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1718: "Why Is There a Gap in the Toilet Seat?"
Episode 1718
Interesting Things with JC #1718: "Why Is There a Gap in the Toilet Seat?" – Airports, restaurants, offices, and highway rest stops all use toilet se…
15 hours ago
1716: "The Legendary Jim Kilts"
Episode 1716
Interesting Things with JC #1716: "The Legendary Jim Kilts" – Gillette had missed earnings expectations for 14 straight quarters, yet most of its exe…
1 day, 15 hours ago
1715: "Hunny, Bunny, and the Twins Who Married the Twins"
Episode 1715
Interesting Things with JC #1715: "Hunny, Bunny, and the Twins Who Married the Twins" – Identical twins Hunny and Bunny meet identical twins Elliot a…
2 days, 15 hours ago
1714: "When Gut Bacteria Escape"
Episode 1714
Interesting Things with JC #1714: "When Gut Bacteria Escape" – Bacteroides fragilis lives normally inside the colon until the intestinal wall breaks …
3 days, 15 hours ago
1713: "How Do You Catch Legionnaires' Disease?"
Episode 1713
Interesting Things with JC #1713: "How Do You Catch Legionnaires' Disease?" – Fifty-four people are diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease in two Manha…
4 days, 15 hours ago
1712: "The Hidden Heat Sensor in a Dog's Nose"
Episode 1712
Interesting Things with JC #1712: "The Hidden Heat Sensor in a Dog's Nose" – Dogs repeatedly choose one of two identical targets after researchers co…
5 days, 16 hours ago
1711: "Why McDonald's Coke Tastes Different"
Episode 1711
Interesting Things with JC #1711: "Why McDonald's Coke Tastes Different" – McDonald's serves Coca-Cola using refrigerated stainless steel syrup tanks…
6 days, 15 hours ago
1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years"
Episode 1710
Interesting Things with JC #1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years" – Chemists heating a mixture of metal oxides for a magnetism experiment watched i…
1 week ago
1709: "A Yard of Flightline"
Episode 1709
Interesting Things with JC #1709: "A Yard of Flightline" – A new Air Force airman is sent to pick up a routine item, but every office on the base ins…
1 week, 1 day ago
1708: "The System That Made Blood Banking Scalable"
Episode 1708
Interesting Things with JC #1708: "The System That Made Blood Banking Scalable" – Blood donations begin moving through a standardized collection and …
1 week, 2 days ago