Some situations are just destined to go wrong. Like the time in 1974 that Cleveland hosted Ten Cent Beer Night at the ballpark and the game ended in a forfeit/drunken riot.
In 1994, an ad campaign for a car company somehow misjudged its ad campaign so badly that the whole effort landed the company in court.
Gram Parsons saw his life take some strange turns... but nothing as strange as what happened in his afterlife.
In 1941, one of the United States recognized a state of war for a very technical reason, months before the country formally entered the second World War.
Finally, our podcast makes it to the smallest room in the house.
Oscar was adopted by a nursing home to be a therapy cat. But staff noticed that whenever he chose to sit next to somebody, that somebody soon became a body.
When Daniel Sickles lost his leg at Gettysburg, he had it mounted and put on display at a medical museum.
The 1956 Summer Games are sometimes called the “Friendly Games,” although there was also a water polo match between technically allied Hungary and the USSR that was anything but friendly.
In the 1950s, a guy made a baffling choice: he got drunk, started flying an airplane and landed the plane on the streets of Manhattan. Two years later he did the same thing again.
Eadweard Muybridge's photos of a galloping horse essentially led to what we know now as motion pictures. But it wouldn’t have taken nearly as long if Muybridge hadn’t been put on trial for murder (!)
