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**Wiki Walks**

Wiki Walks is a short podcast devoted to some of the more intriguing and, “huh! Who knew?” articles you can run across in the seemingly unending cavalcade of bizarreness that is Wikipedia. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.

Latest Episodes:

Ep.23 – Van Halen's M&Ms Jul 02, 2020

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Musicians are notorious for including insane riders in their contracts when it comes to live shows. Kanye demands a barber chair in his dressing room, for example. But rock gods Van Halen had a particularly odd demand that there be no brown M&Ms in their dressing room. Was this just classic diva behavior, or a brilliant strategic test?

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

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Ep.22 – The Boston Molassacre Jun 30, 2020

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An industrial accident in Boston caused a massive tidal wave of molasses to descend upon an unsuspecting neighborhood, killing 21 people and injuring 150 more. This actually happened.

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

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Ep.21 – The Hungriest Man in History Jun 25, 2020

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The absolutely bonkers story of Tarrare, a deranged Frenchman who could not stop eating anything and everything he could get his hands on. Garbage, cats, people, more garbage. This remorseless eating machine could not be stopped.

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

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Ep.20 – The Tiny Building with 285,000 Businesses Inside Jun 23, 2020

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Thanks to some beneficial corporate tax laws in the state, one forgettably single story building in Delaware is the legal home to nearly ever large US company you've ever heard of....in fact, over 285,000 businesses call this little shabby office home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_Corporation)

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Ep.19 – The Loneliest Whale in the World Jun 18, 2020

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There Is one unidentified whale who has been singing a song and trying to communicate for 31 years In a frequency that only he/she can understand. This Is the story of the Loneliest Whale In the World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale

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Ep.18 – The Drug Detective Jun 16, 2020

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In the 1960s, FDA scientist Dr. Frances Kelsey refused to approve the sleep-aid medicine Thalidomide, because clinical trials had not proved to her that it was safe for pregnant women to take. Soon, the world would see that thousand of babies were born missing limbs because of this dangerous drug.

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

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Ep.17 – The Incredibly Stupid One Jun 11, 2020

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United States Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Douglas Hegdahl is captured by the Vietnamese, but pretends to be an absolute idiot and ends up outsmarting his captors, all the while memorizing hundreds of POWs information to the tune of "Old McDonald Had a Farm".

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

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Ep.16 – The Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich Jun 09, 2020

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Tech giants like Google and Apple have taken advantage of an offshore corporate tax loophole that passes money from the USA to Bermuda to Ireland to the Netherlands and back to the Bermuda. The Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich.

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

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Ep.15 – The Tulsa Race Massacre Jun 04, 2020

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The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The attacks ranged from shootings to lynchings to beatings and even to dropping incendiary bombs from biplanes. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history."

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

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Ep.14 – The CAPTCHA Jun 02, 2020

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The super annoying test you have to take when creating a new account, where you have to spell out the crazy letters or numbers In order to prove you're a human, has a fascinating history In not only thwarting spammers, but helping digitize all written language, all the while feeding the machine hivemind endless information.

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

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