Stuff You Should Know

In 1978, five friends set out for home from a basketball game. The next day, their car was discovered in a lonely mounta... Read more

No matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on, you should be outraged about the practice of gerrymandering.... Read more

Get ready, folks. The ballpoint pen is far more interesting than you could ever imagine. For real. Brilliant in its simp... Read more

The infamous Stanford Prison Experiment wasn't really much of an experiment as it turns out. It was more like a poorly t... Read more

Sometimes providence smiles on historians. Thus is the case with the Rosetta stone, an ancient Egyptian tablet that serv... Read more

Diabetes is one of the biggest killers of people on the planet. And yet, it also seems to be tied to diet and exercise, ... Read more

The Seuss is loose in this episode about legendary children's book author Ted Geisel. The funny thing is, he didn't ever... Read more

Soap is a miraculous substance – and mysterious too: we have no idea how humans first figured out to make it. We lived w... Read more

It’s been about a decade since Josh and Chuck last checked in on recycling and since then a lot has changed. A global co... Read more

The incident at Dyatlov Pass is one of the more enduring wilderness mysteries of all time. Russian hikers found in vario... Read more

Depending on who you talk to, Genghis Khan was either a sadistic madman or one of the great leaders in world history. On... Read more

In 2018, there's a man from a lost tribe still living deep in the jungles of Brazil who has been all alone since the mid... Read more

Artificial sweeteners have gotten a bad rap in the press for as long as they’ve been in use. But is it just the result o... Read more

Putting lasers in space to blast Soviet missiles out of the air was a very real part of Ronald Reagan's defense policy. ... Read more

The legend of King Arthur is very old and very established. By the time the king who saved Britain and united it was fir... Read more

If you go to the Internet you'll see a few people championed as all-time greatest conquerors - Alexander the Great, Geng... Read more

One day in the Amazon Basin, a shaman put together a plant containing DMT with a vine that allows the body to absorb DMT... Read more

The Black Panther Party was a complex political movement that was unfairly painted as a militant group who hated white p... Read more

Tsunamis are amazingly devastating natural disasters. They're miles tall and wide, travel as fast as a commercial airlin... Read more

It's been the subject of teenage conversation for decades already, but now you can join Josh and Chuck as they dive into... Read more