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Have you ever wondered if robots scream at night? No? We did and we at Facts-Chology love to dissect weird questions that make you think. Today's question leads us down a rabbit hole on screaming, sleep, robots and pain, and what that strange s
Why is it that a picture of yourself can look so different than what you see in the mirror? What happens in your phone or camera that forces a sort of uncanny valley effect on yourself? At least you can rely on the mirror to always show you an
Plenty of philosophers have long thought the idea of what reality is. How can we be so sure what we experience everyday is the true version of reality? What about dreams? Dreams have been studied for thousands of years and we still are not too
Sometimes the smallest organisms can make the biggest changes, in this case, can mushrooms make it rain? What about rain? How does rain even... happen? Just how instrumental are mushrooms to rain all over the world?Find out on today's episode o
In 1984 McDonalds would run a marketing promotion they expected to increase traffic, give out free food, and promote the Olympics. But a series of world events stemming from 1979 ended up costing McDonalds millions. Listen to the whole story o
One of the oldest thought experiments to exist is the Ship of Theseus, it questions whether an item stays the same even if every part is changed... sounds boring to some, but what if we weren't talking about a ship? What if we were talking abo
In 1859 a pig wandered into Lyman Cutler's farm and began eating his potatoes. Lyman pull out his rifle and killed the pig, triggering an international incident involving the United States and Britain. One that almost caused a war on the small
In 1671, England had endured a couple of wars including two civil wars, one man named Thomas Blood was not entirely happy with the outcome. Not because he cared who led the people but mainly because a new law took away some of his land. As reve
In February 2003 $100 million in diamonds, jewels, gold, silver, and cash disappeared from the state of the art vault in the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium. At the time it was considered the heist of the century and within days a panic attac
There are a few things every pirate should be, good with his sword, a good tactician, not a betrayer of their captains etc. Calico Jack wasn't any of these. We pick up with Calico Jack after last Friday's episode where he betrayed Charles Vane
Back in the 16th century people acted like there weren't just dancing horses that did some pretty awesome tricks everywhere. So when Morocco the dancing horse passed by Paris someone yelled "witch" and gathered the wood to get ready the burning
On September 23rd, 2009, a group of criminals broke into one of the G4S Cash Service buildings in Sweden. Within minutes police responded but they also realized they weren't just dealing with any petty criminals, for one they didn't break in th
Last week we told you about the skills Charles Vane had and how he used them to evade capture, this week we tell you about how he got lucky a few times and then... when his luck ran out.Find out the conclusion of Charles Vane's story on today's
Carrier pigeons were a big part of getting messages across to bases from troops during war and when you're surrounded by German forces from all sides then that makes it the only way to get a message of help across. Listen to the story of one pa
On the morning of Tuesday May 27th, 1980 in Medford, Massachusetts, bank employees opened the vault to find it completely empty. Unbeknownst to them over the Memorial Day weekend six men had found a way in and taken the bank for everything it h
Charles Vane was a ruthless pirate sailing the seas during the 18th century and one of the few that refused a pardon from the king making him a target to those looking to get rid of pirates the hard way.Find out how his pirate life started and
There were a few pretty serious events going on in England in the 17th century, revolution, laws against Catholics, freemasons preparing to go public, and a new king but all of these events led to a pretty silly outcome, one involving the pope
There were a few pretty serious events going on in England in the 17th century, revolution, laws against Catholics, freemasons preparing to go public, and a new king but all of these events led to a pretty silly outcome, one involving the pope
In the late 19th century famed neurologist Doctor Silas Weir Mitchell introduced a cure to a multitude of different ailments. Unfortunately misogyny and traditional gender roles influenced how he treated men and women differently, treatments th
Continuing with Pirate Fridays, today we look at the events immediately before and immediately after Blackbeard's last stand and we find out why a party between friends led to the death of one of the most famous pirates around.Find out the hist
Imagine being in the middle of a war and having your ship sink, then having the bad luck to go on another ship and have your sink ship AGAIN. Then imagine it happening yet again! Now imagine you're a cat!That was Unsinkable Sam's story, hear th
During the 15th and 16th century a mysterious disease swept through London multiple times killing many within hours. The disease caused fear in many including King Henry VIII who ran at the thought of getting infected. Today we still don't know
You can take the pirate out of the sea but you can't take the pirate out of the man. Just when they thought Blackbeard was done with his pirate ways, he starts back up leading to his last stand against a Virginian governor, a British Naval Capt
The Witchcraft Act of 1735 decriminalized witchcraft in England creating a wave of so called "white witches" or witches that dealt with telling fortunes, selling potions, and good luck charms. In the early 19th a witch would show up, predict th
There are a lot of unsung heroes in history that deserve to have their stories told and their names known. Today we look at two badass doctors, Eugene Lazowski and Stanislaw Matulewicz. These two figured out how to start an epidemic but for the
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