This week, Quick History takes a look at animals being put on trial, and executed, for doing animal things! Also covered in this episode, corpses being tried in court, as well as inanimate objects, and Deodand Law.

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Cities all over the world have a cable around them, maybe even yours, and unless you're Jewish, you don't have to worry about them.

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There's a 12-year gap of Jesus' life in the Bible, and nobody knows what Jesus did in that time... except for a small village in Japan.

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They say an episode of this podcast a day keeps the doctors away. I mean, that's what they say. I'm just relaying the message.

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Play-Doh wasn't originally made as a kid's toy, and it was almost a stroke of luck that caused it!

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Ethel was around a long time, breaking barriers that separated Black and white people. She was a true pioneer.

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Though she was only convicted of killing a couple people, it is believed that she killed a whole lot. How many? Listen to find that out and how she did it!

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