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This week we learn about Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise and Air Force One petty theft. A listener email clarifies what the Grishaverse actually is.Episode Tabs:Jonathan the Tortoisehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-oldest-living-land-animal-a-tortoise-named-jonathan-turns-191-180983392/The Real D.C. Crime Wavehttps://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2024/03/28/the-real-d-c-crime-wave-00149591Listener Tabs:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1kSMBcqUyd5Qk_Qj13siJD_NGD3tnnah8rPxd7L7J6bQ/htmlviewhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_MontferrandEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comSupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we learn about the 1976 Tehran UFO Incident and the father of the modern time capsule. A listener email fetes a disgusting historical figure.Episode Tabs:1976 Tehran UFO incidenthttp://www.iiaf.net/tehran-dogfight-incident/The Crypt of Civilizationhttps://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/crypt-of-civilization/Listener Tabs:https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Man_takes_armoured_vehicle_on_rampage_through_Western_Sydneyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TarrareEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comSupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/500OpenTabs500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Continue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we learn about horrific ant genuses and how the film industry was born out of everyone hating Thomas Edison. A listener email answers the age old question of "how long do pig orgasms last?"Episode Tabs:These ants decorate their homes with the heads of their enemieshttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ants-head-hunters-attack-trap-jaw-enemies-nestsThomas Edison: The Unintentional Founder of Hollywoodhttps://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/03/thomas-edison-the-unintentional-founder-of-hollywoodListener Tabs:https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/100659-longest-orgasm-in-mammalshttps://nypost.com/2022/07/18/phrogging-hider-in-my-house-stranger-secretly-lived-with-us/NEW: 500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we learn about Louis Le Prince, the REAL inventor of the motion picture camera and the origins of the color Grue. A listener email inspires a high end horse jacket clothing line.Episode Tabs:Who Killed Louis Le Prince? On the forgotten father of filmhttps://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/who-killed-louis-le-prince-on-the-forgotten-father-of-film/No one could describe the color blue until modern timeshttps://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2Listener Tabs:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/855685.Fly_Away_Home#CommunityReviewshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159116302192?via%3DihubNEW: 500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we discuss Roar, one of the most unsafe movies ever made and the Nintendo Power Hotline. A listener email reveals all the animals in elected office.Episode Tabs:Hollywood's real Tiger King: Insane big cat movie Roar getting VOD rereleasehttps://ew.com/movies/roar-movie-vod/Inside The Nintendo Power Hotlinehttps://www.gameinformer.com/2022/02/22/inside-the-nintendo-power-hotlineListener Tabs:https://a-z-animals.com/blog/top-9-animals-elected-to-office-in-the-united-states/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartmentsNEW: 500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we discuss the origins of the Michelin Man and a first hand account of Vikings from 922. A listener email answers the question of why we don't see Pandas in toilet paper ads.Episode Tabs:Allied Forces on D-Day Used a Popular Tourist Guide to Help Liberate Francehttps://www.military.com/history/allied-forces-d-day-used-popular-tourist-guide-help-liberate-france.html“The Rus” (An Arab among the Vikings)https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/12938.ch01.pdfListener Tabs:https://youtu.be/aQthclI55Rk?si=Bw8xdEs8K-Ikbb0jhttps://youtu.be/4eJxAhhMiCk?si=xDb9O4IkpDOjEwrLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Alley_(TV_series)?wprov=sfti1NEW: 500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we have our first ever special guest, 500 Tabs' very own editor and friend Alyssa Cooper! We discuss a mountain murder mystery, the importance of March 27th, and sharks on a golf course. A listener email taps into some of our most primal fears.Episode Tabs:Ghosts on the Glacierhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/09/world/americas/aconcagua-mountain-expedition-photos.htmlThe Wikipedia entry for the day of March 27https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27Six bull sharks inadvertently made their home on an Australian golf course. Then they vanishedhttps://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/sport/carbrook-bull-sharks-australia-golf-course-spt-spc-intl/index.htmlListener Tabs:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-acre-spider-web_n_6095724Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we discuss insane mental health practices of the 1940s and the NBA's golden horse, Nikola Jokić. A listener email disgusts Kaveh.Episode Tabs:Mother’s Little Helper: Vintage Drug Adshttps://www.goretro.com/2014/08/mothers-little-helper-vintage-drug-ads.htmlHow Nikola Jokić Became The World’s Best Basketball Playerhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/how-nikola-jokic-became-the-worlds-best-basketball-playerListener Tabs:https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_%27Em_DryEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we discuss the trial of alleged werewolf Peter Stump and folk etymology. A listener email reveals how McDonalds tried to buy their way into fandom.Episode Tabs:Confessions of a Werewolf: The Trial of Peter Stumphttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/a-german-werewolfs-confessions-horrified-1500s-europeWhat the Folk?https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-folk-the-charming-yet-totally-malappropriate-story-of-words/Listener Tabs:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solvedhttps://kotaku.com/mcdonalds-grimace-wiki-ad-happy-meal-fandom-history-1850552640Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we discuss people who live at airports and panda diplomacy. A listener email reveals how rabbits frankly don't give a damn.Episode Tabs:Terminal Dwellershttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_lived_in_airportsA Chinese cigarette tin launched D.C.’s 50-year love affair with pandashttps://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/16/pandas-china-nixon-dc/Listener Tabs:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film)https://historianandrew.medium.com/how-bugs-bunny-and-clark-gable-created-false-belief-that-rabbits-like-eating-carrots-65d25059b7d0Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week Kaveh concludes the Katamari style horrors of the Johnstown flood and Hannah shares how the Europeans had their own American Idol but for letters of the alphabet instead of singers. A listener email reveals if a childhood memory was in fact cake, and how it exploded.Correction: the Phoenician alphabet comes after the Proto-Sinaitic script and before the Greek alphabet Episode Tabs:The Johnstown Flood pt. 2https://www.geoinstitute.org/news/johnstown-flood-1889-catastrophe-civil-engineering-part-1The Forgotten Letters of the English Alphabethttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt-make-alphabetListener Tabs:https://www.teachertube.com/videos/physical-science-for-children-all-about-forces-and-gravity-349164https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-jobEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we return to Niʻihau for an insane adventure that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor and learn about the Johnstown Flood and how dams are just like us and also like candy. A listener email finally puts the debate about white chocolate to rest.Episode Tabs:The Niihau Incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incidentThis Dam Break Was One of the Worst Man Made Disasters in American History. It Could Have Been Prevented.https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42384940/johnstown-flood/Listener Tabs:https://askinosie.com/blogs/the-nib/is-white-chocolate-really-chocolatehttps://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-jobEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week we discuss a forbidden Hawaiian island and Jesus's definitely legitimate final resting place in northern Japan. Also a listener clues us into the little discussed Eternal Riverdale phenomenon.Episode Tabs:Ni’ihau Islandhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/niihauThe Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japanhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/Listener Tabs:Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)nps.govhttps://www.netflix.com/title/80133311Email your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On today's episode, third time’s the charm as we talk about liars and impostors from Victorian England to modern day crypto scammers. The centuries may change but the hustle never does.Episode Tabs:Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identityhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/crypto-hedge-fund-ceo-may-not-exist-probe-finds-no-record-of-identity/Princess Caraboohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_CarabooListener Tabs:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramada_Plaza_JFK_Hotelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/podcasts/the-daily/the-year-of-taylor-swift.htmlEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.TV/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this stomach-churning episode, we blast into the rotting, juicy worlds of Phossy Jaw and Exploding Whales.Episode Tabs:Phossy Jawhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jawHow do you get rid of a beached whale before it explodes?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/how-do-you-get-rid-of-a-beached-whale-before-it-explodesListener Tabs:https://punchdrink.com/articles/tiki-bar-design/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disasterEmail your closed tab submissions to: 500opentabs@gmail.comContinue the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to nebula.TV/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.