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Bird Chess, Monkey Selfies, Crocodile Dung Birth Control

Bird Chess, Monkey Selfies, Crocodile Dung Birth Control

FromThe Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week


Bird Chess, Monkey Selfies, Crocodile Dung Birth Control

FromThe Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Aug 16, 2023
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Stan explains the iconic monkey selfie legal struggle, Amanda talks about how scientists got crows to stop pooping so much, and Rachel divulges many details about crocodile dung birth control. 
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Released:
Aug 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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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