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 of calories in an average human man. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?

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