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The team at the wildly popular TodayIFoundOut YouTube channel discuss a variety of fascinating topics to help you feed your brain.
In the video today we're looking at World War 2's slightly absurd secret weapons and the Japanese battleship with guns that weighed more tha...
Popular history gets the War of the Currents wrong pretty fundamentally. This is the real story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
A relatively common trope today is that of the noble and honorable Samurai warrior opposed by their shadowy brother from another mother, the...
In the video today we're looking at a variety of interesting stories from WWII from the man who fought in WWII with a sword and bow, to the...
It is a classic war movie trope: a squad of soldiers are marching through the jungle when, suddenly, they hear an ominous click. One of the...
The years 2010 to 2014, saw the release of the three Expendables films, throwback action romps starring a roster of aging 1980s action stars...
History remembers Thomas Edison as one of the greatest inventors of all time. The Internet thinks he was a fraud. Which is true? Learn more...
As horrific as a nuclear war would be in the immediate, a common idea is that the real troubles for humanity, and the world, would actually...
In the video today, we're looking at a variety of fascinating stories from WWII, everything from what the German public actually knew about...
If you’ve ever shot a gun, then you will have quickly learned the first fundamental rule of shooting: recoil sucks. Depending on the calibre...
“They could have fired me on the spot. But you know, they’re idiots” That’s a quote from James Cameron about the reaction of gathered execut...
In this episode, Gilles and Daven are doing a deep dive into the childhood of one of the greatest inventors in history, Thomas Edison. Learn...
Who among us hasn’t had this experience? You are eating a lovely outdoor meal or working peacefully in the garden when unexpected guests arr...
In the podcast today, we're looking at what it was really like to be a gladiator in Ancient Rome, how corrupt the roman senate was, what's t...
At the southern tip of Spain, jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea, lies Gibraltar, a narrow peninsula measuring only 6.8 square kilometre...
Few brands are as closely associated with the idea of “luxury” as Rolls-Royce, a car manufacturer so fancy schmancy that the company's offic...
Tesla is often cited to have been a genius ahead of his time and held back by finances. But what did he ACTUALLY invent, and is it true that...
Anyone interested in the shirt can find it here: https://store.todayifoundout.com/products/beep-beep-sputnik-2 On October 4, 1957 at 7:28 PM...
In the episode today, we're looking at whether absinthe actually makes you hallucinate or not. Next up the hilarious story of the wine lover...
“We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones, We turned the dusty drill: We banged the tins, and bawled the hymns, And sweated on the mill: But...
For those of us of the slightly more seasoned vintage growing up in or living in the late 20th century, which was totally only a decade ago...
In the video today we're looking at how the Ancient Romans made incredibly long, perfectly straight and incredibly durable roads, what it wa...
Running the gauntlet. Starting. Flogging with the cat ‘o 9 nine tails. Gagging. Clapping in irons. Hanging from the yardarm. While this all...
In today's video, we're looking at What's Up with the All Seeing Eye on the Dollar Bill? Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How M...
At exactly 5:30 AM on July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb, codenamed Trinity, detonated over the desert in New Mexico, unleashing i...
From the terrifyingly effective De-bollocker to the ugly little boat that won WWII to the German fighter that dissolved its pilots alive, th...
If ever there was a criminally underrated natural resource, it would have to be Helium. Though most commonly associated with party balloons...
Nazi Germany officially surrendered on May 7, 1945. With the war still raging in the Pacific against Japan and sporting a popularity rate at...
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing the clandestine way Niel Armstrong managed to get his application to the a...
If you've followed this website, our YouTube channel, or BrainFood Show podcast very long, you know one of our favorite historic individuals...
The McRib is a food with both a devout following and many detractors. But what is the genesis of the world’s most popular fast food chain’s...
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing the real origin of Tang and what that has to do with Pop Rocks and how the...
While airplane manufacturers do design the planes with general row positioning and pitch (the measurement from one seat to the same exact po...
Gladiatorial combat may seem outdated and barbaric, but it is, at its heart, a combat sport like mixed martial arts, boxing, and even profes...
At the end of James Cameron’s 1989 underwater thriller The Abyss, oil rig diver Bud Brigman, played by Ed Harris, dons an experimental divin...
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing the first space walk in which the cosmonaut in question very nearly got st...
At 9:15 A.M. on November 10, 1961, a Lockheed Super Constellation of Portugal’s TAP airlines lifted off from Casablanca, Morocco. Aboard wer...
It has been called the “silent service.” Since their introduction in the early 20th century, service aboard submarines has been among the de...
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 Me...
When it comes to technological achievement and national prestige, few feats can compare to launching a satellite into space. Since the Sovie...
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 s...
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 - incl...
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 compute...
“In mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” - Professor X In the realm of comic books, the rules of the respe...
On April 27, 2005, the gigantic Airbus A380 airliner took to the skies for the first time, lifting off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport with te...
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 f...
If you’ve spent any time whatsoever on the internet you’re probably already quite familiar with how attached people are capable of getting t...
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 li...
When the Great War broke out in August 1914, the soldiers of the belligerent nations marched into battle carrying broadly similar weapons: m...
Breakfast truly is the monarch of meals, that time of the day when one is allowed to gorge on a cornucopia of nonchalantly combined delicaci...