Macabre Part 2: How Shrunken Heads Were Made

The BrainFood Show

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Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing a random quick fact involving the parents of Ferris Bueller on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. We then move on to discussing the show’s sponsor, Dashlane, which is a great free password management service. You can also get a free month of their premium version and then 10% off thereafter by using the coupon code “brainfood”. Either way, please do go check them out using this link. Thanks! Next we move into the main content for today’s episode which is discussing how exactly people used to get human heads to shrink and why they did this in the first place. Moving on from that, we look at the fascinating saga of famed philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s head and body. Finally we move into some feedback and then an interesting Star Trek Fact related to skeletons. And for those interested: Picture of Jeremy Bentham’s Head Our mentioned video on the history of passwords: Who Invented Passwords and the Guy That Made Them Suck A sampling of Marina Sirtis talking at various conventions: Costume Story On Deanna Troi’s Accent The Riker Maneuver Riker and Picard Badass Walk Loop On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Macabre Part 2: How Shrunken Heads Were Made appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to another episode of The Brain Food Podcast in this one.
0:07.0	Ah, well, we've changed our format a couple of episodes ago, so instead of doing any follow-up
0:11.5	up front, that comes at the the end for those of you regular
0:14.0	listeners who may be missed last week's episode that's how we're running things now.
0:17.8	So we're going to start off just jumping right into a quick fat. Quick fact, quick fact.
0:24.0	It does feel a bit weird doing it this way around
0:25.7	because on our YouTube channel it's always like,
0:27.4	here's the content, here's a quick fact,
0:29.1	or a bonus fact.
0:30.6	And now I feel like we get into the quick fact at the beginning, but it's good.
0:34.0	What are we talking about today in our quick fact?
0:37.0	Yeah, today we're, uh, so, have you, you've seen Ferris Buehler's day off, yes?
0:42.0	Yeah, dude.
0:42.8	I mean, I might not have seen the Princess Bride,
0:45.0	still haven't seen the Princess Bride,
0:46.0	but Ferris Buehler's Day Off, that's a classic.
0:48.4	Yeah, see, I was gonna say if you hadn't seen this one,
0:50.3	I was gonna be like, oh man,
0:51.5	you need to take a day off and watch a couple movies but
0:53.8	so the the mr and mrs. Buehler I think everyone can kind of picture them
0:59.8	Lyman Ward and Cindy Pickett is their real names and they actually met on
1:03.7	Ferris Buellers Day Off and subsequently got married pretty quickly. The movie
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