Was Malcolm Wallace a killer? Technically, yes. Was he LBJ's personal hitman? Maybe. JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X all died while LBJ was in office. Coincidence?!

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Project Paperclip scooped up a bunch of German scientists at the end of WW2, including Wernher Von Braun. He developed the V2 Rocket for Hitler and then for the United States military, but Von Braun REALLY wanted to go to space. He led NASA's development of the Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo missions to the moon.

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Was Alexander the Great great? Yes. Was he gay? Pretty much. We're celebrating pride month with Colton Dowling, America's leading gay historian.

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Marquis de Sade was a freak. Born into French nobility, he wrote s*xually explicit novels (Justine, 120 Days of Sodom) and he had an appetite for s*xual violence IRL that landed him (and his man servant) in the Bastille and mental institutions many times. That didn't stop him from being elected to the new government after the French revolution. Also, Napoleon HATED his books.

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In the wake of Hernán Cortés' destruction of the Aztec Empire a doomed Spanish expedition crash lands in Tampa, FL. Cabeza De Vaca then walked across early 1500s America looking for gold and accidentally became a messiah.

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Henry VIII wanted Anne Boleyn so bad he separated from the Roman Catholic Church, started the Church of England, and formed the English Royal Navy. When she couldn't produce a male heir for Henry, Anne was beheaded (naturally). Her daughter Elizabeth I would eventually prove that Queens don't need no man.

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Everybody know that Genghis Khan and the Mongols created the largest empire ever - but not everybody knows WHY. Che Durena teaches JJ Liberman and Dave about the greatest conqueror of all time.

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Cinco de Mayo IS NOT about Mexican independence. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Battle of Puebla - just one battle in a story involving the Mexican civil war (Reform War), the American civil war, a coup, Napoleon III, Archduke Maximilian, and France's last-ditch effort to colonize the Americas. 

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Unveiled at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, the ferris wheel was the American answer to the Eiffel Tower, which debuted as the largest man-made structure at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a structural engineer from Pittsburgh, came up with the idea to use a big steel wheel as the iconic structure of the fair. Also, HH Holmes was running around killing people. It was crazy.

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Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Regiment held the Union army's left flank at the Battle of Gettysburg and beat up on some Alabama boys at Little Round Top to secure a victory for the Union. Craig (a native Mainer) tells us all about it.

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