A Marathon Catastrophe, Dangerously Spooky Tunes, Confused Cannibals

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week, we've got the second half of our extra spooky Halloween live show! The weirdest things we learned ranged from eating mummy dust to a man drinking rat poison to boost his marathon time. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! If you want to see us in your town, click here to take our listener survey! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ Edited by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Strings and things, Strings and things Strings and things Strings and things
0:11.5	Strings and things Strings and things, Strings and things
0:20.2	There's a whole range of Strings and things Called Strings and Things
0:23.6	Including cheese, strings, yollies, and cheese shapes
0:26.7	Find them all in the cheese and yard gotyle
0:30.0	I would dream first home, probably a doer upper, put our arms damp on it
0:33.5	Sounds like a nightmare, which is why I keep saying we should look at new builds
0:36.5	But they're all so watertight, asshole free
0:38.5	Borin, just white boxes
0:40.5	Well we can decorate an old liquor painted in there
0:42.5	Hmm, like a nice shade of grey
0:45.5	We are not having grey walls
0:47.0	Why not?
0:48.0	Why not?
0:49.0	Whatever stage of the process you're at, Halifax has online first time buyer events
0:52.5	Off full of useful tips and guidance
0:55.0	Halifax, it's a people thing
0:57.0	For more information, search Halifax first time buyer events
1:00.0	Hey weirdos, just a heads up that you're about to hear part two of our latest live show
1:05.0	Which was at caveat in New York City on October 31st
1:09.0	Yes, it's a super spooky Halloween episode
1:12.0	For you to enjoy before fall officially ends because you ate a bunch of turkey and now it's Christmas time
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