Goff's 3 Minute Histories

When Hitler pushed into Denmark in 1940 he felt little resistance until a group of teenage boys refused to give in. 

Sources: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Peterson and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

Music: purple-planet.com

The end of an empire...

Sources:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-retail-giant-kmart-down-054545661.html

https://transformco.com/about/kmart/kmart-history

Music: purple-planet.com

A tradition unlike any other....The Masters. 

Sources:

https://www.masters.com/en_US/tournament/about.html#:~:text=The%20name%20Augusta%20National%20Invitation,first%20full%20week%20in%20April.

https://www.golfmonthly.com/tour/us-masters/masters-history-records/masters-green-jacket-126753

https://golf.com/news/features/this-baltimore-man-owns-a-green-jacket-and-augusta-national-desperately-wants-it/

Music: purple-planet.com

Fortune favors the listener.

Sources:

https://www.history.com/news/fortune-cookies-invented-chinese-japanese

https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882

Music: 'Awake' by @Sappheiros

Secret Agent Cyborg Cats....what could go wrong?

Sources:

https://www.history.com/news/cia-spy-cat-espionage-fail

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

Music: www.purple-planet.com

Who? What? Where?

Sources:

https://www.history.com/news/clue-game-origin-wwii

Music: www.purple-planet.com

There is only one place in the world that hippos can be found in the wild outside of Africa.....Pablo Escobar's house. 

Sources:

https://insightcrime.org/colombia-organized-crime-news/pablo-escobar/

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/584514-pablo-escobars-80-cocaine-hippos-are-wreaking

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/538196-pablo-escobars-hippos-breeding-out-of-control-and

https://www.nathab.com/blog/six-surprising-facts-about-hippos-africa/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/hippo-fact-sheet/

From turtle spoon to Hollywood icon, the culinary journey of the spork.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/magazine/who-made-that-spork.html

https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/invented-spork1.htm

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/history-of-chopsticks-forks-spoons-and-sporks-who-invented-the-spoon-who-invented-the-fork

Music: www.purple-planet.com

Sources:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-emu-war-in-which-some-large-flightless-birds-unwittingly-foiled-the-australian-army/

https://nomadsworld.com/great-emu-war/

Music: The Red Soil · Saira Ridley

France and Spain proving that you can share even 350 years later.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42817859

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Spanish_War_(1635%E2%80%931659)

Music: purple-planet.com