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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
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Today: #24 in Science on our combined chart.
Today: #33 in Science, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #138 in Science, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #41 in Science, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #44 in Science, Ireland on our combined chart.
Today: #160 in Science, India on our combined chart.
Today: #133 in Science, South Africa on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
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| Oct 22 | — | — | — |
| Oct 19 | #165 | #165 | — |
| Oct 18 | #121 | #123 | #97 |
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At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.
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