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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Drying Laundry to Make It Soft, Why Sad People Listen to Sad Music, and Fossilist Mary Anning

Learn about Mary Anning, the famed female fossil hunter history almost forgot; why sad people seek out sad music; and how you can get your air-dried laundry as soft as your machine-dried laundry.

May 21, 2019

Episode Show Notes:

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

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