The Munchausen Institute for Totally Real Research

The Munchausen Institute provides a home for research that falls outside the bounds of credibility. Listen to our podcast, Chickens Can't See Cubes (@seecubes).

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As promised in yesterday's episode, here are some examples of the BEAUTIFUL hand drawn Panini football stickers you can buy to complete your collection, courtesy of @MuInFoToReRe. #football #sticker @OfficialPanini

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Wizards! Smugglers! Cruises! Stickers! Discover these and more in this week's fantastically factual episode. You probably could make it up, but we haven't. Honest! @spotifypodcasts @ApplePodcasts @podbible @Podchaser @podnose #podcast #Facts

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Humphrey Bogart ran an ocelot sanctuary.

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Did you know that there is a cruise based on cruise-based disaster film The Poseidon Adventure? Learn more about this, and three other totally true facts, in the first episode of 2022, out Monday. You probably could make it up, but we haven't. Honest! #podcast #facts #cruise

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Relive the defining facts of 2021 in the End of Year special. You probably could have made it up, but we didn't. Honest! @spotifypodcasts @ApplePodcasts @Podchaser @Ads4Podcasts @podnose @podbible #podcast #facts #NewYear

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In some versions of the character, Santa Claus is accompanied by three zombie children, who he resurrected after they were killed by a naughty butcher.

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Did you know that anti-vaxxers took truth serum rather than the vaccine? Learn the hilarious consequences in next week's end of 2021 special. We probably could make it up, but we didn't. Honest! #podcast #facts #NewYear

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The so-called "War on Christmas" became briefly and violently real when, in 2016, a fight broke out between hundreds of holiday mascots. The combatants included Santa Claus, baby Jesus, and the Christmas Pterodactyl.

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Before the introduction of the Christmas tree to Britain, it was traditional to decorate a Christmas goat.

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In the apocryphal gospel of Ian, the three wise men turn up to the birth of Jesus without gifts, claim they've just left them on their camels, then leave and never come back.

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Feudal lords! Time travel! Speakeasies! Crocodiles! Learn what these have to do with Christmas in our festive special. You probably could make it up, but we haven't. Honest! @spotifypodcasts @ApplePodcasts @podbible @Podchaser #podcast #facts #Christmas

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Royal burials! Hippies! Meerkats! Fancy dress farmers! Learn all about these in this week's totally true episode. You probably could make it up, but we haven't. Honest! @spotifypodcasts @ApplePodcasts @Podchaser @podbible #podcast #facts

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Did you know that there is a Department of Opposites, tasked with determining the opposite of everything? As usual, the concept causes some confusion. Learn more about this, and three other totally true facts, in tomorrow's episode. #podcast #facts

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Posties writing letters? Cat etiquette? The world's most annoying person? Prams kidnapping babies? Learn all about these in this week's episode. You probably could make it up, but we haven't. Honest! @podbible @Podchaser #podcast #facts

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Did you know that there is an annual competition to determine the most annoying person in the world? The winners better hope they never meet Piper...
Learn more about this, and three other totally true facts, in tomorrow's episode. #podcast #facts

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Upon his recent visit, Peppa Pig World had to close to the public to accommodate Boris Johnson's infinite number of children.

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Bacon sandwiches banned? Rules for queueing? Experimental animals unionising? A stockpile of jaffa cakes? Find out about all of these in this week's fascinatingly factual episode. You probably could make it up, but we haven't. Honest! #podcast #facts

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Johnson's children? Pogs or Tazos? Sponsored gladiator? Did we lose the Queen? Found out more in this week's astonishingly accurate episode. You probably could make it up, but we haven't. Honest! #podcast #facts

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Did you know that they lost the Queen in a group of Queen lookalikes? Why would they even engineer such an absurd (but certainly not made-up) scenario? Found out in tomorrow's episode. #podcast #facts #queen

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While not previously mandatory, Olympic athletes have been required to wear clothes since nudists invaded the Melbourne games in 1956.