During the 15th and 16th century a mysterious disease swept through London multiple times killing many within hours. The disease caused fear in many including King Henry VIII who ran at the thought of getting infected. Today we still don't know what caused it or how it stopped.

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https://www.britannica.com/science/sweating-sickness

https://www.britannica.com/science/hantavirus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917436/#B45-viruses-06-00151

https://www.history.com/news/the-mysterious-epidemic-that-terrified-henry-viii

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/03/sweating-sickness-forgotten-epidemic.html

You can take the pirate out of the sea but you can't take the pirate out of the man. Just when they thought Blackbeard was done with his pirate ways, he starts back up leading to his last stand against a Virginian governor, a British Naval Captain, and fate.

Listen to the story of Blackbeard's Last Stand on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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https://www.qaronline.org/history/blackbeard-history-dreaded-pirate

https://royalarmouries.org/stories/popular-culture/blackbeard-facts/

https://time.com/5457008/blackbeard-death/

https://www.history.com/news/blackbeard-pirate-killed

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-death-of-blackbeard-2136232

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The Witchcraft Act of 1735 decriminalized witchcraft in England creating a wave of so called "white witches" or witches that dealt with telling fortunes, selling potions, and good luck charms.

In the early 19th a witch would show up, predict the end of the world and then be embroiled in a plot of murder and poison.

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Sources
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bateman-mary.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Act_1735

https://cobaltfairy.com/witches-19th-century-britain/

https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-a-con-artist-used-basic-chemistry-to-prophesize-the-1658708815

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-the-yorkshire-witch-scammed-1806-leeds-with-apocalyptic-chicken-eggs-and-simple-chemistry/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/577601/mary-bateman-witch-yorkshire-murder

There are a lot of unsung heroes in history that deserve to have their stories told and their names known. Today we look at two badass doctors, Eugene Lazowski and Stanislaw Matulewicz. These two figured out how to start an epidemic but for the right reasons.

Learn the why they started an epidemic on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources

https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/uic_pw

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503507/polish-doctors-who-used-science-outwit-nazis

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-typhus-epidemic-saved-a-polish-city-from-the-nazis

https://www.bmj.com/content/301/6766/1471

https://culture.pl/en/article/the-faked-epidemic-that-saved-hundreds-of-lives

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-faked-typhus-outbreak-spared-8000-poles-from-the-nazis/

https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2015/the-fake-typhus-epidemic-that-saved-thousands-from-the-nazis

Since it's Mother's Day in the U.S we thought we would take a look at the history of Mother's Day and how it came to be in the U.S. Many might be familiar with the name Anna Jarvis, the woman who pushed for it to be holiday, but her mother also played a part in its inception. And in the end Anna Jarvis tried to get Mother's Day abolished from the National Holiday Calendar.

Find out why on today's bonus episode of Facts-Chology!

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https://web.archive.org/web/20090921030946/http://www.wvculture.org/history/jarvis.html

http://www.wvculture.org/history/women/mothersday04.html

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day

https://www.almanac.com/content/history-mothers-day

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mothers-Day

https://time.com/4771354/mothers-day-history-origins/

https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/resources/commemorations/history-of-mothers-day/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/joeloliphint/anna-jarvis-was-sorry-she-ever-invented-mothers-day?utm_term=.ba0jVbodO#.lnw6wkxZ3

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30659/founder-mothers-day-later-fought-have-it-abolished

Pirates! THE Pirate! Possibly the most well-known pirate, Blackbeard! Today we look at his most daring act, the time he decided to take the ships and the port in Charleston hostage to the surprise of everyone.

Find out why and learn about a few other pirate misconceptions on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/blackbeard/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard#Blackbeard

https://www.scetv.org/stories/2019/did-you-know-history-piracy-south-carolina

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/piracy/

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2017/winter/feature/lot-what-known-about-pirates-not-true-and-lot-what-true-not-known

https://www.britannica.com/technology/privateer

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/last-days-blackbeard-180949440/

https://www.piratedocuments.com/blackbeard-raids-charleston-1718/

https://books.google.com/books?id=3jI5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT159&lpg=PT159&dq

Fashion faux pas like wearing white after labor day are taken pretty seriously by some people, well in New York City in 1922 a different fashion faux pas and tradition were taken so seriously it caused riots for three days.

What was it? It was hats, wearing hats, and not one of a sports team, it was straw hats.

Find out why on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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http://to-the-manner-born.blogspot.com/2011/09/straw-hat-rule-ii-silent-cal.html?utm

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OaoxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bNwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5556,1489569&dq=straw-hat+riot&hl=en

https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/16/archives/city-has-wild-night-of-straw-hat-riots-gangs-of-young-hoodlums-with.html

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/04/straw-hat-riot-remembering-one-of-the-weirdest-crime-sprees-in-american-history.html

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/straw-hat-riot/

With the recent news of NYC filing a $151 million lawsuit against Chipotle for violating what is called the Fair Work Week Law and New York States Sick Leave Law we decided to take a look at what exactly the suit alleges Chipotle did wrong.

Since these laws affect most retail and fast food employees it's important we lay out what the laws mean and how they can affect you.

Find out how on this bonus episode of Facts-Chology!

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https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/paid-sick-leave-law-for-workers.page

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/fastfood-retail-workers.page

https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/095-20/mayor-de-blasio-commissioner-salas-paid-sick-leave-settlement-chipotle

https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/420-19/de-blasio-adminstration-sues-chipotle-violating-city-s-fair-workweek-law

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/business/chipotle-new-york-illegal-scheduling.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/business/chipotle-nyc-lawsuit-labor-law/index.html

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/chipotle-lawsuit-child-labor-law-violations

https://money.cnn.com/2016/08/29/news/economy/chipotle-lawsuit-nearly-10000-workers/index.html

This is our 50th episode so today we're debunking and correcting 50 misconceptions from a wide range of topics. Did Albert Einstein actually fail math? Do you really swallow spiders while you sleep? Was Santa Claus always red? Just what is eye of newt?

Find out the answer to all of those and 46 other misconceptions on today's episode of Facts-Chology!

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Sources
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/01/735822187/the-science-of-smiles-real-and-fake

https://interestingengineering.com/7-common-space-myths-debunked-by-actual-astronauts-and-science

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/plat.2013.12.1.20

https://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/popular-food-and-nutrition-myths-you-shouldnt-believe/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201811/top-10-common-psychological-misconceptions

https://thebestschools.org/magazine/25-popular-science-myths-debunked/

https://www.history.com/news/beyond-salem-6-lesser-known-witch-trials#

https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2017/10/shakespearean-recipe-witchs-brew/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Cardini

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_my%20position%20on%20power%20poses.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/story/do-we-really-swallow-spiders-in-our-sleep#

https://www.britannica.com/story/are-bats-really-blind

https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/roman-statues-werent-white-they-were-once-painted-in-bright-colors.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/bees-cant-fly-scientifically-incorrect-2017-12

https://www.througheternity.com/en/blog/history/7-myths-about-gladiator-games.html#