This week we learn about how cartographers used to just make up stuff for fun and how Nikolai Vavilov's dream of ending famine with the world's largest seed vault put him at direct odds with soviet darling Trofim Lysenko . A listener email explains what happens to a solider after accidentally taking 30 doses of meth.

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Episode Tabs:

Phantom Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_island

The Tragedy of the World’s First Seed Bank

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-tragedy-of-the-worlds-first-seed-bank/

Listener Tabs:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/aimo-koivunen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

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