Fatal Insomnia, Astounding Poops, NYPD Bees

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from a plan to bring George Washington back from the dead to a solar storm that powered telegraphs with no batteries. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? Buy tickets to our live show in NYC! www.popsci.com/wtlive The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weirdest_thing #weirdestthingpod Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Eleanor Cummins: www.twitter.com/elliepses Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme Music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jason Lederman: www.twitter.com/Lederman --- 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	Can you imagine if your hoop was so magnificent that people from all over the world came to lay down on it?
0:10.6	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.
0:15.0	And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making into our articles,
0:18.7	there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:22.0	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:24.1	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:27.9	I'm Rachel Feltman, I'm Sarah Chaudash, and I'm Eleanor Cummins.
0:31.3	You are running out of time to get tickets for our live show on September 14th at Kaffiott in New York City.
0:37.4	It's at 6.30 pm.
0:39.0	It's going to be super fun. Our facts are going to be especially weird.
0:42.9	And you might even like win a fun prize that you get to brag about.
0:47.2	So please be there.
0:49.0	Tickets are just $12 and you can get them at poppsci.com slash WT live.
0:55.0	That is poppsci.com slash WT live.
0:59.1	And they're going to go fast by one.
1:01.6	And on that note, every week on the weirdest thing, we start by each teasing a little fact
1:07.2	that we picked up while reporting, reading, writing.
1:10.3	And then we decide which one we just absolutely have to hear more about first.
1:14.2	Once we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, we reconvene and vote all
1:18.4	with the weirdest thing we learned this week actually was.
1:22.4	Sarah, when do you go first?
1:24.4	I only have two words fatal insomnia.
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