Summaries of Today I Found Out Videos 📚

What Causes Contrails and Do They Predict Weather?

What Was the White Feather Campaign in World War I?

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

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

The People Who Want to Become Amputees

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

How Do Astronauts Use the Bathroom in Space?

The Junior High Dropout That Created Dunkin' Donuts

The Angel of Death

Who Invented Pole Vaulting?

Could a T-Rex Really Not See You If You Don't Move?

What Made Pong the First Successful Video Game?

What Happens When a Meteorite Hits Your Car?

How Did Today I Found Out Become a Successful YouTube Channel?

Why Do Baseball Managers Wear Team Uniforms Instead of Suits?

Why Yankee Doodle Called the Feather in His Hat Macaroni

How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire

What Is the Origin of the Term 'Boobs' for Breasts?

What Was the Ice Aircraft Carrier Habakkuk?

Why Do Fingers Wrinkle in Water and What Causes It?

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

Who Created the Food Pyramid and Why Is It Misleading?

Can You Actually Bite Through Your Own Finger?

Did Confucius Actually Say the Things He Said?

What Happened to Glenn Miller's Disappearance?

What's the Deal with the Roman Gods?

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

What Happens When You Find Buried Treasure, Stick Your Head in a Particle Accelerator & Much More

How Was the Hand of Faith Gold Nugget Discovered?

How Did the Italian Military Use Parasheep in War?

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

What Is the Deadliest Fart in History and Why Did It Happen?

What Is the Function of the Uvula in the Throat?

Landing on the Summit of Everest

Why Does Toast Land Buttered Side Down?

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

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

That Time a City Randomly Blew Up (And Drilling a 14 Inch Hole Accidentalleed a HUGE Saltwater Lake)

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

How Did Pasteurization Change the World?

What Was the U.S. Postal Service's Missile Mail Experiment?

What Causes Red Hair?

When Aluminium Cost More than Gold...

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

Who Was the Real Green Man and What Happened to Him?

From 0 to 1000 to 0- What Happened to Howard Johnson's?

What Was Germany's First Genocide in Southwest Africa?

What Happened When a Mouse Utopia Failed?

The Surprisingly Interesting Story Behind Strawberry Fields Forever

What Are the Origins of the Term 'Going Postal'?

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

That Time the BBC Made One of the Creepiest Broadcasts of All Time

How Did Stephen Cohen Steal the Domain Sex.com?

How Many Hamsters Are Needed to Power a House?

What Is Irukandji Syndrome and Why Is It So Painful?

The Forbidden Book Written in the Blood of Saddam Hussein

What was Up with David Bowie's Left Eye?

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

What Is the Monty Hall Problem and Why Is It Controversial?

Sooooo, What Happens After You Flush?

The Luckless Rubber Maven: Charles Goodyear

What Makes the Mona Lisa So Famous and Mysterious?

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

Can You Get Your Amputated Limb Back from the Hospital?

Why Do Humans Grow Old?

What was the First Horror Movie?

What Gear Does Simon Whistler Use for Filming?

How Does Japan Teach About Its WWII Involvement?

Why Do Quarterbacks Use Commands Like 'Hut' in Football?

What Is Gerbil Stuffing and Is It Real?

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

Why Do Steroids Cause Testicular Shrinkage in Men?

How Do Silencers Work and Can They Silence Guns?

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

How Did Juliane Koepcke Survive a 2 Mile Fall?

Biggest Ever: The Amazing H-4 Hercules

Smedley Butler and the Business Plot

The Truth About Floating Soap

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

The Fascinating Tale of the "Witch of Wall Street"

Dedication to the Mask

What Are the Ancient Underground Cities of Derinkuyu and Cu Chi?

Is Eating Your Boogers Good for You?

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

Why Did Harpo Marx Love Shedding His Clothes in Public?

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

The Curious Case of the Sable Island Seal Killer

The First Stock Market Crash The South Sea Company

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

The Secrecy of Psycho

Why Did El Salvador and Honduras Fight Over Soccer?

Our Fine Finned Friends are Smarter Than You Think

Did Castles Ever Use Crocodiles in Moats for Defense?

Why Can't You Put Pineapple in Jello?

Do Sharks Really Not Like How Humans Taste?

How Are British Schools Teaching About the British Empire?

Dogs and Fire Hydrants and Ostriches Popping Their Heads Off

Britain's Disastrous WWII Fighter Plane

What is Radon, Anyway?

Why Do People Eat Whale Poop?

Surviving the Sahara Desert with the World's Loneliest Tree

What Actually was Greek Fire?

The Badassary of Dorothy Lawrence

How One of the Most Successful Sci-Fi Films of All Time was Continually Derailed by Tea

Will a Shark Really Die if it Stops Swimming?

Why Do Blacksmiths Tap Anvils When Hammering Metal?

Why Don't Birds' Legs Freeze

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

What Happened to Mark Twain's Investment in the Page Compositor?

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

Why Are Circuit Boards Green? The Surprising Reasons

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

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

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

How Could a Horse Seem to Do Complex Math?

The Curious Case of Real Life Ornamental Garden Hermits

What Causes Spontaneous Human Combustion?

Anna Jarvis' Big Mistake

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

How Did Hennig Brand Discover Phosphorus from Urine?

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

How Do Media and Police Accurately Estimate Crowd Sizes?

What Was Operation Greenup and Its Impact on WWII?

Can You Detonate C-4 Explosives by Shooting Them?

What Did People Use for Wiping Before Toilet Paper?

What Is Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Its Effects?

What Does 'Steely-Eyed Missile Man' Mean in NASA?

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

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

Who Started the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory?

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

How Do Boomerangs Return When Thrown?

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

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

What Was the Impact of the Home Taping Is Killing Music Campaign?

What Do Billionaires Like Bill Gates Carry in Their Wallets?

What Led to Marilyn Monroe's Iconic Nude Photo Shoot?

Why Can't You Shock a Flatlined Heart Back to Life?

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

The Bone Church

On The Far Side

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

What Is the Story Behind the Ray-Ban Monk's Mummification?

How Did 5,000 East Germans Escape the Berlin Wall?

ENOUGH! The First Astronaut Strike In Space... Allegedly

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

The Most Impressive Hat Trick in Aerospace History

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

How Did a Toilet Flush Cause a U-Boat to Sink in WWII?

When Did People Start Using Punctuation?

Can a Vice Presidential Candidate Become President?

Margaret Thatcher and Her Frugal Ways

The Origins of DOOM

Is Blast Fishing with Dynamite Still Common Today?

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

What Is the Origin of Russian Roulette and Who Played It?

BrainFood Podcast 6: A Restaurant for a Beetle

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

What Caused the Meat Rain in Kentucky in 1876?

Was the First Slaveholder in America Really Black?

What Does 'You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too' Mean?

Why Are Grandfather Clocks Called Grandfather Clocks?

What Was Dance Mania and Why Did It Happen?

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

What is the Objectively Correct Way to Hang Toilet Paper?

What Were the Crimes of Burke and Hare?

The Most Decorated Dog of WWI

What Happened When a Yankee Faced an Ostrich in a Contest?

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

Is It Actually Possible to Be Allergic to Exercise?

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

What Happened to the Affordable LEGO Rocket Project?

What Makes the Night Parrot the Most Elusive Bird?

Who Invented Nachos and What’s the Story Behind Them?

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

What Was Smell-O-Vision and Why Did It Fail?

Why Would You Add Antifreeze to Wine?

Who was the Most Prolific Serial Killer of All Time?

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

How Does Darth Vader Poop?