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365-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

For this final episode of the Futility Closet podcast we have eight new lateral thinking...

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364-Sidney Cotton's Aerial Reconnaissance

One of the most remarkable pilots of World War II never fired a shot or dropped a bomb. With...

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363-The Lambeth Poisoner

In 1891, a mysterious figure appeared on the streets of London, dispensing pills to poor young...

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362-The Leatherman

In 1856, a mysterious man appeared on the roads of Connecticut and New York, dressed in...

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361-A Fight Over Nutmeg

In 1616, British officer Nathaniel Courthope was sent to a tiny island in the East Indies to...

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360-Haggard's Dream

In 1904, adventure novelist H. Rider Haggard awoke from a dream with the conviction that his...

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359-Stranded in Shangri-La

In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in New Guinea, leaving three survivors marooned...

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358-The Radium Girls

In 1917, a New Jersey company began hiring young women to paint luminous marks on the faces of...

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357-Scenes From an Earthquake

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is remembered for its destructive intensity and terrible...

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356-A Strawberry's Journey

The modern strawberry has a surprisingly dramatic story, involving a French spy in Chile, a...

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355-The Auckland Islands Castaways

In 1864, two ships' crews were cast away at the same time on the same remote island in the...

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354-Falling Through a Thunderstorm

In 1959, Marine pilot William Rankin parachuted from a malfunctioning jet into a violent...

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353-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles -- play along with us as we try to untangle some...

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352-A Victorian Hippopotamus

In 1850, England received a distinguished guest: A baby hippopotamus arrived at the London...

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351-Notes and Queries

In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll explore some curiosities and...

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350-Symmes' Hole

In 1818, Army veteran John Cleves Symmes Jr. declared that the earth was hollow and proposed...

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349-The National Hotel Disease

In 1857 guests at Washington D.C.'s National Hotel began to come down with a mysterious...

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348-Who Killed the Red Baron?

In 1918, German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen chased an inexperienced Canadian pilot out...

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347-The Cottingley Fairies

In 1917, two young cousins carried a camera into an English dell and returned with a photo of...

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346-A Desperate Winter in Antarctica

In 1898 a Belgian ship on a scientific expedition was frozen into the sea off the coast of...

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