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Why Take A Bath Or A Shower When You Can Hop Into A “Human Washing Machine”?

We have baths and we have showers, but now a company in Japan is offering a pod that it says will wash and dry a person in about 15 minutes.

By |2025-09-10T10:07:14-04:00September 10, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Teddy Bears Were Once The Big Threat To American Youth

Kids of all kinds have loved and been loved by this OG stuffie, even if there was a time when Very Concerned People thought the teddy bear could imperil the nation’s future.

By |2025-09-09T07:35:43-04:00September 9, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

Robert Coates, The Stage Actor Who Was So Terrible He Became A Legend

Few actors have left an impression like Robert "Romeo" Coates, who was sort of the Florence Foster Jenkins of English stage stars.

By |2025-09-08T09:34:47-04:00September 8, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Most School Buses Are Bright Yellow For Exactly The Reasons You’d Probably Expect

The buses kids will start using this fall will be very similar to ones dating back to 1939, when a bunch of experts chose a bright shade of yellow as the standard school bus color.

By |2025-08-29T06:50:59-04:00August 29, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Before Humans Ever Went To Space, A Mom In France Tried Training Her Son To Be An Astronaut

Newspaper articles in the 1920s featured the six year old who was training to go into space before humans even figured out how to do it.

By |2025-08-28T07:33:01-04:00August 28, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

Inventor Becky Schroeder Had A Patent Before She Was A Teenager

https://open.spotify.com/episode/093dU0HlVXv7rwc35RMKHz?si=c2a3858ce1344708 Today in 1974, the US issued a patent to one Becky Schroeder, an extremely inventive kid. I mean, not many of us have our very own patent at [...]

By |2025-08-27T07:16:13-04:00August 27, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Rip The Dog Helped Rescue Londoners From Bomb Damaged Buildings During The Blitz

It's National Dog Day, so let’s talk about a dog who definitely found a way to carry on during World War II: Rip the dog, who rescued Londoners from rubble after Nazi bombing raids.

By |2025-08-26T07:48:48-04:00August 26, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

The Great Moon Hoax Showed Misinformation Spread In The 19th Century Much Like It Does Today

Today in 1835, the start of a six-part series in the New York Sun newspaper about fantastical creatures living on the moon. It wasn't true, but it was wildly popular.

By |2025-08-25T08:37:50-04:00August 25, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

A Formerly Enslaved Man Roasted His Former Master In A Classic Letter

Today in 1865, newspapers published "Letter From A Freedman To His Old Master," Jordan Anderson's note perfect response to a guy who probably shouldn’t have written to him in the first place. 

By |2025-08-22T08:30:08-04:00August 22, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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