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Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson — 1000 episodes
Early TV Sets Had “Implosion Guards” In Case The Screen Went Kablooey
A Town In Canada Can Breathe Easier, Now That Tanks Of Old, Rotten Fish Sauce Are Leaving
Using Dynamite To Make It Rain? Yeah, We Tried That Already
Poor Hilda Witcher Had Tens Of Thousands Of People Trying To Use Her Social Security Number
Why Rochester Can’t Get Enough Of The Garbage Plate
Sue The T-Rex Has Become The “Rosetta Stone” For The Species
The Gloucester Sea Serpent Put On Quite A Show For 19th Century Massachusetts
Identical Twins Tried To Switch Places At The 1984 Summer Olympics
Stay Cool Week: Order A Cold Sandwich And You May Be More Likely To Get Sides, Too
Stay Cool Week: The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System
Stay Cool Week: Now We Have Nano-Refrigerators
Stay Cool Week: The Yakhchāl Was A Refrigerator Thousands Of Years Before Refrigerators Were Invented
Stay Cool Week: Some People Didn’t Think The Earliest Air Conditioners Were Very Cool
William Dampier, The Pirate With A Place In The History Of Guacamole
Two Toothpaste Giants Went To Court Over The Toothpaste Swirls On Their Packages
Women In Allied Countries Trolled Hitler By Wearing Red Lipstick
Marcel Duchamp Gave The Mona Lisa A Mustache, Because Dada
John Hoyte And Jumbo The Elephant Tried To Cross The Alps Like Hannibal
Preserving Early Arcade Games And Their Histories Can Take Some Serious Digging
“Boeing Wonderland” Was A Fake Neighborhood To Camouflage An Aircraft Factory During World War II
Walter Holden, The Ground Tech Who Accidentally Took Off In A Royal Air Force Fighter Jet
Like Some Of Us, EV Batteries May Work Better Under Pressure
Taikyoku Shōgi Is A Chess-Like Game With Hundreds Of Pieces And Thousands Of Squares
The Old Ball Game Week: The Story Behind The Weirdest Baseball Card Of All Time
The Old Ball Game Week: This High-Tech Sleeve Could Save A Pitcher’s Arm
The Old Ball Game Week: The San Diego Chicken Almost Moved To Atlanta
The Old Ball Game Week: A Minor League Team Once Held A Game Without Fans As A Publicity Stunt
The Old Ball Game Week: Willie Mays Made The Catch, And That Was Only The Start Of His Play
Rupert Holmes’ Piña Colada Song Was Originally Supposed To Be A Humphrey Bogart Song
For A Few Years The Northern Tip Of New Hampshire Was An Independent Republic
Burkey Belser Gave American Eaters A Label Full Of Nutrition Facts
Great White Sharks Have A Gathering Spot In The Pacific
To Test Lipstick Safety, A Manufacturer Had People Kiss A Guy Over And Over
The Liberty Bell Once Went On A Triumphant Cross-Country Tour
The Susan B. Anthony Dollar Flopped, Though So Did Several Other US Dollar Coins
The QWERTY Keyboard Made Life Easier For Typewriters, And Sometimes Typists Too
7Up Is Called 7Up For Reasons The Inventor Never Explained
Exeter Cathedral, Home Of The World’s Oldest Cat Door
Raising A Baby Chimp Alongside A Human Baby Can Get Weird
Search And Rescue Rats Are Getting A High-Tech Upgrade
The Guy Who Turned A Roulette Wheel’s Imperfections Into A Windfall
Very Precise Math Is What Keeps The St. Louis Arch Standing
Kissing Has Probably Been Around Longer Than Humans Have
Sandwich Week: A Guy Who Snagged Richard Nixon’s Half-Eaten Sandwich Still Has It 60 Years Later
Sandwich Week: Order A Cold Sandwich And You May Be More Likely To Get Sides, Too
Sandwich Week: The Worst Sandwich Ever Was A Way To Get Around Anti-Liquor Laws
Sandwich Week: Two US Cities Each Insist Their Cuban Sandwich Is The Authentic One
Sandwich Week: Elvis Once Flew Halfway Across The Country For A Giant Sandwich
Christopher Colles Gave The Early United States Its First Road Atlas
Sheila Scott Brought Grit And Glamour To Long-Distance Flying
Denmark And Canada Fought A “War” That Was Mostly Putting Liquor Bottles On An Uninhabited Island
What Exactly Was Benjamin Franklin Doing With That Kite And That Thunderstorm?
Project Horizon Was A US Plan To Put A Secret Base On The Moon
Denmark Allows People To Burn Its Flag, But Not Other Countries’ Flags
Sometimes You Buy A Painting For Four Bucks And There’s A Historic Document Hidden Inside
Some People Loathe The World’s Top Museums, And They Have Their Reasons
It Snowed In London In June 1975
There’s A Rock Wall In Bolivia That Has Thousands Of Dinosaur Tracks In It
Abraham Lincoln’s Best Speech May Be The One Nobody Documented - Oops
An NHL Team Drafted Taro Tsujimoto Even Though He Didn’t Exist
For The Opening Of The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Threw A Gigantic Party
In 1930s St. Louis, A “Robot” Tried To Keep People From Jaywalking
Memorial Day Special: James Garfield Had A Lot To Say On Memorial Day
Students In Maryland Sometimes Try To Put Their High Schools Up For Sale
Neta Snook Was The Pioneering Pilot Who Taught Amelia Earhart How To Fly
Americans Fell In Love With Dude Ranches And Started Wearing Blue Jeans
Andre The Giant Had To Wrestle In Front Of Saddam Hussein
Ennigaldi-Nanna, The World’s First Museum Curator
Marathon Week: Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier
Marathon Week: Jessica Anderson, A Record-Setting Marathon-Running Nurse
Marathon Week: The 1904 Men’s Marathon Was The Weirdest Olympic Race Ever
Marathon Week: She Ran A Marathon While Pushing A Triple Stroller Full Of Kids
Marathon Week: Cliff Young Won An Ultramarathon By Running Like An “Old Turtle”
For Centuries, Oxford Grads Had To Take A Vow Against This One Guy Henry Symeonis
Budapest Has A Rail Line That’s Run By Kids
Edsel Ford Fong Was A San Francisco Sensation For Being “The World’s Rudest Waiter”
Alfred Hajós Won Olympic Titles In Swimming And Architecture
How Florida Turned A Mascot For Orange Growers Into A Marvel Superhero
How Nashville Got Its Own Parthenon
Mario Segale Was Once Nintendo’s Landlord And You Can Guess What His Name Inspired
A Japanese Train Line Was About To Stop Running, Until Tama The Cat Gave It New Life
Swedish Meatballs Aren’t Originally Swedish
Fierljeppen Is The Netherlands’ Top Sport For Pole Vaulting Over Water
Money Week: At The Arkansas State Capitol, They Let Visitors Hold Actual Taxpayer Dollars
Money Week: Ben Franklin vs Counterfeiters
Money Week: Australia’s Biggest Little Spelling Error
Money Week: How Did U.S. Dollars Get Their Name?
Money Week: Tenino, Washington, The Town That Makes Its Own Money Out Of Wood
A Big Bat Tower In The Florida Keys Sounded Like A Great Idea To Everyone Except The Bats
During A Job Interview, Try Not To Get Into A Loud Argument With Your Pet Parrot
We Could Use Kale To Mine Heavy Metals And Clean Up Polluted Soil
Titanic Had A Near-Twin And Boy That Must’ve Weird To See After Titanic’s Sinking
Owning Your Own Town Can Be Hard Work, Just Ask The Former Owners Of Wauconda, Washington
An Unusually Large Diamond From West Virginia Spent Over A Decade In A Cigar Box
Milton Berle Hosted TV’s First Big-Name Charity Telethon
There’s A Statue In Cambodia To Honor A Legendary Mine-Detecting Rat
A Moisture-Sensing Robot Could Help Grow Crops While Conserving Water
Some People In England Celebrated Easter By Lifting Strangers In The Air
A Bunny-Filled Ad Campaign Helped The Cadbury Creme Egg Become An Easter Tradition
Seven Decades After An Iowa Woman Wrote “Please Write Me” On An Egg, Someone Got In Touch
An Inside Edition Viewer Spotted A Lump On The Host’s Neck, And Helped Her Stay Healthy
The Three Most Important Words In Reforesting: Location, Location, Location
People Are More Excited About Time They Got Back Than Time That Was Always Open
Tactile Tech Can Help Blind Baseball Fans Follow Games With Their Fingertips
Queen Elizabeth II Was Sending E-Mails Decades Before Most Of Us Got Online
Leonard Nimoy Once Hung Out With Jimi Hendrix
There’s A Race For Waiters In Paris
Before He Made Running History, Roger Bannister Had To Work His Day Job
Signs And Signals Week: How To Perform Opera In American Sign Language
Signs And Signals Week: Here’s A Shirt That Can Feel Sound
Signs And Signals Week: Happy Birthday To Closed Captioned Television
Signs And Signals Week: How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits
Signs And Signals Week: Kids In Nicaragua Created Their Own Sign Language
Rose Coppinger, The Phone Operator Who Helped Her Town Weather A Massive Fire
For Years, Iceland’s TV Service Took Thursdays Off
People In Different Countries Can Have Very Different Dreams
There Was A Time When Some People Thought Being Understood On The Phone Was Feminine
Before She Became The Most Famous Gal In Malibu, Barbie Grew Up In Wisconsin
Food Companies Used To Send Out Playable Records On Cereal Boxes
There’s A Pickup Truck On The Side Of A Building In The Dominican Republic
King Louis XIV’s Chef Is Why Salt And Pepper Go Together At The Dinner Table
The US Military Once Tested Out A “Camel Corps”
The Sound Of Music’s “Do Re Mi” Song Gets Very Different In Other Languages
In Poland, Nothing Goes Better With Pasta Than Strawberries
William Addis Went To Prison For Inciting A Riot And Came Out With A Modern Toothbrush Design
With Enough Ice And Enough Patience, People Can Walk Across One Of The Great Lakes In A Weekend
Manon Rhéaume, The First Woman To Play NHL Hockey
Learning To DJ Might Help Some People With ADHD
Saturday Night Live Did A Special In New Orleans, And It Got Complicated
Joe Frazier Was A Legendary Athlete, But A TV Athletic Competition Didn’t Go Swimmingly Well For Him
Elm Farm Ollie, The Cow Who Once Flew Over St. Louis
One Tournament Chess Game, Twenty Hours, No Winner
There’s A Set Of Giant President Heads In Virginia And They’ve Been Through Some Stuff
Abe Lincoln Week: Abraham Lincoln, Wedding Planner
Abe Lincoln Week: The Time Kate Warne, America’s First Female Detective, Saved Abraham Lincoln’s Life
Abe Lincoln Week: The Lincoln Memorial Has A Basement
Abe Lincoln Week: Grace Bedell, The Girl Who Got Abe Lincoln To Grow A Beard
Abe Lincoln Week: When Abe Lincoln Said Thanks But No Thanks To A Herd Of Elephants
A Painting Chimpanzee Posed As A Modern Artist Named Pierre Brassau
Drummer Hal Blaine Literally Left His Stamp On Popular Music
Shock Rocker Alice Cooper Was Good Friends With Comedy Legend Groucho Marx
Fred The Cat Went Undercover To Catch A Fake Veterinarian In Brooklyn
Rosa Slade Gragg Outsmarted Detroit’s Racial Housing Rules, With A Workaround On A Corner Lot
At Least One Beatle Hoped That The Band Would Get Arrested For Its Rooftop Concert
Some Kansans Wanted To Turn Their Part Of The State Into West Kansas
A Football Team Selected John Wayne In The 1971 NFL Draft
In Lewis Carroll’s Time, A Real Disease Led To “Mad Hatters”
Before She Changed The World Of Flying, Bessie Coleman Was An Award-Winning Manicurist
Why Is A Pie In The Face Such A Big Part Of Comedy History?
A Town In South Dakota Saw Winter Weather Turn Mild In Minutes
Károly Takács Was A Right Handed Sport Shooter, But Won Olympic Gold Left-Handed
A 1960s Computer Simulated A “Super Fight” Between Two Heavyweight Legends
Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie (MLK Day Special)
The “Great Bottle Hoax” Proved Some People Will Pay To See Something They Know Is Impossible
After The “Miracle On The Hudson,” Captain “Sully” Sullenberger Had To Deal With A Lost Library Book
A Woman Applied For A Job In 1976, And Got A Reply In 2024
The YMCA Once Sued The Village People Over The Song “YMCA”
Brock Meister Survived A Rarely Survivable “Internal Decapitation”
Basketball Week: In One Game, Jason McElwain Became A High School Basketball Legend
Basketball Week: Three Pro Basketball Players Once Played For Both Teams In A Single Game
Basketball Week: Wat Misaka Was A Pro Basketball Pioneer (And A Pretty Impressive Bowler, Too)
Basketball Week: Basketball Great Lisa Leslie Scored 101 Points In A High School Game
Basketball Week: Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 Point Game Was Truly One Of A Kind
How The Laugh Track Made TV Jokes Seem Funny Even If They Really Weren’t
46 BC Was The Extra-Long “Year Of Confusion”
For Some Of Us, New Year’s Eve Is The Time To Put On Some Red Undies
We Could Turn The Bits Of Tomatoes We Don’t Eat Into Jet Fuel
A German Doctor Once Tried To Turn Hawaii Into A Russian Colony
Watch Out, The Greek Christmas Goblins Are About To Run Amok
Axel Bjorklund, Boston's "Hot Dog Santa Claus"
Clement Clarke Moore Wasn’t Always Looking To Have His Name On “A Visit From St. Nicholas”
The Real-Life Festivus Holiday Was Maybe Even Weirder Than The One On “Seinfeld”
The First Electric Christmas Lights Were On A Rotating Tree
Fred Thomas Played In The World Series While He Was On Active Duty In The US Navy
Americans Accidentally Broke Plymouth Rock In Two - More Than Once
Houston’s Hanukkah House Brings All The Lights For The Holidays (Hanukkah Special)
The Society For The Prevention Of Useless Giving Tried To Get Americans Out Of All That Holiday Shopping
How An Amendment James Madison Wrote In The 1790s Got Added To The US Constitution In The 1990s
“O Holy Night” May Have Been The First Christmas Song Played On The Radio
Jakob Mierscheid, The Imaginary Member Of Germany’s Real Parliament
To Make A Cold War Documentary, NBC Funded An Escape Tunnel Under The Berlin Wall
How Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” Became A Song For Every Christmas
This Robot Could Plant Baby Trees To Reforest An Area After A Forest Fire
Bat Week: Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats
Bat Week: Bats Who Randomly End Up Living Together Sometimes Become Friends
Bat Week: Bats Can Predict Where Their Prey Is Headed
Bat Week: Babies Babble, And So Do Baby Bats
Bat Week: Bats Can Remember Our Ringtones
Train Cars, A Trip To The Beach And Telegraphs Helped Inspire The Bar Code
Thanksgiving Without Cranberries? For Many Americans In 1959, It Happened
The Tan Hill Inn, Where Getting Snowed In With Strangers Can Actually Be Fun
Mr. Delicious, The Fast Food Mascot Who Sold Roast Beef With A Side Of Middle-Aged Angst
Bessie Blount Griffin Invented A Way For Veterans With Disabilities To Feed Themselves, And So Much More
PropType Turns Almost Any Surface Into An Augmented Reality Keyboard
Yo-Yos Work A Little Differently In Space Than Here On Earth
How Bullwinkle Once Managed To Honk Off A Lot Of TV-Owning Parents
Peel Off A Layer Of This Paper Plate For Earth’s Sake
Pedestrianism, The Enormously Popular 19th Century Sport Where People Went For Really Long Walks
“In A Pickle” Is A Phrase That Doesn’t Have Much To Do With Actual Pickles
We Can Drop Artificial Snow With Help From Airplanes, But Machines Are Probably Easier
Some Spiders May Add Extra Threads To Webs That Let Them Know When There’s Prey Nearby
During The Battle Of The Bulge, Vincent Speranza Made A Beer Run For The Ages
Before Hitting It Big With His Novels, Kurt Vonnegut Invented A Board Game
Telephone Week: 39 Years After Making The First Phone Call, Alexander Graham Bell Joined A Transcontinental Conference Call
Telephone Week: When Maasai Herders Call The Wrong Number, They May End Up Making A New Friend
Telephone Week: The Undertaker Who Developed Automatic Phone Dialing
Telephone Week: Indiana Bell Rotated And Moved Its Office Building – And Kept Working There During The Move
Telephone Week: In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines
If You’re Out Guising On Halloween Night In Scotland, Have A Few Jokes Or Songs Handy
Halloween Hoaxes About World War III Don’t Work So Well, As A California High School Found Out
“Cat Man” Rex Shepherd Helped Put Some Of The British Museum’s Feral Cats To Work
KISS Made A TV Movie Where They Fought Their Evil Clones At An Amusement Park
There’s A Fake House In Brooklyn That Covers Up Real Subway Equipment
During The Great Depression, A Community In California Used Clamshells As Temporary Money
When It’s Sheep Shearing Time In Wales, It’s Time To Break Out The Special Shearing Cake
Jet Black Is Named For A Gemstone, Not Jet Planes
There’s A Forest In Indiana That Grows Wood For The USS Constitution
How Ford Put A Mustang High Up On The Empire State Building
Hockey Week: Some American Hockey Players Develop Canadian-Ish Accents
Hockey Week: Meet The Zamboni Who Invented The Zamboni
Hockey Week: What Does It Take To Be Great At Underwater Hockey?
Hockey Week: Eddie Shore, The Hockey Player Who Would Do Anything To Make The Game
Hockey Week: The Canadiens And Maple Leafs Had A Brawl, And A Hockey Game Broke Out
The Hearing Car Is Testing Whether Self-Driving Vehicles Need More Senses On The Road
A Radio Show In Tennessee Told Listeners They Had To Recycle Their Old-Style $20 Bills
Otto The Octopus Was Really Good At Getting Into Mischief
The Soviet Union Put Out An Official Cookbook Of “Tasty And Healthy Food”
The Benshi Were Japan’s Silent Movie Whisperers
Times New Roman, A 1930s Typeface, Is Still A Top Font In The 21st Century
The Furby Fad Of The 1990s Briefly Became A National Security Concern
Smith Island Cake Is Maryland’s Official State Dessert
How William Wrigley Went From Soap Guy To Baking Powder Guy To Chewing Gum Giant And Baseball Owner
Önneköp Is A Micronation In Sweden That Celebrates “Cuckoo-Coffee”
Pizza Week: The Pizza And Pipe Organ Connection
Pizza Week: Math Says You Get More Pizza With A Large Instead Of Two Mediums
Pizza Week: Detroit-Style Pizza Got Its Shape From Another Famous Detroit Industry
Pizza Week: Steve Jobs, The First Person To Order A Pizza Online
Pizza Week: How Chuck E. Cheese Became The World’s Top Animatronic Mouse Video Gamer And Pizza Restaurateur
Nadia Sparkes Started Picking Up Litter On The Way To School And Became “Trash Girl”
Muslims Pray Toward Mecca - Which Can Be A Challenge For Muslim Astronauts On A Space Station
The Who’s American TV Debut Really Blew Up, Especially Keith Moon’s Drums
Why 90s Screen Savers Were Full Of Flying Toasters And Endless Mazes
We’ll Miss Maru, The Box-Obsessed Celebrity Internet Cat
How Pink Floyd Got A Man On Fire Onto An Album Cover
Roselle The Guide Dog Helped Her Human Get To Safety During The 9/11 Attacks
Why Take A Bath Or A Shower When You Can Hop Into A “Human Washing Machine”?
Teddy Bears Were Once The Big Threat To American Youth
Robert Coates, The Stage Actor Who Was So Terrible He Became A Legend
Sports Get Wild Week: Maryland’s Official State Sport Is Jousting
Sports Get Wild Week: “Steady” Ed Headrick, the “Father of Disc Golf”
Sports Get Wild Week: The Time A Golfer Won The US Open While Suffering From Dysentery
Sports Get Wild Week: The Netherlands Turned Pole-Sitting Into A Competitive Sport
Sports Get Wild Week: In The 1920s There Was A Footrace From Los Angeles To New York
Most School Buses Are Bright Yellow For Exactly The Reasons You’d Probably Expect
Before Humans Ever Went To Space, A Mom In France Tried Training Her Son To Be An Astronaut
Inventor Becky Schroeder Had A Patent Before She Was A Teenager
Rip The Dog Helped Rescue Londoners From Bomb Damaged Buildings During The Blitz
The Great Moon Hoax Showed Misinformation Spread In The 19th Century Much Like It Does Today
A Formerly Enslaved Man Roasted His Former Master In A Classic Letter
A Restaurant In Wisconsin Keeps Goats On The Roof
Isabel Morgan Unlocked The Mysteries Of Polio On The Road To A Vaccine
Potatoes Have Made Their Contribution To World Peace
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” Was Partly Based On Real Bird Weirdness
When Eating With A Fork Was Scandalous
The Guy Who Officially Had The First Social Security Number
A Guy In Saudi Arabia Has Over 400 Video Game Consoles Connected To A Single TV
“Drop Kick Me Jesus” Is Country Music’s “Christian-Football Waltz”
A Fair In Washington State Is Famous For Its Spaceburgers
Here’s A Robot That’s Learning To Make Us Pizzas
The Winchester Mystery House Probably Wasn’t Built To Be Mysterious
Campbell’s Soup Grew To Love Andy Warhol’s Soup Can Paintings, Just Maybe Not Right Away
The “ManhattAnt” Is New York City’s Very Own Ant Species
Brad Lewis Kept His Son Safe As They Both Fell Off A Balcony
“Illustrated Songs” Were Proto-Music Videos Almost A Century Before MTV
One Of MGM’s Roaring Lions Lived A Life Even Stranger Than The Movies
Ford Once Tried To Replace The Steering Wheel With A “Wrist Twist” System
Bacteria Can Consume Used Plastic And Turn It Into Medicine
We’ve Tried Quite A Few Times To Send Mail By Rocket
Books And Authors Week: Meet Some Of The Oldest Books Ever Found
Books And Authors Week: Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End?
Books And Authors Week: I Review The Body Electric
Books And Authors Week: A Big-Time Librarian Kept “Goodnight Moon” Off The Shelves For 25 Years
Books And Authors Week: Never Skip The Dedication Page Of A Book, They Can Get Wild
The North Pole Moved Three Feet Because Of Dams
Watergate Salad Is An Actual Sweet Dish Named For Our “Long National Nightmare”
A Blood Sample From A Late Composer Is Powering A Musical Experiment
Guitarist Cordell Jackson Was Rocking Out Before There Was Rock Music
A Burma-Shave Ad Offered A Trip To “Mars,” And A Guy Tried To Take That Trip
Quiet Riot’s Biggest Hit Came From A Recording Session They Tried To Tank
Which Horse Is On Wyoming’s License Plate? It's Complicated
The BBC Once Reported That Cows Might Have Accents
A Shop In Small-Town Nebraska Gave The World The Tin Roof Sundae
Tiny Swarms Of Robots Might Help Us Get Through Sinus Infections
How Fireworks Illuminate Independence Day, The Way John Adams Wanted
The Original Version Of The Michelin Man Was Kind Of Terrifying
Graham Island, The Mediterranean’s Disappearing Volcanic Island
How Canada’s Flag Ended Up With A Maple Leaf Instead Of Union Jacks, Beavers Or Mounties
June Robertson McCarroll, The Doctor Who Painted A Line Down The Middle Of The Road
Fashion Week: The Jumpsuit Century
Fashion Week: The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System
Fashion Week: The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow
Fashion Week: Bioprinting Clothes (And More) Out Of Algae
Fashion Week: The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested
Monkeys Follow Some Of The Same Economic Principles As Humans Do
How The Juneteenth Holiday Spread From Galveston, To Texas, To The Whole United States
The Vatican Once Sang The Praises Of The Blues Brothers
To Get Kids To Eat Their Veggies, A Company Sold A Line Called “I Hate Peas”
Cracker Jack Originally Came With More Peanuts And No Prizes
The Man Versus Horse Marathon Is Pretty Much What The Name Suggests
Easy Listening Emerged From When Radio Programmers Tried To Target Women
The Centuries-Long Quest To Choose A Punctuation Mark For Irony And Sarcasm
The US Once Had A National Raisin Reserve
Don Ritchie, “The Angel of the Gap”
As The Allies Stormed The Beaches On D-Day, Bill Millin Played The Bagpipes
When Teenager Michael Chang Beat The World’s Top Tennis Player At The French Open
Tyromancy Is The Practice Of Fortune Telling Through Cheese
Living Wall Coatings Could Make City Buildings Greener
The ReefRanger Is A Robot That Could Help Restore Coral Reefs
Home Sweet Home Week: There’s A House In The Middle Of France’s Loire River
Home Sweet Home Week: In The 60s, There Was A Plan To Make Houses Out Of Heineken Bottles
Home Sweet Home Week: The Spite House, An Elegant, Expensive Way To Get Back At Somebody
Home Sweet Home Week: A Guy In Massachusetts Made Pretty Much His Whole House Out Of Old Newspapers
Home Sweet Home Week: They Built A Real-Life Simpsons House In Nevada
Leonard Nimoy Once Drove The Bangles Around In A Music Video
When Mailman Floyd Martin Retired, The People On His Route Gave Him A Big Sendoff
Betty Crocker May Not Be A Real Person, But She’s Been A Real Help To Bakers For Years
How The Streisand Effect Makes The Information People Want Hidden More Popular
Ohio Was The 17th State, And Also Kind Of The 48th
Calvin Coolidge’s Family Kept Their Pet “William Johnson Hippopotamus” At The National Zoo
Williamina Fleming, The Onetime Maid Who Became A Legendary Astronomer
Stop Signs Used To Be Yellow
The Real-Life Kid Who Inspired Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day”
The Strange Story Of Ireland’s Worst Driver Ever
“Pomp And Circumstance,” A Graduation Musical Tradition, Was Not Written For Graduations
Oatman, Arizona, The Gold Rush Town That’s Now Home To Wild Donkeys
We Could Run Our Smart Speakers By Writing Into The Air
The Only Guy Who Ever Broke Into The Bank Of England’s Vault Of Gold
Chimps Apparently Like To Get Together For Drinks
Map Week: Every Six Months This Island Switches Countries
Map Week: Canada Was Almost Named “Borealia”
Map Week: How To Find Where You Are In Just Three Words
Map Week: Earth Has Five Oceans Now, But Also Just One Ocean, It’s Complicated
Map Week: Point No Point And Other Amazing, Actual Places
Ella Fitzgerald And Marilyn Monroe Were Kind Of Besties For A While
A Political Dispute In Washington State Led To A Weird Race Between The Governor And Lieutenant Governor
When Key West Left The US To Become The Conch Republic
Planet Earth Got Its Name From The Earth Beneath Us
Queen Elizabeth II Wrote A Letter To Sydney, Australia That Won’t Be Opened Until 2085
A Town In Northern Japan Says It’s Home To The “Tomb Of Christ”
In Sweden And Finland, The Thursday Before Easter Is The Time For Trick-Or-Treating Witches
On The Micronesian Island Of Yap, Huge Stone Discs Are Used As Money
A Museum In Virginia Is Home To A Ham From 1902
Don Calhoun, The Fan Who Hit The Chicago Bulls’ “Million Dollar Shot”
America’s Oldest Board Game Was A Road Trip Through The Early US
Walter Hunt Invented The Modern Safety Pin To Pay Off A $15 Debt
Pennsylvania Once Tried To Make It A Crime To Mock The Governor In Editorial Cartoons
The Physiophone Turned Music Into Physical Sensations For Deaf People To Enjoy, And Dance To
Beavers Build Dams That Can Last Centuries, Maybe Even Millennia
Some Spiders In Loud Areas Soundproof Their Webs
To Protect Riders, This 3D Printed Bike Helmet Contracts During A Collision
Scientists Sent A Diaper-Wearing Ferret Named Felicia Through A Particle Accelerator
The BBC Once Ran An April Fools Day Story About Spaghetti Growing On Trees
An Engineer Wanted To Add Car Ramps To The Eiffel Tower
“Wing Walker” Gladys Ingle Could Change An Airplane’s Tire In The Middle Of The Sky
Eliza Scidmore Lobbied For Decades To Bring Cherry Blossoms To Washington DC
The Supremes Were Such A Popular Group, They Had Their Own Bread
How A “Sea-Worm” Inspired Marc Brunel To Dig London’s Thames Tunnel
A Teacher In Illinois Made The Washington DC Trip A Spring Break Tradition
Searcy County, Arkansas Is The World’s Chocolate Roll Capitol
Farm Week: When A Giant Safe Showed Up In His Yard, A New York Farmer Decided To Embrace The Mystery
Farm Week: Dogs Are Saving Citrus Orchards From Disease
Farm Week: Robots And Soap Bubbles Might Help Pollinate Crops
Farm Week: Laser Apple Robots
Farm Week: That Time More Than 300 Nebraskans Moved A Barn By Hand
Tim Wong Became The Best Friend A Rare Butterfly Ever Had
SS Baychimo, The “Ghost Ship” That Kept Reappearing In The Ocean
Mitchelville Was The First US Town Led By Formerly Enslaved People
The “Petticoat Rulers” Of Jackson, Wyoming
In The 1950s, Groups Of College Students Tried To Cram Themselves Into Phone Booths
For 18 Days, Lake Champlain Was A Great Lake
During World War II, The US Used Trampolines To Train Pilots
Edith Keating Let The World See What The World Looked Like From The Air
King Cakes: Two Holidays, Three Colors, Lots Of Little Plastic Babies
There’s An Official Spanish-Language Version Of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
The Most Interesting Story Out Of Boring, Oregon Involves A Boxing Champion And A “Town Pest”
The Philadelphia Phillies Were Also Sort Of The “Blue Jays” For A While
The Fight Of The 80s Was Johnny Cash Vs. Waldo The Ostrich
The Squeaky History of the Rubber Duck
The Keys To Rescuing One Dolphin? An NBA Player’s Long Arms
Paint Week: “Fordite” Is The Gem Made From Paint At Auto Factories
Paint Week: Really, Really White Paint Can Act Like A Coat Of Air Conditioning On A Building
Paint Week: The Race To Keep Day-Glo Paints Glo-ing
Paint Week: With Solar-Reflective Paint, School Playgrounds Are Getting Cooler
Paint Week: “Mummy Brown” Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies
Elvis Once Bought A Yacht That Franklin Roosevelt Used As President
Walk On This High-Tech Goo And It’ll Make Electricity
Long Before He Was President, Abraham Lincoln Was A Tavern Owner
For One Supreme Court Nominee, The Nation’s Number One Question Was About His Mustache
Margaret Horton Hung Onto The Tail Of A British Warplane As It Took Off And Flew
What Football Was Like Before The Forward Pass
Classical Music Can Calm A Fetus’s Heart Rate
Turn-On, The TV Show That Got Pulled Off The Air During Its Premiere
How Wichita Falls, Texas Became Home To “The World’s Littlest Skyscraper”
Lennie Gwyther Made A 600 Mile Solo Trip On Horseback At Age Nine
Let’s Jump Into The History Of Parachutes
A Guy Used A Loophole In International Law To Put Himself “In Charge” Of Western Antarctica
The World Of Fighting Fires Is Getting More Robotic
Researchers Added QR Codes To Bees To Figure Out What They Did All Day
You Can Only Drive To Michigan’s “Lost Peninsula” Through Ohio
Tiger Woods Once Hit A Golf Ball Behind A Boulder, Then He Got People To Move The Boulder
Never Forget That There Are People With Nearly Perfect Memories
The Dogs That Made The Serum Run To Nome, Alaska Were Very, Very Good Dogs
Marysville, Kansas, The Town Where Black Squirrels Are Number One
Not All Of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Biggest Fans Are Fans Of The Biggest MLK Monuments
For Crops In The Desert, Try These Inflatable Container Farms
The Plan To Build A New US Highway With Nuclear Bombs
A Jury In An Illegal Liquor Case Deliberated By “Testing” The Evidence
Wausau, Wisconsin (Kind Of) Banned Snowball Fights For Over A Century
A County In Texas Officially Greeted People With “Heaven-o” Instead Of “Hello”
Mountain Week: The Race Up The World’s Longest Staircase
Mountain Week: The Dog That Climbed All Of New Hampshire’s 4,000 Foot Mountains
Mountain Week: The Guy Who Climbed Mount Hood To Drop Off A Morning Paper For His Friends
Mountain Week: The Mountain That’s Higher Than The Highest Mountain
Mountain Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
Greenland Starts The New Year With Visits From Silent Masked Visitors
A Lawmaker Tried To Get Americans To Eat Hippo Meat, AKA “Lake Bacon”
Happy New Year, Happy Same Galactic Year
The Oxford Electric Bell Has Been Ringing For Over 175 Years
The British Comedy Sketch That’s A New Year’s Eve Tradition In Germany
Albert Gunter Had To Jump London’s Tower Bridge While Driving A Double Decker Bus
In Wales, Mari Lwyd Brings A Costumed Horse Skull To Your Door For Some Winter Fun
Hanukkah Will Skip The Year 3031 And Go Straight To 3032
Black Cake Makes Christmas In The Caribbean Sweet And Delicious
At Christmas In Iceland, It’s All About The Books
There’s A Rooftop Sign That Reads “Welcome To Cleveland” But It’s Not In Cleveland
A 24/7 Diner Chain Gave Its Workers Christmas Day Off, Then It Had To Figure Out How To Close
Poinsettias Have Gone By A Whole Lot Of Names Over Time
Animation Legend Chuck Jones Made Dr. Seuss’s Grinch A Part Of TV History
Chas Newby, Beatle Bassist For Two Weeks
May Kaarlus Was A Trick Shot Billiard Prodigy Who Walked Away From It All
The Advent Calendar Turns The Month Of December Into A Christmas Countdown
Movie Critic Gene Siskel Helped Make A Popcorn Company A Chicago Icon
Apollo 17 Proved People Can Be Allergic To Moon Dust
For Over A Century, Kids Have Been Writing Amazing And Sometimes Bewildering Letters To Santa
Charlie Brown Is A Blockhead, But He Did Star In A Great Christmas Special
Troublemakers Beware, It’s Time For Austria’s Krampus Parades
Ernest Bazin Invented A Ship With Rolling "Wheels" And Named It After Himself
Joe Hickel Made Massive Gingerbread Villages At An Alaska Hotel For Decades
Pink Floyd’s Inflatable Pig Once Got Loose Over London
When Gas Was In Short Supply, Some Europeans Drove Firewood-Powered Cars
Thanksgiving Week: When “WKRP” Thought Turkeys Could Fly For Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Week: Wanda And Jamal, The Best Accidental Thanksgiving Friends Ever
Thanksgiving Week: How Thanksgiving Leftovers Led To TV Dinners
Thanksgiving Week: We’re Grateful For Off The Wall Thanksgiving Sides
Thanksgiving Week: When The Macy’s Parade Rickrolled Thanksgiving
The “Butt Fumble” Made The New York Jets The Butt Of Endless Football Jokes
People Named A North Carolina Town ‘Whynot’ Because Why Not
Clyde Stubblefield, Music’s Original Funky Drummer
What Is The Deal With This Bathroom On The Cal Poly Campus
Touch Tone Phones Freed Callers From All That Rotary Dialing
Australia’s Navy Helped Save A Six Year Old’s Life By Enlisting Her
Movie Star Veronica Lake Gave Up Her Trademark Hairstyle For The War Effort
The Really (Expletive) Complicated History Of Swearing On TV
The Leonid Meteor Storm Of 1833 Was “The Night The Stars Fell”
Doug Hegdahl’s Razor-Sharp Memory Helped Hundreds Of American POWs In Vietnam
The Black Dog That Helped Inspire Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”
When Theodore Roosevelt Got A Full Term As President, He Also Got Two Ostriches
New York City Cabs Used To Have Celebrities Remind Passengers To Buckle Up
Hartford Election Cake Is An Old-School Way To Eat Your Way Through A Campaign
The Easy-Bake Oven Has Put Kids At The Forefront Of Lightbulb-Based Cooking For Decades
Pan de Muerto Is The Day of the Dead’s Signature Bread
Charlie Brown’s TV Neighbors Gave Him Rocks For Halloween, But Real People Sent Him Candy
John Adams And Ben Franklin Shared A Room Once And Spent The Night Arguing About The Window
Karolina Olsson, “The Sleeper of Oknö,” Woke Up After 32 Years In Bed
The “Logan Bar” Was Not-So-Sweet Chocolate And That’s Just How The US Military Wanted It
A Town In Colorado Holds Coffin Races
Norwood, Ontario Had A Water Tower That Looked Like A Crushed Can
William Lyttle, The “Mole Man” Who Dug Tunnels Around His London Home
Scientists Once Trained Rats To Drive Little Cars
William A. Mitchell, The King Of Space Age Snacks
Flag Week: It’s Not Just A Giant American Flag, It’s Superflag
Flag Week: Benny Benson, The 13 Year Old Who Designed Alaska’s Flag
Flag Week: Bob Heft Designed The 50-Star U.S. Flag In High School
Flag Week: The Star-Spangled Banner That Inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Flag Week: Betsy Ross May Not Have Made The First Flag, But She Really Did Make Flags
Could Smart Tech And Music Playlists Help People Stay Sober?
Ed Wood, The Filmmaker Who Made The Best Worst Movies Ever
The Great Naha Tug of War Gets Thousands Of People Pulling And Partying
Somebody Put A Big Pumpkin Way Up On Top Of A Cornell University Tower
The New York Times Used To Have A Period In Its Logo
Sputnik Kicked Off The Space Age, And Also Gave Us The Word “Beatnik”
Even The Inventor Of Inline Skates Crashed Once In A While
The History Of Margarine Hasn’t Always Been Smooth
The New York Earth Room Is An Apartment Filled With Dirt, For Art’s Sake
Barry Marshall Pinpointed The Cause Of Most Ulcers By Giving Himself One
Rabbit Show Jumping Might Be The Most Adorable Sport
In Iceland, People Help Baby Puffins By Throwing Them Off Cliffs
Keeping Mold From Growing On Space Stations Takes Extra Effort, But It’s Worth It
Jimmy Doolittle Proved Pilots Can Fly Completely By Instruments
The “Space Capsule” On The Roadside Near Winganon, Oklahoma
Why Did The Fonz Jump The Shark In The First Place?
Dean Jones Put On A Cricket Clinic While He Was Sick And Extremely Dehydrated
Jim Delligatti, The Father Of The Big Mac
Sometimes Just A Five Second Break Is All It Takes To Get Along Better With A Spouse
In Post-War Yugoslavia, Mariachi Music Was A Huge Hit
Mister Rogers Made Friday The 13th A Fun Day In The Neighborhood Of Make-Believe
Even The Harlem Globetrotters Haven’t Won Every Game They’ve Played
When Planes Were Grounded On 9-11, People Came Together To Get A Donor Liver To A Baby For A Life-Saving Transplant
An NFL Team Drafted Norm Michael In College, But He Didn’t Find Out Until 55 Years Later
Colonel Sanders Was The Face Of KFC, And Occasionally Its Vocal Critic
Pacemaker Pioneer Wilson Greatbatch Helped Millions Of Hearts
A Group Of Teens Got Stranded On A Pacific Island For 15 Months, And Never Went All “Lord Of The Flies” On Each Other
Baby Food Giant Gerber Once Sold Jars Of Mushed Up Food For Adults
Charles Downing Lay, America’s Olympic Medalist In Town Planning
Did A Department Store Really Keep A Guy On Staff To Be “Fired” In Front Of Angry Customers?
Astronomy Week: The Hubble Telescope’s First Space Photo Was Kind Of Blurry
Astronomy Week: What Was July 4th Like Before The Fourth Of July?
Astronomy Week: Cincinnati Built An Observatory Any Stargazer Could Use
Astronomy Week: Caroline Herschel Discovered Comets And Became A Star
Astronomy Week: Guillaume Le Gentil, The 18th Century Astronomer With the Worst Luck
A Churchgoer In Spain Did “The Worst Art Restoration Project Of All Time”
The Sun Would Be Very Loud If You Could Hear In Space
After His Legendary Basketball Career, Wilt Chamberlain Became A Pro Volleyball Player
In Delaware, Drivers Can Auction Off Their License Plates For Big Bucks
Long Before Photoshop, Photographers Knew How To “Photoshop” Photos
The Iowa State Fair Has A Husband Calling Contest
Ignacio Anaya García, The Inventor Of Nachos
In The Early 20th Century, Some Americans Thought Tipping Was Horrible
The Grateful Dead Once Jammed With Live Crickets
Scientists Are Teaching Batteries To Put Themselves Out If They Catch On Fire
George Sutton Made His Name Playing Billiards After Losing His Hands
Two Countries Showed Up At The 1936 Olympics Flying Identical Flags
Lynne Cox Made A Cold Swim From The US To The USSR During The Cold War
Gertrude Ederle Set A Record For Swimming The English Channel, And She Did It In A Thunderstorm
There’s A Far-Off Planet Sometimes Called Earth’s Evil Twin
Olympians Week: The Original Olympic Flag Went Missing For Over 70 Years
Olympians Week: Two Olympians Turned A Silver And A Bronze Into “Medals Of Friendship”
Olympians Week: Margaret Abbott Won Olympic Gold Even Though She Didn’t Know She Was In The Olympics
Olympians Week: “Eric The Eel” Won An Olympic Heat With The Slowest Time In The Field
Olympians Week: The 1904 Men’s Marathon Was The Weirdest Olympic Race Ever
William Rankin Fell Through A Thundercloud And Lived
Tom Stuker Used His Lifetime Airline Ticket To Travel More Than 24 Million Miles
The Bee Gees And Peter Frampton Starred In A Sgt. Pepper Movie That Was A Glorious 70s Trainwreck
The Ice Cream Cone Got The Spotlight At The 1904 World’s Fair, But That Isn’t When It Was Invented
Michigan’s Official State Vehicle Fleet Includes A Vintage Model T
It Took Researchers Twenty Years To Figure Out The Rosetta Stone
New York Once Built Artificial Reefs Out Of Old Ice Cream Trucks
There Was Almost A Scary Sequel To “E.T.”
Embo, Scotland, Declared Itself Independent For A Day
William Walker, The Diver Who Saved Winchester Cathedral
Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting A Big Dome Over Manhattan
Ina Koenig Saved A Kid Who Fell Into A Mine Shaft By Keeping His Head Above Water
Bir Tawil Is Land Between Egypt And Sudan That Neither Country Wants
In A Letter From Ancient Babylon, A Teenager Complains To His Mom About Clothes
Taco Bell Once Trolled America By Claiming It Had Bought The Liberty Bell
Alvin Straight Couldn’t Drive To See His Ailing Brother, So He Took A Road Trip On A Lawn Mower
The Washington Monument That Was Built Before The Washington Monument
Ford Once Tried To Turn A Station Wagon Into A “Pushbutton Camper”
Utah Restocks Its Remote Lakes By Dropping Fish Out Of Airplanes
Every July 1 Is A Million Dollar Day For Baseball’s Bobby Bonilla
The Treaty That Ended World War I Also Set The International Standard For Musical Pitch
A Town In Japan Built An Anne Of Green Gables-Themed Park
Medieval Europeans Really Could Have Banged Coconuts Together, Like In Monty Python
Sallie Gardner Was The Galloping Horse In The First Proto-Movie
Volcanic Ash Shut Down All Of British Airways Flight 009’s Engines - But It Still Landed Safely
Dessert Week: If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient
Dessert Week: The Great Banana Split Rivalry
Dessert Week: Even For Meringue This Meringue Is Light
Dessert Week: Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
Dessert Week: Agnes B. Marshall, The First “Queen” Of Ice Cream
Every Year Readlyn, Iowa Elects An Official Town Grump
Tying Cans To A Wedding Car Has Roots In Protesting A Marriage
The Baseball Game Lou Gehrig Played After He Stopped Playing Baseball
How Jophery Brown Became One Of Hollywood’s Most Iconic Stuntmen
Legend Says Instead of Fighting A War, Two Armies In Switzerland Sat Down For Some Soup
In 1520, Two Kings Spent Millions To Throw Themselves A Party For Over Two Weeks
A Teen Got To The “End” Of NES Tetris, And People Figured Out How To Hack The Software And Keep Playing
A Handful Of VIPs Can Travel To Other Countries Without Passports
American Cheese Got Its Start With A Guy From Canada
Alexander Graham Bell Invented A “Photophone” That Sent Sound On Beams Of Light
Some American Hockey Players Develop Canadian-Ish Accents
Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb’s “Penny Parade” Helped Build A Northern Wisconsin Hospital
There Was More Than One “Real” Rosie the Riveter
The Cherry Sisters Baffled Vaudeville But Guaranteed Newspapers The Right To Criticize Bad Shows
Memorial Day Special: The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
Planet Week: Uranus Was Originally Going To Be Named “George”
Planet Week: Venus: If You Lived Here, You’d Have Melted By Now
Planet Week: Selfies On Mars
Planet Week: At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto
Planet Week: Could Jokes About Uranus Prevent A Mission To Uranus?
The Pillsbury Doughboy Has A Name And A Family
Maria Beasley Invented A Life Raft And Lots Of Other Hugely Useful Things
When France And Spain Had A “War Of The Stop Signs”
Didier Delsalle Landed His Helicopter On Top Of Mount Everest
Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel Cleans Up The Waterfront With Technology And Googly Eyes
Did A Finnish Skier Actually Spit Out His Dentures On His Way To A Gold Medal?
Some People Are Sweet On Kool-Aid Pickles, But Others Have Soured On The Idea
In The 90s, Coca Cola Wanted Us To Drink OK Soda
El Reno, Oklahoma Is The Home Of The Fried Onion Burger
The Outtakes From Orson Welles’ Wine Commercial Might Be His Most Legendary Work
Ancient Romans Once Threatened To Exile Anyone Wearing Pants
The Distress Call Mayday Doesn’t Have Anything To Do With May
Bonnie Richardson Won A State Track Team Championship By Herself - Twice
When News Companies Tried To Deliver Newspapers Through Radio Transmissions
Willie Nelson Once Recorded An Album To Pay Back Taxes To The IRS
A Single Tree In New York Grows 40 Different Fruits
Absorbing An Oil Spill With Cork And Lasers
The “Electronic Tongue” That Can Tell When Wine Starts To Spoil
"English As She Is Spoke," A Guide To English Written By A Guy Who Didn't Really Speak English
This Smart Glove Could Help Divers Warn Each Other When There’s Danger Nearby
Two US Cities Each Insist Their Cuban Sandwich Is The Authentic One
The Minor League Baseball Game That Took Three Days To Play
Kansas City’s Subtropolis Is A Huge Business Complex That’s 100 Feet Underground
A “Lunar Olympics” Almost Ended In Disaster For The Apollo 16 Astronauts
Leonardo da Vinci, Inventor of the Resume
Murphy, The Eagle Who Became Dad To A Rock
Glowing Orbs In The Netherlands Could Light The Way Toward Clean Water
The Tempest Prognosticator Used Leeches To Predict Stormy Weather
Florence Price Finally Takes Her Place On The List Of Great Composers
A Study Says Everyone In Japan Could Have The Same Last Name Five Centuries From Now
A Dog In The UK Saved Lives During The Blitz, Thanks To A Full Bladder
A Guy In Melbourne Walks Around With A Giant Carrot Just For Fun
Baseball Player Ping Bodie Once Won An Eating Contest Against An Ostrich
Communist Countries Thought The TV Show “Dallas” Would Scare Citizens Away From Capitalism, But It Backfired
In 1906, Chicago’s Newspapers Told Everybody The City Was Being Attacked By Dinosaurs
Fine Art Week: Some Art Looks Great Even When Accidentally Hung Upside Down
Fine Art Week: Edmonia Lewis, A Sculptor Who Brought Her Subjects To Life
Fine Art Week: Why Is It So Hard To Tell A Real Rembrandt Painting From A Copy?
Fine Art Week: Sarah Biffin, A 19th Century Painter “Without Hands” Who’s Getting 21st Century Recognition
Fine Art Week: Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics
If This TV Show Hadn’t Been Canceled, We Might Not Have Had The Original Versions of “Star Trek” and TV’s “Batman”
For Our Fifth Birthday, The Story Of The Song “Happy Birthday To You”
Taco Bell Once Sold A Burger Called The “Bell Beefer”
Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier
The Nutty Narrows Bridge Was Built For Squirrels In Washington State
Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” Became A Hit, After A Tape Machine Cut It To Pieces
Before Alarm Clocks, Some People Awoke With Help From A “Knocker-Up”
Legendary Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard Once Teamed Up To Design A Refrigerator
Here’s A Tiny Fish That Can Make Sounds As Loud As A Jet Engine
A Boycott Against Charles Boycott Gave Us The Word “Boycott”
New York City’s 311 System Has Gotten Some Wild Calls Over The Years
Musical Alarms Could Help Save Lives In Hospitals
Cap’n Crunch Once Got Sued Because There Weren’t Actual Berries In Crunch Berries Cereal
Whey Protein Could Help Stop E-Waste
Ruth Belville, The Last “Time Carrier” In London
Police Squad, The TV Comedy That Got Canceled For Being Too Funny
When Danish Farmers Started Breeding “Protest Pigs”
La Bougie du sapeur, The Newspaper That Only Comes Out On February 29
If Humans Start Living On Other Worlds, They Might End Up Creating New Accents
Charles Strite, The Inventor Who Made Toasters Pop
Whitney Smith Flew The Flag For Studying Flags
Mail Week: How Ethel Merman Helped Get America To Use ZIP Codes
Mail Week: Henry Brown Escaped From Slavery By Mailing Himself To Philadelphia
Mail Week: Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog
Mail Week: “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier
Mail Week: When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place
When Missouri Banned Schools For Black Students, John Berry Meachum Started A School On A Riverboat
The Blackwell Family Tree Traces Black History Through Centuries
Haters Used To Give Out “Vinegar Valentines” To Push People’s Button
How Ski Ballet Ended Up At The Olympics In The 80s And 90s
The “Hairy Eagle” Is A Decoration Made Partly With Abraham Lincoln’s Hair
Snowflake Bentley Showed The World Just How Amazing Snow Can Be
ELIZA Was An AI Chatbot Decades Before ChatGPT
The US Rationed Shoes During World War II, So People Made Footwear Out Of Old Firehoses
February Is The Shortest Month For Literally Odd Reasons
Indiana Almost Set The Value Of Pi At 3.2, Even Though That Isn’t Pi’s Value
Jessica Cox, The First Person Born Without Arms To Become A Licensed Pilot
When Indiana Tried To Get “Louie, Louie” Off The Radio
This Smart Glove Can Help People Recover From A Stroke
Jean Carroll, TV's First Female Standup Comedy Star
Holland, Michigan Has A Snow Melting System Built Into Its Downtown
Cat Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
Cat Week: Room 8, The Cat Named For A Classroom In L.A.
Cat Week: A Bike Trip Around The World With A Cat
Cat Week: There’s Music For Cats And It’s Apparently Very Good For Them
Cat Week: Félicette, The First Cat In Space
To Win A Dance Marathon, Couples Might Have To Keep Going For Five Months
Auto Companies Hire People To Make Sure The New Car Smell Is Just Right
During Prohibition, Grape Growers Sold “Wine Bricks” To Thirsty Customers
Designers Put Airbags In Clothes To Protect People From Falls
When Martin Luther King Jr. Won The Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta Held A Historic Dinner In His Honor
How Mr. Clean Became The World’s Top Bald Sailor Genie Cleaning Icon
John Thompson Lost His Arms In A Farm Accident, Got Himself Help And Got The Arms Back
Berlin’s Jazz Age Nightclubs Let People Message Each Other Through Pneumatic Tubes
Richard Nixon Once Wished He’d Been A Rapper
Newspaper Reporters Once Bought A Chicago Dive Bar To Catch Corrupt Officials
Schoolhouse Rock Taught Generations About Bills, Adverbs And Magic Numbers
The UK Reality Show “Shattered” Was Essentially A Sleep Deprivation Contest On TV
In Whittier, Alaska, A Lot Of Residents All Live In One Building
A City In Ecuador Starts The Year With A Festival Of Dancing Devils
Garisenda Tower Is Italy’s Other Leaning Tower
When The New Year’s Ball Drop Is Over, New York City Gets Busy Cleaning Up Times Square
The Letter Z Once Looked Like A Fancy Capital I
Puerto Rico’s Festival de las Máscaras Gets Colorful And Loud
When George S. Patton Bombed A Volcano
Tilly Smith Saved 100 People From A Tsunami Because She'd Listened In Class
Babbo Natale, The Yule Goat and The World’s Many Christmas Gift Givers
How The Snow Globe Started Shaking Up Winter
Nixon And Elvis, The Most Iconic Meeting In 70s History
How A Christmas Card Gave Us “It’s A Wonderful Life”
Where Did We Put All The Goodwill Moon Rocks From Apollo 17?
Joseph Grimaldi, London’s “King Of Clowns”
High Tech Snow Chains Could Pop Out When Your Car Needs Them And Retract When It Doesn’t
A Baboon Named Jack Once Worked For A Railroad, And He Was Good At His Job
How Google Street View Could Help Stop Invasive Weeds
Teddy Roosevelt Tried To Change How We Spell Words
The Delicious History Of Hanukkah Latkes
Do Stoplights Need A Fourth Color?
Tom Waits Went To Court Over An Ad For Doritos
Black Firefighters In Chicago Helped Give The World The Fire Pole
People In The “Dirty” Middle Ages Actually Liked To Get Clean
How A Guy In 1974 Used A Computer To Order Pizza
A Statue Of Liberty Stamp That Didn’t Actually Feature The Statue Of Liberty
Let’s Meet The Guy Named Mason Who Patented The Mason Jar
There’s A Secret Military Airline Known As “Janet”
Can We Patch Back Injuries The Way We Patch Holes In Car Tires?
Bruce Lee Was A Legendary Martial Artist And A Terrific Dancer
When Domino’s Tried To Have Reindeer Deliver Pizza
Before There Was Halloween Trick-Or-Treating, There Was The Thanksgiving Ragamuffin Parade
Groups Of Chimpanzees Spy On Each Other
How “Hello” Became The English Language’s Way Of Saying Hello
Before The Internet Was All About Dumpster Fires, There Was The Creation Of The Dumpster
The Key To Next-Generation Batteries Might Be In Crab Shells
Oklahoma’s Panhandle Was Once Known As “No Man’s Land”
A Whole City Came Together To Give “BatKid” One Super Day
Movie Fans In Texas Enjoy Pickles When They Go To The Theater
A Turkey Once Interrupted A Green Bay Packers Game
Moon Week: That Time Pink Floyd Jammed Out During The Moon Landing
Moon Week: Why Did The Moon Disappear 900 Years Ago?
Moon Week: Our Long History Of Crashing Stuff Into The Moon
Moon Week: The Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing, Thanks To The Moon
Moon Week: Apollo 12 Crashed Its Lunar Module On Purpose
Alberto Manzi Convinced Italians That “It’s Never Too Late” To Learn
Warren Harding’s Human Friends Hurt His Presidency, But His Dog Friends Were Great
Toronto’s “Stork Derby” Happened Because Of A Very Wealthy Lawyer’s Very Strange Will
If You Want To Go Old School For Halloween, Try Carving Some Turnips
Creeped Out By Clowns? Here’s The Science That Explains Why
Isaac Singer Invented The Modern Sewing Machine, But What He Really Wanted To Do Was Act
Listening To A Symphony Can Actually Sync Up The Audience’s Heart Rates
Here’s A Robot That Can Roll Up And Down Stairs
An Excited James Brown Fan Almost Swore Through The Recording Of “Live At The Apollo”
“Mr. Tornado” Ted Fujita Was The Original Severe Weather Detective
Dogpiles Are How Baseball Teams Celebrate Big Wins And Sometimes Hurt Themselves
A Medical Robot Can Help Steer A Needle Through Living Tissue
In 1867 Alaska, It Was Friday, And Another Friday Came Afterward
Neil Diamond And Barbra Streisand Had A Hit Duet Almost By Accident
The Cardiff Giant Was A Fake Giant That Caused A Real Uproar
The Thirteen Club Put Thirteen Guests Together For A Thirteen Course Meal On Friday The 13th
Winning The Nobel Prize Is Hard, Calling Someone To Tell Them They Won The Nobel Prize Can Also Be Hard
Scientists Flipped Coins 350,757 Times To See If The Results Were 50/50
A Writer In 1870 Couldn’t Figure Out What All The Fuss Over Yosemite Was About
Jellyfish Just Proved You Don’t Need A Brain To Learn From Experience
The Zeitpyramide Is An Art Project That Will Take 1,200 Years To Build
The Pitch Drop Experiment Is A Single Research Project That’s Been Running Since The 1930s
Antonín Dvořák’s First Symphony Went Missing For Six Decades
Patrick Combs Cashed A $95,000 Promotional "Check" And Actually Got The Money
The Marx Brothers Became Comedians Thanks To An Escaped Mule In Texas
Sometimes Coffee Isn’t A Beverage, It’s Coffee Jelly
Two Australians Once Had A Staring Contest For Over 40 Minutes
Hector, The Thunderstorm That Arrives Like Clockwork Over Australia’s Tiwi Islands
Johnny Appleseed’s Trees Gave Homesteaders A Way To Make Adult Beverages
William Faulkner Was An Iconic Author And A Mediocre Mailman
Robert Shields Kept A Decades-Long Diary Of Pretty Much Everything He Ever Did
Sam Brinkley, The “Longest Bearded Man In The World”
Why The USSR Once Thought A Hot Dog Stand Was A Top US Military Installation
A Soviet Cosmonaut Once Pretended To Land On The Moon To Troll NASA
What Ants Can Teach Us About Mass Transportation
Cecil Chubb, The Guy Who Bought Stonehenge At An Auction
How Joyce Chen Helped The US Fall In Love With Chinese Food
When Phineas Gage’s Skull Met An Iron Bar, Things Got Weird
The Flatwoods Monster Put A West Virginia Town On The Map, After Scaring Local Kids
Monster Trucks Started When A Guy Put Giant Tires On His Own Ride
The Egg Cream Is A Refreshing New York City Classic
Old Coffee Grounds Could Make Concrete Stronger, Greener, More Jittery
Cry A Little And You’ll Power The Smart Contact Lenses Of The Future
How High-Tech Garbage Trucks Can Help Maintain A City
Lewis Howard Latimer, The Black Inventor Who Helped Make The Modern World Modern
Italy’s “Festival of the Ugly” Reminds Everybody That Looks Aren’t Everything
To Get Out Of A Record Contract, Van Morrison Made A Malicious Compliance Album
People In Ancient China Built Ceramic Water Pipes Thousands Of Years Ago
An Urban Legend Says The Devil Took Over Everybody’s TV Screens In 1968
Leon Theremin’s Musical Instrument Can Be Played Without Being Touched
Momofuku Ando, The Guy Who Invented Instant Ramen
These Smart Glasses Can Generate Real-Time Speech Captions For Deaf People
John Lennon and The Many Other Pop Stars Who Say They Saw UFOs
A California Artist Once Helped Drivers By Adding His Own Road Sign To The Highway
How Font Sizes On Menus Could Help People Eat Healthier
Snack Week: Quit Hating On Candy Corn, At Least Until You Hear Its Story
Snack Week: In Belgium, Eating Fries Is Patriotic
Snack Week: Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
Snack Week: How The Cheese Curl Was Invented (Partly By Accident)
Snack Week: Pretzels Have Been Twisting Their Way Into Our Hearts For Over A Millennium
During The Burryman’s Parade, A Scottish Dude In A Suit Made Of Burrs Walks Around Drinking Whiskey
A Shower Of Souvenir Baseballs Led To A Major League Forfeit
The Fly-Swatting Champion Of Bisbee, Arizona
A US Treasury Official Decided To Feature Himself On Currency
Turkmenistan’s Leader Once Drove Doughnuts Around A Flaming Crater Known As The “Gates Of Hell”
Moss And Tracy Hills, The Cruise Ship Musicians Who Saved Hundreds From A Sinking Ship
If You’re Trying To Visit All 50 States, North Dakota Wants You To Save The “Best For Last”
The US Almost Had Coins Worth A Tenth Of A Cent
Jackie Ormes Brought Black Characters To The Comics Page
Kitty Burke Once Batted In A Major League Game
When People From Towns Named Dull, Boring And Bland Get Together, You Know It’ll Get Lit
In The 19th Century, Steamboat Racing Was An Extreme Sport
The First Road Trip Across The Continental US Won A Guy Fifty Bucks
How Colorado Got The Colorado River To Run Through Colorado
Before Detroit Was The Motor City, It Was Known For Its Stoves
Winneconne, Wisconsin Once Seceded From The State Over A Highway Map
Want To Burn Lots Of Calories? Try High-Level Chess
AI Phone Bots Foil Scammers By Wasting Their Time
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan Flew To Ireland When He Was Supposed To Fly To California
Gail Halvorsen, The “Candy Bomber” Of The Berlin Airlift
In India, Telegrams Were Still Around Until 2013
The Hollywood Sign Was A Big Ad That Turned Into a Landmark
The 1924 Olympic Men’s Cross Country Race Was Literally A Hot Mess
Dick Roth Won Olympic Gold While He Had Appendicitis
Two Young Brothers Rode Across The Country On Horseback To Hang Out With Teddy Roosevelt
Samantha Smith, A Kid From Maine Who Tried To Make The Cold War A Little More Peaceful
In Soviet Russia, Vacation Took You
The Secret Service Has An Ink Library To Foil Crimes
Not Even An Alien Attack Or Zombie Apocalypse Could Keep The US From Protecting Its Founding Documents
A Newspaper Called The Recycler Helped Bring Together Some Of The Biggest Rock Bands Of All Time
Irna Phillips Brought The World Of Soap Operas To Life
Marie C. Bolden, A Black Teen In Cleveland, Helped Win A National Spelling Title In 1908
The Wild History Of The White House Telephone
Before There Were Chicken McNuggets, McDonald’s Tried Selling Onion Nuggets
A Teenager In Michigan Once Started Building A Nuclear Reactor In The Shed
Babe Ruth Once Pitched A Combined No-Hitter, At Least Technically
Some People Didn’t Think The Earliest Air Conditioners Were Very Cool
The Dog That Climbed All Of New Hampshire’s 4,000 Foot Mountains
West Virginia Is Landlocked, But It Has A Lighthouse Anyway
Raise A Glass Of Red Drink On Juneteenth
Lifting Something Heavy? Think Positive Thoughts, Or You Might Hurt Yourself
Why We Don’t Pronounce The Last S In Arkansas
The Star-Spangled Banner That Inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Charles Osborne Had The Hiccups For 68 Years
In Wartime, Knitters Have Used Their Skills For Spying
This Doll From The 18th Century May Be One Of The First Computers
A Startup In Switzerland Is Putting Solar Panels In Between Railroad Tracks
Virginia Apgar's Score Has Helped Millions Of Babies Stay Healthy
Clarence Blethen, The Pitcher Who Got Bit By His Own False Teeth
The World Has Ankle Monitors Partly Because Of Spider-Man Comics
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower Had Her Own Shade Of Pink
Rockford, Illinois Is The Birthplace Of The Sock Monkey
The Michigan Tycoon Who Made His Descendants Wait 92 Years To Inherit His Fortune
How Suitcases With Wheels Helped Travelers Get On A Roll
The Arlington Ladies Remember Every Servicemember Buried At Arlington National Cemetery
If It Had Been Up To Billie Jean King, Astronaut Sally Ride Might Have Been A Pro Tennis Player
Hands Across America Brought Together Some Hands Across Some Of America
Novelty Maker S.S. Adams Put The Joy In Joy Buzzers
French President Paul Deschanel Once Fell Out Of A Moving Train
The Legend Of Blanche Heriot, Who Saved Her Love’s Life By Keeping A Bell From Ringing
Rock On Week: One Of Aerosmith’s Biggest Hits Happened Partly Because Of A Mel Brooks Movie
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Rock On Week: When A 19 Year Old Drummer Got Onstage With The Who
Rock On Week: The Best Defense Against Cougars Is Metallica
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Parrots Like To Do Video Calls WIth Other Parrots
To Drive To Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, You Have To Go Through Canada
NASA Has Its Own Railroad
Meet ESTHER, A Robot That Plays Wheelchair Tennis
Guy Goma Became An Internet Expert By Accident On Live TV
There’s A Big Metal Ball Just Hanging Out In Earth Orbit, And It’s Super Useful
How A Farmer In Belgium Accidentally Changed The Country’s Borders
A Game Of Twister On “The Tonight Show” Helped Make The Game A Hit
Why People Push Peanuts Up Pikes Peak With Their Noses
Medieval Monks Were Volcano Trackers Without Even Knowing It
Today Is Ed Balls Day, To Which We Say “Ed Balls”
Cliff Young Won An Ultramarathon By Running Like An “Old Turtle”
There Were Storm Chasers Even In The 19th Century
Kids In Canada Went On Strike Over The Price Of Candy Bars
Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats
When An Apollo Astronaut Had A Gas Problem On The Moon
The 300 Club Is The Hottest - And Coldest - Club In Antarctica
When World War II Meant No Bananas For The UK, People Made “Mock Bananas” Out Of Parsnips
Gregory Robertson Saved An Unconscious Skydiver After A High-Speed Dive
What Does It Take To Be Great At Underwater Hockey?
Did A Dolphin Known As Pelorus Jack Actually Guide Ships Through The Sea?
This Old City Bus Is Now A Traveling Sauna
Why Do Some People Love Licorice And Other People Loathe It?
Claire Weekes Came Up With Six Words To Help With Anxiety
The Wilhelm Scream Is The Classic Hollywood Sound Effect You Can’t Stop Hearing
California Miners Once Tried To Start “The Great Republic Of Rough And Ready”
The Twinkie Has Longevity In More Ways Than One
Carlester Smith Walked His Way Through Annapolis
The Volleyball Game Played Over A Border Fence
There’s A Lunchbox Museum In Columbus, Georgia
Baseball Week: Germany Schaefer, The Baseball Player Who Stole First Base
We Let AI Write This Show And Host Most Of It, Too
Baseball Week: Little Leaguer Katie Brownell Once Struck Out Every Batter In An Entire Game
Baseball Week: Satchel Paige Was So Good He Could Still Get Batters Out In His Late 50s
Baseball Week: Baseball's First, Fightingest Umpire
Baseball Week: Carlton Fisk’s Home Run Wave Changed TV Sports, But It Almost Didn’t Get Filmed At All
Dad Jokes Are Good For Kids, And Here’s The Science That Says So
Potatoes Could Help Astronauts Build “Cosmic Concrete” On Mars, Or Even Here On Earth
For Self-Help Robots, Looks Matter
The Air Force Once Bombed Montana
Ulysses, Kansas, The Town That Moved A Couple Miles Down The Road
How To Keep Flying Robots Flying Even When Their Wings Are Damaged
This Pen Can Help People With Parkinson’s Disease Keep Writing
A Company In Mexico Is Making 3D Printed Bricks Out Of Eggshells
The Prison-Only Potato Chips Known As “The Whole Shabang” Live Up To Their Name
Uranus Was Originally Going To Be Named “George”
How Insects, World War I, Golf Balls And Halloween Candy Helped Lead Us To Daylight Saving Time
When The Supreme Court Kind Of Ruled That An Airplane Wasn’t A Motor Vehicle
For Safer Motorcycling, How About Pants With Airbags?
Science Once Figured Out How To Give Rats Gambling Problems - And How To Take Them Away
For Michelangelo, Painting The Sistine Chapel Was Literally A Pain
Science Says Cats Can Perceive Time, Sort Of
Susanna Madora Salter Became The First American Woman Mayor Kind Of By Surprise
Pennies Were First Used Back When A Penny Was Worth Something, By Golly
Clippy, The AI Paper Clip Chatbot That Really Wanted To Help You Write Letters
This Device Could Tell You When Your Voice Is Getting Tired
Steve Jobs, The First Person To Order A Pizza Online
Ora Washington, The “Queen Of Two Courts,” Ruled Tennis And Basketball Alike
Robert Wadlow Was Known For His Heart As Well As His Height
Some Of The World’s Languages Are Whistled
Before There Were Big Car Sales On Presidents Day, There Were Big Bicycle Sales
Henry E. Baker Made Sure Black Inventors Got Recognized
How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Let Millions Of Young Readers Pick The Ending Of The Story
Gaming Prosthetics Are Making Minecraft More Inclusive
The Heart Shape Comes From Just About Everywhere Except Actual Hearts
The Time Millions Of Legos Fell Into The Ocean And Washed Up On Beaches
How Lusia Harris Became The “Queen Of Basketball”
Bill Veeck, The Wildest Owner Baseball Ever Saw
Why Did Actual People Start Building Snow People?
The First Time Astronauts Walked In Space Without A Tether
The Legend Of James Bartley, Who Was Supposedly Swallowed By A Whale
Clara MacBeth, The Queen Of Cruise Ships, Spent Decades At Sea
Sound Waves Could Help Keep High-Tech Batteries Going And Going And Going
There’s A Basketball Court In The US Supreme Court Building
The Moon Trees Came From Seeds That Went Into Lunar Orbit
President Franklin Roosevelt Once Dreamed Of Writing Movies
Electric Cutlery Can Make Food Taste Saltier Without Being Saltier
Before Play-Doh Became A Childhood Icon, It Was Known As Kutol Wallpaper Cleaner
This Solar Powered System Can Help Address Both Plastic Waste And Greenhouse Gases
The History Of The World, According To Peanut Butter
Hydrogel Sheets Could Clean Up Spills Quicker Than Ever Before
If Winter Is Your Thing, Try Staying At An Ice Hotel
The Mysterious “Poe Toaster” Raised A Glass To The Author Every Year On His Birthday
Banning Sliced Bread Was Not The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
When Al Capone Gave Two Cherry Trees To A Baltimore Hospital
Ben’s Chili Bowl Was One Of Martin Luther King’s Regular Stops In DC
Sign Spinning Isn’t Just A Job, It’s A Sport
Eclipse, The Dog Who Rode The Bus
A City In Japan Is Trying To Make Electricity From Snow
Cranberry-Based Packaging Is Plastic-Free And Completely Dissolvable
When Richard Nixon And Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev Went For A Drive
A New Mexico Lawmaker Tried To Make Expert Witnesses Dress Like Wizards In Court
How Aaron “Bunny” Lapin Became The Whipped Cream King
Why Don’t We Pronounce The First D In Wednesday?
The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Straightening Out
Rhnull, The Blood Type That Only A Handful Of People In The World Have
Betsy Ross May Not Have Made The First Flag, But She Really Did Make Flags
For Some People Decades Ago, Winter Was Time For Barrel Jumping
Egg Whites Are Helping Get Microplastics Out Of The Ocean
Jackdaws Decide When To Take Off As A Group
Here’s Why There Aren’t B Batteries
A Sailor In An Around-The-World Race Turned Around To Save An Opponent
Why “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” Was Almost Canceled
There Are Schools Where You Can Learn To Be Santa
If You’re Really Lucky, You Might See The Winter Solstice Inside Newgrange In Ireland
Houston’s Hanukkah House Brings All The Lights For The Holidays
Ebeneezer Scrooge Might Have Been Based On These Real People
The Ferris Wheel Was Designed To Show Up The Eiffel Tower
The Birth Of The Blinking Cursor
We Can Send Edible Drones To People While They’re Waiting For A Rescue
Don Karkos Regained Sight In His Right Eye After A Horse Headbutted Him
Frank Sinatra Was Once Offered The Lead Role In “Die Hard”
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Is Home To The World’s Most Famous “Space Acorn”
Cheers To The First Woman To Perform Shakespeare Onstage, Whoever She Was
When ALS Stopped Jason Becker’s Guitar Playing, He Became An Accomplished Composer
The First Cars Licensed As London Taxis Were Electric Vehicles
Sarah Biffin, A 19th Century Painter “Without Hands” Who’s Getting 21st Century Recognition
Monster Week: Rhinelander, Wisconsin Is America’s Hodag Headquarters
Monster Week: Milicent Patrick Gave The Black Lagoon Its Creature
Monster Week: Whatever’s In Loch Ness Isn’t What’s In The Famous Loch Ness Monster Photo
Monster Week: How “Them!” Became The Greatest Giant Ant Movie Of Its Generation
Monster Week: The Big Muddy Monster Ran Wild In Murphysboro
The "Snow Bowl" Proved Playing College Football In A Blizzard Is Hard
When “WKRP” Thought Turkeys Could Fly For Thanksgiving
President Franklin Pierce Got An Acclaimed Author To Write His Campaign Biography
All Work And No Play Makes A Dull Bumblebee
The Classic Black And White Soccer Ball Was Designed To Look Like A Satellite
When Alan Shepard Hit Golf Balls On The Moon
Colorado’s State Capitol Has Pretty Much All The World’s Rose Onyx
The “McBarge” Was A Floating Wonderland Of Fast Food
Helen Hulick, Who Went To Jail For The Right To Wear Slacks In Court
The American Warship That Accidentally Launched A Torpedo At FDR
A Comanche Code Talker Sent The First Message From Utah Beach On D-Day
With A Name Like The Hope Diamond, It’s Gotta Be Cursed (Or Not)
Piano Chords May Help Stop Chronic Nightmares
How Auctioneers Keep Up Their Patter And Get Bidders To Bid
The “Parcel Post Bank” Was Mailed To Its Construction Site, A Few Bricks At A Time
When South New Jersey Wanted To Become Its Own State
The Worst Sandwich Ever Was A Way To Get Around Anti-Liquor Laws
When Marlon Brando Hosts An Acting Seminar, It Can Get Really Wild
Repainting The White House Takes 570 Gallons Of Paint
A Couple In Texas Made A Replica Of The Munsters’ TV House
Why Audiences Throw Things At The Stage, Though Obviously They Shouldn’t