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• January 17, 2022Uncategorized

  The Battle of Los Angeles: Real Bullets & Imaginary Targets

  On February 25, 1942, the sky erupted with gunfire and anti-aircraft rounds. The ground-to-air assault went on for an hour, and the intended target was an invading Japanese air attack. […]

• January 10, 2022Uncategorized

  A Fire Burning Underground: Centralia, PA

  At the time of its largest population, Centralia, PA was an Eastern Pennsylvania borough with 2,700 residents. Now there are 5. This is due to a coal fire that’s been […]

• January 3, 2022Uncategorized

  LePique and Grandpré: The Hot Air Balloon Duel

  NEW EPISODE! In 1808, a lover’s quarrel in Paris led to one of the most interesting duels ever fought. Monsieur LePique and Monsieur de Grandpré both fell in love with […]

• December 27, 2021Uncategorized

  New Years Eve: The TRUE History of the NYE Ball Drop (REBROADCAST of Episode 18)

  Originally released January 4th, 2021. The dropping of the ball in NYC’s Times Square on New Years Eve is a tradition seen by billions of people around the world. But […]

• December 20, 2021Uncategorized

  The German Christmas Pickle: Tradition or Marketing? (REBROADCAST of Episode 17)

  Originally released December 28, 2020. Many Americans have heard of the age-honored German tradition of hanging Pickle-shaped ornament on the Christmas Tree. But is it really a tradition in Germany? […]

• December 13, 2021Uncategorized

  To Boldly Go: How Spacemen Poo and Pee (REBROADCAST of Episode 5)

  Originally released October 5, 2020. Using the bathroom in space has never been easy. And since the early NASA space missions of the 1960s, engineers have been solving this problem […]

• December 6, 2021Uncategorized

  The Invention of Karaoke: The Best Idea that Never Paid

  A Japanese man named Daisuke Inoue is credited with being the “Father of Karaoke.” What is now a $10 billion industry started with him creating tiny machines out of car […]

• November 29, 2021Uncategorized

  Operation Paul Bunyan: The Most Expensive Tree Trimming in History

  In 1976, a skirmish at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea led to the brutal murders of two Americans. The skirmish began over the trimming of a tree. […]

• November 22, 2021Uncategorized

  Jailing Political Opponents: Abraham Lincoln and Habeas Corpus

  Abraham Lincoln is known as “The Great Emancipator.” But not many people know that during the Civil War, he jailed as many as 2,000 political opponents without charges or trial. […]

• November 15, 2021Uncategorized

  Genghis Khan’s Bizarre Burial: Hidden Graves

  There’s an ancient legend that Mongolian Ruler Genghis Khan desired that no one ever know the location of his grave, so he sent an army of men to murder anyone […]