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What to do if you find a baby bird out of its nest
It’s a myth that parents will reject a lost chick because of a human scent.
Literal time ladies used to sell people a look at their watches
The Greenwich Time Lady, plus 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.
Rare two-headed snake is surprisingly thriving
The second head breathes, flicks its tongue, and allegedly can get mad when provoked.
How to avoid crying while cutting onions, according to physics
A tiny guillotine put slicing techniques to the test.
Weather radar picks up over 1 million migrating birds
The green splotches weren’t rain showers, but migratory birds on their annual journey.
How an abandoned mine became Korea’s moon lab
KIGAM is turning Taebaek’s former coal mine into a testbed for harvesting lunar resources.
Do people really want to know their risk of getting Alzheimer’s?
Unlike breast cancer, there are no comparable preventative measures that can be taken.
8-year-old kid with a metal detector stumbles upon a 19th century shipwreck
Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856.
Your ‘Eureka!’ moments can be seen in brain scans
These bursts of insight are important for memory and learning.
Harvard paid $27 for a Magna Carta copy in 1946. It’s actually an original.
Even at $451 in today’s dollars, that’s still a steal.
Puffin-counting season begins with two new livestreams
Baby pufflings could be spotted in their burrows later in the summer.
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