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In our modern age we have lived through natural disasters and floods in various parts of the world, and no matter what, they are always tragic. But tragic floods are not always a cause of nature.

In episode 7, we discussed the great molasses flood that occurred in Boston and the ensuing devastation of that event. Well today, we’ll be taking a look at a similar, albeit less gloopy tidal wave of destruction that occurred 100 years before that.

And, as much as any of us may love a beer every now and then and dream of swimming in a pool of the bubbly liquid, this tragic event was unfortunately no laughing matter.

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Sources for this episode's research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-London-Beer-Flood-of-1814/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/great-beer-flood-1814-what-happened/
https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-london-beer-flood/
https://www.history.com/news/london-beer-flood
https://explorethearchive.com/london-beer-flood
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1814-beer-flood-killed-eight-people-180964256/


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This episode is a look at how in the early to mid 1900’s the abolitionist laws banning the production and consumption of alcohol played a majorly significant role in the creation of what, today, is a veritable institution of the American South, NASCAR.

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Sources for this episode's research:


https://winstoncupmuseum.com/nascar-and-prohibition/#:~:text=Across%20the%20country%2C%20bootleggers%20had,cases%20of%20liquor%20as%20possible
https://www.history.com/news/how-prohibition-gave-birth-to-nascar
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-moonshine-bootlegging-gave-rise-nascar-180962014/
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-racing/nascar/history/nascar-bootleggers.htm
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nascar-moonshine
https://www.ranker.com/list/ways-people-hid-alcohol-during-prohibition/kellen-perry?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=weirdhistory&utm_campaign=wh_active&utm_content=%7Bdate%28%27yyyyMMdd%27%29%7D
https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-early-american-booze-consumption/rachel-souerbry?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=weirdhistory&utm_campaign=wh_active&utm_content=%7Bdate%28%27yyyyMMdd%27%29%7D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower


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There are many stories throughout history of individuals with freakish appetites, who seem to be able to consume quantities of food well past what a human stomach should be capable of handling.

Today, we’ll be diving into the story of Charles Domery, a Polish-born soldier who tried to eat the whole world.

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Sources for this episode's research:

https://historianandrew.medium.com/the-man-who-couldnt-stop-eating-including-cats-rats-grass-and-his-friend-s-leg-c7ec7e1fce01https://www.weirdhistorian.com/domery-the-man-who-ate-anything-and-a-whole-lot-of-it/https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-domeryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Domery

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For most of history, the Dutch have been an almost all-powerful force to be reckoned with. They were the forerunners for a lot of the world's exploration, and for a long time dominated the seas and trade routes through the stranglehold of the Dutch East India Company.

In the preceding century, they were still under Spanish rule, with 2 of their kings, Charles the Fifth and his Son Phillip II, simultaneously ruling as the kings of Spain and the so-called Low Countries of The Netherlands.

But the Dutch weren’t having any of this for long and at the first sign of mismanagement, made their feelings known.

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Sources for this episode's research:


https://www.historydefined.net/when-the-dutch-murdered-and-ate-their-own-prime-minister/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt
https://dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-history-crowds-ate-prime-minister/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/is-it-true-that-an-angry-mob-of-dutchmen-killed-and-ate-their-own-prime-minister-in-1672/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/johan-de-witt


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For today's story we will be diving into the life of a truly extraordinary man named William V McKenna, and while he fits the category of “people who eat random things”, those things that he ate can’t really be classified as food.

So let's see just how this man, William McKenna first discovered his talented digestive system.

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Sources for this episode's research:

https://www.picuki.com/tag/humanostrichhttps://www.weirdhistorian.com/appetite-for-intestinal-destruction-the-man-who-ate-glass-nails-tacks-and-frogs/https://historianandrew.medium.com/william-mckenna-the-human-ostrich-who-made-a-living-eating-nails-glass-and-live-frogs-dd1697a3c7d5

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WW2 was raging onwards, with men fighting and dying each and every day. It was so delicately poised that there seemed to be no end to the fighting in sight.

Weeks and months dragged on into years, and with them came more and more plots of how to win the war. Some were impractical, some were impossible, and some were downright insane.

But every now and again, one of these plots would be just insane enough to work.

And so, out of this think tank came possibly one of military history’s greatest-ever schemes.

What if we turned Adolf Hitler into a woman?

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Sources for this episode's research:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-15/allies-planned-to-make-hitler-a-woman/2839874https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hitler-estrogen-hormone-plot_n_927281https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/book-claims-allies-tried-to-turn-the-fuhrer-into-a-female-464589https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025975/Hitler-hormone-plot-Bizarre-plan-British-spies-make-Fuhrer-fraulein.htmlhttps://theweek.com/articles/482449/bizarre-plan-turn-hitler-into-womanhttps://medium.com/the-collector/the-bizzare-plot-to-turn-hitler-into-a-woman-185bc837eba5https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8701024/Revealed-sex-hormone-plan-to-feminise-Hitler.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ballhttps://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/hitlers-psychological-profile-shows-feminine-side/72P2CQ6HYWXN6NHH57GO57FMRU/?c_id=2&objectid=10118222

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