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Weird Wednesday - Shipwrecked Champaign, Baby Orange Lobsters, Great Lakes Alligator, Guinness World Record Record, and TDIH - First Actual Flight?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s Weird Wednesday and we’re bringing you shipwrecked champagne, rare baby lobsters, a Great Lakes alligator, and a Guinness World Record record  –. And on This Day in History – were the Wright Brothers really the first in flight? Some would beg to differ, and we’ll tell you why. A 19th-century shipwreck is filled with Champagne bottles and Sweden won't allow anyone a sip | AP News A 1-in-30-million orange lobster in Maine is having colorful babies (msn.com) Maine university's rare orange lobster hatches babies (wisn.com) Sighting of alligator swimming off shore of Lake Erie prompts Pennsylvania search | AP News Watch: David Rush breaks 15 Guinness World Records in one day - UPI.com Gustave-Whitehead.com, Gustav Weißkopf, © John Brown Gustave Whitehead - Wikipedia Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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more, head to Adobe.com forward slash express. Welcome to a midweek edition of Cool Stuff Ride

1:05.5

Home. I'm Marcus Paff, joined by Reggie Rizzou. It's Weird Wednesday, and we're bringing you

1:10.4

shipwrecked champagne,

1:12.6

rare baby lobsters, and a Great Lakes alligator, plus a Guinness world record, record.

1:19.6

And on this day in history, were the Wright brothers really the first in flight?

1:24.6

Some would beg to differ, and we'll tell you why. Coming up on cool stuff.

1:28.6

It was about a month ago, Polish scuba divers discovered nearly 100 bottles of 19th century

1:34.4

champagne and mineral water nestled in a shipwreck off southern Sweden. But without proper

1:39.5

authorization, no one will be allowed to fish any of it out. The wrecks location has actually been known since

1:45.9

2016 and is registered in Sweden's National Antiquities Office cultural environment. It sits

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