The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
By Popular Science
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Nov 16, 2023
Keaton Shoults
Oct 23, 2020
super informative and entertaining!
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Feb 13, 2019
Very interesting, fun personalities.
Gilby
Jan 27, 2019
If you love vocal fry and the word, "Um", then this podcast is for you! I'll give it a chance and possibly update this review later. Update: The Ums and Uhs are only getting worse as they go along. I tried. I really did.
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Time Balls, Bug Culture, Traffic Mimes
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May 07, 2025 |
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Rat Sommeliers, Pneumatic Tube Flirting, Why Periods Hurt
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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The Poison King, the Seismic DONK, Contagious Peeing
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Space Squirrels, the Most Beautiful Youth, Glass Brains
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Roman Water Fights, Pet Squirrels, Perpetual Pre-Singing
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Surfing Bats, Deep Sea Bologna, Environmental Trolley Problem
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Hockey English, Lasagna Power, How to Find the Light
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Poodle Sled Dogs, Why Orange Cats Are "Like That," Seal Nose Anatomy
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Catch Weirdest Thing LIVE on February 8 – Listen for a special promo code!
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Orca Fashion, Cookie Cannibalism, BEAR ATTACK!!
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Elephant Pranks, Ghost Armies, Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Silkworm
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Casting Smell Spells, the Quantum Slap, the Boniest Jigsaw Puzzle
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Introducing What It's Like To Be with Dan Heath
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Cheesy Mummies, Ant Farmers, When Superstitions Actually Help
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Old Bay's Secret History, Midwestern Hells, Mad Gasser of Mattoon
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Why Hammerheads are "Like That," Cartoon Crush Psychology, Entering the Vulture Dimension
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Secrets in a Silk Dress, Mice Afraid of Men, Crawfish Clone Overlords
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Literal Treasure You Can Hunt For Right Now, A Nuanced Blue, Manhattants
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The Forbidden Experiment, Too Annoying To Die, Bonny Clabber
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Dropout TV's Lily and Grant talk Presidential Possums, Napoleon's Penis, and Split-Level Toilets
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Surgery For Ants, Hot Sharks, Too Many Galaxies
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Olympic Tug-o-War, Leaping Leeches, Card-Carrying Women
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Pointy-Headed Vikings, Apocalypse Popularity, Perfect Prism Poops
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Reptilian Theater Kids, Gay Giraffes, Impatient Birds
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Robotic Roller Derby, Orangutan Skincare Routines, That Good Pet Stink
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Hyrax Heaven, Underwater Bees, Carbonated Oceans
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May 22, 2024 |
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Screaming Frogs, "Talking" Mushrooms, Nonbinary Birds
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May 08, 2024 |
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Traveling Barber Uprising, Rats Taking Selfies, Honeyguide Helpers
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Lotion Spider Brouhaha, ADHD Superpowers, Earth's Evil Twin
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Freaky Eclipse Rituals, Cosmic Serendipity, Solar Mysteries
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Stargazing Poop Bugs, Ancient Beer Ladies, Secret Internet Slang
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Bird Milk, Space Lube, Hermit Crab Housing Crisis
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Government Cheese, Mitochondria NOT Powerhousing, Dawn of the Cockroach
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Nature's Weirdest Sleepers, Iron Maiden Myths, Parking Psychology
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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LIVE SHOW: Trees are Fake, Fortune-Telling Cheese, Sunscreen Secrets, Magical Misogyny
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Eating The Rich, Menopausal Chimps, Darwin's Taxidermy Teacher
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The Truth About Quicksand, Release the Tea Kraken, Learning Without Brains
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Taxidermy Robots, Talking to Dolphins (and Aliens), Methuselah the Fish
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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American Hippo Ranchers, Peacock Vasectomies, Leave Einstein Alone
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Ancient Tweezers, Modern Leprosy, Space Rock Recycling
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Defensive Puking, Self-Cooling Curls, Zambia's Teen Astronauts
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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How to Survive an Apocalypse, Teeth with Secrets, Birds Who BBQ
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Our Swolest Ancestor, Climate Fungi-pocalypse, Terrifying Bananas
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Catch Weirdest Thing Live TOMORROW!
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Bird Chess, Monkey Selfies, Crocodile Dung Birth Control
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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The First Constellations, Surprisingly Spicy History, Kids Find the Darndest Fossils
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Butts: A Backstory, Parrot Social Media, Why We Eat Chickens
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Weirdest Thing LIVE! on August 24th
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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George Washington: Swamp Ghost Hunter, Cockroach Chocolate, Science Scams
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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The Sleepiest Epidemic, Really Deep Holes, Goddess of Dirty Dishes
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Ancient Enemies to Lovers, Landscape of Fear, Hoax of the Century
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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A Horse in the Toilet?!, Creepy Clowns, Superpowered Bug Pee
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May 24, 2023 |
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Worm Time in Whale City, Neanderthal Funk, Old-Timey Sauna Science
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May 10, 2023 |
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Science of Elden Ring, Walmart Entomology, Architectural %&@*-Measuring Contest
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Eating Bog Butter, Disappearing Eels, Urinal Splashback Science
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Brain Death Cocktails, Fur Seal Crimes, Fish Driving Cars
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Lubed Up Chocolate, Ovaries Before Brovaries, Birds on the Moon
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Deprogramming the Patriarchy, Metric Pirates, Earwax Types
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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'Silly Walk' Science, Trombone-Head Dinosaurs, Museum Secrets Revealed
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Head Transplants, Criminal Koalas, Sneezing Sponges
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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A Weirdest Thing end-of-year update!
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Flying Toad Butts, High-Speed Uteruses, Lemurs Picking Noses
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Sex Rafts, Garbage Birds, Girded Loins, Security Geese
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Evil Forrest Gump, Poopsmiths, Penis Legs
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock and Fantastic Fungi’s Paul Stamets on Mushrooms & Mycelium
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Introducing Inside Voice, A New Audiobook from Lake Bell
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Birds Aren't Real, Everest Poopsicles, Actual Flying Cars
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Vampire Epidemics, Parasitic Mind Control, Sasquatch Science
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Knives for Hands, Gay Bombs, Bee-on-Bee Crime
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Self-Destructing Octomoms, Exoplanet Adventures, Why Rats Don't Vom
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Lice-Feeding Nazi Fighters, Bisexual Birds, EZ Pass Origins
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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An Innovative Erection, Secret Oyster Rules, Nuking Hurricanes
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Human Echolocation, Extreme Pogo Sticking, Elephants Evading Poachers
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Season 6 is coming SOON!
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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150 Years of Moon Crabs, Blowing Things Up, and Asbestos Obsession
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May 18, 2022 |
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A special announcement from Weirdest Thing!
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May 09, 2022 |
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Why Pain Hurts So Good, Growing Mutant Gardens, Emo Teen Puppies
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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A Delicious Chocolate Debacle, IBS In Orbit, the Tuffy Saga
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Human Refrigerators, Poop Knives, Whacky Tongues
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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A Mid-Season Update
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Teeny Frogs With Tarantula Bodyguards, the Science of Hair Magic, an Everlasting Lightbulb
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Snake Island, Controversial Chimps, Brussels Sprout Vindication
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Superheated Falcon Poo, Banana Babies, Gross (But Delicious) Bug Goop
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Judging Meat, Vampire Fish Invasion, the Rise of White Castle
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Mary Roach talks Moose Crash Test Dummies, Famous Ferrets, and Deadly Planets
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Ancient Brain Surgeons, the Crows Have Eyes, Why Radiators are so Annoying
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Haunted Vaginas, Fairy Floss, Books Made of Human Skin
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Chimps Raised Like Humans, Blood Swapping, Polio & Candyland
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Spooky Rivers, Eyes Wide Shut, Pet Crocodiles
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Ask Us Anything: Can you cure a hangover?
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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A very weird live event is in the works...
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Skyscraper Death Ray, History of Hot Tubs, Our Sun's Death
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Q&A: Punkin Chunkin, Mysterious Shipwrecks, Midwestern Scorpions
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Olympic Weirdness: Barefoot Marathons, Medals for Artwork, Pistol Dueling
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Parachuting Cats, Butt-Breathing, Secret Uses for Viagra
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Science Meets Magic, High-Tech Murders, Bees?!
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May 26, 2021 |
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Art Crime Doesn't Pay, Canines Cooking Meat, Eggs Gone Wrong
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May 12, 2021 |
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Radioactive Horses, Sipping on Pee, Sleeping With One Eye Open
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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A Quick Weirdest Thing Update!
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Q&A: Cubed Poops, Forked Penises, Murderous Squirrels
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Radioactive Bananas, Self-Decapitating Sea Slugs, Maine's Jumping Frenchmen
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Get a Good Brainwash, Museum Tragedies, Scary Smart Cuttlefish
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Ask Us Anything: Can you boost your immune system?
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Astrology’s Hidden Sign, Ancient Brunch, The Uncanny Valley
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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The Truth About Soy Boys, the Sexiest Number, the Potato King
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Immortal Jellyfish, Cocaine Hippos, Potato Chip Controversy
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Moon Allergies, Singing Statues, Secrets of Famous Movie Sounds
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Meat Rain, Medicinal Sword Swallowing, a Nuclear Kodak Moment
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Dog Mayors, Zombie Presidents, Death By Voter Fraud
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Toxic Animal Boyfriends, Birding for Freedom, Egg Yolks Explained
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Exploding Underwater Mountains, Boar Sex and Celery, Hidden History of Vaccination
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Hot Dog Sports, Sexy Pseudoscience, Intestinal Power Walking
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Catch our live show TONIGHT!
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Your Car is Full of Spiders, the Cloud Whisperer, She Who Invented N95 Masks and Bugles
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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We're Back! Season 4 & Live Show Updates
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Boning Baseball Bats, Rolling Cheese, Playing With Wallpaper Cleaner
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May 20, 2020 |
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Evasive Genital Maneuvers, A Nazi Carrot Hoax, Eternal Daytime
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May 06, 2020 |
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Sailing Boulders, Mom-Eating Worms, the Most Humongous Fungus
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Bonus: Sprained Teeth, Pina Coladas, Flying Snakes
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Getting Green Blood, Animal Crossing's Rarest Fish, Bird-Like Plague Masks
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Join us for a special livestream on March 30
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Terrifying Tumbleweeds, Coffee Poops, Three Peters Who Changed Childbirth
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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A Weirdest Thing Update
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Chicken Hypnotism, The One and Only Ferris Wheel, Interspecies BFFs
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Syphilis But Make It Fashion, Cilantro Haters, Quarantine: From Typhoid to Coronavirus
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Serial Poopers, Elephants on LSD, Whiskey Business
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Fletcherize Your Life, Wawa Origins, Who's Your Zaddy?
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Chainsaws for Childbirth, A Poop-Weighing Hero, Pregnancy on Command
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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A Very Weird Christmas Special
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Dec 25, 2019 |
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The Science of ASMR (And People Who Hate It)
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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When Death Was Sexy, The Knuckle-Cracking King, The Pouch You Never Knew You Had
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Tying Up Penises, Dimple-Making Machines, Exotic Poop For Sale
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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A Marathon Catastrophe, Dangerously Spooky Tunes, Confused Cannibals
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Coffee or Death, Radioactive Slippers, Literally Blinding Beauty
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Harry Styles’ Nipple Count, Frankenstein’s Mom-ster, Madame Tussaud’s Macabre Origins
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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A special Q&A with Rachel and Jess
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Blood Gourds, Tiny Taffeta Frog Pants, Dying for Weather Data
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Bisexual Situations, Limey Sailors With Scurvy, Origin of Morons
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Death By Rainbow, Face Blindness, Watermelon Snow
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Pooping Magic Rocks, How We Ruined Bison, Common Cold Lies
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Debunking Hymen Myths, Moving Corpses, Birth Control to Please the Pope
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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10k Steps is a Lie, a Secret Poop Factory, Eleanor Roosevelt's Mysterious Death
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Spiny Female Penises, Goth Girl Summer, Hardcore Flamingoes
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Calling All Weirdos For A Very Important Announcement
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Feminist Butter Art, The First Celebrity Athletes, The Secret Lives of Algae
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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The Hungriest Boy, Eyeglasses for Cannibal Chickens, Champion Guppy Gulpers
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Victorian Sex Drugs, Milk in Your Veins, Radioactive Dishes
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Nazis Eating $@#!, The First Pregnancy Test, Permanently Swollen Feet
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Running Naked Through 24 Time Zones, Virgin Births, Corpse Compost
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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The Secret to Perfect Sleep, Naked Mole Rat Royalty, Baby Shark (do do do do do do) Puke
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Magical Pee, a Feline Telephone, an Infuriating Math Problem
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Labor-Inducing Salad, White Hair Overnight, Coyotes Vs. Cats
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Wendy Zukerman talks werewolf tomatoes, overdosing on placebos, and snapping necks
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Bill Nye talks killer clowns, mermaids, pigeon poo, and deadly bicycles
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May 29, 2019 |
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A very weird guest host is coming to Weirdest Thing!
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May 24, 2019 |
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Historical Sex Toys, Killer Trains, Charles Fricken Dickens
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May 10, 2019 |
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Here's your chance to be on Weirdest Thing!
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May 02, 2019 |
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Fetish Origins, the Big Oyster, the Most Luxurious Fruit
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Animal Prostitution, Pavlovian Pee Responses, Painful Ginger Genes
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Man-Eating Deer, History’s Top Counterfeiters, a 12-Foot-Tall Bird
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Falcon Sex Hats, #HumanBones, Sleepy Muscle Twitches
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Disney’s Military Tech, DIY Mummies, Forgotten Female Scientists
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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Asses on Trial, The Brown Dog Riots, An Apple a Day…
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Poodle Science, The Great Pigeon Race Disaster, Artificial Hips
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Astronaut Farts, Deadly Dancing Plagues, A Shocking Art Scam
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Naked Founding Fathers, Jalapeño Thumb, Counting Vampires
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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The Most Man-Eating Tiger, Historical Balloon Riots, Baseball’s Curses
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Sideshow Babies, Strange Sneezes, Rust for the Rust God
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Biting Cow Lips, Death by Molasses, Shopping for a New Finger
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Ladies Dueling Topless, Eating Every Animal, Birth via Pseudopenis
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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The Sweetest Butts, Flaming Birds, The U.S. vs. 40 Barrels and 20 Kegs of Coca-Cola
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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The Deadliest Surgery Ever, Severed Foot Epidemic, Toe-Touching Athletes
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Torturous Treadmills, Champagne and Balls, History's Calendars
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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The Weirdest Things We Learned in Season 1
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Halloween Spooktacular 2018 (Season 1 Finale)
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Glowing Civil War Wounds, Bubble Wrap's Origins, Historic Font Disputes
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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Taxidermy's Dark Secret, Woman "Births" Rabbits, The Parthenon's Optical Illusion
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Vanishing Twins, The Poison Squad, Levitating Frogs
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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The Economy of "Frozen," Hopping Space Robots, Animals on Drugs
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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Illegal Cheese, The Worst Dairy Disaster, Holes in People (and Cows)
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Two Facts and a Lie with PopSci Editor-in-Chief Joe Brown
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Sucked into a Bottle, the Ultimate Exercise Hack, the Statue of Liberty’s Big Secret
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Fatal Insomnia, Astounding Poops, NYPD Bees
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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The Beauty of Corpses, Zombie George Washington, Solar-Powered Telegraphs
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Organ Meats, Fitness and Sweating, The World's Largest Dog Ban
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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Laughing Gas Parties, Human Femur Flutes, Domesticating Zebras
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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Skin-Peeling Soup, Chlorinating the Ocean, Secret Drug Toilets
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Detachable Sex Organs, Human Skin Artwork, 17th Century Thought Experiment Solved
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Bears in Ejector Seats, Nobel Prize for Giving Patients Malaria, The Secret Origins of Beer Yeast
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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Le Pétomane (The Fartiste), Tesla Loved a Pigeon, Meat Lozenges
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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Poisonous Wallpaper, Cruise Ship Poop, The Best Ultramarathon Runners
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Sex Magick, The Oldest Mac and Cheese, Contagious Writer's Block
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Corpses Doing Yoga, The Loneliest Island, Biblical Quail Rhabdo
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Ketchup Consistency Standards, Implanting Memories, People Inside of Sperm
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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The First Underwater Video, Ballooning Over the North Pole, The Call of the Void
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Medical Cannibalism, Hildegard of Bingen, Predicting the Weather
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May 30, 2018 |
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The Best Dog, Carnivorous Mushrooms, Naming Groups of Animals
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May 23, 2018 |
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Smoke Enemas, Secret Acoustic Engineering, Volcano Traps Lighthouse
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May 16, 2018 |
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The First Celebrity Diet, Animals Adopting Animals, Believing You Are Dead
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May 09, 2018 |
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Giant Sloths, Caged Babies, Spicy Horse Butts
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May 02, 2018 |
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What is The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week?
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Apr 27, 2018 |