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Interesting Things with JC

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Interesting Things with JC is a new podcast mini series, with highlight on some of the more interesting historical stories, current events as well as under-told stories.

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  • 84 episodes
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  • Avg 3 min
  • English

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  • #1727
    July 28 · 4 min

    1727: "The Pontic Mountains"

    Interesting Things with JC #1727: "The Pontic Mountains" – A mountain range traps rain along Turkey's Black Sea coast while drying the land just beyond it, shaping forests, farms, trade routes, and entire communities that still follow the mountains today.

  • #1726
    July 27 · 5 min

    1726: "The Pontiac Banshee"

    Interesting Things with JC #1726: "The Pontiac Banshee" – Pontiac kept building sports cars it was never allowed to sell. Even so, every generation left pieces of itself on the performance cars that followed.

  • #1725
    July 26 · 3 min

    1725: "The King Who Invented an Invasion"

    Interesting Things with JC #1725: "The King Who Invented an Invasion" – Sweden's King Gustav III needed Russia to attack first before he could legally wage war, so his government staged a border incident to create the appearance of an invasion. The deception started a real war...

  • #1724
    July 25 · 2 min

    1724: "The History of Yo Mama Jokes"

    Interesting Things with JC #1724: "The History of Yo Mama Jokes" – A "Yo Mama" joke appears on a Babylonian clay tablet from about 1500 BC, showing that one of today's most familiar insults was already making people laugh thousands of years before playgrounds, stand-up comedy, or the internet.

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