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Overthrowing the Government: The Insurrection in Wilmington (REBROADCAST of Episode 27)
Originally broadcast March 8, 2021. There has been one successful coup d’état in American History – a successful violent overthrowing of a city government in 1898. Sadly, it’s a story […]
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The U.S. Government Killed 10K People with Alcohol
Bootlegging was an inevitable result of 1920s Prohibition in the U.S. And when the government tried to solve the problem, they ended up with a solution that killed at least […]
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The Awful Reason There Aren’t More Mummies
Did people in Victorian England eat mummies!? Was the flesh from mummies used for paint? In this episode, we talk about medical cannibalism, bad science and mummification. Then we chat […]
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13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment
Can you imagine having an extra month between June and July?! In the “International Fixed Calendar,” that’s exactly what was proposed in the 1920s. The only organization to adopt this […]
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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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