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“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

On January 17, 1982 temperatures dipped to record-breaking/setting lows in more than one hundred U.S. cities. 30 some years later many of those records still stand.

Unless you want a throat rupture.

Plutchik’s wheel of emotion (or what I like to call the WHEEL OF FEELS) explores the spectrum of human feelings in a visual that’s similar to the color wheel.

Do lobsters feel pain when you drop them into a pot of boiling water? Or are we (looking at you, Switzerland) just anthropomorphizing them?

FRB 121102 is most likely not aliens flashing their headlights at us so wtf *is* this cosmic blip!?

In South America the legend of the Encantados (dolphins that rise from the Amazon in human form - complete with a hat to cover their blowhole) still terrifies locals.

Americans love cold drinks at home and on the road. The Ice-o-Matic's got you covered.

"Talking books" to "books on tape" our favorite way to read without actually reading has been around longer than you think!

In 1903 a circus elephant was executed via electrocution at Coney Island. And Thomas Edison’s film company took a movie of it.

From The Twilight Zone to Black Mirror to ... well, increasingly REALITY.

Eidetic or “photographic” memories are largely considered to be nonsense, but some people have claimed to have them (like your podcast host).

The first place in the world to welcome the New Year does so days before the last. Thanks time zones! That is, assuming they use the calendar that denotes the new year as starting on January 1st.

Here’s a brief history of the tune, before you hold your friends close and sing a tipsy rendition of it at midnight.

On a cold day you can hear forever.