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Omnibus

Twice a week, Ken Jennings and John Roderick add a new entry to the OMNIBUS, an encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories that they are compiling as a time capsule for future generations... Read more

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Episode 560: Universe 25 (Entry 1350.GE0907)

Episode 560: Universe 25 (Entry 1350.GE0907)

In which the "behavioral sink" of rodent utopias is discovered in a Maryland barn, and Ken sings about a urinal trough. ... Read more

10 Aug 2023

1hr 21mins

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Episode 559: Enneagrams (Entry 415.JM0124)

Episode 559: Enneagrams (Entry 415.JM0124)

In which Sufi mysticism inspires a Bolivian philosopher to divide all of humanity into nine personality types, and Ken v... Read more

3 Aug 2023

1hr 39mins

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Episode 558: The Doomsday Clock (Entry 372.1P0407)

Episode 558: The Doomsday Clock (Entry 372.1P0407)

In which a panel of concerned atomic scientists quantify the dangers of the nuclear age with a timely visual aid, and Jo... Read more

27 Jul 2023

1hr 28mins

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Episode 557: Foundling Wheels (Entry 495.IS4915)

Episode 557: Foundling Wheels (Entry 495.IS4915)

In which a medieval pope's disturbing nightmare leads to the addition of "baby doors" at convents and hospitals across E... Read more

20 Jul 2023

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Episode 556: The Sanaa Manuscript (Entry 1100.2T0316)

Episode 556: The Sanaa Manuscript (Entry 1100.2T0316)

In which a Yemeni construction crew finds a priceless trove of Quranic literature and promptly stuff it into potato sack... Read more

13 Jul 2023

1hr 12mins

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Episode 555: The Sarajevo Haggadah (Entry 1102.EX1243)

Episode 555: The Sarajevo Haggadah (Entry 1102.EX1243)

In which a unique piece of Jewish medieval art barely survives two European wars, and John imagines that the Venetian pa... Read more

6 Jul 2023

1hr 19mins

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Episode 554: Salton Sea (Entry 1098.GN1403)

Episode 554: Salton Sea (Entry 1098.GN1403)

In which California's largest lake, created by accident in 1905, teeters on the brink of collapse, and Ken complains abo... Read more

29 Jun 2023

1hr 12mins

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Episode 553: 101 Uses for a Dead Cat (Entry 606.LV0724)

Episode 553: 101 Uses for a Dead Cat (Entry 606.LV0724)

In which an asthmatic British cartoonist sells two million copies of his books of non-jokes for cat skeptics, and John k... Read more

22 Jun 2023

1hr 9mins

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Episode 552: Crackers (Entry 290.NA0302)

Episode 552: Crackers (Entry 290.NA0302)

In which a Shakespearean insult for an obnoxious blowhard comes to be used as an anti-white slur, and Ken wants to test ... Read more

15 Jun 2023

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Episode 551: The Tartarian Empire (Entry 1279.NA0206)

Episode 551: The Tartarian Empire (Entry 1279.NA0206)

In which a QAnon-like conspiracy theory insists that fancy 19th-century architecture was all built by a mysterious, long... Read more

8 Jun 2023

1hr 12mins

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