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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
Popular Science
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:35.0 | At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week. |
| 0:40.0 | And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, |
| 0:43.0 | we also find plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office. |
| 0:47.0 | So we figured, why not share those with you? |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Rachel Fultman. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Perbita Sa'ha. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Claire Maldirelli. |
| 0:57.0 | So, on the weirdest thing I learned this week, |
| 0:59.0 | we started by you offering up a little tease about some kind of fact or story |
| 1:03.0 | that we found in the course of reading, writing, reporting, etc. |
| 1:07.0 | And decide which one we just absolutely have to hear about first. |
| 1:11.0 | Then, once we've all had time to spin our little science yarns, |
| 1:14.0 | we reconvene and decide what the weirdest thing we learned this week actually was. |
| 1:18.0 | Perbita, what's your tease? |
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