Highway Plane Landings, Marmot Menaces & Long-Lost Sisters | This Is True Really News Ep 1098

Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes are back with a fresh batch of weird, wild, and incredibly true stories. This week, we cover a heroic emergency plane landing on a busy Florida interstate, an organized syndicate of car-eating marmots in California, and a miraculous reunion between two friends who took a DNA test. Plus, plenty of Star Wars banter and a healthy dose of skepticism about Hollywood fight scenes.In This Episode:0:00 - Intro, nostalgic milk, and Tony’s fading Wookiee impression.2:11 - A 21-year-old flight instructor makes a stunning emergency landing on I-10 in Florida after engine failure.5:34 - Sequoia National Park’s biggest threat isn't bears—it’s salt-crazed marmots chewing through car engines.9:37 - An 1858 edition of The Antiquities of Athens is discovered bricked into an Australian fireplace.11:59 - Two women born in India and raised in the Netherlands reunite after a commercial DNA test reveals they are 100% biological sisters.16:32 - Why mass matters: A brief tangent on the realistic physics of action movie fight scenes.17:59 - Outro and how to submit your weird news stories.Connect With Us:Email your stories to: [email protected]'t forget to Like, Subscribe, and hit the Bell Icon so you never miss an episode (or Tony's eventual return to Wookiee noises).