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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of February. It's Wednesday, August 10th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The story of a 197-year-old

frozen gentleman, a tale that will take us from unprecedented weather events and

the 19th century version of misinformation to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a 1980s medical miracle,

and a brief shout out to the OG Velocopede. Plus, Austrian Burger King says you're abnormal if you like meat, and the

upcoming live-action Pac-Man movie. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

One of my favorite phenomenons in history is the year without a summer. 1816. The year prior,

Mount Tambora had erupted in Indonesia, one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history,

killing nearly all 12,000 of its residents and causing huge clouds of dust to blanket the skies in total darkness for days.

Those clouds of ash would continue circulating in the upper atmosphere for years afterwards,

and the effects were felt far and wide. The following summer in 1816, the ash blocking the

sun caused temperatures to plummet from their usual averages. It was 45 degrees

Fahrenheit on July 4th in Savannah, Georgia. New England saw snowstorms that same month, dark

rainfall permeated all summer long in Europe. Crops failed, spawning ripple effects in food shortages,

rioting, and more.

With the world having gone so topsy-turvy, it's not entirely surprising that a few

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