The Kingdom of Himyar in modern-day Yemen may have converted to Judaism for political reasons in 380 A.D. but eventually they went harder than anybody to rep their beliefs. And by that we mean they slaughtered a bunch of Christians.

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys to talk about the lesser known details about the sinking of the Titanic.

Frano Selak is the luckiest unlucky person in history. Learn how he survived 7 brushes with horrible, violent death, and what he’s up to today.

Newly released Vatican records detail how Hitler used the Catholic Church's abuse to blackmail Pope Pius XII into not being too mean to the Third Reich.

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Two high-society Austrian noblewomen clashed over flowers and it ended in a topless sword fight.

Douglas Mawson ventured to Antarctica, TWICE, but it almost cost him his life. Find out how he almost died getting his literal rocks off in a frozen wasteland.

In 1511 the people of Brussels, while suffering through a brutal winter known as "The Winter of Death", took to the streets and expressed their displeasure with the ruling classes and life in general by... sculpting snowmen and making them do wildly inappropriate things with each other.

We discuss the most important women's movement of the last century: the march to smoke cigarettes.

The guys talk about the coed killer’s disdain for his mother, his adventures in cat killing, and his unintentional contribution to the field of criminal profiling.

In the late 19th Century, one Chicago family found itself living in a house that turned out to be aggressively haunted. But these weren't normal ghosts. These were cool ghosts who loved to party.