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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Bonus: Sprained Teeth, Pina Coladas, Flying Snakes

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Surprise! It's Rachel and Jess, and we're popping in your feeds with a bonus episode. Join us as we listen to some voice messages submitted by you guys, and delve into facts about tooth ligaments, giant iguanas, sexy orangutans, and more. We'll be back on Wednesday, April 22nd with a regular (Earth Day-themed!) episode. Thanks for listening, weirdos! 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 Jessica Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy 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

Hey weirdos, it's Rachel and I'm here with Jess and we just wanted to jump into your

0:09.6

feeds with a special little bonus episode because it's a weird type and we'd like to

0:17.0

offer you some nice but weird things to think about.

0:21.4

So yeah, we thought it would be a great opportunity to go through some of our backlog of listener

0:25.6

messages. We have a few messages to share and a few users submitted facts that I've

0:31.8

done my usual checking into to ensure that they are in fact facts. So we'll get to enjoy

0:39.0

some of those. Jess, how do you do it?

0:41.5

Oh, I'm great. I'm sitting in my closet and I'm ready to do this. This is fun.

0:47.7

I'm under a bathrobe. So.

0:49.9

Well, I love that for you. We both got really creative here.

0:52.9

Yeah, yeah. We're doing great. We're doing as well as can be expected and we hope that

0:58.4

you're doing even better than you can be expected. Weirdos, it's been great talking to some

1:03.5

of you guys in the weirdest thing Facebook group. We were just talking about some of our

1:08.0

pop side COVID-19 content, obviously as a science magazine, we've been covering the pandemic

1:14.5

really closely and I shared some of that in the weirdest thing Facebook group and it

1:20.4

just reminded me that I should let listeners know that we are happy to serve as a resource

1:25.7

for you. If you have any questions, you want answered. They will not be answered on the

1:30.6

weirdest thing because that's not what this podcast is for. We want this to be a weird

1:34.9

and wonderful escape for you. We're not a news podcast. It's a safe haven. It is. It

1:40.5

is. But that doesn't mean that you can't ask us questions. The weirdest thing Facebook

1:45.5

group or Twitter, which is weirdest underscore thing, our Instagram, our weekly Twitter

1:53.0

Q&As through the pop side Twitter handle and anyone can ask a question there. But yeah,

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