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 aerial circumnavigation of the globe in December of 1986 in f...
15 Okt 20min
How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?
Ever wonder how far back in time you could go and still talk to people effectively? Well, wonder no more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 Okt 17min
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 themselves trapped in Hill Valley, California, back in the year 18...
13 Okt 36min
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 genuine multiple personality disorder an actual thing or just a ho...
12 Okt 1h 20min
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 naturally. (Spoiler- yes and yes. And even breastfeed too! I...
9 Okt 44min
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 architect, Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, inf...
8 Okt 37min
How to Survive Falling from a Plane Without a Parachute
According to the Aircraft Crashes Record Office in Geneva, between 1940 and 2008 there were 157 people who fell out of planes without a parachute during a crash and lived to tell about it. A full 42 o...
7 Okt 20min
Is the “Old Painless” Gun From Predator, the Matrix, Terminator 2 and Many Other Movies a Real Gun?
It is one of the most iconic cinematic weapons in history, on par with James Bond’s Walther PPK, Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, and Indiana Jones’s bullwhip. Strap it to your back, and you instantly bec...
6 Okt 35min
