Lights Out With Sylvia Shults Podcast
1) Today I Learned …
The most expensive liquid in the world is the venom of the deathstalker scorpion, native to North Africa and the Middle East. Its sting is 100 times more painful than a bee sting, and its venom sells ...Show More
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Every day during the summer of 2020, a stray dog named Kursha showed up at a pedestrian crossing in Batumi in the country of Georgia to help a kindergarten class safely cross the road. Patrolling up a...Show More
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Hey hey, happy Friday! And happy book release day! Today I can officially crow about my newest book, Gone On Vacation: Endless Summer. You heard it right — I had so much fun writing the original...Show More
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In 1879, the Belgian city of Liege conducted a short-lived experiment using cats to deliver mail from the central post office to outlying villages. The letters were put into waterproof bags that were ...Show More
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Human babies are about the same percentage of water as a banana. A newborn baby is 75 percent water, compared to a banana’s 74 percent. (From Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Mind Blown!)
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The thin, gray TelefonPlan tower in Stockholm, Sweden, looks pretty drab during the daytime. At twenty stories, it rises above the surrounding buildings — but it’s a far cry from being the...Show More
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Max Siedentopf, a German-Namibian artist, set up a sound installation that uses solar power to play Toto’s “Africa” on an endless loop in the Namib desert. (From Ripley’s Belie...Show More
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The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz movie was paid $125 a week — more than some of the actors on the set. (From Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Mind Blown!)
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In the 1880s, tax collector Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann of Apolda, Germany, developed a breed of dog to help him collect taxes. (From Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Mind Blown!)
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There are over 35,000 museums in the United States. That’s more than there are outlets of Starbucks and McDonald’s combined. And speaking of museums, I hope you’ve got your copy of G...Show More
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