Interesting Things with JC #461: "Where Traditional Kampo Medicines of Japan Came From" - Researchers from Japan and China, led by Professor Toshihiko Matsuo of Okayama University's Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, conducted a thorough review of available Chinese, Japanese, and English literature in order to shed light on a long-standing mystery.

Interesting Things with JC #455: "Words ending with MT"

Interesting Things with JC #453: "English - The Language of the Sky" - During international flights, all pilots must introduce themselves in English. Interestingly, all air traffic controllers at foreign airports must be able to speak English with pilots.

Interesting Things with JC #452: "An Illinois-Shaped Cornflake" - In 2008, two sisters from Virginia discovered an Illinois-shaped cornflake and, believe it or not, sold it on eBay for $1,350.

Interesting Things with JC #450: “Love Your Lawyer Day" is observed on November 4, which is the first Friday of the month this year.

Interesting Things with JC #449: "International Sandwich Day"—Every year on November 3, the unofficial holiday commemorates the birthday of John Montagu and the naming of the Sandwich!

Interesting Things with JC #447: "Princeton Physicists Find Room-Temperature Quantum State".

Interesting Things with JC #446: "Trick or Treating on Halloween" - How it started, why we do it, and where it’s going! This special episode was inspired by Emma McMurray.

Interesting Things with JC #445: “World Record Jack-O-Lantern” - A gardener in Minnesota is turning the biggest pumpkin ever grown in the United States, which weighs 2,560 pounds (1,186 kg), into the biggest jack-o'-lantern ever made.

Interesting Things with JC #444: “Werewolves”-According to legend, "werewolves" are people who shape-shift into vicious, ravenous monsters in a powerful wolf-like form.

Interesting Things with JC #443: “The True Story of Hansel and Gretel” is based on real events that happened in the Baltic countries between 1314 and 1322.

Interesting Things with JC #442: "Salem Witch Trials" - 19 people were hanged to death for the crime of witchcraft, and one was crushed to death by a rock during a shocking and brutal point in American history.

Interesting Things with JC #441: "Old Plastic Halloween Masks"—Even if the outrageously gaudy Halloween costumes were uncomfortable, easy to tear, and didn't look like the characters they were supposed to be…it didn't matter.

Interesting Things with JC #440: "Hulda of Bohemia" is believed to be the "High German witch doctor" who enchanted Sleepy Hollow and left the town with a "drowsy, dreamy effect to hang over it."

Interesting Things with JC #439: "The Headless Horseman" - The story of the Headless Horseman starts in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and is based on some real events.

Interesting Things with JC #438: "Samhuinn & Hallows' Eve" - You can find the roots of Halloween in the Celtic Samhain festival in Ireland.

Interesting Things with JC #437: "Bacon" was first mentioned in writing around 1500 B.C.

Interesting Things with JC #434: "Countries with THE in their name"

Interesting Things with JC #433: The name "Plains Indian Sign Language" (PISL), also known as "Hand Talk," "Plains Sign Talk," and "First Nation Sign Language," refers to a trading language used by several Plains Nations in what is now central Canada, the central and western United States, and northern Mexico.

Interesting Things with JC #432: "Jack Johnson" is one of the most significant heavyweight champions of all time.