Sinopsis
Twice a week, Ken Jennings and John Roderick add a new entry to the OMNIBUS, an encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories that they are compiling as a time capsule for future generations.
Episodios
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The Longest Prizefight (Entry 733.HE1032)
23/11/2021 Duración: 01h07minIn which a seven-hour boxing match tests the patience of New Orleans crowds and changes the rules of the sport, and Ken thinks straws should be made of cornstarch. Certificate #26215.
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The Smiley Face Killer(s) (Entry 1177.JB2414)
18/11/2021 Duración: 01h05minIn which investigators differ on whether binge-drinking or a homicidal conspiracy is killing American college students, and John plays Frogger to get to the East River. Certificate #23582.
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The Great Bell of Dhammazedi (Entry 548.EX3925)
16/11/2021 Duración: 48minIn which the largest bell ever cast spends four centuries in the mud at the bottom of a Burmese river, and Ken makes a terrible grandfather clock decision. Certificate #50855.
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The Kalakala (Entry 681.2S1918)
11/11/2021 Duración: 01h12minIn which a burned-out ferry becomes an art deco American icon of the future and then a derelict eyesore, and Ken blames Seattle for the great San Francisco fire of 1906. Certificate #19361.
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The All-Americans Go to Japan (Entry 032.1K0728)
09/11/2021 Duración: 56minIn which a Tokyo newspaperman with big dreams lures Babe Ruth onto a pre-war baseball barnstorming tour, and John regrets that fancy lounges are mostly for drinking. Certificate #36360.
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Eternal September (Entry 428.1C1533)
04/11/2021 Duración: 01h10minIn which the 1993 back-to-school week that never ended kills an early outpost of the internet, and Ken annoys online Winnie-the-Pooh fans. Certificate #47957.
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Salmon Chaos (Entry 1098.LK0506)
02/11/2021 Duración: 01h15minIn which a viral craze inspires hundreds of young Taiwanese folks to put a fish in their names, and John hits a cement wall in his attempts to mate. Certificate #50920.
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Myers-Briggs (Entry 821.2T0223)
28/10/2021 Duración: 01h23minIn which two pioneering women and amateur Jungians devise a way to classify sixteen different types of human personality, and Ken explains his Star Trek slash fiction. Certificate #36282.
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Bloody Mose (Entry 134.EZ1106)
26/10/2021 Duración: 01h36sIn which America's first city for free Black people rises from the salt marshes of Spanish Florida, and John regrets quoting a Monty Python sketch. Certificate #31305.
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Ramtha (Entry 1029.AC1616)
21/10/2021 Duración: 01h25minIn which the discovery of quantum mechanics leads inevitably to the reappearance of a 30,000-year-old warrior god from a lost continent, and Ken proposes missionaries for silverware. Certificate #27324.
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The Cahokia Mounds (Entry 173.IS2502)
19/10/2021 Duración: 01h10minIn which a complex of massive earthworks in southern Illinois is assumed to have been built by Vikings, Hindus, or Welshmen, and John is fascinated by sexy voodoo. Certificate #34924.
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The Cheapside Hoard (Entry 210.MT0620)
14/10/2021 Duración: 01h06minIn which a mysterious treasure is founded in a central London basement, and Ken has a question about the various beads and bangles of Aerosmith. Certificate #7089.
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Potsdam Giants (Entry 972.1S1704)
12/10/2021 Duración: 57minIn which the "soldier king" of Prussia recruits and kidnaps Europe's tallest men to serve as his grenadiers, and John admires "merry" people of every height. Certificate #10109.
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Merkins (Entry 777.1C1115)
07/10/2021 Duración: 01h55sIn which we trace the surprisingly long and eventful history of body hair grooming, and Ken wonders if Brad Pitt will be hot forever. Certificate #33732.
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Laetrile (Entry 696.MK1618)
05/10/2021 Duración: 01h43sIn which apricot pits are discovered to be a cause of cyanide toxicicity rather than a cure for cancer, and John wanders Europe under the protection of a United States Senator. Certificate #527.
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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (Entry 182.PS4303)
30/09/2021 Duración: 01h09minIn which erosion on North Carolina's Outer Banks prompts the government to move a twelve-story lighthouse half a mile inland, and Ken is in favor of shipwrecks when the ships are bad. Certificate #6374.
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The Cotsworth Calendar (Entry 283.JB0306)
28/09/2021 Duración: 01h02minIn which a gifted Yorkshire boy fails to talk the League of Nations into a thirteen-month year, and John thinks autumn gets short shrift. Certificate #25901.
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The Erie War (Entry 424.PR2822)
23/09/2021 Duración: 01h12minIn which America's richest men invent many, many types of securities fraud while tussling over a New York State railroad, and Ken imagines a zoo full of cows. Certificate #32641.
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Kennewick Man (Entry 683.GN2304)
21/09/2021 Duración: 01h12minIn which a prehistoric nomad becomes the center of a heated legal battle nine thousand years after his death, and John announces a hydroplane race. Certificate #17567.
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The Town of Bent Necks (Entry 1323.SS0701)
16/09/2021 Duración: 01h09minIn which two Nazi brothers divide a German town into rival athletic shoe factions, and Ken plans a hotel heist. Certificate #31961.