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Tell Me Why

Why do we have accents? Why do we pee so much? Why are we superstitious? The Moncrieff team answers some of life's trickier questions. Listen and subscribe to Tell Me Why on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Tell Me Why: what is Pepe the Frog?

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Tell me why we have the measurements we have?

Graham Finlay from the school of politics and international relations at UCD, joins Sean live in studio to discuss how we first decided on the meter length, the centimeter, feet etc.