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Smoke Enemas, Secret Acoustic Engineering, Volcano Traps Lighthouse
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The weirdest things we learned this week range from trying to revive dead (or unconscious) people by literally blowing smoke up their butts to the secret testing your favorite products go through to sound expensive. Whose story will be voted "The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week"?
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