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The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single Wikipedia article about it, and pretend we’re experts. Because this is the internet, and that’s how it works now.

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Enrique of Malacca

Episode Date: February 21, 2018

Enrique of Malacca (Spanish: Enrique de Malaca; Portuguese: Henrique de Malaca), was a native of the Malay Archipelago who became a slave of the Portu...

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Heaven's Gate

Episode Date: February 14, 2018

Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite(1931–1997)...

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Erik Jan Hanussen

Episode Date: February 7, 2018

Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (2 June 1889, in Vienna – 25 March 1933, in Berlin), was an Austrian Jewish publicist, charlatan and cl...

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Charles Ponzi

Episode Date: January 31, 2018

Charles Ponzi, (born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949), was an Italian swindler and con artist in the U...

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The Ryugyong Hotel

Episode Date: January 17, 2018

The Ryugyong Hotel (Chosŏn'gŭl: 류경려관; sometimes anglicised as Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel)[4] is an unfinished (although topped-out) 105-sto...

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Salem Witch Trials

Episode Date: January 10, 2018

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and...

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The Hatpin Peril

Episode Date: January 3, 2018

A hatpin is a decorative and functional pin for holding a hat to the head, usually by the hair. In Western culture, hatpins are almost solely used by...

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Taiping Rebellion

Episode Date: December 27, 2017

The Taiping Rebellion or the Taiping Civil War was a massive rebellion or civil war in China fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty an...

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The Eggnog Riot

Episode Date: December 20, 2017

The Eggnog Riot, sometimes known as the Grog Mutiny, was a riot that took place at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, on 24–2...

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Penis Size

Episode Date: December 6, 2017

The most accurate measurement of the size of a human penis can be derived from several readings at different times since there is natural minor variab...

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The Dreadnought Hoax

Episode Date: November 29, 2017

The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battles...

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Action Park

Episode Date: November 15, 2017

Action Park is an amusement park located in Vernon, New Jersey, United States, on the grounds of the Mountain Creek ski resort. The park consists prim...

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Boudica's Rebellion

Episode Date: November 8, 2017

Boudica or Boudicca (/ˈbuːdɪkə/, Latinised as Boadicea or Boudicea/boʊdɪˈsiːə/, and known in Welsh as Buddug [ˈbɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡ])[1][2] was a queen of the Bri...

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Cold War Programs

Episode Date: November 1, 2017

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and...

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Tarrare

Episode Date: October 25, 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare   Tarrare (c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual ea...

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John R. Brinkley

Episode Date: October 18, 2017

John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) was an American who fraudulently claimed to be a medical doctor (he h...