- [Narrator] Following
on from our previous tongue and cheek videos
about 10 insignificant, but really interesting things
that aren't what they seem. Here are 10 more everyday things that prove your life is a lie. - Amazing. - [Narrator] Number 10, Ugly
Betty wasn't really ugly. Hit ABC drama Ugly Betty drew
praise from media commentators for it's refreshing willingness to put an unattractive character at
the forefront of the show. What a positive and uplifting example Ugly Betty would set to
young girls everywhere who weren't blessed with
movie star good looks. There was only one flaw in the plan. It was quickly discovered that the actress who plays Ugly Betty, America Ferrera, has film star good looks and
is indeed now a film star. It turns out that
Hollywood is so superficial it can't even bear to cast an
ugly girl for an ugly part. Instead, they forced a
pair of ludicrous braces, a dodgy haircut and
unflattering clothes on Ferrera and had her masquerade as a geek. In Hollywood, image really is everything. Number nine, bulls don't give
a damn about the color red. Like a rag to a bull, have
you heard that phrase? If you haven't, you're
doubtless still aware on at least some level that the color red apparently makes bulls go crazy. After all, that's why Spanish matadors always have red flags, right? That's why your grandfather warned you never to wear red on the farm. The belief that bulls
despair the color red is one of the most
widely held myths around and it is a myth. Want to know why? Bulls can't even see the color red. They are colorblind as
far as red is concerned and charge because they see fabric moving or maybe just because they believe matadors deserved to be gored. The Discovery Channel TV
show tested the myth out by varying the color
of flags waved at bulls between red, blue, and white. The thing that determined how
furiously the bulls charged wasn't the color of the
flag but how much it moved. Better change that phrase to like a rapidly moving flag to a bull. Number eight, Gimli was the tallest in the fellowship of the ring. It's the business of Hollywood
to deceive and bedazzle us. We all know that. You'll still be slightly surprised to hear that the actor who played Gimli the dwarf in the phenomenally successful
Lord of the Ring movies, Jonathan Rhys-Davies was six foot one, the tallest of all the actors who made up the fellowship of the ring. That's right, not only is
the real life Gimli the dwarf taller than all the hobbits, he's also taller than Aragorn, played by the five foot
eleven Viggo Mortensen and the rangy wizard Gandalf
played by Ian McKellen, who is also five foot eleven. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy has drawn plenty of praise
for it's special effects, but while critics swooned over Gollum, walking trees, and jaw dropping battles, we missed arguably the most convincing, and let's admit it, bewildering
special effect of all, making your tallest
actor look the shortest. The way they fooled use was ingenious. They sometimes used scaled doubles to play the actors so that they could get the correct proportional
height of each character. In the novel, dwarves are
slightly taller than hobbits, so they used two scale
sets instead of three by casting taller than average
actors, like Rhys-Davies, to play dwarves, then
combined dwarves and hobbits into one size scale. They also ingeniously
used forced perspective on a level never seen
before in the film industry. Number seven, proof that contemporary art isn't worth all it's made out to be. Ninety percent of
contemporary art is a crook. Most people would agree with that. Others would say the 99% of it is a crook. Scottish author William Boyd, presumably tiring of people claiming that unmade beds or the act of
turning a light switch on or off were acts of genius
equivalent to the irvra of Da Vinci or Michelangelo,
devised a cunning ploy to catch out the art world. He wrote a biography of a
fictional artist called Nat Tate and launched the book at a
commemoration of Tate's work, with luminaries like
David Bowie and Gore Vidal attending to add credence
to the Nat Tate story. As well paid art critics
lined up to reminisce about Tate's neglected genius
and his influential artworks, which were actually sketched by Boyd, the hoax was revealed and the
art world was forced, briefly, to look its own absurdity in the face. Their faces must have been a picture. Number six, earwigs want
nothing to do with your ears. Earwigs. We shudder at the thought. Creepy crawlies who want
to slide into your ears and lay their eggs there
so their next generation can taunt you from birth. Some have even suggested that the critters can burrow through your brain. That's nasty stuff, but
fortunately fictional. It's true that earwigs have
been found in human ears, but they have no more
inclination to crawl in there than any other insect or arachnid that has mistaken the dark warmth of a
human ear for a hiding place. In fact, the natural habitat of earwigs is moist, rotting wood. Perhaps that explains why they're attached to some people's heads. A quick language check
identifies how common the earwig misconception is. The French translation of
an earwig means ear piercer. From German, they translate to earworm and the Russians go for ear turner. Next time you see someone
French, German, or Russian, remind them that they're
just as wrong as us. And so, how did it get it's name? Well, entomologists suggest
that the origin of the name is a reference to the
appearance of the hind wings, which are unique and
distinctive among insects and resemble a human ear when unfolded. Number five, Napoleon
Syndrome means average height. Poor Napoleon, the legendary
strategist and conqueror, was one of the most powerful
and influential men of his time but is now a byword for
male height insecurity. So called Napoleon Syndrome. It turns out, however, that
Napoleon wasn't even small. Though listed as slightly short, five foot two by French sources, it turns out that the
equivalent height in English is a healthier five foot seven. By coincidence, exactly the height of the average Frenchman
during Napoleon's reign. Napoleon's nickname, The Little Corporal, may be partially responsible for the myth, but historians consider
it a term of affection by his contemporaries rather
than the insult it has become. It has also been hypothesized that because Napoleon surrounded
himself with the biggest, toughest guards around,
he would have obviously appeared small in comparison. Next time someone claims
you have Napoleon Syndrome take pleasure in putting them right. Number four, the dinosaurs
were more accurately killed by bad luck. Anyone who watched
Jurassic Park knows that it must have taken something serious to wipe the dinosaurs out. A nine mile wide asteroid sounds like it might have been able to do the job, but when is life ever as simple as that? Two recent studies suggest it was something far more profound
that killed the dinos, bad luck. Dr. Steve Brusatte of Edinburgh University published an article in the
journal Biological Reviews claiming that it was colossal bad luck that wiped out the dinosaurs
with the meteor strike arriving at the time when sea level rises and volcanic activity
created a perfect storm. Brusatte claimed that if
the asteroid had struck a few million years later or earlier, the dinosaurs would have
survived the impact, while an even newer study claims that if the meteor had struck
just thirty second earlier, they would have survived. The meteor struck an area of the seabed where there happens to be a
high concentration of sulfur which was thrown into the
air and blocked out sunlight, the ultimate cause of
the dinosaur's demise. Had it had struck elsewhere,
the dinos could've made it through and if they had, mammals would have never achieved the dominance that has
led to human supremacy, meaning you wouldn't be
watching this video right now. Number three, the sun is not yellow. Some things you really take for granted. The sea is blue, the grass
is green, the sun is yellow or maybe orange, perhaps
with a bit of red, but certainly a warm color. All wrong. Actually the sun is white. So scientists say and
who can argue with them. Support for the scientist's
apparently outlandish claims come from pictures of
the sun taken in space where does it appear
to be a perfect white. It's the interaction of sunlight
with the Earth's atmosphere that makes it appear yellow,
orange, or red to us. These wavelengths of light
are less easily dispersed by the Earth's atmosphere than the other colors in the spectrum-
blue, indigo, and violet. So are the colors our eyes
pick out when we look upwards. The reason the sun can
appear reddish at dawn is because the sun is closer
to the horizon of the Earth at this time and even more
blue light is deflected away. It seems you can't even trust
your eyes in this world. Number two, Eve didn't
necessarily eat an apple. When I say Eve, you say
apple or maybe Adam. But the other A word isn't far away. Poor Eve has a lot of weight
to carry on her shoulders. In our day of Haribo's, cheesecakes, and triple chocolate muffins, an apple seems even
less worth the price of casting humanity out of the Garden of Eden and into the big, bad world as we know it. It has been pointed out, however, that nowhere in the Bible does it specify that Eve actually ate an apple. Rather, the exact quote makes reference to a forbidden fruit. Who's to say Eve didn't
have a tangerine or a grape? Surely a perfectly moist peach or a sweet slab of melon
is more worth the price of eternal damnation than a Granny Smith. Milton's influential poem, Paradise Lost, is cited by many as the reason we believe Eve ate an apple as this is
the fruit featured in the poem. But it isn't necessarily
the fruit in the Bible. Number one, Count Dracula's wanted poster. Movies have the power
to shape our world view and impact images in our minds. When you close your eyes
and picture Count Dracula, it seems inevitable that
a black and white image of a pallid man with dark
hair, a widow's peak, a cape and a smooth, thin
face will come to mind. The face of Bela Lugosi who played Dracula in an iconic 1931 movie. Dracula predates Lugosi, however. He originated as a titular
character of Bram Stoker's novel where he was described in some detail. Brian Joseph Davis uses
police mugshot techniques to recreate images of fictional characters from their descriptions of their creators and Stoker's Dracula looks
markedly different to Lugosi. For one thing, he has white
hair and a handlebar mustache. Picture that. Dracula with a biker's mustache. Your life will never be the same again. So there you have it. Which one surprised you the most? Let me know in the comments
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