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How BlackBerry Took Over the World and Then Lost It | BlackBerry
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You Won't Believe the Culty Background of The Best Friends Animal Society
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Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast The Best Friends Animal Society operates one of the largest animal sanctuaries in the country in Kanab, Utah. At first glance, it appears to be a well-run nonprofit dedicated to helping animals. However, a deeper look into their origins reveals some conce…
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This Scientist Got $450k From The DoD, Then She Disappeared | Ning Li
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Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast Ning Li was a Chinese-American physicist who made breakthroughs in anti-gravity research, only to vanish from public life under mysterious circumstances. Born in China in 1943, Li emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s and obtained a position at the Universit…
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How She Boarded Over 30 Flights Without A Ticket | Marilyn Hartman
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They Had Dirt on the ENTIRE Town | Circleville Letters
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They Time Traveled on Accident - The Kersey Time Slip
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This Unsolved Mystery Made Tylenol Hard to Open
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Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast This comedy podcast episode covers the tragic 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders, where seven people died after taking cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. In September 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman died after taking Tylenol for a cold. That same d…
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Why These Petty Scientists Blew Up Dinosaur Fossils | The Bone Wars
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Rudolf Diesel - What REALLY Happened To The Inventor of Diesel Engines?
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Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast Rudolf Diesel invented an efficient new engine that revolutionized transportation and industry. But his life ended abruptly under mysterious circumstances. Diesel was born in 1858 in Paris to German parents. As a young man, he studied engineering against …
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The Octopus Murders - Did Danny Casolaro Know Too Much?
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Project Looking Glass - Are We Being Watched? The TRUTH of Project Looking Glass
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Sand Cartel - There's a Secret Group STEALING Sand From Beaches All Over the World
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Andre Stander- This Police Officer Robbed Banks During His Lunch Breaks
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Prohibition - THIS Is Why Prohibition FAILED In America
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Billy Mitchell - The Man who CHEATED His Way to World Records
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Forever Chemicals - PFAS Chemicals Are Inside All of Humanity, Here’s Whose Fault It Is
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The Lobster War - How France STOLE Brazil's Lobsters, Leading To A 5 Year COLD WAR
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Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast The Lobster War was an obscure conflict between France and Brazil in the early 1960s. It began when France wanted access to large populations of spiny lobsters off the coast of Mauritania, which had recently gained independence from France. Since France c…
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