Key insights from
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
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12 minute read
Published Nov 24, 2020
What you'll learn
This information probably won’t save the world, but it could enhance your trivia game. In Stuff You Should Know, a pair of podcasters provides a smorgasbord of interesting facts about the world in which we live—some obscure and tucked away, others hiding in plain sight.
Key insights
- 1 A global pandemic has impacted facial hair trends.
- 2 Years or even decades of attention go into the traditional Mexican beverage mezcal—only for the stuff to be guzzled in moments by college kids.
- 3 We might not be too far away from the world’s first trillionaire.
- 4 There isn’t strong scientific evidence for the effectiveness of well witching, but it has been a practice around the world for millennia.
- 5 It was spelled “doughnuts” well before Dunkin’ popularized the shorter “donuts.”