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Did Genghis Khan really kill 1,748,000 people in one hour?
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137 listeners
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2
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Were people vying to become slaves in the Ottoman Empire?
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118 listeners
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3
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Historically Inaccurate Movies
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81 listeners
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4
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Fact or Fiction: Is D.B. Cooper still alive?
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55 listeners
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5
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Ergot and the Salem Witchtrials
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47 listeners
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6
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Why was tax evasion the only thing pinned on Al Capone?
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44 listeners
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7
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The Cursed Tomb of King Tut
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43 listeners
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8
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What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?
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41 listeners
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9
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How did the East India Company change the world?
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40 listeners
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10
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The Elizabeth Bathory Episode: Was a Hungarian countess the world's most prolific serial killer?
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39 listeners
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11
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How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work
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38 listeners
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12
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How the First Olympics Worked
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38 listeners
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13
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How the Berlin Wall Worked
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38 listeners
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14
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Did Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?
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38 listeners
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15
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Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?
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37 listeners
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16
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How Hitler's Propaganda Machine Worked
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36 listeners
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17
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Will the world really end in 2012?
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36 listeners
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18
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What was the Christmas Truce?
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36 listeners
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19
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Why did England and Spain fight over an ear?
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36 listeners
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20
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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 1
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35 listeners
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21
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What was in Peter the Great's cabinet of curiosities?
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35 listeners
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22
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How Typhoid Mary Worked
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33 listeners
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23
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Was there really a Pied Piper of Hamelin?
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33 listeners
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24
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How King Arthur Worked
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33 listeners
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25
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Was a Hungarian countess the world's most prolific serial killer?
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33 listeners
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26
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Why is there an underground city beneath Beijing?
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33 listeners
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27
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The Lost Roman Legion
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32 listeners
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28
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How did Rasputin really die?
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32 listeners
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29
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How the Donner Party Worked
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32 listeners
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30
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Year Without a Summer
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31 listeners
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31
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What's Mutual Assured Destruction?
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31 listeners
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32
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Did the ancient Greeks get their ideas from the Africans?
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31 listeners
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33
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5 Historical Hoaxes
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30 listeners
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34
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How the Code of Hammurabi Worked
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30 listeners
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35
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How Henry VIII Worked
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30 listeners
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36
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How the Great Train Robbery Worked
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30 listeners
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37
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The Dark Legacy of Sea Monkeys
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29 listeners
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Hitler’s Early Rise and the Night of the Long Knives
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29 listeners
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39
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How Thomas Jefferson Worked
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29 listeners
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40
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How Archimedes' Death Ray Worked
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29 listeners
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41
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Good Humor v. Popsicle
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28 listeners
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42
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How Knights Work
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28 listeners
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43
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Mary Ann Cotton
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28 listeners
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44
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How the Terracotta Army Works
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28 listeners
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45
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Could Noah's ark really have happened?
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28 listeners
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46
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How Presidential Salaries Work
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28 listeners
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47
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How did a shipwreck double the size of the US?
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28 listeners
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48
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How the French Revolution Worked
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27 listeners
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49
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The Vanishing of the U.S.S. Cyclops
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27 listeners
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50
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Who was the real Count Dracula?
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27 listeners
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