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80% of America's pretzels are made in Pennsylvania & that other 10% is probably accounted for by a single NYC soft pretzel. #NationalPretzelDay

It's #DNADay! Researchers in Australia found a DNA structure in human cells that science didn't think would ever be seen outside the lab. Here's why that's totally bitchin'.

"Word fossils" are words that we don't really use anymore, except as part of an idiom or expression. Some examples? "What in 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?!" "Good 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚!" & "Moral 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚." But how do words become "fossilized" & how long does it take?

At the beginning of the 1900s, cervical cancer was the top killer of women in the U.S. Within a decade of the development of a screening test by Dr. George Papanicolaou (the "Pap") the rate was cut in half. Today, a little over a century later, cervical cancer isn't even in the top 10.

Why not celebrate Earth Day by having a lil' ocean with your plastic. So, who invented this stuff anyway? And what even IS plastic?

On April 20th, 2010 an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, leaking millions of barrels of oil into the ocean – the largest such disaster in history. Nearly a decade later, the economic & environmental impact is still being felt. But was anyone ever really held accountable?

In the early 1900s, the berry's seeds were deemed a threat to the logging industry and banned throughout the U.S. As a result, the vast majority of Americans haven't heard of them and have no idea what the flavor is like.

...and their many variations.

On this day in 1924, Simon & Schuster published the first book of crosswords. As the New Yorker wrote: "Judging from the number of solvers in the subway & L trains, the crossword puzzle bids fair to become a fad with New Yorkers," — and they did!

Do dogs really *smell* fear? And can *humans* smell fear? And if the military were to, say, use pheromones to psych out enemy troops would that count as biochemical or psychological warfare?

In the context of America's opioid epidemic, you've probably heard about Narcan a lot. The "miracle drug" that can bring people back from a drug overdose has actually been around since the 1960s. But how does the drug work? And can anyone use it to save a life?

One of the passengers on the ill-fated vessel was silent film star Dorothy Gibson, who survived the sinking. She wrote (and starred in) the *first* Titanic movie nearly a century before James Cameron's epic.

106 years ago this weekend an "unsinkable" ship sunk — an event that then launched a thousand ships (if unanswered questions and conspiracy theories were ships) that still compel us over a century later. (And maybe that movie had something to do with it. . .⚓🌹)

While we're all familiar with the anecdotally reported unluckiness of the day, gathering hard data in support of that has been impossible — since people tend to avoid normal activities or exercise excess caution on the day, therefore creating bias in any data that might be gathered.

Robert Recorde invented the equals sign (=) because he got HECKIN' TIRED of having to write "is equal to" over and over again when he was creating mathematical texts for non-Latin reading folk in 16th century England.

The legend, lore, and astrology of the 27 CLUB — famous musicians who died at the age of 27. While people usually know Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, Cobain & Winehouse, the "club" has more than 60 members to date.

The opposite of paranoia puts a positive spin on the concept: you believe the universe is conspiring to *help* you rather than *harm* you. Oh, and it might have roots in '90s festival subculture. Or maybe that's a conspiracy, too.

When did we start giving each other names anyway? Also: dolphins also have names for each other but as our ancestors were probably not named "Rhonda" there probably aren't dolphins named "Rhonda" either.

In the summer of 1969 a car carrying Ted Kennedy and a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne plunged from a bridge on an island off Martha's Vineyard into the water below. Kennedy survived, but Mary Jo Kopechne did not — and the questions surrounding what really happened that night are as murky as the water in which she died.

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the most glorious, Big 'n Tall, even-toed ungulate bastards in the wild.

In the early 1900s a chemist invited a bunch of people to his house for dinner. Then he poisoned them. But the kicker was, his guests knew about it and had agreed to it. Welcome to the weird history of food safety.

In 1957, John & Florence Pollock lost their young daughters in a tragic accident. A year later, Florence gave birth to twin girls. As the twins grew up, they said & did eerie, inexplicable things that made John certain they were the reincarnated souls of the daughters he lost. A psychologist who studied reincarnation believed it too — but was it just the wishful thinking of grieving parents? Or was something paranormal at play with the Pollock girls' story?

China's Tiangong 1 space station plunged into Point Nemo, the "spacecraft cemetery" in the middle of the Pacific ocean, over the weekend. Other "poles of inaccessibility" on Earth include this one in Antarctica that features a statue of Lenin ominously rising from the permafrost.

When my little brother and I were growing up in the '90s, people weren't talking about autism like they were today. By the time Caleb was finally diagnosed, we didn't understand much more than we did the day he was born. But over the last 25 years together, he's taught me (and everyone who has ever met him) so much. Not just about autism, but about finding joy in life both on and off the spectrum.

The LMGT Easter special is about the science of eggshells; hard on the outside, soft on the inside. Just like us.

For National Doctors Day, we're talking about the eponymous nature of medicine! Ever heard of "Throckmorton's sign?" Otherwise known as the *John Thomas* sign?

The distinctly tangy canned meal is a childhood classic that debuted in the 1960s as a solution to messy mealtimes.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of women (mostly immigrants) worked their fingers to the bone in NYC's shirtwaist factories. A fire at one of the largest went down in history as one of the worst industrial disasters in U.S. history — but the true legacy its workers left behind was in an uprising of women who fought for worker's rights and a union the year before the tragedy.

As it made us reconsider the entire history of human evolution, many regard the so-called "Piltdown man" as the greatest archeological hoax of all-time. But now I want to know about *other* archeological hoaxes.

Why do we sleep with pillows? Feat. my aunt explaining BUCKWHEAT PILLOWS!

Although the Victorians definitely were like "death, but make it fashion" glamorized descriptions of people dying from TB go back to the first century.

TB is an infectious disease that a quarter of the world's population may have without knowing it — and it doesn't always look like "Victorians dying of consumption."

Thanks to a 20th-century German housewife, we have a way to make tasty ground-free coffee at home that doesn't taste 100 percent like shit.

Call in with your favorite poem!

This behavior is actually common to many insects but I'm not the first, nor will I be the last, to tell you that ANTS & BEES ARE HECKIN' COOL!

We have Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky to think for the astronomical terms "supernova" and "nuclear goblins" but also the misanthropic insult "spherical bastard." FYI, Zwicky's Wiki is an excellent read if you're having a rough day.

Saint Patrick probably wasn't even Irish, tbh.

How audiobooks changed the way we read. Y'know, 'cause really, you're listening to someone else do the reading.

The universe is chaos, but that never scared Hawking.

Nearly 50 years of secret nuclear testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site is still making people in Kazakhstan ill.

So, when did humans start doing the whole "rinse, lather, repeat" nonesense?

Does anyone else think it's kind of weird that we just all AGREE to literally CHANGE TIME twice a year — ?

In light of new evidence in the case of her disappearance, let's revisit the episode where we asked: what the hell happened on that plane!?

I'll be at Books Are Magic doing a reading and signing in Brooklyn tonight if you wanna say heyyy.

For International Women's Day, here's a very special episode featuring some of the most interesting women we've talked about on LMGT that you might have missed!

In the 1980s a grad student unleashed malware on the still-new internet and boy did all hell break loose!!

And what a year it's been! Let's take a look back at some of the best episodes- starting with the very first!

There are some fictional characters that just lapse into the public domain . . . then there are those that are created for it.

Ever learn something and then start seeing or hearing it *everywhere* — ? Maybe even after listening to an episode of this podcast?

Also: it's "spermatophore" but for some reason I kept saying "spermatophone"

For Read Across America Day, why not read a mysterious 2,000-page spiritual tome supposedly bestowed upon humanity by celestial beings and, that, to this day, we don't know the author of?

The message has been scrawled on an obelisk for years; a plea to solve the murder of a woman whose body was discovered in a tree truck by a group of young boys playing in the English countryside in 1943.

Why did we ever stop calling them Washaterias?!

The Donner Party was, indeed, unfathomably tragic. But historians believe the extent of the lost souls' cannibalism has been wildly overstated.

The lemon-lime soda was designed to be THE go-to lemon-lime soda. Adding lithium to the formula probably helped. As did the enduring mystique around its name.

It's been 70-some years since the last world war, and we've been in an era of relative peace ever since. Will it last? If not, can we predict when the next war will happen? Can we even predict the end of humanity?

After the apocalypse when we’re trying to regrow crops we’re gonna need seeds, right? Well, Norway’s got us covered.

In honor of The X-Files character's birthday, we're talking about "The Scully Effect," or, how Dana Scully inspired a generation of women to pursue STEM careers.

Today's thoughts: new app, age does not equal wisdom...oh, and if you're new: We like to get a little strange here.

Did an experimental treatment really save a teenage girl from rabies? Or was it just a coincidence?

On this day in 1909 Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism" was published in Le Figaro. It's, uh, kind of a lot to take in.

A lesser known president to celebrate this President’s Day, he was quiet and cool. Except for the Vaseline thing. That was a little odd.

Janie Lou Gibbs was a babysitter, churchgoer, and devoted grandma. She was the last person the town of Cordele, Georgia would have suspected was an emerging serial killer.

Why did we ever start calling it "snowboarding" when "snurfing" is just so much more fun to say?

A PhD student at Oxford photographed a single atom using a regular ol' digital camera on the long exposure setting.

Who came up with this horticulturally inaccurate Valentine’s Day rhyme anyway?

Does your hometown feel weird to you when you go back as an adult?

If you think figure skating is frou frou bullshit THINK AGAIN because it's actually metal as fuck!

The Scottish may have invented the game but Canada reigns supreme these days. Probably cuz of all the ice.

Over the weekend we’re gonna answer some important questions like WHAT THE FUCK IS CURLING 🥌

The flu can be serious yes, but you don’t die from it. You die from all the other shit having the flu can make you vulnerable to.

Knowing you’re all out there in Anchorland is a real special thing, y’know?

Natalie Wood. Robert Wagner. Christopher Walker. One of Hollywood’s enduring mysteries.

Specifically, MINE.

On February 1st, 2003 the Columbia space shuttle broke apart during reentry killing its 7-person crew. There were survivors, though: small worms that had been used in an onboard experiment somehow survived the impact and extreme temperatures of the disaster.

If you’re a cryptid, today would be a great day to leave the woods and terrify the locals.

You’ve probably heard about her undercover stint as a reporter exposing a Victorian asylum, but Bly’s story didn’t end there.

The eerie blue glow of the sea captivated sailors for centuries but they couldn’t make landlubbers believe. Now that we’ve seen it from space we know it’s real - but what’s causing it?

It is 2 minutes to midnight.

The little article that could.

What better way to celebrate National Peanut Butter Day than discussing “Alan Shepard’s Moon Peanut” — ? And no, that’s not a euphemism.

I honestly have no idea why his name was the first thing that popped into my head this morning, but here we are. And in the end we got to Frank Sinatra so...

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The last one was in 2013. This one is amidst a bad flu season which does not seem like the best time to furlough over half of the CDC — JUST SAYING.

“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!?

Are aliens flashing their headlights at us from somewhere out there in the cosmos?

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.

In 1994, 13 works of art valued at $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Garnder Museum in Boston. But what's most interesting is not the paintings that were stolen (which are commemorated with empty frames in the museum today) but the ones that were left behind. The now ~$10 million reward for info leading to their return expires at the end of 2017.

"Dang nematodes!"

Bagpipes are not *that* Scottish.

We aren’t the only primates who like sick beats.

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The first thing that came to mind was wedding bands, but you usually don’t have five of them. Unless this is a special holiday episode of that show on HBO with Bill Paxton.

Male birds use their musical repertoire to impress potential mates, not unlike almost every man I've dated who just can't wait to woo me with his extensive knowledge of the Eagles discography.

Why are these chickens prettier than me?

The turtle dove is believed to be the soulmate of the phoenix, which seems like it would be something akin to a Scorpio/Pieces relationship-?

First of all partridges are ground nesting birds. They would not be in a tree. Least of all a pear tree. Also that’s not what the original lyric was anyway. • This ep is Day 1 of LMGT’s 12 Days of Christmas unwrapping special!•

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In a special festive winter holiday series, we're unpacking each verse of the classic Christmas carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" leading up to Christmas Eve. Admittedly, it starts out pretty heavy on the birds but stay tuned — IT GETS WEIRD.

You can gift someone a present or present someone with a gift...

Ever felt like the universe was totally in your corner? Like something was just meant to happen? Carl Jung was hot for coincidences, too - but only the meaningful ones. So what gives a “stars aligned,” “meant to be,” experience *meaningful* and not just wishful thinking?

You’re done eating when the Queen of England is done eating, fam. 👸🏻

Who do we have to thank (blame?) for this mouth-staining marvel of a flavor?

2017 really sucked so maybe it's fine that we didn't decide to make Undecember, the 13th month of the year, a thing.

Invented in the 1880s, all ChapStick wanted to do was soothe your chapped lips. So how did it end up with a starring role in Watergate?

Santa's evil twin. The Christmas devil. A yuletide bastard if there ever was one. If you've been bad this year, watch your ass because Krampus is coming to town.

Anatoli Burgorski stuck his head in a particle accelerator and LIVED — but that’s not even the strangest part of this story.

The word “earth” is the English term for our home planet but it’s by no means a universal term.

It’s like a rainbow but at night.

The man believed to be the “Patient Zero” of the AIDS epidemic was deemed such due to a simple filing error: his chart had a letter O on it - not the number 0.

Some animals have blue blood. Or green blood. Or...no blood?

Everyone's favorite quantum mechanics thought experiment was totally about trolling Einstein.

50 years ago today a woman discovered the first radio pulsars. So why did two men win the Nobel Prize in physics for it?

Only 4 people were ever given the title “public enemy #1” by the FBI. The term originated as part of a scheme to publicly shame Al Capone (like he gave a fuck!)

A ship can carry a boat, but a boat can’t carry a ship. 🚣🏻🚢⚓

The day got its name from cops in Philly in the ‘60s who had to deal with all the people who called in sick the day after Thanksgiving to get a long weekend...and cram in holiday shopping.

The balloons used to be let go at the end of the parade but then they exploded, or ended up in Long Island, or took out an airplane. So they stopped that shit real quick.

At the turn of the 20th century Thanksgiving looked a lot like Halloween.

On page 1,850 of the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encylopedia you'll find the entry on Lillian Mountweazel - an acclaimed photographer who died too young. Except she didn't. Because she never existed.

Heavy metals like sterling silver and brass essentially disinfect themselves...and we aren't sure how.

And who is this slender James?

The guidelines just changed and now 103 million Americans are considered to have hypertension. Are you one of them?

Why physicists stay the HELL away from Wolfgang Pauli.

The fictional characters we love aren't just a way for us to practice empathy; the degree to which we subconsciously "borrow" or take on the traits in them they we admire informs how our personality develops.

Elsewhere in the world milk is put through EXTREME PASTEURIZATION making it shelf stable, meaning you won't find it in the cold section of the grocery store. America is having EXACTLY NONE of your SHELF MILK.

Your dog can be allergic to all kinds of stuff, including you. And cats can have asthma.

A woman's frustration with corsets gave her the brilliant idea to life hack, and eventually patent, what became the bra as we know it today. She also had a dog named Clytoris, ghostwrote porn, and founded the press that published Bukowski.

Well, to start, they refer to the expected lifetime of the product - not *your* lifetime.

The name comes from the resemblance to goose flesh...or syphilitic 16th century prostitutes.

A bunch of bullshit, that’s what! 🌬

Is the human attention span really less than a goldfish’s now that are brains are adapting to constant interruptions via smartphone?

A brief history of the fruit everyone loves to hate. From its roots as a totally testicular food of the Aztecs to a wacky marketing campaign in the ‘90s to get rich white people obsessed, the avocado has many secrets other than being good on toast.

No, CAPTCHA doesn't stand for "Completely ANNOYING Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

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In 1957, the Soviet Union sent a stray dog named Laika into orbit, knowing they wouldn't be able to bring her home. But for the next 50 years, they covered up the truth about how she died.

At least not in candy form...

Otherwise known as the Emoji Illuminati. Oh, and you can submit a proposal for a new Emoji. For free.

I maybe got stalked by the MIB after seeing a UFO as a teen.

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The two terms aren’t synonymous, and their definitions are deeply rooted in Gothic literature. And, y’know, Stephen King has a hot take, too.

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50 years ago today a couple of guys shot some 16 mm film of “Bigfoot” that became iconic. It also ruined one of their lives.

If you’ve ever Google searched “Normal Brian MRI” you’ve seen the brain of “average Colin” - but who is he? And how did an MRI of his brain end up in textbooks and over 800 scientific papers?

The world sucks. Let’s talk about axolotls: cute af, aquatic life loving, infinite limb regenerating amphibians.

Inspired by a New England Nana’s old recipe, the classic breakfast cereal has been unchanged for 50 years. Oh, and it’ll also make the roof of your mouth bleed. WORTH IT.

It’s not one virus, but several. And it’s not the stomach flu! 🤒

Everyone who had this phone number died. Given, at least one was a mob boss so maybe it’s not that surprising. BUT STILL. Let’s call it and see what happens...💀

Julia Wallace’s murder has been called the perfect crime. It’s also known as the impossible murder because the lone suspect, her husband, could not have done it. But neither could anyone else.

Those release doves at weddings are just genetically white-feathered pigeons hat have been bred to announce nuptials as opposed to, you know, traditional carrier pigeon stuff.

The man behind the classic Victorian asylum design was only trying to make them (and the conditions for patients and workers) better. He wasn’t trying to make them creepy.

Why the (rabid) history of vaccines matters to their future.

“Babe do u trust me?”— Wilhelm Röntgen, X-ray discoverer, @ his wife while irradiating her hand, probably.

This AI watches you watching a movie and its algorithm can determine if you liked it by analyzing your facial “micro expressions.”

Albert Einstein predicted them. The scientists who spent their entire careers trying to prove they existed just won the Nobel Prize in Physics. But what the fuck are they?

When Alfred Nobel was mistaken for dead he ended up reading his own obituary - and realized everyone thought he was an asshat. Vowing to do good he used his fortune to start the Nobel Prize.

In the U.S. people used to have to make their own plates. Now they’re made by inmates.

A solar flare in the 1800s was so massive it disrupted telegraph systems and caused them to shock operators and lit telegrams on fire.

Except on infant formula. Those dates on your food - sell by, use by - aren’t about food safety.

Your car’s vehicle identification number (VIN) isn’t just random alphanumeric characters. They have meaning and you can discern it - if you like math and ciphers.

There’s a theory that 300 or so years during the Middle Ages never happened. And that many historical figures central to them never existed.

An abandoned mine on a Norwegian island are hundreds of thousands of seed samples we could use to regrow the Earth after the apocalypse.

Also, is allspice really ALL OF THE SPICE?

This case is why we tell our kids to never take candy from a stranger.

It’s actually one of the more subtle human expressions - if you can do it at all, that is.

Spooky hell fire lights or a spooky chemical reaction!?

Their tattoos were messages to God.

New study reveals octopuses are messy bitches who live for drama!

When did we start wearing clothes anyway? Well...ask pubic lice.

Goodnight, sweet prince.

Chemist Karen Wetterhahn's needless death in the 1990s forever changed our understanding of mercury poisoning.

Why do they exist? What is their purpose? What happens if you DO eat them?

The FDA is cracking down on cough syrup with codeine - cuz like, maybe we shouldn't give kids codeine.

Bobby Dunbar went missing when he was four years old. But the boy found, returned to his family, and raised as their son for the rest of his life - was not Bobby Dunbar.

Apparently FEMA gets really annoyed with it.

"This sentence is false."

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Are yawns really contagious? Also how the hell do FISH yawn?

Our genetics may set us up to prefer waking up early or staying up late, but our lifestyle may not always allow us to live (and sleep!) according to our preference.

Invented colors for plot-driven purposes.

We have so many questions, a few solid theories, but not a lot of answers about the force that keeps us down.

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They're yellow and there are hundreds of thousands of them shuttling kids to school RIGHT THIS MINUTE! And only one state requires them to have seat belts.

During the Civil War some wounded soldiers started to glow in the dark and it wasn't until 2001 that some high school kids figured out why for a science fair project.

If you rejected the advances of a weatherman circa 1967 you probably had a hurricane named after you.

The volcanic eruption of biblical proportion was said to have produced the loudest sound humans of ever witnessed.

Some lyrics aren't even words at all. Mmmbop, anyone?

Throughout history medicine has wrongly attributed diseases like epilepsy and tuberculosis to everything from city living to demonic possession.

The "personality" test was developed during WWII by a mother-daughter team trying to help women entering the workforce for the first time.

Your jade plant probably knows what you do when you're alone and it's probably hardcore judging you.

Scientists thought they'd discovered a new species of penguin that went extinct during the Holocene era. Turns out it never existed at all.

So how will solar panels react to ... no sun?

What is the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow?

Psychologists like Freud used a metaphor of spiny hedgehogs never really being able to get close to one another without hurting each other (and getting hurt themselves) to describe human intimacy.

In 1590 a colony of like one hundred settlers ghosted on Sir Walter Raleigh and we still don't know where the hell they went.

Is there any scientific basis for this fuckery?

Can you erase a person from history? Asking for a friend.

It's not fake, it just doesn't taste like bananas you're familiar with.

There's only one place on the world where you can legally sell a kidney. It'll net you a few grand - oh, AND YOU'LL SAVE A LIFE!

If you saw the Perseid Meteor Shower this weekend you have a specific and vaguely terrifying comet to thank.

All those stars! No light! Why? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Depending on where you grew up, the striped shirted search-and-find character went by various names. And apparently the internet ships him with Carmen Sandiego.

Three words: mutually assured destruction. And no, I'm not talking about my past relationships.

You've heard of LEAP YEARS now get ready for LEAP SECONDS!

Maybe rethink that slow cooker recipe with red kidney beans.

The Greenland Shark can live for like 300 years whaaaaaaat.

The atomic bomb gave radiation a bad name after WWII, so scientists gave people mutated seeds and told them to grow "gamma gardens" at home. And send their data in, of course.

The Murder Accountability Project uses data from unsolved homicides and a computer algorithm to help solve murders. The best part? It works. The second best part? You can help.

Do you have to LATHER RINSE REPEAT on an infinite loop until you die?

Not the same and not interchangeable - but if you've ever totally fucked up a batch of cookies you already knew that. 👩🏻‍🍳

Type designer Brian Willson explains why italic fonts are not just slanted regular fonts (that would be ~obliques~).

You have chemistry to thank for your "distressed" Calvin's, Levi's, & Lee's (also: why are jean brands named after dudes?)

Not even 10 people in the world have it, and in the event one of them should need a transfusion they have each other's lives in their hands.

That gold plated square on your MasterCard is hiding a microprocessor 👀

If you take certain medications you might want to rethink grapefruit juice as your breakfast beverage.

The various hairs on your body all follow the same three step growth cycle, just not all at the same rate.

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The paper confetti we know and love was preceded for centuries by handfuls of foodstuffs - some of which you wouldn't necessarily have wanted to get a face full of.

You could hire them to come to your loved one'a funeral and eat their sins...metaphorically of course. Or was it?

If you're allergic to bees the first time you get stung isn't the most dangerous - the second time is.

At 14, Graham Young was committed to Broadmoor for poisoning his family. Less than a decade later he was released - even after vowing to poison more people. Which, of course, he did.

A dead woman's body found in a tree trunk by a group of rascally young boys becomes an unsolved mystery full of intrigue, ominous graffiti and probably some WWII spies.

Accounts of the pioneers' cannibalism are greatly exaggerated.

When he was a 26 year old med student in Germany Werner catheterized his own heart to prove it could be done. He was laughed out of cardiology and didn't get any love for his research for 20 years.

Some people claim they can't stand the taste of "plain water" — are you one of them? Because there's some science that might validate you.

The UN declared access to the internet a human right but not all nations agree. Around the world the conversation about net neutrality continues.

The most successful Cold War espionage mission was basically spies dumpster diving at the Soviet HQ. The military had no toilet paper so were wiping their butts with top secret intel instead.

This under sea volcano in the Caribbean has erupted about a dozen times since we started paying attention to it in 1939. But more importantly: how the hell did it get that name?

An abandoned Christian theme park from the 1970s became the setting for a sadistic murder.

It was created by accident and its inventors pitched it as a toy to a potential investor by Silly Stringing the fuck out of him and his office — at which time they were asked to leave the building.

You know she disappeared trying to fly around the world but there's a lot you might not know about the famous female aviator.

Before group chats, a bunch of Swedish teens using a phone party line arranged a real life meetup that went viral. Chaos ensued.

I interviewed Bristol, Rhode Island native and my dear friend Stephanie Cabral about the oldest and most lit 4th of July festivities in the U.S.

You could technically use radium to make green fireworks but maybe don't?

So what the hell are "sea pickles?" Salty? Yes. Pickles? No.

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