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Jenkem  is an  inhalant  and  hallucinogen  created from fermented  human waste . [1]  In the mid-1990s, it was reported to be a popular  street drug  among  Zambian  street children. They would reportedly put the feces and urine in a jar or a bucket and seal it with a balloon or lid respectively, then leave it out to ferment in the sun; afterwards they would inhale the fumes created. [2] [3] [4]...

Walter Jackson Freeman II  (November 14, 1895 – May 31, 1972) was an American physician who specialized in  lobotomy . [1]

This episode is about is a list of serious injuries and deaths  in which one or more subjects of a  selfie  were killed or injured, either before, during or after having taken a photo of themselves, with the accident at least in part attributed to the taking of the photo.

Uranus  (from the Latin name  Ūranus  for the Greek god  Οὐρανός ) is the seventh  planet  from the  Sun . It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the  Solar System . Uranus is similar in composition to  Neptune , and both have bulk chemical compositions which differ from that of the larger  gas giants   Jupiter  and  Saturn . For this reason, scientists ofte...

Pedro Rodrigues Filho  (born July 17, 1954 in  Santa Rita do Sapucaí ,  Minas Gerais ), also known as  Pedrinho Matador (Killer Petey) , is a  Brazilian   serial killer  who pursued and killed other criminals. His victims included 47 people who were murdered inside the very jails he was imprisoned in. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a...

The  Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition  (Spanish:  Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición ), commonly known as the  Spanish Inquisition  ( Inquisición española ), was established in 1478 by  Catholic Monarchs   Ferdinand II of Aragon  and  Isabella I of Castile . It was intended to maintain  Catholic  orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the  Medieval Inquisition , which wa...

The observance of  Christmas  around the world varies by country. The day of Christmas, and in some cases  the day before  and  the day after , are recognized by many national governments and cultures worldwide, including in areas where  Christianity is a minority  religion. In some non-Christian areas, periods of former colonial rule introduced the celebration (e.g.  Hong Kong ); in others, Chris...

Castration  (also known as  orchiectomy ) is any action,  surgical ,  chemical , or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the  testicles : the male  gonad . Surgical castration is bilateral  orchidectomy  (excision of both testes), and  chemical castration  uses  pharmaceutical drugs  to deactivate the testes. Castration causes  sterilization  (preventing the castrated person or animal fr...

James Riddle Hoffa  (born February 14, 1913; disappeared July 30, 1975, later  declared dead  July 30, 1982) was an American  labor union  leader who served as the President of the  International Brotherhood of Teamsters  (IBT) union from 1957 until 1971.   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 p...

John David McAfee  ( / ˈ m æ k ə f iː /   MAK-ə-fee ; [1] [2]  born September 18, 1945) is a British-American computer programmer and businessman. He founded the software company  McAfee Associates  in 1987 and ran it until 1994, when he resigned from the company. McAfee Associates achieved early success as the creators of McAfee, the first commercial  antivirus software , and the business now pro...

In the early hours of 31 August 1997,  Diana, Princess of Wales  died in hospital after being injured in a car crash in a road tunnel in  Paris , France. Her partner,  Dodi Fayed , and their driver,  Henri Paul , were pronounced dead at the scene. Their bodyguard,  Trevor Rees-Jones , survived serious injuries. --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support...

William Penn Patrick  (March 31, 1930 – June 9, 1973) was an  American  entrepreneur and businessman. He was the owner of  Holiday Magic ,  Leadership Dynamics , and  Mind Dynamics . Patrick was a proponent of the  sour grapes  philosophy, and has been widely quoted as stating: "Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it." [4] Our theme song was written and pe...

This  list of confidence tricks and scams  should not be considered complete, but covers the most common examples.  Confidence tricks  and scams are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark". Part...

USS  Indianapolis  (CL/CA-35)  was a  Portland -class   heavy cruiser  of the  United States Navy , named for the city of  Indianapolis, Indiana . Launched in 1931, the vessel served as the  flagship  for the commander of  Scouting Force 1  for eight years, then as flagship for  Admiral   Raymond Spruance  in 1943 and 1944 while he commanded the  Fifth Fleet  in battles across the  Central Pacific...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt  ( / ˈ r oʊ z ə v əl t / , [1]   /- v ɛ l t / ; [2]  January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by the initials  FDR , was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd  president of the United States  from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the  Democratic Party , he won a record four  presidential elections  and became a central fig...

he  Battle of the Crater  was a battle of the  American Civil War , part of the  Siege of Petersburg . It took place on July 30, 1864, between the  Confederate   Army of Northern Virginia , commanded by  General   Robert E. Lee , and the  Union   Army of the Potomac , commanded by  Maj. Gen.   George G. Meade  (under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief,  Lt. Gen.   Ulysses S. Grant ). -...

Coney Island  is a residential and commercial  neighborhood  and entertainment area in the southwestern part of the  borough  of  Brooklyn  in  New York City . The neighborhood is bounded by  Sea Gate  to its west,  Brighton Beach  and  Manhattan Beach  to its east,  Lower New York Bay  to the south, and  Gravesend  to the north. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the  Outer Barrier  isl...

On this week's episode, we discuss several failed publicity stunts, like the one in "Crush, Texas." Crush, Texas  was a temporary "city" established as the site of a one-day  publicity stunt  in the U.S. state of  Texas  in 1896. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the  Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad  (popularly known as the "Katy", from its "Em-Kay-Tee" initials), conceived the idea...

Enron Corporation  was an  American   energy ,  commodities , and services company based in  Houston ,  Texas . It was founded in 1985 as a merger between  Houston Natural Gas  and  InterNorth , both relatively small regional companies. Before its bankruptcy on December 3, 2001, Enron employed approximately 29,000 staff and was a major  electricity ,  natural gas , communications and  pulp and pap...

There is no way to summarize this episode. --- 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  Voyager program  is an American scientific program that employs two  robotic   probes ,  Voyager 1  and  Voyager 2 , to study the outer  Solar System . [1]  The probes were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of  Jupiter ,  Saturn ,  Uranus  and  Neptune . Although their original mission was to study only the planetary systems of Jupiter and Saturn,  Voyager 2  continu...

There are many  conspiracy theories  that attribute the planning and execution of the  September 11 attacks  against the  United States  to parties other than, or in addition to,  al-Qaeda [1]  including that there was  advance knowledge of the attacks  among high-level government officials. Government investigations and independent reviews have rejected these theories. [2] [3]  Proponents of thes...

Vlad III Dracula , known as  Vlad the Impaler  ( Romanian :  Vlad Țepeș ,  Bulgarian :  Влад Цепеш ,  pronunciation:  [ ˈ v l a d   ˈ ts e p e ʃ ]  ) or  Vlad Dracula  ( / ˈ d r æ k j ə l ə / ( Romanian :  Vlad Drăculea ,  pronunciation:  [ ˈ d r ə k u l e̯a ]  ,  Bulgarian :  Влад Дракула ); 1428/31 – 1476/77), was  Voivode of  Wallachia  three times between 1448 and his death. He is often consid...

The  Bhopal disaster , also referred to as the  Bhopal gas tragedy , was a  gas leak  incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the  Union Carbide India Limited  (UCIL)  pesticide  plant in  Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered to be  the world's worst   industrial disaster . [1] [2]  Over 500,000 people were exposed to  methyl isocyanate (MIC)  gas. The highly toxic substance made...

Washington Irving Bishop , also known as  Wellington  (4 March 1855 – 13 May 1889) was an  American  stage  mentalist . He started his career as an assistant under the  muscle reader   J. Randall Brown , but was most well known for his performance of the  blindfold drive . [1]