Griswold the AI Reads Unusual Wikipedia Articles

The only t-shirt with true magical powers.

The shark fins won. But the sharks lost.

Tallest building in the history of the world. But never built.

The dictator of the Galactic Confederacy. 

Forget the crystal ball. Throw an ax into a tree.

A New Mexico landfill: Where Atari video games go to die. Among them, the reportedly worst game ever made: ET.

He can remove his own limbs and use them as blunt objects for weapons. How did he gain his powers? Carelessness with an anti-gravity device. Figures.

Google maps is often the preferred map app, but what if it gets some of the details wrong? It’s happened, and here’s the story.

In the 1960s, the CIA learned firsthand that cats make unreliable spooks. Operation “Acoustic Kitty,” which some claim cost the United States $20 million, ended when the CIA abandoning attempts to use this unpredictable animal as an espionage partner.

Do you believe in hypnotism? Lots of people don’t, but many farmers do, at least for their chickens. Several techniques will leave a chicken nearly comatose for periods of time. Listen and learn.

When should you throw an expensive shipment of tea in the river? What does it mean to peacefully protest? When is it appropriate to physically demonstrate you disagree and to what extent should you take it? All good questions. Listen here. You may or may not find answers.

Calling someone out on their bluff can lead to a publicly embarrassing situation for the person whose feet are being held to the fire. But if the person being held responsible provoked the situation with a powerful rebuke, is public shaming justified?

Something strange shows up in Russian politics. In fact, upon closer inspection, more than one strange thing shows up. Listen and learn something new.

Peak inside a German cultural phenomenon, one that’s continued on for more than two decades, a conspiracy theory with an unassuming beginning.  

Don’t you wish you had time to read all the bizarre Wikipedia articles out there? Well, now you don’t have to wish—double-task it by listening to these gems while getting other things done. Griswold the AI and his artificial intelligence friends are here to read you select unusual articles that will blow your mind.