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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
“In A Pickle” Is A Phrase That Doesn’t Have Much To Do With Actual Pickles
3 mins; November 14, 2025
We Can Drop Artificial Snow With Help From Airplanes, But Machines Are Probably Easier
3 mins; November 13, 2025
Some Spiders May Add Extra Threads To Webs That Let Them Know When There’s Prey Nearby
3 mins; November 12, 2025
During The Battle Of The Bulge, Vincent Speranza Made A Beer Run For The Ages
3 mins; November 11, 2025
Before Hitting It Big With His Novels, Kurt Vonnegut Invented A Board Game
3 mins; November 10, 2025
Telephone Week: 39 Years After Making The First Phone Call, Alexander Graham Bell Joined A Transcontinental Conference Call
3 mins; November 07, 2025
Telephone Week: When Maasai Herders Call The Wrong Number, They May End Up Making A New Friend
2 mins; November 06, 2025
Telephone Week: The Undertaker Who Developed Automatic Phone Dialing
2 mins; November 05, 2025
Telephone Week: Indiana Bell Rotated And Moved Its Office Building – And Kept Working There During The Move
2 mins; November 04, 2025
Telephone Week: In Rural America, Some People Turned Their Wire Fences Into Phone Lines
3 mins; November 03, 2025
If You’re Out Guising On Halloween Night In Scotland, Have A Few Jokes Or Songs Handy
3 mins; October 31, 2025
Halloween Hoaxes About World War III Don’t Work So Well, As A California High School Found Out
3 mins; October 30, 2025
“Cat Man” Rex Shepherd Helped Put Some Of The British Museum’s Feral Cats To Work
3 mins; October 29, 2025
KISS Made A TV Movie Where They Fought Their Evil Clones At An Amusement Park
3 mins; October 28, 2025
There’s A Fake House In Brooklyn That Covers Up Real Subway Equipment
3 mins; October 27, 2025
During The Great Depression, A Community In California Used Clamshells As Temporary Money
3 mins; October 24, 2025
When It’s Sheep Shearing Time In Wales, It’s Time To Break Out The Special Shearing Cake
3 mins; October 23, 2025
Jet Black Is Named For A Gemstone, Not Jet Planes
3 mins; October 22, 2025
There’s A Forest In Indiana That Grows Wood For The USS Constitution
3 mins; October 21, 2025
How Ford Put A Mustang High Up On The Empire State Building
3 mins; October 20, 2025
Hockey Week: Some American Hockey Players Develop Canadian-Ish Accents
3 mins; October 17, 2025
Hockey Week: Meet The Zamboni Who Invented The Zamboni
3 mins; October 16, 2025
Hockey Week: What Does It Take To Be Great At Underwater Hockey?
2 mins; October 15, 2025
Hockey Week: Eddie Shore, The Hockey Player Who Would Do Anything To Make The Game
3 mins; October 14, 2025
Hockey Week: The Canadiens And Maple Leafs Had A Brawl, And A Hockey Game Broke Out
3 mins; October 13, 2025
The Hearing Car Is Testing Whether Self-Driving Vehicles Need More Senses On The Road
3 mins; October 10, 2025
A Radio Show In Tennessee Told Listeners They Had To Recycle Their Old-Style $20 Bills
3 mins; October 09, 2025
Otto The Octopus Was Really Good At Getting Into Mischief
3 mins; October 08, 2025
The Soviet Union Put Out An Official Cookbook Of “Tasty And Healthy Food”
3 mins; October 07, 2025
The Benshi Were Japan’s Silent Movie Whisperers
3 mins; October 06, 2025
Times New Roman, A 1930s Typeface, Is Still A Top Font In The 21st Century
3 mins; October 03, 2025
The Furby Fad Of The 1990s Briefly Became A National Security Concern
3 mins; October 02, 2025
Smith Island Cake Is Maryland’s Official State Dessert
3 mins; October 01, 2025
How William Wrigley Went From Soap Guy To Baking Powder Guy To Chewing Gum Giant And Baseball Owner
3 mins; September 30, 2025
Önneköp Is A Micronation In Sweden That Celebrates “Cuckoo-Coffee”
3 mins; September 29, 2025
Pizza Week: The Pizza And Pipe Organ Connection
2 mins; September 26, 2025
Pizza Week: Math Says You Get More Pizza With A Large Instead Of Two Mediums
2 mins; September 25, 2025
Pizza Week: Detroit-Style Pizza Got Its Shape From Another Famous Detroit Industry
3 mins; September 24, 2025
Pizza Week: Steve Jobs, The First Person To Order A Pizza Online
3 mins; September 23, 2025
Pizza Week: How Chuck E. Cheese Became The World’s Top Animatronic Mouse Video Gamer And Pizza Restaurateur
3 mins; September 22, 2025
Nadia Sparkes Started Picking Up Litter On The Way To School And Became “Trash Girl”
3 mins; September 19, 2025
Muslims Pray Toward Mecca - Which Can Be A Challenge For Muslim Astronauts On A Space Station
3 mins; September 18, 2025
The Who’s American TV Debut Really Blew Up, Especially Keith Moon’s Drums
3 mins; September 17, 2025
Why 90s Screen Savers Were Full Of Flying Toasters And Endless Mazes
3 mins; September 16, 2025
We’ll Miss Maru, The Box-Obsessed Celebrity Internet Cat
3 mins; September 15, 2025
How Pink Floyd Got A Man On Fire Onto An Album Cover
3 mins; September 12, 2025
Roselle The Guide Dog Helped Her Human Get To Safety During The 9/11 Attacks
3 mins; September 11, 2025
Why Take A Bath Or A Shower When You Can Hop Into A “Human Washing Machine”?
3 mins; September 10, 2025
Teddy Bears Were Once The Big Threat To American Youth
3 mins; September 09, 2025
Robert Coates, The Stage Actor Who Was So Terrible He Became A Legend
3 mins; September 08, 2025
Sports Get Wild Week: Maryland’s Official State Sport Is Jousting
2 mins; September 05, 2025
Sports Get Wild Week: “Steady” Ed Headrick, the “Father of Disc Golf”
2 mins; September 04, 2025
Sports Get Wild Week: The Time A Golfer Won The US Open While Suffering From Dysentery
3 mins; September 03, 2025
Sports Get Wild Week: The Netherlands Turned Pole-Sitting Into A Competitive Sport
3 mins; September 02, 2025
Sports Get Wild Week: In The 1920s There Was A Footrace From Los Angeles To New York
3 mins; September 01, 2025
Most School Buses Are Bright Yellow For Exactly The Reasons You’d Probably Expect
3 mins; August 29, 2025
Before Humans Ever Went To Space, A Mom In France Tried Training Her Son To Be An Astronaut
3 mins; August 28, 2025
Inventor Becky Schroeder Had A Patent Before She Was A Teenager
3 mins; August 27, 2025
Rip The Dog Helped Rescue Londoners From Bomb Damaged Buildings During The Blitz
3 mins; August 26, 2025
The Great Moon Hoax Showed Misinformation Spread In The 19th Century Much Like It Does Today
3 mins; August 25, 2025
A Formerly Enslaved Man Roasted His Former Master In A Classic Letter
3 mins; August 22, 2025
A Restaurant In Wisconsin Keeps Goats On The Roof
3 mins; August 21, 2025
Isabel Morgan Unlocked The Mysteries Of Polio On The Road To A Vaccine
3 mins; August 20, 2025
Potatoes Have Made Their Contribution To World Peace
3 mins; August 19, 2025
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” Was Partly Based On Real Bird Weirdness
3 mins; August 18, 2025
When Eating With A Fork Was Scandalous
3 mins; August 15, 2025
The Guy Who Officially Had The First Social Security Number
3 mins; August 14, 2025
A Guy In Saudi Arabia Has Over 400 Video Game Consoles Connected To A Single TV
3 mins; August 13, 2025
“Drop Kick Me Jesus” Is Country Music’s “Christian-Football Waltz”
3 mins; August 12, 2025
A Fair In Washington State Is Famous For Its Spaceburgers
3 mins; August 11, 2025
Here’s A Robot That’s Learning To Make Us Pizzas
3 mins; August 08, 2025
The Winchester Mystery House Probably Wasn’t Built To Be Mysterious
3 mins; August 07, 2025
Campbell’s Soup Grew To Love Andy Warhol’s Soup Can Paintings, Just Maybe Not Right Away
3 mins; August 06, 2025
The “ManhattAnt” Is New York City’s Very Own Ant Species
3 mins; August 05, 2025
Brad Lewis Kept His Son Safe As They Both Fell Off A Balcony
3 mins; August 04, 2025
“Illustrated Songs” Were Proto-Music Videos Almost A Century Before MTV
3 mins; August 01, 2025
One Of MGM’s Roaring Lions Lived A Life Even Stranger Than The Movies
3 mins; July 31, 2025
Ford Once Tried To Replace The Steering Wheel With A “Wrist Twist” System
3 mins; July 30, 2025
Bacteria Can Consume Used Plastic And Turn It Into Medicine
3 mins; July 29, 2025
We’ve Tried Quite A Few Times To Send Mail By Rocket
3 mins; July 28, 2025
Books And Authors Week: Meet Some Of The Oldest Books Ever Found
2 mins; July 25, 2025
Books And Authors Week: Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End?
2 mins; July 24, 2025
Books And Authors Week: I Review The Body Electric
3 mins; July 23, 2025
Books And Authors Week: A Big-Time Librarian Kept “Goodnight Moon” Off The Shelves For 25 Years
3 mins; July 22, 2025
Books And Authors Week: Never Skip The Dedication Page Of A Book, They Can Get Wild
3 mins; July 21, 2025
The North Pole Moved Three Feet Because Of Dams
3 mins; July 18, 2025
Watergate Salad Is An Actual Sweet Dish Named For Our “Long National Nightmare”
3 mins; July 17, 2025
A Blood Sample From A Late Composer Is Powering A Musical Experiment
3 mins; July 16, 2025
Guitarist Cordell Jackson Was Rocking Out Before There Was Rock Music
3 mins; July 15, 2025
A Burma-Shave Ad Offered A Trip To “Mars,” And A Guy Tried To Take That Trip
3 mins; July 14, 2025
Quiet Riot’s Biggest Hit Came From A Recording Session They Tried To Tank
3 mins; July 11, 2025
Which Horse Is On Wyoming’s License Plate? It's Complicated
3 mins; July 10, 2025
The BBC Once Reported That Cows Might Have Accents
3 mins; July 09, 2025
A Shop In Small-Town Nebraska Gave The World The Tin Roof Sundae
3 mins; July 08, 2025
Tiny Swarms Of Robots Might Help Us Get Through Sinus Infections
3 mins; July 07, 2025
How Fireworks Illuminate Independence Day, The Way John Adams Wanted
3 mins; July 04, 2025
The Original Version Of The Michelin Man Was Kind Of Terrifying
3 mins; July 03, 2025
Graham Island, The Mediterranean’s Disappearing Volcanic Island
3 mins; July 02, 2025
How Canada’s Flag Ended Up With A Maple Leaf Instead Of Union Jacks, Beavers Or Mounties
3 mins; July 01, 2025
June Robertson McCarroll, The Doctor Who Painted A Line Down The Middle Of The Road
3 mins; June 30, 2025
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