This might not surprise you, but I like learning about history. Humans are super weird and maybe that’s why the stories that emerge from our shared past oftentimes are, well, weird.
And if you think humans are done making weird history happen, that we’ve somehow advanced beyond our ancestors, I think you should think more about that.
But today we’re here to talk about weird moments in history, written and recorded, that made the generations to follow say, Huh?
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Written by Carly Schorman
Narrated by Dana Stern
Produced and Edited by Syeed Mark Anderson
Theme song by Doug Maxwell
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