A Couple Months Before The US Entered World War II, Vermont Declared War On The Nazis (Cruel Weird Awful 24)

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.

By |2024-08-10T09:12:36-04:00August 10, 2024|Categories: Cruel Weird Awful, Podcasts|Tags: , |

Tomatoes Are Fruit, But The Supreme Court Once Ruled That They’re Vegetables

Today in 1893, the highest court in the land made a controversial ruling that would profoundly affect Americans to this day: the US Supreme Court ruled that the tomato was a vegetable.

By |2024-12-02T09:22:21-05:00May 10, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , |

In The 1920s There Was A Footrace From Los Angeles To New York (Cool Weird Awesome 489)

On this day in 1928, the start of the Trans-America Foot Race, aka the "Bunion Derby," in which about 200 runners in Los Angeles set out to run all the way to New York City.

By |2023-11-01T09:51:34-04:00March 4, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |
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