Three minutes each weekday of cool facts, weird news and awesome discoveries with @BradyCarlson. Back us at https://xitter.cf/t.co/m3NOLANyfi
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#OTD in 1922: Ralph Baer was born. He invented home video games and a lot more; here's our show from 2019 about his life and career:
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#OTD in 1872: the first patent for a wooden roller coaster was received. Here's our 2019 show on the ups and downs of rollercoaster history:
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#OTD in 1969: Woodstock began. They asked Richie Havens to play until other acts could get to the festival. He played for three hours!
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Ian Fleming was born #OTD in 1908. The creator of James Bond once admitted that 007 was going to pass on fancy foods for one very straightforward breakfast staple:
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Looking for more #EarthDay podcasts? We've made a bunch of episodes about green tech, Earth-friendly gadgets and eco-friendly projects. Here's the whole set:
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For #EarthDay22 we talk about a skylight that can turn seawater into clean drinking water, and then power LEDs with solar energy and the leftover salt brine. bradycarlson.com/need-clean-…
#OTD in 1986, Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's vaults live on syndicated TV.
Was there much in there? Nah.
DId I watch the entire thing anyway? Yep.
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#OTD in 1962, the community of Artesia, New Mexico formally opened an unusual elementary school: it was built entirely underground just in case the Cold War turned hot.
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In the early days of phones, networks were geared toward cities. Some people in rural areas built their own networks, and connected their phones with the wire they had on hand: the ones running on top of their farm fences.
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If you have any friends that you first met as a roommate or dorm neighbor at college, this show is for you. Research from Ohio State University finds bats can become close when they’re made to live together, just like randomly chosen college roommates.
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In the 1940s and 50s, some people in the Soviet Union broke the law and produced makeshift records on old X-ray plates just to hear Western music that the government censored. These records were known as "bone music":
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#OTD in 1865, Abraham Lincoln went to Ford's Theater, and we all know how badly that ended. But five years later, William Mumler "photographed" Honest Abe's spirit comforting his widow. Here's the story of Mumler and his "spirit photography."
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Even the freshest baseballs aren't completely fresh. For decades all the balls in big league games have been treated with a grip-improving mud that's been provided by one family's company (not the mud pictured here though)
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This story is complicated so I mustache you to listen closely.
This month in 1907, waiters in Paris went on strike to demand the right to grow mustaches.
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For #NationalBoardGameDay, here's the story of how Candy Land came into the world.
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#OTD in 1975 Aerosmith released the "Toys In The Attic" album, featuring the song "Walk This Way."
By the way, that song got its name from a scene in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein."
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Happy #NationalBeerDay. In the 1960s a beer magnate tried to redesign his company's bottles so they could be stacked and turned into bricks to build inexpensive houses.
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#OTD in 1837, the birthday of Mary Patten. She became a celebrity when she came along on a shipping trip led by her husband and ended up in _charge_ of the ship.
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When people can't get to a library, librarians bring the library to them.
During the Great Depression, librarians on horseback brought saddlebags full of books and magazines to people in remote parts of eastern Kentucky.
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Emergency sirens are supposed to be loud enough to get everyone's attention.
One siren from the Cold War era was so loud it could even turn fog into rain.
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