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Canadian police stop a bizarre toothpaste heist. Companies aim to automate debt collection with AI. In Italy, a mysterious boat accident leaves multiple intelligence agents dead. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Listener Mail: Ghost Weddings, Bob Berdella, Maldives and A Proxy War
How Corn Took Over America
CLASSIC: What is Predictive Programming?
Strange News: Flannery Associates Revealed, A Hunt for Nessie, and Worms Move Into Brains
How To Build An Urban Legend
Listener Mail: Divine Intervention, Smoking Wet, Billionaire Names and Deadly Mushrooms
Is Reality a Computer Simulation?
CLASSIC: DNA and Crime: The Original Night Stalker
Strange News: Wagner Leaders in Plane Crash, Fyre Festival, and Modern Moon Missions
A War For Chips: The Semiconductor Episode
CLASSIC: The Murky World of Serial Killer Memorabilia
Speak to Us: Voicemail Edition
CLASSIC: From the Past to the Modern Day: Does torture actually work?
Strange News: Peruvian Aliens, the Sackler Family and Prison, Robotaxis and Newspaper Raids
Does Aspartame Give You Cancer?
Listener Mail: Celebrity Murders, Jewish Exorcisms, Billionaire Hobbies and Trading Card Heists
Is the US Navy Covering Up Radioactive Waste?
CLASSIC: Are frogs really changing gender?
Strange News: 'Death Cap' Mushroom Poisoning, Criminal Bear Apprehended, Mysterious Leprosy Outbreak in Florida
Sad Oligarch, with Jake Hanrahan
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