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When Thatcher Met Gorbachev
Episode 1024
Over a Chequers banquet of sole in shrimp sauce, fillet of beef, and caramelized oranges, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Who Ate All The Mayonnaise?
Episode 1022
Rerun: Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco achieved her third world record in competitive eating on 13th December, 2018 - this time for consuming the mo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Winona's Shoplifting Scandal
Episode 1021
Rerun: Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills on 12th December, 2001. Amongst the products she had stuffed i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Angry Birds Begins
Episode 1020
Mobile game Angry Birds debuted on the App Store on 11th December, 2009. The quirky and fun cartoonish characters and addictive gameplay found fans -…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Dog Statue Controversy
Episode 1019
On 10th December, 1907, angry medical students and animal rights activists were clashing over a controversial bronze statue of a brown terrier who ha…
1 year, 4 months ago
Theirs Not To Reason Why
Episode 1018
Alfred Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ was first published on 9th December, 1854, in The Examiner. Tennyson had penned the poem shortly …
1 year, 4 months ago
Joyce Brothers - $64,000 Swot
Episode 1016
Rerun: A female contestant had never scooped the jackpot on an American TV quiz show before New York psychologist Dr Joyce Brothers won $64,000 on 6t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Christie's First Auction
Episode 1015
Rerun: James Christie held his first auction on 5th December, 1766 - billed as a sale of “genuine household furniture, jewels, plate, firearms, china…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Earliest Dinosaur 🦕
Episode 1014
A 245 million years old fossil named Nyasasaurus parringtoni was officially determined the earliest known dinosaur on 4th December, 2012; meaning din…
1 year, 4 months ago
Where's Agatha Gone?
Episode 1013
Renowned detective novelist Agatha Christie found herself at the centre of a real-life mystery: when she mysteriously disappeared for 11 days, from 3…
1 year, 4 months ago