Futility Closet

Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles.

https://www.futilitycloset.com/podcast/

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 32m. Bisher sind 369 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 8 hours

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episode 87: A Sleuthing Cabbie, Edward VI's Homework, and a Self-Aware Crow


Seven oddities from our research.


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 December 28, 2015  31m
 
 

episode 86: Lateral Thinking Puzzles


Play along as we try to untangle some puzzling situations.


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 December 21, 2015  30m
 
 

episode 85: Raising Chicago


In the 1850s, much of central Chicago was raised several feet by men turning jackscrews.


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 December 14, 2015  34m
 
 

episode 84: The Man Who Never Was


How the Allies fooled the Nazis using a person who never existed.


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 December 7, 2015  34m
 
 

episode 83: Nuclear Close Calls


In 1983, the Soviet Union's early warning system reported that the U.S. had launched a nuclear missile toward Moscow.


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 November 30, 2015  36m
 
 

episode 82: Stealing Abe Lincoln


In 1876, an inept gang of Chicago counterfeiters planned to steal Abraham Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom.


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 November 23, 2015  34m
 
 

episode 81: The Typhus Hoax


During World War II, two Polish doctors saved 8,000 of their countrymen by faking an epidemic.


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 November 16, 2015  32m
 
 

episode 80: 'Black Like Me': Race Realities Under Jim Crow


In 1959, white writer John Howard Griffin traveled the segregated South disguised as a black man.


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 November 2, 2015  34m
 
 

episode 79: One Square Inch of the Yukon


In 1955, Quaker Oats gave away deeds to tiny plots of land in northwestern Canada.


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 October 25, 2015  34m
 
 

episode 78: Snowshoe Thompson


In the 1850s, mail was carried through the California mountains by one man on skis.


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 October 19, 2015  37m