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    Futility Closet

    Futility Closet

    Futility Closet

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    Length:
    365 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 365 episodes

    Title

    365-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

    For this final episode of the Futility Closet podcast we have eight new lateral thinki...

    32 minutes
    		Nov 29, 2021

    364-Sidney Cotton's Aerial Reconnaissance

    One of the most remarkable pilots of World War II never fired a shot or dropped a bomb...

    34 minutes
    		Nov 22, 2021

    363-The Lambeth Poisoner

    In 1891, a mysterious figure appeared on the streets of London, dispensing pills to po...

    33 minutes
    		Nov 15, 2021

    362-The Leatherman

    In 1856, a mysterious man appeared on the roads of Connecticut and New York, dressed i...

    33 minutes
    		Oct 25, 2021

    361-A Fight Over Nutmeg

    In 1616, British officer Nathaniel Courthope was sent to a tiny island in the East Ind...

    29 minutes
    		Oct 18, 2021

    360-Haggard's Dream

    In 1904, adventure novelist H. Rider Haggard awoke from a dream with the conviction th...

    30 minutes
    		Oct 11, 2021

    359-Stranded in Shangri-La

    In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in New Guinea, leaving three survivors ma...

    30 minutes
    		Oct 04, 2021

    358-The Radium Girls

    In 1917, a New Jersey company began hiring young women to paint luminous marks on the ...

    30 minutes
    		Sep 13, 2021

    357-Scenes From an Earthquake

    The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is remembered for its destructive intensity and t...

    33 minutes
    		Sep 06, 2021

    356-A Strawberry's Journey

    The modern strawberry has a surprisingly dramatic story, involving a French spy in Chi...

    30 minutes
    		Aug 30, 2021