Let Me Google That

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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? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Even when you aren't looking for snakes your brain is looking for snakes. Let Me Google That is sponsored by ⁠⁠Water Cooler Trivia⁠⁠ ! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

January 24th is #NationalPeanutButterDay! On this week's episode find out why NASA’s peanuts & which U.S. coast prefers crunchy over smooth. Let Me Google That is sponsored by Water Cooler Trivia ! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Why is whispering not talking? Why do we whisper? Do non-humans whisper? Also: Here's The Magic School Bus episode referenced. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Some places do permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST), which means no clock setting ever! But many experts don't think it actually makes any difference since we never adjust to DST anyway.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

25 years ago, the idea of live-streaming your child’s birth didn’t really exist—then TLC started airing a show called “A Baby Story.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

In the 1940s, researchers burned the hands of women in labor to try to come up with an objective way to measure pain. And yes, I did write a book and this was in it! (And yes, to answer your other question: I am ready to die because Gillian Anderson blurbed it ) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

From scripting to recording and editing, every part of this episode was made with AI. DEAR GOD WHAT HATH I WROUGHT?! Also, now you have to google Roko's Basilisk . Sorry.

20 years ago, the Columbia space shuttle disaster resulted in the deaths of 7 human crew members, but there were survivors: small worms that had been involved in an onboard experiment somehow survived the impact & extreme heat.

This year the Doomsday Clock is the closest to midnight it's ever been. 1991 was the best year: we were ~7 minutes away. 

What’s in store for 2023? The Antichrist, war, space disasters, and cannibalism!

This episode is for one of our young listeners, Elena, who asked about rainbows. We know the recipe for them here on Earth, but what about elsewhere in the universe? 

Remember when the Internet found a story in an old-timey British tabloid about a young lady who "used her fists in a scientific fashion" when she was harassed while biking?

Here's why this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere has two names. 

The Nobel Prize exists because someone mistakenly published a HORRIBLE obit for Alfred Nobel before he actually died and it made him feel like shit.

Since the 1960s, children have been cooking up a storm in their living rooms with the Easy-Bake Oven. But seriously, who authorized this?!

There are dolphins in the Amazon River.

Before Jane Roe became synonymous with the fight for abortion rights, a young woman who hosted a popular children’s television show called Romper Room nearly lost it all when word got out she’d had an abortion. This is the story of Sherri Finkbine.

The MBTI personality test wasn't designed to measure  aptitude—it actually measures *preference.* You might *prefer* introversion to experience the world, but that doesn't mean you're *incapable* or *lacking* extraverted qualities.

Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, cousins of Queen Elizabeth II, were said to have died in 1940 and 1961. Then, they died again in 1986 and 2004.

You've heard of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, now get ready for MOTHERS AGAINST DECAPENTAPLEGIC!

Insulin has been saving lives for over 100 years. But one of the first Americans to be saved by the miracle drug, Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, never wanted you to know.

50 years of secret nuclear testing at Semipalatinsk (“the Polygon”) is still making people in Kazakhstan ill. The nuclear fallout Russia never wanted anyone to know about was worse than Chernobyl.

During every Winter Olympics we ask the same question: What the hell is CURLING?