Strange News: Mosquito Drones, the Pharoah's Curse, Alligator Alcatraz, Giant Asteroids, New Blood Types and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Forget fake birds: China unveils the newest iteration of microdrones, which look almost exactly like mosquitoes. A Russian soldier turns cannibal. French scientists discover a brand-new blood type. Police practice improv. Florida is building an "Alligator Alcatraz," and a giant asteroid may crash into the moon within the next decade. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:27.2	My name is Matt.
0:28.2	My name is Noel.
0:29.3	They call me Ben.
0:30.8	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagin.
0:35.2	Most importantly, you are you.
0:37.1	You are, hopefully, here,
0:39.3	which makes this the stuff they don't want you to know if you are joining us for our strange
0:45.0	news program. Welcome to, get this guys, the very last day of June 2025. It's June 30th, when this publishes. So knowing that we are recording on the 25th,
1:00.7	how do you guys see the next week going?
1:06.0	It's a nice roll. Yeah, roll the dice, huh? We had a fascinating conversation just before we rolled today regarding a bit of controversy with the hot ones.
1:21.8	And we're not referring to whatever you think other than the show.
1:27.7	Fiscile material. We're not referring to it. Oh, than the show. Fisile material.
1:28.9	We're not referring to it.
1:29.9	Oh, wow.
1:31.3	That's really good.
1:32.0	Yeah.
1:32.1	We were talking off air about the Ron.
1:35.2	We were talking about the show, hot ones.
1:38.7	How would we describe the show, hot ones?
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