Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Everyone knows about the big government organizations that monitor things like our money,

our internet activity, and our impact on the environment.

From the IRS and the NSA to the FDA and the EPA, there seems to be a department that

touches almost every aspect of our lives.

But beneath the FBI and the CIA, there are other organizations, some clandestine, others

that have fallen through the cracks due to obscurity or lack of funding.

For example, NASA has an unknown division known as the Office of Planetary Protection.

It's responsible for preventing cross-contamination of the Earth by space-based organisms and vice-versa.

Even specific foods used to have their own agency.

In 1897, the Board of T. Experts was formed to make sure any T. imported into the United

States met specific guidelines for public consumption.

The members of the organization assembled for two days each year to sample a variety

of T. Their findings were then sent to the FDA, which used the tasting notes as a rubric

for which to judge all imported T.

But perhaps the strangest government agency of all was the International Board of Hygiene,

formed in 1926.

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