223: Turnspit Dogs223: Turnspit Dogs
It’s 1576 and you don’t have a young boy to spare to turn your meat while it cooks. So what could you use? A dog.
A wacky science and history podcast
A wacky science and history podcast
It’s 1576 and you don’t have a young boy to spare to turn your meat while it cooks. So what could you use? A dog.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a naughty summer break episode. If you’re of an age that hasn’t covered human growth and
Harriet lived from around 1835 to 2006! She is believed to be one of the Earth’s longest lived creatures ever recorded. image from Australia Zoo
If you grew up on the east coast of the US, you might’ve had Hellmann’s mayo and on the west coast you’d have Best Foods.
In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn’t afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic,
Seldom written about, female gladiators fought for glory and Rome from around 509 BCE to 200 AD. What little information we have about them was
2012 published research detailed how you could influence someone’s honesty on say, a test. It all depended on if they signed an agreement to be
In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game got the bright idea to transport beavers into the back country with PARACHUTES. It was a wild and wacky
It’s 1789 and the beginning of bureaucracy in the United States. James Madison is writing letters to smooth the path of George Washington’s disorganized congress.
While baby Egyptian fruit bats start life getting carried around, once they get too heavy, their mothers leave them in a cave while they forage.