Hey, it's Flora Lichtenen, and you're listening to Science Friday.

Today in the show, food science trivia.

Please let it be pop rocks.

Today in the show, we are going to do something a little different.

We're going to play a game, and maybe you can play along.

We know that after years of getting your emails and phone calls,

that SciFri fans are in the 99th percentile when it comes to nerdy knowledge,

so we figured, let's test your fact retention skills and play some trivia.

We're calling the game SFS ETBO. SFSETBO. Superfood Science Excellence trivia blowout.

And we teamed up with my friend and trivia Kingpin, Mangesh Hatikudur, co-host of the podcast

Part-Time Genius, which scours the globe in search of obscure facts, hidden histories, and strange science stories.

Hi, Mangesh.

Hey, how's it going, Flora?

I know you have a zest for trivia.

I mean, I think trivia is the easiest way to deflect when you don't know about things.

Really? I feel the exact opposite as someone who's terrible at trivia.

I mean, I don't really remember that much trivia, even though I love it.

But I feel like, you know, when someone's talking about birdwatch watching, I can always drop in a fact about

flamingos that I learned from you and how they can drink boiling water, which I think is just so

amazing.

That's the only fact I have retained, you know, in all my years of doing this.

It's burned into my brain, into my bird brain.

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