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This list consists of albums or songs that have been considered the worst music ever made by various combinations of music critics, television broadcasters (such as MTV and VH1), radio stations, composers, and public polls. 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 w...

The  United States invasion of Grenada  began at dawn on 25 October 1983. The U.S. and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of  Grenada , 100 miles (160 km) north of  Venezuela . Codenamed  Operation Urgent Fury  by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [9]  It was triggered by the strife within the  People's Revolutionary Government  wh...

James Arthur Hogue  (born October 22, 1959) is an American  impostor  who most famously entered  Princeton University  by posing as a  self-taught   orphan . 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.

Kennedy scored major victories when he won both the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his supporters shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a  ballroom  at  The Ambassador Hotel  in  Los Angeles . [287]  Leaving the ballroom, he went through the hotel kitchen after being told it was a shortcut to a press room. [288]  He did this despite being advised by his bodyguar...

Carl Ethan Akeley  (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American  taxidermist , sculptor,  biologist ,  conservationist , inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American  museums , most notably to the  Milwaukee Public Museum ,  Field Museum of Natural History  and the  American Museum of Natural History . He is considered the father of modern  taxidermy ....

Unusual foods are foods that some people would consider unusual. Sorry... sometimes the title does all the heavy lifting. --- 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  1947 Texas City disaster  was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the  Port of Texas City , Texas, at  Galveston Bay . It was the deadliest industrial accident in United States history and one of history's  largest non-nuclear explosions . A mid-morning fire started on board the French-registered vessel SS  Grandcamp  (docked in the port) and detonated her cargo of abou...

Robert Philip Hanssen  (born April 18, 1944) is an American former  Federal Bureau of Investigation  (FBI)  double agent  who spied for  Soviet  and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1976 to 2001. His  espionage  was described by the  Department of Justice  as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." [3]  Hanssen is currently serving 15 consecutive  li...

The Free Town Project was a project that sought to move to a very small town and advocate for legal changes there. Two towns were involved:  Grafton, New Hampshire  and  Mentone, Texas . It was active in Grafton from 2004 to sometime in 2016. [58]  Grafton's appeal as a favorable destination was due to its absence of zoning laws and a very low property tax rate. [59]  Additionally, John Babiarz li...

The  Zimmermann Telegram  (or  Zimmermann Note  or  Zimmerman Cable ) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the  German Foreign Office  in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between  Germany  and  Mexico  if the  United States  entered  World War I  against Germany. Mexico  would recover   Texas ,  Arizona , and  New Mexico . The telegram was intercepted and decoded by  Bri...

The  Suez Canal  ( Arabic :  قَنَاةُ السُّوَيْسِ ‎,  Qanātu s-Suways ) is an artificial  sea-level   waterway  in  Egypt , connecting the  Mediterranean Sea  to the  Red Sea  through the  Isthmus of Suez  and dividing Africa and Asia. In 1858,  Ferdinand de Lesseps  formed the  Suez Canal Company  for the express purpose of building the  canal . Construction of the canal lasted from 1859 to 1869 a...

Louis Jay Pearlman  (June 19, 1954 – August 19, 2016) was an  American   record producer . He was the creator of successful 1990s  boy bands  such as  Backstreet Boys  and  NSYNC . In 2006, he was accused of running one of the largest and longest-running  Ponzi schemes  in US history, leaving more than $300 million in debts. After being apprehended, he pled guilty to  conspiracy ,  money launderin...

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin   [a]  (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and  cosmonaut  who became the first human to journey into  outer space , achieving a major milestone in the  Space Race ; his capsule,  Vostok 1 , completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including  Hero of the Soviet Union , hi...

" The Death of Superman " is a  crossover  story event featured in  DC Comics '  Superman -related publications. The crossover, which originated from editor  Mike Carlin  and writers  Dan Jurgens ,  Roger Stern ,  Louise Simonson ,  Jerry Ordway , and  Karl Kesel , began in December 1992 and lasted until October 1993. It was published in  Superman ,  Action Comics ,  The Adventures of Superman , ...

Vantablack  is a material developed by Surrey NanoSystems in the  United Kingdom  and is one of the  darkest  substances known,  absorbing  up to 99.965% of visible light (at 663 nm if the light is perpendicular to the material). [4] [5]

Caligula  ( / k ə ˈ l ɪ ɡ j ʊ l ə / ; 31 August 12 – 24 January 41 AD), formally known as  Gaius  ( Gaius  Caesar Augustus Germanicus), was the third  Roman emperor , ruling from 37 to 41. The son of the popular Roman general  Germanicus  and  Augustus 's granddaughter  Agrippina the Elder , Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the  Roman Empire , conventionally known as the  Julio-Cl...

Tetris  (Russian:  Тетрис   [ˈtɛtrʲɪs] ) is a  tile-matching video game  created by Russian software engineer  Alexey Pajitnov  in 1984. It has been published by several companies, most prominently during a dispute over the appropriation of the rights in the late 1980s. After a significant period of publication by  Nintendo , the rights reverted to Pajitnov in 1996, who co-founded  The Tetris Comp...

The  Great Famine  ( Irish :  an Gorta Mór   [anˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ] ), also known as the  Great Hunger , the  Great Starvation , the  Famine  (mostly within Ireland) or the  Irish Potato Famine  (mostly outside Ireland), [1] [2]  was a period of mass  starvation  and disease in  Ireland  from 1845 to 1852. [3]  With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the  Iri...

In  psychology , a  false memory  is a phenomenon where someone  recalls  something that did not happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened.  Suggestibility , activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation, and  source misattribution  have been suggested to be several mechanisms underlying a variety of types of false memory phenomena.

Joseph Frank Keaton  (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), [1]  known professionally as  Buster Keaton , was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. [2]  He is best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic,  deadpan  expression that earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". [3] [4]  Criti...

Harriet Tubman  (born  Araminta Ross ,  c.  March 1822 [1]  – March 10, 1913) was an American  abolitionist  and political activist. Born into  slavery , Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, [2]  using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the  Underground Railroad . During the  Ameri...

Washington's Birthday  is a  federal holiday in the United States  celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of  George Washington , the first  president of the United States , who was born on February 22, 1732. The  Uniform Monday Holiday Act  of 1971 moved this holiday to the third Monday, which can fall from February 15 to 21, inclusive. [1] Colloquially, the day is also now widely kn...

Cannabis  ( / ˈ k æ n ə b ɪ s / ) [2]  is a  genus  of  flowering plants  in the family  Cannabaceae . The number of species within the genus is disputed. Three species may be recognized:  Cannabis sativa ,  Cannabis indica , and  Cannabis ruderalis ;  C. ruderalis  may be included within  C. sativa ; all three may be treated as subspecies of a single species,  C. sativa ; [1] [3] [4] [5]  or  C. ...

The  Antwerp diamond heist , dubbed the "heist of the century", [1]  was by far the largest diamond heist and one of the largest robberies in history. Thieves stole loose diamonds, gold, silver and other types of jewelry valued at more than $100 million. [2] [3]  It took place in  Antwerp , Belgium, during the weekend of 15–16 February 2003. Though arrests were made and time was served, most of th...

The  Burke and Wills expedition  was organised by the  Royal Society of Victoria  in Australia in 1860–61. It consisted of 19 men led by  Robert O'Hara Burke  and  William John Wills , with the objective of crossing Australia from  Melbourne  in the south, to the  Gulf of Carpentaria  in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles). [1]  At that time most of the inl...