A History of Halloween (Encore)
On October 31 every year, we celebrate Halloween. It is especially popular in the United States where we use the holiday as an excuse for kids to dress up and ask for candy, and for adults to dress up...
30 Okt 202111min
How Casinos Work
Casinos are fascinating places. They can make tons of money, but they don’t really have a product. While it is often called entertainment, unlike other forms of entertainment, no one is entertaining y...
29 Okt 202111min
Ambergris: The World's Most Valuable Smelly Substance
One of the rarest and most expensive substances in the world is actually pretty disgusting. The way it is created is pretty gross, it looks pretty gross, and smells even worse. Despite how disgusting ...
28 Okt 20218min
Monarchies vs Republics
I’ve had many episodes where I talked about a country being a “republic”. In fact, we often use the word but many people have a mistaken idea about what exactly a republic is. So what exactly is a rep...
27 Okt 202110min
The Louvre: The World's Greatest Museum
Located in the heart of Paris, along the banks of the River Seine, lies the Louvre. It has over 750,000 square feet of gallery space, it has over 615,000 items in its collection, and in a non-pandemic...
26 Okt 202110min
Wedding Traditions
Weddings are full of traditions. Almost every aspect of a traditional western wedding involves customs that may date back hundreds or thousands of years. However, most people have no idea where these ...
25 Okt 202111min
The United States Minor Outlying Islands
Have you ever filled out a form online where you had to select a country and you noticed that one of the country options was the “United States Minor Outlying Islands”? If you have you might have wond...
24 Okt 202110min
The 1972 Olympic Basketball Gold Medal Game
The year 1972 saw two epic contests between the United States and the Soviet Union. The first was American Bobby Fischer defeating Soviet Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov for the world chess championship. T...
23 Okt 202111min
