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Why some animals eat their babies
Animal filial cannibalism has been documented in fish, insects, even domestic pets.
Vintage vaccine skeptics thought medicine would turn kids into demon cows
Plus horror movie empaths and other weird things we learned this week.
Rachel Feltman
At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of 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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