Sahara
About Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.
On the show — 38 mentions total
There was this major coral disease in 1999, which killed off loads of Caribbean coral. It was a fungus called Aspergillus sidaui. It happened to coincide with all these dust storms in the Sahara. This fungus lived in the Sahara desert, been picked up, blown all the way over to the Caribbean, killed a bunch of coral.
from 577: No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge, 2025-04-03 at 00:36:08 · read transcript
Other times Sahara came up
From space they say it becomes particularly striking because it's in the middle of the Sahara. There's nothing all around and this huge blue swirl. Gemini 4 in 1965 was when they discovered it. Was it? We have no idea what it is, do we? They thought it was from an asteroid but now they don't think so. Now they're saying they think it's seismic activity pushing it. this dome up, but why is it a circle?
No Such Thing As Churchill's Secret Parrot, 2016-10-28 · listen
It's all been done an extra mile and 385 yards. at the royal whim. Here's the thing about crazy marathon. As an Italian athlete called Morrow Prosperi, and in 1994 he was running a marathon in the Moroccan Sahara, but he got lost. When they found him nine days later, he'd run 200 kilometers off course into Algeria. He'd lost 18 kilograms and only survived by drinking his own urine and eating bats that he found in an abandoned mosque.
No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk, 2014-05-09 · listen
A royal win. Here's the thing about Crazy Marathon. There was an Italian athlete called Maro Prosperi. In 1994, he was running a marathon in the Moroccan Sahara. He got lost. When they found him nine days later, he'd run 200 kilometers off course into Algeria. He'd lost 18 kilograms and only survived by drinking his own urine and eating bats that he found in an abandoned mosque.
10: No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk, 2014-05-09 · listen
The manager of the glass bar was so excited because they just wrapped up the block of ice. They took loads of medicines with them. It wasn't a completely pointless trip. They just put this massive block of ice on a truck. Taking ice to the Sahara is not pointless anyway, right? No. It's at least useful to people. That's true. Although, did they then distribute it around the Sahara for cocktails and stuff?
293: No Such Thing As A Sexy Ceiling Fan, 2019-11-01 · listen
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