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April 14, 2014 05:54 pm PDT

Futility Closet Podcast #005: Mailing People, Alien Shorthand, and BenjaminFranklin

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Samuel Rowses 1850 lithograph, "The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia," depicting Browns climactic emergence from his box on March 24, 1849
Hosted by Greg and Sharon Ross, Futility Closet is an interactive exploration of the popular website that catalogs more than 7,000 curiosities in history, language, mathematics, literature, philosophy, and art.







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