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March 27, 2023Uncategorized

Graham Crackers: Invented for WHAT?!

You won’t believe why graham crackers were invented. When Sylvester Graham invented this snack in the 19th century, it had nothing to do with hunger. Well, at least not THAT […]
March 20, 2023Uncategorized

Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina – REWIND

In our history, we’ve had at least 32 “Broken Arrow” incidents: instances of nuclear weapons accidents that don’t cause a nuclear war. One of those was in 1958, in which […]
March 13, 2023Uncategorized

The Pepsi Cola Navy: Soviet Trade Gone Strange – REWIND

Originally released August 30, 2021. For a very short time period, the Pepsi Cola Company had the sixth largest navy in the world. It was the result of a crazy […]
March 6, 2023Uncategorized

Stinky Illinois: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

It turns out that iIn the mid-1940s, there was a rash of very strange calls to police in the small city of Mattoon, IL. More than a dozen people believed […]
February 27, 2023Uncategorized

Did Giants Exist? George Hull and the Cardiff Giant

It turns out that it’s pretty easy to convince people that a race of giant humans used to roam the Earth. Because of a biblical passage in Genesis 6, lots […]
February 20, 2023Uncategorized

General Patton’s Abandoned Rear

Through a strange misunderstanding, a small town in France maintained the grave of a fallen American soldier for several decades. It wasn’t a soldier’s grave at all, but a spot […]
February 13, 2023Uncategorized

The Explosion at Black Tom Island

One of the largest examples of sabotage during World War I happened half a mile from the Statue of Liberty and hardly anyone knows the story. On July 30, 1916, […]
February 6, 2023Uncategorized

The Men from Mars: Sideshow Exploitation

In sideshow exhibits around the world, George and Willie Muse were known as “Eko and Iko, the Ambassadors from Mars.” The truth was they were African American Albino brothers who […]
January 30, 2023Uncategorized

The Vexing Vampires of Venice

When a 16th century mass grave was excavated near Venice, Italy, a skull was found with a brick wedged in its mouth. Researchers have found the strange reasoning for the […]
January 23, 2023Uncategorized

ChatGPT: Our New Robot Overlords

Artificial intelligence has become so advanced that it can be nearly indistinguishable from human work products. One example is OpenAI’s ChatGPT – a program capable of writing everything from creative […]