#50 - When in Rome...

Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 8:56 p.m.

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Episode 50 is from Rome! (Live streaming had some issues This is a shorter episode, because we are a bit jet-lagged still and haven\'t seen much as of the recording. We will be uploading short videos this week from our travels, and some pics as well along the way. Follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up along the way (links below). We still kept shower thoughts alive in Rome as well!

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Links discussed in episode:

Obelisk of Montecitorio (The tower behind us in the video

Japanese Experiment That Took Half A Century Ended In Amazing Tree \\u201cCrop Circles\\u201d

TIL:

TIL that the Pantheon, in Roma, holds the record for the world\'s largest unreinforced concrete dome, and presents no signs of weakening more than 1800 years after its rebuilding.

TIL the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy collects about $4000 worth of coins every day. Most of the money goes towards charities like a supermarket for the needy.

TIL of Carus, a short-lived emperor of Rome who was killed by lightning

TIL that the Apollo astronauts couldn\'t get life insurance for their unique, dangerous jobs...so they signed hundreds of autographs, which their families would have been able to sell if they didn\'t make it home.

TIL that in Ancient Rome, bestiarii, or gladiators who fought animals, often killed themselves rather than fight. In one instance, twenty-nine prisoners strangled each other to death rather than to fight in the arena.

TIL when a 36-year-old Indian man who had been teased his entire life for looking pregnant got the condition checked out, the doctors ended up pulling out hair, hands, bones & limbs of the man\\u2019s twin brother\\u2014who had been trapped in his twin as a fetus & continued to grow post-birth\\u2014from his stomach.

Shower Thoughts:

Every James Bond has served the same queen.

No one has ever chopped off both their hands with a knife..

While we sleep our brain makes up stories and then gets scared of them

Muffins are to cupcakes as smoothies are to milkshakes

If essential oils were essential big pharma would have bought them all out and quadrupled the prices.

Being a female werewolf must suck. They\'d have to deal with "that time of the month," two times a month.

Reading half a century seems so much longer than 50 years

Ledger\\u2019s Joker wanted to watch the world burn because he saw the world as a joke. Joaquin\\u2019s Joker wanted to watch the world burn because the world saw him as a joke.

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