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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Boning Baseball Bats, Rolling Cheese, Playing With Wallpaper Cleaner

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It's the Season 3 Finale! The weirdest things we learned this week range from breaking bones chasing cheese down a cliff and rubbing baseball bats with cow femurs. 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!  Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Corinne Iozzio: www.twitter.com/corinneiozo Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jessica 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

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

0:08.9

And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find

0:12.9

plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office, so we figured, why not share

0:17.3

those with you?

0:18.3

Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week, from the editors of Popular Science.

0:22.1

I'm Rachel Feldman.

0:23.1

I'm Sarah Chodash, and I'm Karinae Ozuo.

0:26.4

Welcome both of you.

0:27.4

It has been a while since we had the pleasure of your company.

0:32.8

Karin, now the editor-in-chief of Popular Science, not for the last time you were on here.

0:38.3

Still sounds weird to say it out loud.

0:40.4

Not gonna lie.

0:41.4

Cool though.

0:42.4

I like it.

0:44.4

We like it too.

0:45.7

Yes.

0:46.7

And Sarah, back state side after a while, though still thought with us because none of us

0:54.2

are together at all, but closer than before.

0:57.9

It has been so long I've almost forgotten what you all look like.

1:01.2

Oh, so sad.

1:02.4

You know, I miss my friends in three dimensions.

1:05.7

I feel like I've seen you all in two dimensions quite a bit, and it's just all.

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