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How do musicians tune up on a noisy stage? Conductor Rob Kapilow reveals the secret. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Listener Malenia wants to know how her favorite word game came to be. Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak, fills in the blanks. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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While there’s evidence that clothes go back 170,000 years, pants are a relatively recent addition to our wardrobes. Folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor unravels the surprising story of slacks. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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What would happen to your body if you floated out of your spaceship without a spacesuit? Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter has the gory details. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Does that person sitting next to you on the plane really work in IT? Ex-CIA operative Robert Baer teaches us how to spot a spy in the wild. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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What is baby corn exactly? Carol Miles, a vegetable horticulture expert, solves listener Mary’s tiny lunchtime mystery. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Why don’t we gobble turkey eggs like we do chicken eggs? ELT asks egg-sperts Phillip Clauer and Christine Alvarado. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Orecchiette n. 8, fusilli n. 16. What do the numbers on pasta boxes mean? Marco Auriti, pasta guy and senior sales manager at De Cecco, reveals the truth. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Why isn’t squirrel poop all over the place? Animal behaviorist and pro squirrel watcher Mikel Maria Delgado tells us where it is and how to spot it. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Caller Ruth claims last year’s jack-o’-lantern seeds sprouted... a litter of decorative gourds. ELT gets to the bottom of this pumper-stumper with professor of horticulture and pumpkin expert Steve Reiners. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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A listener asks: Can you clean blood stains with your own saliva? Jolie Kerr, cleaning expert and host of Ask a Clean Person, has answers. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Should you turn off your car while pumping gas? The Autopian’s Jason Torchinsky has answers. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Do you need a key to start an airplane? Pilots Nick Anderson and Sandy Williams glide in with an answer. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Slugs vs snails: is there any advantage to sliming along shell-free? Biologist Robert Cowie has been on the snail trail for decades, and fills us in on slug life. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Listener Max has a fishy question: How long is too long when it comes to frozen fish? Food safety expert Haley Oliver serves up the juicy facts. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How do U.S. postage stamps come to be? ELT explores the secret world of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, the group that decides what gets stuck on America’s envelopes. Jessica, a former member, dishes the dirt. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The average tree squirrel buries up to 10,000 nuts every fall. How do they keep tabs on their stash? Animal behaviorist Mikel Maria Delgado exposes the secrets of squirrel pantry maintenance. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Listener Pedro wants to know: are real-life roadrunners as fast as their cartoon counterparts? Roadrunner researcher Tina Guo gets us up to speed on this avian escape artist and the special feet-ure that makes these birds hard to track. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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More than half of all sea creatures are bioluminescent — but why? We get answers from biologist and ocean researcher Edie Widder, the “Jacques Cousteau of glow.” Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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When there’s a wildfire, how do we figure out what caused it? Fire investigator Paul Steensland tells ELT about the clues that lead him to the cause. Find more ELT episodes here and call any time with your own factual emergency: 833-RING-ELT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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