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These are the shownotes for Season 7, Ep 13 first published March 27th, 2026.

10) Cocaine Sharks Research Continues:

(https://www.vice.com/en/article/sharks-in-the-bahamas-are-full-of-cocaine-caffeine-and-painkillers/)

9) ***PG13*** The government of Bern, Switzerland, has rejected a proposal to alter its coat of arms, ruling that the iconic bear will continue to be depicted with a prominent ding dong.

(https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/the-bernese-bear-will-continue-to-display-its-red-limb-on-the-coat-of-arms/91049271)

8) Firefighters in Vermont came to the rescue of a raccoon that got its head stuck in a peanut butter jar and then climbed 25 feet up a tree.

(https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/03/20/Shelburne-Fire-Department-raccoon-peanut-butter-jar/7831774027521/).

7) The ongoing plight of Texas town of Bug Tussle.

(https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/03/23/Bug-Tussle-Texas-sign-thefts/6351774286086/)

6) A new study seems to indicate that sleep-tracking apps and those things we wear to measure our sleep quality, can actually make sleep worse for some people

(https://studyfinds.com/sleep-tracker-may-make-sleep-worse/).

5) A dancing humanoid robot at a California restaurant had to be removed after it malfunctioned and began smashing plates and knocking over tableware. There's video. I take back what I said before, THIS is how the robot uprising begins. The dancing robots are how it all starts.

(https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/tech/dancing-robot-bounced-from-restaurant-after-scaring-patrons/).

4) Article this week from the Mirror gets into how China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, reported hearing a mysterious knocking sound outside his spacecraft during his 2003 mission. #mystery

(https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-news/chinese-astronaut-heard-mysterious-knocking-1757326).

3) I thought this had to be fake, but there's been a follow-up and I guess a guy really did have a modified bicycle that ran on dog power.

(https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/online-backlash-grows-over-chinese-dog-powered-electric-bike-11265575).

2) A snake in the bedroom!

(https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/03/25/Del-Rio-Texas-bedroom-rattlesnake/4281774448255/).

Bonus) A multi-year study on sitting seems to point towards a better way to sit.

(https://studyfinds.com/not-all-sitting-is-equal-for-the-brain/)

Bonus) Sailors have reported this weird behavior for years, but it's never been captured on film until now... Sperm whales headbutting each other.

1) A vaping squirrel made headlines this week.

(https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/03/25/vaping-squirrel-London-RSPCA/9501774459163/).