The Truth About Soy Boys, the Sexiest Number, the Potato King

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from soy boy panic to a magic number found in peregrine falcon dives and Robert Pattinson's face. 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 in our Facebook group or tweet at us! Click here to learn more about all of our stories! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Sara Chodosh: www.twitter.com/schodosh Purbita Saha: www.twitter.com/hahabita Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Produced by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Theme music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq?si=5VF2r2XiQoGepRsMTBsDAQ --- 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	Nothing's more British than a copper and a biscuit.
0:04.6	Take in a 15 minute break to reset, recharge and feel better.
0:09.6	But the perfect break needs the perfect biscuit.
0:13.7	And let's be honest, as the original and the best
0:17.5	on your MacVitties one will do.
0:20.6	Time for a biscuit, Britain.
0:23.4	MacVitties true originals.
0:25.6	Buy and store for a chance to win a truly original biscuit break.
0:30.0	Chicken noodles. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Make it better.
0:33.1	Soy sauce and spring onions.
0:34.8	No, better.
0:35.9	Fresh ginger.
0:36.7	Better.
0:37.4	A big heap of sriracha sauce, even though I don't actually...
0:40.2	Wow, big heap. No, better.
0:41.7	Hot, shish one, pepper.
0:43.1	You can't even say that, better.
0:44.4	Top with a quail egg, sav dine ming vats.
0:46.7	You didn't even know what that means.
0:47.8	I knew.
0:48.3	How about with an ice-cold Pepsi Macs?
0:53.2	Macs wouldn't taste no sugar.
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