Author: Gary Arndt

New Year’s Day is not only the day we turn over a new year on the calendar, but also a day where people start resolutions, companies begin new budgets, and everyone screws up writing checks. 

While documenting our trips around the sun makes perfect sense, why do we use this day, January 1, as the starting point for our calendar years? Why not some other date?

Learn more about how January 1st became the start of the new year on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

  

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The printing press is considered to be one of, if not the greatest invention in history. The printing press allowed for an explosion in information and it ushered in the renaissance, the enlightenment, and the scientific and industrial revolutions. 

As such, Johannes Gutenberg is often considered one of the most important people in history.

But did Gutenberg actually invent the printing press? Should he be given credit for this important invention?

Learn more about Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

 

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On December 6, 1917, one of the greatest tragedies of World War I took place. 

In a single instant, 1,782 people, mostly civilians were killed. 

However, this tragedy didn’t take place on the fields of Belgium or in a trench in France. It took place in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Learn more about the Halifax Explosion, one of the worst disasters of World War I, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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When you think of battles involving broadswords and longbows you are probably thinking back to the time of Braveheart. 

But what if I told you that those weapons were being used much more recently in a modern mechanized war? 

...well, at least one guy was using them in World War II.

Learn more about ‘Mad’ Jack Churchill, the man who brought ancient weapons to a modern war, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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László Polgár was born just after World War II in Hungary. His field of study was the nature of human intelligence. After studying the lives of over 400 great intellectuals from throughout human history, he came to a startling conclusion: geniuses weren’t born, they were made. 

So he set about conducting an experiment on his own children. The results were astonishing. 

Learn more about Judit, Susan, and Sophia, the incredible Polgar sisters, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

 

 

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If I was to ask you what the wealthiest royal family in Europe was, your first guess would probably be the British Royal Family. 

But it isn’t. 

It also isn’t the royal families in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, or even the wealthy enclave of Monaco. 

The richest royal family is also the unlikeliest. 

Learn more about Liechtenstein, how their family got so wealthy, and why the country even exists, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five who died of cervical cancer in 1951 at the age of 31. Before she passed, a tissue sample of her cancer cells was taken.

Those cells have been the basis for decades of cancer and biological research, and have also been at the center of one of the greatest medical ethics controversies in modern times. 

Learn more about the immortal Henrietta Lacks on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The bible talks of three wise men who traveled to Bethlehem bringing gifts to the infant Jesus. These gifs were gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 

I think most of you probably have a good conceptual grasp of gold, but what is the deal with frankincense, and myrrh? Were they really that big of a deal that they would bring it as a gift? 

Learn more about frankincense and myrrh, what they are and why they were such a big deal, on the episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Every year, people around the world celebrate Christmas on December 25. In many countries, it is the biggest single holiday of the year. 

Why is it celebrated on December 25? Is there any historical basis for this date and if not, then why do we celebrate it on this date?

Learn more about why we celebrate Christmas when we do on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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He sees you when you are waking, he knows when you are asleep, and he puts your name on a list. 

No, I’m not talking about an omnipresent surveillance state, I’m of course talking about Santa Claus.

If you think of Santa, you probably have a very firm idea of what he looks like, but how did this identity get developed? And where did all the lore around him come from?

Learn more about the history of Santa Claus and how his legend came to be, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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