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January 2021
- Project MKUltra
- The Year of the Five Emperors
- The Year of the Four Emperors
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- Exclaves and Enclaves
- Inauguration Day
- The Crash at Crush
- ALL RATS MUST DIE!!!
- The British Pound(s)
- Moving Day in New York
- Did Gutenburg Really Invent the Printing Press?
- The Dunbar Number
- D.B. Cooper
- Surströmming
- Hispania
- The Nuclear Football
- The McRib
- The Erfurt Latrine Disaster
- The Golden Record
- The Last Germans to Surrender
- The 12 Days of Christmas
- The Canary Islands
- Reginaldus
- The SS Warrimoo
- Why Does The New Year Start on January 1?
December 2020
- Nijmegen: The City That Remembers (Encore)
- The Election of 1824 (Encore)
- The Most Famous Song in the World (Encore)
- Kayfabe (Encore)
- The Six Star General (Encore)
- Atlantropa: The Most Ridiculous Idea Ever (Encore)
- The Last Crow War Chief (Encore)
- The Most Dominant Athlete Ever (Encore)
- The Empire that Never Existed (Encore)
- Why Do We Celebrate Christmas on December 25?
- Catalonian Christmas Traditions
- Why Don’t We All Drive on the Same Side?
- What’s the Deal With Dark Matter?
- The Speech Richard Nixon Never Gave
- The Rosetta Stone
- Atomic Bombs and Two-Piece Swimsuits
- All About ZIP Codes
- The World’s Oldest Democratic Body
- The Terrible Fate of Blanche Monnier
- Aluminum
- Radiometric Dating
- The Man Who Didn’t Want to be Pope
- Roman Concrete
- The Mercator Projection
- Picasso
- The Real Illuminati
- The Voynich Manuscript
- How Many Nobel Prizes Should Einstein Have Won?
- Syndrome K
- Martha Mitchell Was Right
- Radiation 101
November 2020
- Spanish Foods
- Battle of Cannae
- The House of David
- Operation Tannenbaum
- Get the Lead Out
- George Eyser
- The History of Thanksgiving
- The Holy Grail
- America’s First Law
- The World’s Largest Co-Principality
- Operation London Bridge
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- The Pintupi Nine
- The Election of 1800
- Spanish Festivals
- Jury Duty
- The Longest Games in History
- The Sultana Steamboat Disaster
- Blues vs Greens
- The Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
- Really Big Telescopes
- The Sagrada Familia
- Ramanujan
- A History of Bread
- The Pig War
- What Exactly Happens After Election Day?
- Extremely Close Elections
- Who Was the Richest Person in History?
- The Camino de Santiago
- The Great Molasses Flood
October 2020
- Halloween
- Last Man on the Moon
- The History of Antarctica
- Domo Arigato Mr. Momofuku
- The World’s Deepest Hole
- The Continents
- Outlawry
- Tsar Bomba
- Extremely Long Term Debt
- The History of Presidential Debates
- Pyrrhic Victory
- The Election of 1876
- The Purchase of Alaska
- Operation Mincemeat
- The Curious Case of Kaspar Hauser
- The History of Ketchup
- Number One at Being Number Two
- Episode 100
- The Earth’s Most Extreme Places
- The SR-71 Blackbird
- Take the Penny, Leave the Penny
- That Time the CIA Kidnapped a Soviet Lunar Lander
- The Fabian Strategy
- Containerization
- Who is the Current Roman Emperor?
- Cold Fusion
- Wrestling’s GOAT: Aleksandr Karelin
- Károly Takács: Ambidextrous Gold Medalist
- The Eradication of Smallpox
- The Tunguska Event
- The Hagia Sophia
September 2020
- The Electoral College
- Robert Smalls: Man of Action
- US Territories
- Greek Fire
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Point Nemo
- Potpourri Vol II: The Frozen Four
- The Global Positioning System
- All Roads Lead to Rome
- The Lykov Family
- Nijmegen: The City That Remembers
- The Discovery of Fire
- No Show
- No Show
- No Show
- No Show
- No Show
- No Show
- Potpourri Volume I: Survival
- A Fist Full of Dollars
- Who Discovered Calculus?
- Fallacious Reasoning
- The Fosbury Flop
- An Incredibly Bright Idea
- The Two-Hour Marathon
- The First Transatlantic Cable
- The Election of 1824
- The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- That New Pope Smell
- The World’s Oldest Satellite
August 2020
- A Brief History of Timekeeping
- The First Pandemic
- Eponymous Laws
- Football, Soccer, and Rugby
- The Latin Alphabet
- Why are French Fries called French Fries?
- The Last US Civil War Pension
- The Most Famous Song in the World
- The US/Canadian Border
- The English Longbow
- The Man Who Fed the World
- Why Doesn’t the US Use the Metric System?
- Cursus Honorum
- European vs North American Sports
- Lis Hartel: A Remarkable Olympian
- The United Countries of America
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- The Real Life Dexter
- Damnatio Memoriae
- The Washington Generals
- Kayfabe
- Drug Lord Hippopotamuses
- Grandmother of Europe
- Boxing’s Alphabet Soup
- Lunar Orbit Rendezvous
- The Original Dow Jones Companies
- Lloyd Burke: American Badass
- The Great Peshtigo Fire
- Imperial Leftovers
- Van Halen and M&Ms
- The Pitch Drop Experiment
July 2020
- Beamonesque
- The French Scrabble Champion
- The Interstate Highway System
- How Many Planets Are There?
- The Prime Minister Who Disappeared
- The Julian and Gregorian Calendars
- Atlantropa: The Most Ridiculous Idea Ever
- When did Canada REALLY become independent?
- Neil Armstrong’s First Time in Space
- Blowouts
- The British Line of Succession
- The Six Star General
- The 1960 Popular Vote
- Jesse Owens vs Usain Bolt: Who Would Win?
- Zero, My Hero
- The Army That Never Was
- Time Zone Oddities
- Rutherford B. Hayes is a Big Deal in Paraguay
- The Last Crow War Chief
- Disco Demolition Night
- The Greatest Simplest Idea in the World
- Stealing the Mona Lisa
- Ancient Rome and Ancient China
- The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
- How Many Countries Are There?
- Broccoli, James Broccoli
- The 1904 Olympic Marathon
- The REAL Independence Day
- The Most Dominant Athlete Ever
- President Tyler’s Grandsons
- The Empire that Never Existed