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Ridiculous History

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Why do British lawyers wear wigs?

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2

The Wild Hippos of Pablo Escobar

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3

Ridiculous History: Trailer

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4

Ridiculous History: Episode Zero

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5

Wharram Percy Versus The Undead

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6

Who solves murders in Antarctica?

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7

How White America Tried To Destroy Chinese Restaurants

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8

When People Thought They Were Made of Glass

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9

Butter: Protestantism's Secret Ingredient?

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10

Did a real-life rainmaker almost drown San Diego?

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11

Why does the Guinness Beer Company Track World Records?

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12

When Scientists Hid Under Beds To Spy On Kids

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13

Nazis, Churchill and Chocolate

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14

Weird Wars Fought For Dumb Reasons

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15

Does the US Confederacy still exist in Americana, Brazil?

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16

The Atomic Whoops: When the US Air Force Bombed South Carolina

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17

Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet

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18

That Time the US Built a Flying Aircraft Carrier

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19

Roald Dahl: Children's Author and Secret Agent

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20

X-Rays, Songs and Soviets: The Stilyagi Story

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21

When (and why) did the US start calling its citizens consumers?

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22

Waging War With Hallucinogenic Honey

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23

The Strange Story of Canadian Margarine Bootleggers

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24

The Wild West Was Actually Pretty Chill

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25

What's the deal with two-dollar bills?

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26

Weird People Who Built Weird Things

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27

Kidnapping, Binge Drinking and Costumes: Voter Fraud in the 1800s

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28

How MLK influenced Star Trek

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29

3 Times Society Refused to Accept New Books on Science

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30

Why don't Americans use bidets?

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31

When Germany Sacrificed Sausage For War

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32

Presidents Love Their Ridiculous Pets

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33

What Happened to Ronald McDonald? Part One: Everybody Loves A Clown

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34

Baguettes and Vacation: France versus Bakers

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35

Japan, Baseball and the Curse of the Colonel

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36

What was the 'Great Stink' of London?

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37

Lawsonomy: How the Father of the Modern Airline Started His Own Religion

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38

How Farmers Built A Barbed Wire Phone Network

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39

The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold

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40

The FBI's Quest to Understand "Louie, Louie"

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41

Weird Courtship Rituals, Part One

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42

When the Puritans Canceled Christmas

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43

London Made a Train for the Dead

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44

The Rotten, Sausagey Secret Origin of Botox

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45

Vitamin Donuts Were A Real Thing

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46

The Tragic Origin Story of Morse Code

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47

Oregon Was a White Supremacist Paradise

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48

That Time People Were Terrified of Libraries

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49

Did Richard Nixon Unwittingly Smuggle Drugs for Louis Armstrong?

14 plays
50

The 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis Hosted a Racist 'Special Olympics'

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