Self described as science abuse, if you’ve ever watched Brainiac you’ll know that it’s mostly just an excuse to blow up more stuff than Mythbusters.  It never fails to teach me something though:

1. Don’t microwave your cell phone, your microwave (and cell phone) will explode.
2. Microwaving a crab (a dead one, in their experiment) has a similar effect.
3. Dropping a milk truck makes more noise that dropping a skip full of plates.
4. Custard is Britain’s squirtiest food.
5. Celebrities will allow themselves to be electric-shocked for  … uhm …. science?
6. Chlorine Gas and sodium glow, they don’t blow.
7. Blowing up an aquarium isn’t as impressive as I thought it would be.
8. Putting your thumb in your mouth and blowing on it without letting any air escape slows your heart rate. (Yeah, very weird, need to get me a heart rate monitor to check that out)
9. You can run through wooden fence panels.
10. Cats will walk on tin foil.
11. Belly button fluff can be fibers that migrate up from your pants, a possible reason why it’s often blue.
12. Saving cheese may actually be the best way to fake a smile for a photo.
13. These guys have a seemingly endless supply of caravans and old cars to blow up.

All vital discoveries, I’m sure you will agree