To Get Kids To Eat Their Veggies, A Company Sold A Line Called “I Hate Peas”

For National Eat Your Vegetables Day, the story of the time a company tried to get kids to eat French fry-shaped versions of dinner table vegetables, but with a name that may not have done them any favors.

By |2025-06-17T08:53:58-04:00June 17, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Defense Scheme No. 1: The Secret Canadian Plan To Invade The US

This year has not been a record one for US/Canadian ties, but at least it's not like 1921, when a Canadian military official worked up a secret plan to invade a bunch of northern US cities. (And, for that matter, the US had a northern invasion plan too.)

By |2025-06-14T07:59:31-04:00June 14, 2025|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The Man Versus Horse Marathon Is Pretty Much What The Name Suggests

Tomorrow in Wales, a race where there are human runners and horses with riders on the same course, trying to get to the finish line ahead of each other. And it all started with an argument in a pub.

By |2025-06-13T08:15:08-04:00June 13, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Easy Listening Emerged From When Radio Programmers Tried To Target Women

Today in 1971 that the magazine Record World published an article about a new and very chill radio format that was the precursor of Easy Listening.

By |2025-06-12T06:41:38-04:00June 12, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

The Centuries-Long Quest To Choose A Punctuation Mark For Irony And Sarcasm

The history of punctuation is full of efforts to choose a mark that would make it clear to readers when the writer is being ironic or sarcastic.

By |2025-06-11T09:30:49-04:00June 11, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

The US Once Had A National Raisin Reserve

Today in 2013, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that put an end to something called the National Raisin Reserve. Here's why the US used to have a massive government stockpile of raisins. 

By |2025-06-10T06:47:36-04:00June 10, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Pope Stephen VI Put A Papal Cadaver On Trial For Heresy

We start our third season with a timely story, about a new pope. Though unlike popes of this time, this one decided the best way to use his new job was to exhume his predecessor’s remains and put them on trial for heresy.

By |2025-06-07T13:45:44-04:00June 7, 2025|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

As The Allies Stormed The Beaches On D-Day, Bill Millin Played The Bagpipes

Today in 1944, D-Day, the largest invasion force ever. There were hundreds of thousands of troops, tens of thousands of vehicles, over 100,000 tons of equipment, and at least one guy playing bagpipes.

By |2025-06-06T08:05:31-04:00June 6, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |
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