Author: Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

If you look at the list of officer ranks in the United States armed forces, there are ten ranks listed that are held today. They go from Second Lieutenant all the way up to the rank of General, which is the four-star variant of the rank. 

There is a rank above general, a five-star general, which hasn’t been awarded in 70 years. Most people are familiar with these generals as having served in WWII. 

However, there is still one more rank above that of a five-star general in the United States Military. 

Find out more about this rank and the two men who have been awarded it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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In the 1960s, billions of dollars were spent, and 100,000s of people worked to land a human on the moon. 

After the success of Apollo 11, five more Apollo missions managed to land on the moon over the next three years. 

…and then everyone got bored of flying to the moon, and it was canceled. 

Learn more about Apollo 18, 19, and 20, the moon missions that never happened, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Sometime around eight to nine thousand years ago, ancient people in Asia Minor found a very dull grey metal that turned out to be easy to manipulate when it was heated. 

For thousands of years, it was used for a variety of purposes, including as a food additive. 

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, even more uses were found for this unique metal. 

However, by the 20th century, scientists realized that maybe this stuff wasn’t really so good for us. 

Learn more about lead, how it has been used throughout history, and how our perception of it has changed on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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In the year 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, and his adopted son Nero became the Emperor of Rome at the age of 16. 

His reign was one of the most infamous in history, and over 2000 years after he came to power, his name is still used to invoke the image of a cruel ruler and a despot.

But what exactly made him so bad, and was he really as bad as the legends say?

Learn more about Emperor Nero and why his reign became so infamous on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 

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You are probably familiar with several of the great pre-Columbian cities in the Americas. Places like Tikal in Guatemala, Copan in Honduras, and Tenochtitlan in Mexico are some of the great legacies of the civilizations that came before. 

However, all of these population centers were located in Mesoamerican. Most of the people who lived in what is today the United States and Canada were nomadic and never built any large cities.

However, there was one major exception. 

Learn more about Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian settlement in North America, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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In 1845, farmers around Europe suffered from a blight that devastated the potato crop. 

This lasted for several years, but nowhere was it more pronounced than it was on the island of Ireland, where it resulted in death and mass migration.

The effects of this potato blight can still be witnessed in the world today.

Learn more about the Great Irish Famine, also known as the Irish Potato Famine, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The 19th century saw an explosion in population in London. The city grew severalfold and became the largest city in the world. 

With so many people and the city growing so rapidly, transportation became a huge problem. 

One solution was to provide the new technology known as locomotives in the city. However, building train tracks would require a great deal of land which simply didn’t exist.

The solution to their problem lay under their feet.

Learn more about the London Underground, its origin, and its growth on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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There is a very good chance that many of you listening have had pasta, maybe within the last week. 

Pasta is a simple, affordable food that comes in a wide variety of forms. It can be served with almost anything and in a wide variety of styles. 

Despite its current global nature, pasta is a food that originated in Italy……or did it?

Learn more about pasta, how it originated, and how it spread around the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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When most people think of Switzerland, they think of a small country embedded in the Alps that makes fine chocolates and is the home of the cuckoo clock.

They have been neutral in European conflicts for almost 500 years, and they serve as the headquarters for several international organizations. 

Yet, it was the Swiss who, during the Renaissance, were some of the most feared and in-demand mercenary fighters in Europe. 

Learn more about Swiss mercenaries and how they instilled fear into Europeans on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Every single rocket that has ever been launched into space has been a rocket that burned some sort of fuel. 

These chemical fuel rockets have worked well for making the short trip to orbit. Beyond that point, however, they are not necessarily the best option for space travel. 

There are a host of proposed methods for space travel that don’t involve rockets, some of which have already been tested. 

Learn more about alternative forms of space flight and the possible future of space exploration on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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