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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Shell Shocked

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Setting an incredibly record is a great way to be included in the Cabinet of Curiosities, and both of our stories today manage just that.

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0:00.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:07.2

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

0:13.1

just waiting for us to explore.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:27.9

There's a reason so many people have searched the world for the Holy Grail, a cup from which

0:32.5

Jesus drank at the last supper.

0:34.8

To sit from the cup is to gain eternal life, they say.

0:38.4

Other legends of immortality have been passed down through the ages as well.

0:42.2

The ancient Greeks wrote about a special water in Africa belonging to a people known as

0:46.4

the Macrobians.

0:47.9

The water was said to allow these Macrobians to live well beyond 100 years of age.

0:54.2

We know that story better today thanks to Conquistador Ponce de Leon, who famously went

0:58.8

in search of it during the mid 1500s.

1:01.8

Because of his expedition, the concept of a fountain of youth has spread throughout

1:05.5

the world as something of a common legend.

1:08.6

However, Ponce de Leon looked for the fountain of youth on an island off the coast of Florida

1:13.4

when he should have been searching the kingdom of Tonga.

1:16.3

The Polynesian sovereign state, 1100 miles off the coast of New Zealand, was once home to

1:21.6

a great king.

1:23.2

Tui Malila came to power in 1777.

1:26.8

It was at that time when he met James Cook, a British captain of the Royal Navy, who was

1:31.6

the first European explorer to have ever set foot on the shores of such exotic places

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