608 - Food: Deadly Delicatessen

Fugu

Poinsettias
http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/poisonous_poinsettia
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/poinsetting-it-out/

Almonds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond#Drupe
https://www.medicaldaily.com/staying-alive-5-most-dangerous-everyday-foods-if-youre-not-paying-attention-276884

Cherry Pits
http://ipcblog.org/2010/05/25/my-favorite-poisonous-fruit/
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp8-c2.pdf
https://io9.gizmodo.com/asap-science-runs-through-how-many-cherry-pits-and-tabl-1727081912

Nutmet
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/a-warning-on-nutmeg/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutmeg#Common_nutmeg
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/nutmeg-overdose-spitting-attack_n_1392666.html

Peppermint and carbonated drinks
https://www.bevnet.com/news/2012/minta-a-mint-flavored-soda-launches-nationwide
https://www.hoax-slayer.net/no-consuming-pepsi-and-polo-mentos-does-not-lead-to-instant-death-from-cyanide-poisoning/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/non-compos-mentos/

Castor oil
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087745/

607 - History: I am a Generous Oscar

Episode

Battle of Thermopylae

Archimedes Laser
https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/archimedes-death-ray.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27_principle#Explanation
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0629/Archimedes-flaming-death-ray-was-probably-just-a-cannon-study-finds
http://www.unmuseum.org/burning_mirror.htm

Greek Fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
https://www.ancient.eu/Greek_Fire/
https://www.britannica.com/technology/Greek-fire
https://allthatsinteresting.com/greek-fire

Ninjas
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/05/11/enter-the-ninja-facts-and-myths-about-japans-most-mysterious-warriors/
http://www.thegeektwins.com/2011/04/n-everything-you-know-about-ninja-is.html
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ninjas-ultimate-guide-chris-oneill-myth-reality

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603 - Sports: The Five Guys Conspiracy

Episode Link

Bobby Riggs threw “The Battle of the Sexes”  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYB4jsbgDVI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Marcello

2002 WCF
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nbas-greatest-ugliest-series
http://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3436401
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAC/2002.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAL/2002.html
http://www.realclearsports.com/articles/2014/04/28/did_nba_really_fix_its_playoff_games_97937-2.html

Michael Jordan gambling/Flu Game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_NBA_Finals#Game_5:_The_Flu_Game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1516339-jalen-rose-claims-that-michael-jordans-flu-game-was-actually-a-hangover-game
http://ballislife.com/michael-jordans-the-flu-game-aka-the-hangover-game-aka-the-poisoned-by-pizza-game/
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1608036-michael-jordans-trainer-says-mjs-famous-flu-game-was-result-of-poisoning
https://www.bardown.com/flu-hangover-food-poising-the-real-story-behind-the-jordan-flu-game-1.780692

Cal Ripken Jr streak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Ripken_Jr.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ripkeca01.shtml
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-costner-of-love/

E-Sports Deaths
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/05/12-bizarre-deaths-that-video-games-caused/
http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/death.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#Deaths
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/05/12-bizarre-deaths-that-video-games-caused/berzerk

Starcraft is the official sport of South Korea
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/939643-starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty/56438533
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-35047733/video-gaming-south-korea-s-new-national-sport

602 - Survival: Nuclear Myths

Episode Link
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Air and water polluted/toxic
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/effects14.shtml
http://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p912.htm
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/science-behind-atom-bomb
https://www.mirion.com/introduction-to-radiation-safety/types-of-ionizing-radiation/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made-it-possible-to-carbon-date-human-tissue-20074710/

Nuclear Winter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-winter2.htm

Alcohol protects from radiation poisoning
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512007508
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0027510705002848
http://www.ntanet.net/myth-or-fact-will-alcohol-help-protect-against-radiation

Twinkies never spoil
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/forever-twinkies/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/09/200465360/the-science-of-twinkies-how-do-they-last-so-long

Cockroaches & Cher
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/cockroaches-survive-nuclear-explosion/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49752/could-cockroaches-really-survive-nuclear-war

Mutated animals
https://chernobylguide.com/chernobyl_mutations/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAlUGn0RYg

Ted Taylor lit a cigarette with a nuclear explosion
http://awesci.com/nuclear-bomb-cigarette-lighter/
https://books.google.com/books?id=xitabHpRPQEC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=ted+taylor+lit+cigarette+atomic+bomb&source=bl&ots=p0LU5_SGWD&sig=yKeUsAudRl_7vWN89N0cRSBhQZk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu2pjp4MLbAhUGHqwKHXzuAU4Q6AEIZDAM#v=onepage&q=ted%20taylor%20lit%20cigarette%20atomic%20bomb&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=-1KEClJx4EsC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=ted+taylor+lit+cigarette+atomic+bomb&source=bl&ots=7gjHKUNZDK&sig=Ti84Qj9o16DwfR5WXOn1_VDl1Ss&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu2pjp4MLbAhUGHqwKHXzuAU4Q6AEIZzAN#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/us/theodore-taylor-a-designer-of-abombs-who-turned-against-them-dies-at-79.html

506 - Video Game Myths w/ Holden McNeely

Check out the episode here

Shen Long
http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/Sheng_Long
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/8/82/ShengLongEGMScan.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/280?cb=20100831154904

ET: The Video Game buried in the desert for crashing the game industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8j62WaZ7Q

Blow on cartridge, toothpaste on CD
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/8/16748644/blow-on-catridges-good-bad-nes-n64-games
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/geeks-weigh-in-can-you-fix-a-scratched-cd-with-toothpaste-nb/

Polybius and others (lavendar town syndrome, NO2, petscop, etc)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/06/23/drug-tinged-ads-pulled/716f2749-d338-4aa3-a91c-08f7f9056108/?utm_term=.5831da0b9943
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Polybius

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504 - Sports: Get Hoffa my Case!

Babe ruth was fat and ate hotdogs during games
https://vinepair.com/articles/were-not-the-only-ones-drinking-during-a-baseball-game/
http://www.baseballreliquary.org/about/collections/babe-ruth-hot-dog/
http://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/26/12-Facts-You-Might-Not-Know-About-Babe-Ruth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth#Minor_league,_Baltimore_Orioles

Football pads and helmets do more harm than good
https://chhs.unh.edu/khl/2015-02/keeping-their-heads-out-game
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/nfl-concussions-football-helmets-risk-taking-behavior-brain-injury-helmetless-tackling-technique-lawsuit/15srtbuzodfbk10tkmhxm8ayr7
‎www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/even-more-evidence-that-football-causes-brain-injury-27116959/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-modern-football-helmets-any-safer-than-old-school-leather-ones-52942951/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-concussion-proof-helmet-11290796/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/the-dangers-of-safety-equipment.html

Jimmy Hoffa buried under giants stadium
https://www.npr.org/2015/07/06/420595057/vendetta-recalls-the-ruthless-rivalry-between-bobby-kennedy-jimmy-hoffa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_local
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_Teamsters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/9-places-jimmy-hoffa-probably-isnt-buried
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20130617/mob-underboss-says-jimmy-hoffa-was-buried-alive-at-dig-site-in-oakland-township

The Football War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2007/feb/21/theknowledge.sport

502 - Snapple Fact Check 2: Camelflage

Venus fly trap can eat a whole cheeseburger (880)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap#Carnivory
http://www.vitaminsestore.com/venus-fly-trap-benefits-side-effects-reviews-and-dosage/
https://txtriffidranch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/absolute-surefire-steps-to-kill-your-venus-flytrap-step-6/

Average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds (830)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRGNunPj3c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream#The_neurobiology_of_dreaming
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19794431
https://www.quora.com/How-long-do-dreams-last
https://sleep.org/articles/how-often-dreams/

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows (85)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3668700/Solved-Why-Mona-Lisa-doesnt-have-eyebrows.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isleworth_Mona_Lisa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

Lifespan of a tastebud is 10 days (62)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_bud
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16843606

Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger (868)
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/clothes-rack
https://www.henkerman.com.au/blogs/blog/history-of-the-clothes-hanger

Wild camels roamed Arizona’s deserts (848)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/whatever-happened-wild-camels-american-west-180956176/
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/states/arizona/2011-02-15-1042942857_x.htm

410 - Body: Baldy Finale

Check out the episode here

Color of Mucous Indicates what's up
https://www.webmd.com/allergies/features/the-truth-about-mucus#1
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/dont-judge-your-mucus-by-its-color-201602089129

"The Triangle of Death" Pimple Popping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavernous_sinus_thrombosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meninges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_triangle_of_the_face#cite_note-9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavernous_sinus

90% of Body Heat Leaves Through your Head
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/dec/17/medicalresearch-humanbehaviour
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130708-is-most-heat-lost-from-your-head

"No Fap Challenge" Results in more Testosterone.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375873/
https://www.livestrong.com/article/270042-how-is-the-level-of-testosterone-in-the-blood-controlled/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201307/your-brain-porn-its-not-addictive
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12659241?dopt=Abstract
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ya67aLaaCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU
http://www.livescience.com/32445-why-do-guys-get-sleepy-after-sex.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201503/the-nofap-phenomenon%3famp
https://psychcentral.com/lib/does-masturbation-cause-blindness/

Mother's Father Determines Baldness
https://www.hairsciencescenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/norwood011.gif
https://www.hairsciencescenter.com/baldness-gene-come-mother-father/
 

408 - Death: They Live!

Listen to the episode here!

Tupac
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur
http://www.iknowtheledge.com/hip-hop-memories/biggie-smalls-or-biggy-smallz-article

Elvis
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000062/?ref_=nv_sr_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley_on_film_and_television
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/05/05/exclusive-elvis-presleys-doctor-claims-died-embarrassing-case-chronic.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-elvis-met-nixon-69892425/
http://www.virginmedia.com/entertainment/news/2015/10/elvis-myths.html
https://www.google.com/amp/www.newsweek.com/his-80th-birthday-revisiting-conspiracies-have-kept-elvis-presley-alive-297968%3famp=1

Andy Kaufman
http://andykaufman.jvlnet.com/death.htm
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3287803ﾚ
https://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/kaufman.asp
 

407 - Gross Myths: "Dreaded" Spiders

Check out the episode here

Real corpses used as halloween decorations
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/halloween.asp
http://time.com/4075952/dead-body-halloween/ 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011022/aponline125022_000.htm

Spider Nest in Dreadlocks
https://www.thewrap.com/snatched-fact-check-amy-schumer-tapeworm-meat/
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/weight-loss/tapeworm-weight-loss2.htm
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060919125603AASJVp8
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/health/6-foot-tapeworm-india-study/index.html

HIV Needles in Gas Pumps/Movie Seats
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/062200/met_3370747.html#.WeQRHUzMyt8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Doctors#Needle_Men_and_the_Black_Bottle_Men
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp

Remove a Tapeworm with Steak Outside the Mouth
https://www.thewrap.com/snatched-fact-check-amy-schumer-tapeworm-meat/
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/weight-loss/tapeworm-weight-loss2.htm
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060919125603AASJVp8
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/health/6-foot-tapeworm-india-study/index.html

Toe in the Chili
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ayala
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/us/finger-in-chili-is-called-hoax-las-vegas-woman-is-charged.html

Cockroach Eggs in Envelope
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/cockroacheggs.asp
https://www.thoughtco.com/fear-of-licking-3299081
 

301 - Disney: The Man, The Myth, The Popsicle

Disney Had A Massive Porn Stash
http://www.disneylies.com/legends/waltdisney.html 

Staffers Fired for smutty film
http://www.disneylies.com/legends/waltdisney.html  
http://www.bubblegun.com/features/10disney.html

Mickey Mouse made by Disney
http://d23.disney.go.com/archives/biographies-of-10-classic-disney-characters/#MickeyMouse

Anti-semite/racist/FBI informant
https://vault.fbi.gov/walter-elias-disney/walter-elias-disney-part-01-of-03/view
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/06/movies/disney-link-to-the-fbi-and-hoover-is-disclosed.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#cite_ref-221

Frozen
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/no-walt-disney-isnt-cryogenically-frozen-1665231394
http://www.disneyavenue.com/2015/07/walt-disneys-cryogenically-frozen-urban.html

Bonus: Halloween Myths

Is Halloween a Pagan Holiday?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/halloween_1.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

"Tainted Candies" (Razor blades in apples, poisoned candy, etc.)
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12914/brief-history-sick-people-tampering-halloween-candy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoned_candy_myths#Development_of_the_modern_candy-tampering_myth
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/10/27/the-man-who-accidentally-gave-kids-marijuana-on-halloween/#660ee5593df5

Sacrificing Black Cats (adoption ban)
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/blackcat.asp
https://esoterx.com/2014/02/20/nine-lives-are-not-enough-inquisitions-cat-massacres-and-the-black-death/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12914/brief-history-sick-people-tampering-halloween-candy

209 - Alcohol: Breaking the Seal

Vomiting helps sobering up
http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/09/30/myth-throwing-up-drinking-coffee-taking-a-cold-shower-or-walking-around-the-block-will-sober-you-up/

Green Fairy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone
http://www.absinthe101.com/famous.html

Carbing up prevents a hangover
http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Documents/Alcohol%20myth%20buster.htm
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/31/461594898/want-to-avoid-a-hangover-science-has-got-you-covered
http://www.webmd.com/women/features/9-myths-about-your-hangover#1

Foster’s can be used for making LSD
https://erowid.org/psychoactives/humor/humor_joke5.shtml

“Breaking the seal”
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/happy-hour-urban-myth-breaking-seal-real-thing-f1B8030890
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasopressin
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31408/science-breaking-seal

208 - Sex and Pregnancy

Contraceptives (Coca Cola)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3679247
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/sperm.asp

Contraceptive (Hot Tub)
http://www.newsweek.com/attention-glee-fans-hot-tub-cannot-get-you-pregnant-222254
http://americanpregnancy.org/preventing-pregnancy/pregnancy-myths/

Diet Determines Boy or Girl
http://www.webmd.com/baby/features/deciding-babys-sex#1

“Eating for Two People”
http://womenshealth.gov/pregnancy/you-are-pregnant/staying-healthy-safe.html
http://www.webmd.com/baby/features/pregnant-eat-for-two-right

Everyone is initially female
http://gizmodo.com/5974847/you-started-life-as-a-girl

High/Low Tummy = Boy/Girl
http://health.howstuffworks.com/pregnancy-and-parenting/pregnancy/issues/carrying-boy-or-girl.htm

207 - Drugs: Rehashed

Poppy Seed registers as opiates on a drug test
1. http://www.usada.org/can-poppyseeds-cause-a-positive-drug-test/
2. http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp
3. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=4132469&page=1

Smoking Bed Bugs
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHp3Lp86vg
2. https://www.wired.com/2014/04/smoking-bed-bugs-will-not-get-you-high/

Crack Babies
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_cocaine_exposure
2. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126478643
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=V4BIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA452#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Orange Juice LSD man
1. http://www.complex.com/life/2016/05/acid-turn-people-into-orange-juice-urban-legend

The Founding Fathers Smoked Weed
1. http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/11/busting-some-myths-about-the-founding-fathers-and-marijuana/
2. https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/some-my-finest-hours-have-been-spent-my-back-veranda-smoking-hemp-quotation

THC Detox Methods
1. http://science.howstuffworks.com/marijuana2.htm
2. http://www.ndci.org/sites/default/files/ndci/THC_Detection_Window_0.pdf
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570572/
4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17303175
5. http://fierceandnerdy.com/thc-in-semen-ask-dr-miro-what-you-didnt-learn-in-health-class 

204 - Cold War ft. "The Eastern Border"

Pencil/Pens in space race
1. Scientific American article
2. Mental Floss article

Measurement/Quota cheating
3. "My Time with Soviet Economics" - Roberts
4. Comic

5. “Tsar Bomba” video

Kennedy was peaceful/”I am a jelly doughnut” 
6. The Atlantic on "Ich bin ein Berliner"
7. The New York Times on "Ich bin ein Berliner"

“Winnie [Vinnie] Pooh”
8. Video

Kugel Panzer
8. Wikipedia article

Lost Cosmonaut
9. The Eastern Border episode on "The Lost Cosmonaut"

Gagarin’s “bumpy landing”
10. Russian Space Web piece on Gagarin's landing. 

Nixon’s alternative moon landing speech (failure/death of astronauts)
11. Speech