Donald Crowhurst Faked a Race Around the World
Sailing around the world is a dangerous proposition, even in the modern day — now imagine doing it by yourself in the 1960s! That's what underdog Donald Crowhurst claimed to do... except he made the w...
13 Mar 202035min
Calvin Coolidge Skipped Town and Went Fishing for Three Months (While He was President)
Widely known as a taciturn man who liked public gatherings even less than he liked people, Calvin Coolidge was often ridiculed by the press -- reporters regularly followed his movements in hopes of ga...
11 Mar 202036min
The Presidential Dinner That Scandalized America
Breaking bread with your fellow humans has long been acknowledged as fantastic, wholesome way to bond with people outside of social conventions, economic status and so on -- but when Teddy Roosevelt i...
5 Mar 202031min
Was the Lone Ranger Inspired by a Black U.S. Marshall?
Bass Reeves was a larger than life figure -- a man who escaped slavery, taught himself multiple Native American languages, and eventually became one of the most well-known deputy US Marshalls in the e...
4 Mar 202041min
Night Soil Men Were the Unsung Heroes of Urban Sanitation
While city life has its charms, it's not without its problems -- and some of those problems are real stinkers. In the days before widespread sewage systems, urban centers across the world struggled to...
27 Feb 202049min
The Tiny Spanish Town That Went To War With France For 100 Years
Located two hours' drive inland along a winding potholed road from Almeria on Spain's southeastern Mediterranean coast, the small town of Lijar, Spain is notoriously difficult to find. Yet the town's ...
26 Feb 202033min
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 2
The California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s did more than just move hundreds of thousands of people across the continent -- it also convinced these people that they, too, could strike it rich. This opti...
20 Feb 202021min
The Great Diamond Hoax - Part 1
The California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s did more than just move hundreds of thousands of people across the continent -- it also convinced these people that they, too, could strike it rich. This opti...
19 Feb 202034min
