Andre The Giant Had To Wrestle In Front Of Saddam Hussein

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1946, the birthday of professional wrestling’s Eighth Wonder of the World, Andre the Giant. What a movie they could make about this guy’s life, and arguably the weirdest scene would be the time he came to Baghdad to wrestle in front of a future Iraqi dictator. Plus: it's Lettuce Month, which means it's time for the annual lettuce eating contest for the University of Minnesota's Lettuce Club. The Sheikh of Baghdad (from Weird Minnesota by Eric Dregni (via Google Books) Lettuce Club at University of Minnesota has lettuce eating contest (The Minnesota Daily)Anybody want a peanut? Or anybody want to back our show on Patreon?

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