The Weirdest Thing

Description: The 1659 painting "Timoclea" by Elisabetta Sirani is a timeless piece of art that reminds you to dump that guy.

Description: The 1659 painting "Timoclea" by Elisabetta Sirani carries a timeless message: many men are garbage.

Description: The 1659 painting "Timoclea" by Elisabetta Sirani remains shockingly relevant in the internet age.

Description: No one will ever question your commitment again.

Description: Old Hollywood.

Description: Big pretty lady.

Description: Comes across all shy and coy Just another nancy boy

Description: Falling into cotton candy clouds in a galactic dreamscape.

Description: Let everyone know what team(s) you play on.

Description: Let everyone know what team(s) you play on.

Description: Let everyone know what team(s) you play on.

Description: Let everyone know what team(s) you play for.

Description: Every body is a bog body if you just wait long enough. (You also need a bog.)

Description: From the smoke enema that started it all to the listener-favorite tale of the great butter fire of 1991, these are just a few of the many weird facts you'll learn about on The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

Description: Remember the falcon hat episode? A classic. Pour one out for the time NASA thought astronaut farts might explode the space station. You can count on The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week to keep you in the loop on all things bizarre.

Description: We cover some pretty serious stuff on The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. We also cover vampires. So. It evens out. Trick your friends into asking you about crimes against humanity with this sassy tee!

Description: On The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, we start by offering up a little tease about cheese rolling and end with death rays.

Description: They'll probably be fine.

Description: She's a tough gal to pin down.

Description: Could it be...the weirdest thing I learned this week?

Description: Divine feminine fury

Description: “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

Description: A scene from somewhere else

Description: Wear your extraordinary nature with pride.

Description: The first scientific specimen of a platypus was thought to be a hoax. Long may she reign.

Description: Sneezin' is the reason for the season.

Description: Go find yourself, girl boss.

Description: A classic medical illustration of one of your favorite weird historical resuscitation devices—the infamous smoke enema—but funkier.

Description: Definitely not made by snakes. Ilha da Queimada Grande is calling!

Description: Never tell me the odds.

Description: A throwback to the days when potatoes were a forbidden fruit. Featuring original art by Weirdest Thing superfan Kristal Cardona of PaperHoundCo!

Description: In honor of the great butter fire of 1991, and all the firefighters who still can't eat hot dogs because of it.

Description: Then we can reconvene, buster.

Description: The girls that get it get it and the girls that don't don't. A few of our favorite things about being Weirdos!

Description: Celebrate the surprisingly feminist history of butter sculpture with Caroline Shawk Brooks' most famous work: The Dreaming Iolanthe. Just try not to think about what it smelled like after touring the country for six months.

Description: The Mother of Rabbits herself.