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People visit an impression in a sidewalk in the Roscoe Village neighborhood known as the Chicago Rat Hole on January 24, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. The decades-old impression in the the shape of a rat (or squirrel) began attracting a regular stream of visitors after a post on X garnered more than 5 million views. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Chicago’s rat hole wasn’t made by a rat

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Vintage vaccine skeptics thought medicine would turn kids into demon cows

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Andy the goose who sports specially designed sneakers fashioned by Gene Fleming of Blue Ribbon Sports Co. riding miniature bicycle w. umbrella attachment on road; Fleming crouching down beside him. (Photo by Keith Philpott/Getty Images) The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

A footless goose was at the heart of a 1990s murder mystery

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Why some scientists say our universe is Sad Millennial Beige 

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You’re actually not allowed to keep bird feathers you find on hikes—and it’s all thanks to two women who got really mad about hats

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These freaky fish use their forehead teeth to have better sex 

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A skateboarder at 'Skate City', the newly-opened skateboarding park in Tooley Street, London, August 1977. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Why archaeologists are studying a skate park 

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It took half a century to solve the mystery of Missouri’s deadly snake panic 

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a seagull squawking. its mouth is wide open The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

These birds are super loud during sex—and that could teach us something about gender roles 

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Victorians loved ice cream even though it kept killing them 

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TORONTO, CANADA - 2024/11/23: Dice used for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images) The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Research on Dungeons and Dragons is booming—and it seems like it’s great for your brain 

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TORONTO , ON- APRIL 11 - Pasta Buca .Detail of Su filindeu. David Marcelli of Buca makes pasta from scratch for The Star. April 11, 2018. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star via Getty Images) The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The rarest pasta on earth is almost physically impossible to make

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Portrait kitten with open mouth. Domestic curious funny striped kitty The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Allergic to cats? Chickens could help. 

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Young woman lifting weights at gym The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Could women actually be better suited to weight lifting than men are? 

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A 13th-century schoolboy’s doodles show that kids have always been like that 

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The foul-mouthed cockatoo that lived to 120

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Elizabeth Ruth Belville receives a timekeeping certificate from an official at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, circa 1903. Once Belville has the accuracy of her watch, which she calls 'Arnold', confirmed in this way, her task is to 'take the time' round businesses in the West End and City of London. Belville's work was the means of ensuring standard time in the city before the advent of radio. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Literal time ladies used to sell people a look at their watches

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Woman in pyjamas embracing pillow and hot water bottle to soothe period pain against colourful background The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Scientists don’t actually know why period cramps hurt 

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Blue Colored Motion Blurred Earth Globe Spinning on Light Blue Background. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Earth once vibrated for 9 days straight

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Squirrels could be the key to getting us into deep space

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