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Weird Stories Your History Teacher Should Have Taught You
43 minutes Posted Jan 17, 2018 at 2:22 am.
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This week, we’re taking a walk down memory lane and revisiting some of the show’s most popular weird history segments.

Remember the married woman who hid a secret lover in her attic for over a decade?

https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/29/meet-walburga-the-married-woman-who-hid-a-secret-lover-in-her-attic-for-a-decade/

Or all the weird presidential facts involving deadly cherries, cursing parrots, and vandalism at Shakespeare’s house?

https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/18/weird-facts-you-never-knew-about-the-u-s-presidents/

Or the Old Hollywood shade-trospective of the bad blood between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford?

https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/24/bette-davis-v-joan-crawford-the-hateful-history-behind-old-hollywoods-nastiest-feud/

 

Enjoy all the lessons your history teacher should have taught you.

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