This episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following:
Cohost: Tim Harford of the podcast Cautionary Tales
Question of the Day: What was Martin Luther King Jr‘s real birth name?
Retrosponsor: Instant Ralston Cereal
This Retrocast commercial is from the November 8, 1952 broadcast of Space Patrol.
Tidbits:
Dead Woman Sits Up in Coffin (1922)
Smog Turns Necktie a Bluish Purple (1954)
Unable to Find Affordable Housing, Student Sleeps in Air Vent (1964)
Footnotes to History:
The Cake Bewitched Him (1885)
Fire Company Called To Put Out a Sunset (1926)
New Pill Bans That Fear of Trip to Dentist (1948)