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Hey, true weirdos.

We just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support.

True Weird Stuff has won Best History Podcast in the Women and Podcasting Awards.

And we have also won a Signal Award in the paranormal category.

And that has only happened because of you, our fellow strange people.

Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation.

It's 13.8 billion years ago.

And here is an unimaginably small point, infinitely dense and hot.

Woo! It just exploded.

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth,

astronomers called the moment our universe was born, the big bang.

The earth was a formless void, and darkness covered the face of the deep.

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