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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
If You’re Trying To Visit All 50 States, North Dakota Wants You To Save The “Best For Last”
3 mins; August 03, 2023
The US Almost Had Coins Worth A Tenth Of A Cent
3 mins; August 02, 2023
Jackie Ormes Brought Black Characters To The Comics Page
3 mins; August 01, 2023
Kitty Burke Once Batted In A Major League Game
3 mins; July 31, 2023
When People From Towns Named Dull, Boring And Bland Get Together, You Know It’ll Get Lit
3 mins; July 28, 2023
In The 19th Century, Steamboat Racing Was An Extreme Sport
3 mins; July 27, 2023
The First Road Trip Across The Continental US Won A Guy Fifty Bucks
3 mins; July 26, 2023
How Colorado Got The Colorado River To Run Through Colorado
3 mins; July 25, 2023
Before Detroit Was The Motor City, It Was Known For Its Stoves
3 mins; July 24, 2023
Winneconne, Wisconsin Once Seceded From The State Over A Highway Map
2 mins; July 21, 2023
Want To Burn Lots Of Calories? Try High-Level Chess
3 mins; July 20, 2023
AI Phone Bots Foil Scammers By Wasting Their Time
3 mins; July 19, 2023
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan Flew To Ireland When He Was Supposed To Fly To California
3 mins; July 18, 2023
Gail Halvorsen, The “Candy Bomber” Of The Berlin Airlift
3 mins; July 17, 2023
In India, Telegrams Were Still Around Until 2013
2 mins; July 14, 2023
The Hollywood Sign Was A Big Ad That Turned Into a Landmark
2 mins; July 13, 2023
The 1924 Olympic Men’s Cross Country Race Was Literally A Hot Mess
3 mins; July 12, 2023
Dick Roth Won Olympic Gold While He Had Appendicitis
3 mins; July 11, 2023
Two Young Brothers Rode Across The Country On Horseback To Hang Out With Teddy Roosevelt
3 mins; July 10, 2023
Samantha Smith, A Kid From Maine Who Tried To Make The Cold War A Little More Peaceful
3 mins; July 07, 2023
In Soviet Russia, Vacation Took You
3 mins; July 06, 2023
The Secret Service Has An Ink Library To Foil Crimes
2 mins; July 05, 2023
Not Even An Alien Attack Or Zombie Apocalypse Could Keep The US From Protecting Its Founding Documents
3 mins; July 04, 2023
A Newspaper Called The Recycler Helped Bring Together Some Of The Biggest Rock Bands Of All Time
3 mins; July 03, 2023
Irna Phillips Brought The World Of Soap Operas To Life
4 mins; June 30, 2023
Marie C. Bolden, A Black Teen In Cleveland, Helped Win A National Spelling Title In 1908
3 mins; June 29, 2023
The Wild History Of The White House Telephone
3 mins; June 28, 2023
Before There Were Chicken McNuggets, McDonald’s Tried Selling Onion Nuggets
3 mins; June 27, 2023
A Teenager In Michigan Once Started Building A Nuclear Reactor In The Shed
3 mins; June 26, 2023
Babe Ruth Once Pitched A Combined No-Hitter, At Least Technically
3 mins; June 23, 2023
Some People Didn’t Think The Earliest Air Conditioners Were Very Cool
3 mins; June 22, 2023
The Dog That Climbed All Of New Hampshire’s 4,000 Foot Mountains
3 mins; June 21, 2023
West Virginia Is Landlocked, But It Has A Lighthouse Anyway
3 mins; June 20, 2023
Raise A Glass Of Red Drink On Juneteenth
3 mins; June 19, 2023
Lifting Something Heavy? Think Positive Thoughts, Or You Might Hurt Yourself
4 mins; June 16, 2023
Why We Don’t Pronounce The Last S In Arkansas
3 mins; June 15, 2023
The Star-Spangled Banner That Inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner”
4 mins; June 14, 2023
Charles Osborne Had The Hiccups For 68 Years
3 mins; June 13, 2023
In Wartime, Knitters Have Used Their Skills For Spying
3 mins; June 12, 2023
This Doll From The 18th Century May Be One Of The First Computers
3 mins; June 09, 2023
A Startup In Switzerland Is Putting Solar Panels In Between Railroad Tracks
3 mins; June 08, 2023
Virginia Apgar's Score Has Helped Millions Of Babies Stay Healthy
3 mins; June 07, 2023
Clarence Blethen, The Pitcher Who Got Bit By His Own False Teeth
3 mins; June 06, 2023
The World Has Ankle Monitors Partly Because Of Spider-Man Comics
3 mins; June 05, 2023
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower Had Her Own Shade Of Pink
3 mins; June 02, 2023
Rockford, Illinois Is The Birthplace Of The Sock Monkey
3 mins; June 01, 2023
The Michigan Tycoon Who Made His Descendants Wait 92 Years To Inherit His Fortune
3 mins; May 31, 2023
How Suitcases With Wheels Helped Travelers Get On A Roll
3 mins; May 30, 2023
The Arlington Ladies Remember Every Servicemember Buried At Arlington National Cemetery
3 mins; May 29, 2023
If It Had Been Up To Billie Jean King, Astronaut Sally Ride Might Have Been A Pro Tennis Player
4 mins; May 26, 2023
Hands Across America Brought Together Some Hands Across Some Of America
3 mins; May 25, 2023
Novelty Maker S.S. Adams Put The Joy In Joy Buzzers
3 mins; May 24, 2023
French President Paul Deschanel Once Fell Out Of A Moving Train
3 mins; May 23, 2023
The Legend Of Blanche Heriot, Who Saved Her Love’s Life By Keeping A Bell From Ringing
3 mins; May 22, 2023
Rock On Week: One Of Aerosmith’s Biggest Hits Happened Partly Because Of A Mel Brooks Movie
3 mins; May 19, 2023
Rock On Week: When Pat Boone Made A Heavy Metal Record
3 mins; May 18, 2023
Rock On Week: When A 19 Year Old Drummer Got Onstage With The Who
3 mins; May 17, 2023
Rock On Week: The Best Defense Against Cougars Is Metallica
3 mins; May 16, 2023
Rock On Week: Why Van Halen Said No To Brown M&Ms
3 mins; May 15, 2023
Parrots Like To Do Video Calls WIth Other Parrots
4 mins; May 12, 2023
To Drive To Minnesota’s Northwest Angle, You Have To Go Through Canada
3 mins; May 11, 2023
NASA Has Its Own Railroad
3 mins; May 10, 2023
Meet ESTHER, A Robot That Plays Wheelchair Tennis
3 mins; May 09, 2023
Guy Goma Became An Internet Expert By Accident On Live TV
3 mins; May 08, 2023
There’s A Big Metal Ball Just Hanging Out In Earth Orbit, And It’s Super Useful
3 mins; May 05, 2023
How A Farmer In Belgium Accidentally Changed The Country’s Borders
3 mins; May 04, 2023
A Game Of Twister On “The Tonight Show” Helped Make The Game A Hit
3 mins; May 03, 2023
Why People Push Peanuts Up Pikes Peak With Their Noses
3 mins; May 02, 2023
Medieval Monks Were Volcano Trackers Without Even Knowing It
3 mins; May 01, 2023
Today Is Ed Balls Day, To Which We Say “Ed Balls”
3 mins; April 28, 2023
Cliff Young Won An Ultramarathon By Running Like An “Old Turtle”
3 mins; April 27, 2023
There Were Storm Chasers Even In The 19th Century
3 mins; April 26, 2023
Kids In Canada Went On Strike Over The Price Of Candy Bars
3 mins; April 25, 2023
Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats
3 mins; April 24, 2023
When An Apollo Astronaut Had A Gas Problem On The Moon
3 mins; April 21, 2023
The 300 Club Is The Hottest - And Coldest - Club In Antarctica
3 mins; April 20, 2023
When World War II Meant No Bananas For The UK, People Made “Mock Bananas” Out Of Parsnips
3 mins; April 19, 2023
Gregory Robertson Saved An Unconscious Skydiver After A High-Speed Dive
4 mins; April 18, 2023
What Does It Take To Be Great At Underwater Hockey?
3 mins; April 17, 2023
Did A Dolphin Known As Pelorus Jack Actually Guide Ships Through The Sea?
3 mins; April 14, 2023
This Old City Bus Is Now A Traveling Sauna
3 mins; April 13, 2023
Why Do Some People Love Licorice And Other People Loathe It?
3 mins; April 12, 2023
Claire Weekes Came Up With Six Words To Help With Anxiety
3 mins; April 11, 2023
The Wilhelm Scream Is The Classic Hollywood Sound Effect You Can’t Stop Hearing
3 mins; April 10, 2023
California Miners Once Tried To Start “The Great Republic Of Rough And Ready”
3 mins; April 07, 2023
The Twinkie Has Longevity In More Ways Than One
3 mins; April 06, 2023
Carlester Smith Walked His Way Through Annapolis
3 mins; April 05, 2023
The Volleyball Game Played Over A Border Fence
3 mins; April 04, 2023
There’s A Lunchbox Museum In Columbus, Georgia
3 mins; April 03, 2023
Baseball Week: Germany Schaefer, The Baseball Player Who Stole First Base
3 mins; March 31, 2023
We Let AI Write This Show And Host Most Of It, Too
3 mins; March 31, 2023
Baseball Week: Little Leaguer Katie Brownell Once Struck Out Every Batter In An Entire Game
3 mins; March 30, 2023
Baseball Week: Satchel Paige Was So Good He Could Still Get Batters Out In His Late 50s
3 mins; March 29, 2023
Baseball Week: Baseball's First, Fightingest Umpire
3 mins; March 28, 2023
Baseball Week: Carlton Fisk’s Home Run Wave Changed TV Sports, But It Almost Didn’t Get Filmed At All
3 mins; March 27, 2023
Dad Jokes Are Good For Kids, And Here’s The Science That Says So
3 mins; March 24, 2023
Potatoes Could Help Astronauts Build “Cosmic Concrete” On Mars, Or Even Here On Earth
3 mins; March 23, 2023
For Self-Help Robots, Looks Matter
3 mins; March 22, 2023
The Air Force Once Bombed Montana
3 mins; March 21, 2023
Ulysses, Kansas, The Town That Moved A Couple Miles Down The Road
3 mins; March 20, 2023
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