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Fascinating Fails
How Pigeon Poop Helped Unlock the Universe’s Secrets
Season 1
Episode 3
The sound that gave us the answer to one of the universe's biggest mysteries was discovered...completely by accident. This noise let science move on to explore what the heck our universe is doing today, and spoiler alert: we only understand what a measly 5% of our universe is made of.
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