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Can it rain worms? Apparently so. Plus, there's a controversial new treatment for alcoholics involving aversion therapy.

Someone erected a McDonald's sign in a remote area of the Australian outback. Plus, the amazing true story of Violet Jessop, for whom the Titanic was only one of three shipwrecks she survived.

The earliest known draft of the King James Bible has been discovered, plus Josh has some incredibly creepy photos of vintage Halloween costumes.

It turns out bats are way more clever than we might have given them credit for. Plus, there's a lot of weird stuff on the U.S. one dollar bill.

A young French-Canadian kid thought he found a lost Mayan city, but it turned out to be a corn field. Plus, a professor at Georgia Tech created a TA powered by AI and students didn't notice.

Josh and Chuck discuss bonobos learning the value of good cooking, and a thousand year-old leechbook that turns out to hold at least one very valuable cure.

Josh and Chuck discuss Scotland, which now enjoys the dubious distinction of the world's #1 consumer per capita of cocaine, and an abandoned mall in Bangkok that has transformed into a giant koi pond.

Are you a regular weekly viewer of Don't Be Dumb who was also wondering just earlier today why manhole covers are round? If so, that's quite a fortuitous convergence of circumstances, because here's an episode covering precisely that topic.

There's a restaurant in Taiwan that had a Nazi-themed pasta dish on its menu until recently. Chuck and Josh discuss this and why people in rural India defecate in the open.

Josh and Chuck revisit Burger King's disastrous "Where's Herb?" campaign, and discuss a lake of smelly toxic foam in India.

This week Josh and Chuck take you to Ohio to visit the site of the largest roadside Jesus in Ohio and discuss why student loans are kind of a racket.

Josh has curated an astonishing image gallery of terrifying vintage dolls. Plus, Josh and Chuck discuss a great blog covering classic horror fiction.

Josh and Chuck discuss bonobos learning the value of good cooking, and a thousand year-old leechbook that turns out to hold at least one very valuable cure.

Josh uncovers a creepy collection of stereoscopic images from the 1920s and Chuck offers his take on a young piano prodigy who was classified by her school as truant.

There's a legend that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and lost. Is it true? Wouldn't you like to know.

A bunch of preteens went on a field trip to a sex toy shop, and a photographer captured a pretty nifty image of a weasel riding on the back of a flying woodpecker.

If you ask the government they'll tell you to use hot water to wash your hands. But they are so wrong.

Bog butter from a couple thousand years ago has been discovered in Ireland. Plus, NASA explores Jupiter as a way to understand the formation of our solar system.

The earliest known draft of the King James Bible has been discovered, plus Josh has some incredibly creepy photos of vintage Halloween costumes.

Josh and Chuck discuss a study that examines how one's personal income might be linked with how much they drink, and a guy who successfully mailed himself from London to Australia in a box and lived to tell the tale.

Some guy managed to eat 17 Big Macs in an hour, and the Baltimore police have been tracking cell phones without warrants.

Isn't it weird that people say Roger when they're talking on their CBs -- even though the person they're talking to isn't named Roger? We think it's weird too.

Pretty much everyone has wondered at some point whether their fingers were capable of growing back after being cut off. After all, it's one of modern life's great, essential mysteries - and today, you will finally have the answer.

Some poor kid in New Zealand burned a hole in his tongue after eating super-sour Warheads candy. Plus, Josh and Chuck look back at the cultural phenomenon known as Macramé and how everyone apparently realized in unison that it was really creepy.

Modern medicine has reached its zenith: an eight inch bionic penis. Plus, some 4-H kids in Michigan didn't let the Avian Flu epidemic stop them from enjoying their annual poultry show.