The Man Who Ate a Plane and Somehow Survived

michael latito from france became famous for being able to munch on inedible stuff doctors found out that the man had a very thick lining covering his stomach and intestines plus his digestive juices were incredibly powerful this gave him the ability to consume literally anything including sharp or even toxic metals no wonder lotito got the nickname monsieur majito which means mr eat all the man didn't actually eat any gigantic passenger plane but he still consumed a mind-boggling nine tons of metal he opted for a cessna 150 a two-seat general aviation plane monsieur lotito managed to eat the aircraft within two years from 1978 to 1990. throughout his career he also consumed tons of other indigestible things bicycles tv sets shopping carts chandeliers beds even a small section of the eiffel tower at the same time soft foods like eggs or bananas made latito sick for him bananas had no appeal okay we should move on huh there's a kind of grape that has 12 percent more sugar than others it took plant breeders almost 12 years to reach this result at first sight the super sweet grapes look and smell exactly like regular ones but they taste like cotton candy there is a cruise ship where you can live permanently the ship is traveling around the world making several day stops in different ports people can either live on board or come and go whenever they want they own comfortable and spacious cabins that cost anywhere from two and a half million to nine million dollars most of these apartments have been bought long before the construction of the ship was finished you can rent your cabin out or bring along your relatives or friends the average age of the ship's residents is 66. it looks as if the mountains on venus are covered with snow but the temperatures on the planets are scorching and no snow can exist there the ice like substance is actually metallic vanta black is the darkest material in the world it absorbs more than 99 percent of light and makes 3d objects look like 2d objects the material is made of tiny hollow carbon tubes they've been grown in a special laboratory it started in 2003 when two brothers from spain bought an expensive artwork they believed it was an original goya painting when they found out it was a 19th century fake the men decided to sell it presenting it as the real thing the buyer was supposedly a rich arabian shake the middleman demanded a commission of three hundred fifty thousand dollars the brothers didn't have so much money and had to borrow it at first the sellers asked for four and a half million but in the end the price was lowered to one point seven million dollars when the men tried to deposit the money into a bank account they discovered the money was fake just like their painting the brothers were arrested the middleman disappeared with the commission and was never found wim hoff of the netherlands got his nickname the iceman for a reason in january 2007 he ran a half marathon in ulu a town in northern finland it's a mere 100 miles away from the arctic circle the man didn't have his shoes or shirt on even though his more than two hours of running barefoot on ice and snow wim hof has also set the world record for the longest time in full body contact with ice and he's done it 16 times his best result was surpassed only in 2019 by an athlete from australia just makes you shiver doesn't it a man from canada was fishing when a powerful storm hit the area his boat veered off course and got stuck in the bushes the man ended up in a totally unfamiliar place he had no idea where he was after wandering around for some time he understood he was completely lost and might not survive this adventure he was getting desperate when an idea came to his mind he damaged the nearest power line with the axe he had then the man sat down and started to wait for a helicopter to come and repair it the copter did arrive and rescue him but since lots of people had to spend almost 30 hours without power the man had to pay a big fine your right lung is a bit shorter than the left one because it has to leave some room for your liver as for the left lung it's narrower because it has to make space for the heart also a male's lungs usually hold more air than a woman's wireless signals are illegal in the small town of green bank in west virginia it means no cell phones no wi-fi no bluetooth no electronic transmitters and so on all because the place houses the green bank telescope it's the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope any kind of wireless signal can mess up its work there are only two seasons on uranus summer and winter each of them occurs twice a year and lasts for 21 earth years and one full year on uranus is 84 earth years long wow imagine having to wait for summer vacation to come around sheesh costa coffee's chief coffee taster has his tongue insured for 13 million dollars taste buds are as important for his profession as vocal cords are for a singer they allow him to pick out hundreds of flavors the very first roller coaster was constructed to transport coal down a hill the track was long steep and the cart's speed could reach 50 miles per hour soon people found out about this entertainment tourists could coast down the treacherous terrain after paying a few cents snails have one of the craziest sleeping patterns in the world they can catch some z's for an hour or two and then stay awake for 30 hours at a time these animals also have bizarre hibernation periods those can last for several years and if you saute them with some garlic they are delicious coyotes and badgers often hunt together badgers know how to get prey out of its burrows and coyotes are skilled at chasing animals on the ground plus badgers have a heightened sense of smell and coyotes have excellent vision their cooperation works like this a badger digs out a small critter and makes it run toward a coyote that's waiting nearby and dinner is served doesn't say which critter gets the first bite the whale shark one of the largest fish in the world has several thousand tiny teeth it uses them to eat veggies the shark is a filter feeder and prefers to munch on plants algae and plankton the plankton are not happy about this but such is life lots of people start laughing after they sneeze several times in a row that's because sneezing makes you happy when you do it your body releases endorphins those are hormones responsible for dealing with stress elves are so flexible they can twist their heads in almost a full circle all thanks to the fact that their heads are connected to their body by only one socket pivot people have two of those and it seriously limits our abilities owls also have many vertebrae tiny bones that make up the spine and neck it's another thing that helps them to perform their head swiveling trick oh yeah they have to move their entire head because owls can't move their eyes around the sea level is different throughout the world and the world's ocean surface isn't flat it's because of the winds and the difference in gravity it's influenced by the mass of underwater mountains most astronauts claim space smells like searing steak or barbecue that's exactly the odor that hangs around after someone finishes a space walk but some space explorers are sure it smells like heated metal or maybe heated metal or searing steak smells like space i mean what was there first your most vivid dreams happen during rem rapid eye movement sleep this stage doesn't last long and happens 90 to 120 minutes apart throughout the night during rem sleep most of the voluntary muscles in your body get paralyzed this way you can't harm yourself while acting out a dream except when you fall out of bed trust me it's weird there are waterfalls in the ocean they occur when there is a big difference in water temperature then colder water flows down and under warmer and therefore less dense layers the largest known waterfall on earth lies between iceland and greenland the giant is eleven thousand five hundred feet tall the world's largest sand image was as big as twelve olympic sized swimming pools and could be seen from space it was created in 2019 in dubai it took the artists more than 2 400 hours to finish their work the sun weighs 330 000 times as much as our planet the size difference is so great that the earth could fit inside the star 1.3 million times by the way the sun contains 99.85 of all the mass in our solar system the university of oxford is older than the aztec empire the educational institution was established in 1096 and the aztec empire was founded 332 years later in 1428. fast fact if oxford still had some of its original professors on staff they'd be pretty old by now each tree in melbourne was once given a unique id number this way residents could email the council if something happened to the plants but people started to send love letters to the trees instead i think that i shall never see a poem as lovely as a sequoia semper virus nah that doesn't swing does it

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Length: 10min 28sec (628 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 30 2020