"There was malice in the thrust," — NYT report c. 1906 on aggressive confetti throwing.

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Did an experimental treatment really save a teenage girl from rabies - or was it just a coincidence? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

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"Master keys" are actually part of a much larger hierarchal system of keying. Master keys can be "Grand" or "Great Grand" (like grandpas) depending on how many lower key systems they can unlock. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

A product's "lifetime warranty" refers to its expected lifetime — not yours. 

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Fed up with "monobosom," Caresse Crosby (aka Mary Phelps Jacobs/Polly Jacobs) received the first U.S. patent for the "brassiere" in early November of 1914. She also ghostwrote porn, founded the press that published Bukowski, & had a dog named "Clytoris."

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"Word fossils" are words that we don't really use anymore, except as part of an idiom or expression: "What in 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?!" "Good 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚!" & "Moral 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚." But how do words become "fossilized" & how long does it take?

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Thanksgiving is coming and it's a great time for infection-prevention trivia to share 'round the table? So, we wanted to know: can sterling silver really keep itself germ-free?

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Like many great inventions, Silly String was an accident: it was meant to be spray-on casts.

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Is this creepy abandoned park full of presidential busts in Virginia a symbol for our crumbling democracy?!

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In 1924, a pair of sailors died aboard the S.S. Watertown and were buried at sea. Then, the crew started seeing spectral faces in the water. In response to cries of "photographs or it did not occur" the captain snapped A SPOOKY-ASS PIC --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support