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1458: "How a Wardrobe Malfunction Invented the Modern Bra"
Episode 1458
Interesting Things with JC #1458: "How a Wardrobe Malfunction Invented the Modern Bra" – A ruined dress, two handkerchiefs, and a flash of frustratio…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor"
Episode 1457
Interesting Things with JC #1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor" – In 1492, a thunderous roar split the skies over Ensisheim, and a blazing stone crashe…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone"
Episode 1456
Interesting Things with JC #1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone" – Before the trains, every town kept its own noon. Then one day in 1883, a single …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
1455: "The Houdini Séance"
Episode 1455
Interesting Things with JC #1455: "The Houdini Séance" – Every Halloween, a candle flickers for a man who escaped everything…except death. Houdini sw…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats"
Episode 1454
Interesting Things with JC #1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats" – A vanished boy. A papal decree. A plague. For centuries, one animal took the b…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
1453: "Bear Lake Monster"
Episode 1453
Interesting Things with JC #1453: "Bear Lake Monster" – Along the Utah-Idaho border, a ripple in the water has stirred more than just curiosity. For …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn"
Episode 1452
Interesting Things with JC #1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn" – Locals swore a secret animal roamed the Congo, with stripes like a zebra and a neck…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518"
Episode 1451
Interesting Things with JC #1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518" – In the summer heat of 1518, hundreds danced themselves to death in the streets of St…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
1450: "The Alkonost"
Episode 1450
Interesting Things with JC #1450: "The Alkonost" – In the frozen heart of old Slavic myth, a bird with a woman’s face sang of joy so pure it could de…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
1449: "The Encantado"
Episode 1449
Interesting Things with JC #1449: "The Encantado" – In the Amazon, a pink dolphin dances as a man. He laughs, he charms, then vanishes into water, wi…
8 months, 3 weeks ago