The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Ra...
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits Earth at an average distance of 384399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times 2025-05-05 16:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a presidential candidate in 2007. Secr...
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Frédéric Pierre Bourdin[1] (born 13 June 1974)[2] is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon".2025-04-21 19:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on...
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Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American outlaws who traveled the Central United States with 2025-04-07 13:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, 2025-03-31 13:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the 2025-03-25 03:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
2 op-eds by Ross Douthat
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/opinion/abortion-dobbs-supreme-court.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/religion-god.html
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Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971)[1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II,2025-03-10 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.gq.com/story/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013
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"The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid",[1] is a fairy tale written by Danish author 2025-03-03 23:14:22 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.gq.com/story/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013
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The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: Sitio de Cartagena de Indias, lit. 'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between 2025-02-24 19:07:14 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2024-year-in-review
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Three op-eds by billionaires.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/02/big-tech-needs-more-regulation/
A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a physical 2025-02-03 21:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post
It's my immortal, continued.
It's my immortal, continued.
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The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in 2025-01-27 20:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Tom cleans out his unrelated chrome tabs on interesting wikipedia articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing
https://woodcarvingillustrated.com/deep-sea-jack-o-lanterns/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
2025-01-20 19:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostSo we actually recorded this last week on Monday so one of the last paragraphs of the episode has outdated info in it. The Pizzagate guy was killed by police during a traffic stop after allegedly pulling out a gun and pointing it at police. This incident happened 4 days after we recorded this episode.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/g-s1-42040/pizzagate-gunman-kill...
Pythagoras of Samos[a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC)[b]<...
2025-01-06 15:51:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis episode was inspired by our tall tales episode. We each take a crack a writing another host's fictional bio.
This was supposed to be a Christmas Episode but was delayed.
The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin (Latin præputium or prepucium), is one of several relics attributed to Jesus, consisting of the foreskin removed during the 2024-12-23 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Two mean reviews. One from the Sydney Morning Herald on Coco Roco...and the other from the New York Times on Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.
Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manuf...
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Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner. Competitive eating is most popular in the Unit...
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The earliest known version of the tale is found in the French narrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344.[7] Another was the 2024-11-25 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern 2024-11-18 18:41:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Carlos Henrique Raposo (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian con artist and former footballer who played as a striker.[2024-11-11 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post