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Two amateur history buffs quiz each other about people and events we all sort of know, but barely, and inaccurately.
The Forgotten Facts will shock you. Every Wrong Answer receives a high-voltage electric shock. It's Hot Ones...For Nerds. It's GET SHOCKED. |
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Episodes
All You Can Eat, But Shouldn't PART I - Season 1, episode 10
They say you are what you eat.
In which case, some people are toxic pufferfish liver. Others are a turkey head sewn onto a pig's butt.
Food is everything to us: life, culture, and community. For millennia we've put all kinds of things in our mouths, some of them deadly, some which seem - to modern eyes and ears - uh, questionable?
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Yummy Mummies: The Egyptian Prescription - Season 1, episode 9
Victorians ate mummies.
Let me say it again: Victorians. Ate Mummies. For Medicine. Many kept it around like aspirin.
Lay back, relax your mind, and let's explore all your Mummy Issues. Let's Get Shocked!
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Blood Rites & Wrongs: MesoAmerican Sacrifice - Season 1, episode 8
The gods give us life. And we must give them life in return.
Specifically in the form of blood, tears, and hearts carved from willing donors.
Nearly every ancient culture has their local version of the blood sacrifice to their gods. But the Aztecs created a ritual of passion, spectacle, and gore that goes unmatched. Let's Get Shocked.
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Taint Unusual: The History of Anal Sex - Season 1, episode 7
Birds do it.
Whales do it.
Ancient Greeks in toga tails do it.
Today, we do a deep probe into the history of anal sex. Grab you lube, unclench, and get ready to Get Shocked!
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Acid for the People: Hoffmann, Leary, and Putting 'Psyche' Back Into Psychedelics - Season 1, episode 6
One fateful day in 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann experienced humanity's first ever Acid Trip.
Over the next 20 years, scientists, governments and militaries experimented to learn discovered astoundingly positive therapeutic results, from decreasing anxiety to helping addicts go sober.
Then came Timothy Leary, hippies, and the political upheaval of the 1960's, and the outlawing of everything mind-bending.
Today on Get Shocked: The history of LSD.
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Mansa Musa: Gold Mines & Mecca & Mosques, OH MY! - Season 1, episode 5
The world's wealthiest man.
Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos? Elon Musk? No, no, and No.
Mansa Musa, "King Moses," leader of the Malian Empire in the 14th Century.
Net Worth: approx. $400billion in 2025 dollars.
Under the watch of Mansa Musa, Timbuktu became the center of Islamic learning and science. West Africa grew into an international trading force (supplying European nobles and elite with gold). Through all of this, Musa led the empire with a shockingly un-empereor-like hand.
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Vampires Are Real and So Can You - Season 1, episode 4
Vampires suck. And thank goodness they do.
But before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, stories and folktales showed vampires as stinking, filthy, peasants (no class judgment here – vampires just had these qualities).
How, in 500 years, did vampires transition from The Stinking Vampyr of Pentsch, to sparkle-chested Edward “I only eat woodland creatures” Cullen?
Well, immortality leaves plenty of time for a glow up.
Today: The real history of vampires. Or, the history of Real Vampires. Let’s Get Shocked.
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Booty & Junk: The Life and Crimes of Zheng Yi Sao - Season 1, episode 3
Who’s got two swords and went from poor fisher woman to Pirate Queen in less than a decade?
Today, Zing ‘N’ Jolts set sail for the early 1800s to track the facts on a woman who truly defied the patriarchal society of her birth. For young girls growing up in a poor fish village, there were two options: stay where you are, or sex work as a means of upward mobility (err…horizontal mobility?).
Today’s heroine took the second option, and boy did she jump the ranks, eventually running the biggest pirate armada every and living to tell the tale. Let’s get shocked!
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Frida Be You And Me - Season 1, episode 2
Dive into the life, loves, and art of the iconic Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954). The renowned Mexican painter, celebrated for her feminism, indigenous fashion, and relentlessly personal artistic vision, has become ubiquitous in pop culture. But beyond the headlines of her work and chronic pain, lie incredible – and startling – details.
Today: Frida Kahlo. Let’s Get Shocked.
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The History of Poop: Manure to Sewer - Season 1, episode 1
"I eat, therefore I poop." - Renee Descartes (mistranslated by Daniel Berger-Jones.)
Poop. Caca. Dookie. For most of us, it's an everyday activity. But how much do we really know about it?
And: What does poop teach us? Can we turn shit into gold?
Take the plunge into the depths of what it means to be alive and, therefore, to Poop. Let's Get Shocked.
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