Wait Wait - News - 2013-02-09

[deguspice]

Here are some more tidbits from NPR's news quiz show "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!"

Guinea pigs as bad as sharks for paramedics
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/guinea-pigs-as-bad-as-sharks-for-paramedics-20130204-2dugd.html

$110 dinner's main ingredient: Dirt
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/10/travel/tokyo-dirt-restaurant/

How Did a Tortoise Survive 30 Years in a Box?
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/01/how-did-a-tortoise-survive-30-years-in-box/

Comments

[gale_storm]

Yeah, yeah, and those tortoises are on friendly terms with the neighboring hermit crabs, though neither likes the other much at all.

As for the bug diet, that may well be true, although one should hope that the tortoise also had a bit of water here and there as well, for those sheddy bugs (ha!) can be disgustingly dry and distasteful.