At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.

And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making into our articles, there are

lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office.

So we figured, why not share those with you?

Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week, from the editors of Popular Science.

I'm Rachel Feltman.

I'm Eleanor Cummins.

I'm so people shwick.

So in case you weren't with us last week, we have a really cool announcement, which is

that weirdest thing is going to be performed live at caveat in New York City on Friday,

September 14th at 6.30pm.

You can already get tickets online and find more info on our Facebook and Twitter.

And it's going to be super fun.

We're going to have audience participation, games, prizes, uncensored, unedited, weird facts.

We might make Billy play the theme song on a toy piano.

Who knows what'll happen?

Anyway, we really hope you'll join us because it would be super weird to do it without you.

So on the weirdest thing I learned this week, we start by each offering a little tease

of some kind of fact-doider story that we picked up while reporting, reading, writing,

answering, angry emails, what have you.

And then we decide what we just absolutely have to hear more about first.

Once we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, we reconvene and vote on what

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