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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this special episode, the weirdest things we learned this week range from Edgar Allen Poe's peculiar death to how salamanders influenced the term Gerrymander. 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 Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Purbita Saha: www.twitter.com/hahabita Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Edited by Jessica Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- 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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0:30.1	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and heck stories every week.
0:38.9	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles,
0:42.3	we also find plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:45.9	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:48.3	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:52.1	I'm Rachel Fultman.
0:53.2	I'm Sarah Trotosh.
0:54.2	I'm Perbita Saah, and I'm Claire Maldirelli.
0:57.7	So on the weirdest thing I learned this week,
1:00.7	we usually do things a certain way,
1:03.3	and this week we're not going to do them that way at all.
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