These mushrooms are smurfed. Spurious Correlations! Advice! Drunkoons! Yo Ho a Cybertruck! IMAP Update! Afrikaans Tongue Twister Reveal! Poetry Corner! Veronika!

Smurf Inducing Fungus:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

Spurious Connections:

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Drunk Raccoon:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8jnxxm70jo.amp

Poetry Corner:

https://poets.org/poem/tincture

Veronika the Cow:

https://youtu.be/3rX1dx8HpL0?si=jclaEzZ34iEWS8Z9

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STORMWATCH! Balloons? Pomelo season is upon us! IMAP! Adventures in ADHD! Ogres! Dire Wolves! Happy horse accidents!

Dire wolf skull wall:

https://imgs.search.brave.com/axkZJkz81-1mYEovchjUAc6tCEJk7jhqfI73hxDhUmg/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxv/YWQud2lraW1lZGlh/Lm9yZy93aWtpcGVk/aWEvY29tbW9ucy8w/LzBiL0RpcmVfV29s/Zl9Ta3VsbHNfTGFf/QnJlYV8yMDA1LTA4/LTAxLkpQRw

The Cry Cry Horse:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-01-12/From-a-stitching-mistake-to-viral-hit-Meet-the-Cry-Cry-Horse--1JRZlzzI1t6/p.html

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NYPL Year in Review! 

https://lithub.com/these-are-the-books-new-yorkers-checked-out-of-the-library-the-most-this-year/

Public domain preview!

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Great news from Brazil:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.19.24301010v1

Octotongue:

https://www.threads.com/@oceangeneration/post/DRWeQo4AvBM/another-day-another-fun-ocean-fact-octopuses-use-their-tongue-like-a-little

MRSA Killing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815

One Night In Bangkok:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

One Night in Bangkok but make it medieval:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9U

The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lamond:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOa0O1-2w5E

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Formula 1 Part 3! Fire sooner? 3D Windpipe! Penguin legs? There is no Dana, only Zuul. ADHD-Off! The truth about Puffins. Broke bridge?

The Williams F1 Babypod:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40481095.amp

Early Fire:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-humans-were-making-fire-350-000-years-earlier-than-scientists

Thomas Danbo Vid:

https://youtu.be/v4aF_qtwh0Y?si=OPZBflWUAIo6Qt6e

Penguin leg example:

https://blog.nwf.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2011/03/penguin-that-leaps1.jpg

Floating Penguin Example:

https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/008/108/556/large_2x/humboldt-penguin-floating-on-its-back-free-photo.jpg

Zuul:

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dinosaur-ghostbusters-zuul-20170509-htmlstory.html

Godzilla's Best Friend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguirus

3D Windpipe:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/breakthrough-3d-printed-organ-windpipe

Spring Puffin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_puffin#/media/File:Puffin_%28Fratercula_arctica%29.jpg

Rest-of-the-year Puffin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_puffin#/media/File:Horned_Puffin_RWD1.jpg

Puffin Shedding Beak:

https://www.pbase.com/lightrae/image/118177251

Hammersmith Bridge:

https://nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmith-bridge

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Formula 1 saves lives! Plague Volcano! Tooth? In my eye? The Story of Felicia. Laser Loon! Balloon Duel! Pencil loss! Lodge Dogs! Chessmen! Let's help our South African correspondent!

The Amazing Lewis Chessmen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen#

Do not click this if you don't want to see the tooth in eye surgery: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tooth-in-eye-surgery-canada-1.7470626

Laser Loon: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/02/13/laser-loon-lives-on-through-new-st-paul-library-cards

Balloon Duel: https://www.geriwalton.com/a-french-balloon-due/

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When cats? Where skulls? Carbon peak? Fermi who? Spider Fake? Leshy! Troll report! Spurious raccoons! Jimothy's animals! What's going on in Atherstone? The rise of the Amperbut! Rocket update from Binbar! Space moss! Dominic 9 reports in! 

Otter 841:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC-koxb8jxw

Wojtek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

Grashopper mouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9mO5QzOIQ

Headless Skeletons:

https://www.science.org/content/article/headless-bodies-hint-why-europe-s-first-farmers-vanished

The Fermi Paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525006599?via%3Dihub

Fake Spider:

https://www.science.org/content/article/s-no-spider-it-s-decoy

Decarbonated China:

https://www.science.org/content/article/global-carbon-emissions-will-soon-flatten-or-decline

Leshy in the woods:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy#/media/File:Leshy_(1906).jpg

Polish Leshy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy#/media/File:Leszy,_autor_Dariusz_Fluder,_rzeźba_znajduje_się_w_Bolkowie_na_Dolnym_Śląsku.jpg

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Boring espionage! Good Luck Escapade! Dog skulls! Wolf tools? How to Formula One! Blue sun! Cardboard-confined rammed earth! Talking pigs! 24 hour Dutch prayers! Blue dogs! Printing words! Cuthbert! Regurgitalite!

Coober Peddy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy

Fossil Vomit:

https://www.science.org/content/article/fossil-vomit-contains-new-species-pterosaur-brazil

Wolf Tools?:

https://www.science.org/content/article/have-wild-wolves-learned-use-tools

Boring Chinese Espionage:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o

Talking Pig Video:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1314262666887249

Cardboard Confined Rammed Earth:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250922074949.htm

Blue Chernobyl Dogs:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a69208113/chernobyl-dogs-blue/

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Nucleo-fungi! Raccoons: The Shortening! Troll update! Vaccines! Reading Rainbow 2.0! CATTLE OBTAINED IN A DETESTABLE MANNER! Go spiders! Lucy's civic engagement epic! House moving! More DMX news? Revenge bedtime procrastination! Congratulations, Salmon!

Joey the Guardian:

https://youtu.be/9cISL-gnXw8?si=xM4AUcXkF6r15RK8

Raccoon pets imminent:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-showing-early-signs-of-domestication/

Nature's Most Efficient Traveler:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel-in-the/

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Free sun! Truck Desk! Wee food! Beef pics! Mars attacks! Rizzo is mean! StarCrete! Button Quails! Dickenson bars! IMAP is cold! Witch test! Web big!

Big Web: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-spider-web-discovered-in-bizarre-sulfur-cave/

Truck Desk: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/29/truck-desk/

Mars the Hippo: https://youtube.com/shorts/RyCqdl2B0OY?si=bTq7iZfoklQ0SDhZ

Button Quails: https://www.tiktok.com/@fathenfarms/video/7480634437013753118

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Follow ups! Scottish Lords? CSI: IBU! Beowulf (real)! Hollow virus! Tautology! HERE HAVE THIS! The 300 Club! Language Time Travel! Uncle Bob We Love You! Scottish Trips! Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg Revisited! 

G H O S T W A T C H! Gendermelons has great news (right?)!

The crazy language thing we listened to:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOhtAdVERNN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

Ethel Merman's Terrible Lake Song: https://youtu.be/Ldld7ZMuCsc?si=ycTDZWkuoMwXmujj

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