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Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

Three minutes each weekday of cool facts, weird news and awesome discoveries with Brady Carlson. Back us at http://patreon.com/bradycarlson

A Bunny-Filled Ad Campaign Helped The Cadbury Creme Egg Become An Easter Tradition

3 mins; April 03, 2026

Seven Decades After An Iowa Woman Wrote “Please Write Me” On An Egg, Someone Got In Touch

3 mins; April 02, 2026

An Inside Edition Viewer Spotted A Lump On The Host’s Neck, And Helped Her Stay Healthy

3 mins; April 01, 2026

The Three Most Important Words In Reforesting: Location, Location, Location

3 mins; March 31, 2026

People Are More Excited About Time They Got Back From A Canceled Meeting Than Time That Was Always Open

3 mins; March 30, 2026

Tactile Tech Can Help Blind Baseball Fans Follow Games With Their Fingertips

3 mins; March 27, 2026

Queen Elizabeth II Was Sending E-Mails Decades Before Most Of Us Got Online

3 mins; March 26, 2026

Leonard Nimoy Once Hung Out With Jimi Hendrix

3 mins; March 25, 2026

There’s A Race For Waiters In Paris

3 mins; March 24, 2026

Before He Made Running History, Roger Bannister Had To Work His Day Job

3 mins; March 23, 2026

Signs And Signals Week: How To Perform Opera In American Sign Language

2 mins; March 20, 2026

Signs And Signals Week: Here’s A Shirt That Can Feel Sound

2 mins; March 19, 2026

Signs And Signals Week: Happy Birthday To Closed Captioned Television

3 mins; March 18, 2026

Signs And Signals Week: How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits

3 mins; March 17, 2026

Signs And Signals Week: Kids In Nicaragua Created Their Own Sign Language

3 mins; March 16, 2026

Rose Coppinger, The Phone Operator Who Helped Her Town Weather A Massive Fire

3 mins; March 13, 2026

For Years, Iceland’s TV Service Took Thursdays Off

3 mins; March 12, 2026

People In Different Countries Can Have Very Different Dreams

3 mins; March 11, 2026

There Was A Time When Some People Thought Being Understood On The Phone Was Feminine

3 mins; March 10, 2026

Before She Became The Most Famous Gal In Malibu, Barbie Grew Up In Wisconsin

3 mins; March 09, 2026

Food Companies Used To Send Out Playable Records On Cereal Boxes

3 mins; March 06, 2026

There’s A Pickup Truck On The Side Of A Building In The Dominican Republic

3 mins; March 05, 2026

King Louis XIV’s Chef Is Why Salt And Pepper Go Together At The Dinner Table

3 mins; March 04, 2026

The US Military Once Tested Out A “Camel Corps”

3 mins; March 03, 2026

The Sound Of Music’s “Do Re Mi” Song Gets Very Different In Other Languages

3 mins; March 02, 2026

In Poland, Nothing Goes Better With Pasta Than Strawberries

3 mins; February 27, 2026

William Addis Went To Prison For Inciting A Riot And Came Out With A Modern Toothbrush Design

3 mins; February 26, 2026

With Enough Ice And Enough Patience, People Can Walk Across One Of The Great Lakes In A Weekend

3 mins; February 25, 2026

Manon Rhéaume, The First Woman To Play NHL Hockey

3 mins; February 24, 2026

Learning To DJ Might Help Some People With ADHD

3 mins; February 23, 2026

Saturday Night Live Did A Special In New Orleans, And It Got Complicated

3 mins; February 20, 2026

Joe Frazier Was A Legendary Athlete, But A TV Athletic Competition Didn’t Go Swimmingly Well For Him

3 mins; February 19, 2026

Elm Farm Ollie, The Cow Who Once Flew Over St. Louis

3 mins; February 18, 2026

One Tournament Chess Game, Twenty Hours, No Winner

3 mins; February 17, 2026

There’s A Set Of Giant President Heads In Virginia And They’ve Been Through Some Stuff

3 mins; February 16, 2026

Abe Lincoln Week: Abraham Lincoln, Wedding Planner

3 mins; February 13, 2026

Abe Lincoln Week: The Time Kate Warne, America’s First Female Detective, Saved Abraham Lincoln’s Life

3 mins; February 12, 2026

Abe Lincoln Week: The Lincoln Memorial Has A Basement

3 mins; February 11, 2026

Abe Lincoln Week: Grace Bedell, The Girl Who Got Abe Lincoln To Grow A Beard

2 mins; February 10, 2026

Abe Lincoln Week: When Abe Lincoln Said Thanks But No Thanks To A Herd Of Elephants

3 mins; February 09, 2026

A Painting Chimpanzee Posed As A Modern Artist Named Pierre Brassau

3 mins; February 06, 2026

Drummer Hal Blaine Literally Left His Stamp On Popular Music

3 mins; February 05, 2026

Shock Rocker Alice Cooper Was Good Friends With Comedy Legend Groucho Marx

3 mins; February 04, 2026

Fred The Cat Went Undercover To Catch A Fake Veterinarian In Brooklyn

3 mins; February 03, 2026

Rosa Slade Gragg Outsmarted Detroit’s Racial Housing Rules, With A Workaround On A Corner Lot

3 mins; February 02, 2026

At Least One Beatle Hoped That The Band Would Get Arrested For Its Rooftop Concert

3 mins; January 30, 2026

Some Kansans Wanted To Turn Their Part Of The State Into West Kansas

3 mins; January 29, 2026

A Football Team Selected John Wayne In The 1971 NFL Draft

3 mins; January 28, 2026

In Lewis Carroll’s Time, A Real Disease Led To “Mad Hatters”

3 mins; January 27, 2026

Before She Changed The World Of Flying, Bessie Coleman Was An Award-Winning Manicurist

3 mins; January 26, 2026

Why Is A Pie In The Face Such A Big Part Of Comedy History?

3 mins; January 23, 2026

A Town In South Dakota Saw Winter Weather Turn Mild In Minutes

3 mins; January 22, 2026

Károly Takács Was A Right Handed Sport Shooter, But Won Olympic Gold Left-Handed

3 mins; January 21, 2026

A 1960s Computer Simulated A “Super Fight” Between Two Heavyweight Legends

3 mins; January 20, 2026

Martin Luther King Jr. Was A Trekkie (MLK Day Special)

3 mins; January 19, 2026

The “Great Bottle Hoax” Proved Some People Will Pay To See Something They Know Is Impossible

3 mins; January 16, 2026

After The “Miracle On The Hudson,” Captain “Sully” Sullenberger Had To Deal With A Lost Library Book

3 mins; January 15, 2026

A Woman Applied For A Job In 1976, And Got A Reply In 2024

3 mins; January 14, 2026

The YMCA Once Sued The Village People Over The Song “YMCA”

3 mins; January 13, 2026

Brock Meister Survived A Rarely Survivable “Internal Decapitation”

3 mins; January 12, 2026

Basketball Week: In One Game, Jason McElwain Became A High School Basketball Legend

3 mins; January 09, 2026

Basketball Week: Three Pro Basketball Players Once Played For Both Teams In A Single Game

2 mins; January 08, 2026

Basketball Week: Wat Misaka Was A Pro Basketball Pioneer (And A Pretty Impressive Bowler, Too)

3 mins; January 07, 2026

Basketball Week: Basketball Great Lisa Leslie Scored 101 Points In A High School Game

2 mins; January 06, 2026

Basketball Week: Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 Point Game Was Truly One Of A Kind

3 mins; January 05, 2026

How The Laugh Track Made TV Jokes Seem Funny Even If They Really Weren’t

3 mins; January 02, 2026

46 BC Was The Extra-Long “Year Of Confusion”

3 mins; January 01, 2026

For Some Of Us, New Year’s Eve Is The Time To Put On Some Red Undies

3 mins; December 31, 2025

We Could Turn The Bits Of Tomatoes We Don’t Eat Into Jet Fuel

3 mins; December 30, 2025

A German Doctor Once Tried To Turn Hawaii Into A Russian Colony

3 mins; December 29, 2025

Watch Out, The Greek Christmas Goblins Are About To Run Amok

3 mins; December 26, 2025

Axel Bjorklund, Boston's "Hot Dog Santa Claus"

3 mins; December 25, 2025

Clement Clarke Moore Wasn’t Always Looking To Have His Name On “A Visit From St. Nicholas”

3 mins; December 24, 2025

The Real-Life Festivus Holiday Was Maybe Even Weirder Than The One On “Seinfeld”

3 mins; December 23, 2025

The First Electric Christmas Lights Were On A Rotating Tree

3 mins; December 22, 2025

Fred Thomas Played In The World Series While He Was On Active Duty In The US Navy

3 mins; December 19, 2025

Americans Accidentally Broke Plymouth Rock In Two - More Than Once

3 mins; December 18, 2025

Houston’s Hanukkah House Brings All The Lights For The Holidays (Hanukkah Special)

3 mins; December 17, 2025

The Society For The Prevention Of Useless Giving Tried To Get Americans Out Of All That Holiday Shopping

3 mins; December 16, 2025

How An Amendment James Madison Wrote In The 1790s Got Added To The US Constitution In The 1990s

3 mins; December 15, 2025

“O Holy Night” May Have Been The First Christmas Song Played On The Radio

3 mins; December 12, 2025

Jakob Mierscheid, The Imaginary Part Of Germany’s Real Parliament

3 mins; December 11, 2025

To Make A Cold War Documentary, NBC Funded An Escape Tunnel Under The Berlin Wall

3 mins; December 10, 2025

How Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” Became A Song For Every Christmas

3 mins; December 09, 2025

This Robot Could Plant Baby Trees To Reforest An Area After A Forest Fire

3 mins; December 08, 2025

Bat Week: Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats

2 mins; December 05, 2025

Bat Week: Bats Who Randomly End Up Living Together Sometimes Become Friends

3 mins; December 04, 2025

Bat Week: Bats Can Predict Where Their Prey Is Headed

2 mins; December 03, 2025

Bat Week: Babies Babble, And So Do Baby Bats

3 mins; December 02, 2025

Bat Week: Bats Can Remember Our Ringtones

3 mins; December 01, 2025

Train Cars, A Trip To The Beach And Telegraphs Helped Inspire The Bar Code

3 mins; November 28, 2025

Thanksgiving Without Cranberries? For Many Americans In 1959, It Happened

3 mins; November 27, 2025

The Tan Hill Inn, Where Getting Snowed In With Strangers Can Actually Be Fun

3 mins; November 26, 2025

Mr. Delicious, The Fast Food Mascot Who Sold Roast Beef With A Side Of Middle-Aged Angst

3 mins; November 25, 2025

Bessie Blount Griffin Invented A Way For Veterans With Disabilities To Feed Themselves, And So Much More

3 mins; November 24, 2025

PropType Turns Almost Any Surface Into An Augmented Reality Keyboard

3 mins; November 21, 2025

Yo-Yos Work A Little Differently In Space Than Here On Earth

3 mins; November 20, 2025

How Bullwinkle Once Managed To Honk Off A Lot Of TV-Owning Parents

3 mins; November 19, 2025

Peel Off A Layer Of This Paper Plate For Earth’s Sake

3 mins; November 18, 2025

Pedestrianism, The Enormously Popular 19th Century Sport Where People Went For Really Long Walks

3 mins; November 17, 2025

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