90+ Stunning Facts Unknown Until Just Recently

[Music] normally road signs give you precautions or inform you about something but in australia some roads are so long and boring people install signs to entertain drivers these signs can contain images of rich local fauna or trivia questions they keep you alert which can save your life in a fatigue zone more than 96 percent of romania's population owns a home which is a pretty amazing figure it's actually so amazing that romania is number one in the world for homeownership marge simpson's hairstyle was super tall because she was hiding her rabbit ears underneath the creators were going to make the big reveal in the last episode of the first season but the cartoon got too realistic realistic really scientists predict that pretty soon the number of people living on earth will reach the mark of 8 billion but even so such a number may not seem that big once you get to know that there are 10 quadrillion and that's 10 and 15 zeros ants on our planet no not your relative but what's more amazing is that the total weight of all people on earth is almost the same as that of all ants there's a 20 coin made in 1933 that was sold 70 years later for more than 7 billion also it was never actually used as currency the first puzzle came out in the 18th century by john spillsbury a map maker and engraver he mounted his maps on a piece of hardwood and cut around the borders of the countries this was intended to be an educational game that helped british students learn geography jigsaw puzzles came around almost a century later when fret saws became the dominant tools for cutting the shapes all pieces had unique forms so you couldn't fit a wrong piece in the wrong place just like people dogs and cats can be right or left handed or should i say right and left pod several studies claim that these animals usually favor one of their paws over the other they can also be ambidextrous and if they pitch for a baseball team a left-hander becomes a southpaw if you look at your computer keyboard you'll see two ridges on the f and j keys those help you position your hands and find the correct keys without looking the trend started decades ago when people started taking typing courses learned to use all 10 fingers while positioning their index fingers on the f and j keys a jiffy isn't just a figure of speech it's a real-time unit used in physics if we talk about the alternating current cycle in electricity when jiffy equals 1 50th or 1 60th of a second but jiffy can also be used to speak about the time light needs to travel a distance of the size of a neutron then one second is 300 000 billion billion yes two billion jiffys researchers recently found that bats know how to address one another individually and even have small disputes from time to time so that's why they get upside down now when you take a sip from a coffee cup with a lid it decreases air pressure inside the cup so air tries to get in the tiny hole on the lid allows air to enter that way so liquid can smoothly pour out the main hole victorians used to say prunes instead of cheese before taking a picture to look more serious smiling was reserved for the uneducated cats can't taste sugar it just so happens that their taste buds for sweet are not very responsive if your cat ate candy and was pretty delighted it doesn't mean that the bed has a sweet tooth it's probably more about the fat contained in that candy cellophane was invented more than a century ago to protect tablecloth from beverage bills though when it came out people bought it as a candy wrapping paper there's a myth that the colored rectangles have something to do with the ingredients of the toothpaste but the color bars are there in fact to indicate to the machines where the package must be cut folded and sealed different color codes are used for different packaging machines i like the other story better now there are cat breeds called puppy cats and it's exactly what it sounds like they behave more like young rambunctious dogs than the more usual dignified felines hey you ever wondered why a goat's pupils look so weird the horizontal rectangular shape gives them wider peripheral vision so that they can react faster to approaching danger in fact they have a 320 degree field of vision you and i only have 120. to find out if cranberries are ripe or not growers drop them and see if they can bounce over a wooden barrier only ripe berries can make it though the tab under a rear-view mirror in your car works great for an air freshener it's really a switch that goes up and down flip it one way and you're in a daytime driving mode seeing everything crisp and clear if you flip it the other way the reflection gets dimmer toning down the glare from headlights behind you [Music] bees have a total of five eyes two large ones on each side of their head and three smaller ones in the center bees don't sleep either they just remain motionless to save energy although there are 24 hours in a day there are more than 24 time zones on the globe some of them are just 45 or even 30 minutes apart from their closest neighbors when you're on your way back to the car after bagging up everything you bought use loops on a shopping cart to hang the bags now softer items like bread eggs fruit and veggies won't get squashed by the heavier goods on april 1st 2005 nasa successfully pulled an epic april fools prank they told people that they found water on mars and almost everybody believed it the inventor of the pin number which is redundant originally made it to be six digits long but since his wife said she could only remember four figures he changed it good boy the university of oxford is older than the aztec empire the university started as a learning hub in 1096 and became an educational institution in 1249 the aztec empire was founded in 1428. when exercising the fat that we burn up metabolizes to become carbon dioxide energy and water so in reality we exhale the fat that we get rid of barbie's full name is barbara millicent roberts her parents are george and margaret roberts from wisconsin of all places the most venomous snake in australia is the inland taipan nicknamed the fierce snake 21 out of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world just happen to live in australia the average snail has more than 14 000 teeth and some of them can cause you real damage but do they brush after meals on your plants using a tiny toothbrush a long time ago people would sometimes shave off small amounts from coins made of precious metals to sell while passing the coins for the real deal to make sure a coin wasn't tampered with grooves on the edges appeared that's why dimes and quarters have them leaves on trees turn yellow and red come fall because they don't have enough warmth and sunlight to produce the green pigment chlorophyll cold nights and bright sunny days mean more vibrant colors the fingernails on your dominant hand grow faster so if you're a lefty you might have to clip those more often if you ever had problems with popping chocolates from the box look at those little holes around them they're there to help you if you push a hole right next to the candy it'll jump out easily people who know two or more languages subconsciously change their personality depending on the language they're speaking at the moment roosters have built-in earplugs that keep them from going deaf from their own noise croissants that many see as one of the symbols of france were invented in vienna austria and only came to france in the 1830s hey camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from sand two of the eyelids have eyelashes and the third one is a thin membrane that acts as a wiper that cleans dirt from the eyes unlike regular eyelids the membrane layer closes horizontally the tasmanian devil is mostly nocturnal and likes to be by itself but they do like to take part in communal feeding that is a group of them will feed on the same food item the cougar is a guinness record holder because it has more names than any other animal it's known as the panther mountain lion puma and 40 other english 25 native north american and 18 native south american names here kitty some people are more emotional than others simply because their brains produce way more chemicals i think i may have more formaldehyde than most placed in the dishwasher mugs are supposed to be upside down cleaning water starts spraying on top and below them to make them shine a manufacturing company saw that when people took the mugs out of the dishwater water would accumulate on the top and drip all over them so they came up with a tiny groove on the side to allow water to escape dingos have rotating wrists just like us this helps them climb trees use their paws like hands to catch food and even open doors we blink almost 30 000 times per day if we were to count how long our eyes remain closed it would equal a half an hour the statue of liberty is made of copper so it was originally the same color as a penny it's turned completely green because of oxidation in 1920 well it's not easy being green so your dog keeps eating grass even though you feed it plenty of food so why no worries it's normal canine behavior your pooch either doesn't have enough fiber in its diet or simply likes the taste of grass some dogs munch on grass when they have an upset stomach in this case they swallow it quickly barely chewing it long unchewed stems tickle their throat and help them barf up whatever's upsetting their belly the perfect s.a.t score in the u.s is 1600 points bill gates scored 1590 and mark zuckerberg got somewhere between 1590 and 1600. hydropower used to make up over 50 percent of all the power used in sri lanka and even though it's around 20 percent now it's still pretty impressive this hydropowered electricity is possible thanks to waterfalls rivers and abundant rains in the country there's a town in honduras where every year at around the same time of the year it rains fish scientists don't have an explanation for this phenomenon yet salvador dali himself designed the chupachup's logo in 1969. he also insisted that it should be placed on top of the wrapper so that everyone could see it snake island is an island near the coast of brazil in the atlantic ocean this 110 acre piece of land houses more than four thousand snakes meaning that you could see a snake for every six yards if people were allowed to set foot on this island no thanks when the typewriter was first invented in 1829 the keys were arranged in alphabetical order but when someone typed too fast the keys got jammed so in 1867 the qwerty keyboard was introduced to slow typists down the numbers on the fruit stickers tell you how exactly they were grown if there are four digits and the first is four or three the fruit has been sprayed with pesticides if there are five digits and the first is nine the fruit has been grown organically if there are five digits and the first is eight the fruit has been genetically modified is all that clear yeah me neither originally sport coats were made to be worn outdoors for sports they had pieces of fabric in the elbows because it was easier and cheaper to replace just those parts than buy a brand new coat later university professors and teachers began wearing them the patches came in handy when the elbows rubbed against the desk and riding board 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 movie theaters make around 85 percent of their profit from the food they sell that's because when selling their tickets they share their profit with movie distributors so a bag of popcorn that costs 35 cents sells for almost 20 times that amount an ear of corn always contains an even number of rows normally 16 of them and kernels 800 on average you can see rainbows mostly in the morning or late afternoon they occur only when there are water droplets in the air and the sun is shining from behind your back the sun also has to be less than 40 degrees above the horizon you can see the world's largest stalagmite which is a rock rising from the floor of a cave in cuba in cuevos san martin inferno there grows a monstrosity that has already reached the height of 220 feet flamingos are born white or gray it takes them up to three years to get their mature pink orange or red plumage and the color of their feathers changes because they eat a lot of brine shrimp and algae that's why zoo flamingos might turn white if there's not enough of those ingredients in their diet traffic lights can be blue yes you can see it in japan some traffic lights there turn blue instead of green because historically both colors were named with the same word to be able to stand straight and remain attentive for long periods of time chinese military men put a small needle right in their collar how the people of turkey are the biggest tea lovers in the world the average person uses 16 pounds of tea leaves per year it means most people drink three to five cups of tea every day minnie mouse's full name was supposedly minerva and mickey was going to be named mortimer but that was later changed and mortimer became mickey's rival wombats love to dig and have sharp claws to help them move a lot of dirt quickly they dig underground burrows and tunnels that can go on for miles now folks used to believe that people yawn because their body needs to take in more oxygen but that theory was revised in a 2014 physiological research scientists studied 120 individuals and found that yawning happened more in the summer and less in the winter it's the brain's immediate response to regulating its temperature when it gets high according to british specialists cows develop strong social bonds and even have their own bffs ah bovine friends forever when you travel along the trans-canada highway and reach quebec province pay attention you may see the most cheerful town in the world san luis do ha-ha yep just like that with two has and two exclamation marks the town even has a guinness world record for the most exclamation marks in a town named bart simpson should be older now than his mother was in the first season of the show that is if the yellow family aged normally when watermelons are baked or grilled they lose their watery granular texture and become rather tough there's even a recipe called watermelon steak where the watermelon does taste a bit like meat have you ever said anything contradictory and someone told you hey that's an oxymoron well the word itself means exactly that in greek oxy means smart and [ __ ] means dull brazil has won the most fifa world cups in history with five victories so far this south american country has a knack for producing amazingly talented soccer players an american newspaper once published a paper titled the unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of a writer's block it had a total of zero words i'd love to read that if you take a close look at your microwave door you'll see a black mesh border with tiny dots on it those act as a shield to block electromagnetic fields stopping the radiation from getting through and cooking you but still allows you to see what's happening think of how a coffee filter holds the coffee drinks but allows the liquid to escape bubble wrap was originally created to serve as a stylish 3d wallpaper when the idea failed it was rebranded as a greenhouse insulation it wasn't until a year later when people discovered its amazing packaging effects every episode of friends has the word friends in it who would have thought animals stay clear of power lines because those give off flashes of ultraviolet light and about 35 different animal species are also sensitive to uv radiation but if we talk about all the mammals in the world only apes and humans don't see ultraviolet rays now sea horses pair up for life and often travel around together holding each other's tails by the way it's the male that carries the couple's eggs crocodiles can't stick their tongues out want to know how to tell a crocodile from an alligator alligators can stick out their tongues while crocodiles don't there is a membrane that holds their tongue in place on the roof of their mouth so that it doesn't move which protects their airway when they spend so much time underwater see that small magnetic lock on a fuel hose at the gas station every time someone drives away with the gas nozzle still attached to their car yes they do it the lock detaches the hose automatically around 89 million visitors set foot on french soil every year it makes france the most visited country in the world penguins are the only birds that can't fly but they can't swim they spend 50 of their life in the water and the other half on land you won't find the world's longest mountain range anywhere on the surface of the planet because it's underwater the mid-atlantic ocean ridge located surprise surprise in the atlantic ocean is almost 26 000 miles long which is as long as five great walls of china located one after another no wonder that makes it the longest mountain range on earth the pattern of little black dots on car windows minimizes possible distractions for your eyes also since the black part known as frit naturally gets warmer than the clear part they prevent the windshield from deforming by spreading the heat evenly back in the 20th century iowa native charles osborne hiccuped for 68 years straight probably right through church and everything too elephants can't jump you might have seen them jumping in cartoons but it's actually impossible and not only because it's hard to do when you weigh 4 tons or more the elephants have relatively weak leg muscles and fairly inflexible ankles the kia a large new zealand birdie from the parrot family likes prying apart rubber strips from around car windows hey everybody needs a hobby a study from new zealand discovered that pigeons can do simple math well that adds up our hands and toes wrinkle when we spend time in the water in order to improve our grip when trying to get wet or submerged objects the first golf balls were absolutely smooth but then players notice that scuffed and cracked balls perform much better that's why now all golf balls have dimples that make them travel almost twice farther nutella was invented in italy more than 50 years ago when a pastry chef mixed a ton of hazelnuts into cocoa to extend his chocolate supply there are over 10 000 beaches in australia it would take you about 27 years to visit a new one each day

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Length: 21min 15sec (1275 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 29 2020