Some People In England Celebrated Easter By Lifting Strangers In The Air

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Parts of England celebrated the Monday after the holiday with a special custom of picking strangers up off the ground for money. Sure, why not. Plus: today in 1909, the Peary expedition reached what they believed to be the North Pole, which wound up bewildering then-President William Howard Taft a bit. Lifting and Heaving: An Easter Custom (University of Leicester via Archive.org)GIVES NORTH POLE TO TAFT (The Spokesman-Review via Google News Archive)Lift up this show every day as a backer on Patreon

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