Two Rare Corpse Flowers Bloom, Mistakenly Declared Dead, Seawater Pool Plan, Research Monkeys Finally Captured, and TDIH - "The Raven" is First Published

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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For today's Weird Wednesday episode, two smelly flowers bloom on opposite sides of the planet, the mother who was mistakenly declared dead, Greece’s pool plan to help with droughts, and escaped research monkeys are found after two months on the run. Plus, on This Day in History, Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven" is published for the first time. Corpse flower: Plant with 'deadly' stench pulls huge crowds for rare bloom in Sydney | Offbeat News | Sky News Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse | AP News Rare and Stinky 'Corpse Flower' Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney | Smithsonian Woman 'surprised' after being declared dead | US News | Sky News How a typo led to a Maryland woman being declared dead – NBC4 Washington Hotels on Greek islands could soon fill swimming pools with seawater in drought fight | World News | Sky News Greece panic as hotels may be forced to fill pools with seawater amid worsening droughts | World | News | Express.co.uk Last 4 escaped monkeys are captured in South Carolina after months on the loose | AP News Monkeys who escaped from South Carolina facility captured, police say | USA Today TDIH: The Raven Summary On Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Summary, Analysis & Symbolism LitCharts: The Raven Summary Screenwriting Lessons from Edgar Allan Poe How to Write a Poem Like Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ Spark Notes: The Raven Plot Summary The Philosophy of Composition Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” Summary & Meaning Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup welcome back to another edition of cool stuff ride home a weird Wednesday
0:35.9	edition where we bring you some of the more
0:37.9	interesting, intriguing, cool stories along with The Weird for today. I'm Reggieu
0:43.0	alongside Marcus Paff on today's episode. Two rare smelly flowers bloom on opposite sides of the
0:48.8	planet. The mother who was mistakenly declared dead, Greece's pool plan to help with their droughts, and escaped
0:56.0	research monkeys are found after two months on the run. Plus, on this day in history, Edgar
1:00.9	Allen Poe's poem The Raven is published for the first time. That's all coming up on cool stuff.
1:06.6	Starting off this weird Wednesday episode with not just one, but two smelly flowers in bloom,
1:12.6	both with names fitting for the plant.
1:15.2	Beginning in the U.S. were visitors flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens last weekend
1:19.4	to witness a rare botanical event.
1:22.0	The bloom of the amorphalus gigas, a close relative to the infamous corpse flower, amorphaphyllus teetanum.
1:28.6	Nicknamed Smelliot by the garden staff, this specimen is one of only 10 known plants of
1:34.0	its kind, housed in botanical gardens worldwide.
1:37.2	Native to Sumatra, the plant arrived in Brooklyn as a seedling from Malaysia in 2018.
1:42.1	After years of careful cultivation, Smelliot finally bloomed, reaching nearly
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