Your Earliest Memories May Be Fake, What Makes a Good Boss, and a 1990s Space Billboard

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.6	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.6	And I'm Ashley Heamer.
0:07.6	Today you learn about why there's a good chance your earliest memories are fake.
0:11.4	What Google says makes a great boss, and a marketing company that tried to put a
0:14.8	giant billboard in space in the 90s.
0:17.2	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:18.9	Cody, what's your earliest memory?
0:20.8	I think it's in my great-grandmother's backyard and there's Box Elder Bugs everywhere.
0:25.0	Wow. Because I've always had this terror of Box Elder Bugs.
0:29.0	Box Elder Bugs. Yeah. I have no idea what those are.
0:32.0	They're black and they've got red cracks on the back.
0:35.0	Oh. They're very distinct looking and they were all over the backyard and I was terrified of them.
0:41.0	Even though they're apparently, they don't bite or anything, they're super docile. of them
0:43.0	they're apparently they don't bite or anything they're super docile
0:45.0	doesn't matter when you're really little.
0:46.0	Yeah, I had similar things.
0:48.0	How old were you?
0:49.0	I want to say about two.
0:50.0	All right.
0:51.0	Maybe like one and a half, two years old old it feels like. Yeah. How about you? My earliest memory I think was around the same age and I was playing with this giant stuffed dog that someone had won for me at a carnival and I was in the hallway of my family's house and the
1:07.7	walls were orange and I was pulling the felt nose off of this dog. That is my earliest memory.
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