Hello, and welcome to the extra special introduction
video for the 80 days podcast, brought to
you by three history and geography nerds with
a frankly unhealthy obsession with odd historical
facts and weird places.
On each episode of the podcast, we attempt
to learn you a little about places you might not
know too much about.
Here’s a few we’ve already covered.
Ahh, Nauru
To make things exponentially easier for ourselves,
we’re scattered all over the globe
like this...
Lovely. So many time zones
Even if you’re familiar with the places
we talk about, we think you’ll still learn
something new.
For example...
Did you know that Fidel Castro's love of milk
was so famous that the CIA attempted to assassinate
him with a poisoned milkshake?
You’ve seen those gigantic heads that Easter
Island is famous for, right?
Well, did you know that below the surface,
those heads are attached to bodies?
Some of them are even wearing hats.
Seriously!
...or that the Coco De Mer, also known as
the sea coconut, is the heaviest seed of any
plant in the world.
It comes from the Seychelles, and looks kinda
like...well, you know...
Like a butt.
It's a butt in a nut!
So, if you learned something new in the last
15 seconds, then we really think you’d enjoy
our podcast, which tends to run a tad longer
than that
Over on our brand spanking new Patreon page
we’re offering rewards to our backers who
help us to keep the podcast going,
such as on air shout outs,
bonus content and commissioned episodes.
Thanks for watching, and don’t forget, it’s
called a sea coconut...
Not a sea cocobutt
But it might as well be called a sea cocobutt
Cause it looks like a sea cocobutt
Google it
I'll wait. Google image...
