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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect?
0:03.1	Was it because he saved 35% on Trainline,
0:06.0	then bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive pet,
0:09.2	where he saw something that said,
0:11.9	I don't actually hate you.
0:14.9	His Trainline detanged for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect.
0:18.8	We hope so.
0:19.7	We really do.
0:21.4	Great journey start with Trainline.
0:24.2	Average savings from advanced fairs, rail carts and split-save were available
0:27.2	versus equivalent flexible fair at TNC's apply.
0:34.2	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and
0:37.2	hex stories every week.
0:38.7	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.
0:45.8	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:48.2	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week
0:50.0	from the editors of Popular Science.
0:52.0	I'm Rachel Feldman.
0:53.0	I'm Prbida Sa'ha.
0:54.1	I'm Erin Oman-Updike.
0:56.0	And I'm Erin Welch.
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