When the Sultana steamboat exploded on the Mississippi River, it killed around 1,800 people. In comparison, 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank 47 years later.

We discuss the congressman that spied for the USSR, who they nicknamed "Crook"

Lou Pearlman created both Backstreet Boy and NSYNC, while also swindling hundreds out of their life savings.

Patty Cannon made a living kidnapping freed black Americans and selling them into slavery in the South, a system that is now known as the reverse underground railroad. 

Joe Medicine Crow completed all four tasks to become a Crow War Chief during World War II, including stealing some Nazi's horses. 

In 1949, MIT fed students in a school for mentally-disabled children oatmeal covered in radioactive tracers. 

When MacArthur returned from the Phillippines to become the Army Chief of Staff, he brought home a mistress, 16-year-old Isabel "Dimples" Cooper.

There is a stereotype that Southerners are dumb and lazy. One scientist went on a mission to discover why. 

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Patrick Murphy was hired by Mexican rebels to bomb Mexican federal forces. The problem was he ended up bombing Arizona instead. 

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We discuss the day that a wagon-full of meat mysteriously rained down on a farm in Kentucky. 

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