The BrainFood Show
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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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How to Scratch an Itch in Space, the Surprisingly Long Time You Can Survive in Space Without a Spacesuit, Why the Apollo 13 Astronauts Got Cold, and Much, Much More
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by following up on a previous discussion on Daimler and what exactly a little girl named Mercedes had...
The Incredible Black Arrow Rocket
When it comes to technological achievement and national prestige, few feats can compare to launching a satellite into space. Since the Soviet Union la...
The Junior High Dropout That Created Dunkin' Donuts
In 1847 at the tender age of 16, seaman Hanson Gregory looked at some frying dough and said, “Everything is better with holes”… except his ship hull p...
Inventing Color in a World That was Black and White
When we think of the past prior to the 1960s or so, we tend to picture it in black and white. Much of the visual media of this period - including stil...
How Astronauts Go to the Bathroom in Space and How Women Can Safely Pee Standing Up
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by following up on a previous discussion on what the first good movie based on a computer game was...
How They Ruined Superhero Movies
“In mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” - Professor X
In the realm of comic books, the r...
Britain's Most Disastrous "White Elephant" Airliner
On April 27, 2005, the gigantic Airbus A380 airliner took to the skies for the first time, lifting off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport with test pilot J...
Real Life Space DJs and the Pillownaughts
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we kick off a series on space related facts. Before we get started in that, however, we do some follow up a...
Making Children Cry for Fun and Profit
If you’ve spent any time whatsoever on the internet you’re probably already quite familiar with how attached people are capable of getting to their fa...
WTF is Up with the Bermuda Triangle?
For those who didn’t grow up in the late 20th century, it may seem strange to learn that for a time many people genuinely believed things like that hu...
The Forgotten Gun That Changed Everything
When the Great War broke out in August 1914, the soldiers of the belligerent nations marched into battle carrying broadly similar weapons: modern bolt...
Who Invented the Egg McMuffin?
Breakfast truly is the monarch of meals, that time of the day when one is allowed to gorge on a cornucopia of nonchalantly combined delicacies ranging...
The Very Real Bear Soldier Who Fought in WWII
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, which is partially a continuation of the last, we discuss the bear that was officially a member of the Poli...
The Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by announcing our current contest winners as well as launch a new contest. Next up we get into the m...
The Incredible Biology of Sickle Cell
Chronic fatigue and weakness. Dizziness. Swollen limbs. Sudden, excruciating pain in the chest, back, legs, and arms. Uncontrollable, painful erection...
The First Road Trip Part 2: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we discuss the interesting story of who came up with the unit of measurement called horsepower and why it got...
The First Road Trip Part 1: The Gumption of Bertha Benz
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we discuss the surprisingly long history of the automobile, then move on to discussing what is generally consi...
The Greatest Feat of Piloting in Space
On April 9, 1959, the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, introduced the world to a new breed of heroes: the Mercury...
Swept Under the Rug: The Truth About the Japanese Holocaust
Humans being horrible to other humans is nothing new. Think of the most brutal thing you can possibly imagine, and it’s almost certain not only has s...
That Time Ben Franklin and John Adams Slept Together and the Hilarity That Ensued
While Ben Franklin was remarkably successful in keeping elements of his private life very private to the point that historians can only speculate abou...
Could the Tyrannosaurus Rex Really Not See You If You Didn’t Move?
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out with a follow up to a previous episode in which we mentioned Teddy Roosevelt likely helped delay...
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...