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January 31 – The Sound Some People Swear Exists
January 31 closes out the quietest month of the year with one of history’s most unsettling mysteries: the Hum, a low-frequency sound reported by peop…
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January 30 – The Day the Future Suddenly Felt Too Close
On January 30, 1925, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated one of the first successful long-distance television transmissions, allowing a moving hum…
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The Dot-Com Super Bowl Graveyard: Startups That Spent Millions and Vanished Overnight
At the height of the dot-com bubble, internet startups believed a Super Bowl commercial was the ultimate shortcut to legitimacy. Instead, it became a…
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The Super Bowl Startup Curse Part Two: Modern Tech Companies That Rose and Collapsed
The dot-com bubble wasn’t the end of Super Bowl advertising disasters—it was only the beginning.
In Part Two of The Super Bowl Startup Curse, host Amy…
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January 29 – The Poem That Wouldn’t Let Anyone Sleep
On January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was published, instantly becoming one of the most famous works in American literary history. …
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January 28 – The Day the Past Suddenly Got Much Longer
On January 28, 1929, scientists presented early findings that would lead to radiocarbon dating, allowing historians to measure the age of ancient org…
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January 27 – The Tiny Discovery That Quietly Changed Everything
On January 27, 1880, Louis Pasteur presented evidence supporting germ theory, the idea that microscopic organisms cause disease. In this episode of T…
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January 26 – The Night the Earth Moved and No One Knew Why
On January 26, 1700, a massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone struck the Pacific Northwest, triggering a tsunami that crossed the ocea…
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Tripping Through Time: The Strange History of Mushrooms That Changed Civilization
Mushrooms have quietly altered the course of human history in ways most people never learn in school. In this mega-episode of The Strange History Pod…
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January 25 – The Day the American Revolution Almost Had a Sequel
On January 25, 1787, Shays’ Rebellion came to a violent end when armed farmers clashed with militia outside the Springfield Armory. In this episode o…
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