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  • Incredible Engineering- The Rise of the Ballpoint Pen

    Incredible Engineering- The Rise of the Ballpoint Pen
    2026/09/08
    Ever wonder who invented the ballpoint pen? Well strap in, as we do a deep dive into the progression of writing, and the incredible engineering behind the surprisingly revolutionary ballpoint pen. Author: Gilles Messier Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 分
  • The Real Life Sea Monster That Has a Doughnut for a Brain

    The Real Life Sea Monster That Has a Doughnut for a Brain
    2026/09/07
    ⁠⁠In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at the massive creature that has a doughnut shaped brain with its esophagus running right through the middle. Next up we begin by looking at the fascinating reason Dung Beetles do a little happy dance after they find and roll up some poop. We then move on to a myriad of fascinating facts about various ants, including their absolutely remarkable ability to find the most efficient route to something, which has in recent years been used by humans to come up with more efficient algorithms for a variety of applications. We follow all that up discussing a rather unique and hilarious way school swimming herring talk to each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 分
  • WTF is Up with Dr. Pepper?

    WTF is Up with Dr. Pepper?
    2026/09/04
    In the epsidoe today, we're looking at the twisting, turning, tale of Dr. Pepper and the real story behind it and what's in it. Next up, who invented toast, whether sodium actually raises blood pressure, why cashews are not sold to consumers in their shells and a variety of other interesting food related facts and stories. For the full list, check out the chapter markers below: 0:00 Who Invented Dr. Pepper? 25:31 Who Invented Toast 33:16 Fact or Myth: Sodium Raises Blood Pressure 41:59 Why Cashews are Not Sold to Consumers in Their Shells and Why Pistachios Used to Be Dyed Red 43:13 The Accidental Discovery of Saccharin, and the Truth About Whether Saccharin is Bad for You 50:06 The Origin of Competitive Eating Contests 1:05:11 Why Teachers are Associated with and Traditionally Given Apples 1:10:07 What Makes Peanut Butter Sticky? 1:13:23 The Difference Between Fruits and Vegetables 1:17:13 Why Salt Preserves Meat 1:20:59 Why Buffalo Wings Are Called That 1:25:53 Ketchup or Catsup? 1:30:23 The Difference Between Green and Black Tea 1:32:32 Why is Cottage Cheese Called That? 1:37:37 The Original Uber Eats India’s Amazing Near Century and a Half Old Dabbawala 1:48:16 Why One Bad Apple Spoils a Bunch 1:51:17 Graham Crackers Were Originally Meant to Be Part of a Diet Thought to Curb Sexual Urges 1:56:59 Grape-Nuts Contain Neither Grapes Nor Nuts 2:01:36 Why Seaweed is Sometimes Used in the Making of Ice Cream 2:06:14 The Fruit That Tastes Like Chocolate Pudding 2:12:43 Why Does the Yolk of an Overcooked Hard-Boiled Egg Turn Green? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 時間 21 分
  • A Tale of Two Brothers- The Devil and the Absolute Legend

    A Tale of Two Brothers- The Devil and the Absolute Legend
    2026/09/03
    Hermann Göring was second only to Hitler in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Commander of the Luftwaffe, acting Prime Minister of Prussia, President of the Reichstag, and Hitler’s designated successor – Göring’s Nazi resume was almost unparalleled, as were the atrocities he took part in. His brother, Albert, however, could not have been more the opposite- an unsung forgotten hero of the war, saving countless lives through his work to undermine his brother and Hitler. This is the story of Hermann and Albert Göring. Host: Simon Whistler Producer: Samuel Avila Editor: Daven Hiskey 0:00 The Devil- Hermann Goring 5:09 The Unsung Hero and Badass that was Albert Goring 9:18 "No" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 分
  • The Extremely Weird, Drug-Filled, Forgotten History of 7UP

    The Extremely Weird, Drug-Filled, Forgotten History of 7UP
    2026/09/02
    Food in the past could be horrifying. Prior to the introduction of regulations like the United States Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, it was disturbingly common for manufacturers to add all sorts of inedible or even genuinely toxic substances to food to make it last longer, make it look more appetizing, or cut down on expensive ingredients and maximize profits. Boric acid and formaldehyde in milk. Brick dust in cinnamon. Bone meal or plaster of Paris in flour and bread. Lead-based dyes in jelly and jam. At one point, S.E. Massengill Company even added diethylene glycol to a common medicine to help make it taste sweeter and more easy to consume… For the uninitiated, diethylene glycol, commonly used today in antifreeze and as a solvent, is highly poisonous, and was known to be so at the time as well. Yet the substance was nonetheless added to the medicine targeted at children anyway, with about 100 deaths resulting before they recalled the medicine. Although noteworthy even with the recall, didn’t bother to tell the doctors prescribing it that there was any urgency in that, nor the danger their existing stocks of the medicine posed if they didn’t return them, and instead, continued to sell it. The owner of the company, Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, responded to the outrage over the deaths by simply stating, “My chemists and I deeply regret the fatal results, but there was no error in the manufacture of the product. We have been supplying a legitimate professional demand… I do not feel that there was any responsibility on our part.” Much more on this story and how it finally got the government to step in and start regulating consumable products later in the Bonus Facts, and how this all led to Kinder Surprise Eggs being illegal in the United States. Which, yes, they still are. Watch to the end before commenting I’m wrong, and you’ll save yourself having to edit your comment. But for now, other questionable substances were part of the appeal of the product itself - most infamously the cocaine in Coca-Cola. Paired with caffeine from the Kola nut, this ingredient was originally chosen by the drink’s inventor, pharmacist John Pemberton, as a treatment for morphine addiction and a stimulating alternative to alcohol. Cocaine was not fully eliminated from the official formula until 1929, though the Coca-Cola company continues to use processed coca leaves in the drink’s manufacture, being the largest consumer of that plant outside of the illegal drug trade. But while it is the most famous example, Coca-Cola was not the only classic soft drink to contain psychoactive drugs, with another iconic brew originally including a mood-altering medication still taken by millions of people to this day. This is the weird forgotten history of 7UP. Author: Gilles Messier Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila 0:00 Intro 2:37 Why People Started Drinking Carbonated Water, and Discovering Lithium 4:55 The Origins of 7Up and Why the Drugs? 16:22 What Does Lithium Actually Do to You? 18:55 The Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident and Why Kinder Surprise Eggs are Still Illegal in the United States Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 分
  • The Ad Campaign That Gave Us Breakfast as We Know It, How Baby Carrots are Made and Much More

    The Ad Campaign That Gave Us Breakfast as We Know It, How Baby Carrots are Made and Much More
    2026/08/28
    In the video today, we're looking at a variety of food facts including- How Two Guys are the Reason We Eat What We Eat for Breakfast, How are Baby Carrots Made, Is Pet Food Safe for Humans to Eat, The Bizarre Story of the Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb Triangle, That Time Quaker Oats Fed Orphans Radioactive Oatmeal for Reasons…, How To Make a Proper Cup of Tea According to Famed English Author George Orwell, Why are Potatoes Called “Spuds”, Peeling Back the Foil: The Origin of the TV Dinner, The History of Spoons, Forks, and Knives, and the The Surprisingly Short History of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Host: Simon Whistler Producer: Caden Nielsen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 25 分
  • The Real Story of Jack the Ripper

    The Real Story of Jack the Ripper
    2026/08/27
    He is one of the most famous serial killers of all time, but who actually was Jack the Ripper and what actually happened during his reign of terror. Just before 4 am on August 31, 1888, on London’s seedy Buck’s Row, a cart driver named Charles Cross saw the body of a woman lying on the ground. In the early morning gloom, it was initially impossible to tell if she was drunk or dead. Cross was soon joined by another carter, Robert Paul. The two men saw the woman’s skirts were pulled above her waist. They smoothed them back over her knees and went searching for a policeman. What the two carters didn’t notice in the shifting shadows was the woman’s throat had been cut so brutally that her head had almost been decapitated. Beat officer John Neil discovered that gruesome fact on closer inspection of the body. (He later testified at the inquest that when he had passed that way just 30 minutes earlier, “there was not a soul about.”) P.C. Neil sent another colleague to fetch a local medic and soon Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn arrived on the scene. He quickly examined the body and found that the arms and legs were still warm. Llewellyn believed the woman had been dead for less than 30 minutes. Her killer may have still been lurking nearby when Cross and Paul came upon the body.... Host: Simon Whistler Editor: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 分
  • Who ACTUALLY Invented the Telephone?

    Who ACTUALLY Invented the Telephone?
    2026/08/26
    Did Alexander Graham Bell actually invent the telephone? How about Elisha Gray? Or what about Antonio Meucci who both Italy and even U.S. Congress at one point acknowledged as the true inventor of the telephone... But is there any actual truth to his story, or was it a major flub by Congress? And what about the oft' forgotten Johann Philip Reis who there was even a bonafide conspiracy to suppress his part. Well sit back and relax as we dive into sorting through this mess and determine who actually invented the telephone. “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” Along with “What Hath God Wrought?”, the first U.S. telegraph message sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844; and the letter S, the first transatlantic radio signal sent by Guglielmo Marconi on December 12, 1901, these are perhaps the most consequential words in the history of modern communications. Spoken by Scottish-American inventor Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant Thomas Watson on March 10, 1876, they are widely believed to constitute history’s first ever telephone call. Bell had patented his “speaking telegraph” just three days prior, and, following this historic demonstration, events moved quickly. On June 25 of that same year, Bell demonstrated the telephone before stunned crowds at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, while on October 9 he and Watson succeeded in holding a conversation over a two mile telephone line strung between Boston and Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. In 1877, Bell formed the Bell Telephone Company - today AT&T - while in 1878 the first commercial telephone exchange was installed in New Haven, Connecticut. The new technology quickly spread around the world, shrinking the globe, making Bell and Watson, very wealthy men, and cementing their place in history as the fathers of modern telecommunications. …at least, that’s the version of events we’re all taught in school. But like with basically every invention ever made by humans, Bell and Watson were far from alone in their pursuit of telephony, with many of their rivals being hot on their heels. So hot, in fact, that some have argued that the dynamic duo were not, in fact, the true inventors of the telephone, and that their place in history was the result not of superior brains and grit or even sheer dumb luck, but rather underhanded legal and political chicanery - a conspiracy that has lain forgotten in the annals of history for 150 years. But is any of it actually true? Here now is the true story of the invention of the telephone. Author: Gilles Messier Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 3 分