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Vote: Alex shares how the crossword puzzle became a New York Times staple. Pat tells the story of the MLB’s slow adoption of night games. Mike reveals that there are historical books that were found to be bound in human skin. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod+ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Pat shares the strange history behind outlawing Pinball machines. Alex tells the origin story of a beloved game time snack, the cracker jack. Mike reveals that Top Gun is a real-life naval training program.  Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Pat explains how you could shuffle a 52-card deck for eternity and still get different combinations. Alex shares the origin story of everyone’s favorite bath toy, the rubber ducky. Mike tells the tale of the Russian’ domesticated fox program. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Mike tells the tragic story of why black olives are not available in jars. Alex shares the tale of the first cross country road trip. Pat covers the story of one of Hollywood’s largest blockbuster bombs. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Pat shares about the odd one-person town of Monowi, Nebraska. Alex tells the tale of a man who incubated premature babies and turned them into an amusement park sideshow. Mike explains about the various types of bizarre bezoars. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Alex shares the epic backstory of the modern-day marathon. Mike proves that the brown note is a farce, but discovers there is a sound that will make you puke. Pat explains that the Supreme Court is not the stable and unchanging institution that we imagine it to be. Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @factoffpod [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Pat explains how a family that helped establish Mother’s Day eventually became its greatest detractors. Mike shares how breakfast vacillated between being the most overlooked meal, to the most important meal of the day. Alex tells the origin stories of the 4 largest balls of twine. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Alex shares the strange tale of a missing Sri Lankan handball team. Mike tells the tragic origin of the turnspit dog. Pat uncovers the mystery behind the Post-it Note invention. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @factoffpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Pat unravels the mystery behind a stolen corpse that was found incased in wax and plaster. Did the culprit, Carl Tanzler, take his love obsession too far? Mike shares about the early successes and failures involving the world’s oldest submarines. The first rudimentary sub, the Drebbel, even carried King James I. Alex explains how you can tell the difference between real and fake pearls. A Filipino fisherman found the largest known pearl, The Pearl of Puerto, and kept it under his bed, ignorant of its real value. @factoffpod on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote: Pat tells the quirky story of how a small University in Michigan became world famous for its Unicorn hunting tradition. Mike reveals how Roman concrete has stood the test of time, even besting the modern formulas we use. Alex shares how Noah Webster shaped and standardized the English language in America. @factoffpod on FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM/TWITTER Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices