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The Skeptics Guide #928 - Apr 22 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Toughest Biochemical Substance Ever Discovered

Mushroom spores are made of the toughest biological substance known. Butter is a completely edible mushroom, although it can kill an adult human. Sporel pollinate Bob and Jay? I think this one is fiction. You don't eat the spores. You eat the fruit of the mushroom, not the spores. The single gram of tremella mesenterica is sufficient to kill a large adult human.

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