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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.

Stuff You Should Know

Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is in danger of becoming only about branding and money.

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UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity

There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.

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Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird

Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpot invention captures everyone’s imagination.

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Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular

In this classic episode Josh and Chuck sit down and detail the complicated life of the late, great Sammy Davis Jr.

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Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure

In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock inspector to the Coast Guard to the president failed them.

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The Sewol Ferry Disaster

The Japanese Cherry Blossom is a sight to behold. But how did they get to Washington D.C.?

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Short Stuff: Cherry Blossoms

We all love to tour our generation's superiority, but who decides where the split occurs and what to name it? And is this even a thing or just an arbitrary division?

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Are Generations Even a Thing?

If you think secretly coded messages sent via short wave radio is Cold War relic, think again. In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh are here to dispel that myth, along with many others relating to numbers stations, including why they might still be operational.

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Selects: What is a Numbers Station?

The worker co-op has a rich tradition and can work a variety of ways. Join us as we dig into the nuts and bolts.

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How Worker Co-ops Work

If you think Spring Break started with northern college kids heading to Florida to party, you'd be correct. But there's slightly more to it than that. 

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Short Stuff: History of Spring Break

Pain is subjective; it is whatever the person experiencing it says it is. But to effectively treat pain, it helps to quantify it, which is why medicine came up with pain scales.

 
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Pain Scales: Yeeeow!

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