Wendy Zukerman talks werewolf tomatoes, overdosing on placebos, and snapping necks - a podcast by Popular Science

Wendy Zukerman from Gimlet's Science Vs. joins Weirdest Thing this week. The weirdest things we learned range from a man falling unconscious after taking too many placebo pills, to why the tomato's latin name means "wolf peach." Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?

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