Ridiculous History 

History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.

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Title	Date published
CLASSIC - Did a Real-Life Rainmaker Almost Drown San Diego?	2022-06-28
Millerism: America’s First End Times Gospel	2022-06-23
Ben Franklin Faked a Rival's Death to Promote His Almanac	2022-06-21
Why was Phrenology a Thing? Part II: A Pseudoscience (Sort of) Informs the Modern Day	2022-06-16
Why was Phrenology a Thing? Part I: The Rise of Dr. Finger	2022-06-14
Nancy Wake, the White Mouse of the French Resistance	2022-06-09
The US Boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and Puerto Rican Boxers Went Anyway	2022-06-07
Disco Demolition Night: How Disco Died at a White Sox Game	2022-06-02
Bolivia Fought -- And Lost -- A War For Bird Poop	2022-05-31
Why You Can't Say "MacBeth" in a Theater	2022-05-26
Operation Mincemeat: Britain's Ghoulish Plan to Fool the Nazis	2022-05-24
Who the heck was Joseph Warren?	2022-05-19
Chocolate Syrup: From Medicine to Dessert	2022-05-17
Historical Hypocrisy: The Confederacy's Weird Stance on "Individual Rights"	2022-05-12
Juana Maria: The Real-life Story Behind "Island of the Blue Dolphins"	2022-05-10
Curling: The Most Ridiculous Sport?	2022-05-05
Nobuo Fujita Bombed Brookings, Oregon -- and Then Became a Town Hero	2022-05-03
A Teetotaling Preacher Basically Invented Modern Tourism	2022-04-28
Ira Aldridge: Actor, Activist and Record-breaker	2022-04-26
Lithuanian Book Smugglers Vs. The Russian Empire	2022-04-21

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