30+ Rare Facts I Had to Check Twice to Believe

I hate to break it to you but polar bears aren't actually white and their tongues aren't black you can make your body believe you're well-rested and you can spell your email in Morse code are you ready to have your world turn upside down oops here we go your shoelaces keep untying because every time you walk the nuts on them are under a huge gravitational force seven times higher than normal for comparison the world's most powerful rollercoaster makes you experience a gravitational force of six point three g's your taste receptors won't work without saliva unless whatever you eat is dissolved in it your taste buds won't detect food molecules Angel Falls the largest uninterrupted waterfall on our planet is as tall as a 300 storey building in the summer the area sometimes gets so dry that the water evaporates before reaching the ground and this from our sushi department most wasabi you can buy in a supermarket is actually colored horseradish with different flavorings real wasabi is rather expensive and challenging to prepare one of the things Jupiter's famous for is the great red spot a giant spinning storm this spot used to be so gigantic that it could fit two or even three Earth's but now it's shrinking it wouldn't fit more than one earth these days the Giant Pacific octopus has nine brains three hearts and blue blood it can also change its texture and color to camouflage itself in a matter of seconds your fingers don't have muscles of their own they borrow them now all the muscles that move finger joints are in your forearms and palms some shredded cheese contains edible wood pulp called cellulose this ingredient doesn't do any harm when you digest it it's added to prevent the cheese from clumping together sound can influence the way you perceive the taste of your food low-frequency sounds enhance the bitterness while high-frequency noise brings out the sweetness so delicious your nose has at least 400 different scent receptors that's why most people can detect around 1 trillion different smells that's three to four times as many as the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy if two pieces of the same kind of metal touch in space they bond and get stuck together it doesn't happen on earth because water and air keep pieces apart people are more honest when they're tired that's why most confessions are made during late-night conversations your body loses from 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every hour within a day you shed almost a million skin cells no wonder your friends sometimes seem a little flaky they can't help it firefighters usually extinguish flames with wet water it's water mixed with special wetting agents these are chemicals that help water soak into objects and spread everywhere more easily the Sun is an average sized star and still it could fit 1,300,000 Earth's the star is also 333 thousand times as heavy as our planet people have been able to spell their emails in Morse code since 2004 that's when a new symbol at was added to the code for the first time the character is actually called a comet and consists of a and C signals with no break in between placebos sleep is when you make your brain believe you've slept well if you're convincing enough it can boost your brain performance a human hair which is one of the narrowest visible things in the world is more than a million atoms across 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 NASA has translated radio waves created by planets atmospheres into audible sounds that's how astronomers found out that Neptune sounds like ocean waves Jupiter like being underwater and Saturn's voice resembles background music to a horror movie here on earth it's bebop jazz now I made that one up the Sun surface is scorching hot but a bolt of lightning is five times hotter earth get struck by 100 lightning bolts every second which results in eight million lightning strikes a day and around three billion a year shocking astronauts tasted the first food grown and harvested in space in 2015 it was red romaine lettuce that had been growing in a special chamber for 15 months almost three percent of people have an inborn inability to recognize the voices of people they know this phenomenon is called phone agnosia there's no solid land under the North Pole all you can see there is sea ice by the way the gravitational pull is stronger at the poles and if you travel there you'll weigh a bit more besides all the heavy warm clothes you're wearing your decisions are more rational and your reasoning is sharper when you think in a foreign language crackers have holes in them so that when they're baked bubbles don't ruin the snap researchers asked 57 volunteers to try the same hot chocolate out of red cream white and orange colored cups almost all the participants agreed that the chocolate tasted better when they were drinking it out of orange cups make sense to me cats have 32 muscles in each ear thanks to these muscles kitties hear every little noise they help the ears rotate independently and thus detect sounds better pineapples have nothing in common with hinds when early explorers saw this fruit for the first time they thought it looked like pine cones hence the name if you need to figure out how ripe your cranberries are try dropping them on the ground if a cranberry is ready to eat it'll bounce off the floor farmers use this method to check if their product is ready for shipment the moon's gravity is only 17% of the Earth's if your weight was 100 pounds on our home planet you'd only weighs 17 pounds on the moon you would be able to walk a distance six times longer and carry a weight six times heavier there your mind wanders 30 percent of the time while you're doing your day-to-day tasks when you're walking or driving along a deserted Highway it might be even more up to 70% of the time cucumbers and celery are famous for containing a lot of water surprisingly potatoes are only 15 percent behind them you can actually juice a potato when fresh it contains 80% of liquid when you breathe through your nose one nostril always inhales more air than the other they swap over every 15 minutes or so one study also claims that when you breathe through your right nostril you get more oxygen than while doing it through the left one apparently your nose knows what to do chili peppers contain a chemical called capsaicin it tricks your mouth into believing it's being burned but all these unpleasant sensations are only in your head while your mouth is in your head for an accent syndrome is a real although extremely rare condition people who have this syndrome start speaking their native language with a foreign accent where'd visible matter for example planets and stars makes up just 5% of the universe the rest consists of invisible dark energy as 68% and dark matter about 27% it leaves us with 95% of space we know nothing about our achi Boudreaux phobia is an irrational fear of peanut butter getting stuck to the roof of your mouth hey if you like that one hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia who is one of the longest words in the dictionary and in an ironic twist is the name for a fear of long words a photon which is a tiny packet of light often spends more than 40,000 years to travel from the Sun's core to its surface but after that it needs just eight minutes to reach Earth the longest of person iron clothes and one go was 100 hours and this result was added to the Guinness World Records in 2015 Gareth Sanders from the UK I earned almost 2,000 items of clothing non-stop with no more than half a minute breaks in between hey if you're thinking what I'm thinking then yes he's the real Iron Man in the early days of photography a wide-open smile was seen as childish and rather impolite that's why photographers told people to say prunes instead of cheese this word kept the mouth taut polar bears tongues aren't black they're actually pink and only modeled with black that's why they may look dark blue or even purple they're also as smooth as dogs tongues yeah you get close enough to check that out the polar bear skin is black and it's long coarse hairs are hollow that's the reason why the animal looks white the airspace is in each hair scatter light as it bounces inside the horseshoe crab has eyes all over its body they're ten with some of them on top of the animal shell down its tail and near the mouth all these eyes help the crab get around this is also why crab bifocals are so expensive when you sleep your brain is getting cleaned special fluid flushes through it and washes away dangerous toxins and harmful proteins that build up there during the day hmm brain washing it's a good thing [Music]

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Length: 10min 31sec (631 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020