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Jan 31, 2025

Kat covers the ancient Roman festival and holiday in honor of the god Saturn. Then Hayley covers the mysterious case of a 9-year-old boy who went missing in 1928. The events that followed would inspire the 2008 film Changeling staring Angelina Jolie. Lastly, Alec covers the biography of Bravo star Andy Cohen and how the...


Jan 30, 2025

Hayley covers Hermine "Miep" Gies, the Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank and her family. Then Kat covers the most painful plant in the world Dendrocnide moroides AKA Gympie-Gympie!

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Jan 23, 2025

Katja covers the worst shark disaster in history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945. Then Hayley covers Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who inspired Stephen Spielberg’s movie ‘The Terminal' by living in an airport.

Link to the artist Alec mentioned: Alexis Rockman 

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Jan 16, 2025

Hayley covers the history of crash test dummies, and yes, they used to be cadavers and baboons. Then Kat rewinds to 1986 to cover a controversial fundraising event that attempted to have an unbroken chain of Americans holding hands coast to coast. What could go wrong?

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Jan 9, 2025

Kat takes us back to the wild west where a bounty on Apache scalps spawned a villainous gang. Then Hayley covers the origin of the board game Monopoly and the erased history of Lizzie Magie who invented it’s predecessor The Landlord’s Game.

 

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