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Lewis Latimer: The Self-Taught Genius Who Made the Light Bulb Last
Jun 30, 202617 min
Rosie Ruiz: The Boston Marathon Cheat Who Fooled the World
Jun 30, 202621 min
Tomoe Gozen: The Female Samurai Who Defied History
Jun 30, 20268 min
Struck by a Meteorite: The Tragic Story of Ann Hodges
Jun 30, 202617 min
Eddie the Eagle: The Last-Place Olympian Who Won the World
Jun 30, 202619 min
The Iron Lung: How a Metal Tube Saved Thousands From Polio
Jun 30, 202623 min
The Pyrenean Ibex: The Only Species to Go Extinct Twice
Jun 30, 202620 min
Adrian Carton de Wiart: The Unkillable Soldier
Jun 30, 202620 min
Eyam: The Plague Village That Sacrificed Itself
Jun 30, 202622 min
Aldrich Ames: The CIA Traitor Who Spied for Shoes
Jun 30, 202620 min
Empress Theodora: From the Stage to the Byzantine Throne
Jun 30, 202622 min
Numbers Stations: The Eerie Radio Broadcasts of Spies
Jun 30, 202622 min
The Vaquita: The Tiny Porpoise on the Brink of Extinction
Jun 30, 202621 min
Shoemaker-Levy 9: The Comet That Crashed Into Jupiter
Jun 30, 202624 min
The Battle of Castle Itter: When Americans and Germans Fought Together
Jun 30, 202623 min
The Chinese Giant Salamander: Everywhere and Nowhere at Once
Jun 30, 202621 min
The MV Joyita: The Mary Celeste of the South Pacific
Jun 30, 202623 min
The Black Sox Scandal: When Baseball Banned Acquitted Men
Jun 30, 202622 min
Project A119: The Secret Cold War Plan to Nuke the Moon
Jun 30, 202621 min
Blue Peacock: Britain's Chicken-Powered Nuclear Landmine
Jun 30, 202621 min
Rose Island: The Engineer Who Built His Own Nation
Jun 30, 202619 min
Cargo Cults: The Real Story Behind the Straw Airplanes
Jun 30, 202622 min
The Metric Mix-Up That Destroyed the Mars Climate Orbiter
Jun 30, 202621 min
The Pangolin: How Perfect Armor Became a Fatal Flaw
Jun 30, 202623 min
Poles of Inaccessibility: Finding the Middle of Nowhere
Jun 30, 202620 min
Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Poison That Built the FDA
Jun 30, 202624 min
Lake Retba: The Pink Lake That Turned Green Overnight
Jun 30, 202619 min
Ignaz Semmelweis: The Doctor Punished for Saving Lives
Jun 30, 202624 min
Trepanation: Why Humans Drilled Holes in Skulls for Millennia
Jun 30, 202621 min
The Ford Nucleon: The Atomic Car That Physics Killed
Jun 30, 202619 min
The Golden Toad: How a Species Vanished in 24 Months
Jun 30, 202621 min
The Segway: The Invention That Was Supposed to Beat the Internet
Jun 30, 202620 min
When a Bomber Hit the Empire State Building in 1945
Jun 30, 202621 min
The Sewer Tunnel Heist That Cracked a French Bank Vault
Jun 30, 202626 min
Bas Jan Ader: The Artist Who Sailed Into the Atlantic and Vanished
Jun 30, 202621 min
Bass Reeves: Born a Slave, Became the Greatest Lawman of the West
Jun 30, 202617 min
The Whaleship Essex: How Fear of Cannibals Doomed Its Crew
Jun 30, 202623 min
Bible John: The Glasgow Serial Killer Who Was Never Caught
Jun 30, 202621 min
Dazzle Camouflage: Why Hiding Ships Meant Painting Them Loud
Jun 30, 202622 min
Pitcairn Island: The Mutineers' Paradise With a Dark Secret
Jun 30, 202621 min
Bouvet Island: The Most Remote Place on Earth and Its Mysteries
Jun 30, 202623 min
Bowerbirds: The Bird Architects Who Build Art to Find Love
Jun 30, 202620 min
The Quagga: The Extinct Zebra Brought Back Through DNA
Jun 30, 202622 min
Cairo's City of the Dead: Where Half a Million Live Among Tombs
Jun 30, 202620 min
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion: The Flying Car That Terrified Banks
Jun 30, 202622 min
Charles Blondin: The Daredevil Who Cooked an Omelet Over Niagara
Jun 30, 202621 min
Desmond Doss: The Unarmed Soldier Who Saved 75 at Hacksaw Ridge
Jun 30, 202619 min
Dr. Crippen: The Murder Solved by Telegraph, Reopened by DNA
Jun 30, 202620 min
The Hartford Circus Fire: Eight Minutes That Killed 167
Jun 30, 202622 min
The Mimic Octopus: The Shapeshifter That Impersonates 18 Animals
Jun 30, 202619 min