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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Mysteries About True History's podcast is back for season two. |
| 0:04.5 | If you're a kid who would love to travel through time to solve cool mysteries, |
| 0:08.6 | perplexing puzzles, and tricky riddles, |
| 0:11.0 | then this podcast is the perfect audio treat for you. |
| 0:14.3 | Every week, join me, Molly, and my best friend Max, |
| 0:17.4 | as we take our problem-solving skills to amazing places like ancient Egypt, |
| 0:22.0 | ancient Greece, or the Galapagos Islands in 1875 to help out the one and only Charles Darwin. |
| 0:28.0 | We never know where we're going to wind up or what we're going to find, which is all part of the fun. |
| 0:32.6 | So put on your time traveling shoes and listen as a family. |
| 0:35.7 | You can listen to mysteries about true |
| 0:37.5 | histories on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:41.9 | Hello, Smarty Pants. Welcome to Smarty Q's, a bonus segment only for Who Smarted Plus subscribers, where I answer questions submitted by the Smarty Pants. |
| 1:02.3 | Our first question from Olivia asks, how does an archaeologist know some dinosaurs had good binocular vision and others didn't, since their eyes |
| 1:12.1 | aren't there when the skeleton is dug up. Well, great question, Olivia, especially since the |
| 1:17.4 | question holds the answer. Archaeologists may not dig up an actual dinosaur eye, but what they do |
| 1:24.0 | find is a fossilized sclerotic ring, a ring of bones found inside the eye of many fish and reptiles, including dinosaurs. |
| 1:33.1 | In modern animals, larger sclerotic rings generally correlate to greater visual capabilities. |
| 1:39.0 | Using the size of sclerotic ring fossils, archaeologists can estimate the quality of a dinosaur's binocular vision. |
| 1:46.6 | Our next question is from listener Procon in Naperville, Illinois, who wants to know how are diamonds made? |
| 1:54.1 | Diamonds are made when carbon in the Earth's upper mantle, about 100 miles below the Earth's surface, |
| 1:59.6 | becomes so hot and pressurized that it bonds together. |
| 2:03.6 | Each carbon atom creates a special chemical bond with four other carbon atoms, which each |
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