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Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

By Brady Carlson

Three minutes each weekday of cool facts, weird news and awesome discoveries with Brady Carlson. Back us at patreon.com/bradycarlson
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Fine Art Week: Edmonia Lewis, A Sculptor Who Brought Her Subjects To Life
Mar 28, 202403:47
Fine Art Week: Why Is It So Hard To Tell A Real Rembrandt Painting From A Copy?
Mar 27, 202403:48
Fine Art Week: Sarah Biffin, A 19th Century Painter “Without Hands” Who’s Getting 21st Century Recognition
Mar 26, 202403:06
Fine Art Week: Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics
Mar 25, 202403:34
If This TV Show Hadn’t Been Canceled, We Might Not Have Had The Original Versions of “Star Trek” and TV’s “Batman”
Mar 22, 202403:02
Taco Bell Once Sold A Burger Called The “Bell Beefer”
Mar 21, 202403:29
Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier
Mar 20, 202403:20
The Nutty Narrows Bridge Was Built For Squirrels In Washington State
Mar 19, 202403:02
Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” Became A Hit, After A Tape Machine Cut It To Pieces
Mar 18, 202403:01
Before Alarm Clocks, Some People Awoke With Help From A “Knocker-Up”
Mar 15, 202403:22
Legendary Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard Once Teamed Up To Design A Refrigerator
Mar 14, 202403:29
Here’s A Tiny Fish That Can Make Sounds As Loud As A Jet Engine
Mar 13, 202403:18
A Boycott Against Charles Boycott Gave Us The Word “Boycott”
Mar 12, 202403:29
New York City’s 311 System Has Gotten Some Wild Calls Over The Years
Mar 11, 202403:29
Musical Alarms Could Help Save Lives In Hospitals
Mar 08, 202403:14
Cap’n Crunch Once Got Sued Because There Weren’t Actual Berries In Crunch Berries Cereal
Mar 07, 202403:30
Whey Protein Could Help Stop E-Waste
Mar 06, 202403:18
Ruth Belville, The Last “Time Carrier” In London
Mar 05, 202403:31
Police Squad, The TV Comedy That Got Canceled For Being Too Funny
Mar 04, 202403:25
When Danish Farmers Started Breeding “Protest Pigs”
Mar 01, 202403:17
La Bougie du sapeur, The Newspaper That Only Comes Out On February 29
Feb 29, 202403:26
If Humans Start Living On Other Worlds, They Might End Up Creating New Accents
Feb 28, 202403:18
Charles Strite, The Inventor Who Made Toasters Pop
Feb 27, 202403:04
Whitney Smith Flew The Flag For Studying Flags
Feb 26, 202403:23
Mail Week: How Ethel Merman Helped Get America To Use ZIP Codes
Feb 23, 202403:22
Mail Week: Henry Brown Escaped From Slavery By Mailing Himself To Philadelphia
Feb 22, 202403:45
Mail Week: Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog
Feb 21, 202403:46
Mail Week: “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier
Feb 20, 202403:47
Mail Week: When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place
Feb 19, 202403:41
When Missouri Banned Schools For Black Students, John Berry Meachum Started A School On A Riverboat
Feb 16, 202403:15
The Blackwell Family Tree Traces Black History Through Centuries
Feb 15, 202403:16
Haters Used To Give Out “Vinegar Valentines” To Push People’s Button
Feb 14, 202403:23
How Ski Ballet Ended Up At The Olympics In The 80s And 90s
Feb 13, 202403:27
The “Hairy Eagle” Is A Decoration Made Partly With Abraham Lincoln’s Hair
Feb 12, 202403:43
Snowflake Bentley Showed The World Just How Amazing Snow Can Be
Feb 09, 202403:07
ELIZA Was An AI Chatbot Decades Before ChatGPT
Feb 08, 202403:31
The US Rationed Shoes During World War II, So People Made Footwear Out Of Old Firehoses
Feb 07, 202403:41
February Is The Shortest Month For Literally Odd Reasons
Feb 06, 202403:28
Indiana Almost Set The Value Of Pi At 3.2, Even Though That Isn’t Pi’s Value
Feb 05, 202403:41
Jessica Cox, The First Person Born Without Arms To Become A Licensed Pilot
Feb 02, 202403:15
When Indiana Tried To Get “Louie, Louie” Off The Radio
Feb 01, 202403:27
This Smart Glove Can Help People Recover From A Stroke
Jan 31, 202403:14
Jean Carroll, TV's First Female Standup Comedy Star
Jan 30, 202403:14
Holland, Michigan Has A Snow Melting System Built Into Its Downtown
Jan 29, 202403:12
Cat Week: A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
Jan 26, 202402:56
Cat Week: Room 8, The Cat Named For A Classroom In L.A.
Jan 25, 202403:17
Cat Week: A Bike Trip Around The World With A Cat
Jan 24, 202403:32
Cat Week: There’s Music For Cats And It’s Apparently Very Good For Them
Jan 23, 202403:46
Cat Week: Félicette, The First Cat In Space
Jan 22, 202403:58
To Win A Dance Marathon, Couples Might Have To Keep Going For Five Months
Jan 19, 202403:26