The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week (Page 4)

In our hit podcast, PopSci editors share the strangest facts they can find from the history of science, health, and technology.

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The weirdest things we learned this week: ladies dueling topless and pseudopenis birth canals

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The weirdest things we learned this week: the sweetest-smelling butts, flaming birds, and 40 barrels of coke

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The weirdest things we learned this week: killer surgeons and mysterious floating feet

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The weirdest things we learned this week: glowing Civil War soldiers and historic font battles

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The weirdest things we learned this week: birthing rabbits, gruesome taxidermy, and the Parthenon’s best-kept secret

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The weirdest things we learned this week: Sheep on meth, hopping space robots, and the economy of “Frozen”

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The weirdest things we learned this week: holes in people (and cows), illegal cheese, and the world’s worst dairy disaster

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the statue of liberty
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The weirdest things we learned this week: Lady Liberty’s big secret, the ultimate exercise hack, and a penis in a bottle

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The weirdest things we learned this week: deadly insomnia, the prettiest poop, and emergency beekeepers

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The weirdest things we learned this week: eating organs, celebrating sweat, and banning dogs

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The weirdest things we learned this week: bone flutes, zebra carriages, and laughing gas parties

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The weirdest things we learned this week: skin-peeling soup, secret drug toilets, and a chlorinated ocean

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The weirdest things we learned this week: Curing syphilis with malaria, ejecting bears from planes, and discovering new beer yeasts

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The weirdest things we learned this week: artistic farts, meat lozenges, and Tesla’s beloved pigeon

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The weirdest things we learned this week: scientists doing sex magick, ancient mac and cheese, and contagious writer’s block

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The weirdest things we learned this week: biblical rhabdo, corpse adventures, and socks from the world’s loneliest island
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: biblical rhabdo, corpse adventures, and socks from the world’s loneliest island

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The weirdest things we learned this week: fake memories, sperm is not full of tiny men, and how ketchup makes the grade

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The weirdest things we learned this week: underwater horse videos, the call of the void, and an ill-fated, icy balloon trip

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The weirdest things we learned this week: the best dog of all time, kindles of kittens, and mushrooms eating human corpses

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