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402: No Such Thing As A Pig Playing Fortnite
In Massachusetts there is a place called Woods Hole, and there was a company called the Pacific Guano Company, and whenever the weather changed, the wind changed in a certain direction, the entire town would have to be…
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Keble College, Oxford's chapel was completely funded by bird poo, basically.
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What about the Guano Islands near Peru? In 1865, when it was the real height of it, Spain decided they would send a scientific mission to South America to kind of look at this. They sent a scientific mission of about a…
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This is a scientist at the University of Queensland, and they wanted to know about the visual capabilities of fish. They started with clownfish, often very good for experimenting on, and they were looking at what they…
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He was called George Dempster. He was the mayor of a place in the USA called Knoxville. Later in life, he created the Dempster dumpster — it was the first ever waste container that could be emptied onto a truck.
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He was doing a run at the Duke of York Theatre. As a result of this stunt, he sold it out completely, as if people just needed the answer: was she going to be there?
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From the start of his career, where he started out in Bengal, he called himself the world's greatest magician immediately before even really starting his career and shortened it, bizarrely, to TW's GM, the world's…
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