Hosted by Simon Whistler, “Today I Found Out” is everybody’s favorite daily show about a wide variety of interesting topics.
From Today I Found Out. Head to http://squarespace.com/BRAINFOOD for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, use OFFER CODE BRAINFOOD to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. 1,500 kilometres southeast of Moscow, sprawling over the rugged steppes of Kazakhstan, lies Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s first gateway to space.…
From Today I Found Out. If you told a general of the Roman Republic or early Imperial Rome that one of their most successful generals, indeed some historians argue the greatest Roman general of all time, would be a eunuch, they would have been horrified. However, by Narses’ time in the 5th and 6th centuries,…
From Today I Found Out. Head to http://squarespace.com/BRAINFOOD for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, use OFFER CODE BRAINFOOD to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Ah, the ice lair! From Superman’s Fortress of Solitude to Ozymandias’s Antarctic headquarters in Watchmen to the Rebel Alliance’s Echo Base…
From Today I Found Out. In 1898, American author Morgan Robertson published a novella titled Futility, which tells the story of the Titan, a British ocean liner described as the largest, fastest, and most luxurious in the world. On its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic, the Titan accidentally collides with an iceberg. Though the…
From Today I Found Out. At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945, the citizens of the Japanese city of Hiroshima looked up to see three bright silver B-29 Superfortress bombers droning overhead. This was nothing unusual; for the past year the U.S. Twentieth Air Force had conducted round-the-clock firebombing raids of the Japanese home islands,…
From Today I Found Out. People being unhappy with their job is not a rare occurrence. It is almost a given that, assuming you don’t work for me, there are many people in your office who want an exit as soon as possible, maybe even you. At some point, maybe you’ve even snapped and rebelled…
From Today I Found Out. In today’s video, we’re covering How Vladimir Putin Came to Power (And How He Has Held on to it for So Long), How on Earth Did Winston Churchill Lose the Election Directly Following Germany’s Defeat, The Many Hilarious Ways the CIA Tried to Assassinate Fidel Castro, The Forbidden Book Written…
From Today I Found Out. “The troops of George the third have crossed the Atlantic, not to engage an enemy, but to assist a band of traitors in trampling on the rights and liberties of his most loyal subjects… Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a…
From Today I Found Out. Get your copy of The Book: ‘The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization’ now at https://bit.ly/3Gbom7L and use code TODAYIFOUNDOUT10 at checkout! In the shadow of Moscow’s Kremlin Walls stands one of the most famous structures in all of Russia: a squat, austere-looking stepped pyramid, built of polished red porphyry.…
From Today I Found Out. Head to http://squarespace.com/BRAINFOOD for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, use OFFER CODE BRAINFOOD to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain 2023 marked the 100-year anniversary of an event so tragic and calamitous that it changed world history to a frightening degree,…
From Today I Found Out. Our modern world is full of ideograms – simplified images meant to cleanly and unambiguously depict objects from everyday life. Drive down the street and you will see dozens of them – three circles in a vertical rectangle for traffic lights, a stylized boy and girl for a school zone,…
From Today I Found Out. In today’s BrainFood Show episode, we are discussing three rather inspirational business tails, starting with the extremely humble origins of the now many billion dollar behemoth in Heinz, then on to Karl’s favorite all time script in the story of soft soap and the brilliant business man that gave it…
From Today I Found Out. It was a rainy afternoon in July 1974 when the Royal Canadian Army Cadets of D Company filed into a classroom at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Quebec. The Cadets, all boys aged 13 to 18, were glad for the chance to sit down and relax, having just undergone a rigorous…
From Today I Found Out. In the video today, we’re looking at Coca-Cola and Their Intentional Fart Water, That Time Coca Cola Tried to Introduce Vending Machines that Charged More on Hot Days, That Time Pepsi Accidentally Promised Hundreds of Thousands of People $40,000 Each, How Do Sodas in Outdoor Vending Machines Not Freeze in…