The Original Death Star Model Ended Up As A Garbage Can (Cool Weird Awesome 779)

It's the day in 1977 that Star Wars first showed in movie theaters. Props and costumes from the Star Wars movies have shown up in museums, and a few have had stranger afterlives, including an original model of the Death Star.

By |2022-05-25T08:43:33-04:00May 25, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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Humans Have Their Fingerprints All Over The History Of Fingerprinting (Cool Weird Awesome 346)

Today is said to be the day in 1858 that a colonial magistrate in India began using fingerprints for identification. But that's just one part of the history of how and why our prints are such a valuable bit of biometric information today. Plus: a guy in Jamaica showed up to collect a big lottery prize in a Darth Vader costume, because why not?

By |2024-07-28T08:48:26-04:00July 28, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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