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223: Turnspit Dogs
It’s 1576 and you don’t have a young boy to spare to turn your meat while it cooks. So what could you use? A...
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222: Brain Junk After Dark
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a naughty summer break episode. If you’re of an age that hasn’t covered human growth...
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221: Harriet the Tortoise
Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth’s longest lived creatures ever recorded. image from Australia...
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220: Sneaky Brands
If you grew up on the east coast of the US, you might’ve had Hellmann’s mayo and on the west coast you’d have Best...
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219: Wife Selling
In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn’t afford divorce. It was shaming,...
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218: Gladiatrices
Seldom written about, female gladiators fought for glory and Rome from around 509 BCE to 200 AD. What little information we have about them...