There’s a lot that can go wrong when your identity is at question. Charged with abandoning a baby? Check. Years in prison? That too. Accused of assassinating the head of Hamas? Why not. Learn about the travails of some unlucky saps in this episode.

There’s a lot that can go wrong when your identity is at question. Charged with abandoning a baby? Check. Years in prison? That too. Accused of assassinating the head of Hamas? Why not. Learn about the travails of some unlucky saps in this episode.

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10 Cases of Mistaken Identity

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Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is in danger of becoming only about branding and money.

Humanity&rsquo;s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is in danger of becoming only about branding and money.

UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity

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There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.

There&rsquo;s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird&rsquo;s defense, it&rsquo;s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.

Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird

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Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn’t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn’t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpot invention captures everyone’s imagination.

Once in a while someone comes up with a solution for a problem we didn&rsquo;t know we had, and maybe even a problem that didn&rsquo;t even exist. Even more rarely, the stars align just right so that some crackpot invention captures everyone&rsquo;s imagination.

Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular

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