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To this day, we are still closed.

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

And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles,

we also find plenty of 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 Fultman.

I'm Jess Bodie.

I'm Claire Maltor-Elly.

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

of some kind of fact or story that we found in the course of our fascinating day-to-day lives

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