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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
Jimmy Doolittle Proved Pilots Can Fly Completely By Instruments
3 mins; September 24, 2024
The “Space Capsule” On The Roadside Near Winganon, Oklahoma
3 mins; September 23, 2024
Why Did The Fonz Jump The Shark In The First Place?
3 mins; September 20, 2024
Dean Jones Put On A Cricket Clinic While He Was Sick And Extremely Dehydrated
3 mins; September 19, 2024
Jim Delligatti, The Father Of The Big Mac
3 mins; September 18, 2024
Sometimes Just A Five Second Break Is All It Takes To Get Along Better With A Spouse
3 mins; September 17, 2024
In Post-War Yugoslavia, Mariachi Music Was A Huge Hit
3 mins; September 16, 2024
Mister Rogers Made Friday The 13th A Fun Day In The Neighborhood Of Make-Believe
3 mins; September 13, 2024
Even The Harlem Globetrotters Haven’t Won Every Game They’ve Played
3 mins; September 12, 2024
When Planes Were Grounded On 9-11, People Came Together To Get A Donor Liver To A Baby For A Life-Saving Transplant
3 mins; September 11, 2024
An NFL Team Drafted Norm Michael In College, But He Didn’t Find Out Until 55 Years Later
3 mins; September 10, 2024
Colonel Sanders Was The Face Of KFC, And Occasionally Its Vocal Critic
3 mins; September 09, 2024
Pacemaker Pioneer Wilson Greatbatch Helped Millions Of Hearts
3 mins; September 06, 2024
A Group Of Teens Got Stranded On A Pacific Island For 15 Months, And Never Went All “Lord Of The Flies” On Each Other
3 mins; September 05, 2024
Baby Food Giant Gerber Once Sold Jars Of Mushed Up Food For Adults
3 mins; September 04, 2024
Charles Downing Lay, America’s Olympic Medalist In Town Planning
3 mins; September 03, 2024
Did A Department Store Really Keep A Guy On Staff To Be “Fired” In Front Of Angry Customers?
3 mins; September 02, 2024
Astronomy Week: The Hubble Telescope’s First Space Photo Was Kind Of Blurry
3 mins; August 30, 2024
Astronomy Week: What Was July 4th Like Before The Fourth Of July?
3 mins; August 29, 2024
Astronomy Week: Cincinnati Built An Observatory Any Stargazer Could Use
3 mins; August 28, 2024
Astronomy Week: Caroline Herschel Discovered Comets And Became A Star
3 mins; August 27, 2024
Astronomy Week: Guillaume Le Gentil, The 18th Century Astronomer With the Worst Luck
3 mins; August 26, 2024
A Churchgoer In Spain Did “The Worst Art Restoration Project Of All Time”
3 mins; August 23, 2024
The Sun Would Be Very Loud If You Could Hear In Space
3 mins; August 22, 2024
After His Legendary Basketball Career, Wilt Chamberlain Became A Pro Volleyball Player
3 mins; August 21, 2024
In Delaware, Drivers Can Auction Off Their License Plates For Big Bucks
3 mins; August 20, 2024
Long Before Photoshop, Photographers Knew How To “Photoshop” Photos
3 mins; August 19, 2024
The Iowa State Fair Has A Husband Calling Contest
3 mins; August 16, 2024
Ignacio Anaya GarcĂa, The Inventor Of Nachos
3 mins; August 15, 2024
In The Early 20th Century, Some Americans Thought Tipping Was Horrible
3 mins; August 14, 2024
The Grateful Dead Once Jammed With Live Crickets
3 mins; August 13, 2024
Scientists Are Teaching Batteries To Put Themselves Out If They Catch On Fire
3 mins; August 12, 2024
George Sutton Made His Name Playing Billiards After Losing His Hands
3 mins; August 09, 2024
Two Countries Showed Up At The 1936 Olympics Flying Identical Flags
3 mins; August 08, 2024
Lynne Cox Made A Cold Swim From The US To The USSR During The Cold War
3 mins; August 07, 2024
Gertrude Ederle Set A Record For Swimming The English Channel, And She Did It In A Thunderstorm
3 mins; August 06, 2024
There’s A Far-Off Planet Sometimes Called Earth’s Evil Twin
3 mins; August 05, 2024
Olympians Week: The Original Olympic Flag Went Missing For Over 70 Years
3 mins; August 02, 2024
Olympians Week: Two Olympians Turned A Silver And A Bronze Into “Medals Of Friendship”
3 mins; August 01, 2024
Olympians Week: Margaret Abbott Won Olympic Gold Even Though She Didn’t Know She Was In The Olympics
3 mins; July 31, 2024
Olympians Week: “Eric The Eel” Won An Olympic Heat With The Slowest Time In The Field
3 mins; July 30, 2024
Olympians Week: The 1904 Men’s Marathon Was The Weirdest Olympic Race Ever
3 mins; July 29, 2024
William Rankin Fell Through A Thundercloud And Lived
3 mins; July 26, 2024
Tom Stuker Used His Lifetime Airline Ticket To Travel More Than 24 Million Miles
3 mins; July 25, 2024
The Bee Gees And Peter Frampton Starred In A Sgt. Pepper Movie That Was A Glorious 70s Trainwreck
3 mins; July 24, 2024
The Ice Cream Cone Got The Spotlight At The 1904 World’s Fair, But That Isn’t When It Was Invented
3 mins; July 23, 2024
Michigan’s Official State Vehicle Fleet Includes A Vintage Model T
3 mins; July 22, 2024
It Took Researchers Twenty Years To Figure Out The Rosetta Stone
3 mins; July 19, 2024
New York Once Built Artificial Reefs Out Of Old Ice Cream Trucks
3 mins; July 18, 2024
There Was Almost A Scary Sequel To “E.T.”
3 mins; July 17, 2024
Embo, Scotland, Declared Itself Independent For A Day
3 mins; July 16, 2024
William Walker, The Diver Who Saved Winchester Cathedral
3 mins; July 15, 2024
Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting A Big Dome Over Manhattan
3 mins; July 12, 2024
Ina Koenig Saved A Kid Who Fell Into A Mine Shaft By Keeping His Head Above Water
3 mins; July 11, 2024
Bir Tawil Is Land Between Egypt And Sudan That Neither Country Wants
3 mins; July 10, 2024
In A Letter From Ancient Babylon, A Teenager Complains To His Mom About Clothes
3 mins; July 09, 2024
Taco Bell Once Trolled America By Claiming It Had Bought The Liberty Bell
3 mins; July 08, 2024
Alvin Straight Couldn’t Drive To See His Ailing Brother, So He Took A Road Trip On A Lawn Mower
3 mins; July 05, 2024
The Washington Monument That Was Built Before The Washington Monument
3 mins; July 04, 2024
Ford Once Tried To Turn A Station Wagon Into A “Pushbutton Camper”
3 mins; July 03, 2024
Utah Restocks Its Remote Lakes By Dropping Fish Out Of Airplanes
3 mins; July 02, 2024
Every July 1 Is A Million Dollar Day For Baseball’s Bobby Bonilla
3 mins; July 01, 2024
The Treaty That Ended World War I Also Set The International Standard For Musical Pitch
3 mins; June 28, 2024
A Town In Japan Built An Anne Of Green Gables-Themed Park
3 mins; June 27, 2024
Medieval Europeans Really Could Have Banged Coconuts Together, Like In Monty Python
3 mins; June 26, 2024
Sallie Gardner Was The Galloping Horse In The First Proto-Movie
3 mins; June 25, 2024
Volcanic Ash Shut Down All Of British Airways Flight 009’s Engines - But It Still Landed Safely
3 mins; June 24, 2024
Dessert Week: If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient
3 mins; June 21, 2024
Dessert Week: The Great Banana Split Rivalry
4 mins; June 20, 2024
Dessert Week: Even For Meringue This Meringue Is Light
3 mins; June 19, 2024
Dessert Week: Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves
3 mins; June 18, 2024
Dessert Week: Agnes B. Marshall, The First “Queen” Of Ice Cream
3 mins; June 17, 2024
Every Year Readlyn, Iowa Elects An Official Town Grump
3 mins; June 14, 2024
Tying Cans To A Wedding Car Has Roots In Protesting A Marriage
3 mins; June 13, 2024
The Baseball Game Lou Gehrig Played After He Stopped Playing Baseball
3 mins; June 12, 2024
How Jophery Brown Became One Of Hollywood’s Most Iconic Stuntmen
3 mins; June 11, 2024
Legend Says Instead of Fighting A War, Two Armies In Switzerland Sat Down For Some Soup
3 mins; June 10, 2024
In 1520, Two Kings Spent Millions To Throw Themselves A Party For Over Two Weeks
3 mins; June 07, 2024
A Teen Got To The “End” Of NES Tetris, And People Figured Out How To Hack The Software And Keep Playing
3 mins; June 06, 2024
A Handful Of VIPs Can Travel To Other Countries Without Passports
3 mins; June 05, 2024
American Cheese Got Its Start With A Guy From Canada
3 mins; June 04, 2024
Alexander Graham Bell Invented A “Photophone” That Sent Sound On Beams Of Light
3 mins; June 03, 2024
Some American Hockey Players Develop Canadian-Ish Accents
3 mins; May 31, 2024
Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb’s “Penny Parade” Helped Build A Northern Wisconsin Hospital
3 mins; May 30, 2024
There Was More Than One “Real” Rosie the Riveter
3 mins; May 29, 2024
The Cherry Sisters Baffled Vaudeville But Guaranteed Newspapers The Right To Criticize Bad Shows
3 mins; May 28, 2024
Memorial Day Special: The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day
3 mins; May 27, 2024
Planet Week: Uranus Was Originally Going To Be Named “George”
3 mins; May 24, 2024
Planet Week: Venus: If You Lived Here, You’d Have Melted By Now
4 mins; May 23, 2024
Planet Week: Selfies On Mars
3 mins; May 22, 2024
Planet Week: At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto
3 mins; May 21, 2024
Planet Week: Could Jokes About Uranus Prevent A Mission To Uranus?
3 mins; May 20, 2024
The Pillsbury Doughboy Has A Name And A Family
3 mins; May 17, 2024
Maria Beasley Invented A Life Raft And Lots Of Other Hugely Useful Things
3 mins; May 16, 2024
When France And Spain Had A “War Of The Stop Signs”
3 mins; May 15, 2024
Didier Delsalle Landed His Helicopter On Top Of Mount Everest
3 mins; May 14, 2024
Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel Cleans Up The Waterfront With Technology And Googly Eyes
3 mins; May 13, 2024
Did A Finnish Skier Actually Spit Out His Dentures On His Way To A Gold Medal?
3 mins; May 10, 2024
Some People Are Sweet On Kool-Aid Pickles, But Others Have Soured On The Idea
3 mins; May 09, 2024
In The 90s, Coca Cola Wanted Us To Drink OK Soda
3 mins; May 08, 2024
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