Summaries of Today I Found Out Videos 📚

Why Week: Why Does Yellow Mean Cowardly?

Who Invented JELLO?

The Most Decorated Dog of WWI

Who Invented the Food Pyramid and Why You'd Be Crazy to Follow It

What was Up with David Bowie's Left Eye?

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

Why Do Some Countries Have People Drive on the Left and Others on the Right?

When the Universe Hates You...

Why Do Other People's Farts Smell Worse Than Your Own?

The Dark and Gruesome Origins of Going Postal

Margaret Thatcher and Her Frugal Ways

Special: An (Early) End of Year Update!

What is Radon, Anyway?

What Does Bill Gates Carry Around in His Wallet?

That Time it Rained Meat...

How Did a Tire Company Become the Global Arbiter of Culinary Taste

The Surprisingly Interesting Story Behind Strawberry Fields Forever

An Endless Cycle: Taxing Blank Cassettes and Killing Music

Do People Really Fish With Dynamite?

That Time a Soldier Was Awarded a Posthumous Medal While Still Alive

The Truth About Floating Soap

How Do German Schools Teach About WWII?

That Time a Teenager Nearly Assassinated the Queen During a Fantasy Assassination of the Queen

Why Yankee Doodle Called the Feather in His Hat Macaroni

How an Attempt to Save the French Wine Industry Changed the World Forever

Harpo Marx and His Habit of Shedding His Clothes at Random Times

What is Up with the Richard Gere / Rodent Up His Yin-Yang Story?

Is It Really Possible to Bite Through Your Own Finger

Surviving the Sahara Desert with the World's Loneliest Tree

Why Don't You Just Keep Growing Taller?

What's the Deal with the Pledge and the B- High School Project That Gave Us the U.S. Flag Design

The Bizarre Story of the Sex.com Heist...

Why Would You Add Antifreeze to Wine?

Our Fine Finned Friends are Smarter Than You Think

The Horse that Could Do Complex Math

The World's Most Elusive Bird

How One Man Playing with Human Urine for... Reasons... Led to a Huge Scientific Discovery

The Fascinating Story Behind the First Commercially Successful Video Game

The Man Who Captured Four Armed German Soldiers With an Empty Gun

That Time Disney Helped Give the World a Weapon of Mass Destruction

"I'll Do It Myself" - The Greatest Feat of Piloting in Space

Who Invented Computer Passwords? (And the Guy That Made Them Suck)

That Time the British Pitted a Few Canoeing Commandos against a Fleet of Nazi Ships... And Won

The Mad Aussie Who Stung Himself and his 9-Year-Old Son With a Deadly Creature FOR SCIENCE!!!

How Did XOXO Come to Mean Hugs and Kisses?

Is It Actually Possible to Inherit Someone Else's Debts?

Forgotten Titans of History- The Edison of Ancient Greece

Where Did the Expression Dressed to the Nines Actually Come From

The Greatest Year in Gaming History

The Pivotal WWII Gun That Nobody Wanted to Put Down: The Plumber's Nightmare

Anna Jarvis' Big Mistake

The Bone Church

How Do the Insanely Wealthy Actually Pay for Something Worth Hundreds of Millions of Dollars?

The Forgotten Harrowing, Near Disaster Japanese Surrender Flight That Ended WWII

That Time the Soviets Tried to Extinguish a Fire with a Nuke For... Reasons

Why Do Baseball Managers Wear the Team's Uniform Instead of a Suit Like In Other Sports?

Will a Shark Really Die if it Stops Swimming?

How Did the Practice of Calling Liberals Left and Conservatives Right Start?

The Angel of Death

What was the First YouTube Video and How Did YouTube Start?

Why are White People Called Caucasian?

Can the Flu Vaccine Give You the Flu?

What Makes a Boomerang Come Back? (And Inventing the Frisbee)

What's Actually In a Camel's Hump?

That Time a Major League Pitcher Threw a No Hitter on LSD

BrainFood Show: The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare

Will Hospitals Give Back an Amputated Limb If You Ask For It?

Who Invented Pole Vaulting?

The Astonishing Life of "The Black Terror"

The Bizarre Phenomenon of Mummy Unwrapping Parties

Who Invented Russian Roulette and Has Anyone Ever Actually Played It?

Why Can't Men Find Things Right In Front of Their Face?

Why Do Humans Grow Old?

That Time the US Government Teamed Up with the Mafia to Defeat the Nazis

How Many Hamsters Do You Need to Power a House and Would This Be Cheaper Than Coal Power?

The Chicken Heated Nuclear Land Mine (Oh yes, totally a real thing)

That Time a WWII German U-Boat Sank as a Result of Flushing a Toilet

Why are Anvils Shaped as They Are and Why Do Blacksmiths Tap the Anvil After a Few Strikes?

On The Far Side

Is Eating Your Boogers Good for You?

Are Booster Seats Actually Safer Than Just Seatbelts?

What Really Causes Chemtrails?

That Time the U.S. Postal Service Tried Missile Mail (June 8, 1959)

Is Honey Vegan?

Why are Circuit Boards Green?

Did Confucius Actually Say the Things He Said?

That Time a Man Became World Famous and Wealthy for His Ability to Fart

Simon Whistler Studio Tour and Gear Setup (April Update Video!)

How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire

How Did People Know When To Get Up in the Morning Before Alarm Clocks?

Did People Ever Really Put Crocodiles in Moats?

Dance Until You Die: The Perverse Depression Era Fad of Dance Marathons

From Track Scrub to Olympic Record Setter: Fosbury and His Flop

Is Apple Pie Actually American?

How Did Rickrolling Start? (And Did Rick Astley Really Only Make $12 Off the Meme)

Surviving a 2 Mile Fall Without a Parachute and a 10 Day Trek Alone in the Peruvian Rainforest

How High can a Cat Fall from and Still Survive?

Michael Bay and Got Milk

The Real Story Behind Spider-Man

Would Cockroaches Actually Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse?

That Time Picasso was Arrested for Stealing the Mona Lisa

BrainFood: Going to the Bathroom in Space (AND How Women Can Pee Standing Up) and More Space Facts

How Do Film Casting Directors Advertise Positions for Things Like Extremely Unattractive Children?

That Time Coca Cola Tried to Sell Bottled Tap Water in the UK and the Hilarity That Ensued

Why Do Pages of Books and Newspapers Turn Yellow Over Time?

How the Nazis Teamed Up with IBM for Mass Murder (And How the First Ethical Hacker Fought Back)

Who Were the Richest People in History?

Who was the Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time?

What's the Deal with the Roman Gods?

The Curious Case of the Green Children of Woolpit

That Time One Tulip Cost More than a House

Inventing Chemical Warfare What is Nerve Gas Anyway, and Who Invented it

Hollywood's Quest to Introduce the Wacky World of Smell-o-Vision

Is it Actually that Rainy in Seattle?

The People Who Want to Become Amputees

What's the Highest Anyone Has Fallen Without a Parachute and Survived?

How Long Would a Person's Heart Have To Be Stopped Before Medics Wouldn't Try to Revive Them?

Who Started the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory?

The $4 Million Treasure Chest Currently Hidden in the Rockies

The Curious Case of the Sable Island Seal Killer

The Horrifying Forgotten Encephalitis Lethargica Pandemic

BrainFood Podcast 6: A Restaurant for a Beetle

The Badassary of Dorothy Lawrence

The Bizarre and Magical Duel Between Chung Ling Soo and Ching Ling Foo

Why Do Some People Think the Human Soul Weighs 21 Grams?

Why Don't Birds' Legs Freeze

Can a Vice Presidential Candidate Really Be Elected President?

How Drilling a 14 in. Hole Created a 1.3K ft Deep Saltwater Lake Out of a 10 ft Deep Freshwater One

Dedication to the Mask

Has Anyone Ever Really Inherited Millions from a Random Person They've Never Heard Of?

The Fascinating History Behind Climate Change

How Does GPS Actually Work and Why Many GPS Devices are About to Stop Working

Why Don't Human Cannonballs Die When Shot Out of the Cannon?

The Forgotten Plague - DANCE MANIA!

Can Shooting Plastic Explosive Really Set Them Off?

Thor and Loki and How the Whole Competitive Eating Sport Got Its Start

The Hand of Faith Gold Nugget

When Did People Start Using Punctuation?

The Curious Case of the Extreme Sport Mensur

How Do British Schools Teach About the British Empire?

The Curious Case of the Legend of the Green Man Who Just So Happens to Have Been Real

What is the Objectively Correct Way to Hang Toilet Paper?

The Luckless Rubber Maven: Charles Goodyear

Was That ‘Nuclear Town’ in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a Real Thing

Did a Nuclear-Powered Manhole Cover Really Reach Outer Space Before Sputnik

The Forgotten Plague During Prohibition

What’s It Really Like Being an Extra in a Film or TV Show and How Do You Get the Gig?

The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare

The Strange and Frightening Phenomenon of Dust Explosions

Why Can't You Put Pineapple in Jello?

5,000 Ways to Freedom: Crossing the Berlin Wall

Why Don't Fire Hydrants Freeze and Burst During Winter?

Landing on the Summit of Everest

England's Secret Weapon: The Two Million Ton Megacarrier Made of Ice

Why is the Universal Sign for a Hitchhiker the Thumbs Up, Held Out? And is It Actually Dangerous?

Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Crusade Against Spiritualism

June 5, 1995: The Curious Case of Dead Duck Day (Seriously, just click, this is absurdly hilarious)

The Curious Case of Real Life Ornamental Garden Hermits

The Secrecy of Psycho

Yet Another Thing You Learned in School That is Wrong

From Oswald to Mickey: The Birth of Disney

Why is Superman Described as "Leaping Tall Buildings with a Single Bound" When He Can Fly?

The Machine that Bankrupted Mark Twain

That Time George Clooney Gave $1M Each to His Closest Friends and Pooped in Anothers' Litter Box

That Time Annie Oakley Offered to Put Together an All Female Sniper Team

Why Does Brown Sugar form Lumps but Regular Sugar Usually Doesn't?

Does Corona Really Have Urine in It?

That Time the US Military Spent $60 Billion On Something and 1 Day After Completing It Threw It Away

Betting It All on a Spin

Sooooo, What Happens After You Flush?

The Impossibly Badass Story of Mills' Marauders and the Battle of Grytviken

Why are Taxes Due on April 15th? (And Tarring and Feathering Tax Collectors)

The Most Impressive Hat Trick in Aerospace History

Is It True the T-Rex Couldn't See You If You Didn't Move?

That Dude from All Those T-Shirts (June 14, 1928)

That Time a Guy Tried to Build a Utopia for Mice and it all Went to Hell

Is 'Choking the Chicken' Actually Bad For You? (Re-Issue)

That Time the Italian Military Experimented with Parasheep

Are Drug Sniffing Dogs Trained By Sniffing Drugs?

The Real Reason Why Garfield Isn't Funny...

What Causes Red Hair?

Did Mobsters Ever Really Send People to 'Sleep with the Fishes'?

The Truth About Big Ben and the Famous Clock Tower

Was the First Slave Holder in America Really a Black Man?

What Does the Dangly Thing in the Back of Your Throat Do?

Tickling the Dragon's Tail: The Horrible Heart of a Nuclear Bomb

The Nazis, Hitler, The Internet, and Godwin's Law

That Time Pepsi Accidentally Promised Hundreds of Thousands of People $40,000 Each

Why are Grandfather Clocks Called That?

The Story Behind the Most Heated, Controversial, and Downright Toxic Debate in the History of Math

Why Do People Eat Whale Poop?

Banning the Death Penalty

The Steampunk Flight Simulator That Helped Win World War II

The Woman Who Was the Most Successful Pirate of All Time (BrainFood Show)

The Curious Case of the Ray Ban Wearing Self Mummified Monk

Melting Cars: The "Walkie Scorchie" Building

The Forgotten Nazi Holocaust Plan Before They Decided On the Holocaust

When Aluminium Cost More than Gold...

Who was the Granny Smith that Granny Smith Apples are Named After?

Is It Actually Possible to Be Allergic to Exercise?

Biggest Ever: The Amazing H-4 Hercules

Where Did the NASA Expression "Steely-Eyed Missile Man" Come From?

Why Do American Football Quarterbacks Say "Hut Hut Hike!"?

The Eccentric, Murdering Photographer Who Gave us the Movies

F*&k the Draft (June 7, 1971)

How Cap'n Crunch Gave the World the iPhone and the Surprisingly Heated Debate Over His Rank

How Do the Media and Police Estimate Crowd Sizes?

How Did Today I Found Out Start and Where are We Going? (10 Year Anniversary!!!)

Do Old People Really Have a Distinct Smell or Is It Just a Stereotype?

That Time an American President Killed a Man in Cold Blood and Got Away With It Scot Free

That Time the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Britain's First Satellite

What Actually was Greek Fire?

History's Literal Deadliest Fart and the Origin of Mooning

Why are Women's Wobbly Bits Called BooCALM DOWN Demonetization Gods It's a Language Video (Reissue)

Germany's Forgotten Genocide: The Early Atrocity that Provided a Blueprint For the Nazis

The Real Q from James Bond and His Ingenious, Real-Life Inventions

What Caused the Red Rain of Kerala?

The Real Reason Fingers Wrinkle in Water

How The Invention of Dynamite Ultimately Gave Us Viagra

Brain Food Podcast Episode 2: The White Feather

Hands On Awesome Tech: Making Solar Cells With a Particle Accelerator

The Bizarre First Super Bowl Halftime Show

The Legendary Black Samurai

[BrainFood Show] The Sledgehammer

Ben Franklin and the U.S. Postal Service

Who Invented Shock Therapy and Does It Actually Work?

Frederick Banting and the Relatively Recent Discovery That Has Saved Hundreds of Millions of Lives

The Code of Hammurabi

The Forgotten Other Guy Who Co-Invented the Telephone & Helped Make the U.S. a Naval Superpower

The True Story of the Amistad

That Time a Guy Playing a Handful of Baseball Games Nearly Changed American History Forever

The Japanese Battleship with Guns that Weighed More than Entire American Battleships...

What in Tarnation, Buttockmail, a Doohicky, Jerry Rigged and More

When Did Being a Nerd Start Being Considered a Bad Thing?

What is the First Known Joke?

What's Up with Space Food?

The Secret Chernobyl Before Chernobyl

Do Blind People Actually Hear Better Than Sighted People or is This Just a Hollywood Myth

Who Invented WD-40?

The Bizarre Story of the Imitation Queen of Soul

How Did Cheerleading Switch From Being Male Dominated to Female Dominated?

Who Invented Nachos and Why are They Called That?

BrainFood: That Time the US and Carl Sagan Planned on Nuking the Moon (An Overload of Space Facts)

That Time MI6 Spymaster Captain MANsfield Cumming Ordered His Spies to Use Semen as Invisible Ink

If Hitler's Regime was the Third Reich, Who Were the First and Second?

How Switzerland Managed to Remain Neutral with WWI and WWII Raging Around Them

The Fascinating Tale of the "Witch of Wall Street"

The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things Part 1

That Time a New York Yankee Faced Off Against an Ostrich in a Spaghetti Eating Contest

Hollywood Medical Myths: Shocking a Heart That Has Flatlined

Why Do Golfers Yell "Fore"? Who was Mulligan? (and More)

What Did People Use for Wiping Before Toilet Paper?

The Curious Case of Shizo Kanakuri's 1912 Olympic Marathon Run

Do Sharks Really Not Like How Humans Taste?

The Forbidden Book Written in the Blood of Saddam Hussein

The 18th Century Chess Robot That Defeated Napoleon, Ben Franklin, and Countless Others

Can the Iron in Your Blood Be Removed By a Super Powerful Magnetic Source (or Mutant ;-))?

How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?

Dogs and Fire Hydrants and Ostriches Popping Their Heads Off

The Con Artist Who Managed a 13-Year Career as a Pro Football Player Despite Sucking at Football

Reuel Colt Gridley and the Most Expensive Bag of Flour in the World

The Tragic Saga of the Real Life Amazing “LEGO Rocket”

Where Do the Words 'Flotsam' and 'Jetsum' Come From?

Kilroy Was Here: The Story Behind One of the First Viral Memes in Modern History

The First Stock Market Crash The South Sea Company

The People Who Don't Feel Pain

What was the First Horror Movie?

Why Do Steroids Make a Man's Balls Shrink, and Does the Same Thing Happen to a Woman's Ovaries?

That Time the U.S. Tried to Make a "Gay Bomb"

That Time a Guy Destroyed One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Curious Case of the Murder Tree

That Time Teddy Roosevelt Got Shot in the Chest But Gave a 90 Minute Speech Anyway

How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?

What Ever Happened to Ronald McDonald? (And the Bizarre Rules for Those Playing the Character)

Smedley Butler and the Business Plot

Did D.A.R.E. Actually Increase Drug Use?

What’s Up With Those Weird Spiky WWI German Helmets?

How Most People Misunderstand The Schrodinger Cat Thought Experiment

That Time the U.S. Government Intentionally Poisoned and Killed Over 10,000 of Its Citizens...

In Which Teddy Roosevelt Makes Men Everywhere Feel a Little Less Manly

What Did the German Public Know About the Holocaust During WWII?

What is Up with the Rorschach Test and is It Actually Valid

The Massive Ancient Underground City of Derinkuyu & The Amazing Scorpion Filled Tunnels of Cu Chi

The Story Behind Marilyn Monroe's Nude Calendar Photo Shoot and What Size was She Really?

How do Silencers Work, and How Silent Do They Actually Make Guns?

The Flying Bandit and One of the Greatest Gold Heists in History

Hold My Beer - The Strange Story of the First Person Disqualified from the Olympics for Doping

Who's to Blame for the Parental Advisory Stickers on Albums

The Origins of DOOM

When and Why Did Men Start Getting Circumcised?

The Obscenely Successful Obsolete Sailing Ship and Its Daring Captain Who Terrorized the High Seas

The U.S. Navy's Controversial But Insanely Effective Marine Mammal Program

Who Invented the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game?