Author Archives: Dusti

The Origin of “That’s What She Said”, From Soccer Hopeful to World’s Angriest Chef, Has Anyone Ever Actually Been Poisoned by Halloween Candy and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at the origin of “That’s what she said”, the rise of the world’s angriest chef, and the time the BBC deleted almost every episode of Doctor Who. We then get into the Halloween spirit by looking at Dan Aykroyd’s fascination with the paranormal, why witches are often depicted flying on […]

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Weekly Wrap Volume 122

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. How the Weird British Tradition of Putting Topless Women on the Third Page of the Newspaper Got Started We British are often stereotyped as being prudish and stoically reserved in all aspects of intimacy. As such, it may surprise non-natives to […]

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Why Comfortable Air Temperature is So Much Lower Than Body Temperature, The Controversial “Growing up Skipper” Barbie Doll, Why Crackers Have Holes and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at the Barbie whose breasts grew, why comfortable air temperature is so much lower than body temperature, if it’s possible to breastfeed with implants, why there are holes in crackers, the reason movie advertisements are called trailers and how anti-fog spray works. Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel […]

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Weekly Wrap Volume 121

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. The Truth About the Legend of Pelorus Jack Cook Strait, located between the north and south islands of New Zealand, is within the zone of the Roaring Forties which consists of strong winds that sweep across the southern hemisphere from the […]

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The Fascinating Way in Which Airplane Oxygen Masks Work, Why Aircraft Windows Aren’t Usually Aligned With the Seats, and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at how oxygen masks work on planes given they aren’t hooked up to any oxygen tanks, why airplane windows are not usually aligned correctly with the seats, where the expression “guess what chicken butt” came from, the War of the Worlds mass panic that never really happened, and how Pilates […]

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Weekly Wrap 120

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Why We Drive on Parkways and Park on Driveways To most people the fact that we drive on parkways and park on driveways is rarely pondered upon. This only comes to mind when pointed out by particularly cringe-worthy comedians, who no […]

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How WW1 Got Women to Start Wearing Bras, How Women Fainting During the 19th Century Led to the Invention of the Vibrator, Why People Say “Mayday” in an Emergency and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at how WW1 got women to start wearing bras, why voices squeak during puberty, why people say “Mayday” in an emergency, what happens to food used to break world records, the comic book character who used cocaine and why women fainting so often in the 19th century led to the […]

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The Difference Between Partly Cloudy and Partly Sunny, Is Pet Food Safe for Humans to Eat, What Happened to the Flags on the Moon and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we answer a variety of questions, such as- the difference between partly cloudy and partly sunny, if pet food is safe for humans to eat, what happened to the flags on the moon, why mosquito bites itch and why police officers are sometimes called pigs. Click here to subscribe to our YouTube […]

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Weekly Wrap Volume 118

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. The Hit Man Even if you’ve never heard of Otis Blackwell, you’ve almost certainly heard his music—he was one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century. Here’s the story of the most famous songwriter most people have never heard […]

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The People Who Slowly Turn to Bone, Why the Queen Doesn’t Need a Passport, The Truth About Aspartame and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at a variety of topics, including, the rare genetic condition that slowly encases some people in a prison of bone, why the Queen of England doesn’t need a passport, if aspartame is really bad for you, what is actually in juicy fruit gum, why we use the term “gay” for […]

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Weekly Wrap 117

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Why Doesn’t the United States Use a Popular Vote to Determine the President? On December 13, 2000, Vice President Al Gore conceded the presidential election to Governor Bush. A day earlier, a lengthy and expensive manual vote recount process in Florida […]

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Why is a Final Performance Called a Swan Song, What Does the Dangly Thing in Your Throat Do, Why Do Other People’s Farts Smell Worse and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at a variety of topics, including, why a final performance is called a Swan Song, the purpose of the dangly thing in the back of your throat, the reason other people’s farts smell worse to you, the story behind why we tell actors to break a leg, what type of […]

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Weekly Wrap Volume 116

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Is the Ocean Getting Saltier? Most sea salts come from water-caused erosion, whereby rivers ultimately carry the dissolved salts to the oceans. Absent a few key processes, the ocean’s salinity would continuously increase; however, there are several mechanisms, called “salt sinks,” […]

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When Did Men Start Getting Circumcised, Who Really Invented the Tea Bag, Why Don’t Trains Have Cabooses Anymore and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at when men started getting circumcised, who invented tea bags, why trains don’t have cabooses, why it’s called an Adam’s apple, where the term “boobs” comes from and why we don’t use bidets in the United States Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel for many more videos like […]

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Weekly Wrap Volume 115

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. How the Five Day Work Week Became Popular On September 25, 1926, the Ford Motor Company instituted a five-day, 40-hour work week for its factory employees. While Ford wasn’t the first to do this, they were arguably one of the most […]

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The Adventures of the First Man to Walk in Space, the Truth About Twice Boiled Water, the “Nope” Chemical that Sets Fire to Almost Anything and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at how the first man to walk in space almost got stuck there and what happened after, Stigler and his Law of Eponymy, the Forgotten Beatle, whether twice boiled water is really bad for you, what chlorine triflouride is, why they say “mush” to make sled dogs go and what […]

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Weekly Wrap Volume 114

This is a weekly wrap of our popular Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. A COPS Story COPS has been a Saturday night TV staple for so long—29 seasons—that it’s easy to forget what a groundbreaking show it was when it debuted in 1989. FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE In the early 1980s, an aspiring filmmaker named John Langley […]

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Cow Farts and Global Warming, Why Some Devices Have Two Prongs and Others Have Three, The Cold Chicken War and Trucks and More

In this week’s “best of” our YouTube channel, we look at how Dick came to be short for Richard, whether cow farts really contribute to global warming, why nearly all zippers have ykk on them, what color carrots used to be before the 17th century, why some electrical plugs have two prongs and others have three, how chickens made it […]

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