UI #20 - US Army Bicycle Corps

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2009

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Hard to believe, but the United States Army once had a bicycle corps. Also learn how a Notched wedding ring denotes divorce, a giant whale that made a 3,000-mile journey across the US, plumbers who used an alligator to unplug pipe, and Rhodes scholars. Retrosponsor: Swan Soap Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	Hi, I'm Steve Silverman and you're listening to a classic episode of the
1:02.1	Useless Information Podcast.
1:05.0	For your listening pleasure I have for you today the story of the US Bicycle Corps, which was released back on March 29th of 2009. And it seemed like everyone was taking up
1:16.4	cycling in the latter part of the 19th century, so it really should come as no
1:20.2	surprise that the federal government looked into determining how feasible bicycles were for military use.
1:27.0	Now one thing that I clearly remember about this episode is that a listener wrote to me complaining that I was mispronouncing St. Louis.
1:35.0	All through this episode you'll hear me saying St. Louis.
1:39.1	In addition, I'm talking way too fast, which was very common for me to do in these early episodes. In fact it's still a bad habit of
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