Meat Rain, Medicinal Sword Swallowing, a Nuclear Kodak Moment

The weirdest things we learned this week range from meat raining down from the heavens to swallowing swords to help doctors look down esophaguses.  Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?

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