Weird Wednesday Features a Ridable Horse Robot, a 1.9K-year-old Roman Treasure & 100-Year-Old Parents. TDIH: Recorded Sounds Decades Before Edison

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Weird Wednesday brings us a rideable horse robot, a rare coin found in a field after six years of searching, a missing otter update and 100-year-old (tortoise) parents. Plus, on This Day in History, recorded sound, 20 years before Edison’s phonograph Kawasaki Shows Off Rideable Horse Robot | Futurism Kawasaki Unveils a Rideable Robot Horse That Runs on Hydrogen and Moves Like an Animal | ZME Science A Man Spent 6 Years Searching the Same Farm—and Discovered a 1,900-Year-Old Roman Treasure | Popular Mechanics Rare Roman coin found in Dudley field sells for nearly £5,000 | BBC News Galapagos tortoises at Philadelphia Zoo become first-time parents at nearly 100 | AP News Escaped otter is home safe but zoo says her pal is still on the loose | AP News TDIH: Origins of Sound Recording: The Inventors Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.1	What's good? Welcome back to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home, where, as you know by now,
1:07.8	we bring you some of the more intriguing and downright cool stories from around the world.
1:12.3	I'm Marcus Papp, joined by Reggie Rizzou.
1:14.3	On today's Weird Wednesday episode, the Ritable Horse Robot.
1:19.0	You heard that correct.
1:20.2	A rare coin found in a field after six years of searching for treasure and 100-year-old parents.
1:27.4	We're talking tortoises, of course.
1:29.3	Plus, an update on the missing Wisconsin otters.
1:32.3	Finally, on this day in history, recorded sound 20 years before Edison's phonograph.
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