The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 2)

The BrainFood Show

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Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start off looking at that time the United States government banned pre-sliced bread… Really. Next up, we have a brief message from a sponsor, Blinkist, which gives you the key ideas from more than 3,000 bestselling nonfiction books in just 15 minutes instead of having to listen to the full audiobook or read it all. Try it out for free and help support this show by using the following link: http://blinkist.com/brainfood Moving on to the next section we look at who exactly invented what is so often compared to the “best things”- pre-sliced bread and the little saga to him getting bakers to accept his invention. After that, we look at the surprisingly interesting saga of the invention and popularization of the shopping cart. 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! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Things (Part 2) appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to another episode of the brain food podcast.
0:07.0	What's on the agenda today?
0:09.0	We are talking about more fascinating origin of everyday things.
0:12.0	This is part two.
0:13.1	There's gonna be a lot in this series.
0:14.4	I'm not sure how many.
0:15.1	I could go like, I added it up
0:16.5	but I could go like 20 episodes,
0:18.4	but I think that would be overdoing it.
0:20.0	I think we might cut it off at some point
0:21.8	like it, five or six probably and move on to something completely different.
0:24.8	But yes, so we're do. We're going to start with the best things since sliced bread.
0:29.3	We talk about some bread things, inventions. And then the shopping cart which is you know more interesting
0:36.2	than you might think that is that.
0:39.2	Well we were talking in between the episodes how you were saying you've got an episode on the cardboard box coming up
0:46.4	It was gonna be in this one, but it's as boring as it sounds right now and I need to
0:51.2	Spruce it up a little bit find a story in there somewhere or more of a story I should say there is a little bit of a story but yeah
0:57.6	Yeah, how we start in quick fact? Yeah did you actually did you actually I wasn't paying attention, did you actually open the episode like we?
1:05.0	No, I didn't. I was, I'm sorry, I was very distracted in the first two minutes because I was in the,
1:09.7	someone said the video wasn't working, but then someone said the video is working refresh your
1:13.2	page and then I realize I shouldn't just listen to one person who's complaining in the
1:16.8	video stream while I try to fix things and everyone's like no it's fine.
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