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: , , , |

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: , , , |

Tilly Smith Saved 100 People From A Tsunami Because She’d Listened In Class

Today in 2004, a 10 year old managed to save a lot of people from a massive tsunami because she remembered a lesson she’d learned in school about what happens right before a tsunami hits. Good thing she was listening.

By |2024-12-04T05:38:59-05:00December 26, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Is Home To The World’s Most Famous “Space Acorn”

Today in 1965, something happened in the community of Kecksburg in southwestern Pennsylvania. That something has had plenty of names - UFO Crash, Great Fireball, second Roswell - so let’s explain what we do and don’t know about it.

By |2024-12-09T07:49:00-05:00December 9, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |
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