The Facts: How Robert L. May and Montgomery Ward created the classic Christmas character, Rudolph. Why the portrayal of sonar in movies doesn’t reveal its true destructive power. And how Fort Knox became America’s gold vault. VOTE HERE Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facts: How baby cages became a popular commodity in large cities like London. The tragic tale of Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber. And the events that led up to the violent 1229 University of Paris strike. VOTE HERE Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facts: How Russia sent the first creature into orbit, the unlikely death of an ancient Greek tragedian, and Robert F. Broussard’s preposterous proposal to end the American meat shortage. VOTE HERE Send us your facts: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @factoffpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facts: How bats became Halloween icons, the horrifying murders that inspired werewolf legend, and the historical manual on how to discover and annihilate witches. VOTE HERE Send your facts to @factoffpod on Twitter or email them to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's facts: how the massive ocean liner, the Queen Mary, became a haunted hotel. Find out the troubled backstory of the University of Texas tower shooting. And learn how one trick-or-treating incident sparked an unfounded fear of candy tampering.  VOTE HERE Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facts: How Betty Crocker rose to fame to become the most trusted source for cooking tips, advice, and recipes. And how Hennig Brand made an unlikely discovery in his quest to find the Philosopher’s Stone. VOTE HERE Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facts: Why the world believed the tomato was a poisonous fruit, the family that brought on Cincinnati’s lizard invasion, and Bill Fong’s legendary Texas bowling record.  VOTE HERE Socials: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facts: Find out why it’s unfashionable to wear white after Labor Day, why the movie the Conqueror haunted Howard Hughes’s career, and just how far back the war on Christmas goes. VOTE HERE Socials: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The facts: the unbelievable Erfurt latrine disaster, the convoluted history of the sandwich, and how the Happy Birthday song became America’s favorite tune. VOTE HERE Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex shares the mythical origin of the word’s narcissist and echo. Mike tells the tale of a long-forgotten automaton chess player nicknamed the Mechanical Turk. Pat reveals the strange history behind the rapid population growth in New France (Canada). Link to Vote Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices