What a Weird Week Fri Oct 3, 2025: How many of these Stories do you Remember from Last Year? #RecordBreakingTongue #MillionDollarTrashPainting #SpiderLove

What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the odd, interesting, strange, fun, and weird news that happened this week. Ten stories in 15 minutes!
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These are the shownotes for Season 6, Ep 41 *first published Fri Oct 4, 2024* *Yes, it's a beautiful repeat episode* 

Egg-Drop Smashes World Record, Egg is not smashed thoughhttps://patch.com/pennsylvania/te/tredyffrin-easttown-students-break-egg-drop-guinness-world-record 

Man Drinks Pouch of Juice, World Reacts! #MikeJackRecord #CapriSunhttps://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/10/02/canada-Guinness-World-Records-Capri-Sun/4611727885489/

Italian lady breaks World Record for tongue circumference (cir-tongue-ference)https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/10/italian-womans-unique-tongue-has-bigger-circumference-than-a-ping-pong-ball 

David "Record-Breaker" Rush may not know how to stop breaking world records. #LawnmowerChinbreaks world record by walking over 1,100 feet with a running lawn mower on his chinhttps://youtu.be/_6wZ6HIJPoU?feature=shared 

Tarantula Mating Season Draws Hundreds to Colorado Town
https://apnews.com/article/tarantula-mating-colorado-spider-festival-da14f6d08bd4b325ce34970ec7864c73

Changing how we use defibrillators makes them more lifesaving - study
https://studyfinds.org/new-way-of-using-defibrillators/

Swallowing might be a thing that makes us happy! #HappinessResearch
https://studyfinds.org/swallowing-makes-people-happy/ 

Get started on one of these hilarious Halloween costumes! #Shrimp-on-the-Barbie
https://studyfinds.org/best-funny-halloween-costumes/

Mindfulness meditation is more effective than placebo in reducing pain, study finds
https://studyfinds.org/meditation-placebo-effect-pain/

NASA is developing a new time zone specifically for the Moon #CoordinatedLunarTime
https://studyfinds.org/meditation-placebo-effect-pain/

Wait, can AI REALLY pass a law exam? #nope
https://studyfinds.org/can-ai-pass-a-college-law-exam/ 

I Don't Like Sundays - Survey
https://studyfinds.org/spend-sundays-terrified/

Man discovers $6.6 million Picasso painting hidden in his home for decades
https://nypost.com/2024/10/01/lifestyle/painting-hated-by-owners-wife-turns-out-to-be-6m-picasso/