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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:

You Gonna Eat That?, with Where Does It Go? podcast (ep. 90) Nov 26, 2019

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One man's holiday feast is another man's traumatic experience. With special guests Where Does It Go?

Kiviaq

Hakarl

Cheating for meat

Molded salads

Catepillar mushroom

Cazu marzu

Balut

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669.

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Conspiracy Truthies (ep. 89) Nov 20, 2019

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2:00 Car-makers and Big Oil killed electric street cars

05:00 The feds are watching me!

13:45 Mind control

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669.

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Greatest Hits: The Dogs (and Inventions) of War Nov 12, 2019

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Flashing back to a two-parter on heroic animals, innovations from the field, and noteworthy bad-asses.

Topics include a pigeon who saved hundreds of lives, a crossbow for grenades and Jack Churchill, who went into WWI with a claymore and bagpipes, despite not being Scottish.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669.

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Moral Panic! at the Disco (ep. 88) Nov 05, 2019

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What could be more wholesome than reading a book or riding your bike? It depends on who you ask. Many things that are commonplace today were the cause of moral panics, people believing they would bring about the downfall of society.

2:35 waltz, Charleston, turkey trot

9:17 bicycles

15:53 telephone

18:29 mail

21:50 novels

25:10 couches

26:45 forks

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669.

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The Devil Made Me Do It (ep. 87) with Ignorance Was Bliss Oct 29, 2019

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Special guest: Ignorance Was Bliss

When you run out of people to blame, blame the devil. Hear a few of the times people tried to use demonic possession as their 'get out of jail free' card.

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Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669.

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Freaks! (ep. 86) Oct 22, 2019

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"We told you we had living, breathing monstrosities. You laughed at them, yet but for the accident of birth, you might be even as they are! They did not ask to be brought into the world, but into the world they came." Thus begins a movie such as had never been seen before and hasn’t been seen since, Tod Browning’s “Freaks!”

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Reach out and touch Moxie on FB, Twit, the 'Gram or email. You can also leave a question or fact of your own on my voicemail at 804-404-2669.

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Twinsies, part 2 (ep. 85) Oct 15, 2019

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The conclusion of our twin episodes, wherein we look at conjoined and a parasitic twins.

1:15 science overview

3:45 separation surgery

06:03 Masha and Dasha