Cyanide - Historical Overview
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- A historical overview of the use of Cyanide and its use in movies/TV.
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Soldier of Orange 1977
Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail
The Bunker 1981
Captain America 2011
Johnny English 2003
Valkyrie 2008
Downfall 2004
Nuremberg 2002
X Company 2015
Amen 2002
All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
Death Wish V 1994
Quo Vadis 1951
Field of Honor 1987
The Watchmen 2009
One Punch Man 2015
Almond Joy Commercial 1957
The International 2009
Liberation: The Last Assault 1972
Skyfall 2012
#ww2
I limit my almond intake to 5,000 in one sitting just to be safe.
During a discussion about poisons in nature someone mentioned that apple pips were poisonous. When asked how many would be fatal the woman replied 50. "Ah" said the questioner. And then said she'd been eating them but had stopped at 49.
I don't like almonds because they taste like almonds.
I don’t know man, that’s playing with fire. All you’d have to do is accidentally consume another 5,000 and you’re a goner.
This is why I stop eating almonds once I hit 9999.
"Do you know what it does to you? Hydrogen cyanide."
Look upon your work…mother…
It ……….burned all my insides, but I didn’t die….life clung to me like a disease.
The dipping the bayonets in poison just sounds like those wild battlefield myths that pop up. If youre in a situation where youre using the bayonet to engage someone, whether or not you have the +2 toxic damage isnt going to change a fight thats either win/lose in a few brief moments
its more of a spiteful thing really, if you die so will the guy you stabbed.
"Wow that sword on the end of your rifle just went through my left lung! I sure hope you didn't put- *foaming at the mouth*"
There was also a case where napoleon wore a cyanide capsule around his neck, when he finally took it in 1814 it only made him ill since it was expired. Terribly lucky and unlucky.
Great pun at the end, and great video Johnny!
"Good evening vendor, one bottle of video-recorder cleaner please"
- "Amyl Nitrate, eh, Happy Mardi Gras"
"Good gracious no!, I need it because I'm making, uh..., uhh... OK. Happy Mardi Gras".
@@zalibecquerel3463 Nitrite, not nitrate.
The nitrate is just a very flammable liquid. The nitrite is the one you need to save lives (or just have a good time with the guy who wears all black leather in the summer heat).
I hear it makes a great mixer for Kool-aid (or, at least Flavor-aid).
A party favorite at Jonestown.
Yeah it really was though the drink mix he got was actually Flavor-Aid not Kool-aid and turns out yes it was cyanide I always thought it was arsenic he and his followers used.
@@kellychuang8373 One of his followers had a jewellers license. So he purchased it legally.
4:42 that one Tyrant regretting not paying attention in biology class.
The deaths in Jonestown took anywhere between five and 20 minutes. Cyanide poisoning is a horrifying and painful death.
Which is why Germans often shot themselves. The pill was just insurance, so they couldn't survive if they botched it.
Really so true and also there are many other forms of poisons out there like Arsenic the stuff housewives and Black Widows of the people variety use to knock off husbands for either to get into another or for insurance money may want to look into that also is a trope in old mystery novels too. Anyway really tell it out there.
You can visit the gas chamber at old Missouri State Prison in the Capitol. They have photos of all the people that met their maker. You can walk in and sit down, creepy as hell
I live outside of Jefferson City, know a former tower guard when they were operational.
@@mikepj67 My uncle was a tower guard at Leavenworth in the 70s and 80s. He told us about an escape attempt and he shot the guy in the leg and blew it off. Must have been a large caliber rifle they used.
@@gypsydildopunks7083 damn
A man ate almonds every meal for 20 years. This is what happened to his brain. 'CE' is 45-year-old man presenting to the emergency room with dizziness, shortness of breath, and confusion. For the past week, he's experienced worsening headaches, nausea, and a persistent bitter taste in his mouth. Blood tests reveal metabolic acidosis, and his breath has a distinct almond-like odor. Despite his worsening condition, he insists he hasn't been exposed to anything toxic...
JJ and mark Felton is my entire recommended list
That guy has a 100x my knowledge but maybe I know more pop culture and movie references than him 🥸
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqYou da man Johnny!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq You both are excellent in your own respective ways. Both informative and entertaining. 👍🏼
Ohhh very good video !!
I was hoping for some scenes from Anthropoid. Lots of death by Cyanide in that movie.
Dang I was just watching that too. Not sure how I forgot.
That scene where Toby Jones character is desperately trying to find the dropped capsule in the bathroom with the police trying to break in.
One Punch Man! Hoping we get season 3 later this year.
You're the best Johnny, great video!
I hope so! I was tickled to wedge it into this video where people would least expect it...
and they better deliver that season one mad house quality, not watever garbage season two was
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Right?!? Millipedes?!? Of course One Punch Man is the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions millipedes. 🤣 LOL
There's also the myth astronauts were given cyanide capsules to kill themselves if they are stranded in space...
Space is lethal enough. I can't imagine astronauts would need assisted self termination.
I think they were. It's an option to a slow death to suffocation. There was a contingency on how to handle a possible stranding of Apollo 11 on the moon.
That’s…actually not true, at least if you worked with the Soviet Union lmao. Ask former Soviet cosmonauts. If most of them say it, it’s safe to believe that that was their standard.
Same for the U-2 pilots. Rumors they were to be used in case of capture or if badly injured with no chance of survival.
@@garfieldsmith332 Gary Powers didn't use his which is actually a needle inside a coin.
My great grand father was in the french resistance from 1941, he got a cyanide pill from the British SOE. He sawed it in the collar of his shirt so he could swallow it even with handcuffs in the back like you say! He never had to use it but got really close to getting arrested, his close partner and best friend was but Gould make an escape thanks to the population who overwhelmed to two french gestapo agents (bastards who would be shot at the liberation). They had to flee and go in hiding. My grand mother had to go to school under a fake ID after that, and they lost most of their possessions. They got the war cross and the "médaille de la résistance".
Very interesting and sketchy. Good work Johnny.
The worst would be swallowing small glass, i hate glass shards when glass is dropped or the glass thats missed after clean up and step on a tiniest shard and I bleed like crazy after taking out the glass
Lol, I love that you cut All Quiet and Death Wish V back to back. Keep up the great work.
I could see some spy-parody movie try to use an "almond eating competition" as an attempt to complete a job.
"I would have died i rather die than betray my friends"-Sirius Black
Everything in the movies are over blown, or downright not true.
Remember. Take after capture.
There's actually alot of controversy over if himler commit suicide or was murdered. If he did use cyanide he ate and drank for two days and was completely examined twice and yet managed to keep the pill on him if true
“Remember mitochondria?”
*7th grade science class PTSD intensifies*
Ya. PTSD? Really
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@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Hehe......they always keep changing.........
Cyanide also occurs (synthesize) as byproduct of burning. This is how majority of of people succumb to fire in an enclosed space. Not from burns, but being overwhelmed by the fumes (that are often full of cyanide among other toxic substances).
@@JustPeasant I'd say it's usually CO that's going to be the bigger problem, unless you are incinerating something with lots of nitrile groups.
That said, the CO molecule is "isoelectronic" with the CN- ion, which helps explain their toxicological similarities.
This channel is still Fantastic.
Still with the odd subjects! And niche movies! I had to look most of these up!
You would think if you regularly eat almonds you would build somewhat of a immunity. Maybe Rasputin liked almonds.......
Never leave home without it, if you do ask your mom.
Sorry im a bit late but this video was great keep it up johnny :)
Cyanide was my ex’s name 0:12
Were you friends with Tobias Whale?
Yeah, you don’t want to date the woman from the strip club son..
Speaking of which, I'm surprised the vid didn't talk about that baby name incident a whiles back.
Used in gold extraction, when I lived in Australia I worked for a company that produced it lucky enough it wasn’t manufactured at our site all we had to deal with was chlorine 🤣
There's an episode of Macguyer where Pete gets poisoned in a mall. Mac recognizes the bitter almond smell and neutralizes it by having Pete drink something he gets out of a photocopier, iirc.
@@xwrn Apparently, he makes a sulphur-based antidote ("Sulfanegen") from matches and tile cleaner.
Catalyzed by enzymes, the sulphur reacts with the CN- ion, turning it into harmless SCN- (thiocyanate).
Were those Nazi capsules in an old converted Mauser shell?
Great video, very enlightening. All the best
Nero used the services of one Locusta, or Lucusta, who was a notorious poisoner said to be from Gaul. He had her train others and even had a researcher whose job it was to find other poisons. She was executed after Nero's suicide.
Really so true on that and speaking of poisons of that era another notorious one in that hemlock may look there and who knows can tell Johnny about that.
The movies always depict it as a quick and painless death when in reality, like Johnny said, brain function goes last. So you’re totally conscious and aware while all your organs slowly and painfully shut down. It’s a terrible death
You're not totally conscious, at worst I would say it's somewhat of a fever-dream like state. People who have been exposed to high (but not lethal) amounts of CN have reported a sensation of intense muscle weakness and tiredness but no pain. Since, basically all of your organs will just run out of power, there is nothing that painful involved (perhaps it can be quite discomforting when your diaphragm stops and you can't breathe, but again, that wouldn't exactly be painful.) Considering the alternatives, that is getting captured and most likely tortured, it is definitely preferable by a long shot.
Sodium thiosulfate with a whiff of amyl nitrite or similar have been mentioned as an antidote. But it was recommended to take the antidote beforehand.
@@typograf62 Nitrites oxidize the iron in hemoglobin, allowing it to bind the CN- ions. Since humans generally have enough hemoglobin to spare, this is infinitely preferable to having the CN- shut down your mitochondria.
The thiosulfate should also help detoxify it into thiocyanate.
So the treatment for cyanide poisoning is literally poppers lol
Its true. Bohdan Stashynsky, a KGB assassin, inhaled a popper before he sprayed a cyanide derivative into Lev Rebet's face.
I had the same amusing thought.
As in weed/tobacco mixes? Damn, would you look at that
@@AngryBerb Bohdan Stashynsky inhaled one just before he went after Lev Rebet.
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat That mix is a different thing. We were referring to amyl nitrate, known for years as "poppers," and commonly used to help with anal and oral sex because it relaxes the throat and anus as well as giving some a sense of euphoria.
I have friends and acqaintances who are leathermen, bears, and twinks (their words, not mine) as well as some female adult performers, and many used poppers especially at parties and shoots.
Johnny was referring to amyl _nitrite_ as an antidote. Different from amyl nitrate in effect, but the name was close enough to make me laugh.
Be sure to distinguish bitter almonds from usual almonds - they're especially dangerous for kids (10 pcs suffice)
We need one on ricin now
In 1979 warmovie /Steiner 2/ cyanide is in a tactac candy. 😂
A tic / tac candy from Gunther Meisner it was.
The most infamous case of cyanide use would have to be the poisoning of the goebbals children by their mother ,depicted in the movie downfall, another case where it was used was actually by one of the accomplices to the assassination attempt of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 , as there was one failed assassination attempt where one of the black hand members threw a Grenade at the car,while trying to escape ,he took cyanide but it failed to work and then jumped into the river which was shallow and he then broke his leg (this is off the top of my head,so if I get things wrong ,sorry).
Most superglues do contain cyanide or are cyanide based (I can remember the proper term but couldn’t spell it properly), when used in model applications , I was taught via reading not to put a soldering iron near it as you may get cyanide poisoning from the fumes.
Superglues are based on cyanoacrylate esters.
Cyano groups in organic compounds (also called "nitriles") are generally much safer than the salts or protonated form of the CN- ion.
@@maxjoechl5663 that was the word I was thinking , thanks for that .
I’m a model builder and did have a stint at building locomotive kits , and that was clearly emphasised in model railways magazines
@@keiranallcott1515Funny thing is the guy who invented superglue was just trying to make an improved version of methacrylate ("Perspex"/"acrylic") by replacing the methyl group with a cyano group.
However, organic cyano groups draw in electrons from the rest of the molecule, making it react with OH- ions in moisture; thus starting an unexpected chain reaction ("anionic polymerization"). This is also why superglue reacts so quickly with baking soda, which causes more OH- ions to be formed.
@@maxjoechl5663 interesting , I wonder if it’s the basis of some zip kickers , something you buy to set the glue faster ,however it can be too fast as it boils and lets off some steam, leaving a white crust.
Also I am also aware that superglue was used as a first aid treatment by medics during the Vietnam war
@@keiranallcott1515 Zip Kicker contains Dimethyl-p-toluidine ("DMPT") in an organic solvent. The DMPT reacts with the cyanoacrylate to initiate the polymerization in a similar fashion to OH- ions, so moisture is no longer required.
"That's not vaiium!" From Father Ted's 'Are You Right There Father Ted'
Can't help it. I'm addicted to the Orgeat almond syrup used in MaiTais. 1.5 oz Dark Rum, 1.5 oz light rum, 1 oz fresh lime juice, 1/2 oz Orgeat, 8 oz crushed ice. Shaken not stirred. Mint sprigs.
Orgeat syrup is delicious
Going through the pack of a Frenchman: Hey I found the legendary item “Pierre’s Bayonet” it does poison as well as bleed damage if I roll higher than a 5!
15 minutes! Slowly suffocating and agonising muscle paralysis
The OPM scene lol
would you do a video on the mosin nagant? Love your stuff btw
Thanks man! I will forsure but probably not for a few months yet. That will be a big project.
There are photos of when it did not work.
Feel-good video of year. Yeesh. 😄
Sugar cubes in the tea rooms of the Wirral, Harrogate, and Whitby will never be the same...still partial to almond slices though....cheers, Johnny...have a great...as opposed to a horrible....weekend...E...😅😅😅
Cyanides are a type of pills or medicine that been seen in the movies
Göring thought they would let him go... can you imaging? "i was not guilty its all Himlers and Hitlers stuff"
Really good and interesting video and aside from certain weapons like the AK-47 and RPG-7 or anything flying like tanks as the T-54/55 and M1 Abrams along with helicopters and airplanes such as MIG versions and MI-24 Hind and Apache if you're going for poisons and nerve agents you can look up arsenic and VX Gas also lethal and notorious as well may want to look into that too fascinating history and also wondered what Zyklon B was and really clarified things.
Lmao at the One Punch Man footage XD
4:54 and the you become parasite eve, my favourite part of high school biology
I want some
Hello! Could you please make a video about late 19 century military sabers in movies? I do HEMA and study classic (second half 19 century) military saber, but unlike with rapiers or, per say, katanas, I can't recall any movies in which they would be famously or realistically featured, which is a little sad bacuse it's nice to assiciate yourself with your favourite movie hero sometimes. Could you help me out with that? So far I can only remember it being in the first battle of The last Samurai movie.
I know man. I want to but it's way out of my realm. That being said I can commit some time to do this down the line. It's just a big project for me.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq If you would, I would be very grateful! Can guarantee like 10 views from all of my fencing buddies) Thank you!
P.S.: The classical military sabers have a distinctive look, it won't be hard to pick them out I think. It's just that you might have seen more movies about 19 century than me)
There is a European film, I think it’s Polish, called Potop (English title: The Deluge) from 1974. Apparently there is a realistic sabre duel in that movie. The duel scene is available on CZcams I believe.
we do know that Shinobi's (Ninja's) did poison their weapons. Natural poisons, combined with a rusty sword, knife or arrow ;)
As we all know, everything on TV and the movies is real. Right? Thanks again, Johnny. Take care, catch ya for another one.
Wow that sky fall clip was hyper gross
Michorntia is the power cell of the cell
Can you do a video on the Lee Enfield please
TAKE THE DAMN PILL, PIM
That guy in thumbnail is so over it haha
lol talking about millipedes and you use One Punch
A bitter subject...
Hope ricin is also covered.
One Punch Man................
JJ at one point in my life i have worked with Cyanide to great effect......Thanks my friend it is always good to see one of your video's...............................Old F-4 II Shoe🇺🇸
Almond joy
Didn't see the OPM coming there lol, another banger - no idea how you find all these clips. Here, have a drink on me. What's that on the glass? Oh, it's a margarita.
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I picked up a centipede once. My fingers started to burn. I looked at them close and my eyes began to burn
Fun fact: Some people mostly women are sensitive to the smell of naturally occurring cyanide such as in lettuce and almonds, sometimes to the point it ruins their appetite.
Jagdpanzer IV?
Cyanide is in almonds; and that is why in movies you hear the line, "smells like bitter almonds; cyanide".
bitter almonds are a different vareity
So does a commonly used plastic explosive. Just don't get them mixed up.
This is actually a common misconception. The characteristic smell of bitter almonds comes from benzaldehyde.
While hydrogen cyanide has a similar smell, there just isn't enough of it in almonds (bitter or otherwise) to actually notice.
I believe NileRed had a video on it.
@@maxjoechl5663 Yep. As I indicated only in the movies.
@@bigblue6917 Yep. Don't eat the explosive and don't wire up the cyanide pill. Neither might not work. 😀
I will eat 9.999 almonds
On a serious note. Sadam Hussain used cyanide against the Kurds … as well as mustard gas… and the slow agonising death was not as portrayed in films
Hussein used Tabun as a chemical weapon, not cyanides.
While Tabun does contain cyanides as impurities, it is actually a nerve agent similar to Sarin or VX, and is generally much easier to weaponize than the volatile HCN.
Really highly doubt that it was more likely somewhere along the lines of Sarin, VX or any other complex nerve agents which who knows may want to tell JJ on that and maybe do a video on that as well.
@@kellychuang8373It was Tabun. Unfortunately, YT deleted my comment.
Bean 2
Bacon 6
Raisins 10?
Well, that meets my vomit viewing for around oh, say a month or 12. Thanks for fulfilling my quota…😳
Allllriiiiiiight…….
I can’t think of any hilarious or nutty comments for this episode. Here’s a useless one for the algorithm.
yee
i always told people if they wanted to kill me almond is the best way.
Yum
Cyanide sound like what coats my gf s lips
lol i dont like almonds
Thing is so taboo and a bit bold, even I feel a chill when it got mentioned on an Adventure Time ep (Season 5's "Bad Timing" to be exact), of all places... can't believe Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum has some gum made of the stuff in store.
Where'd the tooth suggestion come from, may I wonder?
4:00: Reminds me of hemp still being used for ropes.
4:25: And then there's eggplants and solanine, which can work if one eats at 40+ of the former.
4:41: Cue the Parasite Eve readers and gamers perking up immediately.
Nein nein nein nein!!!
Its not a very pleasant of of dying.
Why use Zyklon B instead of Zyklon E? E was more potent