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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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The Crazy Carnival Ride Soviet Turntable Procedure That Gave Us the First Corrective Eye Surgery
The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul. More practically, they are our windows to the world, humans being one of many visually-dependent spec...
Forgotten Hero- The Other Oskar Schindler
In 1993, legendary director Steven Spielberg released two groundbreaking films, which could not have been more different from one another. The first w...
Who Were the Real Life "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” and What Did they Actually Do?
Among the many box office bombs of the 2024 movie season was The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Starring Superman himself - Henry Cavill - and dir...
Rebuilding Civilization, America's Most Mysterious Monument, and Blowing It Up
On July 6, 2022 around 4 AM, a loud explosion rocked a remote corner of Elbert County, Georgia. Later that morning, the sun rose to reveal the shatter...
The Horrifying World of Mind-Control Creatures
In the 2013 video game The Last of Us and its 2023 TV adaptation, humanity is overrun by a mutant parasitic fungus called Cordyceps, which disfigures...
Hollywood vs Reality: What Actually Happened During Apollo 13?
“Houston, we’ve had a problem. We’ve had a Main B Bus undervolt.” These words, spoken by astronaut Jim Lovell on April 13, 1970, signalled the start o...
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: The Extraordinary Saga of the Unsinkable Nevada
At 9:00 in the morning on July 1, 1946, Major Harold Wood, bombardier of the B-29 Superfortress Dave’s Dream, peered through his bombsight at a massiv...
The Great Vibrator Myth
Selfie stick. Electrical banana. Pocket pleaser. Magic wand. Divorce maker. Buzz Nightgear. Battery Operated Boyfriend. These are but a few colourful...
WTF is Up with the Swastika?
It is among the most feared and reviled symbols in the world, the very sight of which instantly evokes thoughts of hatred, mass murder, and the worst...
The Insane Engineering of Atmospheric Diving Suits
In the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore’s Bond and Bond girl Melina Havelock - played by Carole Bouquet - dive to the bottom of th...
What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWII?
During WWI, the senior members of the British Royal family kept awfully busy. One of them shattered his pelvis when a near thousand pound horse decide...
What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWI?
For those of us born relatively deep into the before times of the 20th century, it may come as a rather shocking realization that WWI occurred now ove...
Hitler’s “Ideal Aryans” Who Were Actually Jewish Ad Campaign
Discover the untold story of Hitler’s Jewish poster children, Hessy Levinsons and Werner Goldberg—icons of Nazi propaganda hiding shocking secrets. A...
How NASA Learned to Land on the Moon
On July 20, 1969, the whole world gathered around their flickering television sets and watched in awe as astronaut Neil Armstrong who, if not for some...
What's Up with Space Food?
If your parents ever took you to a science museum or planetarium as a child, you likely spent much of your visit in the gift shop, begging them to buy...
What is Up with the Van Allen Belts and How Did Astronauts Survive Flying Through Them?
The shadows go in different directions! The flag is waving in a vacuum! The lander didn’t dig a crater! You can’t see any stars! It was all filmed on...
What was Hitler Like as a Child? And was His Grandfather Really Jewish?
While just about everyone is abundantly familiar with Adolf Hitler’s exploits in the latter half of his life, an often missed part of the once proclai...
The Twisting, Turning Tale of the Invention of Dr Pepper
When the sun scorches the earth, when incandescent air burns your lungs, and especially when that glucose curve dips at 10, 2 and 4 in the afternoon …...
So What Happens Exactly When Someone Wins the Lottery?
Winning a big ticket lottery very often isn’t all that it cracked up to be and despite a windfall of cash, a surprising number of winners have gone on...
The Weird, Wacky, and Hilarious World of Animal Mating
As anyone who’s perused the internet knows, arguably the most bizarre mating practices of all can be found among humans, with Rule 34 being a rather i...
The Forgotten First Major Public Nuclear Disaster
When one thinks of nuclear nations, the United Kingdom usually doesn’t spring to mind. But Old Blighty has a long and impressive record of nuclear acc...
How Does Darth Vader Poop?
“You always remember the bad guy.” These were the words of the late David Prowse, the man who physically portrayed Darth Vader in the original trilogy...
One of the Most Disastrous Naval Experiements of All Time
team-powered, gunned-up, and utterly cursed—cruiser submarines were meant to revolutionize naval warfare. Instead, they sank their own crews more ofte...
How Did the Crusades Actually Work?
When thinking about the middle ages, chances are that among the many images popping into your mind there stands a noble knight. Now, there are a varie...
The Secretary: Great Expectations
“[T]here would not be I believe, a happier being in the United States… [c]ould I have just enough business to support my expences, so as to relieve me...
When is the Optimal School Start Time?
Much like is the case with some adult humans, in the morning our miniature Sapiens often have a preference for expressing themselves in low-pitched, u...
Hitler's Many Women and Their Often Unfortunate Ends
Unsurprisingly to anyone who’s historied, Hitler was a man who promoted a hateful ideology, had millions murdered, crippled a generation, and plunged...
The Secretary- Training for Greatness
“What are the Qualifications of a Secretary of State? He ought to be a Man of universal Reading in Laws, Governments, History. Our whole terrestrial U...
That Time the USA Tried to Make Hippo Farming a Thing
If you were to travel down the Rio Magdalena just north of the Columbian capital of Bogotá, you might just come across some rather out-of-place wildli...
The Fascinating Saga of History’s Largest Diamond
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” So wrote Samuel Johnson, the famed 18th Century polymath and founder of the modern English dicti...
ENOUGH! The First Astronaut Strike In Space... Allegedly
People being unhappy with their job is not a rare occurrence. It is almost a given that, assuming you don’t work for me, there are many people in your...
The Incredible Real Life Cold War Bond Villain Ice Lair
Ah, the ice lair! From Superman’s Fortress of Solitude to Ozymandias’s Antarctic headquarters in Watchmen to the Rebel Alliance’s Echo Base on Hoth in...
32 Seconds from Detonation- That Time the U.S. Almost Accidentally Nuked North Carolina... 3 Times
The Cold War, lasting from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was one of the most dangerous periods...
Nikola Tesla's Rather Peculiar Childhood and Oddities (Daven & Gilles)
In today's episode, Gilles Messier and Daven Hiskey do a deep dive into Nikola Tesla's childhood and many of his rather peculiar oddities.
The Incredible Tale of Inventing Walmart
With their endless aisles, their bountiful racks chock full of discounted merchandise, Walmart stores have firmly wedged themselves into the hearts an...
Why Did Japan Join the Nazis? (Given, You Know, the Nazis Explicitly Hated Non-Aryans)
Discover the complex relationship between Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II. Learn about the Tripartite Pact, their conflicting ideologies, a...
Why Wasn't There an Italian "Nuremberg / Tokyo War Crimes" Trial After WWII?
Discover the untold story of Italian war crimes during WWII and why there was never an "Italian Nuremberg" to hold fascist officials accountable for t...
How Did the SR-71 Blackbird Get Made and How was It So Fast?
Explore the legendary Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the world's fastest military aircraft. Discover its groundbreaking design, thrilling history, and the...
WTF is Up with Embalming and Displaying Communists?
In the shadow of Moscow’s Kremlin Walls stands one of the most famous structures in all of Russia: a squat, austere-looking stepped pyramid, built of...
What's the Deal With Presidential Libraries?
In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into the surprisingly cool Presidential Library system, how it came to be and what they a...