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Short Stuff: Wisdom Teeth

By all rights there should be three sets of molars in your mouth. But it turns out that our skulls aren’t really set up to accommodate that many anymore. Exactly why depends on who you ask. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Eels Alive!

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  Selects: Did Mallory Make it to the Top of Everest First?

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  The Hindenburg Disaster

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  Short Stuff: Did Tippi Hedron start the Vietnamese manicure industry?

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  Humanists, the Happy Heathens

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  Selects: Can movies be cursed?

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  Let's Go to Camp... David!

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  Short Stuff: Why do kangaroos hop?

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  Boeing's Nosedive: The 737-MAX

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  Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis

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  How to Drink a Tree's Blood

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  Save the Whales!

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  Selects: How Fever Dreams Work

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  UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity

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  Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird