This week we learn about a sex manual/midwifery book from 1684 and how the American Hippo Act forced two rivals from South Africa to come together for the greater good. A listener email explains why Pandas use horse manure to stay warm.

Episode Tabs:

When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/when-the-birds-and-the-bees-were-not-enough-aristotle-s-masterpiece/

American Hippopotamus

https://magazine.atavist.com/american-hippopotamus/

Listener Tabs:

Why is Bern the Capital of Switzerland?

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/federal-city-_why-is-bern-the-capital-of-switzerland/44577476

Why Wild Giant Pandas Frequently Roll In Horse Manure

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2004640117

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This week we finally unpack Charles Dellschau's forgotten aeronautical notebooks and learn how long-term nuclear waste warning messages are created. A listener email digs up the story of how the Brynlow shovel was dug up out of Alderley Edge but not identified as a Bronze Age tool until many decades later.

Episode Tabs:

Charles A.A. Dellschau Book

http://www.shishigami.com/srfa/Charles_Dellschau_FINAL.pdf

Inverse Archaeology: Sending a Message to the Future https://www.stochastication.com/2016/06/13/inverse-archaeology/amp/

Listener Tabs:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1l0CodEbSLsF0zj7i5SWJPJfvu9iNvi3f&hl=en&ll=34.42740297426141%2C-117.9767350680066&z=8

https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/opinion/magic-and-mining-at-alderley-edge.htm

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Unfortunately the LA fires have forced us to delay recording, so here's a quick update about ways you can help followed by our last Patreon AMA that should be unhinged enough to hold you all over till next week. Stay safe friends!!

ANIMATION PPL & FRIENDS AFFECTED BY FIRES:

https://airtable.com/appugwkqKAVGDdeaJ/shrrujOu1GKwKAW0f/tblBTejpocYFoeauX

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We're back from the winter break and midder than ever! This week we learn how salamanders tricked medieval Europeans into thinking they were fireproof and how Prussian immigrant Charles Dellschau's forgotten aeronautical notebooks came to shock the art world 40 years after his death. A listener email tells the harrowing tale of how astronaut Sergei Krikalev got stuck in space after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Episode Tabs:

The Asbestos Workers’ Salamander

http://www.laborculture.org/publications/Asbestos_Workers'_Salamander_Occasional%20Paper_3.pdf

Did An Artist's Flights Of Fancy Depict Early Aviation?

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/native-texan/article/Did-an-artist-s-flights-of-fancy-depict-early-5909915.php

Listener Tabs:

https://www.ndtv.com/science/sergei-krikalev-the-story-of-sergei-krikalev-whose-country-disappeared-when-he-was-in-space-5414875

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessie_(sea_monster)

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Yes it's technically 2025 now but here are Kaveh's two most popular tabs of 2024 as voted by you the audience! Join us as we revisit the story of our Horse Daddy King Nikola Jokić and the wonderful Meiji era political cartoons involving Tanuki balls.

Episode Tabs:

How Nikola Jokić Became The World’s Best Basketball Player

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/how-nikola-jokic-became-the-worlds-best-basketball-player

Testicular Tanuki Tales: Japanese Folk Humor for Children with a Ribald Satirical Twist

https://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2017/09/tanuki/

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This year for Christmas you're getting Hannah's two most popular tabs of 2024 as voted by you the audience! Join us as we revisit the story of how Iceland got the wrong translation of Dracula and Pompeian graffiti got freaky deaky.

Episode Tabs:

The Literary Mystery of the Icelandic Dracula by Valur Grettison

https://grapevine.is/mag/2022/05/09/the-literary-mystery-of-the-icelandic-dracula/

What the Graffiti of Ancient Pompeii Teach Us About Our Modern Selves

https://blog.degruyter.com/graffiti-ancient-pompeii-teach-us-modern-selves/

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On our season 1 finale, the ancient tournament of Kumitab continues as we pit some of our craziest subjects against one another including Ronald Reagan's sweatpants, a meth-addled WW2 solider, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. A listener email explains the wonders of a nonstop Moby Dick reading marathon.

Listener Tabs:

https://slate.com/life/2024/01/moby-dick-whale-book-ship-massachusetts-captain-ahab.html

https://www.dailyrecordnews.com/news/getting-to-the-bottom-of-mel-s-hole/article_d72b6a68-7ac2-11e1-b3ce-001a4bcf887a.html

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This week we learn about how an offline meme of the number 47 made its way into Star Trek and how a hibernating lizard named Ol' Rip caught the attention of President Calvin Coolidge himself. A listener email shines a light on Disneyland's complex system of garbage tunnels.

Episode Tabs:

The 47 Society

https://www.47.net/47society/

The strange tale of Old Rip, the horned toad on display in a Texas courthouse

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texana/2018/10/05/the-strange-tale-of-old-rip-the-horned-toad-on-display-in-a-texas-courthouse/

Listener Tabs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tigers_of_Mompracem

https://worldofwalt.com/disney-underground-trash-tubes.html

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