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YT 2 minutes 18 seconds Today I Found Out The Interesting Origins of the Words "Geek" and "Nerd" YT 4 minutes 35 seconds Today I Found Out The Origins and Meanings of 9 Pirate Words and Expressions YT 3 minutes 2 seconds Today I Found Out Why Port and Starboard Indicate the Left and Right Side of a Ship

YT 3 minutes 13 seconds Today I Found Out Why Engines are Commonly Measured in Horsepower YT 5 minutes 10 seconds Today I Found Out A Man Once Tried to Raise His Son as a Native Speaker in Klingon YT 3 minutes 31 seconds Today I Found Out Why we call the Seasons Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring

YT 3 minutes 35 seconds Today I Found Out The Language Made Up Entirely of Whistles YT 5 minutes 34 seconds Today I Found Out How the Milky Way Got Its Name YT 4 minutes 15 seconds Today I Found Out Where the Looney Tune’s “ACME” Corporation Name Came From

YT 5 minutes 4 seconds Today I Found Out The Fascinating Origin of the Word “Abracadabra” YT 5 minutes 50 seconds Today I Found Out What a Blue Moon Really is and How the Expression “Once in a Blue Moon” Came About YT 4 minutes 37 seconds Today I Found Out Why Sideburns are Called That

YT 8 minutes Today I Found Out Origin of the Phrase "Blonde Bombshell" YT 5 minutes 58 seconds Today I Found Out How Hieroglyphics were Originally Translated YT 4 minutes 32 seconds Today I Found Out The Difference Between The United Kingdom, England, and Great Britain

YT 4 minutes 5 seconds Today I Found Out How the Word SPAM came to mean Junk Message YT 1 minute 36 seconds Today I Found Out Why “Colonel” is Pronounced “Kernel” YT 5 minutes 36 seconds Today I Found Out Elvis Has Left the Building

YT 7 minutes 1 second Today I Found Out The Nazis, The British Accent, and BBC News YT 4 minutes 25 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Call Scammers "Con Men"? YT 5 minutes 34 seconds Today I Found Out When Doctors Literally Blew Smoke Up Your Arse

YT 3 minutes 17 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Bureaucratic Obstacles Referred to as “Red Tape”? YT 2 minutes 38 seconds Today I Found Out Where Does the Dollar Sign Come From? YT 3 minutes 40 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Knock On Wood?

YT 3 minutes 28 seconds Today I Found Out How Dick Came to be Short for Richard YT 3 minutes 49 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do They Say "Mush" to Make Sled Dogs Go YT 2 minutes 38 seconds Today I Found Out Why the Adam’s Apple is Called the Adam’s Apple

YT 8 minutes 51 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Breasts Called Boobs? YT 1 second [Private video] YT 2 minutes 53 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Homosexual People Called "Gay"?

YT 1 minute 58 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do People Sometimes Call Police Officers Pigs? YT 3 minutes 33 seconds Today I Found Out Why People On Planes Say “Mayday” in an Emergency? YT 1 minute 50 seconds Today I Found Out Why We Say "O'Clock"

YT 3 minutes 15 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Movie Advertisement Clips Called Trailers? YT 4 minutes Today I Found Out Why Do We Have a Seven Day Week? YT 2 minutes 23 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Carbonated Beverages Called "Soft Drinks"?

YT 4 minutes 12 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Ferris Wheels Called Ferris Wheels? YT 2 minutes 45 seconds Today I Found Out Why is the Hottest Part of the Summer Called the Dog Days? YT 2 minutes 33 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Call Crazy People a "Basket Cases"?

YT 2 minutes 41 seconds Today I Found Out Why do we say "Stat" when we want something done quickly? (and what "Wiki" actually means) YT 2 minutes 53 seconds Today I Found Out Why is Three Strikes in a Row in Bowling Called a Turkey? YT 2 minutes 8 seconds Today I Found Out Why is the Speed of Seafaring Vessels Measured in Knots?

YT 3 minutes 29 seconds Today I Found Out Why is "Rock and Roll" Called That? YT 3 minutes 27 seconds Today I Found Out Why is a Dollar Called a "Buck"? YT 3 minutes 43 seconds Today I Found Out Why is New York City Called the Big Apple?

YT 4 minutes 26 seconds Today I Found Out That Time Saying 'Ahoy hoy' was the Preferred Way to Answer the Phone YT 4 minutes 43 seconds Today I Found Out Why Coupons Sometimes Say They are Worth a Fraction of a Penny YT 5 minutes 46 seconds Today I Found Out Why is Someone Who is Lazy Called a Couch Potato?

YT 4 minutes 32 seconds Today I Found Out What is an "Amok" as in "Run Amok"? YT 4 minutes 14 seconds Today I Found Out Why is The Toilet Commonly Known as the Crapper (or John)? YT 4 minutes 37 seconds Today I Found Out Why is Greenland an Island and Australia a Continent?

YT 2 minutes 41 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do Some English Speaking Countries Pronounce Z as "Zed" and Others as "Zee"? YT 5 minutes 2 seconds Today I Found Out Why is There an R in "Mrs" When It's Pronounced "Misses"? YT 5 minutes 51 seconds Today I Found Out Why You Used to Have to Use Number 2 Pencils on Scantrons (and Why Pencil "Lead" is Called Lead)

YT 7 minutes 50 seconds Today I Found Out Why is Area 51 Called That? YT 5 minutes 58 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Ambulances Called Ambulances? YT 2 minutes 52 seconds Today I Found Out Why is Poindexter Slang for Nerd? (and Where the Words Nerd and Geek Come From)

YT 6 minutes 33 seconds Today I Found Out You're Probably Saying the "Ye" as in "Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe" Wrong YT 7 minutes 23 seconds Today I Found Out The Curious Case of the Claque YT 2 minutes 59 seconds Today I Found Out What is a Tarnation

YT 5 minutes 2 seconds Today I Found Out How the Phrase Red Herring Came to Mean Something That is Misleading YT 8 minutes 27 seconds Today I Found Out What's a MacGuffin in Films and Why is It Called That YT 4 minutes 11 seconds Today I Found Out What Makes a Vowel a Vowel and a Consonant a Consonant

YT 3 minutes 26 seconds Today I Found Out The Truth About Prepositions and the End of Sentences YT 1 second [Private video] YT 6 minutes 26 seconds Today I Found Out Did English Speakers Really Not Use Contractions in the 19th Century as Depicted in True Grit?

YT 5 minutes 18 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Expression Piss Like a Racehorse Come From? YT 6 minutes 47 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Call Parents Mom and Dad Instead of Their Names? YT 9 minutes 36 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Expression The Big Cheese Come From?

YT 4 minutes 47 seconds Today I Found Out Why is it Called "Going Dutch" When You Pay for Yourself? YT 5 minutes 25 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Saying I'll Eat My Hat Come From? YT 8 minutes 3 seconds Today I Found Out What's the Difference Between BCE/CE and BC/AD and Who Came Up with These Systems?

YT 3 minutes 21 seconds Today I Found Out How a Wife Beating, Serial Killer Puppet Gave us the Expression "Pleased as Punch" YT 5 minutes 16 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do “Mac” and “Mc” Surnames Often Contain a Second Capital Letter? YT 4 minutes 36 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Continental Breakfasts Called That?

YT 5 minutes 10 seconds Today I Found Out The Truth About "Elementary, My Dear Watson" YT 7 minutes 46 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Bull and Bear Markets Called That? YT 11 minutes 14 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Crazy People Called Mad as a Hatter?

YT 3 minutes 39 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Expression "I For One Welcome Our New X Overlords" Come From? YT 4 minutes 55 seconds Today I Found Out Where Does the Word Doohickey Come From? YT 4 minutes 13 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Grandfather Clocks Called That?

YT 2 minutes 35 seconds Today I Found Out Why Was Tuberculosis Called Consumption? YT 7 minutes 29 seconds Today I Found Out When Did People Start Using Punctuation? YT 3 minutes 29 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Word Meme Come From?

YT 10 minutes 35 seconds Today I Found Out Apparently We've All Been Pronouncing UFO Wrong YT 5 minutes 38 seconds Today I Found Out The Nazis, Hitler, The Internet, and Godwin's Law YT 18 minutes 7 seconds Today I Found Out Do Words Get Removed from a Dictionary When People Stop Using Them?

YT 6 minutes 27 seconds Today I Found Out Have Your Cake and Eat It Too YT 6 minutes 57 seconds Today I Found Out Are the Snozzberries in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Referring to Male Genitalia? YT 6 minutes 34 seconds Today I Found Out "Hold My Beer!" - The Story of Tommy Fitz and His Drunken Bet

YT 4 minutes 33 seconds Today I Found Out So, When Did We Start Introducing Sentences with 'So'? YT 3 minutes 32 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Say "Sic 'Em" to Dogs to Get Them to Attack YT 6 minutes 19 seconds Today I Found Out Why Are Haphazardly Built Things Called "Jury Rigged"?

YT 4 minutes 35 seconds Today I Found Out Where Do the Words 'Flotsam' and 'Jetsum' Come From? YT 5 minutes 12 seconds Today I Found Out Has a Major English Dictionary Ever Spelled an Entry Name Incorrectly? YT 8 minutes 26 seconds Today I Found Out How Many Words for Snow Do "Eskimos" Really Have?

YT 3 minutes 9 seconds Today I Found Out Why Are Alternate Names Called Nicknames? YT 6 minutes 5 seconds Today I Found Out How Did XOXO Come to Mean Hugs and Kisses? YT 7 minutes 12 seconds Today I Found Out Where did the Dunce Cap Come From?

YT 5 minutes 17 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Word Bimbo Come From? YT 2 minutes 37 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Say "I was Beside Myself"? YT 7 minutes 51 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Women Called Sluts, Dames, Broads, and Chicks?

YT 2 minutes 37 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Say "I was Beside Myself"? YT 7 minutes 51 seconds Today I Found Out Why are Women Called Sluts, Dames, Broads, and Chicks? YT 7 minutes 49 seconds Today I Found Out Why are White People Called Caucasian?

YT 3 minutes 58 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Say Costs Can be Footed By Someone? YT 4 minutes 51 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Expression A Penny for Your Thoughts Come From? YT 3 minutes 9 seconds Today I Found Out Don't F&ck with Me Fellas! This Ain't My First Rodeo

YT 5 minutes 11 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do American Football Quarterbacks Say "Hut Hut Hike!"? YT 1 second [Private video] YT 4 minutes 36 seconds Today I Found Out Why Week: Why are Special Days Called 'Red Letter Days'?

YT 6 minutes 23 seconds Today I Found Out Why Week: Why Do Racehorses Have Such Weird Names? YT 4 minutes 24 seconds Today I Found Out Why Week: Why Does Yellow Mean Cowardly? YT 4 minutes 41 seconds Today I Found Out Who Invented Braille?

YT 4 minutes 8 seconds Today I Found Out Did 'Scumbag' Really Originally Mean a Condom? YT 7 minutes 47 seconds Today I Found Out A Giant African Elephant and the Truth About "Jumbo" YT 4 minutes Today I Found Out Is "Beam Me Up Scotty!" Really Never Said in Star Trek?

YT 4 minutes 52 seconds Today I Found Out Ketchup or Catsup? YT 9 minutes 5 seconds Today I Found Out The Fascinating Story of How the Bowie Knife Got Its Name YT 11 minutes 35 seconds Today I Found Out How Did Extending Your Middle Finger Come to Mean F. U.?

YT 6 minutes 3 seconds Today I Found Out Who First Got the Idea to Answer the Question - Guess What? with Chicken Butt! YT 4 minutes 4 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the Expression Dressed to the Nines Actually Come From YT 4 minutes 21 seconds Today I Found Out The Real Reason Japan is Called the "Land of the Rising Sun"?

YT 6 minutes 50 seconds Today I Found Out The Surprisingly Interesting Reason Chicago is Called "The Windy City" Has Nothing to Do With Wind YT 8 minutes 25 seconds Today I Found Out Why Were Bootleggers Called That? YT 15 minutes 29 seconds Today I Found Out How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?

YT 6 minutes 22 seconds Today I Found Out Who is the Luke in Lukewarm, Why Country Designations End in -an, and Much More YT 10 minutes 2 seconds Today I Found Out How Did Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, and Dollars Get Their Names? YT 1 second [Private video]

YT 9 minutes 51 seconds Today I Found Out Why Viet Cong were Called "Charlie", What the "Bee" in "Spelling Bee" Means, Nerds, Geeks, and a Tip YT 1 second [Private video] YT 8 minutes 2 seconds Today I Found Out Why is a Final Performance Called a "Swan Song"?

YT 6 minutes 53 seconds Today I Found Out Why Do We Drive on Parkways and Park on Driveways? YT 13 minutes 43 seconds Today I Found Out Where Did the F-Word Come From? YT 13 minutes 25 seconds Today I Found Out The 'Scot' in 'Scot free', the 'Jay' in Jaywalker', a Dead Ringer, and More...