The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Meat Rain, Medicinal Sword Swallowing, a Nuclear Kodak Moment

Meat Rain, Medicinal Sword Swallowing, a Nuclear Kodak Moment

Nov 11, 2020

The weirdest things we learned this week range from meat raining down from the heavens to swallowing swords to help doctors look down esophaguses.  Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Lear...

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Dog Mayors, Zombie Presidents, Death By Voter Fraud

Dog Mayors, Zombie Presidents, Death By Voter Fraud

Oct 28, 2020

In this special episode, the weirdest things we learned this week range from Edgar Allen Poe's peculiar death to how salamanders influenced the term Gerrymander. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdes...

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Toxic Animal Boyfriends, Birding for Freedom, Egg Yolks Explained

Toxic Animal Boyfriends, Birding for Freedom, Egg Yolks Explained

Oct 14, 2020

The weirdest things we learned this week range from stage-five-clinger anglerfish to Harriet Tubman's birding expertise. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"? The Weirde...

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Exploding Underwater Mountains, Boar Sex and Celery, Hidden History of Vaccination

Exploding Underwater Mountains, Boar Sex and Celery, Hidden History of Vaccination

Sep 30, 2020

Contributing editor Kat Eschner joins the weirdos as a guest host. The weirdest things we learned this week range from the surprising link between pig sex and celery to blowing up a mountain underwate...

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Hot Dog Sports, Sexy Pseudoscience, Intestinal Power Walking

Hot Dog Sports, Sexy Pseudoscience, Intestinal Power Walking

Sep 16, 2020

The weirdest things we learned this week range from a beetle that can waltz through frog intestines unscathed, to the a man who thought he could capture sexual energy in a cage. Whose story will be vo...

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Catch our live show TONIGHT!

Catch our live show TONIGHT!

Sep 15, 2020

Tonight, September 15th, we'll be doing an exclusive live-streamed show. It'll be all of the fun of a classic Weirdest Thing Live show—your favorite hosts (calling in remotely), weird facts, drinks, j...

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Your Car is Full of Spiders, the Cloud Whisperer, She Who Invented N95 Masks and Bugles

Your Car is Full of Spiders, the Cloud Whisperer, She Who Invented N95 Masks and Bugles

Sep 02, 2020

Welcome to Season 4! For this first episode, Kendra Pierre-Louis, former Popsci editor and current reporter for the Gimlet podcast How To Save a Planet, joins the weirdos as a guest host. The weirdest...

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We're Back! Season 4 & Live Show Updates

We're Back! Season 4 & Live Show Updates

Aug 31, 2020

Hey weirdos! We have two very exciting pieces of news for you. First, Weirdest Thing is returning every other Wednesday starting September 2nd! Second, on Tuesday, September 15th, we'll be doing an ex...

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Boning Baseball Bats, Rolling Cheese, Playing With Wallpaper Cleaner

Boning Baseball Bats, Rolling Cheese, Playing With Wallpaper Cleaner

May 20, 2020

It's the Season 3 Finale! The weirdest things we learned this week range from breaking bones chasing cheese down a cliff and rubbing baseball bats with cow femurs. Whose story will be voted "The Weird...

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Evasive Genital Maneuvers, A Nazi Carrot Hoax, Eternal Daytime

Evasive Genital Maneuvers, A Nazi Carrot Hoax, Eternal Daytime

May 06, 2020

Rose Eveleth, host of the hit podcast Flash Forward, joins the weirdos as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned this week range from a Russian experiment that tried to make daytime last forever...

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