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Baseball once had umpires in rocking chairs, 200-run games, & a 100-year-old captain still playing! ⚾
Discover the strangest rules & records from baseball’s forgotten past →
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#StrangeAsItSeems #OldBaseball #WeirdButTrue
When Baseball Games Lasted All Day — and Umpires Sat in Rocking Chairs!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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⚾️ Ready for some wild & wacky facts and stores about old time baseball?

And by old time, we mean olden times - these were facts & stories archived in a folder titled "Old Baseball" - back in the 1930s! 🤯

New episode dropping tomorrow morning!

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November 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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🌬️ She sold the winds to sailors.
Others wrote jokes on gravestones.
And one man cleaned up Dublin’s underworld with a forged confession.
Three true tales—each stranger than fiction.

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#StrangeAsItSeems #WeirdHistory
The Woman Who Sold The Winds | 1930s Radio Show
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November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

November 11th, 1939

#8000PeaceTreaties #ShipwreckIsland #doorbellkittens

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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

November 10th, 1936

#LancasterPA #CapitalForADay #TheFirstBalloon #footballhistory

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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

November 9th, 1956

#MachuPicchu #ThomasEdison #BadanahArabia

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November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

November 8th, 1941

#PresidentWhoBecameEmperor #InventorMacBrainard #manfredvonrichthofen

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November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Skating 100 miles without sleep.
A rink carved inside a glacier.
A man jumping 15 barrels on ice.
Did all that really happen?
It did — and the proof’s in the archives.
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#StrangeAsItSeems #HistoryTok #IceSkating
They Skated 100 Miles Without Sleep?! Forgotten Feats from the Ice Age of Sport
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November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🕷️ Deep in a sulfur cave in Mexico, scientists found the world’s biggest spiderweb — home to 111,000 spiders living in total darkness.

Truth really is stranger than fiction.

🔗 www.livescience.com/animals/spid...

#StrangeAsItSeems #WeirdScience #FunFact #Nature
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

November 4th, 1948

#UlyssesSGrant #OddAircraftInvention #strangefishing

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November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 30th, 1941

#CarbonDioxide #ScotchFancyCanary #Aphids #soprano

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October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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A smudge of ink built a railroad.
A metal once called “useless” changed medicine forever.
A president borrowed money to reach his own inauguration.
And a stack of 1930s blotter cards captured it all.
🎥 Blotter Card Bombshells→ youtu.be/iIMde_Lr8-4

#StrangeAsItSeems #WeirdHistory #FunFact #Curiosity
Blotter Card Bombshells: Jerusalem’s 3 Faiths, Radium’s “Useless” Metal, TR Visits Every State
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October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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New episode dropping later this morning - more rapid fire trivia mined from the late 1930's blotter card series recently discovered in the #StrangeAsItSeems archives!

#Jerusalem #CzarNicholas #Radium #TeddyRoosevelt

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October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 22nd, 1957

#MalgacheOfMadagascar #CaptWilliamDHackettClimber #snappingturtles

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October 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 21st, 1936

#JudgeRoyBean #GeorgeWashington #Mules #guineapigs

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October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 20th, 1955

#DariusOfPersia #EiffelTower #1950sNomad

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October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Today in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 19th, 1936

#CharlesV #Madrid #1820Election #kiwi

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October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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A 6-year-old boy could multiply massive numbers in his head—then forgot how.
Genius? Miracle? Or something stranger?
🎧 Strange As It Seems: “The Lost Art”
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The Lost Art | 1930s Radio Show
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October 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 18th, 1965

#DeathToKings #Bernadotte #RheinhardtsPheasant #paratroopboots

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October 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 17th, 1947

#CommunistRevolutionInRussia #SaltIsNotWhite #BeardedIndiansInNorthernCanada

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October 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

December 16th, 1947

#Palestine #Beethoven #GasolineBoils

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October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Did you know that Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave? 🤯

Join me for this week's episode - part 2 of the strange and unusual facts about Abraham Lincoln mined from the #StrangeAsItSeems archives!
#AbrahamLincoln #EmancipationProclamation

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Lincoln’s $400 Million Offer, Turkey Pardon & Dream of His Own Death
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October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Ready for some more crazy facts and anecdotes about #AbrahamLincoln?

Stay tuned for another new episode dropping later this morning - finishing out the folder I found recently in the #StrangeAsItSeems archives entitled "Abraham Lincoln"!

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October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The poet who dyed his hair green.
A message written in blood that found its way home 11 years later.
Coincidence—or fate?
🎧 Strange As It Seems: “The Man Who Had Green Hair.”
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#StrangeAsItSeems #HistoryMystery
The Man Who Had Green Hair | 1930s Radio Show
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October 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!

October 14th, 1942

#DorisPeterson #JohnGrimek #WorldsBestBuiltMan #WWIIHelmetsFromFlatirons

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October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM