The Cardiff Giant

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P. T. Barnum are still being displayed. The original is currently on display at The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

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0:00.0	You thought it was about climate change?
0:02.3	I thought it was about COVID.
0:03.7	No, no, they made it before COVID.
0:05.4	So good though.
0:06.8	Jonah Hill.
0:08.0	So good, dude.
0:09.2	Step right up.
0:10.2	Step right up.
0:11.0	See the Chicago giant.
0:12.8	Nope, nope, nope.
0:14.1	Step right up.
0:15.1	Don't, don't, don't step right up.
0:17.0	What's with the setup?
0:18.3	And why, why is he thinn a cage again?
0:22.2	Again, thank you, Cecil.
0:23.4	Yes, yes, yes.
0:24.2	Since you asked Cecil this week's episode got me thinking,
0:27.2	you know, we're missing out on some major mula
0:29.8	by not cashing in on our own giant.
0:32.4	I mean, did you know that he is in the 90,
0:34.9	90% percentile of height for human beings?
0:37.5	Wow, that's pretty good.
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