The Mystery of Coal

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

There’s a mystery afoot! Almost all of the coal we use around the world was created in the same 60 million year period. Before or after that relatively short window of time, not so much. Just what exactly explains this geological mystery?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:48.0	And that's it right there.
0:51.4	The Mystery of Cole.
0:54.4	Like the title I came up with.
0:55.7	It's a working title but now I guess it's the official title.
0:59.5	I like it because I thought, well what could be the mystery of Cole?
1:04.4	And now I know.
1:06.9	It's Earth Science so I find it jazz-metastic.
1:10.4	But hey, you know this is one of the only sciences I can really get into.
1:15.5	So did this one suck you in then I guess?
1:18.6	It sucked me in like a fallen branch into the depths of a peat bog.
1:23.4	Oh my gosh that was some great foreshadowing man.
1:26.5	I can't wait for 40 seconds from now when we start talking about that part.
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