Composer George Frederic Handel is buried with two skulls. You'll never believe why (hint: it has to do with phrenology).
Meanwhile Thomas Paine's bones went missing thanks to an overly enthusiastic fan.
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Mountains To Climb
Henriette D'angeville was the first woman to climb Mount Blanc in the Alps, despite everyone advising her not to try it.
Decades later, Julia Archibald Holmes (a friend of John Brown's) became the first woman to summit Pike's Peak, a feat that Pike himself never did.
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Electric Kids
Philo Farnsworth loved electricity so much he came up with a way to invent television - as a 14 year old!
Centuries beforehand Stephen Gray, a British scientist, learned more about electricity than anyone before him - and he used children to show how it worked!
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Good Things to Eat
This episode will make you hungry!
Rufus Estes and Chin Foin both left a big mark on food, both lived in Chicago at the same time, and both had their food featured in important cookbooks in 1911.
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One Year, Two Hoaxes
The year 1917 gave us both the birth of the Cottingly Fairies and the silly fake history known as the Bathtub Hoax.
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