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The Moon is Earth 's only natural satellite . It orbits Earth at an average distance of 384399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times Earth's diameter ). The Moon's orbital period ( lunar month ) and rotation period ( lunar day ) are synchronized by Earth's gravitational pull at 29.5 Earth days, making the same side of the Moon always face Earth. The Moon's pull on Earth is the main driver of Earth's tide...

Barack Obama , the 44th president of the United States , was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a presidential candidate in 2007. Secret Service protection for Obama began after he received a death threat in 2007, while serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois and running for president . This mar...

Frédéric Pierre Bourdin [1] (born 13 June 1974) [2] is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon". [3] He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities; [4] three being teenage missing people . [3] [5]

Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1960s. After ch...

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker  (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut  " Champion " Barrow  (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American outlaws  who traveled the Central United States  with their gang  during the Great Depression , committing a series of criminal acts such as bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders between 1932 and 1934. The couple were known for their bank robberies and...

The Cuban Missile Crisis , also known as the October Crisis  ( Spanish : Crisis de Octubre ) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis  ( Russian : Карибский кризис, romanized :  Karibskiy krizis ), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States  and the Soviet Union , when American deployments of nuclear missiles  in Italy  and Turkey  were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear...

The Office of Strategic Services  ( OSS ) was an intelligence agency  of the United States  during World War II . The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff  (JCS) [3]  to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces . Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion , and post-war planning.

2 op-eds by Ross Douthat https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/opinion/abortion-dobbs-supreme-court.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/religion-god.html

Audie Leon Murphy  (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [1]  was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II , [4]  and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history. [5] [6]  He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army , as well as French an...

" The Little Mermaid " ( Danish : Den lille havfrue ), sometimes translated in English as " The Little Sea Maid ", [1]  is a fairy tale  written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen . Originally published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children, the story follows the journey of a young mermaid princess who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a hum...

The  Battle of Cartagena de Indias  ( Spanish :  Sitio de Cartagena de Indias ,  lit.   'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1739 to 1748  War of Jenkins' Ear  between  Spain  and  Great Britain . The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war was primarily fought in the  Caribbean ; the British tried to capture key Spanish ports in the region, including  Porto Bello  an...

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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...

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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  ...