Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be looking at a man who claims to be able to control metal; a man who makes...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In the Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be looking at the reality of flying cars, from the insanely hard driving tests we’d have to...
If evolution has taught us anything, it’s that everything on the human body, from cuticles to goosebumps, serves a purpose—or at least, it did for our distant ancestors. Hair is no exception—below, you’ll find a top-to-bottom examination of every different type of fur sprouting from your body...
Australia Has Finally Produced an Animal That Won’t Kill Us Australia—also known as “God’s Nightmare Factory”—has more things that will bite, claw, poison, eat and simply scare you to death than any other country on Earth. From blue ringed octopi to funnel web spiders, the nation is...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be looking at what really happens to the human body during teleportation; the absurdly long time the...
When Kristen Barber’s father, a stunt pilot born in 1925, needed to look good, he’d turn to products marketed at his wife to get the job done, including hair dye and moisturizer. But by 2003, when Barber’s youngest brother was a tween, the landscape of products available...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, you’ll hear the shocking number of nuclear weapons that have been lost in this country alone; why there’s a giant...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, you’ll hear about the infamous, bowel-voiding “brown note”; how a cruise ship defended itself from pirates with a sonic weapon;...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in mere minutes. In this edition, you’ll hear about the German word for men who sit down to pee; the Danish word for the feeling of disgust...
Generally speaking—and especially when anything thumb-related is called for—you’ll find that natural selection has been pretty good to humans. But as you might expect from a mind-bogglingly complex procession of randomly mutated crap being thrown against the wall to see what sticks across thousands of generations, it...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be finding out why some things smell bad to us in the first place, why you wouldn’t want...
Welcome to our biweekly podcast, “I Learned A Thing In The Bathroom,” where we explain a weird, tricky or surprising subject in just a few minutes. In this edition, we’ll be taking a scientific look at exactly what happens to your body when you’re wasted, as well as...
