In which you will learn:

• The interesting origins of the Mexican National Anthem
• The difference between making friends in Mexico, the UK and Australia
• A heck of a lot of ancient etymology

In which you will learn:

• Why pregnant women were encouraged to drink Guinness
• Which beer's marketing involved telling people it wasn't all that great
• A whole bunch of political slogans from the last 200 yrs

In which you will learn

• Barbie's real name
• A whole lot more about doll-engineering than you ever needed to
• Absolutely nothing at all about Barbie's missing sister

In which you will learn:

• Exactly how many bricks it would take to build a lego house
• Which commercial set would take you the longest to build
• Which Harry Potter characters have been lucky enough to be bricked

In which you will learn:

• Which Oxford college bought a hall to retrieve something that had been stolen
• What strange items have ended up on the rooftops of Cambridge
• Absolutely nothing about any of the alumni

In which you will learn:

• What the first newspaper in the world was
• Why newspaper publishers in Britain in the early 1800s were NOT to be messed with
• What Florida Man has been up to recently

In which you will learn

• How Neil Gaiman got his start in literature
• In which media you would be most likely to find a work of Gaiman's translated
• A whole bunch of fun Good Omens easter eggs to look out for in the recent Prime tv series

In which you will learn:

• What Nell Gwynn's pet name for Charles II was
• Some famous descendants of Charles II and his various mistresses
• Where you can see Nell in London today

In which you will learn

• The tumultuous tale of Oliver Cromwell's head
• Why dear Oliver might have made a bad dinner party guest
• The extensive list of things he tried to ban during his time in power

In which you will learn:

• Which company aged with grace
• About the wildest thing a Catholic priest can do to celebrate his 100th
• How to thoroughly destroy Jazz