During Prohibition, Grape Growers Sold “Wine Bricks” To Thirsty Customers (Cool Weird Awesome 1172)

This week in 1920, a federal law enforcing the Constitution's Prohibition Amendment took effect. But there were loopholes, and one of the most clever way to use those loopholes was through something known as the "grape brick" or "wine brick."

By |2024-01-17T08:44:22-05:00January 17, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , |

To Live At This Antarctic Base, You Have To Have Your Appendix Out (Cool Weird Awesome 705)

Villas Las Estrellas is a tiny community run by Chile on Antarctica's King George Island. And it's so remote that one of the rules is that everyone who lives or works there has to have their appendix out before they show up.

By |2024-01-17T08:48:04-05:00January 28, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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