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Patriots, Prisoners and Plants: The World of Political Body Doubles
Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada
The Duke of Edinburgh is Literally a God in Vanuatu
The Honorary Citizens of the United States
The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams
The Return of Listener Mail
That Time Ohio and Michigan Almost Went To War
The Rise and Fall of Local Scrip: Alternative Currencies of the Great Depression
The Attack of the Japanese Balloon Bombs
Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Hoax
Nosy Boraha: The Pirate's Paradise (And Cemetery)
How the Black Death Came To Norway On A Ghost Ship
Susanna Caroline Matilda: The Colonial Grifter Princess
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 2
History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 1
How Robert 'The Fastest Knife in the West End' Liston Conducted a Surgery With a 300% Mortality Rate
How Oliver Cromwell Got Executed Several Years After His Death
Hong Xiuquan: The Younger Brother of Jesus Christ Who Led a Bloody Rebellion in China
How Big Bill Speakman Fought Off North Korea With Beer Bottles
Teddy Roosevelt May Just Have Saved Modern (American) Football
Prohibition, Prescriptions and the Rise of 'Medicinal' Booze
Did Robert E. Lee hate Confederate Memorials?
California Schoolchildren and the Great Squirrel War
When West Virginia Begged the USSR for Foreign Aid
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 2
Idiomatic for the People II, Part 1
The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt
Agent Garbo: The Strange Tale of the Man Who Saved D-Day
The War of the Stray Dog: How Far Would You Go For Your Pet?
The Tragic Origin Story of Morse Code
Operation Gunnerside: How a Crew of Military Skiers Ruined the Nazi Bomb
How far did Isaac Newton go to hunt down forgers?
How Admiral Horatio Nelson Ended Up Dead in a Barrel of Brandy
English Men Used to Sell Their Wives
How Louisiana Almost Became a Hippo Ranching Hub
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 2
The Weird Life of George Washington, Part 1
Who was the highest paid athlete in history?
Clara, The World's Most Famous Rhinoceros
How the Monopoly Board Game Became a World War II Escape Kit
Idiomatic For The People, Part 1
Was there a real-life Rapunzel?
Benjamin Franklin's Advice on 'Finding a Mistress'
What does 'Idaho' actually mean?
Uncle Sam Tried to End World War II With Bat Bombs
The American Soldiers Who Defected to North Korea and Became Movie Stars
How a Broken Toilet Foiled a German Sub
Creature Feature: The Dark Tetrad
Gustaf Broman Tried to Cross the Atlantic in a Canoe . . . Or Did He?
The Weird, Surprisingly Recent Origin of the Tooth Fairy
When Vikings Loot The Wrong Town
Were Tulips Really The Bitcoin of the 1600s?
(Some of) History's Dumbest Military Prototypes
The Forty Elephants: London’s All-Female Jewel Thieves
The Malleus Maleficarum: A Real-life Witch Hunter's Bible
The Great London Beer Flood of 1814
Dr. Seuss Wrote His Most Famous Book On A Bet
Feral Children and the True Story Behind The Jungle Book
When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth
The Laxative-laden Journey of Lewis and Clark
The Strange and Spectacularly Disgusting Story of the Great Kentucky Meat Shower
The Bizarre Origin of the Oxford English Dictionary
How Conman Victor Lustig Sold The Eiffel Tower (Twice)
George Carlin Gets Quoted in the Supreme Court: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman
EThe People vs. Lenny Bruce: Ridiculous Stand-up Stories with Wayne Federman
EThe Life and Times of Ol' Knife Hand
The Ridiculous Story of the World’s First (Documented) Serial Killer
Back When the Rich Ate Corpses
The Mummies of Guanajuato
The Curious Rise of SPAM
The Smooth-talking Takeover of Tabor Bridge
History's Coolest (Non-Human) Political Candidates, Part I
Attack of the Aswang: How the CIA Used Vampires as Weapons of War
A Dead Pope Goes To Court
Who are the Hartlepudlian Monkey Hangers?
William Walker: Filibuster and (Fantastically Bad) President
Lawsonomy: How the Father of the Modern Airline Started His Own Religion
War and Candy: The Infamous Tootsie Roll Air Drop
The Man Who Assassinated Abe Lincoln's Assassin
The Cock Lane Ghost: Haunting, Hoax, Hysteria… or Hilarious?
Roland the Farter and the Weird World of Professional Flatulence
Gregor MacGregor Invented a Country and Convinced People to Invest in It
Angry Feds and Deadly Booze: The Story of the Chemists' War
Project A119: The Cold War Plan to Nuke the Moon!
Adidas Versus Puma: A Tale of Two Brothers
Fanny and Stella: The Cross-Dressing Scandal of Victorian England
Kansas Imprisoned Women For Having STDs
The WWII Naval Battle Won Using Potatoes
The Korean Soldier Who Fought for 3 Armies During WWII
Oregon Was a White Supremacist Paradise
Why did people hate the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
The 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis Hosted a Racist 'Special Olympics'
When Heineken Made Bottles That Could Be Used as Bricks
Why British Soccer Players Saluted the Nazis
The United States That Never Were
Philadelphia's Transylvanian Doomsday Cult: The Cave of Kelpius
Enough About Us: What About You?
Weird Wars Fought For Dumb Reasons
The FBI's Quest to Understand 'Louie, Louie'
The Time a Soviet Premier Was Banned From Disneyland