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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: A Guy Used A Loophole In International Law To Put Himself “In Charge” Of Western Antarctica
Description: This week in 1819 was probably the first European sighting of Antarctica. It’s different from all the other continents in so many ways - including how, from a certain point of view, a big chunk of Antarctica is “ruled” by a guy who’s never even been there. Plus: today in Tomah, Wisconsin, it’s the annual Freeze Fest.
How a Pennsylvania man started an imaginary country in Antarctica and got 2,300 people to join him (The Times Leader)
Freeze Fest
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