Olympic Weirdness: Barefoot Marathons, Medals for Artwork, Pistol Dueling

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from gold medals for art to underwater hockey. 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! Click here to follow our sibling podcast, Ask Us Anything! -- Follow our team on Twitter! Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Produced by Jess 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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0:00.0	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and heck stories every week.
0:08.9	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find
0:12.9	plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:16.0	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:18.4	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:22.1	I'm Rachel Feldman.
0:23.1	I'm Sarah Trudeauche.
0:24.1	And I'm Claire Maldirelli.
0:25.4	Welcome back Claire.
0:27.4	Woohoo!
0:28.4	Happy to be here.
0:29.4	It's been a while.
0:31.4	Listeners, of course, you already know, but Claire has been busy hosting our fantastic
0:36.8	sister show, Ask Us Anything.
0:40.3	It's on break right now, so definitely it's a great chance to go get caught up if you
0:46.2	haven't been listening live.
0:48.1	But Claire, in the office season, we're so thrilled to have you back on the weirdest thing
0:54.0	to you.
0:55.4	Thank you.
0:56.4	I'm excited to be back and talking about weird things again.
1:01.5	Which you don't do on Ask Us Anything ever.
1:03.4	Nothing right yet.
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