100 Useless Food Facts for Sleep

Useless Facts for Sleep · Mar 24, 2026 · 5h 51m

Tonight’s gift is 100 wonderfully unnecessary food facts, each one true, strange, and completely unimportant in the most comforting possible way. In this episode, we drift through the quietly absurd histories and identities of ordinary foods, from bananas behaving like berries and white chocolate not quite being chocolate to ketchup’s strange past and marshmallows beginning as medicine. Each fact starts with something familiar from the kitchen and then turns just a little sideways, revealing how odd everyday ingredients really are. The facts arrive in ten gentle groups of ten, beginning with…