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[Fact Off]

Desert of Maine

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/travel/escapes/22down.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-desert-of-maine-freeport-maine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-desert-middle-maine-180951555/

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/maine/articles/the-true-story-of-how-maine-got-its-desert/

Panic grass in geothermal dirt

https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2009/10/all-for-one-and-one-for-all.html

https://www.montana.edu/news/629/yellowstone-plant-reveals-secret-for-tolerating-high-temperatures

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5811/513

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/316/5822/201.1

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10583964/

https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/historyculture/upload/JFMeadow_Dissertation-red.pdf

[Ask the Science Couch]

Rubbing dirt in wound

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/antibacterial-clays-can-kill-antibiotic-resistant-e-coli-and-mrsa/

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/asu-amw051713.php/

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064068

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200427125205.htm

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/07/16/sports-rub-some-dirt-on-it/87184302/

[Butt One More Thing]

Pink fairy armadillo

https://www.wired.com/2014/01/absurd-creature-of-the-week-pink-fairy-armadillo-crawls-out-of-the-desert-and-into-our-hearts/