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Rachel Feltman
At Popular Science, we report and write dozens stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.
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Vaccine misinformation threatens public health
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On Christmas Eve 1968, millions watched the Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast from space
Their message to ‘all of you on the good Earth’ endures.
The mystery surrounding two severed Baltic subsea internet cables is getting murkier
‘Nobody believes that these cables were severed by accident.’
Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’
‘From a research perspective, this is a small treasure trove.’
Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video
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Some chimpanzees are great nutcrackers
The primates use stone tools to crack into nutritious nuts with a range of results.
Nissan’s revitalized Armada has cameras so comprehensive, you can (almost) drive blindfolded
The 360-degree cameras are just one way Nissan reworked its engineering with an off-road focus.
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