Michael tries to get us in on the ground floor for a very exciting investment opportunity.
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Tornadoes
Unusual Units of Measurement
Blake discovers a firkin’s worth of strange and obscure measurements which will fascinate you for fortnights while increasing your microlife.
List of Unusual Units of Measurement
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Confidence Tricksters
Michael tries to sell us the Eiffel Tower, which was gifted to him by the Prince of Sudan.
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Route 66
Kevin takes us down the coolest memory lane.
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Fairy Tale Classification
Blake tells story. He finds a king lost in the forest. The king throws a fish to the clever fox. The fox eats the king and laughs. Blake fails to learn moral.
Arne Thompson Classification Systems
Multilingual Folk Tale Database
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Pedestrianism
Michael reports on the slo-mo, low octane, champagne fueled, contest of endurance that captured our imaginations before excitement was invented.
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Donald Duck
Michael discovers a storied past of the most famous Duck on the planet.
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Okay
Blake tries to uncover the origin of Ok. Ok? Ok.
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The Beard
Michael tells the story of Joseph Palmer, the patron saint of hipsters.
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