500 Open Tabs Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam

This week we learn about horrific ant genuses and how the film industry was born out of everyone hating Thomas Edison. A listener email answers the age old question of "how long do pig orgasms last?"




Episode Tabs:

These ants decorate their homes with the heads of their enemies

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ants-head-hunters-attack-trap-jaw-enemies-nests

Thomas Edison: The Unintentional Founder of Hollywood

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/03/thomas-edison-the-unintentional-founder-of-hollywood




Listener Tabs:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/100659-longest-orgasm-in-mammals

https://nypost.com/2022/07/18/phrogging-hider-in-my-house-stranger-secretly-lived-with-us/




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This week we learn about Louis Le Prince, the REAL inventor of the motion picture camera and the origins of the color Grue. A listener email inspires a high end horse jacket clothing line.




Episode Tabs:

Who Killed Louis Le Prince? On the forgotten father of film

https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/who-killed-louis-le-prince-on-the-forgotten-father-of-film/

No one could describe the color blue until modern times

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2




Listener Tabs:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/855685.Fly_Away_Home#CommunityReviews

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159116302192?via%3Dihub




NEW: 500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7

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This week we discuss Roar, one of the most unsafe movies ever made and the Nintendo Power Hotline. A listener email reveals all the animals in elected office.




Episode Tabs:

Hollywood's real Tiger King: Insane big cat movie Roar getting VOD rerelease

https://ew.com/movies/roar-movie-vod/

Inside The Nintendo Power Hotline

https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/02/22/inside-the-nintendo-power-hotline




Listener Tabs:

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/top-9-animals-elected-to-office-in-the-united-states/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments




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This week we discuss the origins of the Michelin Man and a first hand account of Vikings from 922. A listener email answers the question of why we don't see Pandas in toilet paper ads.




Episode Tabs:

Allied Forces on D-Day Used a Popular Tourist Guide to Help Liberate France

https://www.military.com/history/allied-forces-d-day-used-popular-tourist-guide-help-liberate-france.html

“The Rus” (An Arab among the Vikings)

https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/12938.ch01.pdf




Listener Tabs:

https://youtu.be/aQthclI55Rk?si=Bw8xdEs8K-Ikbb0j

https://youtu.be/4eJxAhhMiCk?si=xDb9O4IkpDOjEwrL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Alley_(TV_series)?wprov=sfti1




NEW: 500 Open Roads (Google Maps episode guide): https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg9g2HcUaFAzXGbw7

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This week we have our first ever special guest, 500 Tabs' very own editor and friend Alyssa Cooper! We discuss a mountain murder mystery, the importance of March 27th, and sharks on a golf course. A listener email taps into some of our most primal fears.




Episode Tabs:

Ghosts on the Glacier

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/09/world/americas/aconcagua-mountain-expedition-photos.html

The Wikipedia entry for the day of March 27

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27

Six bull sharks inadvertently made their home on an Australian golf course. Then they vanished

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/sport/carbrook-bull-sharks-australia-golf-course-spt-spc-intl/index.html




Listener Tabs:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-acre-spider-web_n_6095724




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This week we discuss insane mental health practices of the 1940s and the NBA's golden horse, Nikola Jokić. A listener email disgusts Kaveh.




Episode Tabs:

Mother’s Little Helper: Vintage Drug Ads

https://www.goretro.com/2014/08/mothers-little-helper-vintage-drug-ads.html

How Nikola Jokić Became The World’s Best Basketball Player

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/how-nikola-jokic-became-the-worlds-best-basketball-player




Listener Tabs:

https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_%27Em_Dry




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