Today I Found Out

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Today I Found Out is a youtube channel and website founded on the precept that it is always good to learn something new every day. It was originally inspired by the sub-reddit “Today I Learned“, Daven Hiskey is the main author of Today I Found Out and Simon Whistler is the presenter.

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  1. How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?
  2. How Do German Schools Teach About WWII?
  3. Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?
  4. That Time a Guy Tried to Build a Utopia for Mice and it all Went to Hell
  5. What was It Actually Like to Be a Court Jester in Medieval Times?
  6. Intro
  7. How Did Germany DeNazify So Quickly After WWII
  8. What Did the German Public Know About the Holocaust During WWII?
  9. What is the Difference Between Bees, Wasps, and Hornets?
  10. Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs and Most Other Countries Don't?
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  1. How Did the Ancient Romans Manage to Build Perfectly Straight, Ultra Durable Roads?
  2. Why Michael Jackson's Skin Turned White as He Got Older
  3. What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History?
  4. How Drilling a 14 in. Hole Created a 1.3K ft Deep Saltwater Lake Out of a 10 ft Deep Freshwater One
  5. Who Started the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory?
  6. Why Doesn't the U.S. Use the Metric System?
  7. How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?
  8. The Nazi War Crime That Shocked Even the Nazis
  9. Fascinating Facts You Probably Don't Know About Every United States President
  10. Why Does Vladimir Putin Walk So Weird?
  11. Who was Murphy in Murphy's Law? (And the Hero Dr. John Paul Stapp Who Gave Us the Expression)
  12. How Switzerland Managed to Remain Neutral with WWI and WWII Raging Around Them
  13. How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?
  14. Why Do Outhouses Have a Crescent Moon on the Door? (And the Literal Deadliest Flatulence in History)
  15. What Ever Happened to Ronald McDonald? (And the Bizarre Rules for Those Playing the Character)
  16. We Still Don’t Know How Bicycles Work
  17. Did NASA Spend Millions Developing a Pen When the Russians Used Pencils?
  18. What Ever Happened to the Creator of Calvin and Hobbes?
  19. The Women Who were Used for Breeding by the Nazis
  20. The Most Gruesome Death Imaginable: The Byford Dolphin Accident
  21. Who Invented the Food Pyramid and Why You'd Be Crazy to Follow It
  22. The Real Reason Why Garfield Isn't Funny...
  23. How Exactly Did One Become an Executioner in Medieval Times?
  24. The Jesus of Nazareth
  25. Pontius Pilate
  26. How Do the Insanely Wealthy Actually Pay for Something Worth Hundreds of Millions of Dollars?
  27. Can You Really Just Go Online and Order a Wife from Some Other Country?
  28. Is Vladimir Putin the Actual Richest Person in the World?
  29. The New Testament
  30. Is There Any Hard Evidence That Jesus Actually Existed?
  31. How Do They Teach the American Revolution in Britain?
  32. What's Actually Supposed to Happen When You Land on Free Parking?
  33. How Vladimir Putin Came to Power (And How He Has Held on to it for So Long)
  34. The Widespread Nuclear Disaster Everyone Promptly Forgot About?
  35. The Lesser Known Perks of the Medal of Honor are Better Than Being Knighted by the Queen
  36. How is Stalin Taught in Russia?
  37. Why are Anvils Shaped as They Are and Why Do Blacksmiths Tap the Anvil After a Few Strikes?
  38. What Did People Think When They First Found Dinosaur Bones?
  39. Publius
  40. What Happens if You Accidentally Damage or Destroy a Priceless Work of Art in a Museum
  41. The Nazi Interrogator Who Killed Them With Kindness
  42. What is Napalm Anyway And Who Invented It?
  43. What Do Scientologists Actually Believe?
  44. The Shockingly Recent Time British Husbands Sold Their Wives at Market
  45. What's Actually Supposed to Happen When You Land on Free Parking
  46. What Were Those Weird Metal Things on the Beaches During the Normandy Invasion?
  47. First World, Third World... What are the Second World Countries?
  48. Who Started the Lizard People Conspiracy Theory?
  49. History
  50. The Bizarre Story of the Seattle Mystery Vending Machine
  51. Where Do Insects Go In the Winter? (And the Fascinating Way Honey Bees Keep Their Hives Warm)
  52. Why on Earth is Depleted Uranium Used for Military Ammunition?
  53. What Are Those Nasty White Chunks in Your Throat?
  54. What the Heck is a “Dum-Dum” Bullet Anyway
  55. Josephus
  56. The Soldier Who Continued Fighting WWII 29 Years After It Ended, Because He Didn't Know
  57. Do Dogs and Cats Like It if You Leave the Radio or TV on When You Leave the House?
  58. Why Can't You Have Fences Over a Certain Height in the Front or Backyard?
  59. Did People in Medieval Times Really Not Bathe?
  60. What is the Best Way to Survive Falling Out of a Plane with No Parachute?
  61. Is Twice Boiled Water Really Bad for You and Potentially a Carcinogen?
  62. How Did People in Medieval Times Actually Siege a Castle in Reality
  63. What Exactly Happens When the Queen Dies?
  64. That Time an Accidental Plague Nearly Killed Everyone in World of Warcraft
  65. Antiquities
  66. Sriracha Sauce and the Surprisingly Heartwarming Story Behind It
  67. Why are Kinder Eggs Illegal in the USA?
  68. Why Did Japan Join the Nazis? (Given, You Know, the Nazis Explicitly Hated Non-Aryans)
  69. Can the Queen's Guard Really Not React to People While on Duty?
  70. The Mysterious and Fascinating World of ‘Numbers Stations’
  71. Does Diplomatic Immunity Really Make It So You Can Get Away with Murder?
  72. Can You Really Knock Someone Out Harmlessly, Like in the Movies?
  73. Independent Sources
  74. The Cult That Made Your Grandmother's Fine Silverware
  75. Do People Who Get Knighted by the Queen Get Anything for It?
  76. The Bizarre Spending Habits of Nicolas Cage
  77. On The Far Side
  78. What’s Up With Measuring So Many Things in “Gauge”
  79. The Top Secret Navy Mission that Accidentally Rediscovered the Titanic
  80. The German Rocket Fighter that Dissolved its Pilots Alive
  81. The SS
  82. Why Isn't Beer Sold in Plastic Bottles?
  83. Is Ockham's Razor Actually Valid, or Just Something People Say to Sound Smart?
  84. Why Did Old Timey Boxers All Pose for Photos With the Same Silly Stance?
  85. What were Hitler's Relatives Up to During and After WWII?
  86. Were Both the Axis and Allies in WWII Really Powered by Meth?
  87. What Happens if you Renounce Your Citizenship But Don't Belong to Another Country When You Do It?
  88. What Does Being Shot Actually Feel Like?
  89. What Do the Buttons on Darth Vaders Suit Do?
  90. Why are Circuit Boards Green?

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