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The Strange Tale of Charles Entertainment Cheese, Part One: Atari and Pizza
CLASSIC: What's the Deal with Smashing Cake at Weddings?
THE LAST SOVIET - EP 5: Three Hot Days in August
CLASSIC: Conquest via Bird Poop: One Island at a Time
The Architecture of Spite, Part One: Lovers, Loiterers and Murderers
Turn, Turn, Turn: A History of Turn Signals
A Legally Haunted House
The Oddly Dark History of Crash Test Dummies (Not The Band)
The Deeply Weird Stories of Patron Saints
Svetlana! Svetlana! The Strange Life of Josef Stalin's Daughter, with Dan Kitrosser
Let's Start a Coup! Ep 1 – A Basket Full of Fascists
Weird Epidemics, Part One: From Sweating to Pokemon
CLASSIC: When Scientists Hid Under Beds To Spy On Kids
Surprising Former Careers, Part III: Goldberg, Trudeau and Buscemi
Introducing: The Last Soviet
It Turns Out Blue Laws Aren't Entirely Terrible
The Origin of Moby Dick, Part Two: Horrors At Sea
The Origin of Moby Dick, Part One: Mocha Dick
The (Weirdly Crooked) History of the Food Pyramid
That Time Europeans Went Nuts For Dancing
Star Trek Almost Never Happened, Part Two: In Which We Boldly Go
Star Trek Almost Never Happened, Part One: Pilots and Peril
“It’s Edible!” The Origin of Breakfast Cereal, Part Two
“It’s Edible!” The Origin of Breakfast Cereal, Part One
Would-be Presidents, Part One: If At First You Don't Succeed...
The Leaf Blower Episode
The US Navy Teamed Up With Mobsters, Part Two: The Mob Goes to War
The US Navy Teamed Up With Mobsters, Part One: Luciano Gets Lucky
CLASSIC: When People Thought They Were Made of Glass
CLASSIC: Nazis, Churchill and Chocolate
Ridiculous Royal Deaths, Part Two: Don't Drink Mercury
Ridiculous Royal Deaths, Part One: Revenge of the Buck-Toothed
CLASSIC: When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth
From Mesopotamia to Hot Dogs: A History of Mustard
Coca-Cola, Dr. King, and the Civil Rights
William Mitchell Was Basically a Real-life Willy Wonka
The Olympics Used to Have an... Extraordinarily Weird Art Competition
A Circus, or a Cult? The Strange Story of Shen Yun
How A Massive Turkey Screw-up Created TV Dinners
J. Paul Getty, Part Two: A Kidnapping Discount
J. Paul Getty, Part One: Money Doesn't Make You Happy
Have you heard of Andorra?
How Smart Was Alex the Grey Parrot?
Surprising Former Careers, Part 2: Truman Can't Sell Hats
The Ancient -- and Surprisingly Divisive! -- Story of Ketchup
The Bizarrely Xenophobic Origins of Scotch Tape
Lost Media, Part Two: We Didn't Start The Fire
Lost Media, Part One: What Happened to All Those Silent Films?
A Ridiculous History of Hot Tubs
Eugene V Debs, Part Two: A Prisoner Runs For President
Eugene V Debs, Part One: Railroad Workers Fight The Power
The Michelin Man was an Unhinged Lunatic
The Yukio Mishima Story, Part Two: Mishima's End
The Yukio Mishima Story, Part One: Confessions of a Mask
Wait, How Do I Know It's Funny? A Rollicking History of Laugh Tracks
Who, exactly, were the Luddites?
Instant Noodles Changed The World, Part Two: Going Global
Instant Noodles Changed The World, Part One: An Origin Story
The Accidental Invention of Holding Music
Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions: Flyin' or Dyin', Part Two
Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions: Flyin' or Dyin', Part One
Wilhelm Reich and Orgone, Part 2: Willy vs. The Feds
Wilhelm Reich and Orgone, Part 1: Sexy Psychoanalysis
The History of Pringles: Once You Pop...
Lincoln Loved Cats, and Other Presidential Pets
CLASSIC - Presidents Love Their Ridiculous Pets
What Happened to Ronald McDonald? Part Two: Supersizing A Mystery
What Happened to Ronald McDonald? Part One: Everybody Loves A Clown
The 1904 St. Louis Marathon Was Absolutely Bonkers
Andrew Jackson Beat the Snot Out of His Would-be Assassin
CLASSIC: When (and why) did the US start calling its citizens consumers?
A Ridiculous History of Reality TV, Part Two: Reality Goes Global
A Ridiculous History of Reality TV, Part One: An Origin Story
Surprising Former Careers of the Famous
A Humorous History of Genetics
Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The World's Only (Recognized) Double Atomic Bomb Victim
Gods of Deception, Part II: Art, History, Fiction and War
Gods of Deception, Part I: Alger Hiss in the Halls of Power
Operation LAC: That Time Uncle Sam Sprayed Poison Across St. Louis
CLASSIC - Does the US Confederacy Still Exist in Americana, Brazil?
Millerism, Part II: The Great Disappointment (and the Aftermath)
CLASSIC - Did a Real-Life Rainmaker Almost Drown San Diego?
Millerism: America’s First End Times Gospel
Ben Franklin Faked a Rival's Death to Promote His Almanac
Why was Phrenology a Thing? Part II: A Pseudoscience (Sort of) Informs the Modern Day
Why was Phrenology a Thing? Part I: The Rise of Dr. Finger
Nancy Wake, the White Mouse of the French Resistance
The US Boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and Puerto Rican Boxers Went Anyway
Disco Demolition Night: How Disco Died at a White Sox Game
Bolivia Fought -- And Lost -- A War For Bird Poop
Why You Can't Say "MacBeth" in a Theater
Operation Mincemeat: Britain's Ghoulish Plan to Fool the Nazis
Who the heck was Joseph Warren?
Chocolate Syrup: From Medicine to Dessert
Historical Hypocrisy: The Confederacy's Weird Stance on "Individual Rights"
Juana Maria: The Real-life Story Behind "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
Curling: The Most Ridiculous Sport?
Nobuo Fujita Bombed Brookings, Oregon -- and Then Became a Town Hero
A Teetotaling Preacher Basically Invented Modern Tourism
Ira Aldridge: Actor, Activist and Record-breaker