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The Law That May Accidentally Break Times Square
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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Times Square is the tourist trap center of New York City. You can tell because there are billboards the size of small aircraft plastered on virtually every vertical square inch.
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The Law That May Accidentally Break Times Square
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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The History of the Three-Finger Salute
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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CTRL+ALT+DEL ["CONTROL-ALT-DELETE"], a familiar keyboard command, first became commonly used in the 1990s when it was generally used by anyone with Microsoft Windows-based computer. When things went wrong, the computer froze up or the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death" appeared – simultaneously striking these three keys on one's keyboard was often the best route to recovery.
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The History of the Three-Finger Salute
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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The Day That Never Happened
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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Where were you on December 30, 2011? Can't remember? Well, one thing's for sure: you weren't on the Oceanian islands of Samoa – you couldn't have been, because no one was.
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The Day That Never Happened
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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When Canadian Kids Protested 8 Cent Candy
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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A candy bar – let's go with the criminally underrated Sky Bar as an example – will cost you about $1 nowadays, give or take. Accounting for inflation (and even though I'm about to talk about Canada, we're going to use all US dollars here, because accounting for inflation and for currency exchange rates at the same time is basically impossible for someone without an advanced math degree), that same candy bar should have cost about 10 cents back in 1947.
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When Canadian Kids Protested 8 Cent Candy
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Why It May Be Okay to Drop Beavers from Airplanes
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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The problems that beavers can cause are, actually, pretty simple: firstly, the animals build dams – which is a very good thing if they're in a relatively rural floodplain, but a really bad thing if they're in more densely populated suburbs or cities – and secondly, if left unchecked, beavers in an area with a lot of humans can cause damage to trees and, in some cases, flooding.
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Why It May Be Okay to Drop Beavers from Airplanes
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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The Somewhat-Willing Inhabitants of Sorok Island
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
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Off the southwestern corner of the Korean Peninsula is Sorokdo, or Sorok Island. At first glance, it looks like a good vacation getaway – it is a tiny but accessible 1.75-square-mile (or 4.46-square-kilometer) spot of land with nice beaches and pine trees, and is home to about 1,000 people, give or take a few hundred.
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The Somewhat-Willing Inhabitants of Sorok Island
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Why Stealing America's Nuclear Secrets Was as Easy as Pi
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 7 mins
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Richard Feynman was one of modern history's greatest scientists. A well-respected academic, Feynman won the Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1965 and later served as a member of the commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
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Why Stealing America's Nuclear Secrets Was as Easy as Pi
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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When Minneapolis and St. Paul Battled over Population
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 5 mins
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Minneapolis and St. Paul are, respectively, the largest city and the capital of the state of Minnesota. Together, they're often referred to as the "Twin Cities" because they border one another—the local baseball team (the Minnesota Twins) even adopted the moniker.
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When Minneapolis and St. Paul Battled over Population
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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The Wartime Chocolate Bar You Don't Want to Eat
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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A typical Hershey's chocolate bar is 1.55 ounces (or about 44 grams) and contains 210 calories—most of which are empty, or nutrient-less, calories. No doubt about it, Hershey bars are a treat—and there are few people, if any, who would say otherwise.
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The Wartime Chocolate Bar You Don't Want to Eat
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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The Infrequent Flyer Meal Program
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
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"There's no such thing as a free lunch." That quote, the origins of which are unknown, has been a staple rule of economics for nearly a century.
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The Infrequent Flyer Meal Program
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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P.T. Barnum's Final Attraction
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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In 1875, two men from Wisconsin convinced P.T. Barnum, the famed showman, to join their business – a circus. Barnum's job was to lend his name to the product and, ultimately, his wisdom as well, and the circus became known as "P.T. Barnum's Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Hippodrome."
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Short. But good story for 3 min.
- By Anna on 01-13-18
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P.T. Barnum's Final Attraction
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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Sound's Wrong
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
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In 2013, Mamoru Samuragochi was nearing his 50th birthday and was at the peak of his fame. A talented composer, Samuragochi was near the top of the list if you needed an original score for a video game and was widely regarded as a leading talent in the realm of digital composition. He was also well known for composing a symphony about the Hiroshima bomb, which quickly became one of the more popular classical music pieces in Japan.
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Sound's Wrong
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 08-18-16
- Language: English
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A Stinky Suit
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 2 mins
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Okay, before we start this one, a warning: the fact and story are from hundreds of years ago, and the sources at the time were mostly oral, so there's a good chance this is more legend than truth.
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A Stinky Suit
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 08-18-16
- Language: English
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Slaying the Silver Ball
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
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Learn about New York City's decades-long pinball ban – and resulting black market – on this episode of Now I Know. Fiorello LaGuardia was elected mayor of New York City in 1933, and, on January 1st of the following year, took office. One of his first acts as mayor was to crack down on mafia activity, especially mob-owned slot machines, seeing them as a direct line into the coffers of organized crime.
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Slaying the Silver Ball
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 08-01-16
- Language: English
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The Man Who Dropped Candy from the Skies
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
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At the close of World War II, the victorious Allies split Germany into four parts—one controlled by France, another by the United Kingdom, another by the United States and another by the Soviet Union. And Berlin, although it was embedded within the Soviet-controlled sector, was itself divided into four similarly managed parts.
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The Man Who Dropped Candy from the Skies
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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How Blind People Play Baseball
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
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Baseball, like many other sports, requires good hand-eye coordination. This is especially true if you're trying to hit a pitched ball with a bat – for instance, a 75-mile-per-hour fastball (which is fast for amateurs, but comically slow if you're a Major League pitcher) reaches home plate in less than a second.
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How Blind People Play Baseball
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Treemail
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 7 mins
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In the 1971 book The Lorax, the incomparable Dr. Seuss tells the story of an environmentally conscious monster (the Lorax) and his efforts to protect Truffula trees (a fictional species) from an industrialist named the Once-ler who is chopping them down.
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Treemail
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
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A Run on Nylons
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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The Skyscraper Without a View
- By: Dan Lewis
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
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The building located at 33 Thomas Street in Manhattan – like many buildings in Manhattan – is tall. But at 550 feet, it isn't all that tall by New York City's standards – it doesn't even crack the top 100.
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The Skyscraper Without a View
- Narrated by: Giovannie Cruz
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 09-26-16
- Language: English
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D-N-Nay
- By: Dan Lewis
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In the fall of 1994, the United States was introduced to a new tool in the world of crime solving and prosecution – DNA evidence. The O.J. Simpson trial had captured the nation's – if not much of the world's – attention, and a large part of the trial's outcome hung on DNA. At the time, the use of DNA evidence was still emerging, and the science wasn't well understood – or trusted – by juries.
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D-N-Nay
- Narrated by: Mark Schectman
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 08-18-16
- Language: English
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