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The hosts take a whimsical dive into historical oddities from 1954, a year marked by bizarrely significant, yet often forgotten events. Among these are the ending of meat rationing in the UK—a move that coincided with rising obesity rates—an early historic achievement of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, and the invention of the first solar panel. The narrative gets even stranger with stories like Mary Hodges being hit by a meteorite while napping, a bizarre event that resulted in minimal injuries but became a notable record of meteorite-human encounters. Highlighting that the universe is just as inexplicably cruel as history is fascinating to these hosts.