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Interesting Things with JC

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- Episodes vary in duration from 30 seconds to 8 minutes.
- All episodes are royalty-free except for #509.
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JC 11/1/22 JC 11/1/22

447: "Princeton Physicists Find Room-Temperature Quantum State".

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

JC 10/31/22 JC 10/31/22

446: "Trick or Treating on Halloween"

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.

JC 10/31/22 JC 10/31/22

445: “World Record Jack-O-Lantern”

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.

JC 10/30/22 JC 10/30/22

444: "Werewolves"

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.

JC 10/29/22 JC 10/29/22

443: “The True Story of Hansel and Gretel”

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.

JC 10/28/22 JC 10/28/22

442: "Salem Witch Trials"

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.

JC 10/27/22 JC 10/27/22

441: "Old Plastic Halloween Masks"

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.

JC 10/26/22 JC 10/26/22

440: "Hulda of Bohemia - the Witch of Sleepy Hollow"

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."

JC 10/25/22 JC 10/25/22

439: "The Headless Horseman"

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.

JC 10/24/22 JC 10/24/22

438: "Samhain & Halloween"

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

JC 10/23/22 JC 10/23/22

437: "Bacon"

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

JC 10/22/22 JC 10/22/22

436: "2 Signs in October"

Interesting Things with JC #436: "2 Signs in October" - Libra & Scorpio

JC 10/21/22 JC 10/21/22

435: "Tummy Rumblies"

Interesting Things with JC #435: "Tummy Rumblies" - Why is your tummy growling after you've just eaten?

JC 10/20/22 JC 10/20/22

434: "Countries with THE in their name"

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

JC 10/19/22 JC 10/19/22

433: "Hand Talk"

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.

JC 10/18/22 JC 10/18/22

432: "Jack Johnson"

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

JC 10/17/22 JC 10/17/22

431: "Wireless Telegraph Service"

Interesting Things with JC #431: Marconi starts the first commercial "Wireless Telegraph Service" across the Atlantic Ocean, linking Nova Scotia and Ireland.

JC 10/16/22 JC 10/16/22

430: "Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio"

Interesting Things with JC #430: "Disney Brothers Studio" - On October 16, 1923, Walt and his brother Roy opened a cartoon studio in Hollywood, California, called the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.

JC 10/15/22 JC 10/15/22

429: "Human Brain and Memory"

Interesting Things with JC #429: "Human Brain and Memory," unconscious brain activity likely drives the vast majority of our actions and behaviors.

JC 10/14/22 JC 10/14/22

428: "Ella Harper"

Interesting Things with JC #437: "Ella Harper" was born with a condition that made her knees bend backwards. This gave her the nickname "Camel Girl."