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5 Jul: The Best Thing Since Wrapped Bread
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Sliced bread had never been automated before Otto Rohwedder unveiled his “power-driven, multi-bladed bread slicer” at Chillicothe Baking Company on...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:34
4 Jul: Here Comes The Hamburger
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Who invented the hamburger? It’s almost impossible to know, given that mincemeat has been consumed all around the world, and for centuries – but Os...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 2
AMOS 23.011: Vitamines and Vitamins, 1/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Vitamines and Vitamins

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
GN_4.01_Watermelons For Water
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A well-known fruit with a not-so-well-known history.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Lactose Intolerance Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1