The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
Episodes
The Economy of "Frozen," Hopping Space Robots, Animals on Drugs
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from the science and economics of the kingdom in the movie "Frozen" to the most (and least) wholesome s...
Illegal Cheese, The Worst Dairy Disaster, Holes in People (and Cows)
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from the world's worst dairy-related disaster to a Sardinian cheese that is illegal to sell. Whose stor...
Two Facts and a Lie with PopSci Editor-in-Chief Joe Brown
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week are weird things we've already learned! In this mini-episode, Popular Science editor-in-chief Joe Brown plays...
Sucked into a Bottle, the Ultimate Exercise Hack, the Statue of Liberty’s Big Secret
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from turning the Statue of Liberty into a battery to a man whose penis was sucked into a bottle with an...
Fatal Insomnia, Astounding Poops, NYPD Bees
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from a plan to bring George Washington back from the dead to a solar storm that powered telegraphs with...
The Beauty of Corpses, Zombie George Washington, Solar-Powered Telegraphs
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from a plan to bring George Washington back from the dead to a solar storm that powered telegraphs with...
Organ Meats, Fitness and Sweating, The World's Largest Dog Ban
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from what organs you can and can't eat to the world's largest dog ban. Whose story will be voted "The W...
Laughing Gas Parties, Human Femur Flutes, Domesticating Zebras
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from flutes made from human femurs to trying to tame zebras. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Th...
Skin-Peeling Soup, Chlorinating the Ocean, Secret Drug Toilets
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from a soup that makes your skin peel off to secret drug-finding toilets in airports. Whose story will ...
Detachable Sex Organs, Human Skin Artwork, 17th Century Thought Experiment Solved
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from animals that detach their sex organs during or after sex to artwork you can hang in your home on a...
Bears in Ejector Seats, Nobel Prize for Giving Patients Malaria, The Secret Origins of Beer Yeast
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from the Air Force testing ejector seats with black bears to a doctor winning the Nobel Prize for infec...
Le Pétomane (The Fartiste), Tesla Loved a Pigeon, Meat Lozenges
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from a flatulist who became the highest-paid performer in France to meat lozenges. Whose story will be ...
Poisonous Wallpaper, Cruise Ship Poop, The Best Ultramarathon Runners
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from poisonous wallpaper that people voluntarily put in their homes to an exploration of what happens t...
Sex Magick, The Oldest Mac and Cheese, Contagious Writer's Block
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from a NASA engineer who believed in sex magick to the world's oldest recipe for macaroni and cheese. W...
Corpses Doing Yoga, The Loneliest Island, Biblical Quail Rhabdo
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from rhabdo, a potentially fatal medical condition first mentioned in the bible, to the most remote inh...
Ketchup Consistency Standards, Implanting Memories, People Inside of Sperm
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from the standards and grading of ketchup to the idea that people were fully-formed inside of sperm bef...
The First Underwater Video, Ballooning Over the North Pole, The Call of the Void
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from finding lost footage of the first-ever underwater video to a daring attempt to fly over the North ...
Medical Cannibalism, Hildegard of Bingen, Predicting the Weather
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from nuns, the origin of the cosmos, and the female orgasm to the number of calories in an average huma...
The Best Dog, Carnivorous Mushrooms, Naming Groups of Animals
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from the world's best dog to mushrooms that eat animals. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing ...
Smoke Enemas, Secret Acoustic Engineering, Volcano Traps Lighthouse
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from trying to revive dead (or unconscious) people by literally blowing smoke up their butts to the sec...
The First Celebrity Diet, Animals Adopting Animals, Believing You Are Dead
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 perso...
Giant Sloths, Caged Babies, Spicy Horse Butts
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The weirdest things we learned this week range from Thomas Jefferson and giant sloths to Eleanor Roosevelt and suspending babies above Park Avenue in ...
What is The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week?
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here at Popular Science, we write (and read) dozens of stories every week. And though many of the fun facts we stumble across during our research make...