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British health officials are hoping the world's so-called ugliest color - Pantone 448C, aka 'opaque couché' - will be unpleasant enough to deter smokers. Plus, a brewery in San Francisco has been making whiskey out of beer.

It's that time of year to get bombed on a Monday and pretend you're Irish. It's St. Patrick's Day! Learn about the day and why you should drink Irish coffee in a submarine today as well.

Indonesia is dealing with poaching fishing boats in a unique way: it's blowing them up. Plus, a computer animation that simulates what Pompeii would have been like on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupted.

Have you ever forgotten what you were doing? Especially when walking from one room to another? It turns out there might be an explanation for that.

Josh and Chuck unevil the inaugural candidate for the Internet Roundup Jerk of the Year Award, and it's a doozy. Plus, we show you pictures of a horrifying teratoma with teeth.

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

Back in WWII the idea that eating carrots can give people better night vision became popularly held. Crazy, but it's actually true!

Josh and Chuck take a look at some of the graphic warnings printed on cigarette containers outside the United States, plus the heartwarming (and vintage) tale of a gorilla who rescued a fallen child at the zoo.

Josh and Chuck get to the bottom of some mysterious craters popping up in Siberia, and discuss some harrowing statistics regarding truck stop serial killers. Plus! Real life drama happens in the studio, and Internet Roundup is never the same again.

Josh and Chuck check out some great artistic renditions of children's drawings of monsters, and Josh has an amusing article about the nature of apologies.

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

It took from the dawn of humanity until the 19th century to reach a billion people on the planet. It took just over 200 years afterwards to add 6.2 billion more. With more and more people and ever dwindling resources, what are we to do?

If you've ever noticed that hot water freezes faster than cold water and it didn't blow your mind, then you're not paying enough attention when you make ice cubes. Because that's not supposed to happen, it's just not.

Have you ever bitten into a whole turkey carcass and realized that some of the meat in your mouth was light and some was dark and did you wonder what the heck was the difference even though one tastes way juicier than the other?

If you're a boy and you've shuddered after you've peed you've revealed what may be the greatest mystery facing science today.

Have you ever said to yourself, "Self, where did ketchup come from?" And then decided it was probably just one of life's many unknowable mysteries and not pursued the matter any further? If so, then get ready to finally learn the truth.

It's time to replace your busted cell phone and your first instinct is to toss the old one in the trash. But do you know where most of the world's electronic waste ends up? Hint: it's not pretty.

You know how ketchup doesn't move at all, but if you hit the 57 on a glass Heinz bottle it will? That's because non-Newtonian fluids and sheer fracture. Get all brainy right here.

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

Josh and Chuck discuss the remarkable decline of smoking in the United States, plus the amazing true story of a small town that exacted vigilante justice on a local bully.

Sometimes when you drink some beer and you evacuate your bladder, you find that your bladder requires evacuating soon after that. It's the beer that does that to you.

A Nevada politician proposed a bill to allow medical marijuana for dogs, plus Josh and Chuck talk about some of their favorite street art.

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

Maybe you've noticed that when you eat aspargus your urine tends to smell a little funny. Or maybe you haven't. It could be that you're either one of those people who can't smell asparagus pee or doesn't produce it. Just watch this and be quiet.

You know how there should be aliens all over the place but there aren't? There's a guy named Fermi who wondered this same thing and they named a paradox after him for it. Which makes him a lucky duck.