About Listplained

Everything explained in minutes: animated explainer videos with cartoons, real facts and a joke every few seconds.

Listplained takes one big list and explains every item on it, one by one. Every stage of sleep. Every generation. Every type of phobia, every level of intelligence, every weird glitch your body and brain do. Fun facts, history explained, science explained and psychology explained, all told in simple cartoon style by our stick-figure guide, Curly, in a different costume for every item.

Fast, funny and properly researched: every fact comes from real sources, linked in each video’s description and listed under every post on this site. If you like learning something new in ten minutes, or finally understanding the thing everyone talks about, you’re in the right place.

Why a website?

Some lists deserve more than ten minutes. Every video here comes with a written companion post, so you can skim the list, jump to a chapter, or check a fact without scrubbing through the video.