Exploding Underwater Mountains, Boar Sex and Celery, Hidden History of Vaccination

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Contributing editor Kat Eschner joins the weirdos as a guest host. The weirdest things we learned this week range from the surprising link between pig sex and celery to blowing up a mountain underwater. 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 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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0:30.0	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,
0:42.2	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 Trudeau.
0:54.4	I'm Cat Eshner.
0:55.9	Cat, welcome back to the show.
0:57.8	Thank you so much.
0:59.2	Cat is a regular pop-side contributor and has been on Rear Disning before,
1:04.9	talking about very dangerous exploding rainbows in classrooms.
1:10.0	Definitely recommend going back and checking that one out.
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