A Nuclear Explosion on the Moon Would Look Nothing Like You Think
It is the ultimate vision of the end times: a gargantuan, roiling column of orange flame and black smoke towering into the sky, with its top...
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The BrainFood Show
The team at the wildly popular TodayIFoundOut YouTube channel discuss a variety of fascinating topics to help you feed your brain.
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The Insanely Dark Origins of Women Jumping Out of Cakes
Almost everyone has seen depicted the bizarre bachelor party tradition of a scantily-clad woman jumping out of a giant cake. It turns up mos...
Who Invented Rock Paper Scissors and How to Win Consistently, The Corrupt Food Pyramid and Much More
Hand based games have been around seemingly as long as humans have been humaning. As to the exact genesis of Rock, Paper, Scissors, however,...
WTF is Up with Some Countries Driving on the Left and Others on the Right?
*Just an addendum to one of the tangents I forgot to mention- pulling up like crazy in a plane while rapidly hurtling towards the ground is...
That Time Coca-Cola Spent $100 Million Intentionally Filling Cans With Water That Smelled Like Farts
Conceived in early 1990, the MagiCan campaign was supposed to be the spearhead of a massive summer promotion the cola giant dubbed “Magic Su...
Who Started the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory?
Since the early 1970s conspiracy theorists have created ever more elaborate stories about how NASA faked the moon landings, much to the anno...
The Surprisingly Interesting Story Behind the Filet-O-Fish Sandwich
The Filet-O-Fish is one of the more curious items on the McDonald’s menu in that it receives virtually no advertising whatsoever, yet still...
Is Russian Roulette a Real Thing? The Military and Top Gun, and Much More
In today's compilation video, we're looking at a slew of Hollywood vs Reality things like whether anyone has ever actually played Russian Ro...
The Murderer Who Got Off and Created the First Videos in History
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start with the rather curious way in which George Eastman, founder of Kodak, died. Moving on t...
The Nazi War Crime That Shocked Even the Nazis
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What was It Actually Like to Be a Court Jester in Medieval Times?
Although you might assume that being made to wear a stupid costume, be mocked, and act like an idiot for the entertainment of fatuous rulers...
Why Did Austria ACTUALLY Give Itself to Nazi Germany Without a Fight?
Ever wonder why Austria agreed to give up its sovereignty so readily to Nazi Germany without any semblance of a fight? Well, it turns out th...
How Do Germany and Japan Teach WWII? How Does Britain Teach the American Revolution? And Much More
In the video today, we're looking at How Do German Schools Teach About WWII? How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII? Why Wasn't There an Itali...
The Forgotten Plague Where Thousands of People Couldn't Stop Dancing Until They Died
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we skip the quick fact because this one took forever to research and put together and I ran out of t...
The Insane Story of the Plane That Refused to Land for 64 Days
The likes of renowned aerospace engineer Burt Rutan’s Voyager aircraft, which successfully completed the world’s first nonstop, unrefueled a...
How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?
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Was Doc Brown's 1885 Ice Machine Actually Possible?
In the 1990 sci-fi comedy sequel Back to the Future Part III, intrepid time travelling 80’s duo Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown find themse...
The Bizarre Story of The Room, Were Nunchucks Real and Much, Much More
In today's compilation episode we're looking at a handful of Hollywood vs Reality topics like the bizarre story behind "The Room", is genuin...
So, like, How Do Porcupines Mate? And Other Bizarre Animal Mating Practices
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at whether or not male humans can get pregnant and carry a baby to full term...
The Greatest Factory Ever Built
Following December 7, 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, which finally drew the United States into the Second World War, the attack’s arc...