Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious-curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood.



As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Armed with their inquisitive natures and a passion for sharing, they research and discuss a wide variety of topics-always working to uncover the weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected pieces of any given subject, and then talking about it together in an accessible and humorous way.



The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time-and with it comes loads of new content, covering subjects about which they've long wondered or wanted to explore in greater detail. Follow along as they dig into the underlying stories and interesting ways things fit into the world, touching on everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost.



An additional layer of visual material allows the duo to further embellish their engaging storytelling and bring these topics to life in a snappy new way-including charts and graphs, illustrations, and sidebars for rabbit-hole tangents and wandering digressions.



Have you ever wondered about the world around you, and wished to see the magic in everyday things? Come get curious with Stuff You Should Know. With Josh and Chuck as your guide, there's something interesting about everything (...except maybe jackhammers)



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   Intro

   Preface

   1. The History of Facial Hair - The Long and the Short of It

   2. Mr. Potato Head - America's Toy

   3. Murphy Beds - The Bed that Tucks Itself in

   4. How to Get Lost - And Seven Ways to Stay Like That

   5. Mezcal - Not Tequila, Except when it is

   6. John Frum and the Cargo Cults - When Prayers are Answered in Paradise

   7. Backmasking - When Recording Backwards is Moving Forward

   8. Aging - Do We Gotta？

   9. The History of Income Tax - Honest Abe's Other Legacy

   10. The Pet Rock - The Savior of 1975 (Or the Dumbest Toy of the Best Decade)

   11. Cyanide Pills - They Kill You, and it's the Pits

   12. Do(ugh)nuts - The History of America's Snack Food

   13. The Jersey Devil - Hoo is the Monster of the Pine Barrens

   14. Demolition Derbies - Why we Love to Watch Things go Boom

   15. Kamikaze - The Last Gasp of the Divine Wind

   16. Trichotillomania and the BFRBs - The Tics that have Psychologists Scratching their Heads

   17. Trillionaires - Are they Possible, and Who will it be？

   18. The SCUM Manifesto - The World Without Men Would be Killer

   19. Roadies - The Little Guys of Big Concerts

   20. The Scotland Yard Crime Museum - Nothing to see Here

   21. Jack Kevorkian - Dr. Death and the Meaning of Life

   22. Well-Witching - The Ancient Art of Guessing with a Stick

   23. The First Gun(s) - The Legacy of an Alchemical Accident

   24. Keeping Up With the Joneses - The Unwinnable Human Race

   25. Dog Smells - Canine Scents and Sense-Ability

   26. The Perfect Price Is Right Game - A Stone-Cold Whodunnit

   27. Child Prodigies - Precocious Mimics or Tiny Geniuses？

   About iHeartMedia

   Bonus Audiobook Content

   Outro