10k Steps is a Lie, a Secret Poop Factory, Eleanor Roosevelt’s Mysterious Death

The weirdest things we learned this week range from robots wiping your butt to a Cheeto-shaped bacteria killing Eleanor Roosevelt. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?

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