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Join two brothers for a hilarious dive into the untold stories of history's most obscure figures. Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History unearths the hidden tales your teachers forgot to mention—If you love a good laugh with a bit of sibling rivalry, and learning about remarkable everyday people who did extraordinary things, subscribe for your weekly dose of banter and historical deep dives. It’s the history podcast where the underdogs finally get their due.
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S1E33 Sergeant Stubby: The Most Decorated Dog of the First World War
Send us Fan MailThis week, we’re diving into the incredible story of Sergeant Stubby—the most decorated war dog of World War I.From a stray mutt wandering the streets of Connecticut to a bone fide…
S1E32 Lived Once, Buried Twice: Margorie McCall, Grave Robbery and Glorious Revolution
Send us Fan MailImagine waking up in the dark, cold, confused, in absolute agony and trapped inside a wooden box at the bottom of a six foot hole - you’ve just been buried alive!In this episode, we…
S1E31 Roland Garros: Tennis, Planes, Prison Breaks, and Machine Guns
Send us Fan MailWait... What? Roland Garros wasn’t a tennis player?! 🤯 If you think the French Open is named after a legendary clay-court champion, prepare to have your mind blown. In this episode,…
S1E30 Attacked by a Shark, then Mauled by Lions: The Unreal Story of John Doyle.
Send us Fan MailImagine surviving a Great White Shark attack, dragging your bleeding body to shore, and thinking the worst is over—only to be intercepted and mauled by a pride of lions on your way to…
S1E29 Douglas Hegdahl: The Incredibly Stupid Hero of the Vietnam War
Send us Fan MailHow did a young sailor from South Dakota become the ultimate "secret weapon" in the Hanoi Hilton? In this episode, we dive into the legendary story of Douglas Hegdahl, the U.S. Navy…
S1E28 Eating The Zoo: William Buckland and the Birth of Dinosaurs
Send us Fan MailDid you know the man who named the very first dinosaur also tried to eat every animal in the world?Welcome to the utterly chaotic world of William Buckland—the 19th-century…
S1E27 How Vasily Arkhipov Saved The World
Send us Fan MailOn October 27, 1962, the world almost ended. While the Cuban Missile Crisis raged on land, a terrifying showdown was happening deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This is the incredible…
S1E26 A Wing and a Prayer: The Flight of Elmer of Malmesbury
Send us Fan MailIn 1010 AD, a Benedictine monk strapped wings to his hands and feet and leaped from the tower of Malmesbury Abbey. He didn’t just make history; he broke both his legs and became a…
S1E25 Admiral Yi Sun-sin: From the Miracle at Myeongnyang to His Final Stand
Send us Fan MailAfter being stripped of his rank and tortured, Admiral Yi Sun-sin returned to a decimated navy with only 13 ships remaining.We break down:The Miracle at Myeongnyang: How Yi used the…
S1E24 Admiral Yi Sun-sin: The Making of a Military Legend
Send us Fan MailDiscover the incredible true story of Yi Sun-sin, the man who would become the 'God of the Sea' who never lost a battle.In this first part of a two episode tale, we explore the…
S1E23 First Blood: Jure Grando and the birth of the Vampire (an Honourable Mentions and Boo Foons Mystery Investigators special episode)
Send us Fan MailIn 1672, deep in the village of Kringa, Istria, a man died... and then things got weird. For 16 years, Jure Grando terrorized his widow and the townspeople, leading to the first…
S1E22 Eben Byers: The Millionaire Dissolved in Liquid Sunshine
Send us Fan MailIn 1932, a headline in the Wall Street Journal shocked the world: "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off." This is the gruesome and tragic true story of Eben Byers, a…
S1E21 Stagecoach Mary: The Badass Black Postal Worker Who Ruled the Wild West
Send us Fan MailMeet Mary Fields—better known as Stagecoach Mary—the first African American woman to work for the U.S. Postal Service, and arguably the toughest person in 1890s Montana.Standing 6…
S1E20 Sam Panopoulos and the History of Hawaiian Pizza
Send us Fan MailIn 1962, a Greek immigrant named Sam Panopoulos decided to crack open a can of pineapple at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario. He wasn't trying to start a global food war;…
S1E19 The Deadly History of the Rugby Ball: How Richard Lindon Changed Sports
Send us Fan MailWhy was inflating a rugby ball once a death sentence? In this episode of Honourable Mentions, we dive into the gritty history of 19th Century sports and the true and tragic story of…
S1E18 Adam Rainer: The Man Who Was Both a Dwarf and a Giant
Send us Fan MailImagine spending your early twenties rejected from the army for being too short, only to end your life as a literal giant. This is the unbelievable, tragic, and medically baffling…
S1E17 Jam Sahib Digvijaysinhji: The Maharaja Who Rescued a Thousand Children.
Send us Fan MailWe present the extraordinary true story of Maharaja Jam Sahib Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar—a royal leader whose compassion reshaped the lives of more than 1,000 Polish…
S1E16 From Nazi Occupied Poland to the American Dream
Send us Fan MailWWII survival, the immigrant experience, and the power of adoption. In this deeply moving episode of Honourable Mentions, we welcome our first-ever guest, Rafal, to share the…
S1E15 How An Australian Machine Gunner Ended The Red Baron’s Reign
Send us Fan Mail Manfred von Richthofen’s red triplane skimmed the Somme, and a living legend closed in for another kill. But, down below, Sergeant Cedric Bassett Popkin on a Vickers machine gun is…
S1E14 The First Shot: How Edward Thomas Started World War 1
Send us Fan MailOn August 22, 1914, just outside Mons, Belgium, a 20-year-old British cavalryman took a deep breath, steadied his aim and pulled his trigger, changing history forever. Meet Edward…
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