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- Remembrance Day · 45 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 500Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of wearing a remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed in former countries of the British Empire, and current…
- Carboniferous Period · 38 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 499The Carboniferous (/ˌkɑːrbəˈnɪfərəs/ KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs)[6] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period…
- Grand Theft Auto · 38 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 498Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly.[2] Later titles were developed under the oversight of brothers Dan and Sam…
- Last Ditch Bar Mask Mandate · 34 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 497https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/magazine/greenfield-last-ditch-bar-backlash/
- Moe Berg · 41 min · Episodio 495Morris Berg (May 3, 1902 – May 29, 1972) was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic…
- Alexander Von Humboldt · 30 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 495Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt[a] (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic…
- Elizabeth Holmes · 32 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 494Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American businesswoman convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos.[2] Holmes founded…
- Comic Book Advertisements · 38 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 493Comic book advertisements are a common feature in American comic books mainly from the 1940s onwards. As these advertisements were directed at young people, many made sensational…
- Noel Edmonds · 51 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 492Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English businessman, and former television presenter, radio DJ, writer and producer. Edmonds first became known as a disc jockey…
- The Airport-Lounge Wars · 57 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 491https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/the-airport-lounge-wars
- Count Juan Raphael Dante · 42 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 489Count Juan Raphael Dante (born John Timothy Keehan; February 2, 1939 – May 25, 1975) was an American martial artist figure during the 1960s and 1970s who claimed he could do…
- Matthew Buchinger · 33 min · Episodio 489Matthias Buchinger (German: [maˈtiːas ˈbʊxɪŋɐ]; June 2, 1674 – January 17, 1740), sometimes called Matthew Buckinger in English, was a German artist, magician, calligrapher, and…
- Shark Repellent · 30 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 488A shark repellent is any method of driving sharks away from an area. Shark repellents are a category of animal repellents. Shark repellents are of interest to the commercial…
- The Congo River Expedition · 29 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 487The expedition aimed to find if there was a connection between the Congo and Niger basins of western and central Africa. Tuckey sailed up the river from its mouth but found that…
- The FIFA World Cup · 40 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 486The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football…
- Vivos xPoint and Failed Utopias · 44 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 485Vivos (also known as The Vivos Group) is a California-based company that built underground shelters designed to withstand future disasters and life-extinction catastrophes.[1]…
- NFTs · 41 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 481A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain and is used to certify ownership and authenticity. They typically contain references to…
- Pixelon and the $16 Million iBash · 33 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 483Pixelon was an American dot-com company founded in 1998 that promised better distribution of high-quality video over the Internet. It was based in San Juan Capistrano…
- The King of the Ferret Leggers · 33 min · Episodio 482From: https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/essays/ferret-legging-outside-classic/
- Assata Shakur · 32 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 481Assata Olugbala Shakur (/əˈsɑːtə ʃəˈkʊər/ ə-SAH-tə shə-KOOR; born JoAnne Deborah Byron, July 16, 1947[a] – September 25, 2025) was an American political activist, revolutionary…
- James R. McClintock · 39 min · Episodio 480James R. McClintock, with Horace Lawson Hunley and Baxter Watson, built the submarine Pioneer at New Orleans in 1861 to defend the city against Federal forces. The three men…
- The Byford Dolphin Incident · 34 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 479Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a subsidiary of Fred Olsen Energy. Byford Dolphin was registered in Hamilton…
- Billionaire Bootlickers (4 Op Eds) · 1 h 4 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 478• AOC's Billionaire Bull Session, Did Steven Spielberg earn his wealth? What about Oprah? Jay-Z? By Matthew Hennessey, Wall Street Journal • You can earn a billion dollars…
- News of the World · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 477The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's…
- Stranded with Dragons · 40 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 476Rinca[a] is a small island near Komodo and Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, within the West Manggarai Regency. It is one of the three largest islands included in…
- Jasper Maskelyne · 30 min · Episodio 475Jasper Maskelyne (29 September 1902 – 15 March 1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil…
- Coin Operated Machines · 39 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 474A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms…
- The Making of Apocalypse Now · 36 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 473Production problems—among them bad weather, actors' poor health, and other issues—delayed the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and…
- The Salt Path · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 472The Salt Path is a 2018 memoir, nature, and travel book by Raynor Winn. It details the long-distance walk along the South West Coast Path, in South West England, by Winn and her…
- Queen Nzinga of Angola · 30 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 471Nzinga or Njinga Ana de Sousa Mbande (/nəˈzɪŋɡə/; c. 1583 – 17 December 1663) was a southwest African paramount ruler who ruled as a queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo…
- Looksmaxxing · 54 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 470Looksmaxxing is a 21st century Internet neologism referring to the process of maximizing one's own physical attractiveness. The term originated on male incel (meaning…
- Oceans 91 · 41 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 469https://www.gq.com/story/91-year-old-bank-robber-jl-hunter-rountree
- April Fools' Day · 37 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 468April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (rarely called All Fools' Day[1]) is an annual custom in many Western countries on the 1st of April consisting of practical jokes, hoaxes…
- The Placebo Effect · 41 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 467A placebo (/pləˈsiːboʊ/ pluh-SEE-boh) is a medicine or treatment intended to appear genuine to its recipient, but which has no pharmaceutical effect.[1][2] Common placebos…
- Guy Fawkes · 53 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 466Guy Fawkes (/fɔːks/; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606),[a] also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics…
- Enshit*ification · 1 h 1 min · Episodio 465Enshit*ification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors…
- Sputnik · 33 min · Episodio 464Sputnik 1 (/ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk/, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), often referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an…
- Competitive Watersliding · 1 h 0 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 463https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/maximum-speed/ Taken from this article from Outside Magazine.
- Freedom House Ambulance Service & Bessie Coleman · 34 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 462Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid.[1][2]…
- James Damore and the Google Memo · 1 h 0 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 461
- The Super Bowl · 44 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 460The Super Bowl is the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966…
- Unholy Spirits: The People who Have Sex with Ghosts · 57 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 459Taken from this article: From this article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ghost-love-lust-spectrophilia/
- Feral Children · 34 minA feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social…
- Failed Constitutional Amendments · 41 min · Episodio 457Hundreds of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution are introduced during each session of the United States Congress. From 1789 through January 3, 2025…
- Captain Thomas Moore · 45 min · Episodio 456Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom, was a British Army officer and fundraiser. He made international headlines in…
- The Fir-Tree - by Hans Christian Andersen · 40 min · Stagione 455"The Fir-Tree" (Danish: Grantræet) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up…
- Canals on Mars · 34 minDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were "canals" on the planet Mars. These were a network of long straight lines in the…
- Great Feasts · 40 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 453The Field of the Cloth of Gold (French: Camp du Drap d'Or, pronounced [kɑ̃ dy dʁa d‿ɔʁ]) was a summit meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France from…
- Storm Chasers · 46 min · Episodio 452https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chasing-tornadoes National Geographic article on Storm Chasing called Chasing Tornadoes.
- Robert Maxwell · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 451Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and politician.[1][2] Of Jewish descent…
