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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Popular Science

Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The weirdest things we learned this week range from a secret pouch in your body to a literally killer fashion trend. 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! If you want to see us in your town, click here to take our listener survey! Follow our team on Twitter Rachel Feltman: www.twitter.com/RachelFeltman Eleanor Cummins: www.twitter.com/elliepsies Purbita Saha: www.twitter.com/hahabita Popular Science: www.twitter.com/PopSci Theme music by Billy Cadden: www.twitter.com/billycadden Edited by Jess Boddy: www.twitter.com/JessicaBoddy --- 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	Crypto doesn't sleep, so neither do we.
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0:21.1	Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.
0:26.3	Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the carcass team cleaner.
0:32.0	You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up.
0:37.1	Find your carcass team cleaner at carcature.co.uk or a carcure retailer.
0:46.6	At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and heck stories every week.
0:51.2	And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles,
0:54.7	we also find plenty of weird facts that we just keep around the office.
0:58.3	So we figured, why not share those with you?
1:00.7	Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week, from the editors of Popular Science.
1:04.5	I'm Rachel Feldman.
1:05.5	I'm Claire Melderelli.
1:06.9	I'm Perbita Sa-ha.
1:08.3	Perbita, welcome to the show.
1:09.7	Yay!
1:10.5	Listeners, Perbita is one of the newest members of Team PopSci.
1:14.7	She was previously at Audubon and is now a fantastic senior editor for us.
1:18.8	And hopefully we'll be on some future episodes of Weirdest Thing,
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