Well... That’s Interesting
Science

Well... That’s Interesting

by Jill ChaCha

Welcome to Well… That’s Interesting, a comedy sciencey podcast for weird people who like learning about weird sh*t, like can hair grow between your teeth or could we ever lose our moon? (Sadly, yes to both.)WTI tells the story behind the facts and, turns out, those stories are funny. Join Jill ChaCha every week as they take The Flock on a journalistic, storytelling adventure into new, bizarre, often unexpected findings. The tales are epic and the laughter is plentiful.--WTI is a part of the Airwave Media podcast network! Visit AirwaveMedia.com to listen and subscribe to other incredible shows.

100 episodes
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Ep. 273: Liquid Nitrogen Infused Cocktail Popped A Man’s Stomach Like A Balloon + Diseased Baby Ants Ask Their Nestmates To Poison Them
32:26 Mar 26, 2026
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Ep. 272: Let’s Talk About ‘The Prince’ Who Was Mauled To Death 27,000 Yrs Ago + Superkilonovas Are A Thing. And One May Have Popped Off Twice
37:37 Mar 19, 2026
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Ep. 271: We Now Know How Pigs Ended Up On Islands In The Pacific + Why Petting A Cat Leads To A Zap (Or Rather, Why Rubbing Is Needed To Create Static Electricity)
31:22 Mar 12, 2026
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Ep. 270: Let’s Talk About The Time Garfield Phones And Black Leather Victorian Shoes Mysteriously Washed Ashore
28:04 Mar 5, 2026
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Ep. 269: JWST Discovers An Exoplanet So Strange, Even Researchers Are Speechless + Ancient Bees Laid Eggs In Fossilized Tooth Sockets
34:00 Feb 26, 2026
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Ep. 268: To No One’s Surprise, Yelling At Rats Affected Their Fertility + That Time It Rained Fish In India (And Other Places)
29:46 Feb 19, 2026
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Ep. 267: The Act Of Kissing Dates Back 21 Million Years + The Earliest Known Jawed Ancestor, So Far
31:14 Feb 12, 2026
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Ep. 266: The Anthropology Of Farting With Dr Kirsten Bell
28:50 Feb 5, 2026
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Ep. 265: New Species Of Pterosaur Discovered (Hidden Inside Fossilized Puke) + Imposter Queens Trick Worker Ants Into Killing Their Own Mother
29:25 Jan 29, 2026
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Ep. 264: Even Though You Don’t Want To, We Need To Talk About The World’s Largest Spiderweb + First Of Its Kind ‘Butt Drag Fossil’ Discovered In South Africa
34:26 Jan 22, 2026
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Ep. 263: First UK Patient To Have Tumor Removed Through An Eye Socket + Toddler Accidentally Eats Gonorrhea From A Lab Dish
30:26 Jan 15, 2026
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Ep. 262: New Monster Black Hole May Be The Largest So Far And Was Found In A New Way + This Pulsar Spins 592 Times A Second. And That’s Just The Beginning
36:31 Jan 8, 2026
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New Year Inspiration: Here’s A Small Idea That Literally (Re)Grew A Coastline
9:37 Jan 1, 2026
14
Vultures Just Keep Giving: Here’s How They Can Help Solve Crime
14:25 Dec 25, 2025
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Ep. 261: Rogue Planet Growing At A Rate Of 6 Billion Tons Per Second + How Reindeer Help In The Fight Against Climate Change
32:33 Dec 18, 2025
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Ep. 260: Multi-Generational Vulture Nests Hold Nearly 700 Years Of Human Artifacts + The World’s Oldest Forests Have Been Found
35:49 Dec 11, 2025
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Ep. 259: First Non-Human Creature To Navigate Using The Milky Way… Is The Dung Beetle + The Earliest Supernovas May Have Created Water (Which Is Super Important)
30:53 Dec 4, 2025
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The Weird Chemistry Threatening Priceless Paintings
8:47 Nov 27, 2025
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Ep. 258: These Smoked Human Remains Are The Oldest Known Mummies, So Far + Knife Brakes Off In Man’s Chest And He Didn’t Notice For 8 Years
33:18 Nov 20, 2025
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Ep. 257: How Thumbnails Helped Rodents Spread Over The World + These Queen Ants Produce 2 Different Species. An Absolute First.
28:18 Nov 13, 2025
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Ep. 256: 800 Year Old Corpse In Well Verifies Norse Saga + This 26 Million Year Old Hornless Rhino Was The Largest Land Mammal, So Far
39:15 Nov 6, 2025
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Ep. 255: Let’s Talk About The Sharpest Teeth To Ever Exist, So Far + You Need To See What Came Out Of The Sun Recently. It’s A Lot.
31:12 Oct 30, 2025
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Ep. 254: Jellyfish Overpower A Nuclear Power Plant. Again. + Parasitic Worm Could Help Create New Opioid Treatments
28:34 Oct 23, 2025
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The Call Is Coming From Inside The House: What Horror Films Teach Us About Us
43:37 Oct 16, 2025
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Ep. 253: Thanks To Wolves, Aspen Trees Thrive In Yellowstone After 80 Yrs + Woylies, An Adorable Endangered Marsupial, Just Made A Huge Comeback
26:19 Oct 9, 2025
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Ep. 252: We Now Know Why Alligators Eat Rocks + Where The Potato Came From. It’s The Love Child Of The Tomato.
28:43 Oct 2, 2025
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Ep. 251: Boy Band Concert Left Teen With Bubbles In Her Chest + Surgeon Accidentally Transplants Tumor Into His Own Hand
27:02 Sep 25, 2025
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Ep. 250: Why, Yes, It Can Rain Millions Of Spiders + Romancing The Kākāpō: How To Breed New Zealand’s Most Endangered Bird
38:12 Sep 18, 2025
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Bonus! Girl, We Need To Talk About 'The Danger Of A Single Story'
23:41 Sep 11, 2025
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Ep. 249: Researchers Gave Drugs To Spiders Just To See What Would Happen + Superb Starlings And Their ‘Superb’ Friendships
31:23 Sep 4, 2025
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Ep. 248: How Covering Cow Poop With A Tarp Can Cut 80% Of Methane Emissions + Using Ear Wax To Screen For Parkinson’s Is A Thing Now
26:34 Aug 28, 2025
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Ep. 247: That Time Black Widow Venom Entered Through A Woman’s Eyeball + Sometimes Worms Get Together To Form A Super Organism
26:13 Aug 21, 2025
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Ep. 246: Finally, A Study With Harbor Seals Playing Video Games + Another Study With Fruit Flies On Cocaine. Here’s Why This All Matters.
24:29 Aug 14, 2025
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Ep. 245: Putting Vampire Bats On Treadmills Is Weird. Their Metabolism Is Weirder + The Longest Running Laboratory Experiment, So Far
31:13 Aug 7, 2025
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Ep. 244: How The Hell Did This 1200 Ton Boulder Get Up Here? + Crater Left Behind By Dino-Killing Asteroid Became Teeming with Life
24:56 Jul 31, 2025
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Ep. 243: This May Be The Smallest Galaxy In The Universe + This Newly Discovered Larva Uses A ‘Face’ On Its Butt To Infiltrate Termite Colonies
28:44 Jul 24, 2025
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Ep. 242: How A Family Of 4 Tried To Save Themselves From Mt. Vesuvius + Making Art For 45 Minutes A Day Can Lower Stress Levels
31:34 Jul 17, 2025
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Ep. 241: Let’s Talk About These 2 Planets Disintegrating Before Our Eyes + This ‘Zombie Star’ Moving Through The Galaxy At 110,000MPH
32:12 Jul 10, 2025
39
We Need To Talk About This 2000 Yr Old Birthday Invitation
13:20 Jul 3, 2025
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Ep. 240: This Tiny Caterpillar Defends The Tiniest Territory Known + We Need To Talk About The Man Vs Horse Marathon
32:35 Jun 26, 2025
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Ep. 239: For A Certain Spider, Eating Siblings Is Taboo (Unless They’re Dead) + If Given The Choice, Cockatoos Use Condiments To Flavor Food
29:52 Jun 19, 2025
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Ep. 238: Shark Sounds Have Been Recorded For The First Time + The Iguanas Of Fiji Came From North America In Epic Voyage
30:04 Jun 12, 2025
43
Introducing DRILLED, Season 12
45:35 Jun 5, 2025
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Ep. 237: Lets Talk About Saturn’s 128 Newly Discovered Moons + This Teeny Galaxy One-Millionth The Size Of The Milky Way
26:58 May 29, 2025
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Ep. 236: How Growing Weed With Bat Poop Led To 2 Deaths + Yes, You Can Use A Tooth To Restore Sight In A Blind Patient
33:00 May 22, 2025
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Ep. 235: Drone Footage Shows Narwhals Using That Big Ol’ Tooth For Play + Let’s Talk About The Oldest Known Quasar (It’s Huge Too)
28:48 May 15, 2025
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Ep. 234: Another Day, Another Parasite In A Person’s Brain + Florida Man’s ‘Carnivore Diet’ Leads To His Hands Seeping Cholesterol
34:28 May 8, 2025
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WTF Is International Worker’s Day And Why Should We Care?
31:46 May 1, 2025
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Ep. 233: American Crocodiles Have Made A Comeback, Thanks To A Nuclear Plant In Florida + These Crocodiles Are Overheating Thanks To Climate Change
27:04 Apr 24, 2025
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Ep. 232: When Exposed To Currency, African Grey Parrots Chose To Share + Another Study That Reveals The Amazing Lives Of Honeybees
28:12 Apr 17, 2025
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