Ranked #1
Smoke Enemas, Secret Acoustic Engineering, Volcano Traps Lighthouse
Smoke Enemas, Secret Acoustic Engineering, Volcano Traps Lighthouse
The weirdest things we learned this week range from trying to revive dead (or unconscious) people by literally blowing s... Read more
16 May 2018
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41mins
Ranked #2
The Best Dog, Carnivorous Mushrooms, Naming Groups of Animals
The Best Dog, Carnivorous Mushrooms, Naming Groups of Animals
The weirdest things we learned this week range from the world's best dog to mushrooms that eat animals. Whose story will... Read more
23 May 2018
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39mins
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Ranked #3
10k Steps is a Lie, a Secret Poop Factory, Eleanor Roosevelt's Mysterious Death
10k Steps is a Lie, a Secret Poop Factory, Eleanor Roosevelt's Mysterious Death
The weirdest things we learned this week range from robots wiping your butt to a Cheeto-shaped bacteria killing Eleanor ... Read more
25 Sep 2019
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45mins
Ranked #4
The Deadliest Surgery Ever, Severed Foot Epidemic, Toe-Touching Athletes
The Deadliest Surgery Ever, Severed Foot Epidemic, Toe-Touching Athletes
On season 2 premiere of Weirdest Thing, the weirdest things we learned this week range from dozens of severed feet that ... Read more
16 Jan 2019
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34mins
Ranked #5
Coffee or Death, Radioactive Slippers, Literally Blinding Beauty
Coffee or Death, Radioactive Slippers, Literally Blinding Beauty
This week, No Such Thing As A Fish's James Harkin joins Rachel and Jess as a guest-host! The weirdest things we learned ... Read more
20 Nov 2019
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42mins
Ranked #6
Ladies Dueling Topless, Eating Every Animal, Birth via Pseudopenis
Ladies Dueling Topless, Eating Every Animal, Birth via Pseudopenis
The weirdest things we learned this week range from stripping during duels to stay alive to a man who wanted to eat ever... Read more
30 Jan 2019
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32mins
Ranked #7
The Sweetest Butts, Flaming Birds, The U.S. vs. 40 Barrels and 20 Kegs of Coca-Cola
The Sweetest Butts, Flaming Birds, The U.S. vs. 40 Barrels and 20 Kegs of Coca-Cola
The weirdest things we learned this week range from the sweetest smelling butts to birds that were used as candles. Whos... Read more
23 Jan 2019
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33mins
Ranked #8
Bisexual Situations, Limey Sailors With Scurvy, Origin of Morons
Bisexual Situations, Limey Sailors With Scurvy, Origin of Morons
Helen Zaltzman, host of The Allusionist podcast, joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned rang... Read more
23 Oct 2019
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44mins
Ranked #9
Pooping Magic Rocks, How We Ruined Bison, Common Cold Lies
Pooping Magic Rocks, How We Ruined Bison, Common Cold Lies
Arielle Duhaime-Ross, host of Reset from Vox, joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged ... Read more
9 Oct 2019
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49mins
Ranked #10
Fetish Origins, the Big Oyster, the Most Luxurious Fruit
Fetish Origins, the Big Oyster, the Most Luxurious Fruit
The weirdest things we learned this week range from preferring to have sex on a carnival velcro wall to eating a banana ... Read more
24 Apr 2019
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35mins
Ranked #11
Death By Rainbow, Face Blindness, Watermelon Snow
Death By Rainbow, Face Blindness, Watermelon Snow
PopSci contributor Kat Eschner joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned ranged from how snow b... Read more
16 Oct 2019
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39mins
Ranked #12
Bill Nye talks killer clowns, mermaids, pigeon poo, and deadly bicycles
Bill Nye talks killer clowns, mermaids, pigeon poo, and deadly bicycles
Bill Nye joins Rachel, Claire, and Eleanor on the show this week. Facts range from how pigeon poop led to the verificati... Read more
29 May 2019
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52mins
Ranked #13
The Science of ASMR (And People Who Hate It)
The Science of ASMR (And People Who Hate It)
This week, we have a very special episode all about the science behind the autonomous sensory meridian response, a.k.a. ... Read more
18 Dec 2019
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37mins
Ranked #14
Tying Up Penises, Dimple-Making Machines, Exotic Poop For Sale
Tying Up Penises, Dimple-Making Machines, Exotic Poop For Sale
Ellen Airhart, host of the podcast Plant Crimes, joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned rang... Read more
4 Dec 2019
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39mins
Ranked #15
Medical Cannibalism, Hildegard of Bingen, Predicting the Weather
Medical Cannibalism, Hildegard of Bingen, Predicting the Weather
The weirdest things we learned this week range from nuns, the origin of the cosmos, and the female orgasm to the number ... Read more
30 May 2018
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41mins
Ranked #16
Debunking Hymen Myths, Moving Corpses, Birth Control to Please the Pope
Debunking Hymen Myths, Moving Corpses, Birth Control to Please the Pope
OB-GYN and author Jen Gunter joins us this week as a guest host! The weirdest things we learned range from the invention... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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41mins
Ranked #17
A Marathon Catastrophe, Dangerously Spooky Tunes, Confused Cannibals
A Marathon Catastrophe, Dangerously Spooky Tunes, Confused Cannibals
This week, we've got the second half of our extra spooky Halloween live show! The weirdest things we learned ranged from... Read more
27 Nov 2019
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39mins
Ranked #18
When Death Was Sexy, The Knuckle-Cracking King, The Pouch You Never Knew You Had
When Death Was Sexy, The Knuckle-Cracking King, The Pouch You Never Knew You Had
The weirdest things we learned this week range from a secret pouch in your body to a literally killer fashion trend. Who... Read more
11 Dec 2019
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45mins
Ranked #19
Sucked into a Bottle, the Ultimate Exercise Hack, the Statue of Liberty’s Big Secret
Sucked into a Bottle, the Ultimate Exercise Hack, the Statue of Liberty’s Big Secret
The weirdest things we learned this week range from turning the Statue of Liberty into a battery to a man whose penis wa... Read more
12 Sep 2018
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39mins
Ranked #20
Man-Eating Deer, History’s Top Counterfeiters, a 12-Foot-Tall Bird
Man-Eating Deer, History’s Top Counterfeiters, a 12-Foot-Tall Bird
The weirdest things we learned this week range from an absolutely enormous bird from New Zealand to deer with a taste fo... Read more
10 Apr 2019
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38mins