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Who was Thomas Mollicone? The story behind the naming of an east side Detroit park

Published: Aug. 22, 2024, 9 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 46 seconds

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What is the history behind the Belle Isle Boathouse?

Published: July 31, 2024, 9 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 8 seconds

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What happened to Detroit jazz venue Strata Concert Gallery?

Published: June 27, 2024, 3:46 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds

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CuriosiD: Why do the Detroit Lions wear 'Honolulu' blue?

Published: May 30, 2024, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Is the medicinal magic of Vernors a myth or reality?

Published: April 25, 2024, 9 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

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What's the highest point in Detroit?

Published: Feb. 8, 2024, 10 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 4 seconds

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What's the history behind Detroit's Outer Drive?

Published: Jan. 11, 2024, 10 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds

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What happened to the 'World's Largest Stove' in Detroit?

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes

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What's with all the white tile burger joints in metro Detroit?

Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds

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What's the story behind Black motorcycle clubs in Detroit?

Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds

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How did the Giant Tire end up in Allen Park, MI? And what's it like inside?

Published: Sept. 14, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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What's the story behind metro Detroit's mile roads?

Published: Aug. 10, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds

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What is Superman ice cream? And where does it come from?

Published: July 13, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds

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How do you catch fish in the Detroit River? And are they safe to eat?

Published: June 8, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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Who was Bagley?

Published: May 11, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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What is on Boblo Island today? And what happened to the Boblo boats?

Published: April 13, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds

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Why are there so many Coney Islands in Detroit?

Published: March 9, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 4 seconds

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Could Detroit's buried streams see the light of day?

Published: Feb. 9, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 35 seconds

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Why does steam come out of Detroits streets?

Published: Dec. 8, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

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Who made Detroit-style pizza first?

Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 5 seconds

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Are Detroit election officials prepared for another 'stop the count' protest?

Published: Oct. 13, 2022, 4:52 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds

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Where does the name Hamtramck come from?

Published: Sept. 8, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 39 seconds

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What happened to the swimmobiles in Detroit?

Published: Aug. 11, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds

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Are the woods in Palmer Park a virgin forest?

Published: July 14, 2022, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 44 seconds

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Corn Real Good

Published: June 9, 2022, 8:20 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 43 seconds

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CuriosiD: Did you know the Dust Bowl made it to Detroit?

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 7:20 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds

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CuriosiD: Whats the Origin of the Boston Cooler?

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 4:39 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds

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CuriosiD: We Answered All Your Questions About the Mile Road System

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 1:39 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds

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Holocaust Bones Find Resting Place in Massive Michigan Cemetery

Published: July 18, 2019, 5:38 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds

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Listeners Ask, Why Does DTW Have Those Giant Fans?

Published: June 26, 2019, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 44 seconds

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CuriosiD: Why Isn't Google's Street View of Detroit Up-to-date?

Published: July 20, 2018, 8:32 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds

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Why Does Michigan Avenue Have Brick Pavers?

Published: July 3, 2018, 8:22 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds

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Could Electric Cars Increase Pollution

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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Rumor of a British Bomber Crash In a Detroit Neighborhood Haunts a Listener

Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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Why Is Detroit Sometimes Called "The Paris of the Midwest?"

Published: Sept. 13, 2017, 1:52 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds

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What is the History of Detroits Times Square?

Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 1 second

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How Did Detroit Become a Center for Arabs in the United States?

Published: Aug. 8, 2017, 6:07 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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That Waterway in Detroit, Is it a Strait or a River?

Published: July 25, 2017, 6:06 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds

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Whats Happened at the State Fairgrounds?

Published: July 13, 2017, 6:04 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Lewis Cass, Michigan Governor, Architect of Indian Removal

Published: June 27, 2017, 2:53 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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Was there busing in Detroit in the early 1960s?

Published: June 20, 2017, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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Who Was John R?

Published: May 30, 2017, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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Are There Salt Mines Under Detroit?

Published: May 15, 2017, 2:50 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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Who Were the Natives in Detroit?

Published: May 1, 2017, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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Whats That Smell?

Published: April 10, 2017, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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Why are there 5 Grosse Pointes?

Published: Dec. 6, 2016, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds

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What Happens to the Stuff I Recycle?

Published: Oct. 3, 2016, 2:36 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

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Why Doesnt Detroit Have A Subway Or Elevated Rail?

Published: Aug. 22, 2016, 2:35 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 39 seconds

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Who Chooses Detroits Tax-Free Renaissance Zones?

Published: Aug. 11, 2016, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 3 seconds

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Whats the Origin of the Boston Cooler?

Published: July 25, 2016, 2:32 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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Did Detroit Ever Have A Gayborhood?

Published: July 11, 2016, 2:31 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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Why Does a Private Company Own a Major U.S. Border Crossing?

Published: June 20, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds

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Whats Up With All These Pheasants?

Published: June 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

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Whats the Story Behind the NBC Building in Midtown Detroit?

Published: May 23, 2016, 2:27 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

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What Are Water Towers Used for Today?

Published: May 9, 2016, 2:26 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

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Why Do Police Shoot to Kill?

Published: April 21, 2016, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds

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Why isnt there a Taco Bell downtown?

Published: Jan. 4, 2016, 3:24 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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Why Are There Swastikas in Parts of Indian Village?

Published: Dec. 17, 2015, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds

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Where the Bodies are Buried ... Beneath the Streets

Published: Oct. 30, 2015, 2:21 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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How A 1900s Black Detroit Community Was Razed For A Freeway

Published: Oct. 19, 2015, 2:14 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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Where Did the Michigan Left Come From?

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds

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Why is Detroit Auto Insurance SO Expensive?

Published: Sept. 21, 2015, 2:12 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds

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When Detroit was Armed with Nuclear Missiles

Published: Aug. 24, 2015, 2:09 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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What was the 1932 Ford Hunger March?

Published: Aug. 10, 2015, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds

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Do You Pronounce the Road Lahser or Lasher?

Published: July 27, 2015, 2:05 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds

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Former Tenant of this Mans Apartment Reformed the Auto Industry

Published: July 10, 2015, 2:03 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds

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Who is Louis Stone in Detroits history?

Published: March 15, 2015, 2:01 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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The History of Detroits Water Works Park

Published: Nov. 6, 2014, 3 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds

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Why do Hamtramck and Highland Park exist inside the city of Detroit?

Published: Sept. 19, 2014, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds

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