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From strange behaviour to interesting prey-vs.-predator relationships to fantastical creatures, the animal world is full of fascinating facts about our furry, feathered and scaly friends.

Scottish immigrants brought the game “across the pond” in the 18th century. Since then the roaring game has amassed its fair share of amusing and interesting stories, facts and anecdotes.

Weird Kid On Your Team is a podcast that explores the unique experiences of neurodivergent athletes and disruptors—how conditions such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, or Tourette's shape their journey in sports. It highlights the challenges they face, the strengths they carry, and how sports can foster both inclusion and self-discovery. This is what happens when neurodivergent minds collide with the world of competition. We talk identity, pressure, performance—and how thinking differently can be a game-changing advantage. With raw stories and expert voices, the show reveals how diverse minds ...

These days you can play a round on the ice floes in the Arctic, in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq and on the plains of Africa. The rich history of the sport has produced a wealth of screwball, outlandish and just plain weird tales.

Since our nation was first conceived, Canadian athletes have been involved in some of the weirdest moments in sport. Learn facts that will astound, confuse and make you laugh.

In recent years, scientists have hypothesized life-forms that can only be called "weird": organisms that live off acid rather than water, microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down, perhaps even organisms that reproduce without DNA. Some of these strange life-forms, unrelated to all life we know, might be nearby: on rock surfaces in the American southwest, hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, or even in our own bodies. Some, stranger still, might live in Martian permafrost, swim in the dark oceans of Jupiter's moons, or survive in the exotic ices on comets.

Canadian hockey is rife with tales of the odd, the strange, the funny and, occasionally, the disturbing side of the game: in 1976, Maple Leafs coach Red Kelly installed pyramids in the players’ dressing room and under the bench in an attempt to harness “pyramid power”; the Cusimano brothers started the tradition of “octopus hurling” during the 1952 playoff games; in 1930, Toronto Maple Leafs’ general manager Conn Smythe placed a winning bet on a longshot horse to pay the cash-strapped Ottawa Senators for star player Frank “King” Clancy; and more!

Welcome to "Weird Football Transfers," the podcast that unveils the captivating and downright peculiar stories behind the most eccentric transfers in the world of football. Each episode takes you on a journey through the bizarre narratives accompanying players switching clubs, exploring the unexpected twists, mistaken identities, and cult hero-making deals that have left fans in awe and players etching their names into football folklore.From players finding themselves at the wrong club due to mistaken identity to unexpected heroes becoming legends through iconic transfers, "Weird Football ...

A twice a week (Monday and Thursday mornings just so you know) 20 episode series of super short podcasts looking at the incredible people, whacky sports, bizarre events and crazy happenings that have happened in the last 128 years of the Olympic Games. The shows start from 1896 in Athens and the super strange 100m Freestyle for Greek Navy Sailors all the way through to the Breakdancing that will happen in Paris 2024. In between, we will look at the cheats, the mad sports, the deleted events, the Olympic gold medal in town planning, the self administered electric shock torture to win medals and...

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that...

Adam Doucette (Boston), Chris Robert (New York City), and Henry Finch (Philadelphia), host the watch the game podcast. The boys talk about sports and music in the cities, and welcome the occasional special guest.