You can’t win them all.
In 1961, America experienced the sting of its first truly humiliating public defeat, a debacle that played out in real time on the international stage. The bungled and bloody Bay of Pigs Invasion would mark the first major misstep of the Kennedy administration, and as “Operation Zapata” began to unravel in Cuba, the resulting scandal would undermine America’s carefully crafted image as a shining beacon of virtue.
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~ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND SLEEP IS OVERRATED ~
Unique, Strange, and Creepy Historical Humans
Scandals: Music and Murder
The Fermi Paradox, A.K.A ”Where are the Aliens?”
Armageddon, Ragnarok, and End Times
Weird and Obscure Facts about the Human body
The World’s Most-Hated Corporations
The Dark Side of Disney
Myths in the Modern World: The Olympians
Secret Societies
Human Superpowers
Pointless, Petty Wars
Pirates: Were they anything like the stereotype? (No. But kind of. But mostly no.)
UFOs ARE REAL (but they’re probably not aliens)
Medical Quackery: From snake oil to coca wine
More Misconceptions: If You Didn’t Know, Now You Know
More cults: Moonies, Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate
Idioms (common sayings): Mysteries Solved
Screwups and Blunders (Part 2)
Screwups: humanity’s biggest blunders (part 1)
Pandemics, Plagues, and Scourges
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