Animal Crossing’s most elusive fish has a bizarre real-life backstory

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - 06:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

This fish is worth the wait. (Nintendo/)What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Anchor, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show.FACT: Animal Crossing’s rarest fish is one of the weirdest animals ever IRLBy Jessica BoddyThe newest version of the video game Animal Crossing is wildly popular right now, and as a lifelong fan, I couldn’t be more thrilled. Since the original came out on GameCube back in 2002, the basic gist has always been the same: You (a human) live in a village...

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