Episode 4 - Pepsi and Tarrare

01/04/22 • 33 min

How did a soft drink company build a military empire? | How to swallow a basket full of apples without chewing | What item supposedly killed the man who could eat anything?

Wiki’d is a Wikipedia podcast hosted by Rob and Orr - your two favourite Irish yarn-spinners. Each episode one of us brings a Wikipedia article that the other has no knowledge of, through which we explore the strange quirks and endearing language of humanity’s greatest resource.

If you want to listen more, you can get your dose of Wiki’d anywhere you get your podcasts or on wikid.simplecast.com

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In this episode:

• How can I climb Mount Everest with absolutely no experience?

• Can I just crash a plane into a snowy mountain and walk to the top?

• How can I successfully raise forty trillion children?

Special Thanks to:

Pepsi

Tarrare

and

Nikita Khrushchev

How did a soft drink company build a military empire? | How to swallow a basket full of apples without chewing | What item supposedly killed the man who could eat anything?

If you want to listen more, you can get your dose of Wiki’d anywhere you get your podcasts or on wikid.simplecast.com

If you want to get in touch with us, please don’t hesitate to direct your hate mail towards:

[email protected]

or @wikidpod on twitter.

In this episode:

• How can I climb Mount Everest with absolutely no experience?

• Can I just crash a plane into a snowy mountain and walk to the top?

• How can I successfully raise forty trillion children?

Special Thanks to:

Pepsi

Tarrare

and

Nikita Khrushchev

Previous Episode

Episode 3 - Mike Malloy/Frane Selak and George Hackenschmidt

How to become World Heavyweight Champion by drinking 11 pints of milk a day | Can I still live after being frozen in snow and ice? | How to survive drinking an antifreeze and rat poison cocktail

If you want to listen more, you can get your dose of Wiki’d anywhere you get your podcasts or on wikid.simplecast.com

If you want to get in touch with us, please don’t hesitate to direct your hate mail towards:

[email protected]

or @wikidpod on twitter.

In this episode:

• How to become World Heavyweight Champion by drinking 11 pints of milk a day

•Can I still live after being frozen in snow and ice?

• How to survive drinking an antifreeze and rat poison cocktail

Special Thanks to:

and

Next Episode

Episode 5 - Extraterrestrial Real Estate and 1904 Summer Olympics Men’s Marathon

Which German family has technically owned the moon since 1756? | What currency does the Nation of Celestial Space use? | How can powerful hallucinogens help you win an Olympic Marathon?

If you want to listen more, you can get your dose of Wiki’d anywhere you get your podcasts or on wikid.simplecast.com

If you want to get in touch with us, please don’t hesitate to direct your hate mail towards:

[email protected]

or @wikidpod on twitter.

In this episode:

• Which German family has technically owned the moon since 1756?

• What currency does the Nation of Celestial Space use?

• How can powerful hallucinogens help me win an Olympic Marathon?

Special Thanks to:

Extraterrestrial Real Estate

1904 Summer Olympics Men's Marathon

and