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    Glowing Civil War Wounds, Bubble Wrap's Origins, Historic Font Disputes

    Glowing Civil War Wounds, Bubble Wrap's Origins, Historic Font Disputes

    FromThe Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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    Glowing Civil War Wounds, Bubble Wrap's Origins, Historic Font Disputes

    FromThe Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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    Length:
    30 minutes
    Released:
    Oct 24, 2018
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    The weirdest things we learned this week range from the origins of bubble wrap to Civil War soldiers whose wounds glowed in the dark. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?

    The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week is a podcast by Popular Science. Share your weirdest facts and stories with us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weirdest_thing #weirdestthingpod

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    Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support
    Released:
    Oct 24, 2018
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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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. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support