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Kennedy, Coconuts, and the Corps.
Sources:
https://www.jfklibrary.org/visit-museum/exhibits/past-exhibits/john-f-kennedy-in-wwii
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/john-f-kennedy-and-pt-109
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-jfk-kept-coconut-shell-white-house-desk-180964263/
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
https://ezmp3.cc/
The ship that sunk itself.
Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-carmania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905)
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
The most embarrassing bathroom break of WWII.
Sources:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/poop-sank-wwii-german-u-boat
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/education/educational-resources/history-of-submarines/submarine-development--a-short-history.html
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
Midnight snack anyone?
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep?xtor=CS3-32-%5BFuture_C__GNL_Q4_22-23%5D-%5BFacebook%5D-%5B23853368466520273%5D-%5B%7B%7Bcreative.id%7D%7D%5D
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
NASA: experts at space exploration, zero gravity, and broom combustion.
Sources:
https://www.iflscience.com/the-broom-test-one-of-the-stupidest-things-that-ever-took-place-at-nasa-67319
https://www.nasa.gov/content/liquid-hydrogen-the-fuel-of-choice-for-space-exploration
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
Hero or Zero? The Holiday Fruitcake.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fruitcake-101-a-concise-cultural-history-of-this-loved-and-loathed-loaf-26428035/#:~:text=The%20ancient%20Romans%20made%20a,breads%20entered%20Western%20European%20cuisine.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-misunderstood-fruitcake-has-a-magnificent-shelf-life-and-history#:~:text=Fruitcake%20is%20an%20ancient%20goody,dried%20fruit%2C%20often%20pomegranate%20seeds.
https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/
Music:
https://www.purple-planet.com
Things that go bump in the night....
Sources:
https://greydynamics.com/cia-vampires-us-meddling-in-the-philippines/
https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/cia-aswang-war-a00304-a2416-20191019-lfrm
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Moooooooo......Attack!!
Sources:
https://weavingthetapestry.tumblr.com/post/89195829575/1314-1-4-the-fall-of-roxburgh
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-AngloScottish-Wars-or-Wars-of-Scottish-Independence/#:~:text=The%20Anglo%2DScottish%20Wars%20were,the%20years%20of%201296%20%E2%80%93%201346.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/
War Games Gone M.A.D.
Sources:
https://timeline.com/proud-prophet-nuclear-strike-1d4ee88fdbe2
Can I Take Your Order?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/drive-thru-dining-history-in-n-out-burger
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/romans-loved-fast-food-much-we-do-180971845/
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Sources:
https://time.com/4731787/wojtek-the-bear-history/
Music:
Vivek Abhishek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLByBt4wYTQ
If it fits it ships....
Sources:
https://www.thoughtco.com/when-it-was-legal-mail-babies-3321266#:~:text=Yes%2C%20%22baby%20mail%22%20was,Service%20%E2%80%94%20first%20started%20delivering%20packages.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/very-special-deliveries
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mail-1992142
https://www.redbookmag.com/life/g26258673/facts-about-the-postal-service/
Music:
www.purple-planet.com
When Hitler pushed into Denmark in 1940 he felt little resistance until a group of teenage boys refused to give in.
Sources: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Peterson and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
Music: purple-planet.com
The end of an empire...
Sources:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-retail-giant-kmart-down-054545661.html
https://transformco.com/about/kmart/kmart-history
Music: purple-planet.com
A tradition unlike any other....The Masters.
Sources:
https://www.masters.com/en_US/tournament/about.html#:~:text=The%20name%20Augusta%20National%20Invitation,first%20full%20week%20in%20April.
https://www.golfmonthly.com/tour/us-masters/masters-history-records/masters-green-jacket-126753
https://golf.com/news/features/this-baltimore-man-owns-a-green-jacket-and-augusta-national-desperately-wants-it/
Music: purple-planet.com
Fortune favors the listener.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/fortune-cookies-invented-chinese-japanese
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882
Music: 'Awake' by @Sappheiros
Secret Agent Cyborg Cats....what could go wrong?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/cia-spy-cat-espionage-fail
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
Music: www.purple-planet.com
Who? What? Where?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/clue-game-origin-wwii
Music: www.purple-planet.com
There is only one place in the world that hippos can be found in the wild outside of Africa.....Pablo Escobar's house.
Sources:
https://insightcrime.org/colombia-organized-crime-news/pablo-escobar/
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/584514-pablo-escobars-80-cocaine-hippos-are-wreaking
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/538196-pablo-escobars-hippos-breeding-out-of-control-and
https://www.nathab.com/blog/six-surprising-facts-about-hippos-africa/
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/hippo-fact-sheet/
From turtle spoon to Hollywood icon, the culinary journey of the spork.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/magazine/who-made-that-spork.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/invented-spork1.htm
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/history-of-chopsticks-forks-spoons-and-sporks-who-invented-the-spoon-who-invented-the-fork
Music: www.purple-planet.com