All the Fun Facts You Have Wrong!

Pessimists Archive Podcast by Jason Feifer

May 26, 202244:56Technology

Our brains are full of fun facts: the memory span of a goldfish, Marie Antoinette’s famous words, the vomitoriums of Rome, and more. But what if it’s all wrong? In this episode, I debunk more than a dozen common misconce...

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