The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. FACT: We don’t actually know why period cramps hurtBy Kate DowneySo for context, I get severe period cramps. After all, 90% of menstruating people experience period pain. So obviously, if we’re talking about severe period pain, my question was: what’s causing it? Current studies conducted by the GyRL Lab in Evanston, IL are discovering that, in fact, everything we thought we knew about period cramps might be wrong.