Episode
286: No Such Thing As A Banana With Wifi
How cool is that that the creator of the swing and of the ball pit grew up, I guess, two hours drive from each other, Kettering and Sheffield.
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One of the leading theories is that in 1971 and 1972, a first transaction was made between students at Stanford University and MIT, and they were selling weed to each other. The first transaction potentially was a drug…
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They wanted to create what they called a world palace — basically all the world's knowledge and information. It was in the Palais Mondial in Brussels. They got up to 12 million index cards.
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In 1940, the Nazis rocked up and the Third Reich replaced it with a bunch of Third Reich art. Some of it was left over, but most of it, we don't know where it's gone.
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The first known use of the word 'belend' to refer to a person was for the entire 1992 West Bromwich Albion football team.
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