How Ford Put A Mustang High Up On The Empire State Building

Today in 1965, there was an unusual visitor high atop New York’s famous Empire State Building: a Ford Mustang. And it took some doing to get it up there.

By |2025-10-20T15:13:31-04:00October 20, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

The Hearing Car Is Testing Whether Self-Driving Vehicles Need More Senses On The Road

Autonomous vehicles have high-tech systems to see “see” what’s around them on the roads. A project in Germany asks if these cars also need to be listening to what’s around them too.

By |2025-10-10T08:04:23-04:00October 10, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

A Radio Show In Tennessee Told Listeners They Had To Recycle Their Old-Style $20 Bills

As a Halloween week prank in 1998, DJs in Tennessee said people had to exchange their old $20 bills for the new ones, or they would become worthless.

By |2025-10-09T17:51:40-04:00October 9, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Nadia Sparkes Started Picking Up Litter On The Way To School And Became “Trash Girl”

A young person in the UK made pretty much every day a cleanup day.

By |2025-09-19T06:33:05-04:00September 19, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

How Pink Floyd Got A Man On Fire Onto An Album Cover

Pink Floyd's album Wish You Were Here is a landmark both musically and visually, thanks to its fiery, one of a kind cover.

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: , , , |

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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