Where Did We Put All The Goodwill Moon Rocks From Apollo 17?

Today in 1972 Apollo 17 returned from the moon. One of the lunar samples was sliced up and shared with every American state and hundreds of countries... except that we aren't quite sure where some of those rocks are now.

By |2024-12-08T16:33:33-05:00December 19, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

When Agatha Christie Wasn’t Writing Mysteries, She Was Surfing

Today's the birthday of Agatha Christie, the novelist and playwright who gave us some of the most popular mysteries of all time. But when she wasn't sending Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot out to crack cases, she was often found surfing.

By |2024-12-16T10:14:43-05:00September 15, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The CIA Once Created Robot Fish

It's National Go Fishing Day, though the fish in today’s story aren’t exactly the ones you’d expect to catch. They’re robotic fish called Charlie and Charlene, and they were developed by the Central Intelligence Agency.

By |2024-12-07T19:51:07-05:00June 18, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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