The Rhino That Won A Seat On São Paulo’s City Council (Cool Weird Awesome 629)

Today in 1959, a write-in candidate for city council in São Paulo, Brazil, won a huge victory. The catch: that candidate was a rhinoceros from the São Paulo Zoo. Plus: today in 1935, a man in Houston, Missouri finds a hat he'd lost three years earlier. 

By |2021-10-07T07:02:52-04:00October 7, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Meet The New, Foldable Coffee Cup (Cool Weird Awesome 177)

Some research suggests those plastic tops for disposable coffee cups make up five percent of the millions of tons of plastic waste that end up in the ocean each year. The Unocup aims to do something about that. It's a paper cup that folds up to become its own top! Plus: there's goat yoga and alpaca yoga, but Zoo Miami may top them all with its new Yoga With The Rhinos program.

By |2023-11-22T08:25:30-05:00November 22, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |
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