lightning will never Strike the same spot twice mm- not true the Empire State Building was one struck eight times in only 24 minutes there was a terrible storm and nothing could or can generally keep lightning away from the place that got hit if a struck place has features that attracted the lightning in the first place like terrain shape standing water or height it may Attract it once again you have so much DNA in your body that you can actually stretch it from the Sun to Pluto and back true and not just once 177 times of course you're not going to look the same after you do that crocodiles are one of the oldest species in the world yep they have been around for 200 million years already like my neighbors down the street AP possums sleep while hanging by their tails you can see that in cartoons and some photos but in general they don't their tails are really strong so these animals can grip branches and hold their weight but only for short periods adults are really too heavy to stay in this position for too long so they wouldn't get much rest goldfish have a 3se second long memory nope those colorful fish are actually really smart one study showed goldfish could tell the difference between two classical songs they're not quick Learners true but after over 100 sessions they did it which wouldn't be possible if their memory could really last only for 3 seconds one type of salamander um you can read that on your own go ahead can extend its tongue over half half of its body length in only 7 milliseconds true that's 50 times faster than a blink of an eye who got to be fast to catch that tongue map people can multitask not true checking emails talking on the phone cooking it seems like doing several things at the same time saves time but research shows multitasking is not quite possible our brain is wired to do one thing at a time so when we think we're multitasking it's actually switching tasks which can take even longer rather rather than saving us some time as well as whittling down our attention spans Earth is not the only planet with water NASA discovered Jupiter had an ocean with twice as much water as we have on our planet it's right under a layer of ice even Mars has some liquid water flowing also the Earth is round or is it technically it has flattened poles together with a bulge at the equator that way it has an irregular shape of an ellipsoid zombies are not made up true okay humans can't turn into ones as we see in movies but the animal kingdom has its zombies for instance there's a type of fungus that takes over ants spreading specific chemicals in their brains that makes an ant leave its family looking for the place where this fungus wants to live the world's biggest waterfall is under the ocean oh very true it's in the Nordic Seas the cold seawater is denser than the warm waterfall the drop is almost 2 m long the smallest wasp in the world is not bigger than an amoeba true this wasp has the same body parts as other bugs like eyes Wings brain legs and more but it's just 0.008 in Long which in most cases makes it smaller than one- celled organisms we also know as amibas snow can only be white not true and I'm not talking about the snow near fire hydrant for example there are some mountains with pink snow like the Sierra Nevada in Califor California its color is caused by a certain type of algae living there Aurora Borealis has a sister true it's called Aurora australas and you can see it in the southern hemisphere the best time to see it is in Winter over 99% of atoms is empty space true if we collected all the people in the world together and removed all the empty space between the atoms out of them the population of Earth would fit into the size of an average orange I think we should try that then I could finally get a seat on the bus dolphins communicate and call each other by names true they use specific vocal whistles to identify each other so long and thanks for all the fish the toilet flushes in different directions when on different hemispheres nope the direction is the same whether the toilet is in Australia or France really a snail can have a pretty extended nap true some snails can sleep for around 3 years years in a row sharks smell just one tiny drop of blood from miles away and not quite sure their brain region in charge of smelling odors is enlarged but the ocean is really big plus it takes time for odor molecules to spread in liquid on a pretty good day with favorable currents a shark May smell the prey from a distance of a couple of football fields away but not miles finally Penguins propose to their significant other true they're monogamous and after choosing mate the male gives the female a pebble to show his affection a check this out each zebra has its own unique pattern of Stripes just as people have their own unique fingerprints is it just a myth or is it the truth what do you think it's true stripes on each zebra form a unique pattern so it's impossible to find two zebras that are exactly the same the stylish black and white pattern serves as an optical illusion to confuse and scare away their key enemies predators and annoying insects such as tis flies or horse flies zebras are probably aware of how fabulous they are because they take time to groom one another so if you ever see two zebras standing close to one another they aren't biting each other it's a friendly Beauty routine unlike humans zebras can't scratch themselves on their own that easily so they're just pulling loose hairs off each other I do that although zebras live in herds they usually creat smaller family groups a male several females and their offspring and each member of that group is unique when it comes to their stripe patterns all bats are blind would you buy it nah it's just a myth being blind as a bat is a figure of speech and it comes from the assumption that bats cannot see properly in ancient times also known as before the 21 Century people used to think that bats were blind judging these charismatic creatures by their weird flight patterns many bats do use echolocation to navigate but still all of them can see here comes the next one lobsters are monogamous and stay together for a lifetime true or false what do you say well sorry to spoil the romance but it's just a myth made Popular by a famous TV show in real life lobsters aren't monogamous at all dominant male lobsters mate with several females and then one by one they vanish only to reappear on a restaurant table with melted butter M no worries the animal kingdom still has some hopeless Romantics that remain faithful to their mates throughout their lives swans Grey Wolves beavers bald eagles Gibbons to name a few you can get warts from handling frogs or toads what do you think about this rumor ah it's an old myth probably related to the fact that both toads and frogs have bumps on their skin visually these bumps remind of warts but they're just glands that never secrete any substances that could cause humans to get warts there are no amphibians that can give you warts but shaking hands with another human who has them can moving on turtles live inside their shells and they can go Outdoors anytime is it true or false it's a myth those fairy tale and cartoon turtles pop out of their shells whenever they like but in fact saying that turtles live inside their shells is like saying that people live inside their own skin a shell isn't just a separate empty space that serves as a costume although Turtles can tuck their limbs inside for protection It's actually an integral part of the turtle's Anatomy take a look at the actual structure of its skeleton the shell is fused to the bones of the skeleton and the turtle can't live without it the same goes for tortoises one major key difference between Turtles and tortoises is that tortoises spend most of their time on land while turtles are designed to hang out in the water that's why turtles have thinner and more water Dynamic shells and tortoise's shells are more rounded and domed next koala's fingerprints are indistinguishable from humans does this sound realistic [Music] although it definitely sounds like it's made up in fact it's true if you compare a human fingerprint to a koalas you'd hardly be able to tell the difference even under a microscope when scientists made this discovery they warned the police because these fluffy Little Cuties are really capable of confusing forensics at crime scenes the smart guy supposed that the koala's fingertip features have recently improved independently in their evolutionary history koala's relatives like kangaroo and wombats don't have the same features koalas probably develop these complicated fingerprints because they help them grip onto leaves and branches more easily koalas are known as super fuzzy eaters in fact they prefer eucalyptus leaves of a particular age M their sensitive fingers may have evolved as a tool to spot out the right leaves by their texture koalas aren't the only mammals with human-like fingerprints by the way finger patterns of chimps and gorillas are also pretty complex ready to move on to the next rumor ostriches put their heads in the sand to hide from predators myth or true what do you say nah it's just a myth ostriches don't stick their heads in the sand when threatened in fact these guys don't bury their heads whatsoever this myth has spread thanks to that famous idiom to hide one's head in the sand in real life ostriches have to dig holes in the sand for their eggs because they're flightless birds to make sure they're evenly heated ostriches put their heads in there to rotate the eggs from time to time but ostriches still have some escaping mentality when they face some threat they can flop to the sand and stay perfectly still pretending they aren't alive goldfish can't remember anything for longer than a second H can it really be that [Music] bad if you often say you have a goldfish memory as an excuse for forgetting something important I have some bad news for you multiple Studies have proven that goldfish can remember things for several months if not more scientists from an Israeli University held the cutest experiment for one month they turned on classical music while feeding the fish they believe that this practice would teach the fish to associate the melody with food in 5 months after the end of that training period the fish still got excited and started looking for food every time they heard the music piece that had played earlier ah mozar Hey where's my food it's not clear exact ly where this myth came from or why it's so popular but some people suggest that goldfish owners started it as they felt guilty about keeping their pets in tiny bowls cats and dogs are colorblind any thoughts on this [Music] [Applause] one well that's not true cats and dogs have much better color vision than we thought this myth is probably just an exaggeration of the fact that each animal perceives colors differently than people studies reveal feel that both cats and dogs can see in green and blue they also have more light sensing cells in their eyes also known as rods than humans do it means that cats and dogs can see way better in low light spaces dog's eyes have fewer cones those color sensing cells that's why scientists believe that dog's approximate color vision is only about 17th as vibrant as humans sharks can only breathe and stay alive when they swim does this one sound real to you according to a popular misbelief sharks can breathe only while moving because swimming helps them push water over their gilds although many kinds of sharks are designed this way many others like bottom dwelling nurse sharks don't need swimming to pump oxygen-rich water over their gills meanwhile all sharks do lack swim bladders so if they stop swimming they'll probably sink to the bottom but luckily a shark's body can't be compressed that's why rapid descents or ascents are safe for them sea ERS hold hands so they don't drift apart while sleeping can you believe that yep it's true you can keep awing at it but in fact this way of sleeping has a practical purpose for them scientists suggest that sea ERS develop this cute Habit to stay close with their mating Partners if you hold your otter girlfriend's hand tightly all night it will reduce the risk of her mating with another male while you're sleeping Shameless also holding hands helps others to protect themselves from predators because they stay away from the land altogether now if a human touches a bird nestling its mother will abandon it myth or truth what do you think luckily it's just a myth in fact parent birds don't recognize their younglings by smell so feel free to put the cuties back in the nest and always hang on to your otter girlfriend so you won't get eaten good advice water doesn't in fact conduct electricity well but it's only true about distilled or pure water people can get an electric shock while being in electrified water but that's because pure water doesn't exist in nature it usually contains dirt minerals sand and other stuff great at conducting electricity the vacuum of space is not always cold it depends on where you measure its temperature if it's a totally freezing part of our universe the vacuum of space can get as cold Asus 44° but if you travel closer to the sun your thermometer will show a boiling 250° by the way it's the reason why astronauts wear white space suits they reflect sunlight and don't let people inside get too hot there's a misconception that mustard seeds are the tiniest ones out there but in reality there are smaller seeds for example those of watermeal poppy or duck wheat and the tiniest seed on record is that of the Orchid you can relax coffee doesn't make you dehydrated this drink does have a slight diuretic effect but scientists haven't found any evidence that coffee drinkers have a higher risk of dehydration than let's say tea drinkers now elephants aren't afraid of mice per se but these massive animals have bad Vision they also move fairly slowly that's why they can get startled by a bird or a small creature like a mouse darting past them just the element of surprise nothing more brown bread might not be healthier than white one the loaf you've bought can be brown but it doesn't automatically mean it's 100% whole wheat if you want to buy a healthy and nutritious product always read labels and check what the main ingredients are it should be whole wheat or whole meal flour most people are sure there are just three states of matter solid liquid and gas I am an expert in gas but people tend to forget about plasma unlike what we see in Sci-Fi movies plasma isn't some goo or gel-like substance it's rather superheated electrons and ions often called ionized gas almost any element can turn into plasma if you heat it enough but then its molecules will break down and it won't be the same element anymore for example if you want to turn water into plasma it'll no longer be H2O and you won't want to drink it that's for sure there's almost no difference between how fast salty water and pure water will boil the temperature of salt water will get higher faster it's true but salty water also has a higher boiling point plus when you add salt to the same volume of water its mass becomes greater and it takes longer for it to boil bananas do not grow on trees the banana tree might get as large as a real tree up to 25 ft but it's a plant the world's largest perennial herb this plant doesn't have any Woody fibers and can't be considered a tree it also has massive stocks and leaves but no trunk and branches there's a misconception that diamonds come from coal but in reality they're compressed carbon that gets heated at more than 90 Mi below the surface of our planet as for coal it's found a mere 2 mes down Georgia is known as the peach state but it's California that grows the largest number of peaches in the US for example in 2017 this state produced more than 540,000 tons of peaches while Georgia isn't even in the top three producers isn't that peachy [Music] some people believe that duck quacks don't Echo it's not so all sounds Ducks make including squeaks honks or Yelps create sound waves that bounce off a hard surface producing an echo the myth itself appeared because of the landscape of the ponds where most ducks live the area is usually flat and there's nothing for the sound waves to get reflected by even with hills or mountains around though the sounds Ducks make would be too faint to create a loud but this can refer to any sound there are tons of diets that encourage you to cut carbs from your meals but this food group is your body's main source of energy it's also not always fattening everything depends on how much of carbohydrates you consume eating too much of them will of course lead to weight gain but instead of avoiding carbs altoe you can focus on eating their healthy variations they can be beans lentils corn cereals whole meal red and so on your Pooch does not see the world in black and white Specialists claim that dog's vision isn't the same as people have and they don't see all the Hues you do but still they can distinguish between colors some people wear hats in the winter only because they believe that 90% of their body heat escapes through their heads but you only lose about 10% of your body heat there that's not more than what you'd lose through another covered part of your body for example your ankles neck or hands the Bermuda Triangle is believed to be a harrowing patch of the ocean Sailors and Pilots are prone to lose contact with the rest of the world and disappear there for good but that's not just an intriguing Legend the truth is that the Bermuda Triangle does not have any more shipwrecks or mysterious disappearances than other waterways an apple a day will not keep doctors away they will still call to confirm your appointment an apple is a wonderful fruit packed with fiber and vitamin C it's also true that both these components are crucial for your long-term Health but they aren't the only ones you need plus if certain bacteria or viruses enter your system apples won't help you no matter how many you eat the Great Wall of China isn't the only human-made structure visible from space if you're 180 Mi above the surface it's very distinguishable but from up there you can also see highways Bridges dams airports and other huge constructions and if you go further to space you'll only see the wall in radar images not with the uned eye sign language isn't Universal in different countries and regions there are different variations for example in the US people use ASL which stands for American Sign Language it's based on a one-handed finger spelling alphabet and in the UK they have BSL British sign language it uses a two-handed alphabet it's a popular belief that organic food is more nutritious and pesticide free but in reality there are pesticides approved for use in organic farming they're naturally derived but sometimes just as harmful to the environment as their synthetic analoges on the other hand the amount of chemicals on both organic and non organic foods is so low that it's safe to eat both kinds and no study has proved that organic products are more nutritious either lightning can actually strike the same place twice or at least hit very close to the first spot which means that it's extremely unsafe to try to escape danger by hiding in the spot struck by a lightning bolt find shelter do not touch anything metal or electrical and stay away from Windows so you probably think it sugar that causes your headaches but in reality the culprit may be a fast drop in your blood sugar levels in some people a meal heavy in carbohydrates leads to excess production of the hormone insulin glucose levels drop and a person develops a headache natural sugars like honey are believed to be better than processed sugar but scientists are sure that the biological effect of corn syrup that is high in fructose is almost the same as that of honey the only problem is that candies and other sweet things contain more sugar per serving and this also means more calories eating ice cream isn't likely to make your cold worse well that's a relief some people believe that dairy products increase mucus production but experts claim it's not true on the contrary frozen dairy foods can Soo a sore throat plus ice cream can provide you with calories you wouldn't need otherwise tons of people believe that toilet seats are swarming with germs it's true that bathrooms aren't the most sanitary places but toilet seats are cleaner than let's say our cell phones yeah since toilets are often washed and disinfected there are statistically 10 times fewer germs on them than on our most used gadgets EAD it's common knowledge that people have five empir iCal senses sound touch sight taste and smell but it's not exactly true there are at least four additional senses you have that makes sense you also have the sense of your orientation in Space the sense of temperature the sense of balance and the sense of your physiological condition now your muscles will not cramp if you swim right after having a meal your body will require additional blood to digest all this food but it won't be enough to stop the muscles in your legs and arms from working in the way they should people use much more than 10% of their brain your brain is busy all day and all night it needs about 20% of your body's resources and never ever turns off completely each part of your brain performs its own function even when you aren't paying attention white eggs are no less healthy than brown ones the color of an egg's shell depends on the kind of chicken that laid it the nutritional value of the egg has much to do with what the hen has been eating a motherb bird will never reject its little one even if it has been touched by a human almost all birds have a poor sense of smell that's why the bird simply won't know the difference you don't have to struggle to gulp down eight glasses of water every day the volume of water you need depends on different factors among them your overall health the levels of your activity and the region where you live it's not the moon's gravity that causes the tides Earth's natural satellite does pull on the water in the oceans but this tug is more than 100 million times weaker than the gravitational pole of our planet what creates the tidal force is the gravity interplay between the Earth Moon and the Sun plus it's more of a push than a pull there's a misconception that carbonated water doesn't hydrate you as well as flat one many studies prove this fact wrong for for example the participants of one of them kept cycling until they sweated off 4% of their body weight then they immediately had a drink first time it was Flat Water second time they drank carbonated water then they were given sugar water and after that it was carbonated sugar water it turns out carbonation didn't make any difference in how effectively the participants got rehydrated Mount Everest is considered to be the tallest mountain on Earth but it's only true if we speak about its height above sea level if we take a base to Summit height the tallest peak on the planet is Mona on the Hawaiian Islands Everest Rises to 29,035 Ft above sea level from monia this number is a mere 13,800 ft but it also extends 19,700 ft below the Pacific Ocean which means that a larger part of it is submerged and the Mountain's total height is 3 3,500 ft it's nearly a mile taller than Everest the chameleon can change its color but this creature does it not to camouflage itself it can't even spell camouflage hey neither can I the color change helps the animal regulate its temperature and communicate with peers it's not the temperature that defines deserts it's a lack of precipitation most well-known deserts are hot it's true but some of them are freezing Cal they're called polar deserts you can find them in Greenland and Antarctica right brain people are analytical and those who are left brained are creative or at least that's what most of us think it is true that different hemispheres of your brain are more engaged in certain tasks for example your left hemisphere is in charge of languages but no study has ever found out that people can have right or left brain dominance when most dogs pant their tongues hang out of their mouths that's why many people think that's how they sweat in reality dogs sweat glands are located on their paw pads plus there are other sweat glands all over their bodies dogs pant to evaporate moisture from their nasal passages tongues and the lining of their lungs this also helps them to cool down giraffes sleep much more than 30 minutes a day but probably not as much as you do their sleeping pattern is quite typical after researchers monitored a herd of giraffes they found out they slept at night and took short naps in the afternoon in total each giraffe had around 5 hours of sleep every day when you call someone using your cell phone the signal doesn't go through a satellite your device is constantly looking for wireless radio signals then it transmits data to and from landbased cellular towers let's say you call your friend then the nearest Tower connects you to to another cell through a huge network of tower to toer connections there's a myth that your blood will turn blue if it runs out of oxygen but this misconception is based on an optical illusion blood might look blue because you see it through layers of tissue which makes it appear to be a different color not all comets have tails it depends on a comet's location if it's somewhere far away from a star it'll look like a small Frozen chunk of ice and rock but once it approaches a star the ice starts scattering away because of the solar radiation this looks like a tail sometimes a comet's tail is too faint for you to see it's impossible to see millions of stars even on the clearest night or when you're far away from any sources of light the highest number you can spot if you're lucky and have good eyesight is around 3,000 these stars are the ones that are closest to our planet and right enough lots of the Luminous objects you see in the sky are artificial satellites planets and distant galaxies people can grow new brain cells you don't start life with the same set of brain cells you'll ever have there's a lot of proof that your brain keeps producing new cells even when you're a grownup at least this process goes on in certain regions of your brain hey doesn't that give you hope you might leave wasps alone but don't be so sure they'll do the same bees do respect human boundaries and if you bother them they won't hurt you but wasps are so bad tempered they can sting you even if you're just walking by their nest the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter isn't a region of randomly floating and constantly colliding large rocks if you ever found yourself there you'd see how empty and calm it is the asteroids are so far apart from each other that the chances of collision are laughably small if you were traveling by a spaceship its radar would easily detect asteroids and help you avoid them honey can actually spoil if you leave it uncovered in a humid environment make sure to always keep the lid on the product and don't let any water get inside then your honey will be edible for a really really long time it's antibacterial properties won't let any organisms grow in there the Moon doesn't really have a dark side our natural satellite is tidily locked with Earth that's why we always see just one side of it the Sun the moon and our planet are all constantly moving sometimes that one side of the moon that's always visible to us is brightly lit then the far side is dark and vice versa hey I hope you found this Illuminating now at some earlier stages of research scientists reconstructed the megod on looking like a bigger just a little more dangerous version of a great white shark movies Then followed suit added a couple of details on their own and TAA we've got a marine giant that could grow up to 90 ft long well hold on hold on megalodons were usually between 50 and 55 ft sometimes growing up to 60 ft for comparison a bowling lane is 60 ft long a school bus is around 45 ft and an average person is 5' 10 in tall so yeah not bad Megalodon but still not 90 ft its weight was around 50 to 60 tons which is something like 10 adult Elephants or even a Boeing 737 that's just their females though the ladies were almost twice as big as the males another movie versus reality thing the Megalodon had nothing to do with a great white shark the closest they could be is cousins because Megalodon in fact is the Last Descendant of a completely different lineage of sharks plus its kind is around three times bigger than an average great white it has a shorter nose and a much flatter jaw that almost looks like it's squashed also Megs pectral fins are longer than those of the great white sharks ancient Predators ate a lot so they needed something to support their weight they both had an excellent sense of smell though so even in prehistoric times it wasn't a good idea idea to go swimming with a chunk of raw meat in hand and it certainly isn't safe now whether the mag's hiding somewhere in the depths which some still believe is true or it's gone forever younger cousins will be there waiting also both of them likeed to go after big marine mammals so they would certainly have things to do together that is until the me got Moody and accidentally ate its friend yeah you never know these guys had a different hunting style great whites prefer to dive straight toward their prey and find the softest spots like exposed legs or underbelly Megalodon aimed for the fins and tail because of its almost 10-ft jaws and what's considered to be the strongest bite ever its teeth could Pierce almost anything sometimes an entire tooth would be found embedded in the bone of some bigger animal such as a whale without the main parts they use for swimming poor sea animals were then helpless and unable to escape yet whales were just a smaller part of the Megalodon's diet seals sea cows squids Dolphins other sharks the good old Meg probably wouldn't say no to some random School of smaller fish swimming into its mouth either nothing better than a good snack after a big tasty dinner even those giant turtles weren't safe within their thick shells the mag probably took those as a dare challenge on a daily basis such a diverse diet and in big amounts Megalodon would eat about 2500 lb of food every day no wonder it dominated the ocean almost 300 teeth in five rows and we're talking about sharp Chompers that could grow up to 7 in Long even its name stands for giant tooth hey I'm thinking maybe it had a cousin orthodontia which means either crooked teeth or deep pocket still megladon would change thousands of teeth over a lifetime since Meg's teeth weren't that strong they would often fall out then it would get new ones within 1 to two days so it could continue its hunting sessions without any serious interruptions the same thing happens with modern sharks as well new teeth replace damaged or worn out ones those teeth falling out were the only thing that helped scientists do any research on the Megalodon at all they found them all around the world yep megalodons were quite some Travelers they lived in all oceans and their fossils were found on all continents except Antarctica what too C since their skeletons were not made of bone but of cartilage teeth are the only evidence they've ever even existed they gave scientists an insight into a lot of things including size even with modern sharks scientists determine their size by the dimensions of only one one tooth and do the same with the Meg megladon had the strongest bite of all living creatures on Earth it would definitely be fun to see the clash between the Meg and say T-Rex sadly they missed their chance to meet and establish some long-term friendship since dinosaurs went extinct over 60 million years ago Meg on the other hand terrified all the inhabitants of the Seas and oceans from 23 to 2.5 million years ago where could Megalodon live these days well it would probably love the places modern sharks go to such as Florida Hawaii Brazil South Africa or some other Tropical Paradise H when you think about it it's not bad at all Meg take me with you Meg itself didn't have any serious competition or a natural enemy but its infants were too weak to defend themselves that's why the apex predator had to choose warm sh shallow Waters with no strong currents to raise its babies those by the way were around 6 and 1/2 ft long not quite tiny themselves scientists actually found some of their juvenile's teeth so it seems like part of their Nursery areas was the coast of Panama and that's 10 million years old okay time to meet with one of Megalodon's potential Rivals the mighty sperm whale 45 to 60 ft long the size sure sure makes it quite an adversary modern sperm whales don't have such big teeth but their ancestors which lived around 13 million years ago were well packed the largest tooth found was 5 in wide and 14 in long it's something like the biggest soda bottle out there that would make an interesting combat here we're talking about this giant Marine Predator but this is not the only intriguing ancient animal that wandered the oceans in fact sharks are some of the old oldest creatures on our planet more ancient than insects mammals dinosaurs even trees mass extinction events wiped out most life on Earth giant asteroids fell on its surface continents split up and so many other things happened but sharks were there alive persevering apparently with no contact with the outside world just chilling and doing their thing the spiny shark was actually one of the first animals with a jaw not that it could do much with that jaw since it was only around 12 in Long eh Meg wouldn't even bother around this one and it wasn't even a real shark it just looked like one if you ever wondered how a combination of eel and shark would look like well here it is eel shark preferred freshwater was up to 3 ft long and went extinct around 200 million years ago since dinosaurs appeared around 230 million years ago the eel shark was probably the there to give them warm welcome prepare a buffet but the dinosaurs had unfortunately mistaken it for a dessert now this Predator would get some real screams on a nice Sandy Beach during a spring break if it was still alive the Ginsu shark it was nicknamed after Ginsu knives for a huge mouth of almost 500 razor sharp teeth one of this monster sharks Hobbies was to go after big turtles okay now seriously what's with that shark turtle thing scissor tooth sharks now we're talking these guys lived around 300 million years ago and had some strangely shaped heads the weirdest part were their jaws this shark didn't shed old and worn out teeth but kept growing new ones at the back those in the front were then pushed forward and with age the shark got a really strange scissor tooth look scientists are still unsure why it had to be like that hey time to call in the orthodon even during the mag's long rain our favorite ancient Predator still wasn't the only scary giant shark in town for instance um well I can't pronounce its name so I'll just call it Mr C unfortunately not enough of its fossils were found to get more information but some research says it had teeth more than 5 in long that also implies it could probably grow to be 20 ft long oh and if it only left just a couple more teeth around I guess the mag wouldn't be the only movie star from those times so close see so close now as much as we love epic Space Battles with blasters cutting through the black void and causing cheerful booms that's not exactly what happens when something explodes in the big black space is basically vacuum meaning it has no oxygen and oxygen is an essential part of any process of burning we have here on Earth you might argue that stars can burn and explode into Supernova but that's not exactly true either Stars don't rely on oxygen so they're not burning there are constant thermonuclear reactions going on inside them so a spaceship can only explode like that if it has a nuclear power plant installed in it if it doesn't then the only special effect you get is a brief flash that disappears in the blink of an eye liquid oxygen which is often on board spaceships is very quick to burn out in the vacuum of outer space as for the boom oxygen plays a crucial role here too sound only travels thanks to molecules of air bumping into each other since there's no air in Space the whole scene would be pretty much absolutely silent and that's not a bad thing either just imagine how deafening would the sun be if the sound could travel in space despite what many sci-fi directors want us to believe there's no dark side to the Moon our satellite is tidily locked with Earth meaning it's always turned to us with one side while the other always looks away the sun is much farther from us than the moon and we're both turning round and round warming and lighting this side and that in turn it means that once in every short while the Moon is lit by the Sun from either side it's just that we can't see it from where we are while things appear weightless in outer space there's actual gravity off all over the place it becomes weaker the further you get from a heavy object like our planet but it's still there in fact there's not a single place in the universe that isn't affected by gravity of this or that Cosmic object everything that has mass has gravity as well yes even you and me but space objects are so massive that they tug smaller things towards them that's why the planets of the solar system orbit around the Sun and our whole Milky Way galaxy orbits around found its own Senter scientists believe there's a super massive black hole there about 4 million times heavier than the sun which keeps all the stars and systems from flying apart our movie hero leaves the orbit of Mars on their trusty spaceship and heads on towards Jupiter their face is grim and determined even though they know what threat awaits them ahead the asteroid BT they pitch and yaw dodging the asteroid flying at enormous speeds toward the spacecraft but one of them still hits it no just a scratch thankfully finally our hero leaves the danger zone and wipes the sweat from the brow with a shaking hand sounds familiar but couldn't be further from the truth asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter are so few and far between that if you ever travel through it you might not even encounter one the whole way there are about 1.5 million sizable space rocks flying there give or take a half million but let's not forget space is a vast place the distance between two asteroids of any significant size would be millions of miles so a space Chase with two ships weaving between floating rocks would be quite boring in there space is often depicted as a black cold and desolate place especially when a movie astronaut leaves the safety of their spaceship everything about this description is okay except for the cold part it's only true if you find yourself in some really far corner of our galaxy that has no nearby stars but if you're for example in the Earth's orbit and directly facing the Sun the temperature in the cosmic vacuum could reach a scorching 250° that's why SPAC suits are wide this color reflects light better than any other still the temperature at your back which isn't exposed to the sun's Rays can be really freezing indeed heat doesn't spread equally through space so if you're not turned towards a heat source you get very very cold speaking about the sun it somehow always appears yellow in movies the fact is the color we see from Earth is an optical illusion created by our planet's atmosphere just as the blue sky during the day the light from the sun spreads in the atmosphere and gets distorted making colorful spectacles at dawn and dusk in the vacuum of space there's nothing to reflect the light so the Sun appears as it really is white that ball of glowing gas is that hot there's a bright flash in the sky followed by a tail of smoke and a red hot Space Rock crashes into the ground leaving a huge charred crater after impact well although the Smoky tail and the crater are partly true meteorites don't really have a chance to become that hot while falling meteorite is an asteroid that somehow entered the Earth's atmosphere and survived the friction enough to fall on the surface this happens pretty often we just don't usually see those rocks because they're normally quite small and fall into uninhabited areas but even if one Falls within a city the crater would appear because of the sheer speed of the meteorite not its heat they do get much hotter because of friction yet not so much as to burn everything on the ground on impact as much as we want to believe in instant communication between spaceships and planets it's not possible at least not yet modern communication systems rely on radio signals that have a pretty slow speed compared to the vast expanses of space it would take years for such a signal to travel even one lightyear let alone hundreds and thousands if you want to send a message to a galaxy far far away be prepared to wait a couple of Millennia and then a couple more to receive a reply on that note space is not as crowded and full of events as it's often shown on the Silver Screen it's mostly a rather lonely place where planets stars and other objects are separated by billions of miles of nothingness even if you have a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light most of the time you'll only see black void full of stars and planets far away the distances are enormous out there even between the closest objects for a better understanding the moon which you can see so well on a clear night is about 239,000 M away way it's like traveling around the earth almost 10 times in a row warp drives that can distort SpaceTime and get you to a distant corner of an alien galaxy in the blink of an eye that's a staple of any Space Opera spaceships capable of such a feat are always shown as instantly accelerating from zero to faster than light according to the law of physics people on board should well at least be pushed into their seats hard more strictly speaking no no one would be able to survive such an acceleration because it's too many G's on a fragile human body until we find a way to reduce the effects of overload we can't even start thinking of space warps water isn't the rarest and most precious resource in the universe in fact there's a humongous space Cloud several million light years away from us that consists entirely of water its reserves would be enough to fill all our oceans 140 trillion times over and many planets some Even in our solar system seem to have liquid water on them the most precious resource in space is life and that requires a lot more stuff to appear than just liquid water astronauts are often shown working out on the ISS and sci-fi space stations and that much is true they do need physical activity but the reason isn't that they need strong bodies to work in Space the gravity out there is much weaker and astronauts don't use the muscles as much as on Earth so when they come back to the surface gravity hits them as a sledgehammer and their bodies feel squishy to alleviate those effects they train every day although they say we can see millions of stars on a clear starry night that number is much more modest about 3,000 all the rest are other objects that are also luminous and mistaken for stars planets distant galaxies and even artificial satellites they're simply being illuminated by real stars just like the moon and becomes seen but because they're that far away we can't tell if they're stars or not still you got to admit it's all still pretty cool okay here's the first one myth or true carrots can help you see in the dark myth while carrots are full of vitamin A which helps maintain eyesight you won't get night vision in the 1940s British Air Forces invented a new radar and to keep it secret they told everyone it was carrots that helped them see at nighttime diamonds aren't a special gemstone true while diamonds may be a great engagement Rock they're not as rare as we've been made to believe advertising campaigns have made this very common Rock something extraordinary if you want something really rare pite gems will look beautiful and empty your wallet at the same time around $50,000 a carat fro Loops have different flavors myth there's no point in avoiding the color you don't like all the colors are the same flavor even Kelloggs has stated that they all share the same Blended fruit flavor well now I don't know what to believe anymore dropping a penny from the Empire State Building can obliterate a person below if while the penny won't tickle it will not damage any anyone on the ground simply the penny can't build up enough speed while it's tumbling to the ground better to just keep the change in your pocket the moon has a dark side myth no the moon isn't going to use the forc a rule our satellite is tidily locked with the Earth meaning that we're always looking at one side but there's no permanent Dark Side Kleenex was originally designed for gas masks true yeah Kimberly Clark originally designed a thin cotton substitute to be used as a filter in 1924 Kleenex began selling in the US as a cold cream and makeup remover eventually turning into the soft tissues We Love Today chocolate is bad for you boy isn't that a myth while too much chocolate just like too much of anything can indeed do some harm a little bit can be quite good for you not just any chocolate though only the dark variety yum weekend sleep-ins will help you catch up on Lost sleep that's a myth as comfy as your bed is on a Sunday morning you just can't make up for lost sleep irregular sleep can lower your concentration and performance if you're refreshed when you wake up you've had the right amount zombies are real true now no human has ever turned into a hungry isami that were shown so much in the movies but they do exist in the animal kingdom a fungus that has a really long name I don't want to pronounce takes over ants with its chemicals under the control of the fungus the ant leaves its family to find a very specific Branch or Leaf then it lets the fungus Sprout out of it and release spores back into the world how delightful the largest living organism is the blue whale African Elephant or Shack myth while all of those are large the honey fungus in the Blue Mountains Oregon wins by quite a bit with the length of 3.4 Mi that 6 and 1 12 Burge khif is end to end and it's still growing but on the bright side it's edible mushroom omelet anyone turkeys can blush true just like humans turkeys blush when excited angry or sick the skin on their heads and necks can turn red or even a shade of blue the fleshy flap of skin that hangs over their neck is called a snood it also turns bright red when the bird is excited yeah maybe not at Thanksgiving though we only have five senses myth there's no right number some say 5 7 14 24 or even 57 our most basic senses are actually sight hearing smell taste and touch but also movement body position temperature balance balance and the sense of our internal State like feeling your heart for example close your eyes and touch your nose that's proprioception or body position bats are blind myth bat's eyesight is actually better at nighttime than ours they just can't see as well in daytime because they only see in black and white perhaps this myth arose from the fact that bats used sonar to navigate with outside unicorns are real true they're not horses though it's deer that are likely the culprit a single horn can be a genetic anomaly found in some species possibly leading to the Unicorn legend that formed a long time ago honey never spoils myth uncovered in a humid environment it will spoil as long as the lid stays on it and no water is added to it honey shouldn't go bad though having antifungal and antibacterial properties means no organisms can live in it no matter how old your stored honey is it's probably perfectly edible oranges are always orange myth sweet oranges are a hybrid of tangerines and the pomelo with a bright green skin to help protect them from the Sun in warmer climates like southeast Asia oranges are still a bright green when right makes you wonder what came first the fruit or the color there are bugs in your strawberry Frappuccino true but not anymore a Dy made of ground up tiny insects called Cachino bugs is used by many companies to make the color red Starbucks stop using bug red color in their strawberry Frappuccinos in 2015 firefighters use wetter water true to be more efficient at stopping fires firefighters recently started adding certain chemicals to the water the wedding agents reduce the surface tension of the water making it easier to spread and soak into objects leave wasps alone and they'll leave you alone myth while this works for bees their cousins the yellow jackets will disagree known as one of the most bad tempered wasps they've been said to sting unprovoked even if you just happen to walk by their nest if you see wasps give them a wide birth the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be torn down after 20 years true the Eiffel Tower was designed to show off France's industrial power during the World's Fair the designers cleverly put transmitters and antennas on top to make the tower too useful to eventually demolish headlice prefer dirty hair myth lice don't really think about hair cleanliness they simply need human hair to hang on to whether it's squeaky clean or greasier than a fryer lice feed off of our scalps and the hair is just a place to hang out camels humps store water myth camels don't store water they store fat in their tissues just like me after the holidays these reservoirs of fat allow camels to survive for days in the desert without stopping for food they drink large amounts of water at a time and store that in their bloodstream you need to drink eight glasses of water a day myth staying hydrated is critical especially in hotter weather but we seem to forget that every drink is mainly water even tea and coffee our bodies are the best indicators for when to drink water feel thirsty then it's time to have a drink an Elephant never forgets true having the biggest brain of all land animals elephants should have a great memory and they do being able to remember their entire territory friends and spots to find water is crucial to the social structure of elephants they might even have a better memory than you and I now where did I leave my keys bananas grow upside down true bananas grow naturally towards the Sun as they're getting larger that's why there's a curve so does that mean we've been peeling them the wrong way this whole time maybe no number before 4 1000 contains the letter a true now you can try and spell each number out if you like but I bet you're just going to take my word for it the Guinness Book of World Records was created to settle arguments true the world's best trivia book was published in 1955 after an argument about the fastest gamebird in Europe the managing director of Guinness Brewery realized there wasn't a go-to book for trivial questions so he created his own and the rest is history you're eating real Wasabi myth when you're sitting down for tasty sushi that green page sometimes isn't Wasabi it's horse radish real Wasabi is very expensive with a milder taste to it if it's not made in front of you it's not going to be the real thing so [Music] there hi do chameleons only change color for camouflage no they can actually change colors to reflect their mood so males turn a bright color to show their dominance and they become darker when they get aggressive chameleons also change color to adapt to different temperatures a cold chameleon will turn dark to absorb more heat while a smoking hot chameleon will turn itself pale to reflect the sun's Rays by the way do comedians change color for camouflage only if their jokes aren't getting any laughs okay I made that up now there's a myth that if you drop a penny from a skyscraper it'll pretty much destroy whatever's underneath but when put to the test researchers found that it just isn't true on its way down a coin can't gather enough velocity to cause permanent damage to anything mostly because of wind resistance and the penny spinning around and stuff anyway just hang on to your change now some people believe that toilet flushes spin in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere some things are affected by the Earth's rotation like the Gulf Stream or hurricanes but toilet fleshes are way too small fleshes can spin in either direction whether they're in the Northern or Southern Hemispheres trust me I know the biggest determinant of flush direction is the design of the toilet bow and the water pressure there's a popular saying that lightning never strikes in the same place twice lightning often strikes near the same place a lot more than that lightning generally chooses the tallest pointiest spot as its Target researchers have found that the Empire State Building gets struck by lightning almost 100 times a year and quite a few people have been Zapped more than once like a lot more so if you're tall and pointy be careful out there so there's a common belief that bad BS are blind but bats have better Vision than humans at night although humans can see more clearly during the day maybe this myth came about because bats rely a lot on their hearing to get about or maybe it's because bats see the world in black and white now do goldfish really have short memories well most people put it at 7 seconds in reality goldfish can remember things for as long as 7 months without a good memory goldfish who live in nature would never find food did anyone ever tell you that a mother bird will reject its Offspring if they been touched by a human that would be nuts because most birds don't have a developed sense of smell they'd never be able to identify the scent of a person the vulture is an exception to this rule it has an amazing nose but then who'd want to touch a vulture anyway ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they're scared except they they don't this myth probably came into being because an ostrich's head is disproportionately small in comparison to its body so from a distance it looks as if the ostrich has its head stuffed in the sand but if it really did that it would pass out from not being able to breathe another myth is that opossums hang on branches with their tail the aosome does use its tail to help it climb trees but its tail can't support its weight even a hulked out calisthenics Master aosom could only hang there for a few seconds Max Legend has it that a penguin will fall backward when looking up at an aircraft cutest myth ever Penguins can maintain their balance no matter what even while looking up at the sky but low flying airplanes may cause Penguins to flee their nests in panic do dogs really sweat by salivating no they sweat through their foot pads but elevating and panting does help them regulate their body temperature cat owners may think that a cat only purrs when it's happy but cats also purr when they're hungry distressed or recovering from an injury researchers think that purring may be a self-healing trick somehow it keeps their bones and muscles working better Legend has it that if you run into a skunk there's only one possible outcome you're going to stink for a while but skunks prefer to flee from danger rather than spraying their magic juice around that smelly sprays their last line of defense before that they usually stomp their feet and slap their tails to Ward up any danger did you know there's an alpha wolf in every pack except again there isn't unlike captive wolves wild wolves don't share this kind of social order they live in family groups like humans where the parents are the leaders and the little ones got to do as they're told there's a myth that owls can turn their heads full circle but that would cause them significant damage but still they can turn their heads comfortably more than halfway around because of their unique neckbone structure if you've ever poked a turtle shell thinking it won't hurt the guy inside you'd be wrong a turtle shell is a living and feeling part of its body with a complete nerve ending Supply if the shell gets damaged it can even endanger the turtle's life there was a time when people thought that unwashed hair was the ideal habitat for headlight but headlight don't discriminate no they can make themselves a home in all hair types all they really want is a warm scalp most people are familiar with the phrase an apple a day keeps the doctor away apples are good for you sure they're packed with nutrients like fiber and vitamin C but does anyone really think that's enough when it comes to Food hygiene the 5-second rule just doesn't make sense there should be a where you drop it rule to replace the 5-second one generally if you drop food on your kitchen floor it's going to pick up fewer bacteria than if you drop it at the checkout cter of a busy Supermarket of course that's assuming your kitchen's clean uh-oh ever wondered whether the story about chewing gum taking seven years to dig digest is true nah it isn't chewing gum isn't too different from any other food it takes around the same time to digest but it's not exactly nutrient heavy Legend has it that catching a cold is likelier to happen in cold weather but Studies have shown that weather doesn't really play a part in getting a cold a virus does people may experience more cold-like symptoms when the weather is icy cold but temperature has nothing to do with recovery time or anything like that do people only use 10% of their brains well I have some friends who seem to uh never mind no the answer is no scientists who've studied brain scans say they don't show any large dormant areas of the brain but if the myth is just about humans having a long way to go to reach their full potential yeah that sounds about right one of life's no NOS is to jump into the pool right after eating but hitting the gym after a big meal can leave you feeling just as uncomfortable as doing a few laps also if you're worried about getting a cramp in the pool those can happen anytime not just after a meal does shaved hair grow back darker and thicker researchers say it doesn't but shaving does give your hair a blunt tip which can make it feel thicker when it comes to color that new darker stubble is Just an Illusion some people are are convinced that eating turkey leaves them feeling drowsy it's true that turkey has a chemical that can cause drowsiness but so does chicken or beef turkey's a favorite for those massive family celebrations so that drowsiness it's probably due to the huge amount you ate the myth that people lose most of their body heat through their heads was probably first invented by a hat salesman not surprising scientists say that people lose only about 10% of their body heat through their heads you lose heat through your skin no matter where that skin is have you heard the saying that a full moon can affect your mind somehow and no but researchers believe that light from a full moon can affect your sleep which can affect your mood did ancient Vikings really wear those awesome horned helmets there's no real evidence to back up this claim this myth probably came from Books and Music looking to spice up their Heroes a bit if you want to see a viking with a helmet go to a Minnesota Vikings game it's about as close as you're going to get some people believe Einstein flunked math in school Einstein himself debunked this Theory by saying he mastered calculus at age 15 but Einstein did fail to enter the school of his choice because he flunk languages on his first try but math he passed with flying colors a human year is not the same as a dog year you might have thought that dogs age seven times faster than we do but it's not that simple a dog that's been around for 1 year is in fact already 31 it will most likely even have its own little puppies running around but here's where it gets tricky two human years don't necessarily mean that your dog is 62 either your buddy will need to be around four in our year before it reaches old age a 4-year-old dog will be 50 but a 7-year-old dog will be 62 and an 8-year-old dog will only be 64 so they age faster but also slower and slower as time passes by the next time you're celebrating your best buds birthday be sure to put lots of candles on the cake and buy even more presents than you normally would a common misconception is that dogs are colorblind they not but they don't see color exactly as we do they have trouble distinguishing between their Reds and greens it all just looks like a mash of gray brown blue and even yellowy tones that's because their eyes lack one of three photo receptors needed to perceive colors fully you can't teach an old dog new tricks wrong because of their old age they might need more persistence from you but it's not impossible the key here is to be as positive as you can if you see they're not feeling up to it right now that's okay let them rest and in a little bit you can pick the training session back up rewards still needs to be a big part of the whole ordeal after Max successfully speaks give it its favorite biscuit then it'll speak on command whenever you ask it to that dog has shoes on they might seem unnecessary but today the weather's 90° outside imagine walking with your bare feet on ashalt during this heat you'd feel like you're stepping on lava and so would your pup some dogs are better equipped to handle different weather conditions but dog shoes can prevent your little buddy from harming its paws it's the same during winter when it's freezing cold you wouldn't just walk around without a jacket on so make sure your buddy is warm too dogs with a lot of fur don't need to get their haircut to feel lighter they have what's called an under coat in Winter it gets thicker which gives your buddy an extra layer of protection from the cold then during Springtime your dog will shed some of its fur it's that same undercoat that will keep your dog comfy during hotter days when you shave a dog's fur the new one coming in might get curly or entangled it might just be better to leave it as is you can also find different alternatives to keep them cool keep it in the shade when they're out and always bring a bottle of cold water with you so your buddies always refreshed at home you can put damp towels for them to lie on if you have a garden you can also turn its sprinklers on and let Max Run free it'll exercise and have lots of fun not all dogs are great swimmers but all dogs love swimming if yours can't swim all that well it might be because it has a bulky chest and a large flat head in fact it might not even be able to stay afloat get it a swimming vest designed especially for dogs some people might say a slightly open window is enough to keep a dog in the car this isn't true because after spending just a few minutes in a heated or cold car might mean severe Health implications for your best friend some states even let you let a dog out of the car if you see it in there to let it breathe if your dog can't stand mail carriers it might be because it's trying to protect you they bark because they're trying to alert you their pack leader that the vicious mail carrier is coming you can fix this by introducing them to one another this way your dog will recognize them as a friend and not a villain unlike you your dog isn't yawning because it's sleepy yawning is a way for them to show anxiety if it doesn't like cats and there's one around it could yawn or maybe there's a new person in the house and Max isn't feeling comfortable in their presence or you take your dog to a play date but they're not getting along Max keeps yawning because he's getting upset yawning is also a way to show you it's running out of patience it might be time for both of you to leave dogs eat grass when they're sick but this isn't always the case catching your dog eating grass when you've been talking to your friend for way longer than you should have probably means it's just bored they do it to be rebellious too or just because it's fun it won't be a problem if the grass isn't treated either way just make sure it doesn't eat too much of it otherwise head out to the vet even a little bit of chocolate is poisonous for your pup and should be kept hidden away at all times this includes cocoa powder and baker's chocolate this applies to cats too if you suspect that your pet has eaten a large amount of chocolate take it to the vet's office immediately well-trained dogs will do what they're supposed to and Obey commands but don't think they'll never bite you it can act out of emotion imagine your dog scared you've put it in an uncomfortable situation with lots of new faces this has been going on for a while and Max isn't able to control his emotions anymore so a new person tries to reach it to give it a pet and gets punished nothing harsh but it was unexpected maybe it felt like it needed to be defensive thinking their protecting and guarding you is another reason why a dog might bite or if they're feeling too int intimidated by whoever it might be you've got two dogs and you're about to enter your house one of them is waiting for you in its bed it doesn't make a big whoop about it rather than wagging its tail the other one comes running to the door it whimpers jumps and wags its whole body while running in circles around you this doesn't mean it loves you more it just means it's not properly trained yet tail wagging doesn't always mean your dog is excited you can observe a dog's tail to understand what it's feeling if it holds its tail high but isn't moving it it's alert but also trying to assert its leadership still held high the tail is moving now it means the feelings changed a bit it's alert but happy it's still trying to show it's the boss here but at least it's feeling excited now when its tail is between the legs your dog's feeling afraid or if there's an alpha dog around it might mean your buddy admits its leadership a tail that's held Straight Out means the dog is taking in new information feeling the room it's not reacting though it'll stay neutral while doing this if a dog's tail is wagging fast it means excitement the faster they wag their tail the more excited they are a slow wag conveys insecurity it might be because of another dog or person now imagine your dog is wagging it its entire body you even see its hips wagging this means it's friendly it might happen when you're in the elevator and it spots its best friend from the apartment complex the worst wag of them all is an extremely fast vertical wagging tail when doing this your dog can be mean to others it might be feeling territorial over you it's best to remove yourself from the situation if your dog's tail is wagging to the right it means it's more relaxed and a left wagging tail means stress eating before swimming doesn't cause cramps everyone knows that you have to wait at least 30 minutes after eating to go swimming if you don't you might cramp up or even worse sink this is actually not true our bodies are perfectly adapted to swim while full if you do happen to get a cramp while in the pool for any reason just relax and Float you'll be feeling fine soon enough handling a toad or frog won't give you warts warts are caused by a certain virus which is only carried by humans the myth came about because of the bumpy wart-like skin texture of toads and tree frogs frogs might not give you warts but they could still be poisonous so you shouldn't handle them you don't accidentally eat eight spiders a year while sleeping this old myth doesn't have a leg or eight legs to stand on most people sleep with their mouths closed so in the unlikely event that a spider actually made it to your face it wouldn't even have the opportunity to go into your mouth if you sleep with your mouth open though you're most likely snoring which creates vibrations strong enough to scare any spiders away bananas don't grow on trees we call the plant that b bananas grow on banana trees but guess what they're actually an herb weirdly they're most closely related to the ginger family these trees are really just big stem-like succulents like aloe vera Jade plants or cacti just don't try peeling cacti like a banana the banana itself is also technically a berry like a pumpkin a cucumber and an avocado sitting too close to a TV won't ruin your eyes we've all been told not to sit too close to the TV and PC monitor or you'll damage your eyes opthalmologists have said that it can cause temporary strain to the eyes but long-term problems are rare if you're nearsighted chances are you're always going to be whether you sit too close or not you don't lose most of your body heat through your head while it may feel that way during the winter our body loses es heat all over you need to wear a hat because it's more exposed unlike the rest of the body which is kept toasty with jackets and thick pants swallowed gum won't stay in you for 7 years you should definitely avoid swallowing gum that's not something that's good for you but just in case you do by accident you'll be happy to learn that it won't stay inside your body for 7 years you can't fully digest the gum but all that happens is that gum leaves your body naturally in a matter of days our tongues don't have different sections for tasting there's no bitter sweet sour Umami or salty sections of our tongue whatsoever this giant muscle can taste everything all over so you don't have to worry about keeping specific Foods in specific parts of your mouth fingerprints might not be unique huh sounds terrifying doesn't it well the reasoning is actually very simple we can't check every fingerprint on Earth so it's difficult to know if they really are unique to each individual related people can have somewhat similar fingerprints and there are over 7 billion people on the planet so it's almost impossible to check Sushi doesn't mean raw fish while many people will think it means raw fish sushi actually comes from a Japanese word meaning sour rice and it's the rice that's at the heart and soul of every piece of sushi that's why you can buy sushi with cooked fish in it in supermarkets sharks do have tongues it's a common debate but it turns out that sharks do have tongues just not the types of ones that you can find on people most can't even move them around so it barely counts for example the cookie cutter shark's tongue doesn't help much with eating instead it supports some of the bones around its gills and no it doesn't make delicious cookies you can swallow watermelon seeds watermelon is the perfect summertime treat but worrying about a plant growing inside you can completely ruin it h not to worry seeds can't survive and grow inside stomach acid watermelon seeds are actually good for you flies live longer than 24 hours some flies can live for a few days to even years that's right those pesky house flies live a lot longer than you think sometimes even up to a month so trapping one in a room won't make it go away faster it just means that you won't have access to that room for a long time fresh fruits and veggies aren't Superior to Frozen having fresh instead of Frozen produce might seem like a no-brainer but the choice isn't actually so simple by the time that juic mango or crisp carrot gets to your local store it's actually been through a lot most fresh produce travels on trucks or ships or planes and gets processed once it arrives it's often covered in pesticides in order to keep it fresh now on the other hand Frozen fruits and vegetables are immediately Frozen keeping all their nutrients and minerals preserved if you can grow your own produce though you can guarantee freshness the Great Wall of China can't be seen from the Moon the only thing that you can see from the Moon is Earth which is mostly white with blue and patches of yellow and green vegetation no man-made object is easily visible from this far away in low earth orbit though cities can be seen during the night and day these include major roadways airports dams and reservoirs hey I can even see my house from there lightning can strike the same spot more than once this myth has been around for a very long time and it's just simply not true lightning will strike whatever is attracting it however many times it can this means that in many cases it's more likely to strike twice just watch the Empire State Building during a lightning storm it gets hit more than 100 times every year Saturn's rings aren't solid when you see a photo of Saturn it'd be easy to assume that the the Rings are solid but they're not the Rings are made up of tiny particles of rock and Ice that vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a house huh good luck trying to Space Walk on these Rings cracking your knuckles won't cause arthritis a lot of people are scared to crack their knuckle joints because of advice from friends and family the most common myth is that it causes arthritis well this just isn't true at all one scientist even cracked the knuckles in his left hand for over 60 years and was left with no discomfort whatsoever waking a sleepwalker won't hurt them in fact the most dangerous thing for a sleepwalker is allowing them to carry on wandering around getting them back to bed so they don't hurt themselves is the best way to make sure that they're okay we use most of our brain percentage we use far more than the myth of 10% that's right ESP especially you bright side viewer although some parts of the brain have yet to be figured out by scientists we know enough to debunk this idea we actually turn parts of our brain on and off and tap into different parts when they're needed now we haven't unlocked any secret powers yet but hopefully we can find something one day Bears don't really sleep during hibernation Bears don't sleep for months on end while hibernating they actually go into something called torper this means that they slow things down in their bodies but are still able to react to any stimuli around them if you see one sleeping during winter just make sure to keep your distance chameleons change color to show their mood and to communicate chameleons are known as masters of camouflage but they often don't even use their abilities to camouflage they actually change color to show when they're feeling a strong emotion when when they're agitated and upset they'll turn black when they're happy they'll stay a bright green or blue the sun isn't a fireball the sun doesn't burn as we think of it like logs on a fire or a gas stove it glows because it's a giant ball of gas with nuclear fusion taking place in its core our sun isn't yellow or white either it glows green blue the human eye sees all the rainbow colors around it and mixes them together to make the sun's famous golden yellow dogs see more than black and white asking dogs to read an eye chart or to pick out colors would be impractical but scientists have been able to figure out the vision of dogs they see the world through a basic color scheme of yellow blue and gray not black and white it seems that they also lack the ability to see the range of colors from green to red chasing a tennis ball has to do with movement and smell more than color salt doesn't make water boil faster that tiny pinch you put in before your pasta doesn't make any difference to the amount of time it takes to come up to a boil the same goes for putting oil into the water to stop your pasta from sticking it doesn't work but it might still be worth adding some if you want to make sure that the water doesn't boil over Vikings probably never wore horned helmets as awesome as they looked Vikings didn't have a practical use for horned helmets this look was created for an opera costume in the 19th century and it's stuck ever since get the point huh looking sharp some Vikings might have used them but archaeological finds have suggested that if they did use them it wasn't very common the earpiercing sound of sirens brings your relaxing Saturday afternoon to a scream reaching halt you jump out of the chair and run to the window the sky is covered in black clouds all the way down to the Horizon the trees are nearly bent over flat from the gale force winds together with the rain golf ball sized hail crashes into the ground on rooftops on parked cars it sounds like a stampede right over your head car alarms are going off everywhere just then crack huge bolts of lightning flash across the black sky then the Monstrous Grumble of Thunder your heart jumps in your throat as you peer through the window at the sudden chaos outside you're filled with a primal fear of the power of nature you snap back to reality the sirens got to get to the basement you start to turn away from the window and that's when you see it a massive tornado ripping along the city street it's throwing entire motorcycles refrigerators and even trees like baseballs the roof of that building starts peeling off like a Band-Aid the Twister even lifts cars and pieces of asphalt as if they're made of feathers it seems This Tornado will flatten your city within an hour tops you finally snap out of your hypnosis and run to the basement the sound of the city being ripped apart terrifies you as you hunker down below as low as you can but after about 20 minutes everything is suddenly silent you head out to see the clouds have disappeared and the sun's Rays illuminate the street luckily your house was spared but your modern city now looks more like ancient ruins stop tornadoes never come into cities right uh yeah they do this monster doesn't care where it goes and what it eats along the way while we're at it you can forget about the myth that tornadoes will magically stop when they meet rivers lakes or mountains they just keep on going but about that no twisters in the city thing about 1,000 tornadoes hit the US each year that's 75% of all the tornadoes in the world most of these monsters occur in a strip okay more like a long blob running up and down through the middle of the country it's an area aptly dubbed Tornado Alley a perfect spot for these things to form you get cold dry air coming down from Canada meeting warm humid air traveling north from the Gulf of Mexico warm air is less dense than cold air so it rises and creates a strong updraft water droplets surround it to create the funnel cloud there you go recipe for a tornado now if you closed your eyes spun around and put your finger on a map of the US the chances of your finger landing on a major city are pretty slim if you gathered all the cities in the whole country into one area it would only be 3% of the US's entire land just like your finger the likelihood of a tornado striking in the city is much smaller than Landing in a rural area when it comes down to it tornadoes can touch down in big cities they just hardly ever do thanks to sheer chance another surprising myth you always see a tornado coming because duh funnel cloud right ahead not true the approaching funnel can be completely camouflaged in a wall of rain you might finally see it when it's right on top of you in this case you better trust your hearing first tornado warning sirens go off if you're in a place that has them second listen for a loud Rumble that sounds like a train coming that's a sure sign this Beast is somewhere nearby many people immediately start heading for shelter when they see green clouds in the sky because we all believe it's the number one sign of a tornado coming don't buy it yes a green sky is a sign of a severe thunder th storm that's powerful enough to produce tornadoes but it's not a guarantee like many people see it while we're at it you know how movies show the ground ripping apart during earthquakes the gaping hole that swallows cars houses entire cities eh not a shred of truth to this a crack may appear in the ground with major earthquakes but it rarely exceeds a couple feet wide one of the most overspread myths out there is that lightning will never Strike the same place twice tell that to the Empire State Building it gets hit by bolts of lightning at least 25 times a year pretty sure nobody's picking the building up and moving it to different locations yes lightning likes really tall things and it's not shy to keep coming back as for that old warning about your cell phone or jewelry attracting lightning busted there hasn't been any scientific support for the idea that personal objects with metal in them attract lightning you still shouldn't be out and about during a storm though cell phon in hand or not now if you're looking for a tsunami and only focused on giant walls of water you might never see one even if it's right in front of you tsunamis aren't always massive tidal waves crashing into the shore more often than not they look like the tide is rising extremely rapidly receding and Rising again until it overspills into the city not that tsunamis never form walls of water it's just not as common picture Earth are you IM imagining a perfect ball well to resemble the truth more squash the poles down a little there now you have a realistic earth scientists call the Earth an irregular sphere or ellipsoid in fancy terms the planet rotates on its axis causing the equator to bulge out a bit just like what happens when you spin fast on a merrygoround you feel pulled out and away from the center what's the highest point on Earth Everest of course but if we go from the point furthest away from the center of the earth the crown goes to Mount Chimborazo in the Andes its peak is actually 6800 ft closer to space than the summit of Everest that's because chimazo sits near the equator where the planet's bulge is greatest the blue whale weighs as much as 30 elephants makes sounds louder than a jet and eats 4 tons of food every day it's the largest living creature this planet has ever seen only not technically head to the maler National Forest in Oregon home to a creature that weighs as much as 20 blue whales the honey mushroom is a humongous fungus Colony united into a common system the giant covers an area of 1500 football fields and it's thousands of years old ask anyone to draw the Sun and they'll draw a happy yellow circle but if you look at our star from the moon or the International Space Station you'll see that it's actually WI from Earth the Sun looks yellow or red thanks to the atmosphere acting like a filter most people think time is constant and moves at the same speed no matter where you are but the speed of time depends on how close the watch is to Earth the weaker the gravity the faster time passes so the person living in the apartment above you is aging faster than you now it's only 90 billionths of a second faster per 1 foot higher so don't expect to notice a difference if you decide to move to the first flooor the ground under your feet feels pretty solid and whole but in reality the Earth's crust is all broken up into plates surfing on oceans of liquid rock called magma you don't feel it but the ground under you is moving a little over half an inch per year that's about the same rate your toenails grow largest desert in the world huh easy the Sahara nope it's Antarctica which is almost two times bigger than the Sahara a desert isn't just a scorching Sandy place where it doesn't rain it's a place with very little precipitation so that includes snow too in some parts of Antarctica it hasn't rained or snowed for millions of years in other parts snow does fall though rarely point is there's a myth that it doesn't snow in extreme cold Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth and it snows there there is some truth to this old saying cold is drier doesn't retain moisture as well you need moisture to produce raindrops and snowflakes that's why there are fewer chances for snowfall when temperatures drop so low oceans cover 70% of the Earth on average the ocean is eight empire state buildings deep and less than 5% of its mysterious depths have been explored it's even possible to find lakes and rivers beneath the ocean they're denser than the rest of the water surrounding them so you can clearly see the difference when the coral is in Shallow Waters intense sunlight can damage the algae living inside it to protect the algae the coral produces some proteins that act as some kind of sunscreen for it so they really don't need to spend money on it okay most of the ocean may not be explored but what we do know is about 20 million tons of gold is dispersed through its dark Waters it's concentrated in really small amounts which is why it doesn't pay off to mine it if we could take it out every person on the planet would get 9 lb of gold when Shar need their Morning Joe they go to a cafe too back in 2002 researchers found an area in the Pacific Ocean called the white shark Cafe where great white sharks come during the winter they simply hang out tell jokes and laugh at stories of how many humans they've scared and then go back to the coast to scare us a little bit more when the weather gets warmer hey have you had a great white latte try one the whitest point of the Pacific Ocean goes from Indonesia to Colombia and at that part is 12,300 mil across over five times wider than the diameter of the Moon we might imagine oceans are cold especially in depths where the temperature is only 40° F but there's an exception water that comes out of hydrothermal vents in the seafloor has a temperature of up to 750° humans are the only animals whose brain gets smaller yep as we get older it tends to shrink it can do so even because of isolation and loneliness other animals even some of our distant cousins from another side of the family tree like monkeys and chimpanzees have no problem with that I'm guessing television is the probable cause our eard drums have nothing to do with the sense of sight but they still move when we move our eyes in the average lifetime our heart beats over 2.5 billion times I've counted our nose can detect over 1 trillion smells and our lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than the tips of our fingers two of our body parts never stop growing your nose and your ears cockroaches are tough they can survive harsh conditions and have been around since dinosaurs ruled our planet but the termite Queen beats all that with a lifespan of 50 years that's the longest any insect can live regular termites live only 1 to 2 years it's not the water camel store in their humps but fat they store water in their bloodstream bees can fly really high more than 29,500 ft which is even higher than Mount Everest the tallest mountain on our planet sloths are able to hold their breath longer than Dolphins yep they slow their heart rates and they can stay that way for almost 40 minutes dolphins have to come to the surface to catch a air every 10 minutes the moon has volcanos and scientists believe these might have been active around 100 million years ago when dinosaurs still ruled our planet wow the view must have been magnificent there are watermelons the size of a grape cucum if you prefer Mouse melons actually look like really small watermelons but at the same time have a citrus flavor not just mous melons there's also the kangaroo mouse this animal doesn't feel the need to drink water it lives in the Nevada desert and since its habitat is really dry it simply learned to quench its thirst through seeds it likes to eat you may think parking is expensive in the area where you live but is probably cheaper than a spot you'd pay in Hong Kong just A3 35 ft spot placed in front of the center which is the fifth tallest building in the city was purchased for almost a million bucks H I'll take a bus ticket please speaking of expensive and I was the world's priciest hot dog is $169 and you can try it out in Seattle Washington I don't have the money but I am a little intrigued must admit an Australian Barista set a world record for the most cappuccinos made in 1 hour 420 of them huh that's really a Java Jive you can taste garlic with your feet rub a clove right in your feet of course take the socks off beforehand and wait for it the chemical responsible for its unique smell can be absorbed through the skin even though the clove was never in your mouth by the way lobsters can try out the same experiment well they actually taste any food with their feet okay researchers have found many things that are evidence of prehistoric animals or our human ancestors that that lived thousands of years ago like bones teeth stone tools and a piece of chewing gum dating from almost 10,000 years ago in Tibet there are Black Diamond apples that aren't green or red but dark purple the place where they grow has plenty of ultraviolet light over the day while the temperatures drastically go down during the night which makes the apple skin get a darker color Australia has a lake of naturally bubblegum pink color the unusual color is there because of the pig pment from a certain typee of algae living there clouds look so fluffy like they're made of giant puffs of cotton but the average one weighs around 1.1 million lbs so please stay up there a farmer from Iowa got hiccups that didn't stop for the next 68 Years first hiccupping was about 40 times a minute and after a while 20 times he actually spent 70% of his life hiccuping a million seconds is somewhere around 12 days and a billion seconds is almost 32 years nothing unusual here just a little bit of good old math that reminds us how cool the time is okay sharks may be scarier than humans but our teeth are just as strong as theirs just smaller until the beginning of the 19th century Americans actually thought Tomatoes were poisonous so many tasty meals they missed believing that yep Farmers discovered not just people have Regional accents but cows also have different moves according to the area where they live hey do cows get moody giraffes have a tongue that's up to 20 in long ooh ice cream maybe actually they can bend trees with their tongues there's a specific type of jellyfish that's actually Immortal hey I can see that as a logo for a life insurance company the Earth is orbiting the Sun but not at a fixed speed rate we don't sense it but it's slowing as time goes by so our day will become 25 hours long in about 175 million years so don't plan that extra hour in your schedule just yet space is huge duh but there's obviously lots of empty spots since there are more trees 3 trillion on our planet than stars in the Milky Way only about 300 to 400 billion wow when someone mentions the biggest desert you probably picture the endless Sandy surface of the Sahara burning under the hot sun well not quite the biggest desert is the Antarctic polar desert which covers over 5.5 million square mil in Buffalo now Antarctica sounds strange at first but the definition says a desert is a place that gets less than 10 in of precipitation annually still it doesn't say if it has to be hot ostriches don't actually hide their heads in the sand when they sense danger they lower down their head neck and body to the ground which makes them a little bit less visible to Predators their light colored neck Blends in with the sand so it only looks like their head is hidden down there the first commercial passenger flight happened at the beginning of the 20th century it was a 23-minute flight that cost $400 which is about $8,500 a day and the plane flew between two cities in Florida a famous Egyptian ruler Cleopatra lived closer to cell phones then to the time when the Great Pyramids of Egypt were completed well that's a gap speaking of cell phones every 2 minutes there are more photos taken than in the entire 19th century okay let's add one more to those statistics cheese woho great news eating ice cream won't make your cold worse Frozen Da can help Soo a sore throat and give you the calories you need when you don't feel like cooking or eating anything more substantial giraffes sleep for way more longer than 30 minutes a day their night and afternoon naps add up to around 4 and 1/2 hours a day you can't have a truly photographic memory even if you can recall visual material in more detail than others you'll never compare to a film or camera sensor when it comes to Precision a bigger brain doesn't automatically make you smarter elephants and whales have brains way larger than humans we might not have an impressive brain to body mass ratio but 86 billion neurons help humans stay the smartest species on the planet light isn't the fastest thing in the world it's gossip no actually nothing can comp compared to it in speed in a vacuum but it slows down when it's going through water or glass particles like electrons neutrons or neutrinos win in those conditions the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter isn't Tumbling With dangerous rocks constantly colliding if you ever found yourself there you'd see how empty and calm it is the asteroids are so far apart from each other the chances of collision are super small a spaceship radar would detect it and help avoid any risks you don't have to wait for the spring equinox to make an egg stand on its head it doesn't need equal gravity or anything and can perfectly do it on any day of the year oranges aren't always orange the green skin variety is just as sweet and perfectly right this skin color protects them from the Sun and is also assign that there's plenty of chlorophyll in the fruit that's why green oranges mostly grow in warmer clients and are sometimes painted orange to look more regular to buyers across the world more good news you really always can squeeze in some dessert no matter how much salad soup or meat you've eaten before you get bored of the Savory tastes but when you see and smell ice cream cakes cookies and chocolate let me take a minute here your brain gets excited and overrides fullness signals for pleasure plus your stomach is a flexible organ and sugar helps it relax and physically make room for dessert you have way more than five senses in addition to sight hearing smell taste and touch there is your ability to sense heat and cold detect vibrations along air or water tell where some of your body parts are in relation to others feel pain thirst hunger time and many other things when you call someone using your cell phone the signal doesn't go through a satellite your Gadget is always looking for wireless radio signal and transmitting data to and from landbased cellular towers if you want to call someone the nearest Tower connects you to another cell through a huge network of tower to Tower Communications brown sugar isn't any healthier than white sugar it's mostly white sugar with some extra residual ual sticky syrup in it this syrup has some vitamins and minerals like potassium and magnesium but even that doesn't make it diet food the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be there for just 20 years the idea of it was to show off France's industrial power during the world's fair but because Eiffel added a radio antenna and wireless Telegraph transmitter to it they decided to keep it it also has a secret apartment on top and used to double as a meteorology lab it's also a great Landmark for a rendevu green and black tea really come from the same Bush the leaves get their different tastes and looks after they've been harvested green tea is withered and heated through steaming black tea is crushed or curled and then allowed to oxidize and darken honey can spoil if you leave it uncovered in a human environment keep the lid on and make sure no water gets inside and it'll be edible for a really long time it's antibacterial Powers won't let any organism settle in there if you leave wasps alone no they won't necessar do the same bees will respect your boundaries if you don't try to hurt them Yellow Jackets are so bad tempered they can sting even if you're just walking by their nest without knowing it and are perfectly still so there camels don't store water in their humps they use it as a reservoir for fat to let them survive for days in the desert without stopping for food they get water in huge amounts on the way to keep them hydrated excess water stays in their bloodstream owls can't turn their heads full circle 270 deg is as far as they can go without seriously hurting themselves it's possible thanks to their unique neckbone structure bats aren't blind when it's dark outside they hunt using echol location using Echoes bouncing off objects to navigate there are many kinds of bats and some of them can see three times better than humans they have receptors that enable these bat species to see ultraviolet life fortune cookies aren't originally from China according to the most popular version of the origin story they were invented by a Japanese immigrant in San Francisco in the early 1900s Einstein wasn't bad at math in school he mastered calculus at age 15 and was always at the top of his class this myth comes from the story of Einstein failing an entrance exam to a college in surich he did great at the math portion but failed botney zoology and language sections elephants are really afraid of mice like most mammals they have brains programmed to jump back when they see a critter no matter how huge they are elephants will be startled by little things moving fast by their feet a mouse can't do them any harm though even if it tried climbing up the trunk the elephant can easily get it off the sun isn't yellow it's a bunch of colors that mix and make it appear white we see it as yellow or orange because the atmosphere of the earth scatters colors like blue green and violet this is also why we see the sky as blue and the sun looks warmer at sunrise and sunset not all comets have tails when they next next to a star they look like small Frozen chunks of ice and rock as they approach a star the ice is scattered away thanks to the solar wind and looks like a tail sometimes these tails are too faint to see comets can also get a tail of dust and gas particles an ostrich doesn't hide its head in the sand when in danger they are the fastest two-legged animals and can outrun almost any Intruder or kick them with their powerful legs they sometimes bend down to eat some sand for better digestion they also do it to check their eggs in the ground when they start a family you can sleep outside after washing your hair and it won't make you sick even sleeping outside in Sub-Zero temperatures at that time can just make you chilly and make your hair freeze viruses cause colds and they don't care about your hair condition the Earth doesn't get closer to the Sun in the summer in reality it's farthest from the Sun in July and closest to it in January it's warmer in the summer because the axis of our planet is tilted letting its northern part catch more sunlight for half of the year and the southern part for the other half so in summer the sun is above the Horizon for up to 17 hours a day and just for around 6 hours during winter you can't see millions of stars even on the clearest night and far from sources of light the highest number you can see if you have really good eyesight is around 3,000 of them they are the ones that are close enough and bright enough some other luminous objects you can spot are planets distant galaxies and artificial satellites the moon really doesn't have a dark side it's tidily locked with Earth so we always see just one side of it the Sun the moon and our Earth are all constantly moving so there are times when the side of the moon visible to us is lit and then its other side it only seems dark to us no worries you don't eat eight spiders every night in your sleep most people sleep with their mouths closed so a spider can't make it inside even if you sleep with your mouth wide open the powerful vibrations you produce while breathing and a warm stream of air coming out of your mouth will scare away any little spider a penny dropped from the Empire State Building won't damage anyone on the ground it's lightweight and can't speed up enough to be that devastating the coin speed does grow with every passing second during the fall but the air resistance increases too the worst it can do to a passer by is sting a little mammoths were really still roing the planet at the time the pyramids and Giza were built most mammoths had been wiped out around 10,000 years ago but a small population of 500 to 1,000 woolly mammoths lived in the Arctic until as recently as 1650 BCE the Great Pyramid of Giza had existed for A Thousand Years by the time the last woolly mammoth disappeared your tongue doesn't have bitter sweet sour salty or ooh mommy sections for tasting not even oo daddy each of the 8,000 taste Buzz that you have on the tongue the roof of the mouth and even in the throat can detect all the taste the same way you don't have to worry about putting certain Foods in certain places in your mouth to get a better taste fingerprints aren't 100% unique related people can have somewhat similar patterns plus with over 7 billion people on the planet right now and not all of the fingerprints recorded we can't be sure anyway your brain has more nerve connections than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy it's around 200 billion stars versus 100 billion nerve cells multiplied by 40,000 nerve connections it's impossible to breathe and Swallow at the same time there's a food pipe and a wind pipe at the back of your mouth when you swallow the air could take the food through the wrong pipe down to your lungs the consequences would be dramatic to prevent it from happening there's a flap guarding the windpipe when food or drink is going through breathing is temporarily paused you can't hum while holding your nose you're exhaling during humming and when both your mouth and your nose are closed the air can't escape sushi restaurants don't serve real wasabi it would be incredibly expensive so they replace it with dyed horseradish with mustard the real thing is from the same family of plants it serve fresh grated it off the stock and taste sweeter your chances of getting it are about 0.5% and if you do you'll know it from a super high price carrots weren't originally orange before the 16th to 17th century almost all of them were purple with some rare yellow and white exceptions orange carrots have been cultivated by Dutch farmers they believe they'd be easier to grow it's true that things appear weightless in outer space but there's gravity everywhere the further you get from a heavy object like Earth the weaker it gets still gravity affects every single spot in the universe that has mass strawberries aren't berries neither are raspberries or blackberries bananas eggplants grapes tomatoes and oranges are berries they have three distinct fleshy layers two or more seeds and develop from one flower you do have enough iron in your body to produce a metal nail that's 3 in Long try it sometime wait don't lightning can strike the same spot twice three times or more than a 100 times even during the same thunderstorm nothing can stop a lightning bolt from striking the same place it had struck a few seconds earlier or centuries ago lightning prefers tall and isolated objects the Empire State Building for example is hit about 25 times a year the largest living organism isn't the blue whale or the African elephant it's honey fungus across the blue mountains in Oregon it's as long as 6 and 1/2 Burge khalifas and end and that's the world's tallest building it's still growing and it's edible turkeys can blush just like humans the skin on their heads and necks can turn red or blue when they're excited angry or sick the flap of skin over their necks is called a snood and can go bright red from excitement during mating season male turkeys Waddles also turn Scarlet to show their interest to females the Sahara isn't the biggest desert in the world the Antarctic desert is almost twice as large the second place belongs to the Arctic desert and the Sahara is third the main feature of a desert isn't the excessive heat or duns it's the lack of precipitation the ice fields and Rocky Mountains of the Antarctic almost never get a drop of rain sitting too close to a TV won't make you go blind or give you serious vision problems hey tell that to my mother it can temporarily strain your eyes but long-term problems are super rare reading in the dark won't make you go blind either flies live longer than 24 hours an average housefly lives for around 1 month fruit flies have a lifespan of 40 to 50 days over this time one female fly can have up to 500 Offspring that's why leaving flies in a locked room and waiting won't solve your insect problem Bears don't sleep for months during hybernation the process is in their bodies slow down and they eat or drink but they can still perfectly react to any unexpected things going on around them so keep your distance from their dens cracking your knuckles isn't bad for your health the sound you hear while doing it is a special organic fluid bursting into the gaps between your bones it happens under the pressure you put on your joints and is harmless goldfish don't forget everything that happens to them after 3 seconds experiments have proven they can do pretty well with their tiny brains storing information for several months they can also so hide from their foes and find food you can't fry an egg on a sidewalk no matter how high the temperature is outside an egg needs 158° to cook though and a sidewalk only gets to a maximum of 145° bananas don't grow on trees they're an herb related to the ginger family and look somewhat like aloe vera or other stem-like succulents chameleons don't change their color to blend in with the environment they do it to show their mood and to communicate they turn black when they're nervous or upset and when they're happy you see the bright green or blue they use lighter colors to attract mates toilet flushes don't spin in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere the Earth's rotation affects things like the Gulf Stream and hurricanes but it has no control over toilets the direction varies from model to model and depends on the water pressure mustard seat isn't the smallest in the world the record holder in this category is the Orchid seed from the tropical rainforest some of them are so small you won't see them with an uned eye they pop out in the air like dust particles and land on rainforest trees to spread further carrots are full of vitamin A but even that isn't enough to help you see in complete darkness it can only help you maintain healthy eyesight everything in the solar system is always in motion the Moon is moving away from the earth with each year and our planet gets further and further from the Sun you're also constantly on the move even when you're standing perfectly still white chocolate isn't really chocolate it's made from sugar milk products vanilla cocoa butter and leathan but doesn't have chocolate solids in it cocoa butter is derived from cacao beans which makes white chocolate a cousin of dark and milk chocolate but not the closest relative or the same thing coffee won't stunt your growth how tall you'll grow is genetic a healthy diet can contribute to that too set your coffee consumption limit at 2 cups a day and you'll be fine wow two cups you don't need to wash chicken before you cook it doing it can spread germs onto your hands work surfaces clothing and cooking supplies through splashes walnuts aren't really nuts neither are almonds cashews Brazil nuts pecans macadamia nuts pistachios or pine nuts they're all formly seeds of droops they can't be called nuts as they aren't fruits that have a single edible seed with an inedible outer shell diamonds aren't actually that rare they're ordinary rocks and extracting them isn't as complicated as it used to be 150 years ago marketing and advertising campaigns and artificially raised prices help them to become something considered luxury fools don't get angry when you show them something red they are red green color blind and can only see yellow green blue and violet colors movement is what makes them angry and self-protective so try to look like a banana swimming right after a meal won't give you cramps your body need some extra blood to digest food but swimming won't revert it from the muscles in your arms and legs messing up their work adding salt to water won't make it boil faster the temperature of salt water will get higher faster than that of regular water but the boiling point will also be higher and salt adds some extra mass to it so things won't speed up kangaroos can't walk backwards they have muscular legs big feet and Tails and can move forward fast but can't go in the opposite directions because of this body Construction they're on the Australian coat of arms along with emus that can't move backward either symbolizing that the country is always striving forward milk won't make your bones indestructible it does have calcium and vitamin D in it but no magical bone healing powers it is good with cookies that is not a myth that's it for today so hey if you pacified your curiosity then give the video a like and share it with your friends or if you want more just click on these 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