Everyone Thought It Was a Myth but It's Real

it's partly true nothing happens if you dip your pinky for a second into the red hot lead there is one condition you need to dip it into the water first the water between the skin and the metal will evaporate creating a vapor layer so it will repel metal for a second still you don't want to perform this stunt a sandwich before bedtime provokes the appearance of nightmares any late night meal increases metabolism and body temperature it activates the brain which leads to not very sweet dreams boo just kidding mosquitoes bite some people more than others the most delicious humans are those with typo blood also these insects have excellent eyesight they're attracted to green black and red so before you go camping check the color of your clothes birds are the only surviving dinosaurs they evolve from theropods the dinosaurs that ran on two legs yep t-rex is a distant relative of chickens ostriches and even hummingbirds the phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet handle also beware of office desks since they have hundreds of times more bacteria per square inch than office toilet seats ew ants can take over the world argentinian ants have built colonies in every part of the planet except antarctica insects from different territories are on good terms and never have conflicts each human being is 99.9 empty space kind of like my brain your body like any other object in the universe consists of atoms at the center of the atoms there's a super small nucleus if you zoom the atom up to the size of a basketball you still won't see the core if it were possible to get all the empty space out of your body you'd probably be as tiny as a grain of sand a head of human hair can support from five to eight tons this weight won't damage individual strands but the scalp can't withstand such pressure hypothetically you can see the past for example when you look into the starry sky when the sun disappears we see it only after eight minutes this is how long it takes for sunlight to reach the earth glass is an amorphous substance and it violates many laws of physics it's solid but if you look at it under a microscope it looks liquid in reality it's neither liquid nor solid it happens because the heat needed to produce glass changes the way molecules behave it's like when you iron the clothes and fibers change because of high temperatures scientists from japan played audio recordings for cats to prove they're truly dismissive in those recordings the owners of the cats called them by their names cat's pupils dilated the animals moved their tails legs or ears sure cats could hear human voices but they rarely respond it's all about evolution cats came to humans because they were attracted by mice that ate grains they lived close to people but were never tamed trees have their own underground internet mycelium filaments interconnect the roots of 90 of trees trees exchange information and nutrients through them they warn each other about danger and fight parasites together trillions of microorganisms live inside you they make up three percent of your body weight and weigh up to six pounds microorganisms play a significant role they help with digestion absorb nutrients and do many other things we never notice in comparison with microorganisms there are really few people on our planet a teaspoon of soil contains more living organisms than there are humans on planet earth go ahead count them human brain capacity has a limit scientists estimate that your brain can store 2.5 million gigabytes of data to use up all your limits you need to upload a 300 years long high quality video right into your memory go ahead i'll wait since 1950 humanity has mined nearly 200 000 tons of gold if we made a cube out of all this metal it would be 70 feet high and wide recent data from scientists confirmed that in the earth's core there are vast reserves of gold the metal is enough to cover all the planet and people might have gold up to their knees the problem is we can't mine it from there scientists used to believe 400 billion trees were growing on earth but there are over 3 trillion of them or 420 trees per person there are more trees on earth than there are stars in the milky way galaxy wrangle island was the last place where mammoths lived these giant animals disappeared about four thousand years ago by this time the great pyramid in giza had been around for only 500 years archaeologists have found honeypots that are 3000 years old in egypt they didn't spoil and it turned out to be edible it's possible because of the chemical composition of this product bacteria and insects that can spoil honey can't live in it you're drinking the same water that dinosaurs drank the water on our planet is the same as it was billions of years ago only a tiny portion of the liquid has evaporated by the way scientists still don't know exactly where the water came from we have a detailed map of the moon in mars still over 80 percent of the earth's ocean is unmapped and unexplored we can't study the oceans properly because of pressure cold and lack of light underneath billions of tons of water the myth that you can't put hot food in the fridge is true if you freeze some hot soup or roasted meat the food might lose its nutritional value you also risk breaking the refrigerator before freezing it's best to wait for the temperature of the food to drop to room temperature there's a biologically immortal creature on earth a transparent jellyfish called nah i'll leave it on the screen when it reaches maturity it sinks to the bottom and turns into a polyp from a polyp the creature again turns into a jellyfish the number of rebirths is unlimited you can break a glass with your voice but it's pretty hard the volume of your screen must be at least 105 decibels and it must last about two to three seconds the jackhammer works at a volume of 90 decibels hey i had a gym teacher once who was named jack hammer sailors from all over the world talked about the giant squid they met on their voyages for many years scientists considered monsters with long tentacles to be a myth but in 2004 the first photo of a squid was taken they exist scientists have registered an animal that has grown to 43 feet holy calamari flamingos are white the bird turns pink due to beta-carotene this pigment is found in the algae and the shrimp it feeds on you can change your skin color too if you eat a lot of carrots your skin will turn slightly orange this will happen because of the high beta-carotene content in the vegetable your nose and ears get bigger every year this isn't due to an increase in size but due to gravity with age the cartilage of the nose and ears weakens because of this they sag and appear more prominent the kepler space telescope expedition confirmed that earth isn't unique most likely our world isn't the only place in the universe where there's life the device the size of a minibus flew through space for nine years during this time it confirmed the existence of 300 million potentially habitable planets they have a solid surface liquid water and nearby stars that look like our sun all plants fungi animals and humans evolved from a single microbe scientists called it luca the last universal common ancestor the microbe was discovered by comparing the genes of living beings and their descendants luca lived 4.5 billion years ago it lived in the craters of deep sea volcanoes among hot lava and water hey i think we should have a family reunion don't you recent research has shown that neanderthals could hibernate like bears this is confirmed by the bones of ancient people from the spanish cave sema del oesos scientists have found signs of slow bone metabolism it proves neanderthals slept for months and did not leave the cave the myth that closed eyes improve memory is true when your eyes are closed you don't need to memorize information visually and the environment does not distract you this frees up your brain energy and makes the memory more efficient the acidity levels of the human gastric juice and the acid from the car battery are almost identical plastic and even metal will dissolve in your stomach if we drop a metal plate the size of a penny into gastric juice there will only be about 63 of it remaining within 24 hours you can put a shark in a trance for 15 minutes to do this you need to stroke its nose with your hand yeah you first i'll watch from here thanks this sort of hypnosis is called tonic immobility thanks to the receptors in the shark's nose when stroked the receptors send many signals and the shark's brain cannot process them all i know the feeling

Channel: BRIGHT SIDE

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Length: 9min 24sec (564 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 18 2021