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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Food Companies Used To Send Out Playable Records On Cereal Boxes
Description: Tomorrow is National Cereal Day. Today, we’re spending some quality time with the boxes that house those breakfast staples… especially the ones decades ago that came with playable records. Plus: about half a millennium after Michelangelo was born (this day in 1475), the Victoria and Albert Museum in London announced that on a wax sculpture, they had found what appeared to be the artist’s thumbprint. Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible. (New York Times)The Victoria and Albert Museum Says It Has Spotted Michelangelo’s Thumbprint, Preserved in Wax, on One of His Sc...