What is history's greatest prank? There's the intimate—perching a bucket of water over the door. And the grandly ambitious—say, humiliating an entire navy. These are some good pranks indeed. But history's greatest prank was something much stranger... and much darker. 
 
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Music on this week’s episode: 
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Blinded_by_dust/Roads_that_burned_our_boots">Jahzzar – Roads that Burned our Boots</a> 
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Home/Railroads_Whiskey_Co">Jahzzar – Railroad’s Whiskey Co</a> 
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-08-WaterInTheCreek">Josh Woodward – Water in the Creek</a> 
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alialujah_Choir/Big_Picture_Show_Instrumentals/After_All__Instrumental">Alialujah Choir – After All</a> 
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Abunai/Universal_Mind_Decoder/Dreaming_of_Light">Abunai! – Dreaming of Light</a> 
<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-04-CrazyGlue">Josh Woodward – Crazy Glue</a> 
(All tracks have been modified for the podcast)

Something True 3: Malpaso

Something True brings you incredible and bizarre true stories from the footnotes of history. A dog in the United States Cabinet? A leading rocket scientist who quit his job to make a moonchild? Virginia Woolf donning blackface to prank a navy? They're all true. They're all Something True.