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Today, we think nothing of grabbing a delicious cheap pineapple from our local supermarket shelves any time the mood strikes us.

But go back a few hundred years and you better make sure you have a decent credit limit on that 17th century equivalent of your Black Amex!

In this episode, the Brain Bubblegum crew chews over the fascinating origins of pineapples. From an object of wealth and extravagance, to a symbol of hospitality, to an… erm, symbol of your willingness to share… well, everything, the humble pineapple is anything but.

Just… don’t put that pineapple in your shopping trolley’s top basket.

Ah, Iceland - the land of fire and ice. And expensive beer, disgusting food, rampant elves, books galore, and babies sleeping outside in sub-zero temperatures. And where there’s a very real danger you might find yourself getting intimate with a relative if you’re not careful! In this episode Scott, Craig and Simone share the 10 coolest facts they learned about Iceland. Despite the weird, it’s still at the top of our list of places to visit.

You might regularly choose to dine at the Golden Arches, but how much do you really know about your favourite fast food restaurant? Simone, Scott and Craig deep fry 10 crispy truth nuggets about McDonalds that will blow your mind! And maybe even make you laugh like a certain corporate clown mascot.

Where do we get our days of the week from? Who named them and who decided their order in the week? And just why did we go with seven days rather than the far more rounded 10 day week?

In this ‘gumdrop’ episode, Craig takes you back 4,200 years to where it all began - with those overachieving Babylonians.

Who doesn’t love a good prank? In this episode Simone, Scott and Craig rank the top 10 epic pranks of all time, based on level of commitment, originality, brazenness, humour, whimsicality and lasting impact on culture. How scientific! Or not…

In this special Christmas-themed gumdrop, Craig chews over the origin and history of the Christmas tree. The Bible never mentions anything about a tree, right? So just how did a decorated conifer tree become associated with the birth of Jesus?