Welcome to Erin Mankie'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.

We've all heard of planking.

It took over the internet a while back.

Then there was the rather short-lived ice bucket challenge where friends challenge each other

to film themselves dumping a bucket of ice water over their heads, and of course then

posted on social media.

The social media has a knack for making fads blow up.

After all, humanity becomes a much different species when put in front of an audience.

But social media didn't make trends happen.

No, long before the days of TikTok and Instagram, there were examples of human beings doing ridiculous,

pointless things solely for the sake of saying that they had done it.

Consider for instance, phone booth surfing.

People took photos as they crammed as many friends as possible into phone booths, with

a record being a seemingly impossible 25.

But there is another fad, like vice pointless, that unnecessarily grabbed everyone's attention

way back in 1939.

It started as these things often do with a bet.

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