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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Things we take for granted often have unusual origin stories, which clear make them great additions to our Cabinet of Curiosities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm
0:08.7	and Mild.
0:13.0	Our world is full of the unexplainable.
0:16.3	And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,
0:22.2	just waiting for us to explore.
0:25.4	Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.
0:36.8	When the world makes one weary, it's not uncommon for that person to imagine something
0:40.5	better.
0:41.5	A world where there is no war or famine or homelessness, where people take care of one
0:45.7	another and live in harmony.
0:47.5	It's a lovely sentiment, but while it may work in theory, it almost always falls apart
0:52.2	in practice.
0:53.8	Those in organizations led by one person, often a man, end up the same way.
0:58.7	They turn into cults.
1:00.4	That wasn't the goal for religious philosopher and preacher John Humphrey Noise, but even
1:04.9	his idealistic troop wound up with that notorious label.
1:08.8	However, unlike other cults, his didn't end with mass death or suicide.
1:14.3	It ended with...
1:15.5	Spooning.
1:17.0	John was born in 1811 in Bratabra over a month.
1:19.9	His father had been a teacher, a minister, and had even served with the US House of
1:23.5	Representatives while his mother happened to be the aunt of the 19th US president, Rutherford
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