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Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part 1
Feedsack Fashion: How Thrifty Inventiveness Transformed America
Emperor Tiberius Was Debauched, Deranged and Probably Not Fun At Parties
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 2: Flexcessiveness
The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 1: 2 Flex 2 Furious
The Authors Of Curious George Were On The Run From Nazis
People Used To Straight Up Drink Gold
New Zealand's Tragic (And Pretty Hilarious) Exploding Pants Epidemic
That Time Trainwrecks Became a Spectator Sport
Miguel de Cervantes and the Case of the Fake Don Quixote
The CIA Paid War Spies with Stuff From the Sears Catalog
The Bottle Jumping Hoax (And Riot)
The Bizarrely Disturbing History of People Jumping Out of Cake
HL Hunley: The Mysterious Demise of a Civil War Submarine, with Rachel Lance
Dromomania: The Wanderlust Disease
Key West, Florida Declared a One-Minute War on the United States
That Time the US Literally Banned Sliced Bread
Two Green Children Mystified Woolpit, England
Pepsi Briefly Became the Sixth Largest Navy in the World
The Ponzi Scheme with Chelsea Ursin
The History of MREs with Jacqueline Raposo
Donald Crowhurst Faked a Race Around the World
Calvin Coolidge Skipped Town and Went Fishing for Three Months (While He was President)
The Presidential Dinner That Scandalized America
Was the Lone Ranger Inspired by a Black U.S. Marshall?
Night Soil Men Were the Unsung Heroes of Urban Sanitation
The Tiny Spanish Town That Went To War With France For 100 Years
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 2
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 1
'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 2
'Mad' Jack Churchill: The Bagpipe Playing Soldier Who Hunted Nazis with a Longbow - Part 1
Erasto Mpemba: The High School Student Who Disproved Thermodynamics
The Straw Hat Riots of 1922
The Legend of Tarrare, the Insatiable Glutton Who Ate a Quarter of a Cow Daily
Why Genghis Khan's Great-Great Granddaughter Was Just as Badass
That Time Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Started His Own Country
The Ersatz Wild West Shootouts of Palisade, Nevada
The Great Goldfish Gulping Craze That (For Some Reason) Swept America
Pneumatic Tubes: The 'Futuristic' Transport System That's Over 150-Years-Old
Violet Jessop, the Unsinkable Stewardess Who Survived Three Famous Shipwrecks
Abandoned Ship: What Really Happened Aboard the "Mary Celeste"?
That Time America Fell In Love With Competitive Walking
The Weird Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 2
The Time Salvador Dali Partnered with Walt Disney - Part 1
Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 2
The Starving Time: When Jamestown Colonists Turned Cannibal, Part 1
The Strange Tradition that Forced Everyone in New York to Move House on the Same Day
French Waiters Once Had to Strike for Their Right to Wear Mustaches
The Honey Trap: Sex in Espionage Throughout History
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 2
The Weird, Weird History of Shipping: Part 1
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 2
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
How Bertha Heyman Conned Her Way Into Show Business
That Time Germany Got Obsessed With Polar Bear Photos
Rose Mackenberg: Houdini's Ghostbuster
Science and Spiritualism: Why were ghost stories so popular in the 1800s?
John of Bohemia, the Blind King Who Charged Into Battle
Kakigōri: The Story of Japan's Famous Shaved Ice
John Edmonstone: The Man Who Trained Darwin
The Death of Luxury Air Travel
The Bizarre Capitulation of Stettin
John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln's Son
John Clem: The 12-year Old Civil War Hero
Christopher Columbus Was Such A Jerk That Even Spain Turned Against Him
The Kaiser’s Plan to Invade the United States
How Uncle Tom's Cabin Became One of the Most Popular Books in China
Tom Watson Gordy: How One Uncle’s Adventures Inspired Jimmy Carter to Join the Navy
Teddy Bears, Rhinos, Safari and Everywhere Else: A Conversation with Daniel Scheffler
The Gaspee Affair: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary “Tea Party”
Otto Rahn, The Nazi Occultist Who Hated Nazis and Inspired Indiana Jones
4 Times Women in the US Were Actually Arrested for Wearing Pants
Sir Francis Drake and the Great Iowa Swindle
Around the World in a Model T: The Story of Aloha Wanderwell
Why George Washington is Huge in Barbados
John Willis Menard: The First African American Elected To US Congress
The Bloody Revenge of Saint Olga of Kiev
The Super Fight: When Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano Had A Fight That Never Happened
Shame and Fish: The Embarrassing and Tragic Story of François Vatel
Creature Feature: Go Home Nature, You're Drunk
EHunting Fireflies for Fun (and Profit)
The Listener Mail Extravaganza
That Time Ancient Monks Waged War Over A Copyright
Ye Xian: The Story of China's Cinderella
The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis: How One Lucky Forger Almost Destroyed A Nation's Economy
Cow Shoe Camouflage: How Prohibition-era Moonshiners Outsmarted the Feds
Castle Itter: When Germans and Americans Joined Forces in World War II
A Grave Mistake: The Story of Patton's "Abandoned Rear"
Did the US Mafia actually start in New Orleans?
Meet Albert Cashier, the Trans Man Who Fought for the Union in the Civil War
Operation Northwoods: How the US Planned to Attack Itself and Start a War with Cuba
That Time Irish Separatists Invaded Canada
The Night Witches: How an All-female Soviet Bomb Squad Terrorized Nazi Germany
Bug Wars: When We Tried to Turn Insects into Soldiers
Yasuke, the African Samurai
The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I Tried To Make An Army of Super Tall Soldiers
Playboy, Progressive Politics and Stand-up: The Dick Gregory Story with Wayne Federman
EI Modi: The Scandalous Erotic Blockbuster Banned By The Vatican