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The Red Ghost and The United States Camel Corps – Rewind
Originally released February 14, 2022. Prior to the Civil War, the United States Army experimented with using Camels to transport cargo through the American West. The Camel Corps program would […]
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Adobe Flash and The Demise of a Chinese Railroad – Rewind
Originally released May 31, 2021. When Adobe announced it would be discontinuing Flash in 2017, developers started replacing it with newer, more robust software. But one railroad system in Dalian, […]
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London Bridge is Falling Down (and coming to America)
Did you know that London Bridge is in Arizona? In this episode, we talk about the history of London Bridge, it’s several iterations and how it came to exist in […]
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Sea Orphan: The Story of the Duperrault Family
When the Captain of a yacht was rescued in the Atlantic Ocean, he told a story about how everyone else perished when the yacht sank. Then one of the other […]
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The Hartlepool Monkey Hangers
There’s an incredibly strange legend surrounding the port city of Hartlepool, England. The legend involves how the town decided to hang a monkey for being a French Spy. In this […]
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A Halloween Digest – SUPER REWIND EPISODE
It’s Halloween! And for this spooky holiday, we’ve compiled 5 of our spookiest episodes! Enjoy hearing about: – a man who should be famous for inventing a veterinary device, but […]
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Swindled in Wichita Falls: The World’s Littlest Skyscraper
The World’s Littlest Skyscraper is a 100-year old office building in the small city of Wichita Falls, Texas. It was built in 1919 and surprised everyone when it was completed, […]
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Petty Revenge: Warren Beatty and Dick Tracy
In 2009 and again in 2023, Warren Beatty shows up on TV in the middle of the night on an obscure interview-style show. He’s dressed as his 1990 Dick Tracy […]
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Cooping, Election Fraud & Edgar Allan Poe
The cause of death of famed American Author Edgar Allan Poe has been a mystery for 174 years. But could it have been the result of a form of election […]
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The Guy Who Invented Hand Washing
Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian Physician who hypothesized about the importance of washing hands for hygiene. It was a very particular case study in Vienna that led him to his […]
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