Broadcasts.com - "#95 - Electric cans and nuclear missiles" (Testing Normal)

TIL When relocating adult koalas to populate new areas of bush, the incoming koalas are fed a poo smoothie of local koala poo so they can digest local leafs.

TIL the Pan-American Coffee Bureau coined the phrase \'coffee break\' in 1952, and ran a $2 million advertising campaign with the message that a \'coffee break\' would give workers \'a needed moment of relaxation along with a caffeine jolt\'

TIL that sloths are almost totally blind during the day. In bright light, sloths rely totally on a highly developed sense of smell. Consequently, the greatest number of sloth deaths occur when they go to the ground to poop once a week.

TIL There is an Austrailan fungus called "The Stonemaker Fungus" that only shows up right after a forest fire. They live underground in a stone-like mycelium and pop up through the ashes 2-10 days after the fire, sometimes as infrequent as every 100 years.

TIL about Bill Millin, a Scottish soldier who walked up and down the beaches of Normandy on D-Day playing the bagpipes. Two captured German snipers would reveal why the piper at the front hadn\\u2019t been shot at. They said it was because they thought he was \\u2018dummkopf\\u2019, a foolhardy idiot.

Shower Thoughts

If we had buried people vertically instead of horizontally we would have saved so much room

Most people probably apologize unnecessarily more often than they apologize when it is necessary.

Taking down "lost pet" signs is either a great moment or a terrible one

Pressing the \\u2018lock\\u2019 button on your car key fob multiple times is the grown up version of saving your game twice.

When you die people beg you to come back, but when you actually do all you will hear is screaming

Our brain is the most power computer in the world, and no one, not even the owners, have administrative access in it.

If we ever colonize on other planets and Earth is destroyed, there will be inevitably be \\u201cNo-Earther\\u201d conspiracy theorists within a decade.

Water is never truly yours, it\'s just your turn to drink it