So, you're saying Trump didn't brag about the height of his building while we were still recovering bodies from the rubble of the WTC, he bragged about the height of his building while we were still recovering bodies from the rubble of the WTC with a bit of prompting. Well, that makes a huge difference. That's not…

Thanks! And "choo-choo-choose you" reminds me, one pitfall of working on this book is that you inadvertently spout train puns constantly. I had the idea years ago but it took me ages to work out the… engineering. My editor once said we needed to get the project… back on track. I would have given anything if he had put…

The prefab construction thing is fascinating. Someone realized it was easier to do construction in a factory than 1000 feet in the air, so they build each floor, or a section thereof, and then just hoist it up. The resulting buildings look pretty pre-fab and junky, but I would imagine you could use the same method…

Which is still out there, uncensored! A naked underage girl! Totally fine, because… Clapton? It's a supergroup? I don't get it.

That's something that still blows my mind — a hundred years ago or earlier, anytime you built something big, you just assumed people were going to die working on it. Grand Central Station, which is only a few stories tall, has a memorial to the workers who died building it inscribed in stone over the main entrance.

Yeah, I didn't want to get too political in the article itself, but Trumps disgusting boast the day after 9/11 that his building was now the tallest was, typically for Trump, completely false.

Nope, just a fan!

I'll admit, I simplified. The Tatars were an offshoot of the Mongol Empire, and I never miss an opportunity to tie things back to Genghis Khan, Nazis, or space travel.

Hey, I don't review films, he steers clear of my turf!

I didn't enjoy history much in high school, and managed to not take too much of it in college. Then I started reading on my own (pauses to get wedgied by bullies) and discover to my shock that history is fascinating, but schools conspire to drain all the fun out of it.

By American standards, or Russian standards?

Watch it.

False Dimitris! Plural!

As you can see from the secondary image, I'm clearly on the Law & Order side of the great "venerable crime shows your Dad likes" divide. So "two scoops of murder" was a wisecrack delivered while ordering a hot dog from a street vendor, and was followed by a satisfying [chunk-chunk].

Yeah, the classic example of a cryptid that turned out to be real is the platypus, which everyone assumed to be a hoax when it was first discovered. And frankly, it's still less believable than anything on the list.

We do a "20 years ago" week every year.

We did cover micronations; that guy's fake country is called Molossia!

Damn. I'm going home tonight and writing the best Wiki Wormhole ever.

Okay, you pick an episode of mass hysteria to be happy about!

That's honestly not any different than believing that Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives from ISIL are secretly sent by ISIL, or that Obama's going to take everyone's guns away. Far too many people base their beliefs on fear and not evidence.