10 Things You Don't Know About

Episodes

Season 1

• Benjamin Franklin | Franklin is a fugitive from the law at 17 | Franklin pays for sex | Franklin creates the American tabloid press | Franklin never flies a kite in a thunderstorm | Franklin is the first to chart the Gulf Stream | Franklin owns slaves | Franklin invents a strange musical instrument | Franklin is a suspected serial killer | Franklin helps start America's first hospital | Franklin's sex drive helps win the American Revolution: Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy's husband influences Louis XVI to support the Americans.

• Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln says he was enslaved as a child | Lincoln likes a good fistfight | Lincoln never joins a church | Lincoln is a techno geek: Abraham Lincoln's patent | Lincoln once held views that are now considered racist | Lincoln has trouble with women | Lincoln sleeps with men | Lincoln's best friend owns slaves | Lincoln's hat takes a bullet meant for him | Lincoln is photographed with his killer

• John F. Kennedy | Young JFK is a slacker as a student | JFK is addicted to danger | JFK is diagnosed with leukemia | JFK's first serious girlfriend breaks his heart | Young JFK carries a top-secret World War II message | JFK takes steroids | JFK's biggest political supporter is not his father | JFK and Richard Nixon are good friends | JFK uses the IRS to intimidate his enemies | JFK warns Martin Luther King Jr. about J. Edgar Hoover

• J. Edgar Hoover | Hoover is a Peeping Tom | Hoover's father goes insane | Hoover is a librarian | Hoover has the country's largest collection of porn | Hoover is the world's most successful sexual blackmailer | Hoover intimidates Hollywood | Hoover kills his neighbor's cat | Hoover creates a gay spy ring | Hoover has the goods on Richard Nixon | Hoover is buried in a lead-lined coffin

• The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | The gunfight does not happen at the O.K. Corral | Wyatt Earp is the pimp of Peoria | Six army mules cause the gunfight | The gunfight is a battle between Democrats and Republicans | Booze fuels the gunfight | The sheriff fails to stop the fight | The gunfight lasts only 30 seconds | The gunfight starts a blood feud | Wyatt Earp becomes a cold-blooded killer | Wyatt Earp looks for a movie deal

• Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's mother wants him to dump Eleanor | FDR loves his wife's secretary | Eleanor's unconventional girlfriends turn her into a political activist | FDR avoids assassination thanks to a rickety bench | Eleanor wants FDR to become a dictator | Eleanor falls in love... with a woman | FDR used cocaine | The Roosevelts defend the White House against the British invasion | Eleanor hates FDR's policies toward Jewish immigrants and Japanese Americans | Eleanor makes peace with FDR's mistress

• The Mormons | Joseph Smith is a treasure hunter | Book of Mormons says American Indians were Jewish | Masonic Rites inspire Mormon rituals | Mormons are targets of genocide | Joseph Smith's wife threatens to take multiple husbands | Mormons agree to leave the United States | The U.S. deploys troops to subdue the Mormons | Mormons massacre 120 innocent pioneers | Mormons own brothels | Mormons banks finance mob-owned hotels and casinos in Las Vegas

• Pablo Escobar | Escobar is a pothead | Escobar's first victims are already dead | Escobar trafficks in cocaine-soaked designer jeans | Colombia's government helps Escobar launder his drug profits | Escobar succeeds by being both loved and feared | Escobar starts a war against his own country | Escobar burns $2M in a bonfire to keep warm | Escobar's pursuers use his own tactics to take him down | Escobar rises from the grave | Escobar helps America kill Osama bin Laden

• George Patton | Patton rides with the grey ghost of the Confederacy | Patton is an Olympic athlete | Patton chases Pancho Villa | Patton does not wear pearl-handled pistols | Patton and Eisenhower are nearly killed in a tank accident | Patton's belief in reincarnation leads to his infamous slapping incident | Patton helps fool Hitler about D-Day | Patton launches a secret mission to liberate his son-in-law from a POW camp | Patton wants war with the Soviets | Patton smuggles Nuremberg Laws out of Germany

• Caligula | Caligula is nicknamed "Little Boot" | Caligula parties with the man who killed his family | Caligula is a good government reformer | Caligula builds the longest bridge on Earth | Caligula makes it a crime to look at his bald spot | Caligula appoints his horse as his consul | Caligula is a working-class hero | Caligula loves to be hated | A Roman historian writes of Caligula's incest with his sisters | Caligula is assassinated because of a bad joke

• Adolf Hitler | Hitler discovers the swastika in church | Hitler fears he's a Jew | Hitler is a high school dropout | Hitler is a momma's boy | Hitler is rejected from art school because he cannot draw humans | Young Hitler has a Jewish friend | Hitler fears sex and women | Hitler loves World War I | The German army says Young Hitler lacks leadership potential | Hitler enters politics working as a spy

• The Rat Pack | Sinatra does not start the original Rat Pack | Sinatra's Rat Pack never calls itself "The Rat Pack" | Sinatra saves Sammy Davis Jr. from the Mob | Dino is not a drunk | Joey Bishop is the brains behind The Rat Pack | The Rat Pack invents its own language | The Rat Packers are all fervent liberals | Sinatra's mob connections are exaggerated | JFK interrupts his presidential campaign to catch The Rat Pack | JFK's cold shoulder breaks up The Rat Pack

Season 2

• Presidential Assassinations | Robert Todd Lincoln is connected to three of the four presidential assassinations | Booth's original plan was to kidnap Abraham Lincoln | The first president to face an assassination fought back | An assassin did not kill President Garfield ... his doctors did | Assassins' bodies rarely make it to the grave in one piece | A president was nearly assassinated at his home and it was not the White House | One film connects two assassination attempts | No secret service agent has died in an assassination attempt ... but a mayor has | President Ford was targeted by the only female assassins | The KGB was part of the real conspiracy linked to the JFK assassination
• The White House | The Oval Office is designed to keep guests off-guard | Less than one quarter of the original White House exists today | The original White House is buried under a baseball diamond | The White House was originally designed to be a palace | The White House used to have its own brothel | The President can add almost anything to the White House | The White House never refuses a gift | The White House bills the First Family every month | The first person to live in the White House was not the President | There are multiple White Houses all over the world
• The Founding Fathers | The Founding Fathers were disgusted by Americans | George Washington owned the largest whiskey distillery in America | The Founding Fathers had money problems | Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were a legal defense team | Many Founding Fathers hated each other | George Washington founded American espionage | Benjamin Franklin hired 'pirates' during the Revolution | Thomas Jefferson was afraid of confrontation | Thomas Jefferson wanted to outlaw slavery | The Founding Fathers got many of their ideas from Native Americans
• Prohibition | Moonshine was illegal 150 years before Prohibition | Public water fountains were built to stop people from drinking booze | Jails were sold on the eve of Prohibition | The government poisoned alcohol that killed nearly 10,000 people | One of the wettest spots in the country was Capitol Hill | In Los Angeles the cops were the bootleggers | A Jury was put on trial after it drank the evidence | Al Capone's brother was a Prohibition Cop | Many Mob bosses escaped a violent death | Prohibition and the Mafia gave rise to Jazz

Season 3

• The Flag | The first American flag was not designed by Betsy Ross | The flag that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" had two extra stripes | Early patriots cut up the flag to make souvenirs | The first Confederate flag caused friendly fire | Another pledge existed before the Pledge of Allegiance, which included what would later become the Nazi salute | A man received 10 years in prison for refusing to kiss the flag | Most Americans break the Flag Code laws everyday | The American flag is the third oldest flag still in use | All of the U.S. flags on the moon are probably white | Burning the flag is encouraged by law

• Texas | The Texas army could have escaped the Alamo | 100 years ago, camels roamed the Texas prairie | Texas created a town just to watch a train crash | Texas pirate Jean Lafitte had more ships than the U.S. Navy | San Antonio was almost the movie making capital of the world | The Texas Rangers violated borders to catch criminals | Illegal immigrants from the U.S. caused Mexico to lose Texas | The Texas Longhorns did not come from Texas | Texas had the right to add 4 more states to the U.S. | The worst natural disaster in U.S. history happened in Texas

• Civil Rights | Lyndon Johnson taught at a segregated school | Rosa Parks was not the first woman to refuse to give up her seat | Martin Luther King stopped Star Trek's only black actress from quitting | Zoot suits were outlawed during World War II | Malcolm X held a secret meeting with the Ku Klux Klan | The majority of the Black Panthers were women | A black student was jailed just for applying to college | Black and white basketball teams played championships years before the NBA | California had the most Jim Crow laws of any state | One Japanese American spent 40 years fighting his internment conviction

• Edison & Tesla | The "war of the currents" almost led to an electric duel | Congress killed Edison's first patented invention | Tesla was inspired by Christopher Columbus; Egg of Columbus | Edison's x-ray machine was sent to save President McKinley's life | Edison's storage battery was his most profitable invention | Mark Twain was Tesla's test dummy | Edison started writing a sci-fi novel | Tesla's dream of wireless energy relied on hot air balloons | Edison accidentally invented the modern tattoo gun | Tesla's first job for Edison was on a luxury liner

• The American Revolution | Many Americans did not support the Boston Tea Party | The first submarine attack happened during the Revolution | A British officer could have assassinated George Washington | A female patriot rode twice as far as Paul Revere | American troops starved at Valley Forge while many colonists got rich | George Washington was nearly fired from the Army | Benedict Arnold's wife was the real traitor | Colonial sailors attacked the British mainland | The most important Revolutionary War spy was a slave | More troops died prisoners of war than in battle

• The Hoover Dam | Edison's company nearly built a dam at the same site 30 years before | One early plan was to blast rock from the canyon walls | A father and a son died working on the Hoover Dam | A deadly disaster in California nearly derailed the Hoover Dam | The U.S. broke labor laws to build the Hoover Dam | The Hoover Dam destroyed a town | The Hoover Dam leaked for nine years after it was built | The only grave at the Hoover Dam belongs to a dog | The largest lake in California was created by accident | Heavy firepower was used to protect the dam

• Marijuana | No one knows where the word marijuana comes from | Colonists were required to grow hemp | Hemp bought some slaves their freedom | Cannabis used to be a rich man's drug | The U.S. government used to tax marijuana | During World War II, one could dodge the draft by growing hemp | The U.S. government tested marijuana as a truth serum | Henry Ford developed a hemp car | Hundreds of thousands of marijuana plants grow on public land | The U.S. government has grown marijuana for decades

• Money | The military burned all U.S. money circulated in Hawaii | The first federally issued bills were all hand-signed... twice | Ridges on coins were originally an anti-theft measure | The largest coin in the world is twelve feet in diameter | It was once illegal to own gold in the U.S. | Local currencies are legal within the United States | The U.S. was once completely debt free | Wishing wells were originally offerings to the gods | Lotteries financed early America | The U.S. government would replace damaged money

• Las Vegas | The Great Depression led to legalized gambling | Vegas watched the detonation of atomic bombs for over a decade | A radar pioneer abandoned science to invent card counting | Howard Hughes got the Mob out of Las Vegas | The "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign was never trademarked | One Vegas slot machine took 21 years to pay out | FDR helped the hookers get out of Las Vegas | Vegas led to Elvis's death | Hidden catwalks were used to spy in casinos | Gambling ships in Los Angeles came before Las Vegas

• The Gold Rush | The man whose name is synonymous with the Gold Rush did not get rich | One square mile in Colorado held billions in gold | The Gold Rush created massive traffic jams | The Gold Rush led to cutting-edge travel designs | Some of the most valuable gold in California was accidentally destroyed | Vigilante justice was sanctioned in Gold Country | More people got rich from water & supplies than gold | A Gold Rush era secret society still exists today | Destructive mining created America's first environmental law | A fleet of ships that brought gold seekers still lies under San Francisco

References

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