27 Random Facts You Haven't Heard a Million Times

[Music] if you gaze into an abyss long enough the abyss will gaze back into you but if you stare into a Fox's eyes the only thing you'll notice will be its vertical pupils look at the sheep's eyes and horizontal pupils will stare back at you and that's not the only paradox the world has for us there's a tiny community in Minnesota USA that's run by several local business owners still a symbolic mayor gets elected every year by having their name drawn out of a hat any resident willing to pay $1 can try their luck that's why in 2012 the town had a three year old mayor who was later elected for a second term toilet paper didn't become popular until the end of the 19th century and even then it was sold in packs of flat sheets that had the inventors name on them and contained a low extract people weren't too enthusiastic about such a waste of brand-new paper but once producers started to sell toilet paper in rolls they gained wide popularity the longest a person ironed clothes and one go was 100 hours and this result was added to the Guinness World Records in 2015 if you find ironing your shirts too tedious ask Gareth Sanders from the UK what it feels like to iron almost 2,000 items of clothing non-stop with no more than half a minute breaks in between Wow he's the real Iron Man your fridge doesn't have the same temperature in all its corners depending on the model the temperature difference can range from 33 degrees to 50 degrees with the bottom shelves and the back being the colder spots but if your fridge has an ice making compartment at the top the upper shelves will be the chilliest several studies claim that while you're there you cool your brain it feels to run at full capacity if the temperature outside is as hot as your body you also yo it more when you're tired because sleep deprivation increases your brain temperature when some Massachusetts residents felt like playing a song or two instead of grabbing a guitar they go for a typewriter in 2004 the Boston typewriter orchestra performed for the first time the orchestra members produce unusual music with the help of old typewriters and have already released one album hey do you play any unusual musical instruments if so write about it in the comments below and now get ready for some shocking news thus linking a popular toy that can walk down the stairs on its own was invented by accident Richard James a naval engineer was working on a spring that could stabilize equipment on boats during rough seas the spring that appeared as a result of his experiments could move seemingly on its own a bit later it became the slinky prototype the letter Z has had some rough patches during its life for example around 300 BCE it was removed from the alphabet and was missing for almost two centuries the explanation was simple we don't use this letter that much plus people started to pronounce Z like r which made the symbol kind of useless so if the Z didn't ever come back the zebra would have been the Reeb rod sounds like a country singer to me if you want to find a more exciting alternative to a lawn mower a company from California can help you it rents out almost 100 goats the animals are advertised as environmentally friendly and self-propelled rumor has it even Google hires the hoof albums ever had that annoying situation when you have a word on the tip of your tongue I can't remember it yeah it's right there this phenomenon has its own name let the logica by the way the most often forgotten words are those you don't use regularly including proper names out of more than 600,000 words the Oxford English Dictionary contains an adult hardly uses 50,000 the horseshoe crab has eyes all over its body 10 in fact with some on top of the animal shell down its tail and near the mouth all these eyes help the crab get around and he now has no excuse for getting lost typical for middle sized animals that hunt by pouncing on their future meal such as cats the slits help them judge distances better and see both in the dark and in dazzling light big meat-eaters that are active during the day and don't need to stay close to the ground like tigers or wolves have circular pupils and grazing animals for example sheeps and goats have horizontal slits which provides a bigger field of view and help animals see the danger in time some animals have unique eyes with totally mind-blowing pupils for example a geckos pupils look like small pinholes arranged in a vertical line dolphins have crescent-shaped pupils some frog species like yellow-bellied toads have pupil shaped like miniature hearts and cuttlefishes have pupils that resemble the letter W when it's light but becomes circular and large and darkness there's a popular belief that cheese can give you nightmares but it seems to be nothing but an old wives tale one study has 200 volunteers to eat cheese before going to bed the product turned out to actually prevent nightmares about 72 percent of participants slept exceptionally well with 67 percent remembering their dreams interestingly the volunteers reported their dreams to be a bit odd if they ate blue cheese before falling asleep well here you go blonde zebras do exist in 2019 this rare animal was spotted in Africa's Serengeti National Park the photographer who was the first to see the unusual zebra thought it was covered with dust later it became obvious it was the animals true color scientists believe the blonde zebra looks golden because of partial albinism now you might think that people with black belts are martial arts experts with years of rigorous training and experience but in Japan the word they use for the same ranking is show dot and is translated as the first step shrimps are covered with exoskeletons divided into two parts the one that protects the shrimp's head and the one that contains its tail the animal's heart is in the first section almost right in the head in 2012 biologists stumbled upon the Manhattan a completely new species of an that only lives in New York City at the junction of Broadway and 63rd and also 76 streets to be precise researchers think that the and comes from Europe but they haven't been able to match the insect with any of the 13,000 known ant species this creature might be totally new to the world now most babies get their first teeth when they're turning six months old but approximately one out of two thousand infants gets born with a tooth or even several teeth these teeth also called natal can be of four kinds just about to cut through the gum slightly poking through the gum loose with no roots and fully developed but loops cats have 32 muscles in each year these muscles help kitties hear every little noise since they allow the ears to rotate independently and thus detect sounds better gravity-defying geckos have millions of tiny branched hairs on their bulbous toads the system let's get go stick and unstick their feet at breakneck speed scurrying across surfaces at 20 body lengths per second hey just look at that gecko go toothpaste color codes have nothing to do with the products ingredients a widely spread myth claims that let's say a black colored square at the bottom means toothpaste contains only chemical components and a green mark equals an all-natural product in reality the color choice depends on the toothpaste tube design the mark has to be as contrasting as possible otherwise a light beam sensor won't manage to read it Nile crocodiles usually die for about two minutes at a time if they feel threatened they can swim underwater for up to 30 minutes and when they stay fully inactive for example while waiting for an animal to munch on they can hold their breath for up to two hours the high levels of lactic acid in their bodies make this incredible feat possible so despite the name jellyfish also called sea jellies aren't fish they don't have a heart brain or bones they're almost 97% water and only about 3% solid matter scientists claim that the best time to take a nap during the day is from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. that's when a dip in your body temperature makes you sleepy no the hummingbird wastes less than a nickel and is the only bird that can fly backward its wings move up to 200 times a second when the tiny thing drinks nectar it moves its tongue in and out of the flower about 13 times per second one bird usually consumes almost half its body weight in a day and seahorses can move their eyes independently which means they can look forward with a right eye and backward with their left one it's a useful feature for animals that hunt by side hey if you learn something new today then give the video a like and share it with a friend and here are some other videos I think you'll enjoy just click to the left or right and remember stay on the bright side of life

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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2020