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.
It’s Sports Get Wild Week On Cool Weird Awesome
This week we’re replaying our favorite episodes about when the world of sports went off course.
A Small Town Murder That No One Saw, Not Even The Dozens Of Witnesses
For our season finale, the story of a murder in small town Missouri that people couldn’t explain… or by some accounts they just wouldn’t.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
New Yorkers Rioted For Days Because People Wore Straw Hats Out Of Season
In 1922, a strict more on fall headgear turned into a Roaring Twenties version of the Purge.
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.