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Ridiculous Stuff We Didn't Get To in 2026, Part Two: Apple Trees, Ice Cream Wars and Weird Nuclear Gadgets
Ridiculous Stuff We Didn't Get To in 2026, Part Two: Apple Trees, Ice Cream Wars and Weird Nuclear Gadgets
Ridiculous Stuff We Didn't Get To in 2026, Part One: 60 Minutes and Other Natural Wonders
"CLASSIC: Operation Northwoods: How the US Planned to Attack Itself and Start a War with Cuba"
Death by Honey: The Legend of the Mellified Man
Let's Cook on Perpetual Stew
CLASSIC: That Time Irish Separatists Invaded Canada
Getting High with Ridiculous Crime: Reindeer Trips and Soothing Syrup
Getting High with Ridiculous Crime: Betel Nut and 'Asthma Cigarettes'
CLASSIC: The Night Witches: How an All-female Soviet Bomb Squad Terrorized Nazi Germany
Mata Hari: Courtesan Turned WWI Double Agent?
That Time We Made Backpack Nukes
CLASSIC: Bug Wars: When We Tried to Turn Insects into Soldiers
CLASSIC: Yasuke, the African Samurai
CLASSIC: The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I Tried To Make An Army of Super Tall Soldiers
CLASSIC: Playboy, Progressive Politics and Stand-up: The Dick Gregory Story, with Wayne Federman
The Ridiculous Racist Origin of Tipping, Part Two: The Great Debate and Anti-tipping Crusades
The Ridiculous Racist Origin of Tipping, Part One: A Gratuitous History of Gratuity
CLASSIC: I Modi: The Scandalous Erotic Blockbuster Banned By The Vatican
The Dark Side of Frank Lloyd Wright, Part Two: Mass Murder, Cults, and the FBI
The Dark Side of Frank Lloyd Wright, Part One: Professional Success and Personal Turmoil
CLASSIC: Patriots, Prisoners and Plants: The World of Political Body Doubles
Who Took William Lilly’s Fish?
Francis Scott Key was Kind of a Jerk
CLASSIC: Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada
Mastodons and 'Murica, with Lauren Vogelbaum, Part Two: A Grudge Match with the French
Mastodons and 'Murica, with Lauren Vogelbaum, Part One: American Degeneracy
CLASSIC: The Duke of Edinburgh is Literally a God in Vanuatu
Oof! A Lot of Baby Gear was Absolutely Ridiculous
A Ridiculous History of 'Soft Serve'
CLASSIC: The Honorary Citizens of the United States
Who was the real John Henry?
From Slaves to Superpower: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Janissaries
CLASSIC: The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams
Badass of the Week Returns, Part Two: Chesapeake Capes
Badass of the Week Returns, Part One: George Rogers Clark
CLASSIC: That Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went To War
The Ridiculously Inspiring Story of Free Public Restrooms, Part Two: The Rise of CEPTIA
The Ridiculously Inspiring Story of Free Public Restrooms, Part One: Everyone Has To Poop
CLASSIC: The Rise and Fall of Local Scrip: Alternative Currencies of the Great Depression
The Kingdom of Callaway: That Time One Missouri County (Sort Of, Maybe) Became An Independent Nation
The Ridiculous History of Saturday Morning Cartoons, Part Two: The Fall of a Grift
CLASSIC: The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs
The Ridiculous History of Saturday Morning Cartoons, Part One: A Golden Age
People Used to Do Very Weird Drugs, Part One: Broomsticks, Sailors and Vikings
CLASSIC: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Hoax
Berserkers: Violent Viking Villains, Unverified
Did Knights Really Wear Suits of Armor?
CLASSIC: Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery)
The Outlaw Origins of NASCAR: From Moonshine to Racing
The Real Johnny Appleseed was SUPER WEIRD (and Pretty Cool)
CLASSIC: How the Black Death Came To Norway On A Ghost Ship
Germans, Sausages and Dachshunds: Oh, My!
The Ridiculous History of Atlanta's Street Names
CLASSIC: Susanna Caroline Matilda: The Colonial Grifter Princess
A Samurai Walks Into The White House
What is SantaCon -- and Why Do So Many People Hate it?
CLASSIC: History's Weirdest Flexes, Part Two
CLASSIC: History's Weirdest Flexes, Part One
The Bizarre Parable of New Coke, Chapter Two: A Rise. A Fall. A Conspiracy?
CLASSIC: How Robert "The Fastest Knife In The West End" Liston Conducted A Surgery With A 300% Mortality Rate
The Bizarre Parable of New Coke, Chapter One: Sweeter, Stranger, Strange
"Resting Bicycle Face": Bikes and Women's Rights
CLASSIC: How Oliver Cromwell Got Executed Several Years After His Death
The Bizarre Life of Elvis, Part Two: Public Fame, Private Chaos
The Bizarre Life of Elvis, Part One: From Poverty to Pop Stardom
CLASSIC:Hong Xiuquan: The Younger Brother of Jesus Christ Who Led a Bloody Rebellion in China
The Bizarre Saga of the Red Solo Cup
The Day a Dalí Escaped From Prison
CLASSIC: How Big Bill Speakman Fought Off North Korea With Beer Bottles
A Ridiculous History of Potatoes, Part One: the Origin Story
When Did We All Start Saying "Bulls*t"?
ECLASSIC: New Providence: That Time Pirates Had A Government
The Ridiculous Truth About Pirates, Chapter Two: History's Most Successful Pirate Was A Woman
The Ridiculous Truth About Pirates, Chapter One: The Caribbean
CLASSIC: Teddy Roosevelt May Just Have Saved Modern (American) Football
Eurovision, Chapter Two: Pop Music as Problematic Diplomacy
Eurovision, Chapter One: A Ridiculous Origin Story -- and A Smash Success
CLASSIC: Prohibition, Prescriptions and the Rise of 'Medicinal' Booze
Fort Sauerkraut: North Dakota’s Strange, Ill-Planned Origin Story
The Bizarre Tale of the 1909 Catnip Riot
CLASSIC: Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials?
IQ Tests are (Kind of) Dumb
Did Lead Lead to the Fall of the Roman Empire?
CLASSIC: California Schoolchildren and the Great Squirrel War
Don’t Be a Schmo Yo, Try a Yoyo!
The Ridiculous Secret of "Supreme" Pizza
CLASSIC: When West Virginia Begged the USSR for Foreign Aid
Knitting as Espionage, Part Two: Legendary Spies -- and One Traitor
Knitting as Espionage, Part One: Secrets in the Stitch
CLASSIC: Idiomatic for the People II, Part II
Inventors Who Died Due To Their Own Inventions: The Irrational Death of Hippasus
The Spiritualism Movement Was Utterly Ridiculous, Part Two: Con Artists, Skeptics, and Ghosts
CLASSIC: Idiomatic for the People II, Part I: What's in a word?
The Spiritualism Movement Was Utterly Ridiculous, Part One: A Prank Goes Viral
History's Weirdest National Anthems
CLASSIC: The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt
Vacuum Cleaners are Ridiculous!
The Ridiculously Adorable, Feminist History of Kewpie Dolls
CLASSIC: Agent Garbo: The Strange Tale of the Man Who Saved D-Day