History's Most Ridiculous Clothing, with AJ Jacobs: Part One

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CLASSIC: Fort Blunder: The US Fort Mistakenly Built in Canada

After the War of 1812, the US decided to shore up security at Lake Champlain by constructing a fort on Island Point. However, due to a surveying error, the US ended up building this fort in Canada, rather than the states. Listen in to learn more about the ridiculous story of Fort ...  Show more

Mastodons and 'Murica, with Lauren Vogelbaum, Part Two: A Grudge Match with the French

Thomas Jefferson wasn't just obsessed with mastodons for no reason. Instead, he was in an intense dispute with a French naturalist named Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Leclerc argued that the American continent was 'degenerate', and all animals and life forms in the join ...  Show more

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