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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from a plan to bring George Washington back from the dead to a solar storm that powered telegraphs with no batteries. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? Buy tickets to our live show in NYC! http://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 Mary Beth Griggs: www.twitter.com/MaryBethGriggs Anna Brooks: www.twitter.com/Anna_Brooksie 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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1:05.4	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.
1:09.8	And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across making into our articles,
1:13.5	there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office.
1:16.8	So we figured, why not share those with you?
1:18.9	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week from the editors of Popular Science.
1:22.6	I'm Rachel Feltman.
1:23.7	I'm Mary Beth Griggs.
1:25.0	I'm Anna Brooks.
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