60+ Cool Facts I Spent All Night Googling and You Will Too

snails have one of the craziest sleeping patterns in the world they can catch some z's for an hour or two and then stay awake for 30 hours at a time these animals also have bizarre hibernation periods those can last for several years and if you saute them with some garlic they are delicious coyotes and badgers often hunt together badgers know how to get prey out of its burrows and coyotes are skilled at chasing animals on the ground plus badgers have a heightened sense of smell and coyotes have excellent vision their cooperation works like this a badger digs out a small critter and makes it run toward a coyote that's waiting nearby and dinner is served doesn't say which critter gets the first bite the whale shark one of the largest fish in the world has several thousand tiny teeth it uses them to eat veggies the shark is a filter feeder and prefers to munch on plants algae and plankton the plankton are not happy about this but such is life lots of people start laughing after they sneeze several times in a row that's because sneezing makes you happy when you do it your body releases endorphins those are hormones responsible for dealing with stress elves are so flexible they can twist their heads in almost a full circle all thanks to the fact that their heads are connected to their body by only one socket pivot people have two of those and it seriously limits our abilities owls also have many vertebrae tiny bones that make up the spine and neck it's another thing that helps them to perform their head swiveling trick oh yeah they have to move their entire head because owls can't move their eyes around the sea level is different throughout the world and the world's ocean surface isn't flat it's because of the winds and the difference in gravity it's influenced by the mass of underwater mountains most astronauts claim space smells like searing steak or barbecue that's exactly the odor that hangs around after someone finishes a space walk but some space explorers are sure it smells like heated metal or maybe heated metal or searing steak smells like space i mean what was there first your most vivid dreams happen during rem rapid eye movement sleep this stage doesn't last long and happens 90 to 120 minutes apart throughout the night during rem sleep most of the voluntary muscles in your body get paralyzed this way you can't harm yourself while acting out a dream except when you fall out of bed trust me it's weird there are waterfalls in the ocean they occur when there is a big difference in water temperature then colder water flows down and under warmer and therefore less dense layers the largest known waterfall on earth lies between iceland and greenland the giant is 11 hundred feet tall the world's largest sand image was as big as twelve olympic size swimming pools and could be seen from space it was created in 2019 in dubai it took the artist more than 2 400 hours to finish their work the statue of liberty is a very popular site and thousands of tourists see it every day however there is something about the statute that many people overlook the monument was presented to the usa by the people of france it symbolizes freedom this is the reason why a broken chain lies at the feet of the statue it's a sort of metaphor that only a few people notice a hole in the center of a spaghetti spoon exists not only to strain water but also to measure a portion of spaghetti that hole fits exactly one serving if you grab a beverage in a glass bottle at the base your drink will get warmer because of the body heat that's why most of them have long necks carrying a bottle by the neck keeps your beverage chill besides holding it that way is just easier however don't do this with your kids the square shaped spoon that goes with mcflurry helps to mix the ice cream toppings through the dessert the spoon hooks directly into a machine and spins around however don't do this with your kids ever forgot which side your gas tank was on that's what a small arrow or a triangle on your dashboard is for if it points left the gas tank door is on the left if it points right that's right it's on the right all right padlocks that are used outside quickly get out of order because of the rain see this little hole in the bottom it's made for pouring engine oil inside do this and the key will again turn in the lock without any difficulty the small disc under the lid of plastic water and soda bottles creates a seal that keeps both liquid and carbonation inside without it your soda would go flat pretty fast many doors have knobs made of brass because brass prevents the spread of germs a little hole on the top of a lollipop stick is there to make it hard for the candy to come off of the stick when the melted candy is poured into the mold some of it will seep into the hole and harden [Music] you keep banging the bottle of a glass ketchup jar but nothing's coming out here's a little tip turn your ketchup bottle at an angle and tap on the middle of the neck 21 out of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world just happen to live in australia australia's saltwater crocodiles are the largest reptiles in the world growing up to 20 feet long that's half as long as a school bus there are also some of the oldest appearing over 240 million years ago crocs like living in australia's murky swamp waters and can hold their breath for up to an hour so if you're walking along the water's edge and don't see a crocodile that doesn't mean it isn't there as huge as they are crocs can swim up to 20 miles per hour so forget about out swimming one they have special valves in their mouths that keep water from flooding in so they can quickly swim a long way without coming up for air another unique reptile found in australia is the thorny dragon it's a small lizard whose entire body is covered in you guessed it raised thorny skin this is its defense against predators don't worry buddy i wouldn't want to take a bite australia is home to about 2 400 species of spiders not all of them are venomous but some are extremely dangerous like the sydney funnel web spider it's the country's most venomous with a bite that causes damage to internal organs and major body tissues the antidote was made widely available in 1981 so as long as you get to the hospital asap you'll be fine let's not forget about local sea life australia's oceans boast 4 000 different kinds of fish and 1700 species of coral it's home to the famous great barrier reef after all lots of different sharks stingrays turtles and dolphins can be found in australia's oceans too with all that biodiversity this place is a hot spot for divers there are also some pretty weird alien-like creatures in australia's oceans fire worms with their short stinging tentacles and sea urchins that have strange and sometimes poisonous colorful spines there are more than 24 time zones in the world which means that not all of them are exactly one hour apart from each other and that's true many time zones have only a 30 or 45 minute difference from the neighboring ones remember to tell me in the comments below about the time zone you live in despite a popular misconception when you lose weight your fat cells don't just disappear into thin air nope they just become smaller and vice versa when you gain some additional pounds your fat cells grow in size the mimic octopus has a perfect defense system it can not only change its color but also take the shapes of other animals for example flounders sea snakes or lionfish if you decided to save a few bucks by charging your smartphone less often let me disappoint you to charge a cell phone you need teeny amounts of electricity that's why the maximum amount of money you can save within a year is less than a buck the world's population is constantly growing and a lot of people find it a bit concerning but what if i tell you that although seven and a half billion people living on earth right now stood shoulder to shoulder they would occupy just 500 square miles which is the same as the territory of los angeles now this huge number sounds more manageable right mcdonald's once created bubble gum flavored broccoli to encourage kids to eat more healthfully sadly the experiment didn't end successfully child testers were terribly confused by the taste the weird broccoli was a failure um couldn't see that coming huh the microbes living inside humans turned out to be way more diverse than researchers previously thought and what's even worse almost 99 of them are unknown to science well that's disturbing the first oranges that were brought from southeast asia weren't orange it was a tangerine pomelo hybrid and its color was green in the 18th century sugar was so expensive that only rich people could afford it and when someone had a black decayed tooth they were considered the creme de la creme or a big deal how times have changed sonic the hedgehog was put in the guinness book of records for being the fastest video game character of all time after all he runs faster than the speed of light our noses can detect more than one trillion smells sounds impressive but a dog sniffer can detect ten thousand times more than that well humans can smell if there's a teaspoon of sugar in their coffee a dog can smell a teaspoon of sugar in 1 million gallons of water goats were the first to discover coffee's energizing effects they started feeding on coffee beans and got hyperactive for the rest of the day the goat owner noticed this and spread the word the average person will grow almost 600 miles of hair over a lifetime that says twice as long as the atmosphere is thick two billion pencils are manufactured every year in the u.s alone if you laid them all on the ground end to end they'd circle the earth's equator nine times and each of those pencils can write forty five words and draw a line that's over 30 miles long the difference between mass and weight is that your mass is always the same but your weight changes depending on your location so if you weigh 100 pounds on earth you'd only be 38 pounds on mars have you ever thrown an apple in a river and seen it float that's because it's 23 percent air in the 1800s cowboys used to wear their watches on chains to keep them protected a brand introduced the tiny little pockets we have on our jeans today [Music] peanuts aren't nuts they belong to the botanical family of febesie which are legumes mars daytime sky is dusty red and its dusks are a beautiful shade of blue martians themselves are little and green the founders of portland both wanted to name it after their home towns they decided to flip a coin and if it landed the other way around the city would be named boston according to some studies dogs can easily smell a specific scent that cancer produces in a person cats have two separate sets of vocal cords they use one of them for purring and another one for meowing just like narrators the apollo astronauts who got to fly to the moon had to go through u.s customs after they got back yeah it was a joke those funny nasa guys sweat itself doesn't have any odor at all it's the bacteria on your skin that breaks it down and causes it to smell bad barbie doll's full name is barbara millicent roberts so she's really barbie milly bob the twitter logo bird also has a name larry it was named after larry bird a former nba player who used to play for one of the twitter co-founders home state team a british study stated that on average children ask about 300 questions or one question every two and a half minutes every day it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open it's just that most of the time your blinking instinct naturally kicks in yeah i've sprayed my windshield a few times myself if you keep a goldfish in a dark room it'll eventually become a bit paler there are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones most of them vacation in miami yawning can occur if you hear see or even think about yawning and it's not only humans who are affected by it chimpanzees experience this too so does my dog

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Length: 14min 28sec (868 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 24 2021