Shizo Kanakuri Finished A Marathon He’d Started 54 Years Earlier

Today in 1967, a Japanese athlete Shizo Kanakuri, finished a Olympic marathon that he’d started in 1912. Better late than never!

By |2024-12-10T07:53:46-05:00March 20, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Kitty Burke Once Batted In A Major League Game

Today in 1935, singer Kitty Burke got up from the crowd at a major league game and took an at-bat. To date, she's the only woman to bat in the majors. 

By |2024-12-15T09:38:09-05:00July 31, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

A Wristband Can Help Keep Firefighters Healthy

Firefighting is dangerous work, in part because of the exposure to dangerous chemicals. Researchers are learning more about those exposures thanks to a simple silicone wristband.

By |2024-12-02T08:18:29-05:00June 7, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

An Email Mixup Led To A Very Strange Welsh Road Sign

This week in 2008, local officials in Swanzey tried to get English-to-Welsh translation for a road sign they wanted to put up. They got a Welsh sentence in response, but it wasn't what they thought.

By |2024-12-14T11:19:42-05:00October 29, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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