Are Poinsettias Poisonous and the Truce

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

⁠⁠In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at whether poinsettias are actually poisonous or not. Moving on to the main content today we’re looking at one of the more remarkable things ever to happen in modern warfare- a completely impromptu Christmas truce, in which both sides in WWI randomly got up out of their trenches up and down the line and threw a party together. We follow that up with some interesting bonus facts including a rather bizarre requirement the British military had for their soldiers for about a half century, among other things. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jamie, host of Murderish, the podcast. On Murderish, I give you a 3D look at gripping murder cases,
0:07.0	just the facts, no banter. By the end of each episode, you'll know who was involved,
0:11.8	details of the crime, and what went down at trial. Also featured on Murderish is my own personal
0:17.7	story about the time a man followed me home at night and I found him in my bedroom.
0:22.6	Listening to this podcast doesn't make you a murderer. It just means you're murder-ish.
0:27.6	Listen to murderish on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:36.6	Welcome to another episode of The Brain Food Show.
0:39.1	I feel like I asked this last week.
0:40.6	Did I ask this last week?
0:41.5	Is this a Christmas episode again?
0:43.5	Nothing's really a Christmas episode.
0:44.9	It's sort of half Christmas episodes.
0:46.4	But the fact that they're going out in December and I think they're Christmas episodes.
0:49.7	You know, they'd always try in movies like the diehard of Christmas or it's like tangentially. Definitely a Christmas. Tangentially related to Christmas. But, you know, they'd always try in movies like the diehard of Christmas, or it's like tangentially
0:55.5	a Christmas one, but you know, not really, but you can still call it a Christmas one. So yes,
1:01.2	this is that in that style. It's kind of about something else, but Christmas is involved.
1:06.9	I watched Die Hard the other day. My wife had never seen it, so I subjected her to Die Hard.
1:12.1	I don't know if I should just be amazed that you've seen Die Hard at all.
1:15.2	Dude, it's Die Hard.
1:16.8	Well, it's Princess Bride.
1:18.8	It's Star Wars.
1:20.4	It's diehard, dude.
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