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Three op-eds by billionaires. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/ https://about.fb.com/news/2020/02/big-tech-needs-more-regulation/ https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105

A ghost ship , also known as a phantom ship , is a vessel  with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly  vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman , or a physical derelict  found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste . [1] [2]  The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissioned  but not yet scrapped , as well as drifting boats that have been found after...

The Bonus Army  was a group of 43,000 demonstrators  – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement  in World War I , their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. , in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Fo...

Tom cleans out his unrelated chrome tabs on interesting wikipedia articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing https://woodcarvingillustrated.com/deep-sea-jack-o-lanterns/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight

So we actually recorded this last week on Monday so one of the last paragraphs of the episode has outdated info in it. The Pizzagate guy was killed by police during a traffic stop after allegedly pulling out a gun and pointing it at police. This incident happened 4 days after we recorded this episode. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/g-s1-42040/pizzagate-gunman-killed-police-north-carolina " Pizzaga...

Pythagoras of Samos [a]  ( Ancient Greek : Πυθαγόρας; c.  570 – c. 495 BC) [b] , often known mononymously  as Pythagoras , was an ancient Ionian   Greek philosopher , polymath , and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism . His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia  and influenced the philosophies of Plato , Aristotle , and, through them, the West  in general. Knowledg...

This episode was inspired by our tall tales episode. We each take a crack a writing another host's fictional bio. This was supposed to be a Christmas Episode but was delayed.

The  Holy Prepuce , or  Holy Foreskin  ( Latin   præputium  or  prepucium ), is one of several  relics attributed to Jesus , consisting of the  foreskin  removed during the  circumcision of Jesus . At various points in history, a number of churches in Europe have claimed to possess the Prepuce, sometimes at the same time. Various  miraculous powers have been ascribed to it.

Two mean reviews. One from the Sydney Morning Herald on Coco Roco...and the other from the New York Times on Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.

Pong  is a  table tennis –themed  twitch  arcade  sports video game , featuring simple  two-dimensional graphics , manufactured by  Atari  and originally released on 29 November 1972. It is one of the earliest  arcade video games ; it was created by  Allan Alcorn  as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder  Nolan Bushnell , but Bushnell and Atari co-founder  Ted Dabney  were surpri...

Competitive eating , or  speed eating , is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time period. Contests are typically eight to ten minutes long, although some competitions can last up to thirty minutes, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner. Competitive eating is most popular in the  United States , ...

The earliest known version of the tale is found in the French  narrative Perceforest , written between 1330 and 1344. [7]  Another was the Catalan  poem Frayre de Joy e Sor de Paser . [8]   Giambattista Basile  wrote another, " Sun, Moon, and Talia " for his collection Pentamerone , published posthumously in 1634–36 [9]  and adapted by Charles Perrault  in Histoires ou contes du temps passé  in 16...

Essex  was an American whaling ship  from Nantucket , Massachusetts , which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean  under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr. , the ship was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale . About 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) from the coast of South America, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in three whaleboats  ...

Carlos Henrique Raposo  (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser , is a Brazilian con artist  and former footballer  who played as a striker .[ citation needed ] Although his abilities were far short of professional standard, he managed to sign for numerous teams during his decade-long career. He never actually played a regular game, the closest occurrence ending in a red card  whilst...

A patent  is a type of intellectual property  that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention  for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure  of the invention. [1]  In most countries, patent rights fall under private law  and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent  in order to enforce their rights...

For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law.

Richard Dawkins   FRS   FRSL  (born 26 March 1941) [ 3 ]  is a British  evolutionary biologist ,  zoologist ,  science communicator  and author. [ 4 ]  He is an  emeritus fellow  of  New College, Oxford , and was  Professor for Public Understanding of Science  in the  University of Oxford  from 1995 to 2008. His 1976 book  The Selfish Gene  popularised the  gene-centred view of evolution , as well...

A siege engine  is a weapon  used to destroy fortifications  such as defensive walls , castles , bunkers  and fortified gateways .   A fortification  (also called a fort , fortress , fastness , or stronghold ) is a military   construction  designed for the defense of territories in warfare , and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin   fortis  ("stro...

The legend dates back to the Middle Ages . The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicoloured (" pied ") clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away [1]  with his magic pipe . When the citizens refused to pay for this service as promised, he retaliated by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This versi...

Project 57  was an open-air nuclear test conducted by the United States at the  Nellis Air Force Range  in 1957, [ 1 ] [ 2 ]  following  Operation Redwing , and preceding  Operation Plumbbob . The test area, also known as  Area 13 , was a 10 miles (16 km) by 16 miles (26 km) block of land abutting the northeast boundary of the  Nevada National Security Site . [ 3 ]

Sun Wukong  ( Chinese : 孫悟空, Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n ûkʰʊ́ŋ] ), also known as the Monkey King , is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West . [1]  In the novel, Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist  practices. After rebelling against heaven, he is impr...

Bollea v. Gawker  was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit  in Pinellas County , Florida , delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016. In the suit, Terry Gene Bollea, known professionally as Hulk Hogan , sued Gawker Media , publisher of the Gawker  website, and several Gawker employees and Gawker-affiliated entities [2]  for posting portions of a sex tape  of Boll...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake   A handshake  is a globally widespread, brief greeting  or parting tradition  in which two people grasp one of each other's hands, and in most cases, it is accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures. Different cultures may be more or less likely to shake hands, or there may be di...

The  1967 NFL Championship Game  was the 35th  NFL championship , played on December 31 at  Lambeau Field  in  Green Bay, Wisconsin . [ 1 ] Because of the adverse conditions in which the game was played, the rivalry between the two teams, and the game's dramatic climax, it has been immortalized as the  Ice Bowl and is considered one of the greatest games in NFL history. NFL 100 Greatest Games rank...

Colton Harris Moore  (born March 22, 1991) [10]  is an American former fugitive . He was charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including several small aircraft, boats, and multiple cars, all committed while still a teenager.