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At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.

And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making 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 from the editors of Popular Science.

I'm Rachel Feltman. I'm Karina Ozio.

I'm Mary Beth Griggs.

So on the weirdest thing I learned this week, we offer a little tease of some kind of story or fact

we picked up while reporting, reading, writing, wasting time, reading angry emails, etc.

And then we decided which one we absolutely have to hear more about first.

Once we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, we reconvene

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