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IN THIS EPISODE: Listen for BLOOPERS at the end! *** A woman in Scotland has never heard silence. Not because of the noise around her \u2013 but because of the noise in her! (Never a Moment of Silence) *** We\u2019ve all had a song stuck in our heads \u2013 but one woman has had the same song playing on a loop in her brain for the past four years, non-stop. (The Ear Worm) *** From too much noise \u2013 to none at all. We\u2019ll meet Ezekiel Eads, a man who had no ears and learned to hear the outside world through his mouth! (The Man With No Ears) *** Syphilis is a nasty disease, especially when it eats your nose. But that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t have a social life, as many noseless have learned from personal experience. (The No Noses Club) *** Is it possible that it\u2019s better to have no nose at all than to have an extremely long one? We\u2019ll look at a real-life Pinocchio named Thomas Wedders with a giant proboscis! (A Short Story About a Long Nose) *** Imagine living through life with two and a half faces. No, not like a politician \u2013 that\u2019s simply two-faced. I mean living with two noses and three eyes. You\u2019re either an extraterrestrial, or you are William Durks. (Two-And-A-Half Faces) *** What exactly is so alluring about those who cherish virginity? Is it about virtue or is it about something else? (Virginity Tests and Cures)

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE\u2026
BOOK: \u201cAmerican Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers\u201d by Marc Harzman: https://amzn.to/3QGMCC5
BOOK: \u201cThe Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine\u201d by Lindsey Fitzharris: https://amzn.to/441Devz
\u201cNever a Moment of Silence\u201d by Marco Margaritoff for All That\u2019s Interesting: https://tinyurl.com/y4khaqea
\u201cThe Ear Worm\u201d by Facts Verse: http://www.factsverse.com
\u201cThe Man With No Ears\u201d by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian: https://tinyurl.com/ssoc693
\u201cThe No Noses Club\u201d by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian: https://tinyurl.com/u24bd5d
\u201cA Short Story About a Long Nose\u201d by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian: https://tinyurl.com/wkqnc3q
\u201cTwo and a Half Faces\u201d by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian: https://tinyurl.com/sflhcqn,https://tinyurl.com/umb3fo5
\u201cVirginity Tests and Cures\u201d by B.B. Wagner for Ancient Origins: https://tinyurl.com/y6rwcy6h
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Originally aired: August, 2020

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