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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Royal Mail, the UK's greenest delivery company.
0:05.9	This is the sound your parcels could make.
0:08.8	Because Royal Mail posties are light on their feet, they provide the lowest emission deliveries
0:13.4	of the UK.
0:14.4	Now that's something to dance about.
0:17.8	Send it greener with Royal Mail.
0:19.6	Learn more at RoyalMail.com forward slash green.
0:23.0	Greenest when measured in terms of the CO2 e-emissions per parcel reported by the UK parcel delivery
0:27.3	companies who currently publicly report these statistics.
0:57.3	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and hex stories every week.
1:09.1	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find
1:13.1	plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
1:16.2	So we figured, why not share those with you?
1:18.6	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
1:22.2	I'm Rachel Fultman.
1:23.2	I'm Perbita Saaja.
1:24.8	And I'm Corinna Ozeo.
1:26.4	Welcome to the show and Corinna's here.
1:29.5	And what does that mean?
1:30.9	It means we have a theme.
1:32.3	I didn't mean for that to arrive, but that's where we're at today.
1:36.4	Yeah.
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