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A common misconception is a viewpoint or  factoid  that is often accepted as true in current times. They often arise from  conventional wisdom  (such as  old wives' tales ),  stereotypes , a misunderstanding of science, or popularisation of  pseudoscience . Some common misconceptions are also considered to be  urban legends , and they are often involved in  moral panics . Our theme song was writte...

Jeffrey Stephen Wigand  ( / ˈ w aɪ ɡ æ n d / ; born December 17, 1942) is an American  biochemist  and  whistleblower . He is a former  vice president  of  research and development  at  Brown & Williamson  in  Louisville, Kentucky , who worked on the development of reduced-harm  cigarettes  and in 1996 blew the whistle on  tobacco  tampering at the company. This was adapted for 1999 film  The Insi...

A  cigarette  is a narrow cylinder containing burnable material, typically  tobacco , that is rolled into  thin paper  for  smoking . The cigarette is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder; the resulting smoke is orally inhaled via the opposite end. Cigarette smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption. Manufacturers have described the cigarette as "a drug administration system fo...

Frank William Dux  (   / ˈ dj uː k s / ; born April 6, 1956) is a Canadian-American  martial artist  and  fight choreographer . According to Dux, a  ninjutsu expert named Senzo Tanaka trained him as a ninja when he was a teenager. He established his own school of ninjutsu called Dux Ryu Ninjutsu, and has said he won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. He was all the way lyi...

On October 14, 2004,  Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701  ( ICAO : FLG3701,  IATA : 9E3701, or Flagship 3701) crashed near  Jefferson City ,  Missouri , United States, while flying from  Little Rock National Airport  in  Little Rock ,  Arkansas , United States, to  Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport  in  Minnesota , United States. Flight 3701 was a  repositioning flight  with no passengers ab...

Pankration  ( / p æ n ˈ k r eɪ t i ɒ n ,   - ˈ k r eɪ ʃ ən / ;  Greek :  παγκράτιον ) was a sporting event introduced into the  Greek   Olympic Games  in 648 BC, which was an empty-hand submission sport with few rules. The athletes used  boxing  and  wrestling  techniques, but also others, such as kicking, holds, joint-locks, and chokes on the ground, making it similar to modern  mixed martial art...

The  Bone Wars , also known as the  Great Dinosaur Rush , [1]  was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive  fossil hunting  and discovery during the  Gilded Age  of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between  Edward Drinker Cope  (of the  Academy of Natural Sciences  of  Philadelphia ) and  Othniel Charles Marsh  (of the  Peabody Museum of Natural History  at  Yale ). Each of the...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen  ( German:  [ˈmanfreːt fɔn ˈʁɪçthoːfn̩] ; 2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), known in English as  Baron von Richthofen  or the  Red Baron , was a  fighter pilot  with the  German Air Force  during  World War I . He is considered the  ace-of-aces  of the war, being officially credited with 80  air combat  victories. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna...

Pornhub  is a Canadian-owned  internet pornography  website. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by  Mindgeek . [4] [5]  As of June 2020, Pornhub is the 10th most trafficked website in the world and the third most-trafficked adult website after  XVideos  and  XNXX . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per epi...

Animal sexual behaviour  takes many different forms, including within the same  species . Common  mating  or  reproductively  motivated systems include  monogamy ,  polygyny ,  polyandry ,  polygamy  and  promiscuity . Other sexual behaviour may be reproductively motivated (e.g.  sex apparently due to duress or coercion  and  situational sexual behaviour ) or  non-reproductively motivated  (e.g. ...

Ruth Brown Snyder  (March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American  murderer . Her  execution  in the  electric chair  at  New York 's  Sing Sing Prison  in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a well-publicized photograph.

A number of television shows have been judged the worst by both critics and audiences alike. This week, we'll discuss several of them. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our website for more details.

Sometimes Popes suck. Pretty much all the time, actually. But some Popes suck more, and that's what we're talking about this week. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our website for more details.  

The  Brooklyn Bridge  is a hybrid  cable-stayed / suspension bridge  in  New York City , spanning the  East River  between the boroughs of  Manhattan  and  Brooklyn . Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It was also the  longest suspension bridge in the world  at the time of its opening, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 12...

John "Mad Jack" Mytton  (30 September 1796 – 29 March 1834) was a British  eccentric  and  rake  of the  Regency period  who was briefly a  Tory  Member of Parliament.

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth  (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was an American writer and prominent socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president  Theodore Roosevelt  and the only child he had with his first wife,  Alice Hathaway Lee . Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative  Nicholas Longworth III , a  Republican Party  leader and 38t...

Since 1850, more than 5,000 people have gone over  Niagara Falls , either intentionally (as stunts or  suicide attempts ) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher  Annie Edson Taylor , who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 121 years, thousands of people have been swept over the falls but only sixteen...

Benjamin Franklin   FRS   FRSA   FRSE  (January 17, 1706 [ O.S.  January 6, 1706] [Note 1]  – April 17, 1790) was an American  polymath  who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. [1]  Among the leading  intellectuals  of his time, Franklin was one of the  Founding Fathers of the United States , a  drafter  and signer of the ...

The  New England vampire panic  was the reaction to an outbreak of  tuberculosis  in the 19th century throughout  Rhode Island , eastern  Connecticut , southern  Massachusetts ,  Vermont , and other areas of the  New England  states. [1]  Consumption ( tuberculosis ) was thought to be caused by the deceased consuming the life of their surviving relatives. [2]  Bodies were exhumed and internal orga...

Coleco Industries, Inc.  was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as  The Connecticut Leather Company . [3] [4]  It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of  Cabbage Patch Kids  dolls and its  video game consoles , the  Coleco Telstar  dedicated consoles and  ColecoVision . [5] [6] [7]  While the company disappeared in 1988 as...

This list contains names of people who were found guilty of  capital crimes  and placed on  death row , and were later found to be  wrongly convicted . Some people were  exonerated  posthumously. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our website for more details.

Insane Beauty Treatments are a thing that doesn't have a Wikipedia page. Sorry. Normally we just do a quick and easy copy/paste for this, but that only works when we stay inside the format of the show. So ... how are things with you? We never talk about you. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon...

USS  William D. Porter  (DD-579) , a  Fletcher -class   destroyer , was a ship of the  United States Navy  named for Commodore  William D. Porter (1808–1864).  William D. Porter  was laid down on 7 May 1942 at  Orange ,  Texas ,  United States , by the  Consolidated Steel Corporation ;  launched  on 27 September 1942, sponsored by Miss Mary Elizabeth Reeder; and  commissioned  on 6 July 1943, Lieu...

A nuclear close call is an incident that could have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation or explosion. These incidents typically involve a perceived imminent threat to a  nuclear-armed country  which could lead to retaliatory strikes against the perceived aggressor. The damage caused by international nuclear exchange is not necessarily limited to the participating countries, as the hy...

Whether condoms were used in ancient civilizations is debated by archaeologists and historians. [101] : 11   In ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, pregnancy prevention was generally seen as a woman's responsibility, and the only well documented contraception methods were female-controlled devices. [101] : 17, 23   In Asia before the 15th century, some use of  glans  condoms (devices covering only th...