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One of America’s oldest and most storied cities, Baltimore has been the site of some real strangeness over the years.
In October 1846, the world discovered surgical anesthesia. Four men would spend the next two decades fighting over which one of them deserved the credit.
Categories: History, Series 12, The Marvels of Science
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In 1982 a Baltimore hobby store gave the world a bold new innovation in dice... One that hardly anyone would use. Let's sing the praises of the mighty d30!
Categories: Man's Amazing Inventions, Series 4, Sports & Leisure
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The greatest and most notorious Spiritualist swindler of all time was a woman from Kentucky who looked a bit like Lola Montez (if you squinted).
Categories: Biography, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 3
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