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Stuff You Should Know

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

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Selects: How Paramedics Work
Gobekli Tepe
Selects: How the Escape from Alcatraz Worked
Selects: Rosa Parks: Agent of Change
The Judas Priest Suicide Trial
Four Eyes Good: The History of Glasses
Selects: How Government Shutdowns Work
Tom Slick: Not the Cartoon
Celebration Florida: The Story of a Utopia that Never Was
Ludwig II: The Only Real King of the 19th Century
The History of Streaming Music
Selects: The Manson Family Murders Part 1
How Bomb Disposal Works
The One About Car Washes
Selects: The Tulsa 'Race Riots'
The KILLDOZER Rampage
Phone Phreaking: The Advent of Hacking
Selects: The Duality of Caffeine
The Puritans in America
Selects: Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Feminist Physician
Salsa: NOT THE DANCE
How Dopamine Works
Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work
EXTRA! EXTRA! The Newsboy Strike Episode!
Whistling!
The Big Episode on Wikipedia
Why Must Widowhood Be So Difficult?
Coercive Control, the Invisible Basis of Abuse
Selects: Sunburn, Suntans and Sunscreen
The Ballad of Grit
Conductors: What the heck is going on there?
Selects: What are think tanks all about?
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt. 2
Selects: The Great War of the Worlds Panic Myth
The Silurian Hypothesis
NYC Trash: A study in persistence
Selects: How Stuttering Works
10 - Yes, 10! - Dumb Criminals
Misophonia: More Than an Annoyance
Selects: The Legends of Lost Nazi Gold
Atomic Clocks, Ahoy!
The Village People Episode
Selects: How the Beagle Brigade Works
The Awful Crimes of Georgia Tann
The Power of the Wind
Selects: Special Effects: A Short History
Hitchhiking: Two thumbs out!
The Dubious Science of Arson Investigation
Selects: How Famines Work
Testosterone and Estrogen: Wondrous Hormones
The 1977 Women's Conference That Changed America
Selects: All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh
The Everglades: Wowee
Greedflation Is Real
The Pulitzer Prize: A major award!
Love Canal: Even Dirtier Than It Sounds
Selects: MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood
Peanuts (the comic) Part I
The Alien Abduction Phenomenon of the Mid-20th Century
Leave Brutalism Alone!
Selects: The Science of Break-Ups
Mulititasking: Working slower with worse results
Multitasking: Working slower with worse results
Selects: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Wireless Electricity: When Can We Unplug Our TVs?
Haile Selassie: Statesman, Colonizer, God?
Selects: How Zero Population Growth Works
Ray and Charles Eames: More than Chairs
Selects: Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't
What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws
Selects: The Unabomber: Misguided to say the least
Clue(do): Third Best Board Game Ever
Selects: How Disgust Works
The Harrowing Story of the North Hollywood Shootout
Selects: A List Of Games You Would Surely Lose to a Computer
Esperanto: Tre Mojosa
Jonestown
Dry Cleaning: Not Really Dry(!)
How Cranes Work
The 2000 Presidential Election: A Real Cluster
Selects: Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans
How Primitive Will Our Descendants Find Us?
How Snails Work
Selects: How Fireplaces Work
The 2023 SYSK Ho-Ho-Holiday Spectacular!
Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion
Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular
Selects: How Dictators Work
What was the Skeleton Army?
The Matewan Massacre
Selects: What were the Freedom Schools?
The Murder of John Lennon
Selects: Beavers: Tail Slapping Fun
You Down With OED?
Plate Tectonics Are What Makes Earth Inhabitable
Selects: NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel
The Wreck of the Costa Concordia
Legs! Legs! Legs! (The Periodic Table)
Selects: E.T.: Is It Really the Worst Video Game of All Time?
Diners: The Most American Establishment?
The Tragic Death of Natalie Wood
Selects: Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
The Harlem Globetrotters: American Treasures
Selects: How Mummies Work
Naked Mole Rats: A Face Only a Mother Could Love
The Compton Cafeteria Riot
Kindness: Do It
Selects: Pain Scales: Yeeeow!
Selects: How Motion Sickness Works
Night of the Grizzlies
Selects: Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think
Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet
The Amazing Life of Christine Granville
Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
Kombucha: Fizzy Goodness
The Hyatt Regency Skywalk Disaster
Axolotls: The Smiling Salamander from Mexico
Selects: How Space Stations Work
The Made-up Disease of Syndrome K
Selects: Body Odor: You Stink
Laurens Hammond: The Non-Musical Genius Who Changed Popular Music
Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan

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