Geoffs we hope you took your nap today because this week’s episode will keep you up all night stressing about fatal insomnia, but first Madison is giving us a part two of some pretty legendary patents. We’ve got some awesome obituaries from y’all and of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!
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Sources:
https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/rita-williams-obituary?id=55030161&utm_source=webshareapi&utm_medium=share_button&utm_campaign=wsapimobile_beta
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20240115453
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=748284A&KC=A&FT=D&ND=3&date=19031229&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/0036660
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https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/the-1920s-lie-detector-that-forced-suspected-criminals-to-confess-to-a-skeleton.html#google_vignette
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https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/0506886
https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/9610207
https://kottke.org/22/03/the-inventor-of-the-screw-in-coffin
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article173474531.html
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781276/
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