Let Me Google That
Summary: Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! Brought to you by Water Cooler Trivia (watercoolertrivia.com). *Content Warning* Language, comic mischief, & weird stuff! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support
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If you’ve ever Google searched “Normal Brian MRI” you’ve seen the brain of “average Colin” - but who is he? And how did an MRI of his brain end up in textbooks and over 800 scientific papers?
The world sucks. Let’s talk about axolotls: cute af, aquatic life loving, infinite limb regenerating amphibians.
Inspired by a New England Nana’s old recipe, the classic breakfast cereal has been unchanged for 50 years. Oh, and it’ll also make the roof of your mouth bleed. WORTH IT.
It’s not one virus, but several. And it’s not the stomach flu!
Everyone who had this phone number died. Given, at least one was a mob boss so maybe it’s not that surprising. BUT STILL. Let’s call it and see what happens...
Julia Wallace’s murder has been called the perfect crime. It’s also known as the impossible murder because the lone suspect, her husband, could not have done it. But neither could anyone else.
Those release doves at weddings are just genetically white-feathered pigeons hat have been bred to announce nuptials as opposed to, you know, traditional carrier pigeon stuff.
The man behind the classic Victorian asylum design was only trying to make them (and the conditions for patients and workers) better. He wasn’t trying to make them creepy.
Why the (rabid) history of vaccines matters to their future.
“Babe do u trust me?”— Wilhelm Röntgen, X-ray discoverer, @ his wife while irradiating her hand, probably.
This AI watches you watching a movie and its algorithm can determine if you liked it by analyzing your facial “micro expressions.”
Albert Einstein predicted them. The scientists who spent their entire careers trying to prove they existed just won the Nobel Prize in Physics. But what the fuck are they?
When Alfred Nobel was mistaken for dead he ended up reading his own obituary - and realized everyone thought he was an asshat. Vowing to do good he used his fortune to start the Nobel Prize.
In the U.S. people used to have to make their own plates. Now they’re made by inmates.
A solar flare in the 1800s was so massive it disrupted telegraph systems and caused them to shock operators and lit telegrams on fire.
