March 17, 2025 • 35 mins
We dive into the weirdest historical facts we could find, sharing bizarre stories and historical oddities that you won't believe actually happened.
• Alexander the Great may have been buried alive due to a neurological disorder that paralyzed him but left him mentally aware
• Sigmund Freud studied the sex lives of eels while using cocaine, which he considered a miracle drug
• The 1919 Boston Molasses Tsunami created 40-foot waves of syrup that devastated the city
• Johnny Appleseed was a real, somewhat eccentric figure who refused to wear shoes and allegedly terrorized children
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Before we begin today's episode of the Black
Curtain Club podcast, we wouldlike to share a quick disclaimer
.
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hosts and guests on this podcastare their own personal views
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entertainment purposes only.
Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hi everyone and welcome back On today's episode
of the Black Curtain Clubpodcast.
We're having a casual crashcourse into the weirdest history
facts we could find, whetherthey're new to us or new to each
other.
We are here to have some fun.
I'm Becca and I'm joined by mylovely co-hosts, angela and
Brooke.
How are we feeling today,ladies?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm feeling ready.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'm feeling good, a little vexed from some technical
difficulties, but I'm okayright now.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Good, it's good to hear yeah.
So I think the best way to dothis would just be to go into it
.
I'll read my first fact, we'lltalk about it for a little bit,
and if you guys want to jump inwith one after that, I think
that would be a pretty good wayto go.
All right, so for my first fact, did you know?
There's a chance Alexander theGreat was accidentally buried
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alive?
So scientists believe Alexandersuffered from a neurological
disorder called Guillain-Barresyndrome, and they believe that
when he died he was actuallyjust paralyzed and mentally
aware.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh, no, who's Alexander the Great?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He was a conqueror, like way back in the way back.
Yeah, he got sick, okay Right,his kidneys hurt, he died and
for six days his body didn'tstart decomposing.
And that's what makes peoplethink now that it might have
been some kind of neurologicaldisorder.
Back then they were like like,well, he was this big,
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impressive guy.
He died.
He's not decomposing in anormal way.
It must just be because he wasmagic, right.
But now we're thinking maybe hewas buried oh my god sounds
horrific.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh my god, what a way to go oh, the poor thing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I thought so too.
I thought it was fascinating.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I feel so bad, I know , I know.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He's magic.
Yeah Well, I am going to takeus in a totally different
direction with my fun historyfact.
So another dude way, way in theway back, Emperor Claudius
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issued an official edictallowing farting at the Roman
dinner tables after hearing thata man had almost died from
holding in his flatulence.
So what do you think about thatfun fact?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Farting at the dinner table.
I like the idea of people beinglike we're taxpaying citizens
and this is what we're passinglaws about.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The roads are so bad my question is, like you
obviously have to use thebathroom before you go to dinner
.
Like why hold it in untilyou're at the dinner?
And you're just like, oh my god, like I have regret, like I
need to like let one out.
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Why didn't I?
Why didn't I do this before?
Or like why didn't I take ashit before I came to this
dinner with the king?
Like it's just so funny.
Like also like just excuseyourself and go to the bathroom.
Like we have to go all the wayinto being like yeah, you're
just like allowed to fart.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Someone fucking died from it but I think it was
considered rude back then tolike you're having dinner.
It was considered rude to getup from the dinner table for any
reason.
And the only reason I say thatis because I know this other guy
in history which I would loveto unpack one day Tycho Brahe.
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He was an astronomer.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They believe he died from holding in his pee and like
his bladder burst because hewouldn't get up from dinner, and
that's why he died so Wellthat's how they did it back then
like they went on for hours yes, because, like, when I'm having
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dinner, I'm like 20 minutes,okay, if I'm like, if I'm out,
maybe like an hour, two hours atthe most, but dinner sounds
like it's like a whole day thing, like they're like oh you know
what, no breakfast.
We're to start with dinner atbreakfast time and we're still
going to be having dinner at 10o'clock at night.
It's going to be dark out andnow you can fart.
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I wonder if the person who diedfrom it was, if they died at the
dinner table.
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Like arguably the death ruined the dinner more
than the fart.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That would be such a bummer.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Give it up to Claudius, though he was just
like, hey, this isn't right, weshould be allowed to fart
whenever we need to at thedinner A man of the people.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Wow, a man of the people, free the farts, free the
farts, free the farts okay, Iam going to start with the
weirdest man.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
To me this is like the king of weird, sigmund freud
.
We all know how weird this manis.
I chose him because I actuallyalso share a birthday with him,
which is May 6th.
Only, he was born in 1856, andI was obviously not born in 1856
.
Because if I was, I'd probablyalso have to be magic, just like
our first man who was buriedalive.
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But I was trying to findsomething really wacky that he
said, but I couldn't, so I justwent with this.
One.
Turns out that he studied thesex lives of eels.
After his professor at theUniversity of Vienna told him to
study the eels, he couldn'tfind any male eels.
The eels spend most of theirearly lives as male and then
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when they mature, they becomefemale.
So then they switch to adifferent type of the
reproduction stage once they'remore of an adult, and so Freud
was like getting pissed.
He was like I can't find anymale eels.
He's like why are they allfemale?
Like we know how Freud feelsabout females.
He's like pissed, these eels.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I think it's very rich of him to pick apart our
sex lives, but this man isspending all of his free time
trying to watch eels fuck,trying to round up the different
genders of eels so he can studythat.
I think he should be looking athimself a little more.
I was?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
wasn't he also like, really hopped up on cocaine all
the time?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
that was.
Another fact that I found abouthim was that he thought cocaine
was a miracle drug.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I think a lot of people feel like imagine, like
being at a university, you'retrying to study eels and you're
just like taking rails whileyou're like watching.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I think a lot of people feel that way, just like.
Imagine like being at auniversity You're trying to
study eels and you're just liketaking rails, while you're like
watching these eels and you'relike they're not having sex with
each other.
Like, why are they all female?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I can see in the eel's soul right now.
All right, for my next fact Ihave another animal themed one.
So in 1386 a pig was executedin france, in the middle ages.
The pig who attacked the child.
The child later died from thewounds.
The pig was arrested, kept inprison and then sent to court
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where it stood trial for murder,was found guilty and then
executed by hanging.
Uh, I want to add, the pig wasgiven a new suit for the
occasion and a crowd dressed intheir finest clothing gathered
to witness it oh my god thatpoor pig.
I wish all they did was hang it.
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But that's all I wrote down.
I didn't want to go into toomuch detail.
They were very mad at the pig.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I mean, like I hope they at least used it as bacon
after.
Like, what was the pig for inthe first place?
Was it a wild pig?
Was it a farm pig?
Was it a bacon pig?
Like, what were they doing withthe pig?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I believe it was like a farm pig and it, just like
you know, the kid got too closeto the pen and the pig went ham
on it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Nobody did it and then they went ham on it I'm
just, I'm just I have moreempathy for the pig they were.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Ham died angela I don't know you never know, maybe
the pig was trying to eat thekid, like pigs do eat children
maybe it was very gruesome.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It was a gruesome pig attack and it was gruesome what
they did to the pig in returnit's a pig pig world out there
guys yeah, but to dress it up ina suit like that's weird.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
They have to pay their respects to the pig.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'll be damned if that pig is dressed nicer than
me okay, so I have, we're gonnachange and go to another part of
the world.
So the ancient Romans and theChinese would deploy tickle
torture.
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So the Romans would apply salton the soles of feet and then
have a goat lick it off until itbecame extremely painful, while
the Chinese use this torture onthe nobility because there was
little evidence left behind andrecovery was quit.
Oh my God.
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Imagine, after you're released,you get tickled by your
significant other and like itjust brings you back the PTSD
and like it just brings you backto tickle georgia, the ptsd,
just crying out why I mean Ican't imagine a worse hell.
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I have really ticklish feet andreading that that they would
put salt on the soles of thefeet and have a goat lick it off
like I can't even imagine whatkind of fresh hell that is.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They would have to really tie me down.
I'd be kicking that goat in theteeth.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I know that is diabolical, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The poor goat All this again.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What if the goat doesn't want to lick your feet?
They're salty though.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I know it has a desire for salt.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It's like my cousin's a milking goat, but I get to
beat the torture goat.
I bring my family honor.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All right, I have some weird laws from the USA, so
I am bringing us back to theStates.
In Alaska, you're not allowedto push a moose out of an
airplane.
It's actually in their statue2.20.080.
Couldn't find a story behind it, but I'm guessing this has
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happened on more than oneoccasion.
And then in Missouri we haveyou're not allowed to drive with
uncaged bears.
It says that this is datingback to a time when it was more
common to travel with circusanimals.
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So we have a little bit of moreunderstandable explanation.
But Alaska is just straight uplike, yeah, don't push a moose
out of an airplane there's a lotto unpack here.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, there is a lot.
I'm picturing a public serviceannouncement like the clicker
ticket, but it's like if youhave a bear loose in your car,
we will know and you will bepulled over it's just so weirdly
specific I'm still thinkingabout the moose what was it?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
how did you get them?
How did you get the moose inthe airplane?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
like those doors are so small, like moose are massive
like they are them out of, likehow do you push a moose?
Because I would think if amoose didn't want to go out of
the plane, it would let you know.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, how do you get the moose out?
If you can't push it out, itjust lives there.
Now, what if a moose invadedyour plane.
Like you just parked your planeand you come back and there's a
moose in it.
You're like great.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm not allowed to push out.
I wouldn't take off with themoose in the plane though.
I'd just be like all right,well, I'm leaving the door open
for you, Please leave.
I mean, I don't think moose canunderstand, but sooner or later
it'll leave.
Like why are why are peoplepushing moose out of airplanes?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I don't understand it's like the geneva convention.
We're not supposed to dowarfare with like chemical
weapons.
But and you also can't bepushing moose out on your
enemies either you're just likecrop dusting moose imagine if
that was a war tactic, thoughyeah I was gonna say they just
drop a moose on someone's tankand it's like we got 20 pissed
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off that's the canadian that'sthe canadian.
You can still do it in Canada,you just can't do it in Alaska.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah right, it's the Canadian attack Alaska's like
we're not going to sue that one.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I thought this was the land of the free, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
My next one's weird.
In 1998, 1,200 bones from some10 human bodies were found in
the basement of BenjaminFranklin's house.
Now, before you go crafting amurder mystery about the
founding father.
It was revealed that the bodieswere used in the study of human
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anatomy.
I'm just like that's what Iwould say too.
No, I wasn't murdering people,I was studying them.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I have heard that theory, though before, that he
was a serial killer.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Um, I mean, like where was he getting the bodies
to study them in the first place?
Like was he just like diggingthem up?
Were people donating the bodiesto him?
Like you'd think that when theyfound them, like whoever found
them would be like yeah, likehe'd have like documented
evidence of whoever gave him thebodies or like where he got
them from.
So like I am suspicious I'mdefinitely suspicious.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, I want to know, like why are we just accepting
that at face value?
I would like to like analyzethe dna of these people, figure
out who they were like.
Did they go missing?
You know what I mean?
1200 bones is a lot of bones,those are like fragmented a lot
of like yeah, benjamin franklin,what have you been up to my guy
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?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
benjamin franklin seems like he was honestly lit,
like I have this shirt that saysbenjamin drank it and I'm like,
yeah, that's just the type ofguy he was like.
He was just like there for theparties, he was there for the.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I guess he was murdering, for science he was
studying well, I'm gonna keep usin the states and I'm gonna
talk about the molasses tsunami.
So in 1919, 2.3 million gallontank exploded and it would turn
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the streets of Boston intorivers of molasses, and
according to some reports, theinitial wave of syrup that hit
the city was 40 feet high.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh my, God, I mean talk about a sticky situation.
Oh, and the way molasses smells.
Was it hot, oh, hot.
Well, it would have to be hotoh, that would not be good.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, because it cools down.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It's like it like hardens, so it would have to be
like hot flowing lava molassesfuck how many people got burnt,
how many people ate it withtheir pancakes.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I bet they don't want pancakes.
What were they doing to try tosurvive, jack?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
and the Titanic, like floating on a door.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'll never let go, jack.
They're like it's kind of likea hot tub, like, once we get off
our little door, like we canrelax in it.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Maybe it was hungry, Jack the pancake mix.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
If you got into the molasses and it got all over you
like that, like I feel likeyou'd be sticky for a really
long time, like I don't thinkyou'd ever be able to get all
the way unsticky.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, I imagine it's like being tarred and feathered,
like it burns through your skinas soon as it touches you.
There's no way, like you can'twipe it off, it'll just slough
off your skin.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Ugh.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Ah, ah, just think of that.
40 feet of molasses, tallerthan me, taller than you.
I hope they survive.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, it's taller than all of us stacked up
together.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh my gosh Trench coat style.
Yeah, it would wash us over.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I have a Pope once declared war on cats.
Pope Gregory IX once declared awar on cats because he was a
man of the Catholic Church andhe thought that cats were
satanic.
This happened in 1233.
It lasted one year.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh my god, poor cats.
What a bad rap.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Dude, no kidding.
Yeah, and then the plague cameafter.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Oh my gosh, see, they weren't there to get the rats
and the fleas yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well, they brought that on themselves then no, pope
gregory, oh once you've seenone pope, you've seen them all.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Once you've seen one pope.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You've seen them all pope, this pope, that it's not
even his real name, oh my, gosh,we'll just unleash the cast on
them, it'll be fine.
okay, now this one is my lastfact, but it's my longest.
Johnnyleseed was a real person,right?
A lot of people don't know thatHis real name was John Chapman
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and his hometown was Leominster,massachusetts.
He also has a street namedafter him, though the city
planners decided it would bemore poetic to use his mythical
name, johnny Appleseed Lane.
So he was like an apple mogul,you guys.
His great, great greatgrandfather came from England to
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Boston and when he died, in1768, he left his wife 30 apple
trees.
It said that Johnny Appleseedslept outside.
He refused to start campfiresbecause he was afraid a bug
would fly into it and be burnedalive.
He was like intensely religious, but it was like a weird
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newfound religion.
He was vegetarian.
Because of this, he thought itwas cruel to harm any living
creature.
He thought trees were livingand he found, like the practice
of grafting to plant trees to becruel.
So that's why he dealt only inseeds.
There's also a story of himstepping on a worm, and it made
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him so distraught that he threwhis shoes away and never wore
another pair since, it said, hisfeet were gray and scaly and
tough, and he used to terrorizechildren by pressing hot coals
into his soles or stabbing themwith needles.
It didn't hurt at all, heclaimed.
Oh my god and then here'sanother thing why was?
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he terrorizing the childrenbecause he was a weirdo and
nobody talks about it.
Brooke, he also planted a plantcalled dog fennel while he was
like going about planting hisapple trees because he thought
it was a cure-all, but now it'sconsidered a noxious invasive
weed, so he's also aneco-terrorist.
What the heck?
We let Johnny Appleseed getaway with it for too long.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I was like how romantic.
Like he left his wife 30 trees,like that's so sweet of him,
like wow.
And then you were like yeah, heterrorizes children with
needles.
I was like what, what is thisman doing?
At first I was like he soundslike kind of a Buddhist, like he
doesn't like hurting nature,like he doesn't like hurting any
kinds of bugs, he just wants toplant his little trees and he's
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a little bit religious and hewants to go on his merry way.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But then he doesn't like hurting living things, but
apparently hurting children isfine.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Hurting them mentally Class A weirdo Right.
So the way he would find aplace to sleep for the night is
he would preach on the streetsabout his weird newfound
religion and try to encouragepeople to join the cause.
And if people felt sorry enoughto invite him into their home,
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he would make them pray in hisweird prayer before he would let
them eat and kept them up allnight with these weird made up
religious stories, and that'swhy he slept outside so much
okay so he had a wife and he hada place where all of these
trees were, but he needed to go.
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Grandfather, had a wife, sojohnny apple seed stayed
celibate his entire life andthat was another part of his
religion oh, my god married henever had sex he wanted to fuck
the apple tree, bro, yeah he wasa weird guy.
Nobody talks about it that's soweird.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
At first I was like, oh, he has like a cute mystical
name, like I want a cutemystical name, and then he's
actually just a freak, like hekind of ruined mystical names
for me well, brooke, you hadweird laws in the united states.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I have for you all a weird law that still exists in
london.
So this is called themetropolitan police act of 1839,
and it criminalized a range ofnew nuisances such as knocking
on a door and running away,flying kites, singing obscene
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ballads and sliding on ice inthe street, and technically, all
of these activities are stilloffenses within the Metropolitan
Police Area of London and youcan be given a fine up to 500
pounds.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
What is this?
The town from Footloose.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, like it still exists on this earth where
literally like none of thesethings are really bothering
people Except for, like I don'tknow, knocking on people's doors
and running away.
We used to call that Nicky,nicky, nine Doors when we were
little, and every time I saythat people are like no brooke,
it's just called ding dong ditchand I'm like nah, it's nicki,
nicki, nine doors oh my gosh, myheart sank when you started
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saying that I had no idea whereyou were going with that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh, nikki, nikki, nine doors.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Okay, that is cute, I like that I just want to say
that's like one of the mostcanadian things I've ever heard
I feel like becca and I would beplaying a lot of nikki nikki
nine doors if we were togetherat any time, at any point in our
lives, even as adults.
I feel like we would do it nowoh, that was my jam growing up.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I was so good at it.
I loved like diving into thebushes so dramatically.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But you think in 1839 , how many obscene ballads were
being just randomly sung on thestreets that they had to outlaw
it probably a a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's probably out like most are probably forgotten
because of this.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I guess there's no troubadours out there singing
Doja Cat in London.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Maiden had them, apple-bottom jeans.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That'd be Johnny Appleseed's anthem.
Do you have more, Angie?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I do.
I do have a few more, okay, butgood, so I also have.
When the USS Indianapolis wasstruck by a Japanese submarine
in July of 1945, survivors wereleft in the water for four days,
during which time around 600men died of exposure,
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dehydration and shark attacks.
Experts believe it may be thesingle greatest concentration of
shark attacks in human historyoh, as if you didn't need enough
of a reason to never go in theocean oh, I love going in the
ocean.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I'm not scared of sharks, I am scared of jellyfish
yeah, but imagine like you.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Like the ship flips right, like everybody gets all
topsy-turvy.
You finally make it out and youjump into the water hoping to
swim to safety, and there's justsharks ripping people to
ribbons.
Oh my gosh, it's like a movie.
Those must be some hungrysharks.
A A frenzy of battle 600 600.
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I mean that's a lot.
That's a lot, that's like apercentage of people.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah.
So my other thing that I reallywanted to talk about was
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something that happened inhistory in like the 1400s, 1500s
.
So in July of 1518, FrauTrophia began dancing in chaotic
fever on the streets inStrasbourg.
She danced for a week straightand soon others joined with her
Within a month.
The dancing plague of 1518claimed between 50 and 400
victims.
Historical sources make itclear the victims danced, but
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why they did remains unexplainedremains unexplained.
The same thing happened beforethere were these mysterious
outbreaks.
That happened in the 1020s.
In Bernberg, Germany, AChristmas Eve service was
disturbed when revelersinexplicably danced around the
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church In Aiken.
In 1374, a large scale outbreakwas recorded that spread to
Cologne, Flanders, Hainaut andStrasbourg and some other towns.
And then in 1428 inSchaffhausen, a monk even danced
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himself to death.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Whoa, oh my gosh.
See, this is London was likenever again.
No more music.
This is where footlooses reallycome from.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, what kind of plague, though, was that that
just compelled people to dancethemselves to death?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
this is like some a24 stuff yeah, I just thought it
was the plague of I just want tohave a good time.
But then you started peoplelike people started dying from
dancing too much and I was likewhat in the world?
Like maybe they just were justhaving so much fun, they didn't
want to stop to eat or dowhatever, and so they just died
because they were like.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I mean, I feel like you'd have to be on something,
though, for that I mean humanskind of get into a herd
mentality when they all gettogether and there's like a
point when logic and reason goout the window and they're just
going with the flow of the crowd.
So maybe it was something thatonce it got like super big, more
people were pulled in and itwas just like I guess we're
doing this now.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It's crazy is it like a competitive thing, like you
know how on um step up the whatthe cult one?
No, no, the cult one.
Wrap up step up.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It was like a step up .
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You got served wow, I was thinking about midsummer
and Becca was thinking aboutstep up midsummer is good.
That is really good because theydid a lot of dancing where
they're like literally likeeveryone has to dance and
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everyone is gonna die, exceptfor the person who is dancing
last.
That's the only person who'sgonna live, and they literally
kill all of them, except for her.
Um, once they stop dancing andshe like becomes the queen or
whatever, but like it's almostlike that, but reverse, like
it's like oh, we can't stopdancing, because if that other
person's better than me, like Ihave to show them up, but
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instead they like dancethemselves to death.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's crazy, right.
So I do have and I lied, I dohave one more that I'd like to
close this out with.
Yes, tell us and this made megiggle a lot.
Okay, so, oh boy, see if I canget through this.
In 1997, an excavation near theancient Egyptian city of Thebes
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revealed the oldest prostheticever discovered.
Do you want to take a guesswhat it was?
A dick Weird, yeah, nodiscovered.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Do you want to take a guess what it was?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
a dick, weird yeah no , I wish it was that weird, but
it's not that it's so it.
It was an engraved wooden toe.
Fit it to the right foot of anegypt woman who lived 3,000
years ago the Cairo toe.
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This is what made me giggle.
The Cairo toe was practical,modified over time to
accommodate the woman's gait,but it was also designed with
aesthetics in mind, intended tobe worn in open toe sandals, not
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concealed so was it likepermanently?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
was it permanently painted I?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
don't know the cairo toe.
She was an influencer waybefore her time.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Did it have a permanent toe ring on it?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Imagine the wave of people cutting off their toes so
they could be fashionable andget their own wooden toe.
You know what happened.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Probably that sounds like some Cinderella shit, like
old Cinderella, where they cutoff their heels.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh yeah, like Brothers Grimm's Cinderella,
where it gets real awesome yeah,yeah.
Her shoe's full of blood.
She's not a noble woman.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
She's not an influencer oh, so that's it,
that's.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
That's all the facts that I have for today it's good
to know that we live in a veryweird time, but it has always
been a weird time to live onplanet earth, so it kind of
stays consistent that way, Iguess.
And honestly, if that doesn'tsum it up, I don't know what
does.
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hi everyone and welcome back On today's episode
of the Black Curtain Clubpodcast.
We're having a casual crashcourse into the weirdest history
facts we could find, whetherthey're new to us or new to each
other.
We are here to have some fun.
I'm Becca and I'm joined by mylovely co-hosts, angela and
Brooke.
How are we feeling today,ladies?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm feeling ready.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'm feeling good, a little vexed from some technical
difficulties, but I'm okayright now.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Good, it's good to hear yeah.
So I think the best way to dothis would just be to go into it
.
I'll read my first fact, we'lltalk about it for a little bit,
and if you guys want to jump inwith one after that, I think
that would be a pretty good wayto go.
All right, so for my first fact, did you know?
There's a chance Alexander theGreat was accidentally buried
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alive?
So scientists believe Alexandersuffered from a neurological
disorder called Guillain-Barresyndrome, and they believe that
when he died he was actuallyjust paralyzed and mentally
aware.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh, no, who's Alexander the Great?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He was a conqueror, like way back in the way back.
Yeah, he got sick, okay Right,his kidneys hurt, he died and
for six days his body didn'tstart decomposing.
And that's what makes peoplethink now that it might have
been some kind of neurologicaldisorder.
Back then they were like like,well, he was this big,
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impressive guy.
He died.
He's not decomposing in anormal way.
It must just be because he wasmagic, right.
But now we're thinking maybe hewas buried oh my god sounds
horrific.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh my god, what a way to go oh, the poor thing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I thought so too.
I thought it was fascinating.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I feel so bad, I know , I know.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He's magic.
Yeah Well, I am going to takeus in a totally different
direction with my fun historyfact.
So another dude way, way in theway back, Emperor Claudius
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issued an official edictallowing farting at the Roman
dinner tables after hearing thata man had almost died from
holding in his flatulence.
So what do you think about thatfun fact?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Farting at the dinner table.
I like the idea of people beinglike we're taxpaying citizens
and this is what we're passinglaws about.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The roads are so bad my question is, like you
obviously have to use thebathroom before you go to dinner
.
Like why hold it in untilyou're at the dinner?
And you're just like, oh my god, like I have regret, like I
need to like let one out.
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Why didn't I?
Why didn't I do this before?
Or like why didn't I take ashit before I came to this
dinner with the king?
Like it's just so funny.
Like also like just excuseyourself and go to the bathroom.
Like we have to go all the wayinto being like yeah, you're
just like allowed to fart.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Someone fucking died from it but I think it was
considered rude back then tolike you're having dinner.
It was considered rude to getup from the dinner table for any
reason.
And the only reason I say thatis because I know this other guy
in history which I would loveto unpack one day Tycho Brahe.
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He was an astronomer.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They believe he died from holding in his pee and like
his bladder burst because hewouldn't get up from dinner, and
that's why he died so Wellthat's how they did it back then
like they went on for hours yes, because, like, when I'm having
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dinner, I'm like 20 minutes,okay, if I'm like, if I'm out,
maybe like an hour, two hours atthe most, but dinner sounds
like it's like a whole day thing, like they're like oh you know
what, no breakfast.
We're to start with dinner atbreakfast time and we're still
going to be having dinner at 10o'clock at night.
It's going to be dark out andnow you can fart.
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I wonder if the person who diedfrom it was, if they died at the
dinner table.
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Like arguably the death ruined the dinner more
than the fart.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That would be such a bummer.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Give it up to Claudius, though he was just
like, hey, this isn't right, weshould be allowed to fart
whenever we need to at thedinner A man of the people.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Wow, a man of the people, free the farts, free the
farts, free the farts okay, Iam going to start with the
weirdest man.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
To me this is like the king of weird, sigmund freud
.
We all know how weird this manis.
I chose him because I actuallyalso share a birthday with him,
which is May 6th.
Only, he was born in 1856, andI was obviously not born in 1856
.
Because if I was, I'd probablyalso have to be magic, just like
our first man who was buriedalive.
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But I was trying to findsomething really wacky that he
said, but I couldn't, so I justwent with this.
One.
Turns out that he studied thesex lives of eels.
After his professor at theUniversity of Vienna told him to
study the eels, he couldn'tfind any male eels.
The eels spend most of theirearly lives as male and then
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when they mature, they becomefemale.
So then they switch to adifferent type of the
reproduction stage once they'remore of an adult, and so Freud
was like getting pissed.
He was like I can't find anymale eels.
He's like why are they allfemale?
Like we know how Freud feelsabout females.
He's like pissed, these eels.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I think it's very rich of him to pick apart our
sex lives, but this man isspending all of his free time
trying to watch eels fuck,trying to round up the different
genders of eels so he can studythat.
I think he should be looking athimself a little more.
I was?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
wasn't he also like, really hopped up on cocaine all
the time?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
that was.
Another fact that I found abouthim was that he thought cocaine
was a miracle drug.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I think a lot of people feel like imagine, like
being at a university, you'retrying to study eels and you're
just like taking rails whileyou're like watching.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I think a lot of people feel that way, just like.
Imagine like being at auniversity You're trying to
study eels and you're just liketaking rails, while you're like
watching these eels and you'relike they're not having sex with
each other.
Like, why are they all female?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I can see in the eel's soul right now.
All right, for my next fact Ihave another animal themed one.
So in 1386 a pig was executedin france, in the middle ages.
The pig who attacked the child.
The child later died from thewounds.
The pig was arrested, kept inprison and then sent to court
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where it stood trial for murder,was found guilty and then
executed by hanging.
Uh, I want to add, the pig wasgiven a new suit for the
occasion and a crowd dressed intheir finest clothing gathered
to witness it oh my god thatpoor pig.
I wish all they did was hang it.
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But that's all I wrote down.
I didn't want to go into toomuch detail.
They were very mad at the pig.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I mean, like I hope they at least used it as bacon
after.
Like, what was the pig for inthe first place?
Was it a wild pig?
Was it a farm pig?
Was it a bacon pig?
Like, what were they doing withthe pig?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I believe it was like a farm pig and it, just like
you know, the kid got too closeto the pen and the pig went ham
on it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Nobody did it and then they went ham on it I'm
just, I'm just I have moreempathy for the pig they were.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Ham died angela I don't know you never know, maybe
the pig was trying to eat thekid, like pigs do eat children
maybe it was very gruesome.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It was a gruesome pig attack and it was gruesome what
they did to the pig in returnit's a pig pig world out there
guys yeah, but to dress it up ina suit like that's weird.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
They have to pay their respects to the pig.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'll be damned if that pig is dressed nicer than
me okay, so I have, we're gonnachange and go to another part of
the world.
So the ancient Romans and theChinese would deploy tickle
torture.
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So the Romans would apply salton the soles of feet and then
have a goat lick it off until itbecame extremely painful, while
the Chinese use this torture onthe nobility because there was
little evidence left behind andrecovery was quit.
Oh my God.
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Imagine, after you're released,you get tickled by your
significant other and like itjust brings you back the PTSD
and like it just brings you backto tickle georgia, the ptsd,
just crying out why I mean Ican't imagine a worse hell.
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I have really ticklish feet andreading that that they would
put salt on the soles of thefeet and have a goat lick it off
like I can't even imagine whatkind of fresh hell that is.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They would have to really tie me down.
I'd be kicking that goat in theteeth.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I know that is diabolical, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The poor goat All this again.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What if the goat doesn't want to lick your feet?
They're salty though.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I know it has a desire for salt.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It's like my cousin's a milking goat, but I get to
beat the torture goat.
I bring my family honor.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All right, I have some weird laws from the USA, so
I am bringing us back to theStates.
In Alaska, you're not allowedto push a moose out of an
airplane.
It's actually in their statue2.20.080.
Couldn't find a story behind it, but I'm guessing this has
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happened on more than oneoccasion.
And then in Missouri we haveyou're not allowed to drive with
uncaged bears.
It says that this is datingback to a time when it was more
common to travel with circusanimals.
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So we have a little bit of moreunderstandable explanation.
But Alaska is just straight uplike, yeah, don't push a moose
out of an airplane there's a lotto unpack here.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, there is a lot.
I'm picturing a public serviceannouncement like the clicker
ticket, but it's like if youhave a bear loose in your car,
we will know and you will bepulled over it's just so weirdly
specific I'm still thinkingabout the moose what was it?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
how did you get them?
How did you get the moose inthe airplane?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
like those doors are so small, like moose are massive
like they are them out of, likehow do you push a moose?
Because I would think if amoose didn't want to go out of
the plane, it would let you know.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, how do you get the moose out?
If you can't push it out, itjust lives there.
Now, what if a moose invadedyour plane.
Like you just parked your planeand you come back and there's a
moose in it.
You're like great.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm not allowed to push out.
I wouldn't take off with themoose in the plane though.
I'd just be like all right,well, I'm leaving the door open
for you, Please leave.
I mean, I don't think moose canunderstand, but sooner or later
it'll leave.
Like why are why are peoplepushing moose out of airplanes?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I don't understand it's like the geneva convention.
We're not supposed to dowarfare with like chemical
weapons.
But and you also can't bepushing moose out on your
enemies either you're just likecrop dusting moose imagine if
that was a war tactic, thoughyeah I was gonna say they just
drop a moose on someone's tankand it's like we got 20 pissed
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off that's the canadian that'sthe canadian.
You can still do it in Canada,you just can't do it in Alaska.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah right, it's the Canadian attack Alaska's like
we're not going to sue that one.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I thought this was the land of the free, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
My next one's weird.
In 1998, 1,200 bones from some10 human bodies were found in
the basement of BenjaminFranklin's house.
Now, before you go crafting amurder mystery about the
founding father.
It was revealed that the bodieswere used in the study of human
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anatomy.
I'm just like that's what Iwould say too.
No, I wasn't murdering people,I was studying them.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I have heard that theory, though before, that he
was a serial killer.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Um, I mean, like where was he getting the bodies
to study them in the first place?
Like was he just like diggingthem up?
Were people donating the bodiesto him?
Like you'd think that when theyfound them, like whoever found
them would be like yeah, likehe'd have like documented
evidence of whoever gave him thebodies or like where he got
them from.
So like I am suspicious I'mdefinitely suspicious.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, I want to know, like why are we just accepting
that at face value?
I would like to like analyzethe dna of these people, figure
out who they were like.
Did they go missing?
You know what I mean?
1200 bones is a lot of bones,those are like fragmented a lot
of like yeah, benjamin franklin,what have you been up to my guy
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?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
benjamin franklin seems like he was honestly lit,
like I have this shirt that saysbenjamin drank it and I'm like,
yeah, that's just the type ofguy he was like.
He was just like there for theparties, he was there for the.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I guess he was murdering, for science he was
studying well, I'm gonna keep usin the states and I'm gonna
talk about the molasses tsunami.
So in 1919, 2.3 million gallontank exploded and it would turn
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the streets of Boston intorivers of molasses, and
according to some reports, theinitial wave of syrup that hit
the city was 40 feet high.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh my, God, I mean talk about a sticky situation.
Oh, and the way molasses smells.
Was it hot, oh, hot.
Well, it would have to be hotoh, that would not be good.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh, because it cools down.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It's like it like hardens, so it would have to be
like hot flowing lava molassesfuck how many people got burnt,
how many people ate it withtheir pancakes.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I bet they don't want pancakes.
What were they doing to try tosurvive, jack?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
and the Titanic, like floating on a door.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I'll never let go, jack.
They're like it's kind of likea hot tub, like, once we get off
our little door, like we canrelax in it.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Maybe it was hungry, Jack the pancake mix.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
If you got into the molasses and it got all over you
like that, like I feel likeyou'd be sticky for a really
long time, like I don't thinkyou'd ever be able to get all
the way unsticky.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, I imagine it's like being tarred and feathered,
like it burns through your skinas soon as it touches you.
There's no way, like you can'twipe it off, it'll just slough
off your skin.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Ugh.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Ah, ah, just think of that.
40 feet of molasses, tallerthan me, taller than you.
I hope they survive.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, it's taller than all of us stacked up
together.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh my gosh Trench coat style.
Yeah, it would wash us over.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I have a Pope once declared war on cats.
Pope Gregory IX once declared awar on cats because he was a
man of the Catholic Church andhe thought that cats were
satanic.
This happened in 1233.
It lasted one year.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh my god, poor cats.
What a bad rap.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Dude, no kidding.
Yeah, and then the plague cameafter.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Oh my gosh, see, they weren't there to get the rats
and the fleas yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well, they brought that on themselves then no, pope
gregory, oh once you've seenone pope, you've seen them all.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Once you've seen one pope.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You've seen them all pope, this pope, that it's not
even his real name, oh my, gosh,we'll just unleash the cast on
them, it'll be fine.
okay, now this one is my lastfact, but it's my longest.
Johnnyleseed was a real person,right?
A lot of people don't know thatHis real name was John Chapman
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and his hometown was Leominster,massachusetts.
He also has a street namedafter him, though the city
planners decided it would bemore poetic to use his mythical
name, johnny Appleseed Lane.
So he was like an apple mogul,you guys.
His great, great greatgrandfather came from England to
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Boston and when he died, in1768, he left his wife 30 apple
trees.
It said that Johnny Appleseedslept outside.
He refused to start campfiresbecause he was afraid a bug
would fly into it and be burnedalive.
He was like intensely religious, but it was like a weird
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newfound religion.
He was vegetarian.
Because of this, he thought itwas cruel to harm any living
creature.
He thought trees were livingand he found, like the practice
of grafting to plant trees to becruel.
So that's why he dealt only inseeds.
There's also a story of himstepping on a worm, and it made
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him so distraught that he threwhis shoes away and never wore
another pair since, it said, hisfeet were gray and scaly and
tough, and he used to terrorizechildren by pressing hot coals
into his soles or stabbing themwith needles.
It didn't hurt at all, heclaimed.
Oh my god and then here'sanother thing why was?
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he terrorizing the childrenbecause he was a weirdo and
nobody talks about it.
Brooke, he also planted a plantcalled dog fennel while he was
like going about planting hisapple trees because he thought
it was a cure-all, but now it'sconsidered a noxious invasive
weed, so he's also aneco-terrorist.
What the heck?
We let Johnny Appleseed getaway with it for too long.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I was like how romantic.
Like he left his wife 30 trees,like that's so sweet of him,
like wow.
And then you were like yeah, heterrorizes children with
needles.
I was like what, what is thisman doing?
At first I was like he soundslike kind of a Buddhist, like he
doesn't like hurting nature,like he doesn't like hurting any
kinds of bugs, he just wants toplant his little trees and he's
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a little bit religious and hewants to go on his merry way.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But then he doesn't like hurting living things, but
apparently hurting children isfine.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Hurting them mentally Class A weirdo Right.
So the way he would find aplace to sleep for the night is
he would preach on the streetsabout his weird newfound
religion and try to encouragepeople to join the cause.
And if people felt sorry enoughto invite him into their home,
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he would make them pray in hisweird prayer before he would let
them eat and kept them up allnight with these weird made up
religious stories, and that'swhy he slept outside so much
okay so he had a wife and he hada place where all of these
trees were, but he needed to go.
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Grandfather, had a wife, sojohnny apple seed stayed
celibate his entire life andthat was another part of his
religion oh, my god married henever had sex he wanted to fuck
the apple tree, bro, yeah he wasa weird guy.
Nobody talks about it that's soweird.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
At first I was like, oh, he has like a cute mystical
name, like I want a cutemystical name, and then he's
actually just a freak, like hekind of ruined mystical names
for me well, brooke, you hadweird laws in the united states.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I have for you all a weird law that still exists in
london.
So this is called themetropolitan police act of 1839,
and it criminalized a range ofnew nuisances such as knocking
on a door and running away,flying kites, singing obscene
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ballads and sliding on ice inthe street, and technically, all
of these activities are stilloffenses within the Metropolitan
Police Area of London and youcan be given a fine up to 500
pounds.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
What is this?
The town from Footloose.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, like it still exists on this earth where
literally like none of thesethings are really bothering
people Except for, like I don'tknow, knocking on people's doors
and running away.
We used to call that Nicky,nicky, nine Doors when we were
little, and every time I saythat people are like no brooke,
it's just called ding dong ditchand I'm like nah, it's nicki,
nicki, nine doors oh my gosh, myheart sank when you started
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saying that I had no idea whereyou were going with that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh, nikki, nikki, nine doors.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Okay, that is cute, I like that I just want to say
that's like one of the mostcanadian things I've ever heard
I feel like becca and I would beplaying a lot of nikki nikki
nine doors if we were togetherat any time, at any point in our
lives, even as adults.
I feel like we would do it nowoh, that was my jam growing up.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I was so good at it.
I loved like diving into thebushes so dramatically.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But you think in 1839 , how many obscene ballads were
being just randomly sung on thestreets that they had to outlaw
it probably a a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's probably out like most are probably forgotten
because of this.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I guess there's no troubadours out there singing
Doja Cat in London.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Maiden had them, apple-bottom jeans.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That'd be Johnny Appleseed's anthem.
Do you have more, Angie?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I do.
I do have a few more, okay, butgood, so I also have.
When the USS Indianapolis wasstruck by a Japanese submarine
in July of 1945, survivors wereleft in the water for four days,
during which time around 600men died of exposure,
(26:56):
dehydration and shark attacks.
Experts believe it may be thesingle greatest concentration of
shark attacks in human historyoh, as if you didn't need enough
of a reason to never go in theocean oh, I love going in the
ocean.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I'm not scared of sharks, I am scared of jellyfish
yeah, but imagine like you.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Like the ship flips right, like everybody gets all
topsy-turvy.
You finally make it out and youjump into the water hoping to
swim to safety, and there's justsharks ripping people to
ribbons.
Oh my gosh, it's like a movie.
Those must be some hungrysharks.
A A frenzy of battle 600 600.
(27:40):
I mean that's a lot.
That's a lot, that's like apercentage of people.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah.
So my other thing that I reallywanted to talk about was
(28:08):
something that happened inhistory in like the 1400s, 1500s
.
So in July of 1518, FrauTrophia began dancing in chaotic
fever on the streets inStrasbourg.
She danced for a week straightand soon others joined with her
Within a month.
The dancing plague of 1518claimed between 50 and 400
victims.
Historical sources make itclear the victims danced, but
(28:33):
why they did remains unexplainedremains unexplained.
The same thing happened beforethere were these mysterious
outbreaks.
That happened in the 1020s.
In Bernberg, Germany, AChristmas Eve service was
disturbed when revelersinexplicably danced around the
(28:54):
church In Aiken.
In 1374, a large scale outbreakwas recorded that spread to
Cologne, Flanders, Hainaut andStrasbourg and some other towns.
And then in 1428 inSchaffhausen, a monk even danced
(29:18):
himself to death.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Whoa, oh my gosh.
See, this is London was likenever again.
No more music.
This is where footlooses reallycome from.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, what kind of plague, though, was that that
just compelled people to dancethemselves to death?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
this is like some a24 stuff yeah, I just thought it
was the plague of I just want tohave a good time.
But then you started peoplelike people started dying from
dancing too much and I was likewhat in the world?
Like maybe they just were justhaving so much fun, they didn't
want to stop to eat or dowhatever, and so they just died
because they were like.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I mean, I feel like you'd have to be on something,
though, for that I mean humanskind of get into a herd
mentality when they all gettogether and there's like a
point when logic and reason goout the window and they're just
going with the flow of the crowd.
So maybe it was something thatonce it got like super big, more
people were pulled in and itwas just like I guess we're
doing this now.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It's crazy is it like a competitive thing, like you
know how on um step up the whatthe cult one?
No, no, the cult one.
Wrap up step up.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It was like a step up .
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You got served wow, I was thinking about midsummer
and Becca was thinking aboutstep up midsummer is good.
That is really good because theydid a lot of dancing where
they're like literally likeeveryone has to dance and
(30:59):
everyone is gonna die, exceptfor the person who is dancing
last.
That's the only person who'sgonna live, and they literally
kill all of them, except for her.
Um, once they stop dancing andshe like becomes the queen or
whatever, but like it's almostlike that, but reverse, like
it's like oh, we can't stopdancing, because if that other
person's better than me, like Ihave to show them up, but
(31:23):
instead they like dancethemselves to death.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's crazy, right.
So I do have and I lied, I dohave one more that I'd like to
close this out with.
Yes, tell us and this made megiggle a lot.
Okay, so, oh boy, see if I canget through this.
In 1997, an excavation near theancient Egyptian city of Thebes
(31:49):
revealed the oldest prostheticever discovered.
Do you want to take a guesswhat it was?
A dick Weird, yeah, nodiscovered.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Do you want to take a guess what it was?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
a dick, weird yeah no , I wish it was that weird, but
it's not that it's so it.
It was an engraved wooden toe.
Fit it to the right foot of anegypt woman who lived 3,000
years ago the Cairo toe.
(32:22):
This is what made me giggle.
The Cairo toe was practical,modified over time to
accommodate the woman's gait,but it was also designed with
aesthetics in mind, intended tobe worn in open toe sandals, not
(32:44):
concealed so was it likepermanently?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
was it permanently painted I?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
don't know the cairo toe.
She was an influencer waybefore her time.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Did it have a permanent toe ring on it?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Imagine the wave of people cutting off their toes so
they could be fashionable andget their own wooden toe.
You know what happened.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Probably that sounds like some Cinderella shit, like
old Cinderella, where they cutoff their heels.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh yeah, like Brothers Grimm's Cinderella,
where it gets real awesome yeah,yeah.
Her shoe's full of blood.
She's not a noble woman.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
She's not an influencer oh, so that's it,
that's.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
That's all the facts that I have for today it's good
to know that we live in a veryweird time, but it has always
been a weird time to live onplanet earth, so it kind of
stays consistent that way, Iguess.
And honestly, if that doesn'tsum it up, I don't know what
does.
This episode has been such ablast.
Thank you so much for tuning into the weird history episode of
(34:10):
the black curtain club podcast.
Um, don't forget to tune inevery monday wherever podcasts
are available.
Make sure you like, rate andsubscribe and make sure you
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Speaker 3 (34:23):
The more that you can share, the more that we'll be
able to make our goal.
What am I trying to say?
Fucking, scratch all of that.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You just defeated yourself oh, just keep.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Just keep this fucking podcast to yourself,
don't share it with anyone don't?
We don't deserve it no one, two, three, I know One, two, three.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Bye, bye, my love, thank you.
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