The Internet Says it’s True
By Michael Kent
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Episodes: 193
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Forgotten history, bizarre tales & facts that seem too strange to be true! Host Michael Kent asks listeners to tell him something strange, bizarre or surprising that they‘ve recently learned and he gets to the bottom of it! Every episode ends by playing a gameshow-style quiz game with a celebrity guest. Part of the WCBE Podcast Experience.
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A Special Announcement
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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The World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park Ride - Rewind
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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That’s Not Chicken: The Kentucky Meat Shower - Rewind
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Jailing Political Opponents: Abraham Lincoln and Habeas Corpus - Rewind
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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The Memphis Pyramid and the Crystal Skull - Rewind
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Peter the Eagle: The U.S. Mint’s Unofficial Pet Bird
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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William Rankin: The Man Who Fell Through a Cloud
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Abraham Lincoln Invented the Chokeslam - Rewind
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Thing: When The Soviets Spied and Got Caught- REWIND
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: Defying Gender Norms During the Civil War
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Self Surgery: Leonid Rogozov Removed His Own Appendix
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Honus Wagner T206 : Scandal & The Journey of a Baseball Card
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Birdman & The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Stealing Thunder: John Dennis & The Real Story Behind the Phrase
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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The Amazing Story Behind the Bluetooth Logo
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Pusha T: A Rapper Who Wrote Music You’ve All Heard
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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A Hidden Gem at a Government Auction - REWIND
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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The German Christmas Pickle: Tradition or Marketing? REWIND
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Nazis in America: The Madison Square Garden Rally - Rewind
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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The Red Ghost and The United States Camel Corps - Rewind
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Adobe Flash and The Demise of a Chinese Railroad - Rewind
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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London Bridge is Falling Down (and coming to America)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Sea Orphan: The Story of the Duperrault Family
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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The Hartlepool Monkey Hangers
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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A Halloween Digest - SUPER REWIND EPISODE
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Swindled in Wichita Falls: The World’s Littlest Skyscraper
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Petty Revenge: Warren Beatty and Dick Tracy
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Cooping, Election Fraud & Edgar Allan Poe
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Guy Who Invented Hand Washing
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Miraculous Sniffers: Smelling Parkinsons
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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New Atlantis and the Other Hemingway
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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BONUS EPISODE! Annual Patron Drive Episode 3
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Where’s Tom Browning? The Missing Pitcher
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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BONUS EPISODE! Annual Patron Drive Episode 2
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Unsinkable: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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BONUS EPISODE! Annual Patron Drive Episode 1
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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The World’s Smallest National Park: Saving a Tropical Island
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Mass Hysteria and The War of the Worlds - REWIND
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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The Man Who Survived BOTH Atomic Bombs in Japan: Tsutomu Yamaguchi - REWIND
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina - REWIND
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Willy Higinbotham: A Name You Should Know, But Don’t - REWIND
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Nub City: The Worst Kind of Insurance Fraud
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Torches of Freedom: Women’s Right to Smoke Cigarettes
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Tarrare: The Man Who Ate Everything
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Eugene the Mummy and Other Displayed Bodies
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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A Titanic Hero at Dunkirk: Charles Lightoller - Rewind
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The Hidden Village Under Central Park - Rewind
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The Confederados: The Confederate Flag Flies in Brazil - Rewind
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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LePique and Grandpré: The Hot Air Balloon Duel - Rewind
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Sovereign Sapling: The Tree that Owns Itself
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May 29, 2023 |
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Raised by Wolves: The Story of Feral Children
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May 22, 2023 |
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North of Waco: The Crash at Crush
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May 15, 2023 |
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A Frightening Problem in Florida: Wild Pythons
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May 08, 2023 |
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The Worst Way to Die: The Erfurt Latrine Disaster
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May 01, 2023 |
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BalloonFest ’86 - The Cleveland Balloon Disaster
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Origin of the Blaster: Han Solo’s Weapon in Star Wars - Rewind
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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The Invention of WiFi and Hedy Lamarr - Rewind
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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James H. Snook: Known for More Than a Hook
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Graham Crackers: Invented for WHAT?!
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina - REWIND
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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The Pepsi Cola Navy: Soviet Trade Gone Strange - REWIND
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Stinky Illinois: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Did Giants Exist? George Hull and the Cardiff Giant
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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General Patton’s Abandoned Rear
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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The Explosion at Black Tom Island
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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The Men from Mars: Sideshow Exploitation
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The Vexing Vampires of Venice
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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ChatGPT: Our New Robot Overlords
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The Bouba/Kiki Effect & The Shape of Words
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Nazi Meth Zombies: Drug Use by the Third Reich
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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New Years Eve: The TRUE History of the NYE Ball Drop - REWIND
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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The German Christmas Pickle: Tradition or Marketing? REWIND
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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That’s Not Chicken: The Kentucky Meat Shower
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The Strange Practice of Chinese Foot Binding
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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The Challenger Disaster and Big Bird - REWIND
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Ted Slauson: The Man Who Beat The Price is Right - REWIND
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Stupid Contagion: The Limping Ladies of London - REWIND
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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A Hidden Gem at a Government Auction
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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The Anti-Mask Controversy: It’s Not New - REWIND
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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OOPS! All Interviews - A clip show!
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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James Brown 1968: Healing a Nation’s Wounds -REWIND
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The Memphis Pyramid and the Crystal Skull
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Cabin Boy, Richard Parker
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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The Thing: When The Soviets Spied and Got Caught - REWIND
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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The Cross Florida Barge Canal
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Royal Family: A Hidden Documentary - REWIND
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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The Life and Death of hitchBOT
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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To Boldly Go: How Spacemen Poo and Pee - Rewind
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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The Incredible Legend of Theagenes
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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The Hottest Coffee: The McDonald’s Coffee Lawsuit
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Nazis in America: The Madison Square Garden Rally
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Is The Original English Accent Still Alive in Parts of the United States?
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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100th Episode Special! The Dublin Whiskey Fire: Why 13 People Died
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Mass Hysteria and The War of the Worlds
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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The Georgia Guidestones and Their Demise
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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The Plan to Blow Up the Moon
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Dumbest Civil Unrest Ever: The Straw Hat Riots
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Birds Aren’t Real: LIVE from the Columbus Arts Festival
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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The Nebraska Miracle: The West End Baptist Church Explosion (REBROADCAST of Episode 51)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and Lived (REBROADCAST of Episode 44)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina (REBROADCAST of Episode 38)
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May 30, 2022 |
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The Thing: When The Soviets Spied and Got Caught
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May 23, 2022 |
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Free Christiania: A Utopian Lawless Place
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May 16, 2022 |
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Abraham Lincoln Invented the Chokeslam
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May 09, 2022 |
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Why Sammy Davis Jr. Left the Church of Satan
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May 02, 2022 |
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The World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park Ride
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Overthrowing the Government: The Insurrection in Wilmington (REBROADCAST of Episode 27)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The U.S. Government Killed 10K People with Alcohol
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The Awful Reason There Aren’t More Mummies
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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The Man Who Survived BOTH Atomic Bombs in Japan: Tsutomu Yamaguchi
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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NOT TRUE! The Beatles Appearance on Ed Sullivan and NYC Crime
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Weirdest Marathon: 1904 Saint Louis Olympics
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Bucket List: The Internet Can’t Believe This Mandela Effect
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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When the Dodgers Killed a Community: Chavez Ravine
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The Red Ghost and The United States Camel Corps
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Mark Meadows and the Dinosaurs: Trump’s Chief of Staff and His Dino Scam
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Hollow Earth Theory: John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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The CIA’s Top-Secret “Heart Attack Gun”
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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The Battle of Los Angeles: Real Bullets & Imaginary Targets
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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A Fire Burning Underground: Centralia, PA
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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LePique and Grandpré: The Hot Air Balloon Duel
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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New Years Eve: The TRUE History of the NYE Ball Drop (REBROADCAST of Episode 18)
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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The German Christmas Pickle: Tradition or Marketing? (REBROADCAST of Episode 17)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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To Boldly Go: How Spacemen Poo and Pee (REBROADCAST of Episode 5)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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The Invention of Karaoke: The Best Idea that Never Paid
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Operation Paul Bunyan: The Most Expensive Tree Trimming in History
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Jailing Political Opponents: Abraham Lincoln and Habeas Corpus
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Genghis Khan’s Bizarre Burial: Hidden Graves
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Critical Face Theory: Facebook and Facial Recognition
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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The Worst Video Game in History: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Tell-Tale Shark: Jimmy Smith‘s Arm
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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A Titanic Hero at Dunkirk: Charles Lightoller
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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The Anti-Mask Controversy: It’s Not New
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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The Cobra Effect: Unintended Consequences in British India
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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The Confederados: The Confederate Flag Flies in Brazil
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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The Most Kissed Girl in the World
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Ted Slauson: The Man Who Beat The Price is Right
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Cuddle Clones: Barbra Streisand’s Dogs
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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The Pepsi Cola Navy: Soviet Trade Gone Strange
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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The Nebraska Miracle: The West End Baptist Church Explosion
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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The End of the World: A Doomsday News Video (REBROADCAST of Episode 26)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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The Vulcan Salute: The Power of a Feminine God (REBROADCAST of Episode 20)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Flying Under the Bridge: A Chuck Yeager Legend (REBROADCAST of Episode 11)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Mind Your Business: Our First Minted Coin
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Monte Carlo 1913: The Gambler's Fallacy
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Why is There a Tree on That Building?
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and Lived
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Hollywood: The Many Stories of its Name
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Marian Anderson and the D.A.R.
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Norton I, Emperor of the United States (feat. Song Salad)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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OMG - A History
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Adobe Flash and The Demise of a Chinese Railroad
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May 31, 2021 |
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Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina
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May 24, 2021 |
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Human Sacrifice and Mexican Food
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May 17, 2021 |
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The Challenger Disaster and Big Bird
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May 10, 2021 |
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Origin of the Blaster: Han Solo's Weapon in Star Wars
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May 03, 2021 |
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Stupid Contagion: The Limping Ladies of London
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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A Cannonball to the Stomach: The Story of Frank Richards
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Evel Knievel: The Naming of a Legend
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Harry Kellar: The Real Wizard of Oz
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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The Invention of WiFi and Hedy Lamarr
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Mac and Cheese: Thomas Jefferson's Fault?
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Who was John Doe? A History of the Generic Name
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Overthrowing the Government: The Insurrection in Wilmington
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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The End of the World: A Doomsday News Video
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Introducing: The Internet Says it's True
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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James Brown 1968: Healing a Nation’s Wounds (REBROADCAST of Episode 21)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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The Black Swallow of Death: The Tale of Eugene Bullard (REBROADCAST of Episode 13)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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The Hidden Village Under Central Park (REBROADCAST of Episode 2)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Royal Family: A Hidden Documentary
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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James Brown 1968: Healing a Nation’s Wounds
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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The Vulcan Salute: The Power of a Feminine God
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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The Pringles Can: The Man Who Invented it and his STRANGE Burial
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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New Years Eve: The TRUE History of the NYE Ball Drop
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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The German Christmas Pickle: Tradition or Marketing?
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Jumbo: The Jumbo-Sized History Behind the Word
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Orphan Trains: A Forgotten Piece of a Growing Nation
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Polio Outbreak: The Illicit Lemonade Stand
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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The Black Swallow of Death: The Tale of Eugene Bullard
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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A Sandwich by Any Other Name: Hoagies and Grinders
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Flying Under the Bridge: A Chuck Yeager Legend
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Flea Circuses: The Tiniest Entertainers
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Willy Higinbotham: A Name You Should Know, but Don’t
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Jasper Maskelyne: Winning WWII with Magic
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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A Sticky Situation: The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Lightning Never Strikes Twice: Except for Roy Sullivan
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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To Boldly Go: How Spacemen Poo and Pee
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Blue in the Face: How Humans Turn Blue
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Dung Beetles: Crappy Celestial Travelers
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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The Hidden Village Under Central Park
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Cap'n Crunch Has a Real Name
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Sep 07, 2020 |