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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Pooping Magic Rocks, How We Ruined Bison, Common Cold Lies

Oct 9, 2019
49:40

Arielle Duhaime-Ross, host of Reset from Vox, joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from dunking chickens in ice baths to magical stones from porcupine bellies. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?

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