What a Weird Week Fri Dec 6 2024: Old Birds and Chocolate Bars

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff in the news. See below for a transcript of the podcast episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 49 first published on Friday Dec 6 2024. Here are this week's stories... Australian restaurant sets Guinness World Record with 1,212-pound kebab https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/11/worlds-largest-kebab-and-fries-fills-dumpster-sized-container-and-weighs-660-lbs Man receives $2.53 compensation for smooth Mars bar missing its signature ripple https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx247dwx1p7o Cryptocurrency entrepreneur eats $6.2 million banana art after purchasing it at auction https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymail/video/7442716275274419499 Miller High Life Introduces Dive Bar-Scented Perfume https://www.today.com/food/trends/miller-high-life-dive-bar-perfume-rcna183045 Guilt tipping is real and bad for business. https://studyfinds.org/guilt-tipping-changing-consumers/ Blank white canvas valued at over $1.5 million to be auctioned in Germany https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/this-blank-pure-white-canvas-expected-to-sell-for-over-1-5-million-7176018 9-Year-Old Boy and the 60,000-Year-Old discovery https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-831604 Loch Ness Monster Mystery: Expert Suggests 'Standing Waves' Could Be Behind Sightings https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14136099/Mystery-Loch-Ness-Monster-finally-SOLVED.html Cow Fart Reduction: Feeding grazing cattle seaweed can reduce methane emissions by almost 40% https://e360.yale.edu/digest/cows-seaweed-methane Underwater Man: "I think I'm still married" https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/lifestyle/im-living-underwater-for-120-days-to-break-a-world-record/ Resetting your "V card" via $19000 medical procedure https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/lifestyle/influencer-drops-19k-on-surgery-to-become-a-virgin-again-but-a-doctor-warns-of-the-risks-involved/ Oldest Bird known to science has laid an egg (74 years young!) https://apnews.com/article/oldest-bird-lays-egg-wisdom-hawaii-5e7867ba9c8a51373d4d570f73fa7c2d