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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: A Lawmaker Tried To Get Americans To Eat Hippo Meat, AKA “Lake Bacon”
Description: About this time in 1910, a member of Congress thought the next big food trend would be hippo meat. Plus: Williams Lake, British Columbia designates every January 2 as Wrestling Day, but it's not related to a sport.
Lake Bacon: The Story of The Man Who Wanted Us to Eat Mississippi Hippos (The Daily Beast)
A city in B.C. has an actual civic holiday called Wrestling Day (Vancouver Is Awesome)
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