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The BrainFood Show
In this show, the team behind the wildly popular TodayIFoundOut YouTube channel do deep dives into a variety of fascinating topics to help you feed your brain with interesting knowledge.
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Caesar Part 4: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing the fascinating story about how the statue of Shakespeare in Central Park, New York...
The Incredible Story of U-47 and “The Bull of Scapa Flow”
Scapa Flow lies barely seven degrees below the Arctic Circle, in the cold, windswept Orkney Islands at the northern tip of Scotland. Measuring 10 kilo...
The Nazi Kamikaze Squadron
On the first of April, 1945, a combined American and British Empire fleet appeared off Okinawa, the southernmost of the Japanese Home Islands. Operati...
The 1990s were Weird
Anybody reading remember the film Jingle All The Way, you know the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger body checks his way through a crowd of harried sing...
Caesar Part 3: The Real Story of the Ides of March
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing in more detail the events surrounding Caesar’s momentous decision to cross the Rubi...
Caesar Part 2: Julius Caesar’s Pirate Adventure and the Long Lost Location of the Rubicon
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing how a teenage Julius Caesar became the head of his rather prominent family. We then...
Who Started the Lizard People Conspiracy Theory?
People have been referencing sentient reptilian entities, sometimes
humanoid, sometimes not, going back to some of the earliest written
...
Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?
Contrary to popular belief, a decent percentage of the human population has known definitely the Earth was roughly spherical for over two thousand yea...
How Did the Trump Family First Make Their Fortune?
Regardless of your politics, I think we can all agree that Donald
Trump is by no means a humble man, and he’d be the first to admit that
...
Caesar Part 1: Caesarean and the Fascinating Story of Dr. James Barry (a.k.a. Margaret Bulkley)
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing the fact that, contrary to what we speculated in a previous episode, World’s Fairs...
The Bull Moose (Part 2)
In this episode of The Brain Food Show podcast, we wrap up our discussion (for now) on one of the more remarkable individuals in modern history- Theod...
Legendary Legends: The Greatest Adventurer and the Voyage of the Nautilus
At 11:15 PM on August 3, 1958, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower received a historic radio message: “Nautilus 90 North.” U.S.S. Nautilus, t...
The Bonkers Atomic Car with 5,000 Miles Range
In February of 1958, the Ford Motor Company unveiled an extraordinary concept for the automobile of the future. Dubbed the Nucleon, the vehicle was a...
The Nukes of the North- Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
At 10 PM on New Year’s Eve, 1963, a U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster transport aircraft touched down on a runway in North Bay, Ontario. Under the cove...
The Bull Moose (Part 1)
In this episode of The Brain Food Show podcast, we discuss one of the more remarkable individuals in modern history- Theodore Roosevelt. In particular...
The Many Ways Studios Try to Get You to Watch More Ads
“Come on, Daddy needs a liveable planet he can rule with an iron fist.” - Sheldon Cooper This is a quote from a season 9 episode of The Big Bang Theor...
Britain's Disastrous WWII Fighter Plane
What was the worst military aircraft of the Second World War? Given the sheer number of designs fielded by all sides throughout the conflict there is...
Accidentally Nuking a Country
At 10:30 AM on January 17, 1966, an enormous explosion shattered the silence over the small farming village Palomares in Spain. An enormous fireball e...
Why Do You Forget Everything When You Enter a New Room?
There you are. Sitting on your couch, watching a movie, when suddenly you decide you want popcorn. So you get up and cross the room to the kitchen. Bu...
Incredible Engineering- The Man Who Froze Time
A speeding bullet ripping through an apple, a split second before the fruit disintegrates. A drop of milk splashing off a red plate, forming a perfect...
The Hilarious Christmas Riot
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a Christmas gift that resulted in one of the more celebrated books of all time. Movi...
A Perilous Journey- John Adams Goes to France
In the fall of 1778, things weren’t looking good for the traitors to King and country in the British American colonies. In the early going the America...
The Crapper, The Poop Log, the Parasitic Poop Twigs, and Much, Much More
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a couple rather bizarre Spanish Christmas traditions involving holiday defecating…...
What Really Happened After the Mutiny on the Bounty?
On November 28, 1787, His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty set sail from England with 46 men aboard, bound for the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific....
The Truth About the 12 Days of Christmas
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at the rather humorous original name for the song Silver Bells.
Moving on...
The Lord of Misrule and the First Book Banned in America
When one pictures the first British settlers coming to what would become the United States, it’s generally of a group of religiously oppressed, rigidl...
Are Poinsettias Poisonous and the Truce
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at whether poinsettias are actually poisonous or not. Moving on to the main content to...
The Amazing Story Behind The Christmas Carol
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we look at one of my favorite stories I’ve ever researched. But before that, we begin by looking at what coul...
The Incredible Flame Thrower Packing Insect
Nature abounds with weird and wonderful defence mechanisms, evolved over millions of years to protect their owners from predators and allow them to li...
Fires of Industry, Witchcraft, and the First Spark of the Revolution
When thinking about the various elements that went into the United States declaring Independence, we tend to think of things like the Stamp Act, The B...
Denazification and the Unsolved High Tech Murder That Reshaped Post-Cold War Europe
On the morning of November 30, 1989, a trio black Mercedes-Benz sedans pulled away from a house in the quiet Frankfurt suburb of Bad Homburg vor Der H...
How Do Spy Agencies Actually Recruit Spies in Real Life?
Agencies like the CIA and MI6 are tasked with collecting and processing data deemed potentially vital to their respective counties’ national interests...
The Kids Who Led the Resistance Movements Against the Nazis
History books often remember underground political groups like the Communist party or the Social Democrats, espionage groups like the Red Orchestra, o...
How Did People in Medieval Times Actually Siege a Castle in Reality
Modern entertainment such as movies, fictional books, and TV shows aren’t exactly known for accurately depicting how things may or may not go or have...
How Much Did Top Gun: Maverick Cost the U.S. Taxpayer?
Countless films produced in the United States feature use of rather expensive military equipment, and often also real world military personnel. Given...
What Did the German Public Know About the Holocaust During WWII?
While something like the holocaust isn’t exactly unprecedented in history, with mass genocide popping up an unnerving number of times the world over t...
Who Invented Nachos and the Potato Chip? Is the Green Part of the Potato Bad for You? And Much, Much More
In the episode today, Simon discusses who invented the potato chip, nachos, whether the green part of a potato is poisonous, and much, much more in th...
WTF are Smelling Salts?
It is a scene out of countless romance novels and prestige period pieces: an elegantly-dressed Victorian lady, laced too tightly into her corset, is s...
The Time a King Let the Leader of a Cult Become King to See if the World Would End
In today’s age of relatively stable international relations, it is hard to imagine the impact of something like the Mongol invasions. Starting in 1206...
Crazy Cool Science- What Causes This Sand to Sing?
Picture, if you will, a desert. Chances are, the picture you now have in your head probably looks a lot like Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia,...