The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Poison King, the Seismic DONK, Contagious Peeing

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Trace Dominguez joins the show to explain just how inconceivable building up an immunity to iocane powder (or other poisons) is. Sara Kiley also discusses unidentified seismic objects, and Rachel talks about how peeing together transcends species.


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