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24 alternatives to Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

A new trivia-like series from the Freakonomics folks

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tell Me Something I Don’t Know launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Freakonomics▲97
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
When To Rob a Bank▲165
New book from the authors of Freakonomics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Think Like a Freak▲81
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
2014 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Freakonomics - This Is Your Brain on Podcasts▲60
Scientific evidence that podcasts are good for your brain
2016 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
5
Planet Money▲153
A podcast covering the global economy
2014 · its alternatives →
6
The New New Thing Podcast: Marketers and Scientists Have More in Common Than You Think▲54
An experimental podcast.
2017 · thenewnewthing.com · its alternatives →
7
Freakonomics - Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors▲58
Playing the Powerball? Learn some facts about the lottery.
2016 · wnyc.org · its alternatives →
8
Freakonomics Radio - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-buck▲58
A team of economists running the numbers on the UN's goals
2015 · feedproxy.google.com · its alternatives →
9
Data Skeptic Podcast▲64
Data/Stats/ML podcast with a great Mini series
2015 · dataskeptic.com · its alternatives →
10
Freakonomics Podcast▲7
The Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
11
Know It All!▲89
The snarky Apple TV trivia game.
2015 · its alternatives →
12
Freakonomics: The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think▲55
Kevin Kelly tries to predict the inevitable future.
2016 · its alternatives →
13
Invisible Office Hours▲132
A podcast for unconventional thinkers
2015 · its alternatives →
14
Exponent - You Don't Know What You Don't Know▲66
Winner take-all dynamics & @pmarca + India
2016 · content.blubrry.com · its alternatives →
15
Freakonomics Radio & A tiny behavioral-sciences startup▲61
The White House gets into the nudge business
2016 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
16
Freakonomics - Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?▲65
An episode about "Early Education"
2015 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
17
Prehype Podcast▲107
Entrepreneurs speaking to people they think are interesting
2015 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
18
Everything Is Bullshit▲86
A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · priceonomics.com · its alternatives →
19
FiveThirtyEight - Totally Subjective Odds▲72
A pre-launch experiment for their new politics podcast
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
20
Stuff to Blow Your Mind▲100
Podcast by the writers at How Stuff Works
2015 · iheart.com · its alternatives →
21
You Are Not So Smart - 072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)▲55
We lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
22
Exponent - 82▲61
Podcast about podcasts (and the podcast media problems)
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
23
Fooled By Randomness ▲105
The hidden role of chance in life and markets
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
24
Odd Lots - 3: The Strange Story Behind The Beanie Babies Bubble▲62
The 2 bubbles from the 90s: tech stocks and beanie babies
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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