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The Man Who Survived BOTH Atomic Bombs in Japan: Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was one of the only people to survive both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. He was the only one officially recognized as a double […]
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NOT TRUE! The Beatles Appearance on Ed Sullivan and NYC Crime
In this special “The Internet Says it’s NOT True” episode, we talk about a dubious claim about The Beatles: That when they made their renowned appearance on the Ed Sullivan […]
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The Weirdest Marathon: 1904 Saint Louis Olympics
The Marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics was SUPER WEIRD. One man was chased off course by wild dogs. One man was intentionally poisoned. Another ate bad fruit and fell […]
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Bucket List: The Internet Can’t Believe This Mandela Effect
The Internet has been blowing up recently with people who can’t believe this claim: That the phrase “Bucket List” originated with the 2007 Rob Reiner buddy film of the same […]
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When the Dodgers Killed a Community: Chavez Ravine
Dodger Stadium seats 56,000. It’s the 3rd oldest, and the largest stadium in Major League Baseball. But the story of how – and where – it was built is a […]
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The Red Ghost and The United States Camel Corps
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 have been considered largely successful […]
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Mark Meadows and the Dinosaurs: Trump’s Chief of Staff and His Dino Scam
Before he was Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows was involved in a Young-Earth-Creationist Dinosaur Dig with homeschooled children. The expedition turned up several incredibly rare fossils – a […]
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Hollow Earth Theory: John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
We’ve all heard of “Flat Earth Theory.” But in the early 1800s, a man named John Cleves Symmes, Jr. spread his ideas far and wide, to anyone that would listen: […]
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The CIA’s Top-Secret “Heart Attack Gun”
In 1975, The CIA revealed that it had developed a top-secret weapon for the purpose of giving its target a heart-attack – in some cases without even knowing they’d been […]
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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. […]
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