19 08, 2025

Potatoes Have Made Their Contribution To World Peace

By |2025-08-19T08:47:36-04:00August 19, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The potato’s influence stretches out well beyond French fries and tater tots. In fact, there was a study in 2017 that said the potato helped keep the peace in Europe for centuries. 

19 08, 2024

Long Before Photoshop, Photographers Knew How To “Photoshop” Photos

By |2025-01-31T07:53:49-05:00August 19, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

For National Photography Day, a look at the many ways people in the pre-computer days could make photos look like something they weren't, for fun or for not so honorable reasons.

19 08, 2023

The Toronto Circus Riot Started Because Clowns Fought Firefighters At A Brothel

By |2024-12-08T17:54:39-05:00August 19, 2023|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

July 13, 1855 is the date of the Toronto Circus Riot, an event which sounds baffling and bizarre from the name alone, but the details are even weirder.

19 08, 2022

A College Student In The 1890s Became The Candid Camera Of Norway

By |2024-12-02T08:31:52-05:00August 19, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

For National Photography Day, here’s a remarkable photographic story from the 1890s: a guy in Norway made his own candid camera.

19 08, 2021

Boeing Once Used Potatoes To Test In-Flight WiFi

By |2024-12-10T08:39:02-05:00August 19, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

It’s National Aviation Day and National Potato Day, and amazingly, there's a story that brings them both together. Boeing used sacks of potatoes in place of humans when it began testing in-flight WiFi.

19 08, 2020

The Mullet Is Timeless, And Its Name Comes From The Beastie Boys

By |2024-12-02T09:16:49-05:00August 19, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

The mullet may take you back to the 70s or 80s, but it's a timeless hairstyle. No, really: there's evidence that the ancients were wearing business in the front, party in the back thousands of years ago.

19 08, 2019

The Future Of Health Care Is Alpacas

By |2024-12-13T07:00:37-05:00August 19, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

Alpaca antibodies are not only effective, they’re also easier to harvest than most other animals’ antibodies, so they could help develop ways to treat or regulate some rare but serious diseases in humans.

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