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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from turning the Statue of Liberty into a battery to a man whose penis was sucked into a bottle with an explosion. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? Buy tickets to our live show in NYC! www.popsci.com/wtlive 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 Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli 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 --- 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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1:21.0	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week,
1:25.5	and while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making into our articles,
1:29.2	there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office.
1:32.5	So we figured, why not share those with you?
1:34.7	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week,
1:36.5	from the editors of Popular Science.
1:38.4	I'm Rachel Feltman.
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