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The Amazing Story Behind the Bluetooth Logo
The Bluetooth Logo is universally recognizable since showing up on just about every smart device in the early 2000s. But have you ever wondered where the name and logo came […]
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Pusha T: A Rapper Who Wrote Music You’ve All Heard
The McDonalds “I’m Lovin’ It” has to be one of the most recognizable jingles in all of advertising. Did you know that a rapper best known for lyrics about his […]
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A Hidden Gem at a Government Auction – REWIND
Originally released November 14, 2022. A recent government auction listed a “1989 Airstream Executive Air Coach” with little to no details about its history. Internet sleuths soon discovered that the […]
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The German Christmas Pickle: Tradition or Marketing? REWIND
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? […]
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Nazis in America: The Madison Square Garden Rally – rewind
Originally released August 15, 2022. In 1929, as many as 22,000 Americans met for a Nazi rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden. It was an event of the German-American […]
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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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