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Sailing Boulders, Mom-Eating Worms, the Most Humongous Fungus

Sailing Boulders, Mom-Eating Worms, the Most Humongous Fungus

FromThe Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week


Sailing Boulders, Mom-Eating Worms, the Most Humongous Fungus

FromThe Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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48 minutes
Released:
Apr 22, 2020
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Happy Earth Day! We're celebrating with facts about worms that eat their moms' skin, the fungus bigger than a blue whale, and rocks that sail across deserts all by themselves. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?
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Released:
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At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support