The People's Polygraph

In which you will learn: What crazy things some companies have sent down the Thames for attention The amazing marketing campaign that created colour out of sunlight Absolutely none of the science behind any of these brilliant marketing stunts

In which you will learn: What sort of wood you should build your warship out of Some cut tree-based mythology More than you ever needed to know about trees

In which you will learn: What the difference between a rock and a stone is About some creepy mysterious rocks Way more than you ever needed to know about Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

In which you will learn: The primary reason why the Earth's oceans are polluted What weird material you can use to make your very own yoga mats What green thing Maccas tried to do... with limited success

In which you will learn: All about the Ancient Egyptian social media platforms What a Nilometer was used for The history of the humble avocado

In which you will learn: Which magical figure lives at the South Pole What happened in the race to the South Pole Which explorer Jazz and Anna have a massive nerd-boner for

In which you will learn: Which places have the highest air pollution on earth. Where you can see a harrowing and damning effect of climate change today Some actually rather scary truths about the state of the planet

In which you will learn: Some spoopy stories about strange happenings in the Bermuda Triangle The absolutely logical reasons why these things happened What Anna and Jazz think about people who claim Atlantis is located in the Bermuda Triangle

In which you will learn: If Pliny was a flat-earther What substances Pliny claimed had fallen from the sky Where we get the word 'rainbow' and what the word actually should be

In which you will learn: About the largest flower in the world About a sunflower that wanted to be a beanstalk Which rose to give to your (soon to probably be not-) wife if you've just cheated on her

In which you will learn: How scientist want to use volcanoes to save the planet Where you should go if you want to see the most volcanic activity in the Solar System Which islands were formed by volcanoes

In which you will learn: Not a lot really...

In which you will learn: Who Boudicca was and what popular culture got wrong about her How many miles the Romans could walk on their own roads Just what the Romans ever did for us

In which you will learn The excellent story behind, and etymology of the word 'Thing' All about Halfdan and the Vikings who took York Just so, so much about British place name etymology

In which you will learn: An Ancient Roman drinking game Some of the dumbest drinking habits of the Romans All about the guy who thought he was Bacchus

In which you will learn: The interesting origins of the Mexican National Anthem The difference between making friends in Mexico, the UK and Australia A heck of a lot of ancient etymology

In which you will learn: Why pregnant women were encouraged to drink Guinness Which beer's marketing involved telling people it wasn't all that great A whole bunch of political slogans from the last 200 yrs

In which you will learn Barbie's real name A whole lot more about doll-engineering than you ever needed to Absolutely nothing at all about Barbie's missing sister

In which you will learn: Exactly how many bricks it would take to build a lego house Which commercial set would take you the longest to build Which Harry Potter characters have been lucky enough to be bricked

In which you will learn: Which Oxford college bought a hall to retrieve something that had been stolen What strange items have ended up on the rooftops of Cambridge Absolutely nothing about any of the alumni

In which you will learn: What the first newspaper in the world was Why newspaper publishers in Britain in the early 1800s were NOT to be messed with What Florida Man has been up to recently

In which you will learn How Neil Gaiman got his start in literature In which media you would be most likely to find a work of Gaiman's translated A whole bunch of fun Good Omens easter eggs to look out for in the recent Prime tv series

In which you will learn: What Nell Gwynn's pet name for Charles II was Some famous descendants of Charles II and his various mistresses Where you can see Nell in London today

In which you will learn The tumultuous tale of Oliver Cromwell's head Why dear Oliver might have made a bad dinner party guest The extensive list of things he tried to ban during his time in power

In which you will learn: Which company aged with grace About the wildest thing a Catholic priest can do to celebrate his 100th How to thoroughly destroy Jazz