Stuff You Should Know
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How Juries Work
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Short Stuff: Mood Rings
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The Inflammation Theory of Disease
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Selects: How Slinky Works
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How TV Weathercasters Work
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Short Stuff: Frances Kelsey: Hero of the FDA
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The Colosseum
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Selects: Does the body replace itself?
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Introducing Smell-O-Vision!
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Short Stuff: Dunbar's Number
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Nerf!
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Selects: How Manhunts Work
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Carbon Monoxide: Please Just Listen Anyway
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Short Stuff: Botox Brain
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Why does everyone love Dolly Parton?
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Selects: Was There A Real Robin Hood?
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METI: Existential Threat? Probably Yes
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Short Stuff: Routines
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Should Rich Countries Cancel Poor Countries’ Debt?
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Selects: How Coffins Work
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John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?
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Short Stuff: Red Snow
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How Skydiving Works
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Selects: Some Nutso Fan Theories
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Playing Cards? You Got That Right!
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Short Stuff: Beethoven’s DNA
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What Caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse?
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Selects: How Jet Lag Works
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What's the deal with dowsing?
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Short Stuff: Theme Park Cremations
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The First Road Trip
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Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?
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An Interesting, Vastly Incomplete Look at Baseball Cards
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Short Stuff: Semantic Satiation
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The Tragic Tale of Floyd Collins
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Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?
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Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds
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Short Stuff: John Cage's 639 Year Concert
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That's Amaro!
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Selects: The Time Nazis Invaded Florida
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Woodstock: The Festival for Stardust, Golden Hippies
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Short Stuff: Paprika
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Noncompete Agreements, Come On
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Selects: Live From San Francisco: How Malls Work
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Crosswords episode, perhaps?
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Short Stuff: La Pascualita
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The Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon
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Selects: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?
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Naps: Chuck's Secret Talent
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Short Stuff: Sleeping On It
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