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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
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The mysterious sickness that made a million of people fall asleep at once,Plus, the...
There's a good reason why so many adults are scared of clowns,The strongest factor...
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Elden Ring’s corpse wax is real—sort of,Plus, an architectural !#@*-measuring contest, new bug species...
‘Bog butter’ is exactly what it sounds like: delicious,Plus, mysterious eel breeding grounds, the...
The weirdest things we learned this week: skin-peeling soup, secret drug toilets, and a...
The weirdest things we learned this week: glowing Civil War soldiers and historic font...
The weirdest things we learned this week: Feminist butter sculptures and America's first favorite...
The weirdest things we learned this week: Rats with fetishes and America's first banana,What’s...
The weirdest things we learned this week: bone flutes, zebra carriages, and laughing gas...
Listen to this shiver-inducing introduction to the science of ASMR,The hosts of The Weirdest...
The weirdest things we learned this week: baby skeleton art, zombie presidents, and solar-powered...
The weirdest things we learned this week: Curing syphilis with malaria, ejecting bears from...
The weirdest things we learned this week: Sheep on meth, hopping space robots, and...