Let Me Google That

This year the Doomsday Clock is the closest to midnight it's ever been. 1991 was the best year: we were ~7 minutes away.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Y'know how your weather app gives you the temperature outside but then warns you that it'll *feel like* a much colder temp, thus upping your risk of FROSTBITE? We're debunking the ol' New England adage, "Don't fuck with the wind chill, fam." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

On January 17th, 1982 hundreds of U.S. cities broke records for low temperatures — many of which still stand today. Near Tower, Minnesota, temps dropped to -52 °F (-47 °C). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

In 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen became the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of X-rays. The famous image he captured was of his wife's hand. Upon seeing her skeletal fingers, she gasped: "I have seen my death." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

What’s in store for 2023? The Antichrist, war, space disasters, and cannibalism! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

The Christmas devil! A yuletide bastard if there ever was on! It's KRAMPUS. Obviously, this episode is rated R. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Remember when the Internet found a story in an old-timey British tabloid about a young lady who "used her fists in a scientific fashion" when she was harassed while biking?

People sometimes make a wish if they happen to catch the exact moment a clock strikes 11:11. But why? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support

Squeezing limes for margaritas? Beware phytophotodermatitis ("margarita burn"). Lime juice contains phytochemicals that make your skin hypersensitive to the sun's UV rays and have been known to cause second-degree burns. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support

Before Jane Roe became synonymous with the fight for abortion rights, a young woman who hosted a popular children’s television show called Romper Room nearly lost it all when word got out she’d had an abortion. This is the story of Sherri Finkbine. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support

The MBTI personality test wasn't designed to measure  aptitude—it actually measures *preference.* You might *prefer* introversion to experience the world, but that doesn't mean you're *incapable* or *lacking* extraverted qualities. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support

Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, cousins of Queen Elizabeth II, were said to have died in 1940 and 1961. Then, they died again in 1986 and 2004. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support

The summer of 1816 was known as the Year Without a Summer in the northeast U.S. because even though it would be ~95°F during the day, at night temperatures dropped so low that Maine got HALF A FOOT OF SNOW IN JUNE. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support

Yes, Hawaii banned some sunscreens that are hurting coral reefs. No, that does not mean you should stop wearing sunscreen. Humans, coral—we're all just trying to live through global warming, OK??? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support

Thanks to a cognitive bias known as asymmetric insight, we tend to think we know other people better than they know us—or even that we know other people better than they know themselves. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letmegooglethat/support