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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The First Celebrity Diet, Animals Adopting Animals, Believing You Are Dead

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from the world's first celebrity dieter, Lord Byron, to Cotard Syndrome, a mental illness where a person believes they are already dead or do not exist. 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/elliepsies Claire Maldarelli: www.twitter.com/camaldarelli Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme Music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by: Jessica Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy 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

This episode is brought to you by Turo.

0:02.1

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0:05.0

With Turo, you can book any car you want wherever you want it,

0:08.2

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0:12.9

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0:25.2

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0:27.5

Forget foreign rental cars and find your drive at Turo.com.

0:32.5

Nautic nature is ever-changing and unpredictable.

0:36.1

Shifting between wind, sun, and rain.

0:38.9

But one thing is certain, this landscape shares its goodness with us all.

0:43.7

Yard is the delicious plant-based oat drink,

0:46.7

made with simple, all-natural ingredients,

0:49.5

and organic oats grown and harvested in Nordic fields.

0:53.4

Yard, inspired by Nordic nature,

0:56.6

find it in the chill, burial, turnitives aisle.

1:05.6

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

1:10.0

And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles,

1:13.4

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

1:16.6

So we figured why not share those with you.

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