Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

On this day in 1943, an interesting headline in the New York Times: “Sicily Vying With Hawaii To Become 49th U.S. State.” Of course, neither Sicily nor Hawaii became the 49th state; Alaska did. But there really was an effort to bring Sicily into the Union. Plus: a guy lost his cellphone in a river... and almost a year later, another guy found it. And it still worked!  Sicily Vying With Hawaii To Become 49th U.S. State (The New York Times) Man reunited with phone lost in River Wye for 10 months (BBC) Help our show reach the US, Sicily and everywhere else as a backer on Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support