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No One Saw It Coming — 59 episodes
Beware gifts from Soviet spies
The Met Gala began in a dead woman’s closet
The telegram that caught a killer
Clogged sink doomed a space mission
Ancient Greek built a steam engine for dinner parties
She gave her son smallpox. Her bet paid off.
Cocaine wine: The Pope’s energy drink
A horse race and a murderer invented cinema
Starving for freedom: The prison death that changed Ireland
Let slaves dance: The secret of New Orleans jazz
She faked insanity. Then became a star.
The mafia bar riot that sparked gay pride
The royal roots of French fries
Three words brought down the Berlin Wall
The art heist that made the Mona Lisa famous
The colony that broke Scotland (and made Great Britain)
The Hollywood femme fatale who invented wi-fi
The ballet that caused a riot and changed music
The Forgotten Female Codebreakers of WWII
Time is Chaos. The Calendar Tries (And Fails) to Fix That.
The Nativity Scene You Know—And The One You Don’t
An 1843 Lifehack Became a Christmas Tradition
Poison to Beauty: The Story of Botox
The First Computer Was Greek (And Shipwrecked)
William Dalrymple: China’s Game of Thrones
Purple Reign: The Teen Who Bottled Royalty
The Secret Photos That Shamed America
Hairspray, Cigarettes and the Wild History of the Asthma Puffer
Beer vs Cholera: The Map That Changed Medicine
POW Turned Pioneer: The Aussie Who Changed Bipolar Treatment
The Untold History of Henrietta Lacks and Her Miracle Cells
From Showman to Balloon Spy: The Man Who Changed How Wars Were Fought
The Butterfly Thief: The Great Museum Heist Still Being Felt Today
Norman Ohler: Hitler's Secret Drug Addiction and How It Changed WW2
What Survives the Crash: The Man Who Gave Planes Memory
The Mafia Bar Riot That Sparked Gay Pride and the LGBTQ+ Movement
Coney Island’s Miracle Babies and the Fake Doctor That Saved Them
The Wrong Turn That Started a World War
From War to Wardrobe: The Epic Saga of the High Heel
Radium Girls: The Glow in the Dark Women Who Changed Everything
Workers. Wages. Revolution: The True Story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Creepy Guy Meets Recording Device: The True Origins of Reality TV
Richard Fidler: The Volcano That Toppled Two Empires
Treadmills Were Made for Torture
The Lingerie Makers who put Neil Armstrong on the Moon
A Gossip Writer Invented the Renaissance!?
The Nazi siege and the secret seeds
Where Freestyle Swimming REALLY Comes From
Cecil Rhodes and his Secret Plan for World Domination
When X-Rays Were an Amusement Park Attraction
Absinthe isn’t Dangerous. It was Framed for Murder
The Hidden Origins of Chemotherapy
America’s Secret Pact with the Mafia
The Blunder that Broke the Berlin Wall
This Tragic Accident Changed How We Think About the Brain
Marie Antoinette, mother of French fries?
The Secret Weapon that Changed War
Stealing the Mona Lisa: The Crime that Created a Legend
INTRODUCING — No One Saw It Coming