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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Smoke Enemas, Secret Acoustic Engineering, Volcano Traps Lighthouse

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from trying to revive dead (or unconscious) people by literally blowing smoke up their butts to the secret testing your favorite products go through to sound expensive. 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 Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Mary Beth Griggs: www.twitter.com/MaryBethGriggs Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme Music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jason Lederman: www.twitter.com/Lederman Golf noises courtesy Taylor-Made --- 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

This episode is brought to you by Turo.

0:02.1

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0:31.6

I race for life for my best friend, who we lost to so.

0:35.3

I race for life for my mum, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

0:39.2

I race for life for my dad, who's living with prostate cancer.

0:43.0

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0:47.9

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And together, we will be cancer.

0:58.3

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1:05.2

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

1:09.7

And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making into those articles,

1:13.0

there are a lot of other weird facts that we just keep around the office.

1:16.2

So we figured why not share those with you?

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