Skin-Peeling Soup, Chlorinating the Ocean, Secret Drug Toilets

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from a soup that makes your skin peel off to secret drug-finding toilets in airports. 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 on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weirdest_thing #weirdestthingpod Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Eleanor Cummins: www.twitter.com/elliepses Lexi Krupp: www.twitter.com/KruppLexi Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme Music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jason Lederman: www.twitter.com/Lederman --- 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 tech stories every week.
0:08.7	And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making into our articles, there are
0:12.4	lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:15.7	So we figured, why not share those with you?
0:17.9	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
0:21.4	I'm Rachel Feltman.
0:22.4	I'm Eleanor Cummins.
0:23.4	And I'm Lixie Krupp.
0:25.0	So before we start the show, we actually have some really exciting, weird, wonderful news.
0:30.0	The weirdest thing is going to have a live show at caveat in New York City on September 14th.
0:36.5	We'll have more information on that on Twitter and Facebook.
0:39.3	So you should follow us at Popsie and Weirdest underscore thing.
0:43.3	It's going to be really fun.
0:45.1	We've got some cool games and prizes planned.
0:48.7	And you'll also just get to hear our weirdest, most unedited and uncensored facts.
0:55.2	And we are working hard on those already.
0:58.0	So we hope you'll be there.
0:59.8	On the weirdest thing, we start by offering up little teases of stories we pick up in the
1:05.4	course of reporting, reading, being on Twitter, talking to our friends, being smart,
1:10.9	inquisitive, strange people.
1:13.2	And then we just decide which one we absolutely have to hear more about first.
1:17.2	Because we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, we reconvene, and decide
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