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Tell Me Something I Don't Know

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Join host Stephen J. Dubner of “Freakonomics Radio” and three celebrity panelists as they invite contestants on stage to tell us something we don’t know. It could be a fascinating fact, a historical wrinkle, a new line of research — anything, really, long as it’s interesting, useful and true (or at least true-ish). There’s a real-time human fact-checker on hand to filter out the bull. The panel — an eclectic mix of comedians, brainiacs, and other high achievers — will poke and prod the contestants and ultimately choose a winner. Like the “Freakonomics” podcast and books, “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” is still journalism, still factual — but disguised in the most entertaining, unexpected and occasionally ridiculous conversation you’re likely to hear. Produced in partnership with The New York Times.

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  An Astronaut, a Catalan, and Two Linguists Walk Into a Bar…
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  Extra 7: Corrosive Energy Drinks and Peruvian Cat Stew
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  Farming Without Sun or Soil and Eating Manna From Heaven
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  Mind Games
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  Jon Batiste, Gail Simmons, and Strange Smells
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  All About Bugs (of the Animal and Computer Varieties)
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  School Start Times, Brand Names, and Too Much Ground Beef
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  How to Count to Infinity
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  The Perfect Potato Chip, the Origin of Seltzer, and Why We Eat “Beef” and Not “Cow”
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  You Say “eye-RACK,” I Say “ear-ROCK”
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  Womb to Tomb
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  Season 4 Preview
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  Extra 6: A Better Way to End Basketball Games
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  Extra 5: The Actress Who Never Takes a Sick Day
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  Extra 4: The Most Renewable Energy of All
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  Extra 3: The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Rosé Wine
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  Extra 2: Meet the Senator Who Wants to Start an Evidence-Based Revolution
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  Extra 1: How the Mafia Got Its Start
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  Urinetown
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  Creature Comforts
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  Behavior Change: Ultra Egghead Edition
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  Three Sheets to the Wind
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  Medicine
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  Getting There
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  Family Matters
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  Cities
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  Politickling
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  Rivalry
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  Season 3 Preview
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  Music
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  Wannabes
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  Oh, My God
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  Money Money Money
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  Stupid Stuff
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  Under the Hood
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  Collections
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  Wordz
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  Athletes' Feats
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  Perfection
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  Season 2 Preview
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  Fool Me Once
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  Passion Plays
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  Things That Come Out of Your Mouth
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  Things That Go In Your Mouth
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  It's Alive
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  Strange Danger
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  Introducing “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”