Episode
No Such Thing As A Killer Tomato
It was 1820, and this guy called Colonel Johnson had decided it was getting ridiculous that everyone thought tomatoes were poisonous. So he stood on the steps of Salem courthouse, and he ate this whole bowl of tomatoes…
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President Mobutu of Zaire banned all leopard print hats from his country, except for his own. He also made a law saying that television in Zaire could not mention anybody but him by name.
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I went to the Hat Museum in Stockport and they reckon that one of the reasons that hats went out of fashion is because of the motor car, because you couldn't wear it inside the car because the roof was too low.
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