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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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...
The Twisting, Turning Road That Gave Us the Microwave Oven
In this episode of The BrainFood Show, Simon Whistler dives into the surprising origins of the microwave oven, from Maxwell's electromagnetic waves to...
A Guide to Building the Pyramids- How Did They Do It?
In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into how the pyramids were actually built.
A quick tour on pop...
How Did the Wright Brothers Win the Race Into the Air?
In this episode of The BrainFood Show, Simon Whistler dives into the fascinating journey of the Wright Brothers, from failed flight attempts to their...
From 0 to 1000 to 0- What Happened to Howard Johnson's?
In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into the incredible rise and fall of Howard Johnson's.
This ep...
How Did Christianity Go From a Tiny Jewish Cult to Rule the Western World So Quickly?
In this episode of The BrainFood Show, Simon Whistler dives into the fascinating reasons Christianity was able to so rapidly go from a tiny Jewish Cul...
The Marxist Mummies- The Weird Practice of Mummiffying Communists
In today's episode of The BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey dives into the bizarre tradition of pickling and displaying communists.
What's the Difference Between Hardwood and Softwood? (I swear this is more interesting than it sounds :-))
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, Simon Whistler and Daven Hiskey are looking at the difference between a number of things, kicking it off with...
WTF is Vegemite?
In this episode of The BrainFood Show, Simon Whistler dives into what the Aussie staple of Vegemite actually is, and how it came to be, and become a n...
Hancock's Revolution- Birthing the United States
In today's episode of the BrainFood Show, Daven Hiskey does a deep dive into the oft' forgotten founding father, without whom there may have been no...
How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?
On July 20, 1969, the world looked on in awe as 39-year-old astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off a ladder of the Lunar Module Eagle and onto the surfa...
Heinz 57, The Lord of the Pumps, and a Tasty, Tasty Dunkin' Empire
In today's BrainFood Show episode, we are discussing three rather inspirational business tails, starting with the extremely humble origins of the now...
The True Story of the Amistad
On June 28, 1839, a ship departed Havana, Cuba en route to Puerto Principe. Along with a crew of 7, including two slaves serving as a cabin boy and sh...