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218: Are You Worth Your Salt?
FromGood Job, Brain!
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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Nov 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
These trivia pretzels are making us thirsty because we are upping our sodium intake this week to celebrate the crystalline savory goodness that is salt. Learn how people absolutely and hilariously dunked on Thomas Jefferson and his quest for the mysterious and legendary "salt mountain." Take Dana's salty quiz, and take a trivia joyride with Colin across the Bonneville Salt Flats, and find out why car commercials are always being filmed there. And get ready for a truly wild, wild, wild origin story behind the humble barnacle. ALSO: World Porridge Making Championship, NACL word quiz
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Released:
Nov 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
2: Once Upon a Gruesome Time: We dish about classic fairytales along with their more scandalous and gruesome folklore origins. Find out what "Rapunzel" actually means, and learn why Charles Dickens hates Hans Christian Andersen's face. ALSO: Pop Quiz, how to memorize pi,... by Good Job, Brain!