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**Your Brain on Facts**

Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn’t know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. Topics range from the history of nursing to the Balinese funeral rite David Bowie requested, from the origin of the Vulcan salute to the theft of Canada’s strategic maple syrup reserve. This is your brain on facts. yourbrainonfacts.com

Latest Episodes:

Dumping out my purse (update on the podcast) Jul 19, 2022

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YBOF's gonna take a break for a month or two.

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Episode 200, part 2! Jul 05, 2022

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Episode 200!!!! Jun 28, 2022

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Big, Bold Burglaries (ep 199) Jun 21, 2022

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How hard was it to steal the Mona Lisa? What does the word "ponzi" actually mean?

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Music: Kevin MacLeod,

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Hidden Histories - Rosewood, Tulsa, Chicago (encore) Jun 14, 2022

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(Chronic health problems sometime require an encore performance of a past episode.)

Hundreds dead, thousands homeless, entire communities wiped out, yet most of us have never heard of what happened in Rosewood 1923, Tulsa 1921, or Chicago 1919.

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Strange Currency (ep. 198) Jun 07, 2022

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What do limestone, leather, plastic and mulberry tree bark have in common? They've all been used to make money, plus lots of other materials besides! Join me for a quick jaunt around the world and through history and we look at a fraction of the history of currency.

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Music: Kevin MacLeod, Steve Oxen

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Suspect Sustenance Stories (ep. 197) May 31, 2022

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Who was General Tsao of chicken fame? Where do Danish pastries come from? Is pad Thai actually Thai food? All that and more in this patron-voted episode!

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Awfully Fond of You (ep. 196) May 24, 2022

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How did rubber ducks go from lumps of rubber that didn't even float to a cheerful childhood staple? Let's look at where they came from, where they're going, and why they keep showing up at violent political protests.

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00:38 Bit of backstory

07:13 Bert's best buddy

10:25 Review, patrons, thanks!

12:00 Ducks for charity or science

17:58 Giant ducks, wild and domestic

20:16 Can You Hear The Duckies Sing?

22:45 THE Rubber Duck

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Dread Pirate Misinformation (ep 195) May 17, 2022

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Finally, I get to the subtopic that launched not one but two episodes, the Gentleman Pirate Stede Bonnet, as well as the most interesting boring thing I could find and why science didn't get a handle on scurvy until nearly WWII.

(Apologies in advance because I was red-lining my mic throughout and I have no idea why -- I'd been doing VO jobs all day with no such issue.)

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01:03 Ye scurvy dog

08:27 Gratitude et al

11:30 The doldrums

15:49 Livestream for the Cure

17:46 The Gentleman Pirate, Stede Bonnet

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Yaarrrr Brain On Facts (ep. 194) May 10, 2022

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What started as a need to tell the real story of "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet has turned into a myth vs history two-parter! I love when that happens. Hear about pirate pensions, the makeup of the mariners, and civil unions on the seven seas. Special thanks to Charlie and Jesse over the in Brainiac Breakroom for help with the title.

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Music: Kevin MacLeod, and Tabletop Audio

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