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A Touching Animated Short About a Blind Man Showing a Sad Young Man How to See the World Around Him

How an Antiquated Danish Law Keeps the Country Lagging Behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
In a ticking episode of Things You Might Not Know, host Tom Scott visits the island town of Gudhjem, Denmark to explain why the Nordic…

They Might Be Giants Share the Story Behind Their Iconic 1989 Hit Song ‘Birdhouse in Your Soul’

Tom Scott Explains Why the Manholes of London Explode by Creating a Big Explosion of His Own
In a conflagrant episode of Things You Might Not Know, host Tom Scott explains exactly why fairly regular explosions occur underneath the manhole covers in…

How Wing Walking Safety Has Evolved Over the Years
In a spiring episode of “Things You Might Not Know“, host Tom Scott takes to the sky, strapped to the top of a small propeller…

An Old Irish Script Based Upon Carved Stone Notches and Spaces That Presented a Big Unicode Problem
In a lexemic episode of “Things You Might Not Know” taken on location at the British Museum, host Tom Scott explains how the medieval Irish…

Chris Evans Sends a ‘Captain America’ Shield to a Heroic Boy Who Saved His Sister From Dog Attack
When Bridger Walker, a six year old boy in Cheyenne, Wyoming, saw that his beloved little sister was about to be attacked by a dog…

The Sourtoe Cocktail, A Quirky Yukon Hotel Drink That Contains a Severed, Preserved Human Toe
In a dactylic episode of Things You Might Not Know, the rather adventurous host Tom Scott travelled to Dawson City in Yukon, Canada, where he…

The Ecological Benefits of Letting Wildfires Burn
In a combustible episode of Things You Might Not Know, host Tom Scott flew above the forests of British Columbia in a helicopter piloted by…