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ALL of the ARTS
- 7 Words That Originated in Movies
- 8 Best Animal Actors
- 9 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Stardust’
- 10 Films Nearly Directed by Steven Spielberg
- The ‘Abbey Road’ Bystander
- Adelaide’s Matchbox Car Wall
- The Age of the Cyclorama
- The Australian Government Buys a Jackson Pollock
- Monet’s ‘The Magpie’
- The Penrose Triangle and Other Impossible Objects
- Pepper’s Ghost
- The Sad Sheep Painting
- Strange Backstories of 1970s Hit Songs
- Watching the ‘Back to the Future’ Commentary
- Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare
DISASTERS
DRINKS and FOODS
- Granny Smith Grows the First Granny Smith
- Macadamias: The Great Australian Nut
- McDonalds Comes to Australia
- The Origin of Potato Chips
- The Origin of Tim Tams
- The Surprising History of Arnott’s ‘Shapes’
- The US National Raisin Reserve
- Who Invented the Hamburger?
- Who Invented the Pavlova?
FIRSTS and LASTS
- 10 Academy Award Firsts
- 10 Things Invented Earlier Than You Think
- Canada’s First National Park
- Taylor Swift’s First Tour of Australia
- The First Abstract Art
- The First Cannes Film Festival
- The First Cliffhanger Ending
- The First Exhibition at the NGV
- The First Feature Length Film
- The First House Music
- The First Metre
- The First Movie Star Dog
- The First Night Aussie Rules Game
- The First Vaccine
- The Last Thylacine
- The World’s First Video Store
FORGOTTEN PLACES
- Australia’s Nuclear Test Sites
- Ball’s Pyramid
- Before the Sydney Opera House
- The Chicxulub Crater
- The Meenakshi Temple
- Mount Donna Buang: The Lost Ski Resort
- New York’s Lost Buildings
- The Real ‘Back to the Future’ House
- The Real ‘Stand By Me’ Bridge
- The Secret Tunnels at St James Station
- The Tabbigai Cliff Dwellers
- Wendy’s Secret Garden
- When London Was Abandoned
HOLIDAYS
- The May Day Holiday
- The Origins of Christmas
- The Origins of Easter
- The Origin of the King’s Birthday Holiday
THE NATURAL WORLD
- The 1257 Samalas Eruption
- A Crocodile Named Sweetheart
- Fox Stories
- The Lyrid Meteor Shower
- Mungo Man (and Lady)
- The Murchison Meteorite
- Pallas’s Cat
- Pando: The World’s Largest Organism
- The Tasmanian Globster
- The Wollemi Pine: A Living Dinosaur
- The Yellow Penguin of South Georgia Island
REMARKABLE CHARACTERS
- Annette Kellerman: The Australian Mermaid
- Errol Flynn: From Tasmania to Hollywood
- The Founder of the Archibald Prize
- Francoise Gilot
- The Man on the $2 Coin
- Lina Bryans and the Pink Hotel
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Trevor ‘Turbo’ Brown
- William Edmonson: God Called His Name
SPORTS & GAMES
- A History of the AFL Grand Final
- 8 Discontinued Olympic Sports
- The First Boxing Day Test
- The Last Australian Man to Win the Australian Open
- The Origins of Women’s Football
- Synthetic Test Cricket: Calling the Ashes by Telegraph
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
- 8 Everyday Things That Can’t Be Explained
- 7 More Everyday Things That Can’t Be Explained
- Aliens in the Dandenongs
- Aliens on the Nullarbor
- The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
- Maree Man
- The Virgin Mary at Coogee Beach
- Who Was the ‘Somerton Man’
- The Wow Signal
WEIRD and WILD
- 8 Amazing Facts About Argentina
- 8 Major Cities That Changed Their Name
- 9 Things You Didn’t Know About the English Language
- Almost World War III
- The Cats of Sydney Harbour Bridge
- The Cat Who Fell from the Ninth Floor
- The Centennial Light: The Lightbulb Burning for 100 Years
- Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game Ever Created
- The History of MDMA
- Jetpack Man (and the History of Jetpacks)
- Kitten Overboard
- The Mystery of the Sweating Sickness
- The Real Annabelle Doll
- The Real Life Inspiration for Nightmare on Elm Street
- The Real Squirrels in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- The Rise and Fall of Flares
- The Secret History of Ambien
- Strange Origins of Common Phrases
- Strange World of Facial Pareidolia, The