Season 2021 2021

Season Premiere

2021x01 The British Almost-Kamikazes of World War II

• 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x02 What Happened to the Members of the Fellowship After The Lord of the Rings

• 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x03 The Complex Contradictions of Chindogu - The Japanese Art of Useless Inventions

• 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x04 The Nazi War Crime That Shocked Even the Nazis

• 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x05 We Still Don’t Know How Bicycles Work

• 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x06 The Obscenely Successful Obsolete Sailing Ship and Its Daring Captain Who Terrorized the High Seas

• 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x07 How Does Nuclear Waste Disposal Work

• 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x08 Can Humans Breathe Liquid Like in The Abyss

• 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x09 The World War II Warship that Disguised Itself as a Tropical Island to Try to Escape the Enemy

• 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x10 That Time an American President Killed a Man in Cold Blood and Got Away With It Scot Free

• 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x11 Has Anyone Ever ‘Cut the Red Wire’ to Defuse a Bomb and What is It Really Like to Be on a Bomb Squad

• 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x12 How do The Persians Teach Alexander the Great and When in History Did He First Become Great

• 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x13 The Steampunk Flight Simulator That Helped Win World War II

• 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x14 The Curious Case of the 300 MPH Personal Jet Submarine

• 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x15 The Cancer Pandemics Spread By Bites and Mosquitoes

• 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x16 How Do We Know How Old Things Like Dinosaur Bones Are

• 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x17 What's Up with Those Bird Beak Plague Masks

• 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x18 The Ludicrously Dangerous Submarine that Somehow Became the First Sub to Sink Another Ship in Combat

• 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x19 How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire

• 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x20 How Two Guys are the Reason We Eat What We Eat for Breakfast

• 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x21 That Time Some Psychiatrists Pretended to be Mentally Ill to Prove Psychiatrists Don't Know Anything

• 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x22 The Fascinating Story Behind the Molotov Cocktail and How It Got Its Name

• 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x23 The Mad Aussie Who Stung Himself and his 9-Year-Old Son With a Deadly Creature FOR SCIENCE!!!

• 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x24 Sooo… is it pronounced Gif or Jif

• 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x25 Why Is the English Alphabet in the Order That it Is

• 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x26 The Real Reason We Call a Software Glitch a Bug

• 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x27 The 18th Century Chess Robot That Defeated Napoleon, Ben Franklin, and Countless Others

• 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x28 The Curious Case of the Crypt of Civilization

• 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x29 Sooooo... Will a Frog Actually Allow Itself to be Boiled Alive if You Raise the Temperature Slowly

• 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x30 Is There Such a Thing as a Sound or Smell So Strong it Can Kill You

• 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x31 Why Do We Want to Squeeze/Bite/Pinch Cute Stuff So Badly?

• 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x32 Why Were So Many British and American Warships in World War I Painted Like Zebras

• 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x33 The Eccentric, Murdering Photographer Who Gave us the Movies

• 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x34 The Curious Case of the Extreme Sport Mensur

• 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x35 The Curious Case of the German and Japanese Cities in America During World War II

• 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x36 That Time a Teenager Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Backyard

• 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x37 The Bizarre World War II Plan to Score a Major Victory for the Allies

• 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x38 The Greatest Last Stand You've Never Heard Of

• 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x39 The Red Devil - The Only Axis Prisoner to Escape from North America And Make It Back to Germany

• 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x40 Where Did Goth Teen Subculture Come From and Why is it Associated With Roman Invaders

• 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x41 The Original Uber Eats - India's Amazing 131-Year-Old Dabbawala Industry

• 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x42 The Curious Case of the Cat that was Turned Into a Living Telephone FOR SCIENCE!!!!!!

• 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x43 How World War II Made Everybody Think Carrots Were Good for Their Eyes

• 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x44 Is Stockholm Syndrome Actually a Thing

• 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x45 If Hitler's Regime was the Third Reich, Who Were the First and Second

• 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x46 Falling From the Edge of Space - Chuck Yeager's Wild Ride

• 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x47 That Time an Oregon Free Love Cult Launched the Largest Bioterror Attack in US History

• no air date — 5m

2021x48 The Real Q from James Bond and His Ingenious, RealLife Inventions

• 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x49 The Young War Gamers Who Changed the Course of World War II

• 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x50 The Man Who Literally Ate an Entire Airplane

• 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x51 The Immortal Woman Whose Death Changed the World

• 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x52 That Time a Scientist Stopped a Charging Bullfighting Bull Using Mind Control FOR SCIENCE!!!!

• 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x53 Germany's Forgotten Genocide - The Early Atrocity that Provided a Blueprint For the Nazis

• 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x54 Canada's Youngest Aerial Victoria Cross Winner - The Insane Story of Alan McLeod

• 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x55 That Time a Farmer was Given Ultimate Power Twice and Changed the World By Walking Away Both Times

• 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x56 The Wild Story of the Biggest POW Camp Breakout of World War II

• 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x57 The Badass Sergeant Who Instantly Became His Own One Man Army

• 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x58 That Time a Guy Put Himself Adrift at Sea for 62 Days Without Provisions FOR SCIENCE

• 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x59 Does the Language You Speak Affect How You Think

• 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x60 Tickling the Dragon's Tail - The Horrible Heart of a Nuclear Bomb

• 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x61 Did the US President Ever Actually Have a ‘Big Red Phone’ Connected Directly to Moscow

• 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x62 The Surprisingly Heated Debate on Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Water

• 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x63 That Time a Dude Was Given a Nobel Prize for Intentionally Infecting People with Malaria

• 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x64 The Curious Case of the Solar Powered Sea Slug

• 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x65 Is Photographic Memory Actually a Thing

• 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x66 The Gruesome Truth About Pavlov's Dogs (And How His Findings are Commonly Misinterpreted)

• 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x67 Briefcase of Armageddon - The Exact Sequence of Actions Behind a Hypothetical US Nuclear Attack

• 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x68 What's Up With the Whole 'Doomsday Clock' Thing

• 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x69 The Curious Case of the People With Split Brains

• 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x70 What’s Up With Measuring So Many Things in “Gauge”

• 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x71 ‘Kaputnik’ - America’s Largely Forgotten Disastrous First Attempt to Launch a Satellite

• 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x72 Kilroy Was Here - The Story Behind One of the First Viral Memes in Modern History

• 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x73 Where Did Dogs Really Come From

• 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x74 That Time NASA Tried to Prevent an Extraterrestrial Pandemic

• 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x75 How Did the Practice of Calling Liberals Left and Conservatives Right Start

• 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x76 Does Anything Radioactive Actually Glow Bright Green

• 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x77 Surviving the Sahara Desert with the World's Loneliest Tree

• 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x78 That Time British Witches Tried to Stop a Nazi Invasion Using Magic

• 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x79 That Time Kodak Accidentally Discovered the World's First Atomic Bomb

• 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x80 The Forgotten 9-Month Battle by International Firefighters to Save the World

• 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x81 The Secret Codes of Hobos

• 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x82 A Toolbox in Your Pocket - The History of the Swiss Army Knife

• 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x83 What’s Up With the Increasingly Popular Practice of Modern Medical Leeches

• 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x84 The Curious Case of the Sable Island Seal Killer

• 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x85 Do Real EMP Weapons Actually Exist, or Are They Only a Thing in Movies

• 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x86 The Extremely Bizarre Engineering Rituals of Canada (And the Fascinating Way They Came to Be)

• 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x87 The Surprisingly Interesting Debate of Where Outer Space Actually Begins

• 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x88 Yet Another of Hitler's Ultimate Dick Moves

• 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x89 The Entirely Mad Around the World Adventure of Half-Safe

• 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x90 That Time a Science Fiction Writer Accidentally Almost Revealed the Manhattan Project

• 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x91 How The Invention of Dynamite Ultimately Gave Us Viagra

• 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x92 Our Fine Finned Friends are Smarter Than You Think

• 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x93 How Lobbyists from the Auto Industry Invented Jaywalking Shame

• 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x94 The Gruesome Tale of the Laughing Death Epidemic

• 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x95 Can You Really Knock Someone Out Harmlessly, Like in the Movies

• 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x96 Men Against Fire - How the Majority of Soldiers in Every War Steadfastly Refuse to Harm the Enemy

• 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x97 When and Why did McDonald's Start 'Super Sizing' Meals (Plus - The Myths of 'Super Size Me')

• 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x98 What's Up With the Snake & Staff Symbol for Medicine

• 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x99 Is Ring Around the Rosie Really About the Plague

• 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x100 The One Eyed Barnstormer Who Invented the Space Suit in the 1930s

• 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x101 A Crisis of Minds - The Fascinating Tale of 'Healing' People... By Destroying Their Brains

• 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x102 The Top Secret Navy Mission that Accidentally Rediscovered the Titanic

• 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x103 How to Make Yourself Allergic to Red Meat (Plus Other Ways in Which Ticks are Completely Horrifying)

• 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x104 Why Do Cicadas Stay Underground for So Long

• 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x105 The Booze-Soaked Hunting of German U-Boats with One of the Most Successful Authors of All Time

• 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x106 Jumbo Jet vs. Natural Disaster - The Incredible Story of British Airways Flight 9

• 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x107 Pachinko - Japan’s Unique Gaming Obsession That is Totally, Definitely Not Gambling

• 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x108 The Surprisingly Bitter and Occasionally Deadly Fight Over McDonalds' Fries

• 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x109 That Time the British Tried to Save Its Empire with Peanuts (And the Hilarity that Ensued)

• 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x110 The Littlest Naval War - Britain's Insane Attempt to End German Domination of a Single African Lake

• 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x111 The Amazing Hidden Liquid World That Lies Beneath Antarctica

• 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x112 How the Nazis Teamed Up with IBM for Mass Murder (And How the First Ethical Hacker Fought Back)

• 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x113 A Murder Mystery, an Airline Bombing, and the Last to Hang in Canada

• 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x114 The Greatest Air Race of All Time (That Helped Develop the Global Airline Industry)

• 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x115 The Most Disastrous Space Mission Ever Executed

• 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x116 That Time Some British School Girls Tricked the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Into Believing in Fairies

• 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x117 The Impossibly Badass Story of Mills' Marauders and the Battle of Grytviken

• 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x118 The Flying Bandit and One of the Greatest Gold Heists in History

• 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x119 The Bizarre Story of the World's Greatest Hoarders

• 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x120 Twilight Sleep: The Horrifying Way In Which Early 20th Century Women Gave Birth

• 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x121 How World War II Created One of the World’s Most Popular Soft Drinks

• 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x122 Removing Butts: The Bizarre Early 20th Century Obsession with Removing Random Body Parts

• 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x123 Argentina's Secret Nazi Fusion Lab

• 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

2021x124 What Actually Defines an Assault Rifle, and Who Invented Them?

• 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x125 That Time When a Shortage of Sausage and Beer Killed 1,000 People and Toppled an Empire

• 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x126 The Frequency Illusion: When You Suddenly Can't Stop Seeing That Thing You Just Learned About

• 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x127 The Secret Cold War Project Behind the Roswell UFO Incident

• 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x128 That Time US Scientists Injected Plutonium Into People Without Their Knowledge

• 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x129 How a World War II Famine Helped Solve a 2,000-Year-Old Medical Mystery

• 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x130 How Close Did the Nazis Actually Come to Building an Atomic Bomb?

• 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z — 5m

2021x131 Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Crusade Against Spiritualism

• 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z — 5m