Trivia Rogues Podcast (2026)

19/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🧠 Different parts of your brain can take micro-naps even while the rest of your brain is awake. That’s my excuse next time I botch a number on Tradio.

😢 The smell of women’s emotional tears can make men less aggressive. Studies found testosterone drops and aggression-linked brain activity decreases — even though the tears have no noticeable scent. So if someone says “crying won’t change anything,” science says… buddy, it absolutely will.

⛽ In Rosslyn, Virginia, a church was built directly on top of a gas station. Arlington Temple United Methodist Church sits upstairs, with an active Exxon below. Fill up your tank downstairs… and your soul upstairs.

🏜️ The Sahara Desert literally means “Deserts Desert.” “Sahara” comes from the Arabic ṣaḥrāʾ, meaning “deserts.” So when we say “Sahara Desert,” we’re basically saying “Deserts Desert.”
It’s like naming a lake “Wet Water.”

✨ Tinsel was invented in Germany in 1610. It was originally made from real silver, then later lead foil. Silver tarnished too easily… and lead didn’t. Downside: the lead version was kinda deadly.

🥂 Champagne was once used as shoe polish. The bubbles cleaned leather and the sugar added shine. Luxury problems required luxury solutions.

🦌 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was almost named Rollo, Reginald, or Romeo. And Santa’s crew originally included Flossie, Glossie, Racer, Pacer, Scratcher, Feckless, Ready, Steady, and Fireball. Somewhere out there, Feckless the Reindeer ruins Christmas.

👶 The Great Stork Derby was a real contest in Toronto from 1926–1936. A wealthy lawyer promised $750,000 to the woman who had the most babies in ten years. The prize was split among four women — each of whom gave birth to NINE children.

☕ In parts of Northern Finland and Sweden, it’s common to add cheese to your coffee. Cubes of squeaky leipäjuusto soak up the brew. Make mine a mochacheeseno. Ew.

❄️ In 1992, after a brutal winter, the Syracuse Common Council jokingly passed a resolution saying further snowfall was “expressly outlawed” until Christmas Eve.
Yeah. It snowed more in 1993.

18/12/2025

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🗣️ People in the Midwest are more likely to say “um” when they hesitate, while people on the East Coast and in the South tend to say “uh.” The West Coast is split evenly. Even our awkward pauses have accents.

🦵 Ostriches have four kneecaps — two in each leg. Which feels excessive until you remember they can outrun your car in a school zone.

📍 Across the U.S., baby Jesus figures in Nativity scenes sometimes have GPS trackers hidden inside them in case of theft. Just use the “Find My Savior” app.

🧱 Jenga is based on a real stacking game from Tanzania called nguzo. The Western version just added shouting at your relatives.

🐖 Long before the turducken, medieval Christmas feasts served “cockentrice” — a pig sewn to a chicken. What sides do you serve with nightmare fuel?

🧠 PRODITOMANIA is the irrational feeling that everyone around you is a traitor. Basically paranoia, but in your Facebook comment section when politics comes up.

👁️ There are FDA-approved contact lenses you wear only while sleeping that let you see clearly all day with no glasses or contacts. They’re called orthokeratology. Eyeballs now get overnight updates.

📖 The Oxford English Dictionary took 70 years to complete — and one of its most important contributors did his work from an asylum after being convicted of murder. “Peer review” used to be way more flexible.

🎄 In the original 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special, Santa never rescued the misfit toys. A new ending was added the next year after viewers complained. Nothing scares a network executive like angry parents at Christmas.

⛳ Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win Olympic gold, taking first place in golf at the 1900 Paris Games. She didn’t realize it was the Olympics and never found out in her lifetime. Sounds like her friends and family were below par too.

17/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🌋 Hawaii moves closer to Japan every year — about 2.5 inches — due to tectonic drift. Slowest commute imaginable.

📅 December 31st, 2017 was the only day in history where every adult was born in the 1900s and every minor was born in the 2000s — because the oldest 2000s baby hadn’t turned 18 yet.

🧤 In the 1800s, mittens were considered children’s clothing because adults thought gloves were more “respectable.” Warm hands were for kids. Frostbite was for grown-ups.

✈️ Before GPS, pilots sometimes navigated using roadways and railroads. “Turn left at the Walmart” was once a legitimate flight plan.

🎅 In 1972, Peru banned Santa Claus from national radio and television for being too commercial and foreign. Coal for a whole country!

❄️ The first snow globes were created by Erwin Perzy, who founded the Original Viennese Snow Globe Company in 1900. More than a century later, his descendants still run the company — and they still use a secret recipe for the snow. Big Snow doesn’t want you to know.

🥩 Salisbury steak was invented by a doctor during the Civil War to fight deadly digestive diseases. His prescription? Eat steak three times a day and avoid vegetables… because he thought veggies were toxic.
“Meat good, veggies bad” was not peer-reviewed.

🤡 On the original Howdy Doody Show (1947–1960), Clarabell the Clown was kept mute partly for budget reasons — a silent character meant the performer didn’t have to be paid at a higher speaking rate.
Turns out the loudest thing on the show was the accounting department.

💌 In 1997, a series of letters claiming to prove an affair between John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe were exposed as fake. One of the first red flags? The letters used ZIP codes — which the U.S. Postal Service didn’t introduce until July 1963… nearly a year after Marilyn Monroe had died.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Fraudulent.

🔔 In “It’s a Wonderful Life”, 42 bells ring during the movie. That means Clarence gets his wings… and 41 other angels we never meet.

16/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🦌 According to researchers at the University of Sydney, Santa’s sleigh would fly so fast that Rudolph’s glowing red nose would change color due to the Doppler Effect — appearing orange as Santa approached and nearly black as he flew away. Yeah. Science is a killjoy.

🎬 Dick Van D**e recently turned 100 years old. To put that in perspective, Babe Ruth hit 405 home runs while he was alive.

🗺️ Mansfield, Ohio — population 47,500 — is within a one-day drive of 50.3% of the U.S. population. Location doesn’t care about vibes.

🧠 Trichophagia is the compulsive urge to eat your own hair.
Clearly, that’s the diet plan I’ve been waiting for.

🍰 Fruitcake can last years — even decades — if wrapped properly and stored. Immortal. Like Cher.

🩺 After being bedridden for 11 years with an undiagnosed illness, Doug Lindsay researched his own symptoms, correctly diagnosed himself, and helped develop the surgery that cured him. I wonder if he billed himself, too?

🥜 Upper-class women in early 19th-century Greece sometimes used empty pistachio shells as artificial fingernails. Could be worse — there could be Lee Press-On Pistachios.

🥔 Boise, Idaho rings in the New Year by dropping a 16-foot steel-and-foam potato at midnight. They should follow it with a three-foot square steel-and-foam butter pat.

♟️ Elite chess players can burn thousands of calories in a single day just by thinking — with some estimates as high as 6,000 during intense competition. Checkmate to lose weight.

🎥 It would take about five minutes to knock someone out with chloroform — not two seconds like it does in the movies. When it comes to reality, Hollywood Hollywon’t.

15/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🍪 Gingerbread dates back to medieval Europe and was originally eaten to aid digestion, not celebrate Christmas. Dessert with a prescription pad.

🐭 Some mice act as midwives, helping other mice through difficult births. Teamwork makes the squeak work.

🍇 An Arabic version of “making a mountain out of a molehill” is “making a wine shop out of a raisin.” Same drama. Better imagery.

📸 For most of history, smiling in photos was considered radical. Mark Twain even warned that nothing was more “damning” than a foolish smile caught forever. That’s why everyone in old photos looks like bad news just dropped.

🏒 Canadian hockey player Ivan “Ching” Johnson didn’t start competitive hockey until his 20s and was nearly 30 when he reached the NHL. He still played over 430 games and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Turns out ‘too late’ is a myth.

🎅 Switzerland has a Santa helper called Schmutzli, whose job was to punish naughty children — sometimes with a broom. Coal suddenly feels generous.

🎨 Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is based on the view from his room at a mental asylum in France, where he voluntarily admitted himself. Out of pain, came beauty.

🧱 Professionals who walk on hot coals and broken glass say stepping on Lego bricks hurts more. Every parent already knew this.

🐍 Wrestler Jake “The Snake” Roberts is actually terrified of snakes, but still carried around massive pythons and even a king cobra — because there were enough zeros on the contract to make him forget his fear. Trauma, but make it profitable.

🥩 The world record for eating a 72-ounce steak was destroyed by a 120-pound woman, Molly Schuyler, who finished it in under three minutes. When your tapeworm has track shoes.

12/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🌌 If the entire history of the universe were compressed into a single calendar year, humans wouldn’t appear until late on the night of December 31st — with all of recorded human history fitting into the final seconds before midnight.
We are very late to the party.

🐱 Cats prefer their food at around 100°F, about the temperature of a fresh kill. Cold food can signal prey that’s been dead too long.
Your cat isn’t picky — it’s a tiny apex predator.

🧂 There’s a hotel in Bolivia called Palacio de Sal made almost entirely out of salt — walls, floors, even furniture. And yes, there’s a strict rule: no licking the walls.

🎈 The world’s first airmail wasn’t delivered by airplane, but by hot-air balloon in 1793, when Jean-Pierre Blanchard carried a letter from George Washington over Philadelphia.
Addressed to “current occupant.”

🗣️ According to surveys, Atlanta is America’s sweariest city, while Minneapolis swears the least.
One city’s “Good morning” is the other’s “Hey now!”

🎸 In 1970, Oregon hosted the only state-sponsored rock festival in U.S. history — Vortex I — to lure young people out of Portland during a planned visit by President Nixon.
Only in Oregon can crowd control involve a jam band.

🎶 “Who Let the Dogs Out” was actually written as a protest against catcalling and disrespectful behavior toward women — with “dogs” referring to the men doing it.
It accidentally became a sociology lesson.

🇫🇷 In France, Home Alone was released as “Mum, I Missed the Plane,” and Home Alone 2 as “Mum, I Missed the Plane Again — and This Time I’m Lost in New York.”
France said: let’s clear this up.

🌉 In 1974, a bridge in Vulcan, West Virginia collapsed. After years of inaction, the town asked the Soviet Union for help. A Soviet journalist arrived… and within hours, the state approved a replacement.
In Russia, bridge crosses you.

⚖️ In 1871, lawyer Clement Vallandigham accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how a victim might have shot himself. He died.
His client was acquitted.

11/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🦒 Giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any mammal. They must read the news too — that’ll crank anyone’s blood pressure.

🎨 The little metal band that holds the eraser on a pencil — and keeps the bristles on a paintbrush — is called a ferrule. Ferrules: keeping your paintbrushes from going bald since the late 1800s.

🧪 The world’s first true antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered because Alexander Fleming went on vacation and came back to find mold contaminating his petri dishes. He noticed the mold killed the bacteria.
Hey, that’s your sign to stop cleaning your desk — you might cure something.

⚽ The word “soccer” was actually coined in Britain, and Brits used it regularly until only about 30 years ago.
Then they dropped it and pretended it was our fault.

🧈 When margarine first hit the market, laws banned it from being colored yellow — it had to be sold plain white, and some states even forced it to be dyed pink.
Manufacturers got around it with little yellow dye packets people mixed in at home. Meanwhile, butter producers doubled down on tinting their butter so people wouldn’t confuse the two.
And yes… I am VERY aware this next line is terrible.
Ready?
Those copycows.
You're welcome. I'm not proud.

🐜 In 1999, skydiver Joan Murray survived a 14,500-foot fall when her parachute malfunctioned — and landing on a mound of fire ants helped keep her alive. She was stung over 200 times, and doctors think the massive adrenaline surge helped her hang on long enough to be saved.
Talk about adding insult to near-fatal injury.

🎄 CBS executives hated “A Charlie Brown Christmas” before it aired.
They thought the kids’ voices sounded unprofessional, they hated the jazz soundtrack, and they were sure the Bible reading would “ruin it.”
It went on to win an Emmy, a Peabody, and become a Christmas classic.

🎉 After a 1993 winter power outage kept the town of Bérchules, Spain from celebrating New Year’s Eve, they moved their celebration permanently to August. More than 10,000 people now show up every year for the “New Year.”

😭 Some actors use mint oil under their eyes to cry on command. Others think of trauma. The rest just picture their student loans.

☀️ In 2010, a Spanish woman filed legal papers claiming she owned the sun — and wanted to charge humanity a usage fee. Finally, a utility bill we can’t argue with… but still won’t pay.

10/12/2025

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🪐 Did you know… Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers, lakes, and rain — but all made of liquid methane and ethane, not water? So basically, Titan is the world’s coldest tailgate.

🌊 It’s estimated that about 3 million shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor — and less than 1% have ever been found. At this point, the ocean’s basically the world’s largest lost-and-found box.

🍺 In tomb inscriptions and pottery records, ancient Egyptians routinely poured out beer or wine as an offering to dead friends, family, and gods. Yeah — it’s basically a 4,000-year-old tradition of “pouring one out for the homies.”

💃 Dancing in perfect sync with someone else can actually raise your pain threshold. Ain’t no party like an endorphin party, ’cause an endorphin party don’t stooop.

🎄 Disney made a rare exception to its internal hiring rules when it cast Tim Allen — a former federal inmate for co***ne trafficking — in The Santa Clause. Nothing says holiday magic like a little felony flexibility.

📘 The phrase “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” comes from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Geez, I didn’t know Kelly Clarkson was so into German existentialism.

🎾 In his autobiography, Andre Agassi admitted he’s always hated tennis — despite winning eight Grand Slams. I can’t even unload the dishwasher without complaining.

🚗 The word “tire” actually comes from “attire,” because the wheel’s protective band was considered the carriage’s clothing. So yes, your car literally has shoes.

🦷 The Mexican border town of Los Algodones has over 350 dentists serving Americans seeking cheaper dental work — earning it the nickname “Molar City.” A place where the population AND the plaque are both concentrated.

😴 Courts have ruled that sleep-talk is inadmissible because it’s not the product of a conscious mind. So if you mutter something incriminating at 3 AM, legally it’s just dream noise. Would somebody tell my wife?

09/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🐕‍🦺 “Seeing Eye dog” is actually a trademark. It belongs to The Seeing Eye, Inc., the first U.S. school to train dogs for people who are blind. Only dogs trained there can legally be called Seeing Eye dogs — the rest are technically “dog guides.” Only in America would even dogs need to worry about copyright.

😴 Word of the Day: Somniphobia — the fear of going to sleep. People with it dread falling asleep because they worry something bad might happen while they're unconscious. My fear isn’t going to sleep — it’s getting out of bed.

⛳️ In 1974, an inventor created a hovering golf tee powered by air jets. It made the ball float just above the tee — and golf immediately banned it for violating the rules. Golf said, “Nice try, wizard.”

🍬 Candy canes were originally made to keep kids quiet in church. In 1670, a choirmaster in Cologne bent sugar sticks into shepherd’s-crook shapes and handed them to children during services. “Be quiet, or I’m giving you MORE sugar.” Bold move, 1670.

🏔️ You can’t get altitude sickness in Australia. Its tallest peak, Mount Kosciuszko, is only 7,310 feet — below altitude-sickness territory. Altitude sickness? Nope. Everything trying to sting you? Absolutely.

❄️ 2800 Polar Way in Washington is the largest freezer on Earth. The facility can store 350 million pounds of frozen food — the biggest refrigerated warehouse and automated freezer on the planet. Hey, do you guys have space for a package of Dino Nuggets? I labeled it.

🥔 Old Irish folklore claimed you could cure a wart by rubbing it with a stolen potato. Yes — it had to be stolen from your neighbor for the cure to work. Healthcare was simpler back then. Unethical, but simpler.

🤯 Apple’s latest chip transistors are only about 25 ATOMS wide. Modern 2nm tech puts transistor gates in single-digit nanometer territory. At this point the chip isn’t small — it’s shy.

🎬 A prop of Gwyneth Paltrow’s severed head made for Seven (1995)… was finally used in Contagion (2011). The unused head sat for sixteen years before landing a role. Some actors wait years for a part. Her head waited sixteen.

🎤 ’80s pop star Adam Ant used to walk John Lennon’s dog. Before he ever hit the charts, little Stuart Goddard was the kid trusted to take Lennon’s dog for a stroll. Talk about a Goody Two-Shoes.

08/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🌍 The closest planet to Earth isn’t Venus — it’s actually Mercury. Even though Venus comes closer at its nearest point, scientists found Mercury is, on average, the closest planet to every planet.
Because its orbit is smaller and quicker, Mercury just hangs out nearby like the cosmic neighbor who’s always in your yard.

🌧️ Rain is shockingly heavy. One inch of rain on one acre = 27,154 gallons and 113 tons. So blaming water-weight is real. If an acre can pack on 113 tons overnight, cut yourself some slack.

😴 In North Dakota, it’s illegal to fall asleep with your shoes on. It reads less like legislation and more like a rule made by your fed-up mom after one too many couch naps.

🍑 “Stark naked” originally meant “naked to the tail.” It comes from “start-naked,” where start meant tail — as in the very back end of the situation.
We’ve basically been quoting medieval butt humor for centuries.

🐬 Delphinophobia is the fear of dolphins…which Buffalo hasn’t had since the ’70s.

🎬 The hill behind the Hollywood sign was once flattened for a mansion that never got built. Classic Hollywood — spends a fortune on the setup, forgets to finish the movie.

💻 Apple lifted its desktop concept from Xerox…so when Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said: “Well Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke in to steal the TV, only to find you had already stolen it.” Tech shade, deluxe edition.

🥯 Marlon Brando wanted to play Superman’s father as… a floating bagel. He didn’t want to memorize lines or wear the costume — he wanted them to film a bagel and overdub his voice. I’ll take a Kal-El with lox — hold the red sun radiation.

🐶 The voice of Goliath the Dog in “Davey & Goliath” was Hal Smith…the same guy who played Otis the Drunk on The Andy Griffith Show. Only in the ’60s could one man be both the town drunk and the moral compass dog.

👖 A WWII sailor survived a sinking by turning his pants into a lifejacket.
Larry Savadkin inflated his trousers and tied the legs off to float for survival. My pants could save both Jack and Rose.

05/12/2025

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🦚 Did You Know… in medieval England, the rich used to roast full peacocks for Christmas dinner — feathers and all. It was more show than comfort food: the meat was dry, but the presentation made it look like kings were feasting.

📶 Did You Know… using your microwave can actually weaken your Wi-Fi? Both run on the same 2.4 GHz frequency, so every time you heat leftovers, your router gets stage fright.

📨 Did You Know… Nevada became a state because its entire constitution was telegraphed to Washington in 1864? After failed attempts by land and sea, the governor sent the whole thing by Morse code — costing the modern equivalent of $86,000.

📱 Did You Know… in some Brazilian cities, people carry a cheap “thief’s phone” to hand over during a robbery, while the real phone stays hidden? High-tech problem, low-tech solution.

🧱 Did You Know… a single 2×2 Lego brick is strong enough in testing to support a theoretical tower 2.2 miles tall? Just don’t expect that Lego skyscraper to stand more than a few feet high in real life.

🎹 Did You Know… some dolphins have been taught to play underwater keyboards? Not full songs — just notes — but still better than Maroon 5.

🍌 Did You Know… when bananas first arrived in the U.S., people ate them with a knife and fork like fancy little fruit steaks?

📺 Did You Know… in 2006, Guy Goma went to the BBC for an IT job interview, was mistaken for a tech expert, and suddenly found himself on live TV analyzing a legal verdict? He handled it like a champ… and didn’t get the job.

🐿️ Did You Know… the iconic squirrel-attack scene in Christmas Vacation almost didn’t happen — because the trained squirrel died the day before filming? The crew scrambled, brought in an untrained squirrel,at times used a model and still made movie magic.

🦵💡 Did You Know… a Dutch man named Leo Bonten had his amputated leg turned into a working floor lamp — then tried to sell it online for $80,000 before the listing was taken down? The listing was taken down because you’re apparently not allowed to sell human limbs… even if they match the furniture.

04/12/2025

📚 DID YOU KNOW…

🛁 Adding bubbles to a bath actually keeps the water warm longer. Turns out the bubbles act like insulation — finally, a scientific reason to take a ridiculous bubble bath.

🌲 The biggest park in the U.S. isn’t Yellowstone — it’s Adirondack Park in upstate New York. At six million acres, it’s larger than Death Valley and Yellowstone combined… and even bigger than five entire states. Absolute unit of a park.

🧪 If you squeezed out all the empty space in your atoms, your whole body would shrink to less than 2 cubic millimeters. Finally — a diet plan that actually works.

🏛️ In ancient Rome, the working class used the ultimate protest move: whenever the government treated them badly, they all just walked out of the city. The place basically shut down until politicians gave in. Historians say it happened at least five times — the original “try running this place without us” energy.

🧼 Early 20th-century Pennsylvania Germans considered it bad luck to bathe or change clothes between Christmas and New Year’s. I say it was bad luck for whoever had to sit next to them at church.

🚗 Current and former U.S. Presidents aren’t allowed to drive on public roads — ever. Secret Service rules. They can run a whole country… but parallel parking? Absolutely not.

🎬 For Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis stayed in character for months — even texting co-stars as Abraham Lincoln. Imagine getting a “U up?” from the 16th President.

🌈 Word of the Day: Pancallism — the belief that everything is beautiful. Try believing that after stepping into a gas-station bathroom that’s seen things.

🧑‍⚕️ A UC San Diego study found ChatGPT has a better bedside manner than the average doctor. Which makes sense — I’ve never had an AI sigh loudly, check the clock, and say, “What brings you in this time?”

🐌 France once told a guy he needed train tickets for his pet snails — until a court ruled that snails legally count as “hand luggage.” So yes, snails ride free, but only after surviving a legal battle they were completely unaware of.

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