Meat Rain, Medicinal Sword Swallowing, a Nuclear Kodak Moment

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from meat raining down from the heavens to swallowing swords to help doctors look down esophaguses. 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 Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli 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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0:30.1	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and heck stories every week.
0:38.8	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?
0:48.2	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:52.0	I'm Rachel Feldman.
0:53.2	I'm Stan Hora-Check.
0:54.4	And I'm Claire Maldirelli.
0:56.6	So on the weirdest thing I learned this week,
0:58.6	we start by each offering up a little tease about some kind of fact or story
1:03.6	we found in the course of reading, writing, reporting,
1:07.6	trying to escape from the world around us.
1:10.8	And we decide which one we just absolutely have to hear more about first.
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