Facts-Chology: Recent Episodes
Hector Navarro/ E.L Soto
History is full of interesting stories of people, animals, inventions, and events. Science is full of random, philosophical, and weird questions. We do the research and tell you the stories and answers in quick summaries. No rambling, always on topic, and you'll learn something new (probably). You won't be an expert but we're a good starting point for just the facts. Why not take 5-15 minutes to learn something new?
Have you ever wondered if robots scream at night? No? We did and we at Facts-Chology love to dissect weird questions that make you think.
Today's question leads us down a rabbit hole on screaming, sleep, robots and pain, and what that strange sound is that some devices make.
Learn a few things about a lot and whether robots scream at night on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15130552/
https://www.therobotreport.com/4-overheating-solutions-for-commercial-robotics/
https://www.howtogeek.com/297166/what-is-coil-whine-and-can-i-get-rid-of-it-on-my-pc/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202104/why-do-people-scream-screaming-conveys-least-6-emotions
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/robots-feel-pain-artificial-intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_induced_acoustic_noise
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Why is it that a picture of yourself can look so different than what you see in the mirror? What happens in your phone or camera that forces a sort of uncanny valley effect on yourself?
At least you can rely on the mirror to always show you an accurate representation of what you look like... or can you? What tricks is your brain playing on you to make you believe you look different than you actually do?
Find out how phones, your brain, and the future of technology can and will change your appearance on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180802141601.htm
https://www.insider.com/samsung-phones-default-beauty-mode-camera-airbrush-2016-6
https://www.movaglobes.com/blog/why-all-world-maps-are-wrong/
https://www.twowaymirrors.com/non-reversing-mirror/
http://socialpsychonline.com/2016/03/the-mere-exposure-effect/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/asymmetrical-face
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Plenty of philosophers have long thought the idea of what reality is. How can we be so sure what we experience everyday is the true version of reality? What about dreams? Dreams have been studied for thousands of years and we still are not too sure what their purpose is.
On today's episode of Facts-Chology we explore the "dream argument" and look at our physical reality to find out it it even matters.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)#%22The_Butterfly_Dream%22
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reality
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528841-100-reality-how-can-we-know-it-exists/
http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/The-Illusion-of-Reality---The-Scientific-Proof-That-Everything-is-Energy-and-Reality-Isnt-Real.pdf
https://www.livescience.com/38234-is-reality-real-or-not.html
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284378
https://gizmodo.com/why-freud-still-matters-when-he-was-wrong-about-almost-1055800815
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgajpd/medicina%20antiqua/sa_dreams.html
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Sometimes the smallest organisms can make the biggest changes, in this case, can mushrooms make it rain? What about rain? How does rain even... happen? Just how instrumental are mushrooms to rain all over the world?
Find out on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0140407
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141757-fungi-use-water-droplet-cannons-to-fling-spores-into-the-breeze/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10453-016-9422-x
https://www.businessinsider.com/fungal-spores-seed-rain-water-droplets-clouds-2016-3
https://totalgardener.com/how-do-mushrooms-reproduce/
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/rain/
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In 1984 McDonalds would run a marketing promotion they expected to increase traffic, give out free food, and promote the Olympics. But a series of world events stemming from 1979 ended up costing McDonalds millions.
Listen to the whole story on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/10/business/advertising-big-mac-s-olympic-giveaway.html
https://opportunitymarketing.co.uk/blog/fantastically-flawed-marketing-campaigns-mcdonalds-1984-olympics
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-announces-olympic-boycott
https://www.eatthis.com/big-mac-cost/
https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-mcdonalds-olympics-20170616-story.html
https://ycharts.com/companies/MCD/revenues_annual
https://www.mashed.com/148375/the-truth-about-how-many-burgers-mcdonalds-has-sold/
https://everysecond.io/mcdonalds
https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_McDonald%27s#Timeline
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One of the oldest thought experiments to exist is the Ship of Theseus, it questions whether an item stays the same even if every part is changed... sounds boring to some, but what if we weren't talking about a ship? What if we were talking about you? At what point are you no longer you?
Question everything on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-body-replace-itself-seven-years/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22321
http://book.bionumbers.org/how-quickly-do-different-cells-in-the-body-replace-themselves/
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-it-takes-the-body-to-grow-hair-nails-cells-2018-4
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507131311.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/hyperthymesia
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In 1859 a pig wandered into Lyman Cutler's farm and began eating his potatoes. Lyman pull out his rifle and killed the pig, triggering an international incident involving the United States and Britain. One that almost caused a war on the small island of San Juan in the Strait of Georgia.
Find out the whole story on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://web.archive.org/web/20070110072744/http://www.nps.gov/archive/sajh/Pig_War_new.htm
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/peace-conflict/the-pig-war
https://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/timeline/detail.aspx?id=39
https://modernfarmer.com/2014/03/inside-great-pig-war-1859/
https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/historyculture/the-pig-war.htm
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In 1671, England had endured a couple of wars including two civil wars, one man named Thomas Blood was not entirely happy with the outcome. Not because he cared who led the people but mainly because a new law took away some of his land. As revenge he decided to steal the Crown Jewels and he sort of got away with it.
Find out the story of the Bloody Heist for The Crown Jewels on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-stole-the-crown-jewels
https://britishheritage.com/history/man-steals-crown-jewels
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/captain-blood-steals-crown-jewels
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Theft-of-the-Crown-Jewels/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_Kingdom#Middle_Ages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War
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In February 2003 $100 million in diamonds, jewels, gold, silver, and cash disappeared from the state of the art vault in the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium. At the time it was considered the heist of the century and within days a panic attack, a receipt, and a salami sandwich brought most of the men to justice.
Find out exactly how the heist was carried out and how some of the men were caught on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-diamonds-2/?currentPage=all
http://www.danforthdiamond.com/what-a-world-class-thief-could-learn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2781791.stm
http://professionaljeweler.com/archives/news/2003/021903story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_diamond_heist
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There are a few things every pirate should be, good with his sword, a good tactician, not a betrayer of their captains etc. Calico Jack wasn't any of these. We pick up with Calico Jack after last Friday's episode where he betrayed Charles Vane and led a vote to rid him of the ship.
Find out what happens next in this week's episode of Facts-Chology!
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http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/calico-rackham-jack/
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/international-crimes/calico-jack/
https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-john-calico-jack-rackham-2136377
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-jackrackham/
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Back in the 16th century people acted like there weren't just dancing horses that did some pretty awesome tricks everywhere. So when Morocco the dancing horse passed by Paris someone yelled "witch" and gathered the wood to get ready the burning stakes... maybe it didn't happen exactly like that but you can find out how it happened on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2014/02/marocco-horse-accused-of-witchcraft.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankes%27s_Horse
https://archive.org/details/cu31924013163740
https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2020/05/TudorStuartEquestrians.html
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On September 23rd, 2009, a group of criminals broke into one of the G4S Cash Service buildings in Sweden. Within minutes police responded but they also realized they weren't just dealing with any petty criminals, for one they didn't break in through the front, side, or back door... they went in through the roof.
The heist was the first in Swedish history to involve a helicopter and it was one of the most carefully planned and well executed crimes in history.
Find out what happened next on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.thelocal.se/20090924/22260/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4stberga_helicopter_robbery
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8270619.stm
https://magazine.atavist.com/lifted/
http://crimereview.co.uk/page.php/review/6735
https://www.ctvnews.ca/10-men-charged-in-stockholm-helicopter-heist-1.533862
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Last week we told you about the skills Charles Vane had and how he used them to evade capture, this week we tell you about how he got lucky a few times and then... when his luck ran out.
Find out the conclusion of Charles Vane's story on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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http://piratesoflore.com/charles-vane.html
https://www.thepiratesrealm.com/Charles%20Vane.html
http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/charles-vane/
https://thehistoryjunkie.com/charles-vane-facts-biography-piracy/
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/charles-vane-47935.php
https://www.pirateshowcancun.com/blog/famous-buccaneer-blaggards/all-about-pirate-charles-vane/
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Carrier pigeons were a big part of getting messages across to bases from troops during war and when you're surrounded by German forces from all sides then that makes it the only way to get a message of help across.
Listen to the story of one particular "dear friend" pigeon to find out how it made a hero out of her on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_425415
https://www.si.edu/object/cher-ami%3Anmah_425415
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cher-ami
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/6/8556859/pigeons-skinner-orcon-underrated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Battalion_(World_War_I)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/07/attacked-starved-century-old-diary-recounts-us-soldiers-trapped-behind-enemy-lines/
https://www.americanheritage.com/lost-battalion#1
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/finding-the-lost-battalion-home.html
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On the morning of Tuesday May 27th, 1980 in Medford, Massachusetts, bank employees opened the vault to find it completely empty. Unbeknownst to them over the Memorial Day weekend six men had found a way in and taken the bank for everything it had.
Find out how they did it and who they were on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://apnews.com/article/dd91babfbc857aaabb109c0564465367
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-12-10-8502250838-story.html
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/09/13/Two-former-policemen-may-be-indicted-in-1980-heist/5574495432000
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/536504/s01-e04-memorial-day-heist?start=true
http://www.police-writers.com/gerald_clemente.html
http://homenewshere.com/wilmington_town_crier/article_66a96848-fb70-5ac2-acf7-f3899b679d4f.html
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Charles Vane was a ruthless pirate sailing the seas during the 18th century and one of the few that refused a pardon from the king making him a target to those looking to get rid of pirates the hard way.
Find out how his pirate life started and what he did to avoid capture on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.pirateshowcancun.com/blog/famous-buccaneer-blaggards/all-about-pirate-charles-vane/
http://piratesoflore.com/charles-vane.html
http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/charles-vane/
https://thehistoryjunkie.com/charles-vane-facts-biography-piracy/
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/charles-vane-47935.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers
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There were a few pretty serious events going on in England in the 17th century, revolution, laws against Catholics, freemasons preparing to go public, and a new king but all of these events led to a pretty silly outcome, one involving the pope and a secret society around pugs.
Find out what happened and why someone created a society around that specific dog on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/31/order-of-the-pug/
https://nationalpurebreddogday.com/mopsorden-the-order-of-the-pug/
https://books.google.com/books/about/L_Ordre_des_francs_ma%C3%A7ons_trahi_et_Le_s.html?hl=en&id=_hRBAAAAcAAJ
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/papal/in_eminenti.html
https://dustyoldthing.com/1700s-mops-orden/
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In the late 19th century famed neurologist Doctor Silas Weir Mitchell introduced a cure to a multitude of different ailments. Unfortunately misogyny and traditional gender roles influenced how he treated men and women differently, treatments that led to death and psychological breakdowns.
Find out how the "cure" worked and when it ended on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/01/go-rest
https://daily.jstor.org/go-west-you-nervous-men/
http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=anne-stiles-the-rest-cure-1873-1925
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/790351/summary
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1112768/
https://www.businessinsider.com/bed-rest-what-would-happen-body-never-got-up-2019-9
https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/75/3/381
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.5.737
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Continuing with Pirate Fridays, today we look at the events immediately before and immediately after Blackbeard's last stand and we find out why a party between friends led to the death of one of the most famous pirates around.
Find out the history on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/blackbeard/
https://blog.carolinadesigns.com/outer-banks-history/the-lesser-known-tales-of-blackbeard/
https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/charles-eden-1673-1722/
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/knight-tobias
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/eden-charles
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/blackbeard-the-pirate
https://goldenageofpiracy.org/history/colonial-officials/alexander-spotswood.php
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Imagine being in the middle of a war and having your ship sink, then having the bad luck to go on another ship and have your sink ship AGAIN. Then imagine it happening yet again! Now imagine you're a cat!
That was Unsinkable Sam's story, hear the full tale on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
https://allthatsinteresting.com/unsinkable-sam
https://catpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam_(bef1941-1955)
https://www.iizcat.com/post/4296/The-legend-of-Unsinkable-Sam-the-cat-who-served-on-and-survived-3-sinking-ships-during-WW2
https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/us/706591-unsinkable-sam
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/famous-cats-unsinkable-sam/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck
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During the 15th and 16th century a mysterious disease swept through London multiple times killing many within hours. The disease caused fear in many including King Henry VIII who ran at the thought of getting infected. Today we still don't know what caused it or how it stopped.
Listen to the story of the English Sweats on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.britannica.com/science/sweating-sickness
https://www.britannica.com/science/hantavirus
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917436/#B45-viruses-06-00151
https://www.history.com/news/the-mysterious-epidemic-that-terrified-henry-viii
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/03/sweating-sickness-forgotten-epidemic.html
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You can take the pirate out of the sea but you can't take the pirate out of the man. Just when they thought Blackbeard was done with his pirate ways, he starts back up leading to his last stand against a Virginian governor, a British Naval Captain, and fate.
Listen to the story of Blackbeard's Last Stand on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.qaronline.org/history/blackbeard-history-dreaded-pirate
https://royalarmouries.org/stories/popular-culture/blackbeard-facts/
https://time.com/5457008/blackbeard-death/
https://www.history.com/news/blackbeard-pirate-killed
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-death-of-blackbeard-2136232
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The Witchcraft Act of 1735 decriminalized witchcraft in England creating a wave of so called "white witches" or witches that dealt with telling fortunes, selling potions, and good luck charms.
In the early 19th a witch would show up, predict the end of the world and then be embroiled in a plot of murder and poison.
Listen to the whole story on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bateman-mary.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Act_1735
https://cobaltfairy.com/witches-19th-century-britain/
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-a-con-artist-used-basic-chemistry-to-prophesize-the-1658708815
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-the-yorkshire-witch-scammed-1806-leeds-with-apocalyptic-chicken-eggs-and-simple-chemistry/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/577601/mary-bateman-witch-yorkshire-murder
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There are a lot of unsung heroes in history that deserve to have their stories told and their names known. Today we look at two badass doctors, Eugene Lazowski and Stanislaw Matulewicz. These two figured out how to start an epidemic but for the right reasons.
Learn the why they started an epidemic on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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Sources
https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/uic_pw
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503507/polish-doctors-who-used-science-outwit-nazis
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-typhus-epidemic-saved-a-polish-city-from-the-nazis
https://www.bmj.com/content/301/6766/1471
https://culture.pl/en/article/the-faked-epidemic-that-saved-hundreds-of-lives
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-faked-typhus-outbreak-spared-8000-poles-from-the-nazis/
https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2015/the-fake-typhus-epidemic-that-saved-thousands-from-the-nazis
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Since it's Mother's Day in the U.S we thought we would take a look at the history of Mother's Day and how it came to be in the U.S. Many might be familiar with the name Anna Jarvis, the woman who pushed for it to be holiday, but her mother also played a part in its inception. And in the end Anna Jarvis tried to get Mother's Day abolished from the National Holiday Calendar.
Find out why on today's bonus episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://web.archive.org/web/20090921030946/http://www.wvculture.org/history/jarvis.html
http://www.wvculture.org/history/women/mothersday04.html
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day
https://www.almanac.com/content/history-mothers-day
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mothers-Day
https://time.com/4771354/mothers-day-history-origins/
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/resources/commemorations/history-of-mothers-day/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/joeloliphint/anna-jarvis-was-sorry-she-ever-invented-mothers-day?utm_term=.ba0jVbodO#.lnw6wkxZ3
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30659/founder-mothers-day-later-fought-have-it-abolished
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Pirates! THE Pirate! Possibly the most well-known pirate, Blackbeard! Today we look at his most daring act, the time he decided to take the ships and the port in Charleston hostage to the surprise of everyone.
Find out why and learn about a few other pirate misconceptions on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/blackbeard/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard#Blackbeard
https://www.scetv.org/stories/2019/did-you-know-history-piracy-south-carolina
https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/piracy/
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/winter/feature/lot-what-known-about-pirates-not-true-and-lot-what-true-not-known
https://www.britannica.com/technology/privateer
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/last-days-blackbeard-180949440/
https://www.piratedocuments.com/blackbeard-raids-charleston-1718/
https://books.google.com/books?id=3jI5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT159&lpg=PT159&dq
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Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in Mexico and in the United States and besides the sale on beer, the U.S has other reasons to celebrate the date of an underdog Mexican victory against the French.
Like many other points in history, the events of Cinco de Mayo created ripples across the world that changed the trajectory of not just Mexico but the U.S and the world beyond.
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https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/articles/the-second-empire-and-the-american-civil-war/
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/empire-of-cotton/383660/
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1861-1865/french-intervention
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cinco-de-Mayo
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cinco-de-mayo
https://www.history.com/news/cinco-de-mayo-battle-puebla-civil-war
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2206653?seq=1
https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/edit/edit_cinco_de_mayo.shtml#
https://coffeeordie.com/battle-of-puebla/
https://www.businessinsider.com/cinco-de-mayo-beer-companies-advertizing-2011-5
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Fashion faux pas like wearing white after labor day are taken pretty seriously by some people, well in New York City in 1922 a different fashion faux pas and tradition were taken so seriously it caused riots for three days.
What was it? It was hats, wearing hats, and not one of a sports team, it was straw hats.
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http://to-the-manner-born.blogspot.com/2011/09/straw-hat-rule-ii-silent-cal.html?utm
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OaoxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bNwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5556,1489569&dq=straw-hat+riot&hl=en
https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/16/archives/city-has-wild-night-of-straw-hat-riots-gangs-of-young-hoodlums-with.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/04/straw-hat-riot-remembering-one-of-the-weirdest-crime-sprees-in-american-history.html
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/straw-hat-riot/
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With the recent news of NYC filing a $151 million lawsuit against Chipotle for violating what is called the Fair Work Week Law and New York States Sick Leave Law we decided to take a look at what exactly the suit alleges Chipotle did wrong.
Since these laws affect most retail and fast food employees it's important we lay out what the laws mean and how they can affect you.
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https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/paid-sick-leave-law-for-workers.page
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/fastfood-retail-workers.page
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/095-20/mayor-de-blasio-commissioner-salas-paid-sick-leave-settlement-chipotle
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/420-19/de-blasio-adminstration-sues-chipotle-violating-city-s-fair-workweek-law
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/business/chipotle-new-york-illegal-scheduling.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/business/chipotle-nyc-lawsuit-labor-law/index.html
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/chipotle-lawsuit-child-labor-law-violations
https://money.cnn.com/2016/08/29/news/economy/chipotle-lawsuit-nearly-10000-workers/index.html
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This is our 50th episode so today we're debunking and correcting 50 misconceptions from a wide range of topics. Did Albert Einstein actually fail math? Do you really swallow spiders while you sleep? Was Santa Claus always red? Just what is eye of newt?
Find out the answer to all of those and 46 other misconceptions on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/01/735822187/the-science-of-smiles-real-and-fake
https://interestingengineering.com/7-common-space-myths-debunked-by-actual-astronauts-and-science
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/plat.2013.12.1.20
https://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/popular-food-and-nutrition-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201811/top-10-common-psychological-misconceptions
https://thebestschools.org/magazine/25-popular-science-myths-debunked/
https://www.history.com/news/beyond-salem-6-lesser-known-witch-trials#
https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2017/10/shakespearean-recipe-witchs-brew/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Cardini
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_my%20position%20on%20power%20poses.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/story/do-we-really-swallow-spiders-in-our-sleep#
https://www.britannica.com/story/are-bats-really-blind
https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/roman-statues-werent-white-they-were-once-painted-in-bright-colors.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/bees-cant-fly-scientifically-incorrect-2017-12
https://www.througheternity.com/en/blog/history/7-myths-about-gladiator-games.html#
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Towards the end of World War I many doctors began noticing a disease spreading throughout their population by 1919 it was around the world infecting millions. And we're not talking about the Spanish Flu.
A new disease emerged that put people to sleep and caused death by respiratory failure. Dubbed "The Sleeping Sickness", much about it is not known about it today, partly by the fact it was overshadowed by the much deadlier Spanish Flu.
Find out what the sleeping sickness pandemic did and if the disease ever came back... (hint: it did).
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https://www.neurologylive.com/view/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828
https://theconversation.com/a-viral-infection-of-the-mind-the-curious-case-of-encephalitis-lethargica-660
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/encephalitis-lethargica#:~:text=Encephalitis%20lethargica%20
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3930727.stm
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014107689709000916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
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In 1992 the team at Midway Games was just trying to bring John Tobias's vision to life in a little game called Mortal Kombat. Little did they know, Mortal Kombat would be the tipping point that would pit video game companies against the U.S congress and lead to a set of rules that would change video games forever.
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https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/20/17263846/nintendo-night-trap-howard-lincoln-congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/civil-wars/articles/2017-05-04/dont-buy-the-grand-theft-fallacy-that-video-games-cause-violent-crime
https://thesplintering.com/2018/09/13/25-years-after-mortal-monday-the-home-versions-of-mortal-kombat-celebrate-silver-anniversary/
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/frustration-in-mastering-video-games-linked-to-aggression/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/video-game-health/201907/blame-game-violent-video-games-do-not-cause-violence
https://www.polygon.com/22346875/mortal-kombat-violence-esrb-ratings-lieberman
https://web.archive.org/web/20181127144229/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/an-oral-history-of-mortal-kombat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/12/02/senator-calls-for-warnings-on-video-games/74450503-ed9a-4084-9910-b8e65ac6f0cb/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/business/video-games-violence.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27620071
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Today we look at the deadliest surgery in history but we also look at the man who performed it, Robert Liston. We'll take a quick look at his accomplishments and a couple of other surgeries that didn't go so well.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/time-me-gentlemen-the-fastest-surgeon-of-the-19th-century/264065/
https://www.facs.org/-/media/files/archives/shg-poster/2016/05_liston.ashx?la=en
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/robert-liston-19881.php
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/l/robertliston.html
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There's an urban legend that a pope in the the 13th century issued a papal bull or an official decree telling people to exterminate cats because of their association with the devil and witchcraft.
Today we take a quick look at the history of the relationship between witchcraft, cats, and lots of popes to find out what really happened in the 13th century.
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https://www.history.com/news/how-medieval-churches-used-witch-hunts-to-gain-more-followers
https://www.academia.edu/1061079/LUFF_R_M_MORENO_GARC%C3%8DA_M_1995_Killing_cats_in_the_Medieval_Period_An_unusual_episode_in_the_history_of_Cambridge_England_Archaeofauna_4_93_114
https://museumhack.com/black-cats-black-death/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ritualistic-cat-torture-was-once-a-form-of-town-fun
https://allthatsinteresting.com/pope-massacred-cats
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/Vox_in_Rama
https://www.interesly.com/great-cat-massacre-middle-ages/
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/11/05/were-cats-really-killed-en-masse-during-the-middle-ages/
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For 30 years pinball was illegal beginning in New York City then spreading to other cities throughout the United States. Pinball machines were blamed for corrupting the minds of children leading them down a dark path of gambling and the devil.
The wave of bans started with one man, Mayor La Guardia, in the 1940's and ended with another man, Roger Sharpe in the 1970's.
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https://arcadology.net/new-york-pinball-ban/
https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/06/12/new-york-citys-war-on-pinball/
https://www.6sqft.com/pinball-prohibition-the-arcade-game-was-illegal-in-new-york-for-over-30-years/
https://www.history.com/news/that-time-america-outlawed-pinball
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/did-you-know-pinball-was-illegal-in-nyc-for-over-30-years
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/g284/4328211-new/?slide=11
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/the-mayor-who-took-a-sledgehammer-to-nycs-pinball-machines/267309/
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There's an old joke about pens, NASA, and Russia which turned into an urban legend. Today we debunk NASA spending billions on a space pen and find out the true story behind the space pen that reduced the dangers of writing in space and another pen that quite literally saved the moon landing.
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https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19131
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-fisher-space-pen-boldly-writes-where-no-man-has-written-before-1020748/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/50-years-pen-saved-apollo-11/story?id=64228723
https://www.eetimes.com/how-a-felt-tipped-pen-saved-the-apollo-11-mission/
https://www.asicentral.com/news/web-exclusive/july-2019/how-a-felt-tipped-marker-saved-the-moon-landing/
https://www.history.com/news/buzz-aldrin-moon-landing-accident
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Ponce De Leon never searched for the Fountain of Youth but the search for it extends thousands of years and even multiple countries. What is the true history of the Fountain of Youth? And what does Mean Girls have to do with Ponce De Leon and his name being tied to it?
Find out on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
*You definitely won't live forever
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-the-Great#ref59260
https://www.greekboston.com/culture/mythology/fountain-of-youth/
https://www.history.com/news/the-myth-of-ponce-de-leon-and-the-fountain-of-youth
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/fl-fountainyouth/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ponce-de-leon-never-searched-for-the-fountain-of-youth-72629888/
https://www.grunge.com/236799/the-tragic-history-of-the-search-for-the-fountain-of-youth/
https://www.dma12.org/the-fountain-of-youth-myth-or-reality/
https://www.theroot.com/did-a-black-man-discover-the-fountain-of-youth-1790899464
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On April 18th, 1955 Albert Einstein passed away and the world lost a genius and then we lost his brain... Well, it was stolen by pathologist Thomas Harvey and he would go on to have quite the amount of road trips with the brain in a search to study it.
Find out the whole story of life after death for Einstein's brain on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/secrets-of-einsteins-brain/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32354300
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-tragic-story-of-how-einsteins-brain-was-stolen-and-wasnt-even-special
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/061899sci-einstein-brain.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4602913
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/22/science.research
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-story-of-how-albert-einsteins-brain-was-stolen-a17b93ee1b7f
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/timeline/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/publication-bias
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In 1938 rising star Orson Welles performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel 'The War of the Worlds'. The next day the newspapers reported mass panic, riots, and even deaths, but did that really happen? Well, if you read the title then no, but why did they report this? And why do some people still think it did cause a panic?
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https://www.neh.gov/article/fake-news-orson-welles-war-worlds-80
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241797346/75-years-ago-war-of-the-worlds-started-a-panic-or-did-it
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7ztk4f
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/
https://www.wellesnet.com/the-war-of-the-worlds-radio-script/
https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
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I've always heard the famous Shakespearean tragedy "Macbeth" is cursed but why is it supposedly cursed? Turns out it's origins is full of a lot more witches than I realized... and demons, fairies, and magic too.
Today we'll look at the origin of William Shakespeare classic "Macbeth" and check our cognitive bias to find out if it is in fact really cursed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Acts#Scottish_Witchcraft_Act_1563https://www.bard.org/news/king-james-i-and-macbethhttps://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/arts/2018-11-02/macbeths-myriad-of-misfortunes/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Storm_of_1703https://www.rsc.org.uk/macbeth/about-the-play/the-scottish-play
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_Place_Riot
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25929/25929-pdf.pdf
https://writinghood.com/the-curse-of-shakespeares-scottish-play-macbeth/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnchmielewski/2020/06/08/lin-manuel-mirandas-hamilton-crashes-broadways-billion-dollar-club/?sh=2dd543035b3c
https://apnews.com/article/7c622b5ceefc2c46e0d98baca65f7d6c
https://www.theatreaficionado.com/2010/10/broadway-injuries.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainers_who_died_during_a_performance
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Imagine your hand having a mind of it's own, doing whatever it wants whenever it wants. This is real life for some people suffering from Alien Hand Syndrome.
Today we look at the first reported case of Alien Hand Syndrome and how changes to your brain create this alien visitor.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570
https://www.healthline.com/health/alien-hand-syndrome
https://n.neurology.org/content/91/11/527
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ccr3.3166
https://www.medlink.com/article/alien_hand_syndrome
https://www.neurologylive.com/view/alien-hand-syndrome
https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/blog/know-your-brain-corpus-callosum
https://youthneuro.org/journal/article/99/
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In 1957 a man ran a 6-week long experiment to see if he could control us. The results caused outrage in congress and a little bit of mass hysteria. What was the experiment? Did it work? What happened next?
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https://exploringyourmind.com/james-vicary-and-subliminal-advertising/
https://books.google.com/books?id=S1YEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20magazine%20%22mar%2031%2C%201958%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q=vicary&f=false
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30878843
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/230122297.pdf
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In 1897 a bill was introduced in the Indiana House of Representatives that would have changed Pi and math as we knew it. It passed.
Todays let's find out who was trying to get that bill passed and why Pi is still Pi.
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/happy-pi-day-indiana-define-pi-32-bill/story?id=61644614
https://www.math.purdue.edu/people/bio/egoins/Indiana%20Pi%20Bill.html
https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2020/03/the-time-they-tried-to-legislate-pi/
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node18.html
https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/indianapolis/it-would-have-been-a-laughingstock-hoosier-lawmakers-nearly-passed-the-indiana-pi-bill-in-1897
http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/ias/article/view/8180/8139
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30214/new-math-time-indiana-tried-change-pi-32
https://todayinsci.com/Events/Misc/PiBill.htm
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Autonomous cars are becoming a very real thing but if it came down to it and the car was put in a position where it had to kill either the driver or a pedestrian, who does it choose? That's the tunnel problem.
Today we look at the surprisingly long history of self driving cars, the tunnel problem, and who is working on a solution.
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https://history-computer.com/asimovs-laws-of-robotics-complete-history/
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/07/the-tunnel-problem/
https://robohub.org/if-a-death-by-an-autonomous-car-is-unavoidable-who-should-die-results-from-our-reader-poll/
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/set-the-ethics-robot-car/
https://robohub.org/an-ethical-dilemma-when-robot-cars-must-kill-who-should-pick-the-victim/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Firebird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParkShuttle
https://qz.com/1247033/ai-experts-want-government-algorithms-to-be-studied-like-environmental-hazards/
https://www.titlemax.com/resources/history-of-the-autonomous-car/
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The 2017 film Logan alludes to Wolverine suffering from adamantium poisoning slowing down his healing factor. Yet we've seen his healing factor act instantaneously in other films, so what is actually going on? And in a perfect world, how long would Wolverine actually live?
Today we look at the science of aging, his adamantium skeleton, and the other events in Logan to find out why this 197 year old anti-hero seems to be closer to a 480 year old Logan.
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https://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/aging-1/age-health-news-7/aging-and-stress-645997.html
https://www.verywellhealth.com/understanding-cellular-aging-2224234
https://www.verywellhealth.com/senescence-healthy-aging-and-longevity-2224345
https://www.looper.com/160496/the-entire-wolverine-movie-story-finally-explained/
https://www.healthline.com/health/why-do-we-age#life-expectancies
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/how-we-age-35872
https://www.popsci.com/why-do-we-age/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128071/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60908-2/fulltext
https://www.woundsresearch.com/article/cellular-senescence-what-why-and-how
https://www.enjuris.com/hip-surgery/metallosis.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2016002-eng.htm
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Polygraph machines, also known as lie detectors, are used a lot to determine if someone is lying. The strange thing is they don't actually work.
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https://checkmylists.com/society/criminals-who-passed-polygraph
https://americacomesalive.com/invention-polygraph/
https://www.cvsa1.com/press-releases/killer-passes-polygraph-innocent-man-fails-killer-goes-on-to-kill-again/
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2010-searchlight-gray-areas/truth-machine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/detecting-lies-147115783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873061/
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/books/02book.html
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/a-brief-history-of-the-lie-detector
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2844&context=jclc
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So many things in life are red and I think some of us never really wonder why. By some of us, I mean me, so after I wondered I found out why and now I'm sharing the facts.
Find out why certain things are red on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www1.wsrb.com/blog/is-there-meaning-behind-the-color-of-a-fire-hydrant
https://www.history.com/news/why-are-barber-poles-red-white-and-blue
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666311006957
https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/apparently-red-and-yellow-make-you-hungrier-than-other-colors
https://time.com/5533549/history-red-carpet-hollywood/
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-fast-food-signs-red-2015-9
https://www.livescience.com/62510-painted-roman-stone-walls.html
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It's April Fool's Day! Which surprisingly has a mysterious origin... I guess we could look into it. Find out if we find out where and why April Fool's started on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.britannica.com/science/vernal-equinox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hilaria-Greco-Roman-festival
https://books.google.com/books?id=LaOwCaPBJk8C&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/origin_of_april_fools_day/
https://www.historischmuseumdenbriel.nl/en/visit-brielle-and-environs/historisch-museum-den-briel
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The recent MonsterVerse films have leaned into the idea of a hollow earth as a fast-travel system for Godzilla.
But did you know the hollow earth theory was a real theory scientists believed in several hundreds of years ago?
Find out the history of the Hollow Earth Theory and why it only works in fiction on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Orpheus/orpheus.html
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/tour/AAmag.html
https://historycollection.com/10-truly-bizarre-beliefs-history-will-keep-laughing-night/10/
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth/
https://sjg.lyellcollection.org/content/43/1/15
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/fantastically-wrong-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10961412/Hollow-Earth-conspiracy-theories-the-hole-truth.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywgexk/a-journey-to-the-center-of-modern-hollow-earth-theory
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We've all heard the saying, "this is the greatest thing since sliced bread!" but if it's so great, why was sliced bread banned in the United States in 1943?
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44846874
https://web.archive.org/web/20130430045703/http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/breadslicer.htm
https://culinarylore.com/food-history:sliced-bread-was-once-illegal-in-the-us/
https://todayinhistory.blog/tag/1943-ban-on-sliced-bread/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/08/15/wwii-sliced-bread-briefly-banned-usa/
https://historyofyesterday.com/why-america-banned-pre-sliced-bread-12c25bfa4499
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-we-have-sliced-bread-116065095/#:
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Probability can be a mind-blowing thing. Gather 23 people in a room and chances are two of them will share a birthday. Gather 60 and it's almost a guarantee. But with 365 days in a year, how does that work?
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https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/
http://hssmath.blogspot.com/2016/03/birthday-paradox.html
https://www.rd.com/article/september-popular-birth-month/
https://www.rd.com/article/why-october-babies-more-likely-live-100/
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A news article said you can hypnotize chicken, turns out it's more like playing dead than being in hypnosis. I wonder... what other animals can play dead?
Find out some of them on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-hypnotize-chicken-180949940/#:~:text=Here's%20how%20you%20do%20it,a%20finger%2C%20chalk%20or%20whatever.&text=To%20de%2Dhypnotize%20the%20chicken,tries%20to%20awaken%20the%20bird.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jsap.12549#jsap12549-bib-0041
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2424542?seq=1
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/sci-tech/2017-11-22-smell-of-death-tested-as-shark-repellent/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/great-white-sharks-flee-killer-whales/587563/
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There's an experiment sometimes said conducted by Harvard scientist that tells us about human behavior using monkeys, a ladder, a banana, and a lot of cold water.
The only problem is, the experiment never happened. Find out the real study and what the fake study gets wrong on today's episode of Facts-Chology.
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https://erikbuys.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cultural-acquisition-of-a-specific-learned-response-among-rhesus-monkeys-gordon-r-stephenson.pdf
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/games-primates-play/201203/what-monkeys-can-teach-us-about-human-behavior-facts-fiction
https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-with-a-new-lesson#disqus_thread
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu
https://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-banana-story-is-rubbish/
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Surprisingly doors are kind of interesting.. who would've thought? And the lack of a door in a doorway can cause an effect that will make you forget things, but why?
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-mishaps/201205/doorways-cause-forgetting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door
https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/the-stack-effect-when-buildings-act-like-chimneys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door
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Have you ever been watching a movie and a character suffers a tragic or hilarious fall yet the scream sounds exactly the same? Why are movie studios using the same person to make all their screams?
And why do we even bother screaming in the first place? I scream, you scream, we all scream... but why?
Find out this and more on today's episode of Facts-Chology on The Wilhelm Scream and Why We All Scream!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming
https://time.com/3956127/scream-screaming/
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00737-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS096098221500737X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60236/where-did-wilhelm-scream-come-and-why-do-so-many-filmmakers-use-it
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=wilhelm-scream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
https://theswaddle.com/why-do-you-scream-in-fear/#:~:text=A%20scream%20goes%20straight%20from,into%20increased%20alertness%20and%20analysis.
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Where did clowns come from besides the little clown car that just drove by? Are they a recent thing or have they been around for much longer?
And why do some people find them scary? Does it have something to do with why we find something strange about robotic faces?
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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87942/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-clowns
https://listverse.com/2014/02/14/10-strange-facts-about-clowns/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/what-is-the-uncanny-valley
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Episode 20 means we're talking about a movie! This week it's Back to the Future! We'll take a look at some facts surrounding the production of the movie and then we'll look at how we perceive time.
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https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/back-to-the-future-facts-about-trilogy-future-day-eric-stoltz-video-trivia-marty-mcfly-spielberg-zemeckis
https://www.sciencealert.com/psychology-holds-clues-to-slowing-down-time-when-it-feels-like-it-s-racing-away
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-time-seem-to-speed-up-with-age/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452315117300140
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future
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Did you know there is a rare disease once known as the Stone Man Disease, or how about the Werewolf disease or the Laughing Sickness?
What about a disorder where you only pretend to be sick for attention?
Find out about these three rare diseases and one psychological disorder on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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https://www.newportacademy.com/resources/mental-health/munchausen-by-proxy-syndrome/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875173/
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-strangest-known-medical-conditions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva#mediaviewer/File:Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva.jpg
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/fibrodysplasia-ossificans-progressiva#inheritance
https://dermnetnz.org/topics/hypertrichosis/
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001379.htm#:~:text=Kuru%20is%20a%20very%20rare,part%20of%20a%20funeral%20ritual.
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What was the Gutenberg press and how did it change the word? We would be where we are today without it?
And what about words? How does that relate to the Gutenberg press and more importantly how do our brains react to hearing and seeing certain words?
Find out the answers to these questions and more facts on today's episode of Facts-Chology on The Gutenberg Press and Words!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press#Gutenberg's_press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press#section_5
https://www.psprint.com/resources/printing-press/#:~:text=Before%20the%20printing%20press%20was,papyrus%2C%20wax%2C%20and%20parchment.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/words-can-change-your-brain/201208/why-word-is-so-dangerous-say-or-hear
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/positive-psychology
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Is it possible to grow a tumor with teeth? And how could it happen?
And what is dissociative identity disorder?
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/27/teratoma-tumour-evil-twin-cancer
https://www.healthline.com/health/teratoma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder#:~:text=Dissociative%20identity%20disorder%20(DID)%20is,as%20an%20experience%20of%20possession.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder#2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder
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Ever wonder how newspapers came to be? Or what newspapers were like back in Ancient Rome?
What about why it's so difficult to convince people of facts no matter how hard you try?
Well we'll answer those curiosities on today's episode of Facts-Chology on the history of newspapers and the backfire effect.
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Acta
https://www.britannica.com/topic/newspaper#ref97439
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183408/number-of-us-daily-newspapers-since-1975/
https://effectiviology.com/backfire-effect-facts-dont-change-minds/
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect
https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_backfire_effect.php
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What is streaming? What has Netflix and YouTube done to modern television?
And what is that thing where you can't decide what to watch on Netflix and you spend more time searching than watching?
Find those answers and more facts on today's episode of Facts-Chology about Television Streaming and the Paradox of Choice!
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https://www.dreamcast.ae/blog/interesting-live-streaming-facts-statistics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media#Late_1990s_to_early_2000s
https://techjury.net/blog/cord-cutting-statistics/#gref
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology/digital-media-trends-consumption-habits-survey/summary.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice
https://gostrengths.com/what-is-the-paradox-of-choice/
http://psychologyformarketers.com/paradox-of-choice/
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Did you know Ravens can speak? What about how intelligent they are?
And what do you know about grudges and what it does to your body?
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https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/anger-how-it-affects-people
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inviting-monkey-tea/201503/why-we-hold-grudges-and-how-let-them-go
https://thriveglobal.com/stories/psychological-reason-hold-grudges/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53295/10-fascinating-facts-about-ravens
https://www.britannica.com/animal/raven
https://listverse.com/2017/11/12/10-incredible-facts-about-ravens/
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Did you know people thought woman's bodies weren't strong enough to be on trains?
Or that trains in Japan are always on time within 5 minutes?
And what is the trolley problem? And is it not as fun as it sounds?
Learn these facts and more on today's episode on Trains and the Trolley Problem!
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https://www.kiwi.com/stories/11-facts-about-trains-we-bet-you-didnt-know/
https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-and-interesting-facts-about-trains/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/railroads-create-the-first-time-zones#:~:text=Efficient%20rail%20transportation%20demanded%20a,a%20new%20time%20code%20system.
https://people.howstuffworks.com/trolley-problem1.htm
https://theconversation.com/the-trolley-dilemma-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-five-57111
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What was the 1984 Terminator film about? (As if many of you didn't already know)
What is the grandfather paradox? Why is it called grandfather paradox? Should my grandfather be worried?
Find out this and more on today's short episode on The Terminator and The Grandfather Paradox!
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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59600/16-things-you-might-not-know-about-terminator
https://www.factinate.com/things/28-facts-terminator-movies/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65746/25-indestructible-facts-about-terminator
https://www.space.com/grandfather-paradox.html#:~:text=The%20grandfather%20paradox%20is%20a%20potential%20logical%20problem%20that%20would,make%20their%20own%20birth%20impossible.
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We like history, science, and psychology. Luckily the world is full of stories covering these topics that are interesting and strange. We take those stories, add little comedy, some bad puns, and hope you learn something new.
And since we know you just want the facts we get right to the topic! Our episodes are anywhere between 5-15 minutes so you can listen and learn when you have a few minutes!
We'll be dropping Mon, Wed, Thurs, and Friday with bonus episodes randomly and that's a lot!
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A Bizarre Sleeping Epidemic
Einstein's Stolen Brain
Mortal Kombat!
How Long Wolverine could actually live using science!
Why polygraph machines are the real liars
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