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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
Fashion Week: The Jumpsuit Century
3 mins; June 27, 2025
Fashion Week: The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System
2 mins; June 26, 2025
Fashion Week: The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow
2 mins; June 25, 2025
Fashion Week: Bioprinting Clothes (And More) Out Of Algae
3 mins; June 24, 2025
Fashion Week: The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested
3 mins; June 23, 2025
Monkeys Follow Some Of The Same Economic Principles As Humans Do
3 mins; June 20, 2025
How The Juneteenth Holiday Spread From Galveston, To Texas, To The Whole United States
3 mins; June 19, 2025
The Vatican Once Sang The Praises Of The Blues Brothers
3 mins; June 18, 2025
To Get Kids To Eat Their Veggies, A Company Sold A Line Called “I Hate Peas”
3 mins; June 17, 2025
Cracker Jack Originally Came With More Peanuts And No Prizes
3 mins; June 16, 2025
The Man Versus Horse Marathon Is Pretty Much What The Name Suggests
3 mins; June 13, 2025
Easy Listening Emerged From When Radio Programmers Tried To Target Women
3 mins; June 12, 2025
The Centuries-Long Quest To Choose A Punctuation Mark For Irony And Sarcasm
3 mins; June 11, 2025
The US Once Had A National Raisin Reserve
3 mins; June 10, 2025
Don Ritchie, “The Angel of the Gap”
3 mins; June 09, 2025
As The Allies Stormed The Beaches On D-Day, Bill Millin Played The Bagpipes
3 mins; June 06, 2025
When Teenager Michael Chang Beat The World’s Top Tennis Player At The French Open
3 mins; June 05, 2025
Tyromancy Is The Practice Of Fortune Telling Through Cheese
3 mins; June 04, 2025
Living Wall Coatings Could Make City Buildings Greener
3 mins; June 03, 2025
The ReefRanger Is A Robot That Could Help Restore Coral Reefs
3 mins; June 02, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: There’s A House In The Middle Of France’s Loire River
2 mins; May 30, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: In The 60s, There Was A Plan To Make Houses Out Of Heineken Bottles
3 mins; May 29, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: The Spite House, An Elegant, Expensive Way To Get Back At Somebody
2 mins; May 28, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: A Guy In Massachusetts Made Pretty Much His Whole House Out Of Old Newspapers
2 mins; May 27, 2025
Home Sweet Home Week: They Built A Real-Life Simpsons House In Nevada
3 mins; May 26, 2025
Leonard Nimoy Once Drove The Bangles Around In A Music Video
3 mins; May 23, 2025
When Mailman Floyd Martin Retired, The People On His Route Gave Him A Big Sendoff
3 mins; May 22, 2025
Betty Crocker May Not Be A Real Person, But She’s Been A Real Help To Bakers For Years
3 mins; May 21, 2025
How The Streisand Effect Makes The Information People Want Hidden More Popular
3 mins; May 20, 2025
Ohio Was The 17th State, And Also Kind Of The 48th
3 mins; May 19, 2025
Calvin Coolidge’s Family Kept Their Pet “William Johnson Hippopotamus” At The National Zoo
3 mins; May 16, 2025
Williamina Fleming, The Onetime Maid Who Became A Legendary Astronomer
3 mins; May 15, 2025
Stop Signs Used To Be Yellow
3 mins; May 14, 2025
The Real-Life Kid Who Inspired Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day”
3 mins; May 13, 2025
The Strange Story Of Ireland’s Worst Driver Ever
3 mins; May 12, 2025
“Pomp And Circumstance,” A Graduation Musical Tradition, Was Not Written For Graduations
3 mins; May 09, 2025
Oatman, Arizona, The Gold Rush Town That’s Now Home To Wild Donkeys
3 mins; May 08, 2025
We Could Run Our Smart Speakers By Writing Into The Air
3 mins; May 07, 2025
The Only Guy Who Ever Broke Into The Bank Of England’s Vault Of Gold
3 mins; May 06, 2025
Chimps Apparently Like To Get Together For Drinks
3 mins; May 05, 2025
Map Week: Every Six Months This Island Switches Countries
3 mins; May 02, 2025
Map Week: Canada Was Almost Named “Borealia”
3 mins; May 01, 2025
Map Week: How To Find Where You Are In Just Three Words
3 mins; April 30, 2025
Map Week: Earth Has Five Oceans Now, But Also Just One Ocean, It’s Complicated
3 mins; April 29, 2025
Map Week: Point No Point And Other Amazing, Actual Places
2 mins; April 28, 2025
Ella Fitzgerald And Marilyn Monroe Were Kind Of Besties For A While
3 mins; April 25, 2025
A Political Dispute In Washington State Led To A Weird Race Between The Governor And Lieutenant Governor
3 mins; April 24, 2025
When Key West Left The US To Become The Conch Republic
3 mins; April 23, 2025
Planet Earth Got Its Name From The Earth Beneath Us
3 mins; April 22, 2025
Queen Elizabeth II Wrote A Letter To Sydney, Australia That Won’t Be Opened Until 2085
3 mins; April 21, 2025
A Town In Northern Japan Says It’s Home To The “Tomb Of Christ”
3 mins; April 18, 2025
In Sweden And Finland, The Thursday Before Easter Is The Time For Trick-Or-Treating Witches
3 mins; April 17, 2025
On The Micronesian Island Of Yap, Huge Stone Discs Are Used As Money
3 mins; April 16, 2025
A Museum In Virginia Is Home To A Ham From 1902
3 mins; April 15, 2025
Don Calhoun, The Fan Who Hit The Chicago Bulls’ “Million Dollar Shot”
3 mins; April 14, 2025
America’s Oldest Board Game Was A Road Trip Through The Early US
3 mins; April 11, 2025
Walter Hunt Invented The Modern Safety Pin To Pay Off A $15 Debt
3 mins; April 10, 2025
Pennsylvania Once Tried To Make It A Crime To Mock The Governor In Editorial Cartoons
3 mins; April 09, 2025
The Physiophone Turned Music Into Physical Sensations For Deaf People To Enjoy, And Dance To
3 mins; April 08, 2025
Beavers Build Dams That Can Last Centuries, Maybe Even Millennia
3 mins; April 07, 2025
Some Spiders In Loud Areas Soundproof Their Webs
3 mins; April 04, 2025
To Protect Riders, This 3D Printed Bike Helmet Contracts During A Collision
3 mins; April 03, 2025
Scientists Sent A Diaper-Wearing Ferret Named Felicia Through A Particle Accelerator
3 mins; April 02, 2025
The BBC Once Ran An April Fools Day Story About Spaghetti Growing On Trees
3 mins; April 01, 2025
An Engineer Wanted To Add Car Ramps To The Eiffel Tower
3 mins; March 31, 2025
“Wing Walker” Gladys Ingle Could Change An Airplane’s Tire In The Middle Of The Sky
3 mins; March 28, 2025
Eliza Scidmore Lobbied For Decades To Bring Cherry Blossoms To Washington DC
3 mins; March 27, 2025
The Supremes Were Such A Popular Group, They Had Their Own Bread
3 mins; March 26, 2025
How A “Sea-Worm” Inspired Marc Brunel To Dig London’s Thames Tunnel
3 mins; March 25, 2025
A Teacher In Illinois Made The Washington DC Trip A Spring Break Tradition
3 mins; March 24, 2025
Searcy County, Arkansas Is The World’s Chocolate Roll Capitol
3 mins; March 21, 2025
Farm Week: When A Giant Safe Showed Up In His Yard, A New York Farmer Decided To Embrace The Mystery
2 mins; March 21, 2025
Farm Week: Dogs Are Saving Citrus Orchards From Disease
3 mins; March 20, 2025
Farm Week: Robots And Soap Bubbles Might Help Pollinate Crops
2 mins; March 19, 2025
Farm Week: Laser Apple Robots
2 mins; March 18, 2025
Farm Week: That Time More Than 300 Nebraskans Moved A Barn By Hand
2 mins; March 17, 2025
Tim Wong Became The Best Friend A Rare Butterfly Ever Had
3 mins; March 14, 2025
SS Baychimo, The “Ghost Ship” That Kept Reappearing In The Ocean
3 mins; March 13, 2025
Mitchelville Was The First US Town Led By Formerly Enslaved People
3 mins; March 12, 2025
The “Petticoat Rulers” Of Jackson, Wyoming
3 mins; March 11, 2025
In The 1950s, Groups Of College Students Tried To Cram Themselves Into Phone Booths
3 mins; March 10, 2025
For 18 Days, Lake Champlain Was A Great Lake
3 mins; March 07, 2025
During World War II, The US Used Trampolines To Train Pilots
3 mins; March 06, 2025
Edith Keating Let The World See What The World Looked Like From The Air
3 mins; March 05, 2025
King Cakes: Two Holidays, Three Colors, Lots Of Little Plastic Babies
3 mins; March 04, 2025
There’s An Official Spanish-Language Version Of “The Star-Spangled Banner”
3 mins; March 03, 2025
The Most Interesting Story Out Of Boring, Oregon Involves A Boxing Champion And A “Town Pest”
3 mins; February 28, 2025
The Philadelphia Phillies Were Also Sort Of The “Blue Jays” For A While
3 mins; February 27, 2025
The Fight Of The 80s Was Johnny Cash Vs. Waldo The Ostrich
3 mins; February 26, 2025
The Squeaky History of the Rubber Duck
3 mins; February 25, 2025
The Keys To Rescuing One Dolphin? An NBA Player’s Long Arms
3 mins; February 24, 2025
Paint Week: “Fordite” Is The Gem Made From Paint At Auto Factories
3 mins; February 21, 2025
Paint Week: Really, Really White Paint Can Act Like A Coat Of Air Conditioning On A Building
2 mins; February 20, 2025
Paint Week: The Race To Keep Day-Glo Paints Glo-ing
3 mins; February 19, 2025
Paint Week: With Solar-Reflective Paint, School Playgrounds Are Getting Cooler
2 mins; February 18, 2025
Paint Week: “Mummy Brown” Was A Paint Made From Actual Mummies
3 mins; February 17, 2025
Elvis Once Bought A Yacht That Franklin Roosevelt Used As President
3 mins; February 14, 2025
Walk On This High-Tech Goo And It’ll Make Electricity
3 mins; February 13, 2025
Long Before He Was President, Abraham Lincoln Was A Tavern Owner
3 mins; February 12, 2025
For One Supreme Court Nominee, The Nation’s Number One Question Was About His Mustache
3 mins; February 11, 2025
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