Hey all, so for this past week, we have been talking about the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous objects. If you missed any of them, go back and listen. We've got Galileo's mummified finger. We've got the world's oldest ham. It's been a very strange and delightful assortment. So the whole team picked their favorite episodes.

And I did my favorite earlier this week, but I want to pick one more, the last one, because I just, I really, I love them.

So the final object in our series is a classic.

It is a taxidermate stork with a very large arrow sticking through it. It's a stork

that helped solve a major scientific mystery. I'll leave it at that. We will solve it in a

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Okay, on to the Aeros Stork.

The date was May 21st, 1822. The location, Klutz, Germany.

And a peculiar bird had been seen flying over the town for days.

The bird itself, this white stork, wasn't actually anything out of the ordinary. Storks were pretty common to this area of Germany.

But what got the people talking was what the stork was carrying,

this kind of odd piece of baggage.

protruding from the stork's neck was a three-foot wooden spear.

It had skewered the bird from the bottom of its neck to inches from its head.

Somehow, incredibly, this stork had managed to keep flying,

unbothered by this enormous wooden spear.

On this day in May, the stork landed on the estate of a count,

and to quell the very serious curiosity of the town,

the good count took aim and finished what the spear had started.

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