In this episode of Half-Arsed History, discover the historical origins behind five popular sayings: “mad as a hatter”, “bite the bullet”, “crocodile tears”, “I have a bridge to sell you”, and “baker’s dozen”.
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Episode 279: The History of Halloween
Episode 278: The Sicilian Mafia
Episode 277: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Episode 276: The People on Australian Money
Episode 275: The Anarchy at Samarra, the Setting for Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Episode 274: Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, the Fearsome Pirate
Episode 273: A History of Australian Referendums
Episode 272: Catherine de’ Medici, Ruler of France
Episode 271: History’s Weirdest Deaths – Part 4
Episode 270: The Eruptions of Mount Tambora and Krakatoa
Episode 269: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Episode 268: The Vasa, Sweden’s Mighty Warship
Episode 267: History’s Biggest Misconceptions
Episode 266: The History of Artificial Light
Episode 265: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Destroyer of Worlds
Episode 264: History’s Weirdest Epithets
Episode 263: Harald Hardrada, the Last Great Viking
Episode 262: King Cnut of the North Sea Empire
Episode 261: The Sinking of the RMS Titanic
Episode 260: Captain Cook’s Second and Third Voyages
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