# 10 Things You Don't Know About

10 Things You Don't Know About is an American history/biography television series on H2. It was initially presented by historian David Eisenbach for one season. Eisenbach was succeeded as host by musician Henry Rollins for the next two seasons. Each episode of the show presents ten facts about a particular historical figure, group, event, or aspect that are not widely known among the general public. Each fact is accompanied by relevant clips and, during Rollins's tenure, interviews with experts, as well as man-on-the-street interviews. The first season also featured results of an online poll surrounding the ten facts.
The episodes originally ran for 30 minutes (with commercial breaks) each during Eisenbach's tenure; the episodes became twice as long when Rollins took over hosting duties.
The show's first season, which featured Eisenbach, aired on February 27, 2012, running through May 7, 2012. The second season, featuring Rollins, began airing on November 2, 2013. The third season, also hosted by Rollins started on August 16, 2014.
A&E Home Video released the first season of the series on DVD on August 28, 2012.

## Episodes
### Season 1

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date |
| 1 | 1 | "Benjamin Franklin" | February 27, 2012 (2012-02-27) |
| This episode explores little-known details of the life of one of America's founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin Franklin is a fugitive from the law at 17Franklin pays for sexFranklin creates the American tabloid pressFranklin never flies a kite in a thunderstormFranklin is the first to chart the Gulf StreamFranklin owns slavesFranklin invents a strange musical instrumentFranklin is a suspected serial killerFranklin helps start America's first hospitalFranklin's sex drive helps win the American Revolution: Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy's husband influences Louis XVI to support the Americans. ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Abraham Lincoln" | February 27, 2012 (2012-02-27) |
| The private life of America's 16th president is explored. Abraham Lincoln Lincoln says he was enslaved as a childLincoln likes a good fistfightLincoln never joins a churchLincoln is a techno geek: Abraham Lincoln's patentLincoln once held views that are now considered racistLincoln has trouble with womenLincoln sleeps with menLincoln's best friend owns slavesLincoln's hat takes a bullet meant for himLincoln is photographed with his killer ||||
| 3 | 3 | "John F. Kennedy" | March 5, 2012 (2012-03-05) |
| Lesser-known details about the life of America's 35th president. John F. Kennedy Young JFK is a slacker as a studentJFK is addicted to dangerJFK is diagnosed with leukemiaJFK's first serious girlfriend breaks his heartYoung JFK carries a top-secret World War II messageJFK takes steroidsJFK's biggest political supporter is not his fatherJFK and Richard Nixon are good friendsJFK uses the IRS to intimidate his enemiesJFK warns Martin Luther King Jr. about J. Edgar Hoover ||||
| 4 | 4 | "J. Edgar Hoover" | March 5, 2012 (2012-03-05) |
| The truth about the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover Hoover is a Peeping TomHoover's father goes insaneHoover is a librarianHoover has the country's largest collection of pornHoover is the world's most successful sexual blackmailerHoover intimidates HollywoodHoover kills his neighbor's catHoover creates a gay spy ringHoover has the goods on Richard NixonHoover is buried in a lead-lined coffin ||||
| 5 | 5 | "The O.K. Corral" | March 12, 2012 (2012-03-12) |
| The truth about the exaggerated events and personalities involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral The gunfight does not happen at the O.K. CorralWyatt Earp is the pimp of PeoriaSix army mules cause the gunfightThe gunfight is a battle between Democrats and RepublicansBooze fuels the gunfightThe sheriff fails to stop the fightThe gunfight lasts only 30 secondsThe gunfight starts a blood feudWyatt Earp becomes a cold-blooded killerWyatt Earp looks for a movie deal ||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Roosevelts" | March 19, 2012 (2012-03-19) |
| Secrets of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are explored. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt FDR's mother wants him to dump EleanorFDR loves his wife's secretaryEleanor's unconventional girlfriends turn her into a political activistFDR avoids assassination thanks to a rickety benchEleanor wants FDR to become a dictatorEleanor falls in love... with a womanFDR used cocaineThe Roosevelts defend the White House against the British invasionEleanor hates FDR's policies toward Jewish immigrants and Japanese AmericansEleanor makes peace with FDR's mistress ||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Mormons" | March 26, 2012 (2012-03-26) |
| This episode explores lesser-known facts about Mormonism and its followers since the church's founding. The Mormons Joseph Smith is a treasure hunterBook of Mormons says American Indians were JewishMasonic Rites inspire Mormon ritualsMormons are targets of genocideJoseph Smith's wife threatens to take multiple husbandsMormons agree to leave the United StatesThe U.S. deploys troops to subdue the MormonsMormons massacre 120 innocent pioneersMormons own brothelsMormons banks finance mob-owned hotels and casinos in Las Vegas ||||
| 8 | 8 | "Pablo Escobar" | April 2, 2012 (2012-04-02) |
| Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's life is examined. Pablo Escobar Escobar is a potheadEscobar's first victims are already deadEscobar trafficks in cocaine-soaked designer jeansColombia's government helps Escobar launder his drug profitsEscobar succeeds by being both loved and fearedEscobar starts a war against his own countryEscobar burns $2M in a bonfire to keep warmEscobar's pursuers use his own tactics to take him downEscobar rises from the graveEscobar helps America kill Osama bin Laden ||||
| 9 | 9 | "George Patton" | April 9, 2012 (2012-04-09) |
| Little-known facts about American World War II general George S. Patton are explored. George Patton Patton rides with the grey ghost of the ConfederacyPatton is an Olympic athletePatton chases Pancho VillaPatton does not wear pearl-handled pistolsPatton and Eisenhower are nearly killed in a tank accidentPatton's belief in reincarnation leads to his infamous slapping incidentPatton helps fool Hitler about D-DayPatton launches a secret mission to liberate his son-in-law from a POW campPatton wants war with the SovietsPatton smuggles Nuremberg Laws out of Germany ||||
| 10 | 10 | "Caligula" | April 16, 2012 (2012-04-16) |
| The life of Roman Emperor Caligula is profiled. Caligula Caligula is nicknamed "Little Boot"Caligula parties with the man who killed his familyCaligula is a good government reformerCaligula builds the longest bridge on EarthCaligula makes it a crime to look at his bald spotCaligula appoints his horse as his consulCaligula is a working-class heroCaligula loves to be hatedA Roman historian writes of Caligula's incest with his sistersCaligula is assassinated because of a bad joke ||||
| 11 | 11 | "Adolf Hitler" | April 30, 2012 (2012-04-30) |
| Little-known fact about Adolf Hitler's life. Adolf Hitler Hitler discovers the swastika in churchHitler fears he's a JewHitler is a high school dropoutHitler is a momma's boyHitler is rejected from art school because he cannot draw humansYoung Hitler has a Jewish friendHitler fears sex and womenHitler loves World War IThe German army says Young Hitler lacks leadership potentialHitler enters politics working as a spy ||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Rat Pack" | May 7, 2012 (2012-05-07) |
| Features the group of actors known as The Rat Pack. The Rat Pack Sinatra does not start the original Rat PackSinatra's Rat Pack never calls itself "The Rat Pack"Sinatra saves Sammy Davis Jr. from the MobDino is not a drunkJoey Bishop is the brains behind The Rat PackThe Rat Pack invents its own languageThe Rat Packers are all fervent liberalsSinatra's mob connections are exaggeratedJFK interrupts his presidential campaign to catch The Rat PackJFK's cold shoulder breaks up The Rat Pack ||||

### Season 2

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date |
| 13 | 1 | "Presidential Assassinations" | November 2, 2013 (2013-11-02) |
| This episode explores the assassins and wannabe assassins of American Presidents. Presidential Assassinations Robert Todd Lincoln is connected to three of the four presidential assassinationsBooth's original plan was to kidnap Abraham LincolnThe first president to face an assassination fought backAn assassin did not kill President Garfield ... his doctors didAssassins' bodies rarely make it to the grave in one pieceA president was nearly assassinated at his home and it was not the White HouseOne film connects two assassination attemptsNo secret service agent has died in an assassination attempt ... but a mayor hasPresident Ford was targeted by the only female assassinsThe KGB was part of the real conspiracy linked to the JFK assassination ||||
| 14 | 2 | "The White House" | November 9, 2013 (2013-11-09) |
| Little-known facts about The White House are explored. The White House The Oval Office is designed to keep guests off-guardLess than one quarter of the original White House exists todayThe original White House is buried under a baseball diamondThe White House was originally designed to be a palaceThe White House used to have its own brothelThe President can add almost anything to the White HouseThe White House never refuses a giftThe White House bills the First Family every monthThe first person to live in the White House was not the PresidentThere are multiple White Houses all over the world ||||
| 15 | 3 | "The Founding Fathers" | November 16, 2013 (2013-11-16) |
| Lesser-known details about the life of America's founding fathers. The Founding Fathers The Founding Fathers were disgusted by AmericansGeorge Washington owned the largest whiskey distillery in AmericaThe Founding Fathers had money problemsAlexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were a legal defense teamMany Founding Fathers hated each otherGeorge Washington founded American espionageBenjamin Franklin hired 'pirates' during the RevolutionThomas Jefferson was afraid of confrontationThomas Jefferson wanted to outlaw slaveryThe Founding Fathers got many of their ideas from Native Americans ||||
| 16 | 4 | "Prohibition" | November 23, 2013 (2013-11-23) |
| This episode explores Prohibition and the little-known facts surrounding it. Prohibition Moonshine was illegal 150 years before ProhibitionPublic water fountains were built to stop people from drinking boozeJails were sold on the eve of ProhibitionThe government poisoned alcohol that killed nearly 10,000 peopleOne of the wettest spots in the country was Capitol HillIn Los Angeles the cops were the bootleggersA Jury was put on trial after it drank the evidenceAl Capone's brother was a Prohibition CopMany Mob bosses escaped a violent deathProhibition and the Mafia gave rise to Jazz ||||

### Season 3

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date |
| 17 | 1 | "The Flag" | August 16, 2014 (2014-08-16) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding the U.S. flag and anything connected to it. The Flag The first American flag was not designed by Betsy RossThe flag that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" had two extra stripesEarly patriots cut up the flag to make souvenirsThe first Confederate flag caused friendly fireAnother pledge existed before the Pledge of Allegiance, which included what would later become the Nazi saluteA man received 10 years in prison for refusing to kiss the flagMost Americans break the Flag Code laws everydayThe American flag is the third oldest flag still in useAll of the U.S. flags on the moon are probably whiteBurning the flag is encouraged by law ||||
| 18 | 2 | "Texas" | August 23, 2014 (2014-08-23) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding the U.S. state of Texas. Texas The Texas army could have escaped the Alamo100 years ago, camels roamed the Texas prairieTexas created a town just to watch a train crashTexas pirate Jean Lafitte had more ships than the U.S. NavySan Antonio was almost the movie making capital of the worldThe Texas Rangers violated borders to catch criminalsIllegal immigrants from the U.S. caused Mexico to lose TexasThe Texas Longhorns did not come from TexasTexas had the right to add 4 more states to the U.S.The worst natural disaster in U.S. history happened in Texas ||||
| 19 | 3 | "Civil Rights" | August 30, 2014 (2014-08-30) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding the American Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Civil Rights Lyndon Johnson taught at a segregated schoolRosa Parks was not the first woman to refuse to give up her seatMartin Luther King stopped Star Trek's only black actress from quittingZoot suits were outlawed during World War IIMalcolm X held a secret meeting with the Ku Klux KlanThe majority of the Black Panthers were womenA black student was jailed just for applying to collegeBlack and white basketball teams played championships years before the NBACalifornia had the most Jim Crow laws of any stateOne Japanese American spent 40 years fighting his internment conviction ||||
| 20 | 4 | "Edison & Tesla" | September 6, 2014 (2014-09-06) |
| This episode explores little-known facts about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and the uneasy relationship between them. Edison & Tesla The "war of the currents" almost led to an electric duelCongress killed Edison's first patented inventionTesla was inspired by Christopher Columbus; Egg of ColumbusEdison's x-ray machine was sent to save President McKinley's lifeEdison's storage battery was his most profitable inventionMark Twain was Tesla's test dummyEdison started writing a sci-fi novelTesla's dream of wireless energy relied on hot air balloonsEdison accidentally invented the modern tattoo gunTesla's first job for Edison was on a luxury liner ||||
| 21 | 5 | "The American Revolution" | September 13, 2014 (2014-09-13) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding the American Revolution. The American Revolution Many Americans did not support the Boston Tea PartyThe first submarine attack happened during the RevolutionA British officer could have assassinated George WashingtonA female patriot rode twice as far as Paul RevereAmerican troops starved at Valley Forge while many colonists got richGeorge Washington was nearly fired from the ArmyBenedict Arnold's wife was the real traitorColonial sailors attacked the British mainlandThe most important Revolutionary War spy was a slaveMore troops died prisoners of war than in battle ||||
| 22 | 6 | "The Hoover Dam" | September 20, 2014 (2014-09-20) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam Edison's company nearly built a dam at the same site 30 years beforeOne early plan was to blast rock from the canyon wallsA father and a son died working on the Hoover DamA deadly disaster in California nearly derailed the Hoover DamThe U.S. broke labor laws to build the Hoover DamThe Hoover Dam destroyed a townThe Hoover Dam leaked for nine years after it was builtThe only grave at the Hoover Dam belongs to a dogThe largest lake in California was created by accidentHeavy firepower was used to protect the dam ||||
| 23 | 7 | "Marijuana" | October 4, 2014 (2014-10-04) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding marijuana, especially its place in the United States. Marijuana No one knows where the word marijuana comes fromColonists were required to grow hempHemp bought some slaves their freedomCannabis used to be a rich man's drugThe U.S. government used to tax marijuanaDuring World War II, one could dodge the draft by growing hempThe U.S. government tested marijuana as a truth serumHenry Ford developed a hemp carHundreds of thousands of marijuana plants grow on public landThe U.S. government has grown marijuana for decades ||||
| 24 | 8 | "Money" | October 11, 2014 (2014-10-11) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding money in general, with some focus on money within the context of the United States. Money The military burned all U.S. money circulated in HawaiiThe first federally issued bills were all hand-signed... twiceRidges on coins were originally an anti-theft measureThe largest coin in the world is twelve feet in diameterIt was once illegal to own gold in the U.S.Local currencies are legal within the United StatesThe U.S. was once completely debt freeWishing wells were originally offerings to the godsLotteries financed early AmericaThe U.S. government would replace damaged money ||||
| 25 | 9 | "Las Vegas" | October 18, 2014 (2014-10-18) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding the history of Las Vegas and its culture. Las Vegas The Great Depression led to legalized gamblingVegas watched the detonation of atomic bombs for over a decadeA radar pioneer abandoned science to invent card countingHoward Hughes got the Mob out of Las VegasThe "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign was never trademarkedOne Vegas slot machine took 21 years to pay outFDR helped the hookers get out of Las VegasVegas led to Elvis's deathHidden catwalks were used to spy in casinosGambling ships in Los Angeles came before Las Vegas ||||
| 26 | 10 | "The Gold Rush" | October 25, 2014 (2014-10-25) |
| This episode explores little-known details surrounding the California Gold Rush. The Gold Rush The man whose name is synonymous with the Gold Rush did not get richOne square mile in Colorado held billions in goldThe Gold Rush created massive traffic jamsThe Gold Rush led to cutting-edge travel designsSome of the most valuable gold in California was accidentally destroyedVigilante justice was sanctioned in Gold CountryMore people got rich from water & supplies than goldA Gold Rush era secret society still exists todayDestructive mining created America's first environmental lawA fleet of ships that brought gold seekers still lies under San Francisco ||||