
535: No Such Thing As An Inside-Out Dolphin
No Such Thing As A Fish
Hair Coats and Shell Collections
The chapter explores the concept of making clothes from human hair with jokes about washing machines and fashion mishaps. It then transitions to discussing the 18th-century craze for collecting shells, highlighting the rarity and value of certain shells, the process of shell formation involving biomineralisation, and the exclusive sea silk fabric made from pen shells.
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