There was only ever one true Ferris Wheel, and we blew it up
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.'s wheel. (Public Domain/)What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Anchor, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show.FACT: The Ferris Wheel has a shockingly sad (and short) origin storyBy Rachel FeltmanThe story of the world’s first and only Ferris Wheel starts as so many great stories do: With Americans desperately trying to outdo the French.When Paris hosted the World’s Fair in 1889, entrepreneurs and engineers spent more than two years and about $1.5 million building a tower around 1,000...