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Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn't know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. Topics range from the history of nursing to the Balinese funeral rite David Bowie requested, from the origin of the Vulcan salute to the theft of Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve. This is your brain on facts. yourbrainonfacts.com
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01:36 Blucifer
04:00 Get the lead out
10:00 Ballet blazes
20:45 Death by a thousand face
26:43 The Conqueror and the conquered
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https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-ballet-girls-who-burned-to-death/71244/
https://www.racked.com/2017/12/19/16710276/burning-dresses-history
https://www.oddee.com/item_99203.aspx
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https://www.armco.org.uk/asbestos-survey-news/asbestos-was-used-as-fake-snow-in-many-old-hollywood-movies/
https://www.grunge.com/267772/the-amazing-life-and-tragic-death-of-lon-chaney/
https://www.dogfordstudios.com/killer-art-art-that-has-actually-killed-people/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/7-deadly-art-materials-to-watch-out-for-1081526
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/how-important-is-lead-poisoning-to-becoming-a-legendary-artist/281734/
https://noahchemicals.com/blog/the-toxic-histories-of-five-famous-pigments/
https://www.dogfordstudios.com/killer-art-art-that-has-actually-killed-people/
https://owlcation.com/stem/Cinnabar-A-Beautiful-But-Toxic-Mineral-Ore-and-Pigment
https://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/newsroom/blogs/its-snowing-asbestos-the-haunting-truth-about-the-white-christmas-killer-set-and-continued-imports-and-use/
https://www.cpr.org/2019/11/04/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-blucifer-the-demon-horse-of-dia
https://www.burlington-record.com/2021/06/11/blucifer-just-turned-13-but-the-family-of-the-artist-who-died-creating-it-would-prefer-you-dont-call-it-that/
https://www.livescience.com/64224-sculptor-unknowingly-poisons-herself-with-her-own-art.html
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Your Brain on Facts
Host Moxie LaBouche brings you a weekly half-hour of things you didn't know, things you thought you knew, and things you never knew you never knew. Topics range from the history of nursing to the Balinese funeral rite David Bowie requested, from the origin of the Vulcan salute to the theft of Canada's strategic maple syrup reserve. This is your brain on facts. yourbrainonfacts.com
