Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

By Brady Carlson

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Three minutes each weekday of cool facts, weird news and awesome discoveries with Brady Carlson. Back us at http://patreon.com/bradycarlson

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Books And Authors Week: Meet Some Of The Oldest Books Ever Found
Jul 25, 2025
Books And Authors Week: Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End?
Jul 24, 2025
Books And Authors Week: I Review The Body Electric
Jul 23, 2025
Books And Authors Week: A Big-Time Librarian Kept “Goodnight Moon” Off The Shelves For 25 Years
Jul 22, 2025
Books And Authors Week: Never Skip The Dedication Page Of A Book, They Can Get Wild
Jul 21, 2025
The North Pole Moved Three Feet Because Of Dams
Jul 18, 2025
Watergate Salad Is An Actual Sweet Dish Named For Our “Long National Nightmare”
Jul 17, 2025
A Blood Sample From A Late Composer Is Powering A Musical Experiment
Jul 16, 2025
Guitarist Cordell Jackson Was Rocking Out Before There Was Rock Music
Jul 15, 2025
A Burma-Shave Ad Offered A Trip To “Mars,” And A Guy Tried To Take That Trip
Jul 14, 2025
Quiet Riot’s Biggest Hit Came From A Recording Session They Tried To Tank
Jul 11, 2025
Which Horse Is On Wyoming’s License Plate? It's Complicated
Jul 10, 2025
The BBC Once Reported That Cows Might Have Accents
Jul 09, 2025
A Shop In Small-Town Nebraska Gave The World The Tin Roof Sundae
Jul 08, 2025
Tiny Swarms Of Robots Might Help Us Get Through Sinus Infections
Jul 07, 2025
How Fireworks Illuminate Independence Day, The Way John Adams Wanted
Jul 04, 2025
The Original Version Of The Michelin Man Was Kind Of Terrifying
Jul 03, 2025
Graham Island, The Mediterranean’s Disappearing Volcanic Island
Jul 02, 2025
How Canada’s Flag Ended Up With A Maple Leaf Instead Of Union Jacks, Beavers Or Mounties
Jul 01, 2025
June Robertson McCarroll, The Doctor Who Painted A Line Down The Middle Of The Road
Jun 30, 2025
Fashion Week: The Jumpsuit Century
Jun 27, 2025
Fashion Week: The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System
Jun 26, 2025
Fashion Week: The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow
Jun 25, 2025
Fashion Week: Bioprinting Clothes (And More) Out Of Algae
Jun 24, 2025
Fashion Week: The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested
Jun 23, 2025
Monkeys Follow Some Of The Same Economic Principles As Humans Do
Jun 20, 2025
How The Juneteenth Holiday Spread From Galveston, To Texas, To The Whole United States
Jun 19, 2025
The Vatican Once Sang The Praises Of The Blues Brothers
Jun 18, 2025
To Get Kids To Eat Their Veggies, A Company Sold A Line Called “I Hate Peas”
Jun 17, 2025
Cracker Jack Originally Came With More Peanuts And No Prizes
Jun 16, 2025
The Man Versus Horse Marathon Is Pretty Much What The Name Suggests
Jun 13, 2025
Easy Listening Emerged From When Radio Programmers Tried To Target Women
Jun 12, 2025
The Centuries-Long Quest To Choose A Punctuation Mark For Irony And Sarcasm
Jun 11, 2025
The US Once Had A National Raisin Reserve
Jun 10, 2025
Don Ritchie, “The Angel of the Gap”
Jun 09, 2025
As The Allies Stormed The Beaches On D-Day, Bill Millin Played The Bagpipes
Jun 06, 2025
When Teenager Michael Chang Beat The World’s Top Tennis Player At The French Open
Jun 05, 2025
Tyromancy Is The Practice Of Fortune Telling Through Cheese
Jun 04, 2025
Living Wall Coatings Could Make City Buildings Greener
Jun 03, 2025
The ReefRanger Is A Robot That Could Help Restore Coral Reefs
Jun 02, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: There’s A House In The Middle Of France’s Loire River
May 30, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: In The 60s, There Was A Plan To Make Houses Out Of Heineken Bottles
May 29, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: The Spite House, An Elegant, Expensive Way To Get Back At Somebody
May 28, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: A Guy In Massachusetts Made Pretty Much His Whole House Out Of Old Newspapers
May 27, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: They Built A Real-Life Simpsons House In Nevada
May 26, 2025
Leonard Nimoy Once Drove The Bangles Around In A Music Video
May 23, 2025
When Mailman Floyd Martin Retired, The People On His Route Gave Him A Big Sendoff
May 22, 2025
Betty Crocker May Not Be A Real Person, But She’s Been A Real Help To Bakers For Years
May 21, 2025
How The Streisand Effect Makes The Information People Want Hidden More Popular
May 20, 2025
Ohio Was The 17th State, And Also Kind Of The 48th
May 19, 2025
Calvin Coolidge’s Family Kept Their Pet “William Johnson Hippopotamus” At The National Zoo
May 16, 2025
Williamina Fleming, The Onetime Maid Who Became A Legendary Astronomer
May 15, 2025
Stop Signs Used To Be Yellow
May 14, 2025
The Real-Life Kid Who Inspired Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day”
May 13, 2025
The Strange Story Of Ireland’s Worst Driver Ever
May 12, 2025
“Pomp And Circumstance,” A Graduation Musical Tradition, Was Not Written For Graduations
May 09, 2025
Oatman, Arizona, The Gold Rush Town That’s Now Home To Wild Donkeys
May 08, 2025
We Could Run Our Smart Speakers By Writing Into The Air
May 07, 2025
The Only Guy Who Ever Broke Into The Bank Of England’s Vault Of Gold
May 06, 2025
Chimps Apparently Like To Get Together For Drinks
May 05, 2025
Map Week: Every Six Months This Island Switches Countries
May 02, 2025
Map Week: Canada Was Almost Named “Borealia”
May 01, 2025
Map Week: How To Find Where You Are In Just Three Words
Apr 30, 2025
Map Week: Earth Has Five Oceans Now, But Also Just One Ocean, It’s Complicated
Apr 29, 2025
Map Week: Point No Point And Other Amazing, Actual Places
Apr 28, 2025
Ella Fitzgerald And Marilyn Monroe Were Kind Of Besties For A While
Apr 25, 2025
A Political Dispute In Washington State Led To A Weird Race Between The Governor And Lieutenant Governor
Apr 24, 2025
When Key West Left The US To Become The Conch Republic
Apr 23, 2025
Planet Earth Got Its Name From The Earth Beneath Us
Apr 22, 2025
Queen Elizabeth II Wrote A Letter To Sydney, Australia That Won’t Be Opened Until 2085
Apr 21, 2025
A Town In Northern Japan Says It’s Home To The “Tomb Of Christ”
Apr 18, 2025
In Sweden And Finland, The Thursday Before Easter Is The Time For Trick-Or-Treating Witches
Apr 17, 2025
On The Micronesian Island Of Yap, Huge Stone Discs Are Used As Money
Apr 16, 2025
A Museum In Virginia Is Home To A Ham From 1902
Apr 15, 2025
Don Calhoun, The Fan Who Hit The Chicago Bulls’ “Million Dollar Shot”
Apr 14, 2025
America’s Oldest Board Game Was A Road Trip Through The Early US
Apr 11, 2025
Walter Hunt Invented The Modern Safety Pin To Pay Off A $15 Debt
Apr 10, 2025
Pennsylvania Once Tried To Make It A Crime To Mock The Governor In Editorial Cartoons
Apr 09, 2025
The Physiophone Turned Music Into Physical Sensations For Deaf People To Enjoy, And Dance To
Apr 08, 2025
Beavers Build Dams That Can Last Centuries, Maybe Even Millennia
Apr 07, 2025
Some Spiders In Loud Areas Soundproof Their Webs
Apr 04, 2025
To Protect Riders, This 3D Printed Bike Helmet Contracts During A Collision
Apr 03, 2025
Scientists Sent A Diaper-Wearing Ferret Named Felicia Through A Particle Accelerator
Apr 02, 2025
The BBC Once Ran An April Fools Day Story About Spaghetti Growing On Trees
Apr 01, 2025
An Engineer Wanted To Add Car Ramps To The Eiffel Tower
Mar 31, 2025
“Wing Walker” Gladys Ingle Could Change An Airplane’s Tire In The Middle Of The Sky
Mar 28, 2025
Eliza Scidmore Lobbied For Decades To Bring Cherry Blossoms To Washington DC
Mar 27, 2025
The Supremes Were Such A Popular Group, They Had Their Own Bread
Mar 26, 2025
How A “Sea-Worm” Inspired Marc Brunel To Dig London’s Thames Tunnel
Mar 25, 2025
A Teacher In Illinois Made The Washington DC Trip A Spring Break Tradition
Mar 24, 2025
Farm Week: When A Giant Safe Showed Up In His Yard, A New York Farmer Decided To Embrace The Mystery
Mar 21, 2025
Farm Week: Dogs Are Saving Citrus Orchards From Disease
Mar 20, 2025
Farm Week: Robots And Soap Bubbles Might Help Pollinate Crops
Mar 19, 2025
Farm Week: Laser Apple Robots
Mar 18, 2025
Farm Week: That Time More Than 300 Nebraskans Moved A Barn By Hand
Mar 17, 2025
Tim Wong Became The Best Friend A Rare Butterfly Ever Had
Mar 14, 2025
SS Baychimo, The “Ghost Ship” That Kept Reappearing In The Ocean
Mar 13, 2025
Mitchelville Was The First US Town Led By Formerly Enslaved People
Mar 12, 2025
The “Petticoat Rulers” Of Jackson, Wyoming
Mar 11, 2025
In The 1950s, Groups Of College Students Tried To Cram Themselves Into Phone Booths
Mar 10, 2025
For 18 Days, Lake Champlain Was A Great Lake
Mar 07, 2025
During World War II, The US Used Trampolines To Train Pilots
Mar 06, 2025
Edith Keating Let The World See What The World Looked Like From The Air
Mar 05, 2025
King Cakes: Two Holidays, Three Colors, Lots Of Little Plastic Babies
Mar 04, 2025
There’s An Official Spanish-Language Version Of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Mar 03, 2025
The Most Interesting Story Out Of Boring, Oregon Involves A Boxing Champion And A “Town Pest”
Feb 28, 2025
The Philadelphia Phillies Were Also Sort Of The “Blue Jays” For A While
Feb 27, 2025
The Fight Of The 80s Was Johnny Cash Vs. Waldo The Ostrich
Feb 26, 2025
The Squeaky History of the Rubber Duck
Feb 25, 2025
The Keys To Rescuing One Dolphin? An NBA Player’s Long Arms
Feb 24, 2025
Paint Week: “Fordite” Is The Gem Made From Paint At Auto Factories
Feb 21, 2025
Paint Week: Really, Really White Paint Can Act Like A Coat Of Air Conditioning On A Building
Feb 20, 2025
Paint Week: The Race To Keep Day-Glo Paints Glo-ing
Feb 19, 2025
Paint Week: With Solar-Reflective Paint, School Playgrounds Are Getting Cooler
Feb 18, 2025
Paint Week: “Mummy Brown” Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies
Feb 17, 2025
Elvis Once Bought A Yacht That Franklin Roosevelt Used As President
Feb 14, 2025
Walk On This High-Tech Goo And It’ll Make Electricity
Feb 13, 2025
Long Before He Was President, Abraham Lincoln Was A Tavern Owner
Feb 12, 2025
For One Supreme Court Nominee, The Nation’s Number One Question Was About His Mustache
Feb 11, 2025
Margaret Horton Hung Onto The Tail Of A British Warplane As It Took Off And Flew
Feb 10, 2025
What Football Was Like Before The Forward Pass
Feb 07, 2025
Classical Music Can Calm A Fetus’s Heart Rate
Feb 06, 2025
Turn-On, The TV Show That Got Pulled Off The Air During Its Premiere
Feb 05, 2025
How Wichita Falls, Texas Became Home To “The World’s Littlest Skyscraper”
Feb 04, 2025
Lennie Gwyther Made A 600 Mile Solo Trip On Horseback At Age Nine
Feb 03, 2025
Let’s Jump Into The History Of Parachutes
Jan 31, 2025
A Guy Used A Loophole In International Law To Put Himself “In Charge” Of Western Antarctica
Jan 30, 2025
The World Of Fighting Fires Is Getting More Robotic
Jan 29, 2025
Researchers Added QR Codes To Bees To Figure Out What They Did All Day
Jan 28, 2025
You Can Only Drive To Michigan’s “Lost Peninsula” Through Ohio
Jan 27, 2025
Tiger Woods Once Hit A Golf Ball Behind A Boulder, Then He Got People To Move The Boulder
Jan 24, 2025
Never Forget That There Are People With Nearly Perfect Memories
Jan 23, 2025
The Dogs That Made The Serum Run To Nome, Alaska Were Very, Very Good Dogs
Jan 22, 2025
Marysville, Kansas, The Town Where Black Squirrels Are Number One
Jan 21, 2025
Not All Of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Biggest Fans Are Fans Of The Biggest MLK Monuments
Jan 20, 2025
For Crops In The Desert, Try These Inflatable Container Farms
Jan 17, 2025
The Plan To Build A New US Highway With Nuclear Bombs
Jan 16, 2025
A Jury In An Illegal Liquor Case Deliberated By “Testing” The Evidence
Jan 15, 2025
Wausau, Wisconsin (Kind Of) Banned Snowball Fights For Over A Century
Jan 14, 2025
A County In Texas Officially Greeted People With “Heaven-o” Instead Of “Hello”
Jan 13, 2025
Mountain Week: The Race Up The World’s Longest Staircase
Jan 10, 2025
Mountain Week: The Dog That Climbed All Of New Hampshire’s 4,000 Foot Mountains
Jan 09, 2025
Mountain Week: The Guy Who Climbed Mount Hood To Drop Off A Morning Paper For His Friends
Jan 08, 2025
Mountain Week: The Mountain That’s Higher Than The Highest Mountain
Jan 07, 2025
Mountain Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
Jan 06, 2025
Greenland Starts The New Year With Visits From Silent Masked Visitors
Jan 03, 2025
A Lawmaker Tried To Get Americans To Eat Hippo Meat, AKA “Lake Bacon”
Jan 02, 2025
The Oxford Electric Bell Has Been Ringing For Over 175 Years
Jan 01, 2025
The British Comedy Sketch That’s A New Year’s Eve Tradition In Germany
Dec 31, 2024
Albert Gunter Had To Jump London’s Tower Bridge While Driving A Double Decker Bus
Dec 30, 2024
In Wales, Mari Lwyd Brings A Costumed Horse Skull To Your Door For Some Winter Fun
Dec 27, 2024
Hanukkah Will Skip The Year 3031 And Go Straight To 3032
Dec 26, 2024
Black Cake Makes Christmas In The Caribbean Sweet And Delicious
Dec 25, 2024
At Christmas In Iceland, It’s All About The Books
Dec 24, 2024
There’s A Rooftop Sign That Reads “Welcome To Cleveland” But It’s Not In Cleveland
Dec 23, 2024
A 24/7 Diner Chain Gave Its Workers Christmas Day Off, Then It Had To Figure Out How To Close
Dec 20, 2024
Poinsettias Have Gone By A Whole Lot Of Names Over Time
Dec 19, 2024
Animation Legend Chuck Jones Made Dr. Seuss’s Grinch A Part Of TV History
Dec 18, 2024
Chas Newby, Beatle Bassist For Two Weeks
Dec 17, 2024
May Kaarlus Was A Trick Shot Billiard Prodigy Who Walked Away From It All
Dec 16, 2024
The Advent Calendar Turns The Month Of December Into A Christmas Countdown
Dec 13, 2024
Movie Critic Gene Siskel Helped Make A Popcorn Company A Chicago Icon
Dec 12, 2024
Apollo 17 Proved People Can Be Allergic To Moon Dust
Dec 11, 2024
For Over A Century, Kids Have Been Writing Amazing And Sometimes Bewildering Letters To Santa
Dec 10, 2024
Charlie Brown Is A Blockhead, But He Did Star In A Great Christmas Special
Dec 09, 2024
Troublemakers Beware, It’s Time For Austria’s Krampus Parades
Dec 06, 2024
Ernest Bazin Invented A Ship With Rolling "Wheels" And Named It After Himself
Dec 05, 2024
Joe Hickel Made Massive Gingerbread Villages At An Alaska Hotel For Decades
Dec 04, 2024
Pink Floyd’s Inflatable Pig Once Got Loose Over London
Dec 03, 2024
When Gas Was In Short Supply, Some Europeans Drove Firewood-Powered Cars
Dec 02, 2024
Thanksgiving Week: When “WKRP” Thought Turkeys Could Fly For Thanksgiving
Nov 29, 2024
Thanksgiving Week: Wanda And Jamal, The Best Accidental Thanksgiving Friends Ever
Nov 28, 2024
Thanksgiving Week: How Thanksgiving Leftovers Led To TV Dinners
Nov 27, 2024
Thanksgiving Week: We’re Grateful For Off The Wall Thanksgiving Sides
Nov 26, 2024
Thanksgiving Week: When The Macy’s Parade Rickrolled Thanksgiving
Nov 25, 2024
The “Butt Fumble” Made The New York Jets The Butt Of Endless Football Jokes
Nov 22, 2024
People Named A North Carolina Town ‘Whynot’ Because Why Not
Nov 21, 2024
Clyde Stubblefield, Music’s Original Funky Drummer
Nov 20, 2024
What Is The Deal With This Bathroom On The Cal Poly Campus
Nov 19, 2024
Touch Tone Phones Freed Callers From All That Rotary Dialing
Nov 18, 2024
Australia’s Navy Helped Save A Six Year Old’s Life By Enlisting Her
Nov 15, 2024
Movie Star Veronica Lake Gave Up Her Trademark Hairstyle For The War Effort
Nov 14, 2024
The Really (Expletive) Complicated History Of Swearing On TV
Nov 13, 2024
The Leonid Meteor Storm Of 1833 Was “The Night The Stars Fell”
Nov 12, 2024
Doug Hegdahl’s Razor-Sharp Memory Helped Hundreds Of American POWs In Vietnam
Nov 11, 2024
The Black Dog That Helped Inspire Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”
Nov 08, 2024
When Theodore Roosevelt Got A Full Term As President, He Also Got Two Ostriches
Nov 07, 2024
New York City Cabs Used To Have Celebrities Remind Passengers To Buckle Up
Nov 06, 2024
Hartford Election Cake Is An Old-School Way To Eat Your Way Through A Campaign
Nov 05, 2024
The Easy-Bake Oven Has Put Kids At The Forefront Of Lightbulb-Based Cooking For Decades
Nov 04, 2024
Pan de Muerto Is The Day of the Dead’s Signature Bread
Nov 01, 2024
Charlie Brown’s TV Neighbors Gave Him Rocks For Halloween, But Real People Sent Him Candy
Oct 31, 2024
John Adams And Ben Franklin Shared A Room Once And Spent The Night Arguing About The Window
Oct 30, 2024
Karolina Olsson, “The Sleeper of Oknö,” Woke Up After 32 Years In Bed
Oct 29, 2024
The “Logan Bar” Was Not-So-Sweet Chocolate And That’s Just How The US Military Wanted It
Oct 28, 2024
A Town In Colorado Holds Coffin Races
Oct 25, 2024
Norwood, Ontario Had A Water Tower That Looked Like A Crushed Can
Oct 23, 2024
William Lyttle, The “Mole Man” Who Dug Tunnels Around His London Home
Oct 23, 2024
Scientists Once Trained Rats To Drive Little Cars
Oct 22, 2024
William A. Mitchell, The King Of Space Age Snacks
Oct 21, 2024
Flag Week: It’s Not Just A Giant American Flag, It’s Superflag
Oct 18, 2024
Flag Week: Benny Benson, The 13 Year Old Who Designed Alaska’s Flag
Oct 17, 2024
Flag Week: Bob Heft Designed The 50-Star U.S. Flag In High School
Oct 16, 2024
Flag Week: The Star-Spangled Banner That Inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Oct 15, 2024
Flag Week: Betsy Ross May Not Have Made The First Flag, But She Really Did Make Flags
Oct 14, 2024
Could Smart Tech And Music Playlists Help People Stay Sober?
Oct 11, 2024
Ed Wood, The Filmmaker Who Made The Best Worst Movies Ever
Oct 10, 2024
The Great Naha Tug of War Gets Thousands Of People Pulling And Partying
Oct 09, 2024
Somebody Put A Big Pumpkin Way Up On Top Of A Cornell University Tower
Oct 08, 2024
The New York Times Used To Have A Period In Its Logo
Oct 07, 2024
Sputnik Kicked Off The Space Age, And Also Gave Us The Word “Beatnik”
Oct 04, 2024
Even The Inventor Of Inline Skates Crashed Once In A While
Oct 03, 2024
The History Of Margarine Hasn’t Always Been Smooth
Oct 02, 2024
The New York Earth Room Is An Apartment Filled With Dirt, For Art’s Sake
Oct 01, 2024
Barry Marshall Pinpointed The Cause Of Most Ulcers By Giving Himself One
Sep 30, 2024
Rabbit Show Jumping Might Be The Most Adorable Sport
Sep 27, 2024
In Iceland, People Help Baby Puffins By Throwing Them Off Cliffs
Sep 26, 2024
Keeping Mold From Growing On Space Stations Takes Extra Effort, But It’s Worth It
Sep 25, 2024
Jimmy Doolittle Proved Pilots Can Fly Completely By Instruments
Sep 24, 2024
The “Space Capsule” On The Roadside Near Winganon, Oklahoma
Sep 23, 2024
Why Did The Fonz Jump The Shark In The First Place?
Sep 20, 2024
Dean Jones Put On A Cricket Clinic While He Was Sick And Extremely Dehydrated
Sep 19, 2024
Jim Delligatti, The Father Of The Big Mac
Sep 18, 2024
Sometimes Just A Five Second Break Is All It Takes To Get Along Better With A Spouse
Sep 17, 2024
In Post-War Yugoslavia, Mariachi Music Was A Huge Hit
Sep 16, 2024
Mister Rogers Made Friday The 13th A Fun Day In The Neighborhood Of Make-Believe
Sep 13, 2024
Even The Harlem Globetrotters Haven’t Won Every Game They’ve Played
Sep 12, 2024
When Planes Were Grounded On 9-11, People Came Together To Get A Donor Liver To A Baby For A Life-Saving Transplant
Sep 11, 2024
An NFL Team Drafted Norm Michael In College, But He Didn’t Find Out Until 55 Years Later
Sep 10, 2024
Colonel Sanders Was The Face Of KFC, And Occasionally Its Vocal Critic
Sep 09, 2024
Pacemaker Pioneer Wilson Greatbatch Helped Millions Of Hearts
Sep 06, 2024
A Group Of Teens Got Stranded On A Pacific Island For 15 Months, And Never Went All “Lord Of The Flies” On Each Other
Sep 05, 2024
Baby Food Giant Gerber Once Sold Jars Of Mushed Up Food For Adults
Sep 04, 2024
Charles Downing Lay, America’s Olympic Medalist In Town Planning
Sep 03, 2024
Did A Department Store Really Keep A Guy On Staff To Be “Fired” In Front Of Angry Customers?
Sep 02, 2024
Astronomy Week: The Hubble Telescope’s First Space Photo Was Kind Of Blurry
Aug 30, 2024
Astronomy Week: What Was July 4th Like Before The Fourth Of July?
Aug 29, 2024
Astronomy Week: Cincinnati Built An Observatory Any Stargazer Could Use
Aug 28, 2024
Astronomy Week: Caroline Herschel Discovered Comets And Became A Star
Aug 27, 2024
Astronomy Week: Guillaume Le Gentil, The 18th Century Astronomer With the Worst Luck
Aug 26, 2024
A Churchgoer In Spain Did “The Worst Art Restoration Project Of All Time”
Aug 23, 2024
The Sun Would Be Very Loud If You Could Hear In Space
Aug 22, 2024
After His Legendary Basketball Career, Wilt Chamberlain Became A Pro Volleyball Player
Aug 21, 2024
In Delaware, Drivers Can Auction Off Their License Plates For Big Bucks
Aug 20, 2024
Long Before Photoshop, Photographers Knew How To “Photoshop” Photos
Aug 19, 2024
The Iowa State Fair Has A Husband Calling Contest
Aug 16, 2024
Ignacio Anaya García, The Inventor Of Nachos
Aug 15, 2024
In The Early 20th Century, Some Americans Thought Tipping Was Horrible
Aug 14, 2024
The Grateful Dead Once Jammed With Live Crickets
Aug 13, 2024
Scientists Are Teaching Batteries To Put Themselves Out If They Catch On Fire
Aug 12, 2024
George Sutton Made His Name Playing Billiards After Losing His Hands
Aug 09, 2024
Two Countries Showed Up At The 1936 Olympics Flying Identical Flags
Aug 08, 2024
Lynne Cox Made A Cold Swim From The US To The USSR During The Cold War
Aug 07, 2024
Gertrude Ederle Set A Record For Swimming The English Channel, And She Did It In A Thunderstorm
Aug 06, 2024
There’s A Far-Off Planet Sometimes Called Earth’s Evil Twin
Aug 05, 2024
Olympians Week: The Original Olympic Flag Went Missing For Over 70 Years
Aug 02, 2024
Olympians Week: Two Olympians Turned A Silver And A Bronze Into “Medals Of Friendship”
Aug 01, 2024
Olympians Week: Margaret Abbott Won Olympic Gold Even Though She Didn’t Know She Was In The Olympics
Jul 31, 2024
Olympians Week: “Eric The Eel” Won An Olympic Heat With The Slowest Time In The Field
Jul 30, 2024
Olympians Week: The 1904 Men’s Marathon Was The Weirdest Olympic Race Ever
Jul 29, 2024
William Rankin Fell Through A Thundercloud And Lived
Jul 26, 2024
Tom Stuker Used His Lifetime Airline Ticket To Travel More Than 24 Million Miles
Jul 25, 2024
The Bee Gees And Peter Frampton Starred In A Sgt. Pepper Movie That Was A Glorious 70s Trainwreck
Jul 24, 2024
The Ice Cream Cone Got The Spotlight At The 1904 World’s Fair, But That Isn’t When It Was Invented
Jul 23, 2024
Michigan’s Official State Vehicle Fleet Includes A Vintage Model T
Jul 22, 2024
It Took Researchers Twenty Years To Figure Out The Rosetta Stone
Jul 19, 2024
New York Once Built Artificial Reefs Out Of Old Ice Cream Trucks
Jul 18, 2024
There Was Almost A Scary Sequel To “E.T.”
Jul 17, 2024
Embo, Scotland, Declared Itself Independent For A Day
Jul 16, 2024
William Walker, The Diver Who Saved Winchester Cathedral
Jul 15, 2024
Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting A Big Dome Over Manhattan
Jul 12, 2024
Ina Koenig Saved A Kid Who Fell Into A Mine Shaft By Keeping His Head Above Water
Jul 11, 2024
Bir Tawil Is Land Between Egypt And Sudan That Neither Country Wants
Jul 10, 2024
In A Letter From Ancient Babylon, A Teenager Complains To His Mom About Clothes
Jul 09, 2024
Taco Bell Once Trolled America By Claiming It Had Bought The Liberty Bell
Jul 08, 2024
Alvin Straight Couldn’t Drive To See His Ailing Brother, So He Took A Road Trip On A Lawn Mower
Jul 05, 2024
The Washington Monument That Was Built Before The Washington Monument
Jul 04, 2024
Ford Once Tried To Turn A Station Wagon Into A “Pushbutton Camper”
Jul 03, 2024
Utah Restocks Its Remote Lakes By Dropping Fish Out Of Airplanes
Jul 02, 2024
Every July 1 Is A Million Dollar Day For Baseball’s Bobby Bonilla
Jul 01, 2024
The Treaty That Ended World War I Also Set The International Standard For Musical Pitch
Jun 28, 2024
A Town In Japan Built An Anne Of Green Gables-Themed Park
Jun 27, 2024
Medieval Europeans Really Could Have Banged Coconuts Together, Like In Monty Python
Jun 26, 2024
Sallie Gardner Was The Galloping Horse In The First Proto-Movie
Jun 25, 2024
Volcanic Ash Shut Down All Of British Airways Flight 009’s Engines - But It Still Landed Safely
Jun 24, 2024
Dessert Week: If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient
Jun 21, 2024
Dessert Week: The Great Banana Split Rivalry
Jun 20, 2024
Dessert Week: Even For Meringue This Meringue Is Light
Jun 19, 2024
Dessert Week: Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
Jun 18, 2024
Dessert Week: Agnes B. Marshall, The First “Queen” Of Ice Cream
Jun 17, 2024
Every Year Readlyn, Iowa Elects An Official Town Grump
Jun 14, 2024
Tying Cans To A Wedding Car Has Roots In Protesting A Marriage
Jun 13, 2024
The Baseball Game Lou Gehrig Played After He Stopped Playing Baseball
Jun 12, 2024
How Jophery Brown Became One Of Hollywood’s Most Iconic Stuntmen
Jun 11, 2024
Legend Says Instead of Fighting A War, Two Armies In Switzerland Sat Down For Some Soup
Jun 10, 2024
In 1520, Two Kings Spent Millions To Throw Themselves A Party For Over Two Weeks
Jun 07, 2024
A Teen Got To The “End” Of NES Tetris, And People Figured Out How To Hack The Software And Keep Playing
Jun 06, 2024
A Handful Of VIPs Can Travel To Other Countries Without Passports
Jun 05, 2024
American Cheese Got Its Start With A Guy From Canada
Jun 04, 2024
Alexander Graham Bell Invented A “Photophone” That Sent Sound On Beams Of Light
Jun 03, 2024
Some American Hockey Players Develop Canadian-Ish Accents
May 31, 2024
Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb’s “Penny Parade” Helped Build A Northern Wisconsin Hospital
May 30, 2024
There Was More Than One “Real” Rosie the Riveter
May 29, 2024
The Cherry Sisters Baffled Vaudeville But Guaranteed Newspapers The Right To Criticize Bad Shows
May 28, 2024
Memorial Day Special: The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
May 27, 2024
Planet Week: Uranus Was Originally Going To Be Named “George”
May 24, 2024
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Planet Week: Selfies On Mars
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Planet Week: At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto
May 21, 2024
Planet Week: Could Jokes About Uranus Prevent A Mission To Uranus?
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Maria Beasley Invented A Life Raft And Lots Of Other Hugely Useful Things
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When France And Spain Had A “War Of The Stop Signs”
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Didier Delsalle Landed His Helicopter On Top Of Mount Everest
May 14, 2024
Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel Cleans Up The Waterfront With Technology And Googly Eyes
May 13, 2024
Did A Finnish Skier Actually Spit Out His Dentures On His Way To A Gold Medal?
May 10, 2024
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May 09, 2024
In The 90s, Coca Cola Wanted Us To Drink OK Soda
May 08, 2024
El Reno, Oklahoma Is The Home Of The Fried Onion Burger
May 07, 2024
The Outtakes From Orson Welles’ Wine Commercial Might Be His Most Legendary Work
May 06, 2024
Ancient Romans Once Threatened To Exile Anyone Wearing Pants
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The Distress Call Mayday Doesn’t Have Anything To Do With May
May 02, 2024
Bonnie Richardson Won A State Track Team Championship By Herself - Twice
May 01, 2024
When News Companies Tried To Deliver Newspapers Through Radio Transmissions
Apr 30, 2024
Willie Nelson Once Recorded An Album To Pay Back Taxes To The IRS
Apr 29, 2024
A Single Tree In New York Grows 40 Different Fruits
Apr 26, 2024
Absorbing An Oil Spill With Cork And Lasers
Apr 25, 2024
The “Electronic Tongue” That Can Tell When Wine Starts To Spoil
Apr 24, 2024
"English As She Is Spoke," A Guide To English Written By A Guy Who Didn't Really Speak English
Apr 23, 2024
This Smart Glove Could Help Divers Warn Each Other When There’s Danger Nearby
Apr 22, 2024
Two US Cities Each Insist Their Cuban Sandwich Is The Authentic One
Apr 19, 2024
The Minor League Baseball Game That Took Three Days To Play
Apr 18, 2024
Kansas City’s Subtropolis Is A Huge Business Complex That’s 100 Feet Underground
Apr 17, 2024
A “Lunar Olympics” Almost Ended In Disaster For The Apollo 16 Astronauts
Apr 16, 2024
Leonardo da Vinci, Inventor of the Resume
Apr 15, 2024
Murphy, The Eagle Who Became Dad To A Rock
Apr 12, 2024
Glowing Orbs In The Netherlands Could Light The Way Toward Clean Water
Apr 11, 2024
The Tempest Prognosticator Used Leeches To Predict Stormy Weather
Apr 10, 2024
Florence Price Finally Takes Her Place On The List Of Great Composers
Apr 09, 2024
A Study Says Everyone In Japan Could Have The Same Last Name Five Centuries From Now
Apr 08, 2024
A Dog In The UK Saved Lives During The Blitz, Thanks To A Full Bladder
Apr 05, 2024
A Guy In Melbourne Walks Around With A Giant Carrot Just For Fun
Apr 04, 2024
Baseball Player Ping Bodie Once Won An Eating Contest Against An Ostrich
Apr 03, 2024
Communist Countries Thought The TV Show “Dallas” Would Scare Citizens Away From Capitalism, But It Backfired
Apr 02, 2024
In 1906, Chicago’s Newspapers Told Everybody The City Was Being Attacked By Dinosaurs
Apr 01, 2024
Fine Art Week: Some Art Looks Great Even When Accidentally Hung Upside Down
Mar 29, 2024
Fine Art Week: Edmonia Lewis, A Sculptor Who Brought Her Subjects To Life
Mar 28, 2024
Fine Art Week: Why Is It So Hard To Tell A Real Rembrandt Painting From A Copy?
Mar 27, 2024
Fine Art Week: Sarah Biffin, A 19th Century Painter “Without Hands” Who’s Getting 21st Century Recognition
Mar 26, 2024
Fine Art Week: Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics
Mar 25, 2024
If This TV Show Hadn’t Been Canceled, We Might Not Have Had The Original Versions of “Star Trek” and TV’s “Batman”
Mar 22, 2024
For Our Fifth Birthday, The Story Of The Song “Happy Birthday To You”
Mar 21, 2024
Taco Bell Once Sold A Burger Called The “Bell Beefer”
Mar 21, 2024
Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier
Mar 20, 2024
The Nutty Narrows Bridge Was Built For Squirrels In Washington State
Mar 19, 2024
Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” Became A Hit, After A Tape Machine Cut It To Pieces
Mar 18, 2024
Before Alarm Clocks, Some People Awoke With Help From A “Knocker-Up”
Mar 15, 2024
Legendary Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard Once Teamed Up To Design A Refrigerator
Mar 14, 2024
Here’s A Tiny Fish That Can Make Sounds As Loud As A Jet Engine
Mar 13, 2024
A Boycott Against Charles Boycott Gave Us The Word “Boycott”
Mar 12, 2024
New York City’s 311 System Has Gotten Some Wild Calls Over The Years
Mar 11, 2024
Musical Alarms Could Help Save Lives In Hospitals
Mar 08, 2024
Cap’n Crunch Once Got Sued Because There Weren’t Actual Berries In Crunch Berries Cereal
Mar 07, 2024
Whey Protein Could Help Stop E-Waste
Mar 06, 2024
Ruth Belville, The Last “Time Carrier” In London
Mar 05, 2024
Police Squad, The TV Comedy That Got Canceled For Being Too Funny
Mar 04, 2024
When Danish Farmers Started Breeding “Protest Pigs”
Mar 01, 2024
La Bougie du sapeur, The Newspaper That Only Comes Out On February 29
Feb 29, 2024
If Humans Start Living On Other Worlds, They Might End Up Creating New Accents
Feb 28, 2024
Charles Strite, The Inventor Who Made Toasters Pop
Feb 27, 2024
Whitney Smith Flew The Flag For Studying Flags
Feb 26, 2024
Mail Week: How Ethel Merman Helped Get America To Use ZIP Codes
Feb 23, 2024
Mail Week: Henry Brown Escaped From Slavery By Mailing Himself To Philadelphia
Feb 22, 2024
Mail Week: Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog
Feb 21, 2024
Mail Week: “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier
Feb 20, 2024
Mail Week: When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place
Feb 19, 2024
When Missouri Banned Schools For Black Students, John Berry Meachum Started A School On A Riverboat
Feb 16, 2024
The Blackwell Family Tree Traces Black History Through Centuries
Feb 15, 2024
Haters Used To Give Out “Vinegar Valentines” To Push People’s Button
Feb 14, 2024
How Ski Ballet Ended Up At The Olympics In The 80s And 90s
Feb 13, 2024
The “Hairy Eagle” Is A Decoration Made Partly With Abraham Lincoln’s Hair
Feb 12, 2024
Snowflake Bentley Showed The World Just How Amazing Snow Can Be
Feb 09, 2024
ELIZA Was An AI Chatbot Decades Before ChatGPT
Feb 08, 2024
The US Rationed Shoes During World War II, So People Made Footwear Out Of Old Firehoses
Feb 07, 2024
February Is The Shortest Month For Literally Odd Reasons
Feb 06, 2024
Indiana Almost Set The Value Of Pi At 3.2, Even Though That Isn’t Pi’s Value
Feb 05, 2024
Jessica Cox, The First Person Born Without Arms To Become A Licensed Pilot
Feb 02, 2024
When Indiana Tried To Get “Louie, Louie” Off The Radio
Feb 01, 2024
This Smart Glove Can Help People Recover From A Stroke
Jan 31, 2024
Jean Carroll, TV's First Female Standup Comedy Star
Jan 30, 2024
Holland, Michigan Has A Snow Melting System Built Into Its Downtown
Jan 29, 2024
Cat Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
Jan 26, 2024
Cat Week: Room 8, The Cat Named For A Classroom In L.A.
Jan 25, 2024
Cat Week: A Bike Trip Around The World With A Cat
Jan 24, 2024
Cat Week: There’s Music For Cats And It’s Apparently Very Good For Them
Jan 23, 2024
Cat Week: Félicette, The First Cat In Space
Jan 22, 2024
To Win A Dance Marathon, Couples Might Have To Keep Going For Five Months
Jan 19, 2024
Auto Companies Hire People To Make Sure The New Car Smell Is Just Right
Jan 18, 2024
During Prohibition, Grape Growers Sold “Wine Bricks” To Thirsty Customers
Jan 17, 2024
Designers Put Airbags In Clothes To Protect People From Falls
Jan 16, 2024
When Martin Luther King Jr. Won The Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta Held A Historic Dinner In His Honor
Jan 15, 2024
How Mr. Clean Became The World’s Top Bald Sailor Genie Cleaning Icon
Jan 12, 2024
John Thompson Lost His Arms In A Farm Accident, Got Himself Help And Got The Arms Back
Jan 11, 2024
Berlin’s Jazz Age Nightclubs Let People Message Each Other Through Pneumatic Tubes
Jan 10, 2024
Richard Nixon Once Wished He’d Been A Rapper
Jan 09, 2024
Newspaper Reporters Once Bought A Chicago Dive Bar To Catch Corrupt Officials
Jan 08, 2024
Schoolhouse Rock Taught Generations About Bills, Adverbs And Magic Numbers
Jan 05, 2024
The UK Reality Show “Shattered” Was Essentially A Sleep Deprivation Contest On TV
Jan 04, 2024
In Whittier, Alaska, A Lot Of Residents All Live In One Building
Jan 03, 2024
A City In Ecuador Starts The Year With A Festival Of Dancing Devils
Jan 02, 2024
Garisenda Tower Is Italy’s Other Leaning Tower
Jan 01, 2024
When The New Year’s Ball Drop Is Over, New York City Gets Busy Cleaning Up Times Square
Jan 01, 2024
The Letter Z Once Looked Like A Fancy Capital I
Dec 29, 2023
Puerto Rico’s Festival de las Máscaras Gets Colorful And Loud
Dec 28, 2023
When George S. Patton Bombed A Volcano
Dec 27, 2023
Tilly Smith Saved 100 People From A Tsunami Because She'd Listened In Class
Dec 26, 2023
Babbo Natale, The Yule Goat and The World’s Many Christmas Gift Givers
Dec 25, 2023
How The Snow Globe Started Shaking Up Winter
Dec 22, 2023
Nixon And Elvis, The Most Iconic Meeting In 70s History
Dec 21, 2023
How A Christmas Card Gave Us “It’s A Wonderful Life”
Dec 20, 2023
Where Did We Put All The Goodwill Moon Rocks From Apollo 17?
Dec 19, 2023
Joseph Grimaldi, London’s “King Of Clowns”
Dec 18, 2023
High Tech Snow Chains Could Pop Out When Your Car Needs Them And Retract When It Doesn’t
Dec 15, 2023
A Baboon Named Jack Once Worked For A Railroad, And He Was Good At His Job
Dec 14, 2023
How Google Street View Could Help Stop Invasive Weeds
Dec 13, 2023
Teddy Roosevelt Tried To Change How We Spell Words
Dec 12, 2023
The Delicious History Of Hanukkah Latkes
Dec 11, 2023
Do Stoplights Need A Fourth Color?
Dec 08, 2023
Tom Waits Went To Court Over An Ad For Doritos
Dec 07, 2023
Black Firefighters In Chicago Helped Give The World The Fire Pole
Dec 06, 2023
People In The “Dirty” Middle Ages Actually Liked To Get Clean
Dec 05, 2023
How A Guy In 1974 Used A Computer To Order Pizza
Dec 04, 2023
A Statue Of Liberty Stamp That Didn’t Actually Feature The Statue Of Liberty
Dec 01, 2023
Let’s Meet The Guy Named Mason Who Patented The Mason Jar
Nov 30, 2023
There’s A Secret Military Airline Known As “Janet”
Nov 29, 2023
Can We Patch Back Injuries The Way We Patch Holes In Car Tires?
Nov 28, 2023
Bruce Lee Was A Legendary Martial Artist And A Terrific Dancer
Nov 27, 2023
When Domino’s Tried To Have Reindeer Deliver Pizza
Nov 24, 2023
Before There Was Halloween Trick-Or-Treating, There Was The Thanksgiving Ragamuffin Parade
Nov 23, 2023
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Nov 22, 2023
How “Hello” Became The English Language’s Way Of Saying Hello
Nov 21, 2023
Before The Internet Was All About Dumpster Fires, There Was The Creation Of The Dumpster
Nov 20, 2023
The Key To Next-Generation Batteries Might Be In Crab Shells
Nov 17, 2023
Oklahoma’s Panhandle Was Once Known As “No Man’s Land”
Nov 16, 2023
A Whole City Came Together To Give “BatKid” One Super Day
Nov 15, 2023
Movie Fans In Texas Enjoy Pickles When They Go To The Theater
Nov 14, 2023
A Turkey Once Interrupted A Green Bay Packers Game
Nov 13, 2023
Moon Week: That Time Pink Floyd Jammed Out During The Moon Landing
Nov 10, 2023
Moon Week: Why Did The Moon Disappear 900 Years Ago?
Nov 09, 2023
Moon Week: Our Long History Of Crashing Stuff Into The Moon
Nov 08, 2023
Moon Week: The Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing, Thanks To The Moon
Nov 07, 2023
Moon Week: Apollo 12 Crashed Its Lunar Module On Purpose
Nov 06, 2023
Alberto Manzi Convinced Italians That “It’s Never Too Late” To Learn
Nov 03, 2023
Warren Harding’s Human Friends Hurt His Presidency, But His Dog Friends Were Great
Nov 02, 2023
Toronto’s “Stork Derby” Happened Because Of A Very Wealthy Lawyer’s Very Strange Will
Nov 01, 2023
If You Want To Go Old School For Halloween, Try Carving Some Turnips
Oct 31, 2023
Creeped Out By Clowns? Here’s The Science That Explains Why
Oct 30, 2023
Isaac Singer Invented The Modern Sewing Machine, But What He Really Wanted To Do Was Act
Oct 27, 2023
Listening To A Symphony Can Actually Sync Up The Audience’s Heart Rates
Oct 26, 2023
Here’s A Robot That Can Roll Up And Down Stairs
Oct 25, 2023
An Excited James Brown Fan Almost Swore Through The Recording Of “Live At The Apollo”
Oct 24, 2023
“Mr. Tornado” Ted Fujita Was The Original Severe Weather Detective
Oct 23, 2023
Dogpiles Are How Baseball Teams Celebrate Big Wins And Sometimes Hurt Themselves
Oct 20, 2023
A Medical Robot Can Help Steer A Needle Through Living Tissue
Oct 19, 2023
In 1867 Alaska, It Was Friday, And Another Friday Came Afterward
Oct 18, 2023
Neil Diamond And Barbra Streisand Had A Hit Duet Almost By Accident
Oct 17, 2023
The Cardiff Giant Was A Fake Giant That Caused A Real Uproar
Oct 16, 2023
The Thirteen Club Put Thirteen Guests Together For A Thirteen Course Meal On Friday The 13th
Oct 13, 2023
Winning The Nobel Prize Is Hard, Calling Someone To Tell Them They Won The Nobel Prize Can Also Be Hard
Oct 12, 2023
Scientists Flipped Coins 350,757 Times To See If The Results Were 50/50
Oct 11, 2023
A Writer In 1870 Couldn’t Figure Out What All The Fuss Over Yosemite Was About
Oct 10, 2023
Jellyfish Just Proved You Don’t Need A Brain To Learn From Experience
Oct 09, 2023
The Zeitpyramide Is An Art Project That Will Take 1,200 Years To Build
Oct 06, 2023
The Pitch Drop Experiment Is A Single Research Project That’s Been Running Since The 1930s
Oct 05, 2023
Antonín Dvořák’s First Symphony Went Missing For Six Decades
Oct 04, 2023
Patrick Combs Cashed A $95,000 Promotional "Check" And Actually Got The Money
Oct 03, 2023
The Marx Brothers Became Comedians Thanks To An Escaped Mule In Texas
Oct 02, 2023
Sometimes Coffee Isn’t A Beverage, It’s Coffee Jelly
Sep 29, 2023
Two Australians Once Had A Staring Contest For Over 40 Minutes
Sep 28, 2023
Hector, The Thunderstorm That Arrives Like Clockwork Over Australia’s Tiwi Islands
Sep 27, 2023
Johnny Appleseed’s Trees Gave Homesteaders A Way To Make Adult Beverages
Sep 26, 2023
William Faulkner Was An Iconic Author And A Mediocre Mailman
Sep 25, 2023
Robert Shields Kept A Decades-Long Diary Of Pretty Much Everything He Ever Did
Sep 22, 2023
Sam Brinkley, The “Longest Bearded Man In The World”
Sep 21, 2023
Why The USSR Once Thought A Hot Dog Stand Was A Top US Military Installation
Sep 20, 2023
A Soviet Cosmonaut Once Pretended To Land On The Moon To Troll NASA
Sep 19, 2023
What Ants Can Teach Us About Mass Transportation
Sep 18, 2023
Cecil Chubb, The Guy Who Bought Stonehenge At An Auction
Sep 15, 2023
How Joyce Chen Helped The US Fall In Love With Chinese Food
Sep 14, 2023
When Phineas Gage’s Skull Met An Iron Bar, Things Got Weird
Sep 13, 2023
The Flatwoods Monster Put A West Virginia Town On The Map, After Scaring Local Kids
Sep 12, 2023
Monster Trucks Started When A Guy Put Giant Tires On His Own Ride
Sep 11, 2023
The Egg Cream Is A Refreshing New York City Classic
Sep 08, 2023
Old Coffee Grounds Could Make Concrete Stronger, Greener, More Jittery
Sep 07, 2023
Cry A Little And You’ll Power The Smart Contact Lenses Of The Future
Sep 06, 2023
How High-Tech Garbage Trucks Can Help Maintain A City
Sep 05, 2023
Lewis Howard Latimer, The Black Inventor Who Helped Make The Modern World Modern
Sep 04, 2023
Italy’s “Festival of the Ugly” Reminds Everybody That Looks Aren’t Everything
Sep 01, 2023
To Get Out Of A Record Contract, Van Morrison Made A Malicious Compliance Album
Aug 31, 2023
People In Ancient China Built Ceramic Water Pipes Thousands Of Years Ago
Aug 30, 2023
An Urban Legend Says The Devil Took Over Everybody’s TV Screens In 1968
Aug 29, 2023
Leon Theremin’s Musical Instrument Can Be Played Without Being Touched
Aug 28, 2023
Momofuku Ando, The Guy Who Invented Instant Ramen
Aug 25, 2023
These Smart Glasses Can Generate Real-Time Speech Captions For Deaf People
Aug 24, 2023
John Lennon and The Many Other Pop Stars Who Say They Saw UFOs
Aug 23, 2023
A California Artist Once Helped Drivers By Adding His Own Road Sign To The Highway
Aug 22, 2023
How Font Sizes On Menus Could Help People Eat Healthier
Aug 21, 2023
Snack Week: Quit Hating On Candy Corn, At Least Until You Hear Its Story
Aug 18, 2023
Snack Week: In Belgium, Eating Fries Is Patriotic
Aug 17, 2023
Snack Week: Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
Aug 16, 2023
Snack Week: How The Cheese Curl Was Invented (Partly By Accident)
Aug 15, 2023
Snack Week: Pretzels Have Been Twisting Their Way Into Our Hearts For Over A Millennium
Aug 14, 2023
During The Burryman’s Parade, A Scottish Dude In A Suit Made Of Burrs Walks Around Drinking Whiskey
Aug 11, 2023
A Shower Of Souvenir Baseballs Led To A Major League Forfeit
Aug 10, 2023
The Fly-Swatting Champion Of Bisbee, Arizona
Aug 09, 2023
A US Treasury Official Decided To Feature Himself On Currency
Aug 08, 2023
Turkmenistan’s Leader Once Drove Doughnuts Around A Flaming Crater Known As The “Gates Of Hell”
Aug 07, 2023
Moss And Tracy Hills, The Cruise Ship Musicians Who Saved Hundreds From A Sinking Ship
Aug 04, 2023
If You’re Trying To Visit All 50 States, North Dakota Wants You To Save The “Best For Last”
Aug 03, 2023
The US Almost Had Coins Worth A Tenth Of A Cent
Aug 02, 2023
Jackie Ormes Brought Black Characters To The Comics Page
Aug 01, 2023
Kitty Burke Once Batted In A Major League Game
Jul 31, 2023
When People From Towns Named Dull, Boring And Bland Get Together, You Know It’ll Get Lit
Jul 28, 2023
In The 19th Century, Steamboat Racing Was An Extreme Sport
Jul 27, 2023
The First Road Trip Across The Continental US Won A Guy Fifty Bucks
Jul 26, 2023
How Colorado Got The Colorado River To Run Through Colorado
Jul 25, 2023
Before Detroit Was The Motor City, It Was Known For Its Stoves
Jul 24, 2023
Winneconne, Wisconsin Once Seceded From The State Over A Highway Map
Jul 21, 2023
Want To Burn Lots Of Calories? Try High-Level Chess
Jul 20, 2023
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Jul 19, 2023
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan Flew To Ireland When He Was Supposed To Fly To California
Jul 18, 2023
Gail Halvorsen, The “Candy Bomber” Of The Berlin Airlift
Jul 17, 2023
In India, Telegrams Were Still Around Until 2013
Jul 14, 2023
The Hollywood Sign Was A Big Ad That Turned Into a Landmark
Jul 13, 2023
The 1924 Olympic Men’s Cross Country Race Was Literally A Hot Mess
Jul 12, 2023
Dick Roth Won Olympic Gold While He Had Appendicitis
Jul 11, 2023
Two Young Brothers Rode Across The Country On Horseback To Hang Out With Teddy Roosevelt
Jul 10, 2023
Samantha Smith, A Kid From Maine Who Tried To Make The Cold War A Little More Peaceful
Jul 07, 2023
In Soviet Russia, Vacation Took You
Jul 06, 2023
The Secret Service Has An Ink Library To Foil Crimes
Jul 05, 2023
Not Even An Alien Attack Or Zombie Apocalypse Could Keep The US From Protecting Its Founding Documents
Jul 04, 2023
A Newspaper Called The Recycler Helped Bring Together Some Of The Biggest Rock Bands Of All Time
Jul 03, 2023
Irna Phillips Brought The World Of Soap Operas To Life
Jun 30, 2023
Marie C. Bolden, A Black Teen In Cleveland, Helped Win A National Spelling Title In 1908
Jun 29, 2023
The Wild History Of The White House Telephone
Jun 28, 2023
Before There Were Chicken McNuggets, McDonald’s Tried Selling Onion Nuggets
Jun 27, 2023
A Teenager In Michigan Once Started Building A Nuclear Reactor In The Shed
Jun 26, 2023
Babe Ruth Once Pitched A Combined No-Hitter, At Least Technically
Jun 23, 2023
Some People Didn’t Think The Earliest Air Conditioners Were Very Cool
Jun 22, 2023
The Dog That Climbed All Of New Hampshire’s 4,000 Foot Mountains
Jun 21, 2023
West Virginia Is Landlocked, But It Has A Lighthouse Anyway
Jun 20, 2023
Raise A Glass Of Red Drink On Juneteenth
Jun 19, 2023
Lifting Something Heavy? Think Positive Thoughts, Or You Might Hurt Yourself
Jun 16, 2023
Why We Don’t Pronounce The Last S In Arkansas
Jun 15, 2023
The Star-Spangled Banner That Inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Jun 14, 2023
Charles Osborne Had The Hiccups For 68 Years
Jun 13, 2023
In Wartime, Knitters Have Used Their Skills For Spying
Jun 12, 2023
This Doll From The 18th Century May Be One Of The First Computers
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A Startup In Switzerland Is Putting Solar Panels In Between Railroad Tracks
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Virginia Apgar's Score Has Helped Millions Of Babies Stay Healthy
Jun 07, 2023
Clarence Blethen, The Pitcher Who Got Bit By His Own False Teeth
Jun 06, 2023
The World Has Ankle Monitors Partly Because Of Spider-Man Comics
Jun 05, 2023
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower Had Her Own Shade Of Pink
Jun 02, 2023
Rockford, Illinois Is The Birthplace Of The Sock Monkey
Jun 01, 2023
The Michigan Tycoon Who Made His Descendants Wait 92 Years To Inherit His Fortune
May 31, 2023
How Suitcases With Wheels Helped Travelers Get On A Roll
May 30, 2023
The Arlington Ladies Remember Every Servicemember Buried At Arlington National Cemetery
May 29, 2023
If It Had Been Up To Billie Jean King, Astronaut Sally Ride Might Have Been A Pro Tennis Player
May 26, 2023
Hands Across America Brought Together Some Hands Across Some Of America
May 25, 2023
Novelty Maker S.S. Adams Put The Joy In Joy Buzzers
May 24, 2023
French President Paul Deschanel Once Fell Out Of A Moving Train
May 23, 2023
The Legend Of Blanche Heriot, Who Saved Her Love’s Life By Keeping A Bell From Ringing
May 22, 2023
Rock On Week: One Of Aerosmith’s Biggest Hits Happened Partly Because Of A Mel Brooks Movie
May 19, 2023
Rock On Week: When Pat Boone Made A Heavy Metal Record
May 18, 2023
Rock On Week: When A 19 Year Old Drummer Got Onstage With The Who
May 17, 2023
Rock On Week: The Best Defense Against Cougars Is Metallica
May 16, 2023
Rock On Week: Why Van Halen Said No To Brown M&Ms
May 15, 2023
Parrots Like To Do Video Calls WIth Other Parrots
May 12, 2023
To Drive To Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, You Have To Go Through Canada
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Meet ESTHER, A Robot That Plays Wheelchair Tennis
May 09, 2023
Guy Goma Became An Internet Expert By Accident On Live TV
May 08, 2023
There’s A Big Metal Ball Just Hanging Out In Earth Orbit, And It’s Super Useful
May 05, 2023
How A Farmer In Belgium Accidentally Changed The Country’s Borders
May 04, 2023
A Game Of Twister On “The Tonight Show” Helped Make The Game A Hit
May 03, 2023
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May 02, 2023
Medieval Monks Were Volcano Trackers Without Even Knowing It
May 01, 2023
Today Is Ed Balls Day, To Which We Say “Ed Balls”
Apr 28, 2023
Cliff Young Won An Ultramarathon By Running Like An “Old Turtle”
Apr 27, 2023
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Apr 26, 2023
Kids In Canada Went On Strike Over The Price Of Candy Bars
Apr 25, 2023
Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats
Apr 24, 2023
When An Apollo Astronaut Had A Gas Problem On The Moon
Apr 21, 2023
The 300 Club Is The Hottest - And Coldest - Club In Antarctica
Apr 20, 2023
When World War II Meant No Bananas For The UK, People Made “Mock Bananas” Out Of Parsnips
Apr 19, 2023
Gregory Robertson Saved An Unconscious Skydiver After A High-Speed Dive
Apr 18, 2023
What Does It Take To Be Great At Underwater Hockey?
Apr 17, 2023
Did A Dolphin Known As Pelorus Jack Actually Guide Ships Through The Sea?
Apr 14, 2023
This Old City Bus Is Now A Traveling Sauna
Apr 13, 2023
Why Do Some People Love Licorice And Other People Loathe It?
Apr 12, 2023
Claire Weekes Came Up With Six Words To Help With Anxiety
Apr 11, 2023
The Wilhelm Scream Is The Classic Hollywood Sound Effect You Can’t Stop Hearing
Apr 10, 2023
California Miners Once Tried To Start “The Great Republic Of Rough And Ready”
Apr 07, 2023
The Twinkie Has Longevity In More Ways Than One
Apr 06, 2023
Carlester Smith Walked His Way Through Annapolis
Apr 05, 2023
The Volleyball Game Played Over A Border Fence
Apr 04, 2023
There’s A Lunchbox Museum In Columbus, Georgia
Apr 03, 2023
Baseball Week: Germany Schaefer, The Baseball Player Who Stole First Base
Mar 31, 2023
We Let AI Write This Show And Host Most Of It, Too
Mar 31, 2023
Baseball Week: Little Leaguer Katie Brownell Once Struck Out Every Batter In An Entire Game
Mar 30, 2023
Baseball Week: Satchel Paige Was So Good He Could Still Get Batters Out In His Late 50s
Mar 29, 2023
Baseball Week: Baseball's First, Fightingest Umpire
Mar 28, 2023
Baseball Week: Carlton Fisk’s Home Run Wave Changed TV Sports, But It Almost Didn’t Get Filmed At All
Mar 27, 2023
Dad Jokes Are Good For Kids, And Here’s The Science That Says So
Mar 24, 2023
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Mar 23, 2023
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Mar 22, 2023
The Air Force Once Bombed Montana
Mar 21, 2023
Ulysses, Kansas, The Town That Moved A Couple Miles Down The Road
Mar 20, 2023
How To Keep Flying Robots Flying Even When Their Wings Are Damaged
Mar 17, 2023
This Pen Can Help People With Parkinson’s Disease Keep Writing
Mar 16, 2023
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Mar 15, 2023
The Prison-Only Potato Chips Known As “The Whole Shabang” Live Up To Their Name
Mar 14, 2023
Uranus Was Originally Going To Be Named “George”
Mar 13, 2023
How Insects, World War I, Golf Balls And Halloween Candy Helped Lead Us To Daylight Saving Time
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Monster Week: How “Them!” Became The Greatest Giant Ant Movie Of Its Generation
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Under The Sea Week: How Space Might Save The Whales
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Under The Sea Week: The CIA Once Created Robot Fish
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Under The Sea Week: Pilot Whales Trick Their Predators By Mimicking Their Voices
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The Robot That Could Do Surgeries In Space
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Aug 25, 2022
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How To Make 2,000 Year Old Seeds Sprout
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Aug 17, 2022
How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits
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Coffee Week: It’s All Pumpkin Spice From Here On Out
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Coffee Week: Meet The New, Foldable Coffee Cup
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Coffee Week: Drinking Coffee Out Of Coffee Cups Made From Coffee
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Coffee Week: Robots Can Walk Better, Thanks To Coffee
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Coffee Week: The Olympic Team That Paid Its Way By Selling Coffee
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Bishops Used To Be Elephants, And Other Wild Stories About How Chess Pieces Got Their Names
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The Time Pittsburgh Lost Its H - And Then Got It Back
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Jun 21, 2022
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Unusual Music Week: Now That’s A Deep Cut: Music Scholars Bring Back “Lost” Songs From 1,000 Years Ago
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Unusual Music Week: Meet The Fake Beatles
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Unusual Music Week: The Oomphalapompatronium Is An Instrument That Lives Up To Its Unusual Name
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Unusual Music Week: The Pizza and Pipe Organ Connection
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May 31, 2022
The “Murph Challenge,” A Grueling Memorial Day Workout In Tribute To A Navy SEAL
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May 25, 2022
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May 24, 2022
The Sometimes Salty History of the Cheez-It
May 23, 2022
How A Doctor In Norway Survived Extreme Hypothermia
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Scientists May Be Able To Recreate Cleopatra’s Perfume
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When Jacqueline Cochran Broke The Sound Barrier
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May 17, 2022
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Molly Williams Was A New York Firefighter Before There Was a New York Fire Department
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May 03, 2022
Two Tennis Greats Played A Match On A Half-Grass, Half-Clay Court
May 02, 2022
Time Week: What Time Was Like Before Time Zones
Apr 29, 2022
Time Week: An Art Project Is Taking Photos Over A Thousand Years
Apr 28, 2022
Time Week: For A Person Who’s Hiding Something, Time Slows Down
Apr 27, 2022
Time Week: How Do Time Zones Work At Earth’s Poles?
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Time Week: The Time Samoa Didn’t Have Time For December 30th
Apr 25, 2022
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Apr 22, 2022
The Time Geraldo Rivera Opened Al Capone’s Vault And Found A Whole Lot Of Nothing
Apr 21, 2022
During The Cold War, A Town In New Mexico Built An Underground Grade School
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In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines
Apr 19, 2022
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Apr 18, 2022
Rock Fans In The Soviet Union Turned Old X-Ray Plates Into Bootleg LPs
Apr 15, 2022
William Mumler, The Photographer Who Had “Spirits” In His Pictures
Apr 14, 2022
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Candy Land, The Board Game Made For Kids Who Couldn’t Leave The Polio Ward
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Mary Patten, 19 Year Old Sea Captain
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Apr 04, 2022
At The Arkansas State Capitol, They Let Visitors Hold Actual Taxpayer Dollars
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The Town In New Mexico That Renamed Itself After A Game Show
Mar 31, 2022
The Peculiar Reason Chicken, Alaska Got Its Name
Mar 30, 2022
The Grandson Of A President From The 1840s Is Alive In The 2020s
Mar 29, 2022
A Sprained Ankle Helped Bring Pippi Longstocking To The World
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Two Forecasters Figured Out How To Predict Tornadoes, Right Before One Touched Down
Mar 25, 2022
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Mar 24, 2022
The HMS Challenger Expedition Showed The World What Ocean Life Was Really Like
Mar 23, 2022
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Mar 22, 2022
The Most Poisonous Wallpaper Ever Had Arsenic In It
Mar 21, 2022
Solar-Powered Cribs Are A Bright Idea To Stop Jaundice
Mar 21, 2022
This Vole Protects Itself From Predators By Cutting The Grass
Mar 18, 2022
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Mar 17, 2022
Caroline Herschel Discovered Comets And Became A Star
Mar 16, 2022
Chester Greenwood Brought Earmuffs To Cold-Eared People All Over The World
Mar 15, 2022
A Chef Got Irritated With A Wealthy Diner And That’s Why We Have Potato Chips
Mar 14, 2022
An Algorithm Is Opening A Window Into The Many Moods Of Pigs
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“The Fastest Cyclist In The World,” Major Taylor, Was A Black Sports Pioneer
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Lionel Richie Once Went Clothes Shopping For Nelson Mandela
Mar 09, 2022
Dinosaurs Got Sore Throats And Sniffles, Apparently
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When Louisiana Built Its Own “White House”
Mar 07, 2022
The Time Chicago Had To Be Raised Fourteen Feet
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Mar 03, 2022
Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 Point Game Was Truly One Of A Kind
Mar 02, 2022
The Exploding Hammer Festival Of San Juan de la Vega
Mar 01, 2022
In Sweden In 1712, February Had 30 Days
Feb 28, 2022
Presidents Week: When Abe Lincoln Said Thanks, But No Thanks, To A Herd Of Elephants
Feb 25, 2022
Presidents Week: Lyndon Johnson Had A Not So Great Leap Day
Feb 24, 2022
Presidents Week: Gerald Ford Stayed In His Own House, Not The White House, After He Became President
Feb 23, 2022
Presidents Week: When A Raccoon Lived At The White House
Feb 22, 2022
Presidents Week: Jimmy Carter Vs. The Swamp Rabbit
Feb 21, 2022
The Hospital Of The Future’s Secret Weapon Is Surgical “Duct Tape”
Feb 18, 2022
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Feb 17, 2022
“Mummy Brown” Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies
Feb 16, 2022
In One Game, Jason McElwain Became A High School Basketball Legend
Feb 15, 2022
The Highly Photographic Life Of Frederick Douglass
Feb 14, 2022
The Lincoln Memorial Has A Basement
Feb 11, 2022
Charles Oldrieve, The Man Who Walked On Water
Feb 10, 2022
Detroit-Style Pizza Got Its Shape From Another Famous Detroit Industry
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A Delicious Cookie With A Bad Name Won’t Taste As Sweet
Feb 08, 2022
Basketball Great Lisa Leslie Scored 101 Points In A High School Game
Feb 07, 2022
Bruce Kennedy Qualified For The Olympics Three Times, And Missed Out Three Times
Feb 04, 2022
The "Six Triple Eight" Brought Black Excellence To The Army During World War II
Feb 03, 2022
The “Cornfield Bomber” Landed Itself Without A Pilot
Feb 02, 2022
Wally Funk, At Long Last An Astronaut
Feb 01, 2022
This Plan To Build Wood-Like Panels Is Nuts - No, Really
Jan 31, 2022
To Live At This Antarctic Base, You Have To Have Your Appendix Out
Jan 28, 2022
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Jan 27, 2022
The Time Paul Newman Really Didn’t Want People To See A Paul Newman Movie
Jan 26, 2022
Nellie Bly Made It Around The World In 72 Days
Jan 25, 2022
Keith Jarrett Improvised A Classic Live Album On A Not-Quite-Right Piano
Jan 24, 2022
When Pinball Was Public Enemy Number One
Jan 21, 2022
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Jan 20, 2022
Bob Heft Designed The 50-Star U.S. Flag In High School
Jan 19, 2022
Winnie the Pooh Is Named For A Zoo Bear And A Swan
Jan 18, 2022
Stevie Wonder Went On Tour To Make Martin Luther King Jr. Day A National Holiday
Jan 17, 2022
A Carpooling App Could Help Stop Traffic Jams In Ski Country
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When Johnny Cash Came To Folsom Prison
Jan 13, 2022
The Chicago Cubs Once Had A “College of Coaches” Instead of a Manager
Jan 12, 2022
Washington Phillips, A Legendary Gospel Musician Surrounded By Musical Mysteries
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When 28,800 Rubber Duckies Fell Into The Pacific Ocean
Jan 10, 2022
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Jan 05, 2022
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Kugel Balls Are Huge And Heavy But We Can Move Them
Jan 03, 2022
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Dec 31, 2021
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Dec 30, 2021
Houston Has Its Own Beer Can House
Dec 29, 2021
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Dec 28, 2021
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Dec 27, 2021
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Dec 24, 2021
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Dec 23, 2021
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Dec 22, 2021
The Woman Who Brought Hollywood To Communist Romania
Dec 21, 2021
A 16 Year Old In Nebraska Once Bought His Town’s Jail
Dec 20, 2021
When A Saturday Night Live Fan Got To Host Saturday Night Live
Dec 17, 2021
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Dec 16, 2021
Two Guys Wanted A Good Trivia Game To Play, So They Invented Trivial Pursuit
Dec 15, 2021
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Dec 14, 2021
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Dec 13, 2021
Up In The Air Week: Lawn Chair Larry Takes To The Sky
Dec 10, 2021
Up In The Air Week: You Call This Archaeology?
Dec 09, 2021
Up In The Air Week: The Life And Flights Of Jerrie Cobb
Dec 08, 2021
Up In The Air Week: When The Flyover Flies Over The Wrong Spot
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Up In The Air Week: How A Pedal-Powered Airplane Crossed The English Channel
Dec 06, 2021
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