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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
El Reno, Oklahoma Is The Home Of The Fried Onion Burger
3 mins; May 07, 2024
The Outtakes From Orson Welles’ Wine Commercial Might Be His Most Legendary Work
3 mins; May 06, 2024
Ancient Romans Once Threatened To Exile Anyone Wearing Pants
3 mins; May 03, 2024
The Distress Call Mayday Doesn’t Have Anything To Do With May
3 mins; May 02, 2024
Bonnie Richardson Won A State Track Team Championship By Herself - Twice
3 mins; May 01, 2024
When News Companies Tried To Deliver Newspapers Through Radio Transmissions
3 mins; April 30, 2024
Willie Nelson Once Recorded An Album To Pay Back Taxes To The IRS
3 mins; April 29, 2024
A Single Tree In New York Grows 40 Different Fruits
3 mins; April 26, 2024
Absorbing An Oil Spill With Cork And Lasers
3 mins; April 25, 2024
The “Electronic Tongue” That Can Tell When Wine Starts To Spoil
3 mins; April 24, 2024
"English As She Is Spoke," A Guide To English Written By A Guy Who Didn't Really Speak English
3 mins; April 23, 2024
This Smart Glove Could Help Divers Warn Each Other When There’s Danger Nearby
3 mins; April 22, 2024
Two US Cities Each Insist Their Cuban Sandwich Is The Authentic One
3 mins; April 19, 2024
The Minor League Baseball Game That Took Three Days To Play
3 mins; April 18, 2024
Kansas City’s Subtropolis Is A Huge Business Complex That’s 100 Feet Underground
3 mins; April 17, 2024
A “Lunar Olympics” Almost Ended In Disaster For The Apollo 16 Astronauts
3 mins; April 16, 2024
Leonardo da Vinci, Inventor of the Resume
3 mins; April 15, 2024
Murphy, The Eagle Who Became Dad To A Rock
3 mins; April 12, 2024
Glowing Orbs In The Netherlands Could Light The Way Toward Clean Water
3 mins; April 11, 2024
The Tempest Prognosticator Used Leeches To Predict Stormy Weather
3 mins; April 10, 2024
Florence Price Finally Takes Her Place On The List Of Great Composers
3 mins; April 09, 2024
A Study Says Everyone In Japan Could Have The Same Last Name Five Centuries From Now
3 mins; April 08, 2024
A Dog In The UK Saved Lives During The Blitz, Thanks To A Full Bladder
3 mins; April 05, 2024
A Guy In Melbourne Walks Around With A Giant Carrot Just For Fun
3 mins; April 04, 2024
Baseball Player Ping Bodie Once Won An Eating Contest Against An Ostrich
3 mins; April 03, 2024
Communist Countries Thought The TV Show “Dallas” Would Scare Citizens Away From Capitalism, But It Backfired
3 mins; April 02, 2024
In 1906, Chicago’s Newspapers Told Everybody The City Was Being Attacked By Dinosaurs
3 mins; April 01, 2024
Fine Art Week: Some Art Looks Great Even When Accidentally Hung Upside Down
3 mins; March 29, 2024
Fine Art Week: Edmonia Lewis, A Sculptor Who Brought Her Subjects To Life
3 mins; March 28, 2024
Fine Art Week: Why Is It So Hard To Tell A Real Rembrandt Painting From A Copy?
3 mins; March 27, 2024
Fine Art Week: Sarah Biffin, A 19th Century Painter “Without Hands” Who’s Getting 21st Century Recognition
3 mins; March 26, 2024
Fine Art Week: Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics
3 mins; March 25, 2024
If This TV Show Hadn’t Been Canceled, We Might Not Have Had The Original Versions of “Star Trek” and TV’s “Batman”
3 mins; March 22, 2024
Taco Bell Once Sold A Burger Called The “Bell Beefer”
3 mins; March 21, 2024
For Our Fifth Birthday, The Story Of The Song “Happy Birthday To You”
3 mins; March 21, 2024
Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier
3 mins; March 20, 2024
The Nutty Narrows Bridge Was Built For Squirrels In Washington State
3 mins; March 19, 2024
Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” Became A Hit, After A Tape Machine Cut It To Pieces
3 mins; March 18, 2024
Before Alarm Clocks, Some People Awoke With Help From A “Knocker-Up”
3 mins; March 15, 2024
Legendary Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard Once Teamed Up To Design A Refrigerator
3 mins; March 14, 2024
Here’s A Tiny Fish That Can Make Sounds As Loud As A Jet Engine
3 mins; March 13, 2024
A Boycott Against Charles Boycott Gave Us The Word “Boycott”
3 mins; March 12, 2024
New York City’s 311 System Has Gotten Some Wild Calls Over The Years
3 mins; March 11, 2024
Musical Alarms Could Help Save Lives In Hospitals
3 mins; March 08, 2024
Cap’n Crunch Once Got Sued Because There Weren’t Actual Berries In Crunch Berries Cereal
3 mins; March 07, 2024
Whey Protein Could Help Stop E-Waste
3 mins; March 06, 2024
Ruth Belville, The Last “Time Carrier” In London
3 mins; March 05, 2024
Police Squad, The TV Comedy That Got Canceled For Being Too Funny
3 mins; March 04, 2024
When Danish Farmers Started Breeding “Protest Pigs”
3 mins; March 01, 2024
La Bougie du sapeur, The Newspaper That Only Comes Out On February 29
3 mins; February 29, 2024
If Humans Start Living On Other Worlds, They Might End Up Creating New Accents
3 mins; February 28, 2024
Charles Strite, The Inventor Who Made Toasters Pop
3 mins; February 27, 2024
Whitney Smith Flew The Flag For Studying Flags
3 mins; February 26, 2024
Mail Week: How Ethel Merman Helped Get America To Use ZIP Codes
3 mins; February 23, 2024
Mail Week: Henry Brown Escaped From Slavery By Mailing Himself To Philadelphia
3 mins; February 22, 2024
Mail Week: Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog
3 mins; February 21, 2024
Mail Week: “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier
3 mins; February 20, 2024
Mail Week: When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place
3 mins; February 19, 2024
When Missouri Banned Schools For Black Students, John Berry Meachum Started A School On A Riverboat
3 mins; February 16, 2024
The Blackwell Family Tree Traces Black History Through Centuries
3 mins; February 15, 2024
Haters Used To Give Out “Vinegar Valentines” To Push People’s Button
3 mins; February 14, 2024
How Ski Ballet Ended Up At The Olympics In The 80s And 90s
3 mins; February 13, 2024
The “Hairy Eagle” Is A Decoration Made Partly With Abraham Lincoln’s Hair
3 mins; February 12, 2024
Snowflake Bentley Showed The World Just How Amazing Snow Can Be
3 mins; February 09, 2024
ELIZA Was An AI Chatbot Decades Before ChatGPT
3 mins; February 08, 2024
The US Rationed Shoes During World War II, So People Made Footwear Out Of Old Firehoses
3 mins; February 07, 2024
February Is The Shortest Month For Literally Odd Reasons
3 mins; February 06, 2024
Indiana Almost Set The Value Of Pi At 3.2, Even Though That Isn’t Pi’s Value
3 mins; February 05, 2024
Jessica Cox, The First Person Born Without Arms To Become A Licensed Pilot
3 mins; February 02, 2024
When Indiana Tried To Get “Louie, Louie” Off The Radio
3 mins; February 01, 2024
This Smart Glove Can Help People Recover From A Stroke
3 mins; January 31, 2024
Jean Carroll, TV's First Female Standup Comedy Star
3 mins; January 30, 2024
Holland, Michigan Has A Snow Melting System Built Into Its Downtown
3 mins; January 29, 2024
Cat Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
2 mins; January 26, 2024
Cat Week: Room 8, The Cat Named For A Classroom In L.A.
3 mins; January 25, 2024
Cat Week: A Bike Trip Around The World With A Cat
3 mins; January 24, 2024
Cat Week: There’s Music For Cats And It’s Apparently Very Good For Them
3 mins; January 23, 2024
Cat Week: FĂ©licette, The First Cat In Space
3 mins; January 22, 2024
To Win A Dance Marathon, Couples Might Have To Keep Going For Five Months
3 mins; January 19, 2024
Auto Companies Hire People To Make Sure The New Car Smell Is Just Right
3 mins; January 18, 2024
During Prohibition, Grape Growers Sold “Wine Bricks” To Thirsty Customers
3 mins; January 17, 2024
Designers Put Airbags In Clothes To Protect People From Falls
3 mins; January 16, 2024
When Martin Luther King Jr. Won The Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta Held A Historic Dinner In His Honor
3 mins; January 15, 2024
How Mr. Clean Became The World’s Top Bald Sailor Genie Cleaning Icon
3 mins; January 12, 2024
John Thompson Lost His Arms In A Farm Accident, Got Himself Help And Got The Arms Back
3 mins; January 11, 2024
Berlin’s Jazz Age Nightclubs Let People Message Each Other Through Pneumatic Tubes
3 mins; January 10, 2024
Richard Nixon Once Wished He’d Been A Rapper
3 mins; January 09, 2024
Newspaper Reporters Once Bought A Chicago Dive Bar To Catch Corrupt Officials
3 mins; January 08, 2024
Schoolhouse Rock Taught Generations About Bills, Adverbs And Magic Numbers
3 mins; January 05, 2024
The UK Reality Show “Shattered” Was Essentially A Sleep Deprivation Contest On TV
3 mins; January 04, 2024
In Whittier, Alaska, A Lot Of Residents All Live In One Building
3 mins; January 03, 2024
A City In Ecuador Starts The Year With A Festival Of Dancing Devils
3 mins; January 02, 2024
Garisenda Tower Is Italy’s Other Leaning Tower
3 mins; January 01, 2024
When The New Year’s Ball Drop Is Over, New York City Gets Busy Cleaning Up Times Square
3 mins; January 01, 2024
The Letter Z Once Looked Like A Fancy Capital I
3 mins; December 29, 2023
Puerto Rico’s Festival de las Máscaras Gets Colorful And Loud
3 mins; December 28, 2023
When George S. Patton Bombed A Volcano
3 mins; December 27, 2023
Tilly Smith Saved 100 People From A Tsunami Because She'd Listened In Class
3 mins; December 26, 2023
Babbo Natale, The Yule Goat and The World’s Many Christmas Gift Givers
3 mins; December 25, 2023
How The Snow Globe Started Shaking Up Winter
3 mins; December 22, 2023
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