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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.

A designer plans a fashion collection using human skin grown from another designer's DNA. Plus, a child's coffin from 150 years ago is unearthed in San Francisco, and reburied.

The Army went and designed a lefty-friendly grenade, plus Josh and Chuck mull over the history and use of the exclamation point.

Become an amateur biospeleologist with this week's installment of Stuff You Should Know: Animated.

Don't just guess heads or tails - find out which one has a higher probability of hitting, collect your winnings, and tell 'em Josh sent you. Learn more about flipping coins in this video from Stuff You Should Know.

What's the story behind Take a Chance Day? Find out with this video from Stuff You Should Know.

Ever since the wheel was invented more than 5,000 years ago, people have been inventing new ways to travel faster from one point to another. Join Josh and Chuck from Stuff You Should Know as they investigate teleportation.

May 21, 1980 saw the release of what has now come to be regarded as the best film in the Star Wars series, "The Empire Strikes Back." Learn about its production in today's episode of This Day in History.

In this episode, Josh and Chuck fill you in on the history of the beloved (or perhaps dreaded) tradition known as the chicken dance. Don't be a stick in the mud, come on and do the chicken dance!

In this new weekly series, Josh and Chuck offer a unique look at this day in history. In the first episode, we note the birth of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, 18th century Italian adventurer and legendary ladies man. Plus, what are Josh and Chuck up to?

Where did spoken language come from? Join Josh and Chuck as they go back in time to follow the hunting exploits of Tuk-Tuk, a hungry homosapien who evolves a primitive language.

Join Josh and Chuck on a trip through the history of three of the world's best-known subway systems: the London Underground, the Paris Metro, and the New York City subway. Plus, what does horse manure have to do with all of this?

In the finale of our animated series, Josh and Chuck detail the accidental discovery of saccharin, thanks to one scientist's poor laboratory hygiene. Plus, a debate on the merits of sweet and unsweet tea.

In this new weekly series, Josh sets you straight on misconceptions both common and esoteric. In this episode, Josh debunks the popular belief that lemmings are suicidal by nature. Join us, won't you?

In this episode, Josh explains why cracking your knuckles isn't literally cracking your knuckles. Along the way, we learn about a doctor who spent over 60 years cracking his knuckles to disprove this popular myth.

There's a word that looks like it's pronounced "yee," but doesn't really exist. No, you're just falling for an old trick of Olde English - the now-defunct letter, the thorn. So get with it and stop sounding like a reject from the Renaissance Fair.

Can you actually die of boredom? Maybe not literally, but studies have shown boredom often leads to risky and unhealthy behaviors. Find out more about how to deal with boredom in this week's Trapped in a Meeting.

Sada Abe is a notorious figure in Japanese history, known for her shocking acts which included everything from murder to castration and even necrophilia. Tune in to find out more about this infamous case.

Have you heard that you should drink eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy? Of course you have. But is it true? Tune in to this episode of Don't Be Dumb to find out if this common claim holds water.

A wave of child murders swept over Denmark in the 18th century - but why did it happen? The answer, and the logic behind it, may surprise you. Get comfy, it's another installment of Trapped in a Meeting.

Iridescence is in everything from soap bubbles to butterfly wings, but what exactly is it? Join the guys as they unravel the mysteries of iridescence.

There are plenty of urban myths about laws that make you help out other people and most of them are dumb lies. But at least one is correct in some places: restroom access laws. Join Josh Clark as he lays down the law in this episode of Don't Be Dumb.

Have you ever wondered why cutting into an onion can make you cry? You are about to know.

In movies and stories, zombies are undead menaces that lurch around mindlessly, in search of flesh. Join Josh and Chuck from Stuff You Should Know as they investigate if zombies exist outside of fiction.

If you think that the Northern Lights are a light show from some crazy wizard who lives in an ice cave in the North Pole then you'd better watch this and learn what's what.