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Cool Stuff Daily

Making Money Collecting Pine Cones, New Species of Dinosaur Unearthed in Spain, and TDIH - Piggly Wiggly, The First Supermarket Opens

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Wisconsin DNR is looking for pine cones…we’ll explain why, and, yet another species of dinosaur has been unearthed in Spain. Plus, on This Day in History, the first supermarket opens and it has a name you can’t forget. Wisconsin DNR will pay money for bushels of pine cones, part of reforestation program | WFRV (wearegreenbay.com) DNR Looking To Buy Bushels Of Red Pine Cones | Wisconsin DNR Fossil site found by happenstance likely to produce several new dinosaur species (msn.com) The Bizarre Story of Piggly Wiggly, the First Self-Service Grocery Store | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com) About Us - Piggly Wiggly (lovingthepig.com) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3

Welcome to yet another initiative, cool stuff right home.

0:34.4

My name's Marcus Paff.

0:35.5

His name is Reggie Rizzou.

0:37.3

On today's episode, the Wisconsin D&R is looking

0:40.8

for pine cones. We'll explain why. Plus, yet another species of dinosaur has been unearthed in Spain.

0:48.5

And on this day in history, the first supermarket opens. And it has a name you can't forget. Let's come it up on cool stuff

0:56.0

right home. Well, if you can't get a hold of me this weekend, maybe this is why. According to

1:01.8

WFRV TV, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, or the DNR, is going to pay over $100

1:07.9

a bushel for red and white pine cones. The cones must be properly

1:12.4

collected and they will go toward the DNR's reforestation program. According to Jeremiah R,

1:18.3

a DNR Forest Regeneration Specialist, quote, the DNR supply of red pine seed has been depleted

1:24.3

due to the lack of good cone crops over the past couple of years.

1:33.5

Red pine is Wisconsin's number one conifer for timber production, and many red pine plantations are now being harvested as they reach maturity. For sites that will be returned to red pine

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