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Let Me Google That

Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! Brought to you by Water Cooler Trivia (watercoolertrivia.com). *Content Warning* Language, comic mischief, & weird stuff! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

  • 5 minutes 16 seconds
    A Tiny History of Confetti

    "There was malice in the thrust," — NYT report c. 1906 on aggressive confetti throwing.

    22 December 2024, 8:35 am
  • 5 minutes 6 seconds
    The Milwaukee Protocol
    Did an experimental treatment really save a teenage girl from rabies - or was it just a coincidence?
    15 December 2024, 8:32 am
  • 7 minutes 30 seconds
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    8 December 2024, 10:36 am
  • 12 minutes 27 seconds
    How Master Keys Work
    "Master keys" are actually part of a much larger hierarchal system of keying. Master keys can be "Grand" or "Great Grand" (like grandpas) depending on how many lower key systems they can unlock.
    8 December 2024, 8:26 am
  • 5 minutes 20 seconds
    How Lifetime Warranties Work

    A product's "lifetime warranty" refers to its expected lifetime — not yours. 

    1 December 2024, 8:22 am
  • 6 minutes 8 seconds
    How "Monobosom" Beget the Modern Bra

    Fed up with "monobosom," Caresse Crosby (aka Mary Phelps Jacobs/Polly Jacobs) received the first U.S. patent for the "brassiere" in early November of 1914. She also ghostwrote porn, founded the press that published Bukowski, & had a dog named "Clytoris."

    24 November 2024, 8:08 am
  • 4 minutes 25 seconds
    Word Fossils

    "Word fossils" are words that we don't really use anymore, except as part of an idiom or expression: "What in 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?!" "Good 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚!" & "Moral 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚." But how do words become "fossilized" & how long does it take?

    17 November 2024, 8:04 am
  • 5 minutes 15 seconds
    Wait, Grandma's Thanksgiving Silverware Disinfects Itself?!

    Thanksgiving is coming and it's a great time for infection-prevention trivia to share 'round the table? So, we wanted to know: can sterling silver really keep itself germ-free?

    13 November 2024, 8:58 am
  • 3 minutes 54 seconds
    Who Invented Silly String?

    Like many great inventions, Silly String was an accident: it was meant to be spray-on casts.

    10 November 2024, 7:59 am
  • 3 minutes 59 seconds
    Presidential Park

    Is this creepy abandoned park full of presidential busts in Virginia a symbol for our crumbling democracy?!

    3 November 2024, 7:49 am
  • 7 minutes 20 seconds
    S.S. Watertown Faces
    In 1924, a pair of sailors died aboard the S.S. Watertown and were buried at sea. Then, the crew started seeing spectral faces in the water. In response to cries of "photographs or it did not occur" the captain snapped A SPOOKY-ASS PIC
    27 October 2024, 7:06 am
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