The BrainFood Show

The BrainFood Show

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  • Why Did Austria ACTUALLY Give Itself to Nazi Germany Without a Fight?

    Ever wonder why Austria agreed to give up its sovereignty so readily to Nazi Germany without any semblance of a fight?

    Well, it turns out the answer to that question involves secret political machinations, the populace being duped as to Germany’s real intentions, and a whole lot of fascinating intrigue thrown in.
    So pull on your lederhosen and whip out some Wiener Schnitzel to munch on, as we dive into how Hitler managed to pull all this off, and the rather tragic aftermath when the Austrians who didn’t really support the Nazi regime finally woke up to what had happened.
    Author: Arnaldo Teodorani
    Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey
    Producer: Samuel Avila
    0:00 Intro
    0:33 Introducing the Anschluss
    6:12 What Did Austrians Actually Think of All This?
    9:05 Under Mussolini’s Protection
    13:29 Austria Devoured
    24:32 So Just How Many Austrians Actually Supported This? Those in Favor...
    29:49 Those Against...
    33:42 The Very Real Von Trapps of Sound of Music Fame
    34:57 The Sad Fate of Austria During the War and the Anschluss' Tragic Legacy
    41:09 The Weird Tale of Kurt Waldheim

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    48 min
  • How Do Germany and Japan Teach WWII? How Does Britain Teach the American Revolution? And Much More

    In the video today, we're looking at How Do German Schools Teach About WWII? How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII? Why Wasn't There an Italian "Nuremberg / Tokyo War Crimes" Trial After WWII? How Did Germany DeNazify So Quickly After WWII. How Do They Teach the American Revolution in Britain? How do Arabic Nations Teach the Crusades? How Do British Schools Teach About the British Empire? How do The Persians Teach Alexander the Great and When in History Did He First Become Great?

    0:00 How Do German Schools Teach About WWII?
    9:59 How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?
    22:14 Why Wasn't There an Italian "Nuremberg / Tokyo War Crimes" Trial After WWII?
    54:19 How Did Germany DeNazify So Quickly After WWII
    1:26:03 How Do They Teach the American Revolution in Britain?
    1:35:27 How do Arabic Nations Teach the Crusades?
    1:57:00 How Do British Schools Teach About the British Empire?
    2:18:52 How do The Persians Teach Alexander the Great and When in History Did He First Become Great?

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    2 hr 40 min
  • The Forgotten Plague Where Thousands of People Couldn't Stop Dancing Until They Died

    In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we skip the quick fact because this one took forever to research and put together and I ran out of time. Instead we jump right into the main topic which is a very real phenomenon that popped up off and on for several hundred years called Dance Mania or St. Vitus’ Dance. While it might sound like a bit of a joke, it was surprisingly deadly at times and had a fascinating cure.

    We then look at the probable cause of this phenomenon, along with many other similar ones, including a couple in modern times, that all seem to have the same root.

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    1 hr 3 min
  • The Insane Story of the Plane That Refused to Land for 64 Days

    The likes of renowned aerospace engineer Burt Rutan’s Voyager aircraft, which successfully completed the world’s first nonstop, unrefueled aerial circumnavigation of the globe in December of 1986 in flight for a little over 9 days, or Rutan’s Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer which did the same thing in 2005 in just 2 days and 19 hours, are feats that make the news rounds the world over. However, as impressive as these pioneering flights were, they pale in comparison to the true record for aerial endurance that the media seems to have forgotten, set all the way back in 1958, not using any specially designed, ultra engineered, high tech plane, but a simple Cessna 172, which the pilots of managed to keep in the air, and lived in, for an astounding 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes without ever touching the ground once.

    So how did they manage this in a plane that normally only has an endurance of 4-5 hours? Well put your tray tables and seatbacks in their upright position, as we dive into the incredible tale of Robert Timm, John Cook, and the record-breaking flight of the Hacienda.
    Author: Gilles Messier
    Host/Editor: Daven Hiskey
    Producer: Samuel Avila

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    21 min
  • Was Doc Brown's 1885 Ice Machine Actually Possible?

    In the 1990 sci-fi comedy sequel Back to the Future Part III, intrepid time travelling 80’s duo Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown find themselves trapped in Hill Valley, California, back in the year 1885. With their DeLorean time machine out of gas and it being, well, 1885, Doc and Marty are forced to take creative measures to accelerate their ride up to the required 88 miles per hour and get back to the future: namely, pushing the car ahead of a steam train as it careens towards a half-finished bridge because what could go wrong?

    While in our previous video Why the Heck Couldn’t Doc Brown Have Just Made Gasoline in Back to the Future III?, we examined whether the Doc could have devised a less convoluted means of getting home, including just, you know, putting gas in the tank - check that video out after this one if you haven’t already, link below - intrepid viewers might also noticed a number of impressive gizmos in Doc’s blacksmith shop, including perhaps the most in your face one in his noisy and complex working ice machine he used to make ice for his tea.
    But could Doc Brown actually have actually made ice artificially in the summer heat of California using 1885 technology and the tools and materials he had on hand in the region.
    Well, put on some colorful cowboy gear and sneakers as we look into the surprising number of ways the ancients used to make ice, the eventual death grip Big Ice had on the government- not even joking, how they lost that grip thanks to new technologies Koolaid-Manning their way through that corruption wall, and whether Doc Brown could have recreated these technologies with what he had available and as the machines was depicted to work in the film. And finally in the Bonus Fact, we are going to look at how surprisingly long it took for air conditioners to become a thing long after the technology was perfected, and how, funny enough, Hollywood accidentallied its way into being the reason people finally decided cool air on a hot sweltering day was kind of nice…
    So let’s dive into it all shall we? And we begin with the genius of the ancients.
    If you liked this video, you might also enjoy: Why the Heck Couldn't Doc Brown Have Just Made Gasoline in Back to the Future III? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRYdebc_NAo


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    37 min
  • The Bizarre Story of The Room, Were Nunchucks Real and Much, Much More

    In today's compilation episode we're looking at a handful of Hollywood vs Reality topics like the bizarre story behind "The Room", is genuine multiple personality disorder an actual thing or just a hollywood invention. The real life expendables, do blind people actually hear better than sighted people, were nunchucks ever actually used in combat, and the story of the very real knight Ulrich Von Lichtenstein.

    00:00 The Bizarre Story Behind "The Room"
    13:54 Is Genuine Multiple Personality Disorder an Actual Thing? Or Just a Hollywood Invention for Movies?
    35:24 The Real-Life Expendables
    46:29 Do Blind People Actually Hear Better Than Sighted People or is This Just a Hollywood Myth
    59:05 Were Nunchucks Ever Actually Used in Combat or are They Primarily a Hollywood Thing?
    01:08:52 A Knight's Tale- The Real Life Ulrich Von Liechtenstein

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    1 hr 21 min
  • So, like, How Do Porcupines Mate? And Other Bizarre Animal Mating Practices

    ⁠⁠In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at whether or not male humans can get pregnant and carry a baby to full term naturally. (Spoiler- yes and yes. And even breastfeed too! It doesn’t even require fancy science or advanced medical techniques.)

    Moving on to the meat of today’s episode, we jump into a variety of bizarre animal mating practices, starting with the somewhat humorous mating practices of the giraffe, looking at how porcupines mate without serious injury, banana slugs, the evil that is the male duck, and more!

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    45 min
  • The Greatest Factory Ever Built

    Following December 7, 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, which finally drew the United States into the Second World War, the attack’s architect, Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, infamously lamented that: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” While in reality Yamamoto likely never said this, the sentiment proved shockingly prophetic, for almost overnight the outraged nation shifted its entire economy towards a singular goal: crush the Axis Powers. Factories which had once produced household goods like sewing machines, typewriters, and automobiles were converted over to churning out rifles, helmets, tanks, jeeps, aircraft, and other vital war weapons by the hundreds of thousands, while a huge force of non-combatant civilians - including record numbers of women - were hired to staff them. The result was a nigh-unstoppable “Arsenal of Democracy” that ultimately swamped the wartime economies of Germany, Italy, and Japan and guaranteed Allied victory. But one American wartime factory stood out among the rest: Air Force Plant 31 in Ypsilanti (ip-si-lan-tee) Township, Michigan - better known as Willow Run. At peak capacity in April 1944, a complete B-24 Liberator heavy bomber was rolling out this facility’s doors every single hour - a staggering feat of industrial production that has yet to be matched. This is the story of the greatest factory ever built.

    Author: Gilles Messier
    Host/Editor/Pilot: Daven Hiskey
    Producer: Samuel Avila

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    38 min
  • How to Survive Falling from a Plane Without a Parachute

    According to the Aircraft Crashes Record Office in Geneva, between 1940 and 2008 there were 157 people who fell out of planes without a parachute during a crash and lived to tell about it. A full 42 of those falls occurred at heights over 10,000 feet (above 3,000 meters), such as the tale of 17 year old Juliane Koepcke who not only survived an approximately 10,000 foot free fall, but also a subsequent 10 day trek alone through the Peruvian rain forest with no real supplies other than a little bag of candy.

    Now, while you might think surely nothing like that could ever happen to you, it turns out whether falling from 30,000 feet or a much more common 30, the same basic strategies apply. And for reference here, approximately 30 feet or about 9 meters is around the height at which you begin to be more likely to die from your injuries than survive. At heights as little as about 80 feet, only about 1 in 10 people survive and it pretty much all goes to hell from there.
    So what can you do to increase your chances of survival if you ever find yourself doing your best impression of Icarus?
    Authors: Karl Smallwood and Daven Hiskey
    Producer: Samuel Avila

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    21 min

About The BrainFood Show

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In this show, the team behind the wildly popular TodayIFoundOut YouTube channel do deep dives into a variety of fascinating topics to help you feed your brain with interesting knowledge.