe
|
June 14, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E146 |
The Surprisingly Interesting Reason Chicago is Called "The Windy City" Has Nothing to Do With Wind
|
June 15, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E147 |
The Curious Case of "The Spark Ranger"
|
June 16, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E148 |
Who Invented the Movie Rating System?
|
June 17, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E149 |
What Ever Happened to All the Moon Trees?
|
June 18, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E150 |
That Time a Teenager Nearly Assassinated the Queen During a Fantasy Assassination of the Queen
|
June 19, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E151 |
Do People Really Defecate Directly After Death and, If So, How Often Does It Occur?
|
June 20, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E152 |
That Time Women Could Divorce Their Husbands By Having Intercourse in Court
|
June 21, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E153 |
John Lennon's First Girlfriend
|
June 22, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E154 |
Did Blowing Nintendo Cartridges Actually Do Anything and How Did the Gun on Duck Hunt Work?
|
June 25, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E155 |
Why Does Testosterone Affect Body Hair Growth?
|
June 27, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E156 |
Can You Get a Ticket for Riding a Horse While Intoxicated?
|
June 28, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E157 |
Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?
|
June 30, 2019
|
22
|
|
| S2019E158 |
How Do Trees Get Water from the Ground Up to Their Leaves?
|
July 1, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E159 |
The Vampire of Cinkota
|
July 2, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E160 |
The Bizarre Story of the Seattle Mystery Vending Machine
|
July 3, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E161 |
The Truth About the Declaration of Independence
|
July 4, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E162 |
Paul McCartney's First Steady Girlfriend
|
July 6, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E163 |
How Did Cheerleading Switch From Being Male Dominated to Female Dominated?
|
July 7, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E164 |
The Year Round Santa
|
July 8, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E165 |
What All is Actually in Batman's Utility Belt?
|
July 9, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E166 |
"No"
|
July 10, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E167 |
What Happens If Parents Don't Give Their Baby a Name?
|
July 10, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E168 |
The Curious Case of the "Law of the Tongue"
|
July 11, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E169 |
Thomas Jefferson: The First Foodie of America
|
July 12, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E170 |
That Time Campbell's Put Marbles in Their Soup
|
July 15, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E171 |
Is It Actually Important to Stay Conscious When Seriously Injured as Depicted by Hollywood?
|
July 16, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E172 |
How Did the Practice of Pricing Fuel with 9/10th of a Penny Get Started?
|
July 17, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E173 |
The Duel That Wasn't
|
July 17, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E174 |
What is the Best Way to Survive Falling Out of a Plane with No Parachute?
|
July 18, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E175 |
The Forgotten Founding Father
|
July 19, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E176 |
The Surprisingly Fascinating First Trip to "The Games"
|
July 20, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E177 |
Why Were Bootleggers Called That?
|
July 21, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E178 |
Who is Buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
|
July 22, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E179 |
How One of the Most Famous Philosophers in History Made His Fortune by Rigging the Lottery
|
July 23, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E180 |
Is It True That Bumblebees Shouldn't Be Able to Fly?
|
July 25, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E181 |
That Time an English Dude Invented a Gun that Fired Square Bullets...
|
July 25, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E182 |
Who Invented the Food Pyramid and Why You'd Be Crazy to Follow It
|
July 26, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E183 |
How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?
|
July 27, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E184 |
Can Professional Wine Connoisseurs Really Not Tell the Difference Between Expensive and Cheap Wines
|
July 28, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E185 |
The Bizarre Story of the Man Who Sold the Moon
|
July 29, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E186 |
The Shockingly Recent Time British Husbands Sold Their Wives at Market
|
July 29, 2019
|
28
|
|
| S2019E187 |
The Curious Case of Real Life Ornamental Garden Hermits
|
July 30, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E188 |
The Surprisingly Badass Life of the Inventor of the Saxophone
|
July 31, 2019
|
21
|
|
| S2019E189 |
How an Attempt to Save the French Wine Industry Changed the World Forever
|
August 1, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E190 |
The Fascinating Story Behind the First Commercially Successful Video Game
|
August 2, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E191 |
The People Who Don't Feel Pain
|
August 3, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E192 |
The Remarkable Tale of the Accidental Aboriginal
|
August 4, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E193 |
Who is the Luke in Lukewarm, Why Country Designations End in -an, and Much More
|
August 5, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E194 |
That Time Michelle Pfeiffer Accidentally Joined a Cult and the Truth About Twinkies
|
August 6, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E195 |
Why Do Presidents Get to Pardon So Many People at the End of Their Terms?
|
August 7, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E196 |
How Do the Media and Police Estimate Crowd Sizes?
|
August 8, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E197 |
That Time the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Britain's First Satellite
|
August 10, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E198 |
The Man Who was a Dwarf then Later a Giant
|
August 12, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E199 |
Who is the "Fat Lady" and Why is it Over When She Sings?
|
August 12, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E200 |
The Celestial Message in a Bottle
|
August 13, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E201 |
The Legendary Conman Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
|
August 14, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E202 |
Why Do Pages of Books and Newspapers Turn Yellow Over Time?
|
August 15, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E203 |
When Did People Start Turning Things Up to 11?
|
August 16, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E204 |
That Time a Joke Caused a 2 Mile Traffic Jam in England (and The First Joke in History)
|
August 17, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E205 |
The Terrifyingly Effective Nazi De-Bollocker
|
August 18, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E206 |
That Time the Navy Built a Battleship in Union Square
|
August 19, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E207 |
Who was Murphy in Murphy's Law? (And the Hero Dr. John Paul Stapp Who Gave Us the Expression)
|
August 20, 2019
|
32767
|
|
| S2019E208 |
The Hilarious Story of How Two Friends Re-Gifted the Same Pair of Pants for Over 2 Decades
|
August 21, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E209 |
What Does Bill Gates Do On His Day Off?
|
August 22, 2019
|
22
|
|
| S2019E210 |
Who Invented Chewing Gum?
|
August 23, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E211 |
Where Does the Water in the Devil's Kettle Go?
|
August 24, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E212 |
Why Do Some People Think the Human Soul Weighs 21 Grams?
|
August 25, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E213 |
The First Car and the Incredible Road Trip That Saved It From Obscurity
|
August 26, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E214 |
The Bizarre Story Behind "The Room"
|
August 27, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E215 |
Is It Really Possible to Learn to Speed Read?
|
August 28, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E216 |
Dedication to the Mask
|
August 30, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E217 |
Gandhi's Letters to Hitler
|
August 31, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E218 |
The Secret Club Inside Disneyland Where You Can Buy Booze
|
September 1, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E219 |
That Time a WWII German U-Boat Sank as a Result of Flushing a Toilet
|
September 2, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E220 |
How Did Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, and Dollars Get Their Names?
|
September 3, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E221 |
The Legendary Toilets of Singapore and the Flushing Law
|
September 4, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E222 |
Who Invented the Pitcher's Mound?
|
September 5, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E223 |
The Curious Case of Famed Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's Body
|
September 6, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E224 |
The Phantom of the Forest
|
September 7, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E225 |
The Secrecy of Psycho
|
September 8, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E226 |
Who First Alerted the World to the Dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
|
September 9, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E227 |
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
|
September 11, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E228 |
The Only Peaceful Continent
|
September 11, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E229 |
That Time Picasso was Arrested for Stealing the Mona Lisa
|
September 12, 2019
|
18
|
|
| S2019E230 |
The Curious Case of the Legend of the Green Man Who Just So Happens to Have Been Real
|
September 13, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E231 |
That Time Two Comic Artist Independently Created Dennis the Menace on the Same Day an Ocean Apart
|
September 14, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E232 |
How Did the Ancient Romans Manage to Build Perfectly Straight, Ultra Durable Roads?
|
September 15, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E233 |
How Did the Whole Stan Lee Cameo Thing Start? (And the Hilariously Awkward Way He Met His Wife)
|
September 16, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E234 |
In Which Teddy Roosevelt Makes Men Everywhere Feel a Little Less Manly
|
September 17, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E235 |
Chalk Isn't Chalk and Why an Elephant's Nose is Called a Trunk
|
September 18, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E236 |
The Incredible Mouse Like Creature You Can Stand On
|
September 19, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E237 |
What Did People Think When They First Found Dinosaur Bones?
|
September 20, 2019
|
22
|
|
| S2019E238 |
That Time MI6 Spymaster Captain MANsfield Cumming Ordered His Spies to Use Semen as Invisible Ink
|
September 21, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E239 |
Do Repressed Memories Exist or are They Just Things People Have Forgotten Normally?
|
September 23, 2019
|
18
|
|
| S2019E240 |
Tolkien's End
|
September 24, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E241 |
What Exactly Happens When the Queen Dies?
|
September 24, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E242 |
What's Up with the All Seeing Eye on the Dollar Bill???
|
September 25, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E243 |
Did People in Medieval Times Really Not Bathe?
|
September 26, 2019
|
17
|
|
| S2019E244 |
The Worst Video Game in History that Helped Sink a Titan of the Industry
|
September 27, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E245 |
Why is the Stereotypical Image of Aliens Green or Grey Bald Humanoids?
|
September 28, 2019
|
21
|
|
| S2019E246 |
The Flower That Smells Like a Rotting Corpse
|
September 29, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E247 |
Who Started the Lizard People Conspiracy Theory?
|
September 30, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E248 |
Who Invented Rock, Paper, Scissors and What's the Best Way to Win Consistently?
|
October 1, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E249 |
That Time Boston Drowned in Molasses
|
October 2, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E250 |
That Time the British Rioted for Three Months Over a 15% Increase in the Cost of Theater Tickets
|
October 3, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E251 |
The Forgotten Deadly Plague: Dance Mania
|
October 3, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E252 |
Did the Battle of Gettysburg Really Begin as a Search for Shoes?
|
October 4, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E253 |
The 7,000 Year Old Forest
|
October 6, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E254 |
Forgotten Heroes: Larry Doby
|
October 7, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E255 |
Why Does Brown Sugar form Lumps but Regular Sugar Usually Doesn't?
|
October 8, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E256 |
Why Don't Tattoos Fade as Skin Regenerates?
|
October 9, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E257 |
What Do Cockroaches Eat and Where Do They Live When There are No Houses Around?
|
October 10, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E258 |
Who Were the Richest People in History?
|
October 11, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E259 |
Scheming Onions
|
October 12, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E260 |
A Genius Among Us
|
October 13, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E261 |
Why is Take Me Out to the Ball Game Sung During 7th Inning Stretch of MLB Games
|
October 15, 2019
|
4
|
|
| S2019E262 |
The Horse that Could Do Complex Math
|
October 16, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E263 |
How Do Blue and Green Eyes Exist When Those Pigments Are Not Found in the Human Eye?
|
October 17, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E264 |
Is It True the T-Rex Couldn't See You If You Didn't Move?
|
October 18, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E265 |
The Man Who Was Too Sexy For Hollywood
|
October 20, 2019
|
17
|
|
| S2019E266 |
Do Dogs and Cats Like It if You Leave the Radio or TV on When You Leave the House?
|
October 21, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E267 |
The Larger Conspiracy
|
October 22, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E268 |
What Causes Hair to Turn Gray?
|
October 23, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E269 |
The Fascinating Saga of the Many, Many Wives of King Henry VIII
|
October 24, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E270 |
How Do Sodas in Outdoor Vending Machines Not Freeze in Winter?
|
October 25, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E271 |
Why Is There No E in the A-F Grading Scale?
|
October 26, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E272 |
How are Rich People Able to Buy Exotic Pets Like Tigers?
|
October 27, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E273 |
Why is Wine Almost Always Drunk in Wine Glasses Instead of Regular Glasses?
|
October 29, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E274 |
Can You Really Pull a Grenade Pin with Your Teeth and Do Soldiers Ever "Cook" Grenades?
|
October 30, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E275 |
The Major Company That Played the Most Expensive Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors Ever
|
October 30, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E276 |
The Badass WWII Squadron of Female Pilots Known as the Night Witches
|
October 31, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E277 |
What was It Actually Like to Be a Court Jester in Medieval Times?
|
October 31, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E278 |
The $4 Million Treasure Chest Currently Hidden in the Rockies
|
November 1, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E279 |
The Curious Case of the Chief Mouser
|
November 2, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E280 |
That Time the U.S. Military Launched a Half a Billion Needles to Space for Reasons...
|
November 3, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E281 |
Are C-Sections Really Named After Julius Caesar?
|
November 6, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E282 |
Hell Hath No Fury: The Saint Who Went All John Wick on Her Husband's Killers
|
November 7, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E283 |
How Does the Body Know When It's Low on Oxygen?
|
November 8, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E284 |
Fact From Fiction: What Really Happened on the Ides of March?
|
November 9, 2019
|
22
|
|
| S2019E285 |
That Time a Guy Playing a Handful of Baseball Games Nearly Changed American History Forever
|
November 10, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E286 |
What Causes Aftertaste?
|
November 11, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E287 |
That Time the U.S. Tried to Make a "Gay Bomb"
|
November 12, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E288 |
Julius Caesar and His Pirate Adventure
|
November 13, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E289 |
The Rocket Man
|
November 14, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E290 |
Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs and Most Other Countries Don't?
|
November 15, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E291 |
Why Do Book Copyright Pages Have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Written in Them?
|
November 16, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E292 |
The Billion Dollar Babies
|
November 17, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E293 |
Where Do Insects Go In the Winter? (And the Fascinating Way Honey Bees Keep Their Hives Warm)
|
November 19, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E294 |
Why are Anvils Shaped as They Are and Why Do Blacksmiths Tap the Anvil After a Few Strikes?
|
November 20, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E295 |
How Airplane Oxygen Masks Work Given They Aren't Hooked to Tanks & How Planes Get Oxygen at Altitude
|
November 22, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E296 |
How Did They Create Godzilla's Iconic Roar and Who Came Up with the Creature?
|
November 22, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E297 |
Why aren't Windows Aligned with the Rows of Seats in Commercial Aircraft?
|
November 23, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E298 |
How Do Trick Candles Work?
|
November 24, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E299 |
Why Do Golfers Yell "Fore"? Who was Mulligan? (and More)
|
November 25, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E300 |
Is Twice Boiled Water Really Bad for You and Potentially a Carcinogen?
|
November 26, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E301 |
The Almost Universally Misinterpreted Poem "The Road Not Taken" and the Fascinating Story Behind It
|
November 27, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E302 |
The Man Who Survived Two Nuclear Bomb Blasts
|
November 28, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E303 |
Do Kids Really Learn Languages Faster Than Adults?
|
November 29, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E304 |
That Time Online Gamers Contributed to a Major Scientific Discovery!!!
|
November 30, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E305 |
The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare
|
December 2, 2019
|
17
|
|
| S2019E306 |
Why Doesn't the Heart Get Tired and Need to Rest Like Other Muscles?
|
December 3, 2019
|
13
|
|
| S2019E307 |
Why is it Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys?
|
December 4, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E308 |
Banning Christmas
|
December 5, 2019
|
6
|
|
| S2019E309 |
Why Doesn't Wood Melt? (And Why Some Things Get Petrified and Others Don't)
|
December 5, 2019
|
5
|
|
| S2019E310 |
How Did the Cold War Start and End?
|
December 6, 2019
|
16
|
|
| S2019E311 |
Who was the Tom That Inspired "Peeping Tom"?
|
December 7, 2019
|
14
|
|
| S2019E312 |
The Blood of Mary Dyer
|
December 8, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E313 |
How Do Animals Deal with the Umbilical Cord & Placenta After Birth (And the Male That Gets Pregnant)
|
December 9, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E314 |
Do Bats Get Confused By Other Bats' Sonar? (And the Real Life Batman)
|
December 10, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E315 |
That Time a Rage Against the Machine Song Was a Christmas Singles #1
|
December 11, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E316 |
Why Do Humans Do the Microbial Tongue Tango (aka Kiss)? (And Why Do We Kiss Under Mistletoe?)
|
December 11, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E317 |
Did Gladiators Really Live or Die Based on Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down by the Audience?
|
December 12, 2019
|
10
|
|
| S2019E318 |
How High can a Cat Fall from and Still Survive?
|
December 13, 2019
|
11
|
|
| S2019E319 |
Why Do Humans Still Have Pubic and Armpit Hair When We've Lost Most of the Rest?
|
December 14, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E320 |
Why are Women's Wobbly Bits Called BooCALM DOWN Demonetization Gods It's a Language Video (Reissue)
|
December 15, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E321 |
What Really Caused the Dodo to Go the Way of the Dodo? (Karl Smallwood's first TIFO article :-))
|
December 16, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E322 |
The Curious Case of Exploding Head Syndrome (and The People Who Can't See Faces)
|
December 17, 2019
|
17
|
|
| S2019E323 |
Why Viet Cong were Called "Charlie", What the "Bee" in "Spelling Bee" Means, Nerds, Geeks, and a Tip
|
December 18, 2019
|
9
|
|
| S2019E324 |
Thor and Loki and How the Whole Competitive Eating Sport Got Its Start
|
December 19, 2019
|
15
|
|
| S2019E325 |
Who Invented the Emoticon & Emoji? (And How They're Changing Written Language for the Better) :-)
|
December 20, 2019
|
25
|
|
| S2019E326 |
How were Shrunken Heads Made and Who First Figured Out How to Do It?
|
December 21, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E327 |
The Celebrities Who Were Spies
|
December 22, 2019
|
19
|
|
| S2019E328 |
What Happens if You Commit a Crime in Space?
|
December 27, 2019
|
12
|
|
| S2019E329 |
Stealing Ideas- Inventing the Oreo Cookie
|
December 28, 2019
|
7
|
|
| S2019E330 |
Why Do We Have Moles On Our Bodies?
|
December 29, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E331 |
Who Invented JELLO?
|
December 30, 2019
|
8
|
|
| S2019E332 |
Can Police Really Commandeer Your Vehicle Like in the Movies?
season finale
|
December 31, 2019
|
19
|
|
