Here at Popular Science, we write and read dozens of stories every week.

And though many of the fun facts we stumble across during our research make it into an

article, something always hits the cutting room floor.

But we still want to share that information with you.

So welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week, a podcast from the editors at Popular

Science.

I'm Rachel Feldman, Popular Science's Science Editor.

I'm Eleanor Cummins, our editorial assistant.

I'm Sarah Charedash, one of the assistant editors.

So this is the podcast where we just literally talk about the weirdest things we learn this

week.

We'll start out by each pitching, our weird facts or series of facts or Wikipedia spirals

as the case may be, and decide which sounds the most exciting and start from there.

And once we've all had time to spin our weird science yarns, we'll reconvene to decide

which was actually the weirdest thing we all learned this week.

A fight to the death for the most interesting science fact.

Yes.

And then you can tell us we were all wrong on Twitter.

Don't at me.

So my weird fact this week is kind of just a weird series of facts that starts with the

history of testing chili pepper hotness and ends with something really disturbing I learned

about horse's butts.

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