This week we discuss the origins of the Michelin Man and a first hand account of Vikings from 922. A listener email answers the question of why we don't see Pandas in toilet paper ads.

Episode Tabs:

Allied Forces on D-Day Used a Popular Tourist Guide to Help Liberate France

https://www.military.com/history/allied-forces-d-day-used-popular-tourist-guide-help-liberate-france.html

“The Rus” (An Arab among the Vikings)

https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/12938.ch01.pdf

Listener Tabs:

https://youtu.be/aQthclI55Rk?si=Bw8xdEs8K-Ikbb0j

https://youtu.be/4eJxAhhMiCk?si=xDb9O4IkpDOjEwrL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Alley_(TV_series)?wprov=sfti1

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