Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time—featuring a completely new array of subjects that they’ve long wondered about and wanted to explore. Each chapter is further embellished with snappy visual material to allow for rabbit-hole tangents and digressions—including charts, illustrations, sidebars, and footnotes. Follow along as the two dig into the underlying stories of everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost.

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