Stuff You Should Know

Did a shipwreck double the size of the United States? Sort of. Listen in to find out what the heck that means.
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Irony is one of those things that you know when you see it, but it’s almost impossible to define. Well, that’s not quite right – there are a ton of definitions for irony but none of them quite capture it fully. Want to know what irony is? So do we!
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Ever wanted to know more about how the Manhattan grid was made? Well this is your chance. Find out all about it in this classic episode.
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Robert Maxwell was a lot of things, publisher, mogul, spy, politician, crook. But was he murdered when he fell from his yacht?
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Did Nero play his fiddle while Rome burned during the Great Fire of 64 CE? Absolutely not. Find out how we know when Chuck and Josh bust a two thousand year-old myth.
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