Season 999

Season Premiere

999x01 'The Golden Ball'

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999x02 The Richest Family in the World

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999x03 Why Do Doctors Have Men Turn Their Heads and Cough During Physicals?

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999x04 To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before

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999x05 How LaserDisc Ultimately Won the Format Wars

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999x06 That Time the Italian Military Experimented with Parasheep

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999x07 How the \'Birdman of Alcatraz\' Got His Name

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999x08 That Time an Olympic Rower Stopped to Let Some Ducks Swim By and Still Won the Gold Medal

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999x09 The Youngest to Serve

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999x10 The Man Who Parkinson\'s Disease is Named After was Implicated in a Plot to Assassinate The King

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999x11 Where Did the Idea of Werewolves Come From?

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999x12 Why Does Vladimir Putin Walk So Weird?

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999x13 Roger Ebert\'s Other, Less Family Friendly Movie Job...

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999x14 Where Did the Expression \'I For One Welcome Our New X Overlords\' Come From?

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999x15 That Time the British Developed a Flying Jeep

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999x16 PB&J and the Momentous Peanut Butter Hearings

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999x17 Why is X Generally the Unknown in Mathematics?

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999x18 Sriracha Sauce and the Surprisingly Heartwarming Story Behind It

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999x19 The McDonald\'s Monopoly Scam: Operation Final Answer

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999x20 That Time a Guy Parachuted Onto Devils Tower and No One Could Figure Out How to Get Him Down

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999x21 That Time the Russians Built a Literal Flying Tank

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999x22 What was Up with David Bowie\'s Left Eye?

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999x23 The Curious Case of Octopus Wrestling

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999x24 The House of Horrors Hotel and One of America\'s First Serial Killers

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999x25 The Curious Case of the Lead Mask Deaths

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999x26 The First Woman to Officially Run the Boston Marathon

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999x27 The Luckless Rubber Maven: Charles Goodyear

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999x28 Galileo and Why He was Really Convicted of Heresy

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999x29 Swift Nick Nevison and His Remarkable Dash to Secure an Alibi

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999x30 Falling on Grenades: The Indestructible Jacklyn H. Lucas

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999x31 The El Chapo of Orangutans

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999x32 The Curious Case of Pablo EskoBear: The Cocaine Bear

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999x33 Frederick Banting and the Relatively Recent Discovery That Has Saved Hundreds of Millions of Lives

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999x34 Dr. William Brydon and the Massacre of Elphinstone\'s Army

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999x35 The Truth About Lord Paget and His Leg

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999x36 The Revenge of Han van Meegeren, One of the Great Art Forgers of All Time

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999x37 The Truth About Legendary Highwayman Dick Turpin

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999x38 The Man Who Was Nominated for the Nobel Prize 84 Times, But Never Won

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999x39 The Curious Case of the Fruit That Transforms Sour to Sweet

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999x40 The Fascinating Tale of the 'Witch of Wall Street'

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999x41 The Man Who Captured Four Armed German Soldiers With an Empty Gun

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999x42 The Pivotal WWII Gun That Nobody Wanted to Put Down: The Plumber\'s Nightmare

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999x43 England\'s Secret Weapon: The Two Million Ton Megacarrier Made of Ice

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999x44 Why Do People Eat Whale Poop?

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999x45 Who Invented the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game?

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999x46 Havildar Bhanbhagta Gurung\'s Knife Wielding WWII Assault

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999x47 TodayIFoundOut UPDATE: Reddit AMA (today!) and a Podcast

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999x48 What\'s Up With the Bizarre Hollywood Phenomenon of \'Twin Films\'?

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999x49 The Remarkable Life of the Colorful Female Aviator Pancho Barnes

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999x50 How Long Would a Person\'s Heart Have To Be Stopped Before Medics Wouldn\'t Try to Revive Them?

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999x51 That Time Snoop Dogg Tried to Rent an Entire Country

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999x52 Late for the Olympics: The Amazing Story of Kipchoge Keino

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999x53 Is Water Fluoridation Bad for You?

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999x54 The BrainFood Show Episode 1- Throwing Tomatoes

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999x55 The Man on the Raft: The Story of Poon Lim

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999x56 What is the First Known Joke?

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999x57 That Time Annie Oakley Offered to Put Together an All Female Sniper Team

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999x58 Gravy Stockings and TNT Hair Dye: The Fascinating Fashions of WW2

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999x59 Brain Food Podcast Episode 2: The White Feather

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999x60 Where Does the Word Doohickey Come From?

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999x61 The Curious Case of Spider Rain

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999x62 Why Does the Yolk of an Overcooked Hard Boiled Egg Turn Green

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999x63 The Curious Case of Gregory Packer - The Everyman

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999x64 Why are Grandfather Clocks Called That?

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999x65 Why Was Tuberculosis Called Consumption?

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999x66 Peanuts and Peeing on a Bus: The Traditions of Going to Space

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999x67 The Tale of the Man Who Nearly Drowned While Falling from the Sky

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999x68 Why Don\'t Birds\' Legs Freeze

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999x69 Is it Possible to Cash Oversized Novelty Prize Checks?

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999x70 When Did People Start Using Punctuation?

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999x71 Where Did the Word Meme Come From?

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999x72 Will Hospitals Give Back an Amputated Limb If You Ask For It?

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999x73 BrainFood Episode 3: The Preposterous Pyramid

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999x74 Has There Ever Been an Actual Case of Someone Being Pelted With Tomatoes During a Performance

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999x75 What Happens When You Donate Your Body to Science and How Do You Do This?

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999x76 That Time a 73 Year Old Frank Sinatra was Offered the Leading Role in Die Hard

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999x77 The London Garrotting Panic

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999x78 Saburō Sakai: The Samurai of the Skies

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999x79 BrainFood Podcast Episode 4: The Origin of Pong + Interview with Game Designers the Coles

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999x80 The Real Doc Holliday

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999x81 Apparently We\'ve All Been Pronouncing UFO Wrong

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999x82 The Curious Case of Merkins - aka The Vagina Wig

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999x83 Who Invented the Fahrenheit and Celsius Temperature Scales?

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999x84 Wyatt Earp: The Great American... Villain?

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999x85 The Nazis, Hitler, The Internet, and Godwin\'s Law

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999x86 A Cake or a Biscuit? - The Lengthy and Expensive Saga of the Jaffa Cake

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999x87 The Surprisingly Recent Invention of the T-Shirt

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999x88 Do Words Get Removed from a Dictionary When People Stop Using Them?

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999x89 Child Actors and Coogan\'s Bill

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999x90 Bathing with a Friend - The Drought of 1976

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999x91 From Desert to Party Central: The Birth of Las Vegas

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999x92 Bonsai!!!

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999x93 How Do Muslims Face Mecca When Praying in Space?

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999x94 Heroin Was Created by the Makers of Aspirin

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999x95 Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

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999x96 The Curious Case of Ferret Legging

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999x97 How Did Harry Houdini Die?

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999x98 What is the Longest Possible Prison Sentence for a Single Crime?

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999x99 The Debauched (and Fascinatting) Life of Gordon Bennett

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999x100 Stalin and His Size

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999x101 Betting It All on a Spin: The Story of Ashley Revell

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999x102 Why is US Paper Money Green?

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999x103 Who invented the Konami Code?

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999x104 The Curious Case of the Murder Tree

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999x105 BrainFood Podcast Episode 4: Voltaire and Rigging the Lottery

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999x106 Did People Ever Really Put Crocodiles in Moats?

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999x107 Does the President Get Sick Days?

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999x108 Is it Possible to Be Allergic to Exercise?

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999x109 Are the Snozzberries in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Referring to Male Genitalia?

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999x110 \'Hold My Beer\' - The Story of Tommy Fitz and His Drunken Bet

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999x111 Why are There No B Batteries?

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999x112 How Switzerland Managed to Remain Neutral with WWI and WWII Raing Around Them

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999x113 So, When Did We Start Introducing Sentences With 'So'?

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999x114 That Time Coca Cola Tried to Introduce Vending Machines that Charged More on Hot Days

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999x115 Was Trial By Combat Ever Actually a Thing?

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999x116 The Human Cannonball

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999x117 Reuel Colt Gridley and the Most Expensive Bag of Flour in the World

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999x118 Charles Dickens' Sledge Hammer for the Poor Man's Child

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999x119 About That Musky Smell...

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999x120 Elaine Benes: Real Life Daughter of a Billionaire

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999x121 Is Honey Vegan?

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999x122 Don Draper in a Spacesuit

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999x123 Special: Is Pot Actually ILLEGAL in Amsterdam?

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999x124 BrainFood Podcast 6: A Restaurant for a Beetle

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999x125 Lincoln's Patent

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999x126 That Time it Rained Meat...

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999x127 Did People in the Middle Ages Really Throw Fecal Matter Out of Their Windows?

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999x128 The Curious Case of the Gun Knife

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999x129 Why Do the Village People Dress Like That?

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999x130 Who Invented Nachos and Why are They Called That?

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999x131 Why Does One Bad Apple Spoils a Bunch?

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999x132 The Curious Case of John Dalton's Eyeballs

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999x133 The Curious Case of the Backflipping Bird: The Parlor Roller

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999x134 The Most Decorated Dog of WWI

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999x135 What Does it Mean When a Show Gets Syndicated?

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999x136 That Time Someone Burned a Million British Pounds for... Reasons

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999x137 Why Do We Say "Sic 'Em" to Dogs to Get Them to Attack

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999x138 Has Anyone Ever Tried to Pay for Something with a Briefcase Full of Cash?

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999x139 The Bum Brigade

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999x140 The Angel of Death

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999x141 The Silver Lining of the Worst Movie Ever Made

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999x142 That Time Oxford Students and Townsfolk Battled Over a Pint and the Hilarity That Ensued

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