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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from a man who weighed all of his poop, pee, and sweat on a homemade scale to animals that can choose when they want to get pregnant. 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 Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli 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	Get up and add it as my mother used to say.
0:03.0	Get moving.
0:05.0	Get your skate song.
0:07.0	Get your hair done and the race run.
0:10.0	Get behind the wheel.
0:12.0	Get picking up.
0:14.0	And dropping off.
0:17.0	Get busy.
0:19.0	Get deliveries done.
0:21.0	And get home to see mom.
0:24.0	Whatever the mission,
0:26.0	Enterprise Rintercar helps over 100,000 every day.
0:30.0	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and
0:37.0	heck stories every week.
0:39.0	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our
0:41.0	articles, we also find plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the
0:45.0	office.
0:46.0	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:48.0	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of
0:51.0	Popular Science.
0:52.0	I'm Rachel Fultman.
0:53.0	I'm Claire Melderelli.
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