[Music] so the average person spends approximately six months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green this is exactly how much we dedicate to looking at the traffic lights come on pal there's only one shade of green astronauts can grow up to two inches taller in space for instance after spending almost a year at the ISS astronaut scott kelly returned to earth two inches taller than he had been before the trip hello would you go into space in order to get some extra height shadows are darker on the moon than on earth Neil Armstrong said he had trouble seeing where he was going is there an explanation of course on earth air scatters light and allows objects not in direct sunlight to be still well let but on the moon there is no air so shadows are very dark and where sunlight hits very bright space has a distinct smell a bouquet of diesel fumes gunpowder and barbecue the aroma is mostly produced by dying stars it sounds like something pretty unique doesn't it a u.s. dollar bill can be folded approximately four thousand times in the same place before it will tear the paper for US currency is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen and each paper note weighs approximately one gram Donald Trump's vehicle is a bomb-proof limousine which is called the Beast it has been specially engineered to survive a military or chemical attack it has bulletproof windows super protected fuel tank stocks of shotguns tear gas launchers night-vision goggles and even firefighting equipment to tackle any situation Wow 10% of the world's population is left-handed by the way men are more likely to be left-handed than women and Express the left hand more dominantly are you left-handed or right-handed the average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools saliva is important it helps in digestion and protects your teeth each day you make up to two liters of saliva humans can't digest grass despite health fanatics claiming wheatgrass aids digestion humans would actually need several more stomachs to digest it like cows half the shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes that's how you should do it if you must any guesses which countries were involved in it it was between Britain and Zanzibar a snail can sleep for three years the average age of a snail is 15 years so it may spend 1/5 of its life time sleeping just imagine that elephants are the only animals that can't jump even crocodiles can but there's no moment in time when an elephant has all four legs in the air without touching the ground we all know lobsters taste good but lobsters themselves taste with their feet yep tiny bristles inside a lobsters little pincers are their equivalent to human tastebuds just imagine feeling the taste of sand with your feet nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctica lasher's is penguin urine ho due to the temperatures being well below zero it can't evaporate so it simply freezes the human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap soap to clean the very same body blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant their hearts meanwhile can weigh almost a ton and need to be just once every 10 seconds you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television actually there's many more effortless ways of burning calories like laughing kissing drinking water and even chewing gum [Music] banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour but remember exercising is more effective and less traumatic doctors warn that holding a sneeze can actually hurt you if you often try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die ooh death by sneeze there are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet that's creepy so don't skip showers the life forms tend to multiply 95% of people text things they could never say in person no wonder many people don't even bother to break up in person Gero phobia is the fear of fun it comes from the Greek word Charo which means I rejoice it basically means that they are afraid to participate in anything fun party pooper more people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food by the way children with milk allergies are much more likely to develop allergic reactions to other foods including eggs soy and peanuts the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime the average moderately active person takes around 7,500 steps a day where they are walking to nobody knows [Music] the famous Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona the Spanish that he thought the design was too ugly so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead the Empire State Building has its own zip code it's home to 101 1/8 the tower stands within the geographical boundaries of Manhattan's 100 o1 zip code which covers land east of Fifth Avenue and between 25th and 35th streets aren't you glad you know that three musketeers bars got their name because they used to come with three flavors vanilla chocolate or strawberry what do you like more three musketeers our Mars a hard-boiled egg will spin but a soft-boiled egg will not this is how you can check if the egg has been cooked or not just let it spin the toothpaste Colgate in Spanish translates to go hang yourself the original verb is colgar a waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down upside down waterfalls happen when strong gusts of wind blow against a waterfalls flow thus forcing the stream of water to spray upward or blow backward in 2011 a woman named Amy Davison purchased a non-visible piece of art for ten thousand dollars the art working question was fresh air did she get a frame with that British Prince Charles and Prince William always travel in separate planes it's logical though in case there is a crash one needs to survive in Las Vegas casinos have no clients it's pretty smart isn't it customers lose track of time and keep gambling have you been to Vegas the Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music in the late 1950s a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock and roll considering it a threat to quality music you think the money changed all that there's this island in Brazil the 110 acres snake island in Sao Paulo has 4,000 snakes which is one snake for every six yards it is one of the world's deadliest Islands hey you want to go there a lightning strike can reach a temperature of 30 thousand centigrade or 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit about 400 people are hit by lightning each year shocking isn't it yeah but I'll bet they get a charge out of it alright enough every human being has 99 percent of their DNA in common a parent and child share 99.5% of the same DNA and you have 98% of your DNA in common with a chimpanzee yeah I like bananas women are usually just the carriers of the genetic mutation for colorblindness which is passed on through the X chromosome it is mostly men who inherit colorblindness affecting about one in 20 men for everyone in 200 women bubbles keep your bath water warm or longer so next time you want to enjoy a warm relaxing bath add some bubbles to it you two ladies that's our the world's only group of mammals that have wings although some other groups of mammals are capable to glide using skin membranes only bats are capable of true flight bananas contain high levels of potassium and thus are slightly radioactive it's not something you need to worry about because 0.01% of the potassium already in your body is the same radioactive type potassium is essential for proper nutrition it gives you that glow the annual number of worldwide shark bites is ten times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York so a getaway to the ocean might be a safer idea than a weekend in the Big Apple camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand boy mother nature sure knows everything about taking precautions cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory they do it this way as opposed to the way dogs do it because they have scent glands in their faces the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet Oh should we try it you first no never mind bad idea the average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words the flea can jump 350 times its body length it's like a human jumping the length of a football field a crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail its bite however is something you want to avoid dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures the average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child no wonder they're our best friends a person can live without food for about a month but only about a week without water if the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1% you'll feel thirsty if it's reduced by 10% you'll die in Switzerland it's illegal to own only one guinea pig everybody needs somebody we'll it've to their bodies Chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world next time you see a chihuahua pay attention to its big smart head and little teeny body in Great Britain and Japan black cats are perceived as auspicious in the English Midlands new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck particularly for single women ice pops were invented by an eleven-year-old by accident in 1905 an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson left soda powder and water outside overnight with its wooden stirrers still in the cup the mixer had frozen and he sold the treat around his neighborhood thank you Frank [Music] during Prohibition moonshiners would wear cow shoes the fancy footwear left hoof prints instead of footprints helping distillers and smugglers evade police perhaps the police were tipped off when they found no cow pies to go along with the hoof prints just saying the word muscle comes from the Latin term meaning little mouse which is what ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled do you think and what I'm thinking yeah Mighty Mouse the human heart beats more than three billion times in an average lifespan just think about it three billion times boy if I had a nickel if you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth the entire world population could fit into an apple yet another example of how small we really are scientists estimate that the nose can recognize a trillion different cents so when a shop assistant tells you the perfume is a blend of magnolia flower essence orange jasmine cedar and patchouli try to feel it you totally can in 2014 tinder made its first match on the continent of Antarctica not surprisingly both parties involved were research scientists none more penguins in Japan letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck I got nothing humans are the only species known to blush or needs - according to Mark Twain so don't be ashamed of blushing it makes you unique facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body that's all I have to say about that guinness estimates that 93 thousand liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone most of these are men a man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body well women have approximately 5 litres which makes men somewhat juicier I think have you ever wondered why people actually say bless you when you sneeze when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond that's actually not the reason for all the Gaston Heights but it's a better story with a medical spin I think if you eat enough carrots about three large carrots a day for several weeks it increases the beta carotene in your body and could turn your skin orange so moderate consumption that's what's needed otherwise you might look like never mind [Music] China owns all of the pandas in the world they rent them out for about a million bucks a year so you can call it a true panda monopolist the fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion being confused at a crime scene who's the robber a koala yeah that little furry guy there with the loot Tigers have stripes skin and each pattern is unique basically it's their fingerprint maybe they should be talking to the koalas around 50% of orangutans have fractured bones due to falling out of trees on a regular basis what they forget to hang on or something it's pretty dangerous being an orangutan a grizzly bears bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball so the takeaway here is never ever invite a grizzly bear to a bowling alley if your smart animal behaviorists have concluded that cats don't meow as a way to communicate with each other rather as a method to get attention from people yo I'm hungry here and I need a cuddle make it snappy dude honey is the only food that does not spoil honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible but the graham crackers are pretty stale Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears they should have brought bowling balls son Dooku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them probably each of us has once participated in this act eh babies are born with blue eyes more than any other color the melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby's true eye color if you yelled for eight years seven months and six days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee you might also be mistaken for a politician in an election year blood donors in Sweden receive a thank-you text when their blood is used according to blood service representatives they want to give the donors feedback on their effort isn't that thoughtful my noé Nebraska is the only town in the United States with an official population of one person yeah she owes taxes to herself she's in her 80s and she's employed as the villages mayor librarian and bartender by the age of 60 most people will have lost half of their taste buds so now they have to keep asking other people so how's that taste bud Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust wow what a coincidence huh in colonial America lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy it was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners if only they knew what kind of treatment they received one third of all the airports in the world are located in the US so where's everybody going somewhere else when high-heeled-shoes first came into fashion in the 10th century they were intended for men it wasn't until the 18th century that more women wore high heels than men Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world not to have any rivers so it's a pretty safe bet that it probably has no towns named Riverside Spain is considered the most mountainous country in Europe and as over 8,000 kilometers of beaches so they're 90 percent of the world's freshwater is in Antarctica Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world with 851 individual languages listed Ethiopia and Liberia are the only two countries in Africa that were not colonized by the European powers the largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across it is said to have landed on someone's tongue and crushed them no not really the Spanish national anthem has no words so everybody hums or what when we breathe through our nose we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other and this changes every 15 minutes what is called a French kiss in the english-speaking world is known as an English kiss in France figures and ostriches eye is bigger than its brain doesn't say here if it's also bigger than his stomach but let's not assume the placement of a donkey's eyes in his head enables it to see all four feet at all times sounds like it would be useful many sharks lay eggs but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents young hammerheads are usually born headfirst with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth good thing [Music] hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan state Superior State University in Michigan offers a unicorn hunting license unsurprisingly the chief herald of the unicorn hunters was once quoted saying the pursuit of the unicorn is a lonely quest a better to go looking for the golden magical trumpet another unique horn unicorn unicorn yeah according to a 2014 study one in nine Americans exactly 11% of the population think hTML is actually a disease these people need to reboot right away the world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old and it was stuck under my desk in third grade go see for yourself [Music] so the average person spends approximately six months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green this is exactly how much we dedicate to looking at the traffic lights come on pal there's only one shade of green astronauts can grow up to two inches taller in space for instance after spending almost a year at the ISS astronaut scott kelly returned to earth two inches taller than he had been before the trip whoa would you go into space in order to get some extra height shadows are darker on the moon than on earth Neil Armstrong said he had trouble seeing where he was going is there an explanation of course on earth air scatters light and allows objects not in direct sunlight to be still well lit but on the moon there is no air so shadows are very dark and where sunlight hits very bright space has a distinct smell a bouquet of diesel fumes gunpowder and barbeque the aroma is mostly produced by dying stars it sounds like something pretty unique doesn't it a u.s. dollar bill can be folded approximately four thousand times in the same place before it will tear the paper for US currency is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen and each paper note weighs approximately one gram Donald Trump's vehicle is a bomb-proof limousine which is called the Beast it has been specially engineered to survive a military or chemical attack it has bulletproof windows super protected fuel tank stocks of shotguns tear gas launchers night-vision goggles and even firefighting equipment to tackle any situation Wow 10% of the world's population is left-handed by the way men are more likely to be left-handed than women and expressed the left hand more dominantly are you left-handed or right-handed the average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools saliva is important it helps in digestion and protect your teeth each day you make up to two liters of saliva [Music] humans can't digest grass despite health fanatics claiming wheatgrass aids digestion humans would actually need several more stomachs to digest it like cows half the shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes that's how you should do it if you must any guesses which countries were involved in it it was between Britain and Zanzibar a snail can sleep for 3 years the average age of a snail is 15 years so it may spend 1/5 of its life time sleeping just imagine that elephants are the only animals that can't jump even crocodiles can but there's no moment in time when an elephant has all four legs in the air without touching the ground we all know lobsters taste good but lobsters themselves taste with their feet yep tiny bristles inside a lobsters little pincers are their equivalent to human taste buds just imagine feeling the taste of sand with your feet nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctica clashers is penguin urine whoa due to the temperatures being well below zero it can't evaporate so it simply freezes the human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap soap to clean the very same body blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant their hearts meanwhile can weigh almost a ton and need to be just once every 10 seconds you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television actually there's many more effortless ways of burning calories like laughing kissing drinking water and even chewing gum banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour but remember exercising is more effective and less traumatic doctors warn that holding a sneeze can actually hurt you if you often try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die whoo death by sneeze there are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet that's creepy so don't skip showers the life forms tend to multiply 95% of people text things they could never say in person no wonder many people don't even bother to break up in person Gero phobia is the fear of fun it comes from the Greek word Charo which means I rejoice it basically means that they are afraid to participate in anything fun party pooper more people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food by the way children with milk allergies are much more likely to develop allergic reactions to other foods including eggs soy and peanuts the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime the average moderately active person takes around 7,500 steps a day where they are walking - nobody knows the famous Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona the Spanish that he thought the design was too ugly so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead the Empire State Building has its own zip code it's home to 101 one-eighth the tower stands within the geographical boundaries of Manhattan's 100 o1 zip code which covers land east of Fifth Avenue and between 25th and 35th streets aren't you glad you know that Three Musketeers bars got their name because they used to come with three flavors vanilla chocolate or strawberry what do you like more three musketeers our Mars a hard-boiled egg will spin but a soft-boiled egg will not this is how you can check if the egg has been cooked or not just let it spin the toothpaste Colgate in Spanish translates to go hang yourself the original verb is colgar a waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down upside down waterfalls happen when strong gusts of wind blow against a waterfalls flow thus forcing the stream of water to spray upward or blow backward in 2011 a woman named Amy Davison purchased a non-visible piece of art for ten thousand dollars the art working question was fresh air did she get a frame with that British Prince Charles and Prince William always travel in separate planes it's logical though in case there is a crash one needs to survive in Las Vegas casinos have no clocks it's pretty smart isn't it customers lose track of time and keep gambling have you been to Vegas the Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music in the late 1950s a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock and roll considering it a threat to quality music you think the money changed all that there's this island in Brazil the 110 acres snake island in Sao Paulo has 4,000 snakes which is one snake for every six yards it is one of the world's deadliest islands hey you want to go there a lightning strike can reach a temperature of 30,000 centigrade or 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit about 400 people are hit by lightning each year shocking isn't it yeah but I'll bet they get a charge out of it alright enough every human being has 99% of their DNA in common a parent and child shared 99.5% of the same DNA and you have 98% of your DNA in common with a chimpanzee yeah I like bananas women are usually just the carriers of the genetic mutation for colorblindness which is passed on through the X chromosome it is mostly men who inherit colorblindness affecting about 1 in 20 men for everyone in 200 women bubbles keep your bath water warm or longer so next time you want to enjoy a warm relaxing bath add some bubbles to it you two ladies bats are the world's only group of mammals that have wings although some other groups of mammals are capable to glide using skin membranes only bats are capable of true flight bananas contain high levels of potassium and thus are slightly radioactive it's not something you need to worry about because 0.01% of the potassium already in your body is the same radioactive time potassium is essential for proper nutrition it gives you that glow the annual number of worldwide shark bites is ten times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York so a getaway to the ocean might be a safer idea than a weekend in the Big Apple camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand boy mother nature sure knows everything about taking precautions cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory they do it this way as opposed to the way dogs do it because they have scent glands in their faces [Music] the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet oh should we try it you first nah never mind bad idea the average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words the flea can jump 350 times its body length it's like a human jumping the length of a football field a crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail its bite however is something you want to avoid dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures the average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child no wonder they're our best friends a person can live without food for about a month but only about a week without water if the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1% you'll feel thirsty if it's reduced by 10% you'll die in Switzerland it's illegal to own only one guinea pig everybody needs somebody relative to their bodies chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world next time you see a chihuahua pay attention to its big smart head and little teeny body in Great Britain and Japan black cats are perceived as auspicious in the English Midlands new Brides are given black cats to bless their marriage and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck particularly for single women ice pops were invented by an 11 year old by accident in 1905 an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson left soda powder and water outside overnight with its wooden stirrer still in the cup the mixture at frozen and he sold the treat around his neighborhood thank you Frank during Prohibition moonshiners would wear cow shoes the fancy footwear left hoof prints instead of footprints helping distillers and smugglers evade police perhaps the police were tipped off when they found no cow pies to go along with the hoof prints just saying the word muscle comes from the Latin term meaning little mouse which is what ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled do you think in what I'm thinking yeah Mighty Mouse the human heart beats more than 3 billion times in an average lifespan just think about it 3 billion times boy if I had a nickel if you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth the entire world population could fit into an apple yet another example of how small we really are scientists estimate that the nose can recognize a trillion different cents so when a shop assistant tells you the perfume is a blend of magnolia flower essence orange jasmine cedar and patchouli try to feel it you totally can in 2014 tinder made its first match on the continent of Antarctica not surprisingly both parties involved were research scientists none more penguins in Japan letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck I got nothing humans are the only species known to blush or needs to according to Mark Twain so don't be ashamed of blushing it makes you unique facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body that's all I have to say about that [Music] guinness estimates that 93 thousand liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone most of these are men a man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body well women have approximately 5 liters which makes men somewhat juicier I think have you ever wondered why people actually say bless you when you sneeze when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond that's actually not the reason for all the Gaston Heights but it's a better story with a medical spin I think if you eat enough carrots about 3 large carrots a day for several weeks it increases the beta carotene in your body and could turn your skin orange so moderate consumption that's what's needed otherwise you might look like never mind [Music] China owns all of the pandas in the world they rent them out for about a million bucks a year so you can call it a true panda monopolist the finger prints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion being confused at a crime scene who's the robber a koala yeah that little furry guy there with the loot Tigers have striped skin and each pattern is unique basically it's their fingerprint maybe they should be talking to the koalas around 50% of orangutans have fractured bones due to falling out of trees on a regular basis what they forget to hang on or something it's pretty dangerous being an orangutan a grizzly bears bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball so the takeaway here is never ever invite a grizzly bear to a bowling alley if your smart animal behaviorists have concluded that cats don't meow as a way to communicate with each other rather as a method to get attention from people yo I'm hungry here and I need a cuddle make it snappy dude honey is the only food that does not spoil honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible but the graham crackers are pretty stale Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears they should have brought bowling balls son Dooku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them probably each of us has once participated in this act eh babies are born with blue eyes more than any other color the melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby's true eye color if you yelled for eight years seven months and six days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee you might also be mistaken for a politician in an election year blood donors in Sweden receive a thank-you text when their blood is used according to blood service representatives they want to give the donors feedback on their effort isn't that thoughtful my noé Nebraska is the only town in the United States with an official population of one person yeah she owes taxes to herself she's in her 80s and she's employed as the villages mayor librarian and bartender by the age of 60 most people will have lost half of their taste buds so now they have to keep asking other people so how's that taste bud Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust wow what a coincidence huh in colonial America lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy it was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners if only they knew what kind of treatment they received one third of all the airports in the world are located in the US so where's everybody going somewhere else when high-heeled-shoes first came into fashion in the 10th century they were intended for men it wasn't until the 18th century that more women wore high heels than men Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world not to have any rivers so it's a pretty safe bet that it probably has no towns named Riverside Spain is considered the most mountainous country in Europe and has over 8,000 kilometers of beaches so they're 90 percent of the world's freshwater is in Antarctica Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world with 851 individual languages listed Ethiopia and Liberia are the only two countries in Africa that were not colonized by the European powers the largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across it is said to have landed on someone's tongue and crushed them no not really the Spanish national anthem has no words so everybody hums or what when we breathe through our nose we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other and this changes every 15 minutes what is called a French kiss in the english-speaking world is known as an English kiss in France figures an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain doesn't say here if it's also bigger than his stomach but let's not assume the placement of a donkey's eyes in his head enables it to see all four feet at all times sounds like it would be useful many sharks lay eggs but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents young hammerheads are usually born headfirst with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth good thing hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan state Superior State University in Michigan offers a unicorn hunting license unsurprisingly the chief herald of the unicorn hunters was once quoted saying the pursuit of the unicorn is a lonely quest a better to go looking for the golden magical trumpet another unique horn unicorn unicorn yeah according to a 2014 study one in nine Americans exactly 11% of the population think hTML is actually a disease these people need to reboot right away the world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old and it was stuck under my desk in third grade go see for yourself [Music] so the average person spends approximately six months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green this is exactly how much we dedicate to looking at the traffic lights come on pal there's only one shade of green astronauts can grow up to two inches taller in space for instance after spending almost a year at the ISS astronaut scott kelly returned to earth two inches taller than he had been before the trip whoa would you go into space in order to get some extra height shadows are darker on the moon than on earth Neil Armstrong said he had trouble seeing where he was going is there an explanation of course on earth air scatters light and allows objects not in direct sunlight to be still well-lit but on the moon there is no air so shadows are very dark and where sunlight hits very bright space has a distinct smell a bouquet of diesel fumes gunpowder in barbecue the aroma is mostly produced by dying stars sounds like something pretty unique doesn't it a u.s. dollar bill can be folded approximately four thousand times in the same place before it will tear the paper for US currency is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen and each paper note weighs approximately one gram Donald Trump's vehicle is a bomb-proof limousine which is called the Beast it has been specially engineered to survive a military or chemical attack it has bulletproof windows super protected fuel tank stocks of shotguns tear gas launchers night-vision goggles and even firefighting equipment to tackle any situation Wow 10% of the world's population is left-handed by the way men are more likely to be left-handed than women and expressed the left hand more dominantly are you left-handed or right-handed the average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools saliva is important it helps in digestion and protect your teeth each day you make up to two liters of saliva [Music] humans can't digest grass despite health fanatics claiming wheatgrass aids digestion humans would actually need several more stomachs to digest it like cows half the shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes that's how you should do it if you must any guesses which countries were involved in it it was between Britain and Zanzibar a snail can sleep for 3 years the average age of a snail is 15 years so it may spend 1/5 of its life time sleeping just imagine that elephants are the only animals that can't jump even crocodiles can but there's no moment in time when an elephant has all four legs in the air without touching the ground we all know lobsters taste good but lobsters themselves taste with their feet yep tiny bristles inside a lobsters little pincers are their equivalent to human taste buds just imagine feeling the taste of sand with your feet nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctica clashers is penguin urine whoa due to the temperatures being well below zero it can't evaporate so it simply freezes the human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap soap to clean the very same body blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant their hearts meanwhile can weigh almost a ton and need to be just once every 10 seconds you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television actually there's many more effortless ways of burning calories like laughing kissing drinking water and even chewing gum [Music] banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour but remember exercising is more effective and less traumatic doctors warn that holding a sneeze can actually hurt you if you often try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die whoo death by sneeze there are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet that's creepy so don't skip showers the life forms tend to multiply 95% of people text things they could never say in person no wonder many people don't even bother to break up in person charile phobia is the fear of fun it comes from the Greek word Charo which means I rejoice it basically means that they are afraid to participate in anything fun party pooper more people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food by the way children with milk allergies are much more likely to develop allergic reactions to other foods including eggs soy and peanuts the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime the average moderately active person takes around 7,500 steps a day where they are walking - nobody knows [Music] the famous Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona the Spanish that he thought the design was too ugly so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead the Empire State Building has its own zip code it's home to 101 one-eighth the tower stands within the geographical boundaries of Manhattan's 100 o1 zip code which covers land east of Fifth Avenue and between 25th and 35th streets aren't you glad to know that three musketeers bars got their name because they used to come with three flavors vanilla chocolate or strawberry what do you like more three musketeers our Mars a hard-boiled egg will spin but a soft-boiled egg will not this is how you can check if the egg has been cooked or not just let it spin the toothpaste Colgate in Spanish translates to go hang yourself the original verb is colgar a waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down upside down waterfalls happen when strong gusts of wind blow against a waterfalls flow thus forcing the stream of water to spray upward or blow backward in 2011 a woman named Amy Davison purchased a non-visible piece of art for ten thousand dollars the art working question was fresh air did she get a frame with that British Prince Charles and Prince William always travel in separate planes it's logical though in case there is a crash one needs to survive in Las Vegas casinos have no clocks it's pretty smart isn't it customers lose track of time and keep gambling have you been to Vegas the Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music in the late 1950s a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock and roll considering it a threat to quality music you think the money changed all that there's this island in Brazil the 110 acres snake island in Sao Paulo has 4,000 snakes which is one snake for every six yards it is one of the world's deadliest Islands hey you want to go there a lightning strike can reach a temperature of 30,000 centigrade or 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit about 400 people are hit by lightning each year shocking isn't it yeah but I'll bet they get a charge out of it alright enough every human being has 99% of their DNA in common a parent and child shared 99.5% of the same DNA and you have 98% of your DNA in common with a chimpanzee yeah I like bananas women are usually just the carriers of the genetic mutation for colorblindness which is passed on through the X chromosome it is mostly men who inherit colorblindness affecting about 1 in 20 men for everyone in 200 women bubbles keep your bath water warm or longer so next time you want to enjoy a warm relaxing bath add some bubbles to it you two ladies bats are the world's only group of mammals that have wings although some other groups of mammals are capable to glide using skin membranes only bats are capable of truth bananas contain high levels of potassium and thus are slightly radioactive it's not something you need to worry about because 0.01% of the potassium already in your body is the same radioactive time potassium is essential for proper nutrition it gives you that glow the annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York so a getaway to the ocean might be a safer idea than a weekend in the Big Apple camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand boy mother nature sure knows everything about taking precautions cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory they do it this way as opposed to the way dogs do it because they have scent glands in their faces the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood thirty feet Oh should we try it you first now never mind bad idea the average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or right approximately 50,000 English words the flea can jump 350 times its body length it's like a human jumping the length of a football field a crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail its bite however is something you want to avoid dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures the average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child no wonder they're our best friends [Music] a person can live without food for about a month but only about a week without water if the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1% you'll feel thirsty if it's reduced by 10% you'll die in Switzerland it's illegal to own only one guinea pig everybody needs somebody relative to their bodies Chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world next time you see a chihuahua pay attention to its big smart head and little teeny body in Great Britain and Japan black cats are perceived as auspicious in the English Midlands new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck particularly for single women ice pops were invented by an eleven-year-old by accident in 1905 an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson left soda powder and water outside overnight with its wooden stirrer still in the cup the mixer at frozen and he sold the treat around his neighborhood thank you Frank [Music] during Prohibition moonshiners would wear cow shoes the fancy footwear left hoof prints instead of footprints helping distillers and smugglers evade police perhaps the police were tipped off when they found no cow pies to go along with the hoof prints just sayin the word muscle comes from the Latin term meaning little mouse which is what ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resemble do you thinking what I'm thinking yeah Mighty Mouse the human heart beats more than three billion times in an average lifespan just think about it three billion times boy if I had a nickel if you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth the entire world population could fit into an apple yet another example of how small we really are scientists estimate that the nose can recognize a trillion different cents so when a shop assistant tells you the perfume is a blend of magnolia flower essence orange jasmine cedar and patchouli try to feel it you totally can in 2014 tinder made its first match on the continent of Antarctica not surprisingly both parties involved were research scientists none were penguins in Japan letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck I got nothing humans are the only species known to blush or needs to according to Mark Twain so don't be ashamed of blushing it makes you unique facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body that's all I have to say about that [Music] guinness estimates that 93 thousand liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone most of these are men a man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body while women have approximately 5 litres which makes men somewhat juicier I think have you ever wondered why people actually say bless you when you sneeze when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond that's actually not the reason for all the Gaston Heights but it's a better story with a medical spin I think if you eat enough carrots about three large carrots a day for several weeks it increases the beta carotene in your body and could turn your skin orange so moderate consumption that's what's needed otherwise you might look like never mind [Music] China owns all of the pandas in the world they rent them out for about a million bucks a year so you can't call it a true panda monopolist the fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene who's the robber a koala yeah that little furry guy there with the loot Tigers have striped skin and each pattern is unique basically it's their fingerprint maybe they should be talking to the koalas around 50% of orangutans have fractured bones due to falling out of trees on a regular basis what they forget to hang on or something it's pretty dangerous being an orangutan a grizzly bears bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball so the takeaway here is never ever invite a grizzly bear to a bowling alley if your smart animal behaviorists have concluded that cats don't meow as a way to communicate with each other rather as a method to get attention from people yo I'm hungry here and I need a cuddle make it snappy dude honey is the only food that does not spoil honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible but the graham crackers are pretty stale Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears they should have brought bowling balls son Dooku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them probably each of us has once participated in this act a babies are born with blue eyes more than any other color the melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby's true eye color if you yelled for eight years seven months and six days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee you might also be mistaken for a politician in an election year blood donors in Sweden receive a thank-you text when their blood is used according to blood service representatives they want to give the donors feedback on their effort isn't that thoughtful my noe Nebraska is the only town in the United States with an official population of one person yeah she owes taxes to herself she's in her 80s and she's employed as the villages mayor librarian and bartender by the age of 60 most people will have lost half of their taste buds so now they have to keep asking other people so how's that taste bud Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust wow what a coincidence huh in colonial America lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy it was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners if only they knew what kind of treatment they received one third of all the airports in the world are located in the u.s. so where's everybody going somewhere else when high-heeled-shoes first came into fashion in the 10th century they were intended for men it wasn't until the 18th century that more women wore high heels than men Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world not to have any rivers so it's a pretty safe bet that it probably has no towns named Riverside Spain is considered the most mountainous country in Europe and as over 8,000 kilometers of beaches so there ninety percent of the world's freshwater is in Antarctica Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world with 851 individual languages listed ethiopia and liberia are the only two countries in africa that were not colonized by the european powers the largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across it is said to have landed on someone's tongue and crushed them no not really the spanish national anthem has no words so everybody hums or what when we breathe through our nose we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other and this changes every 15 minutes what is called a French kiss in the english-speaking world is known as an English kiss in France figures an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain doesn't say here if it's also bigger than his stomach but let's not assume the placement of a donkey's eyes in his head enables it to see all four feet at all times sounds like it would be useful many sharks lay eggs but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents young hammerheads are usually born headfirst with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth good thing [Music] hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan State Superior State University in Michigan offers a unicorn hunting license unsurprisingly the chief Herald of the unicorn hunters was once quoted saying the pursuit of the unicorn is a lonely quest a better to go looking for the golden magical trumpet another unique born unicorn unicorn yeah according to a 2014 study one in nine Americans exactly 11% of the population think hTML is actually a disease these people need to reboot right away the world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old and it was stuck under my desk in third grade go see for yourself [Music] so the average person spends approximately six months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green this is exactly how much we dedicate to looking at the traffic lights come on pal there's only one shade of green astronauts can grow up to two inches taller in space for instance after spending almost a year at the ISS astronaut scott kelly returned to earth two inches taller than he had been before the trip whoa would you go into space in order to get some extra height shadows are darker on the moon than on earth Neil Armstrong said he had trouble seeing where he was going is there an explanation of course on earth air scatters light and allows objects not in direct sunlight to be still well lit but on the moon there is no air so shadows are very dark and where sunlight hits very bright space has a distinct smell a bouquet of diesel fumes gunpowder and barbeque the aroma is mostly produced by dying stars sounds like something pretty unique doesn't it a u.s. dollar bill can be folded approximately four thousand times in the same place before it will tear the paper for US currency is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen and each paper note weighs approximately one gram Donald Trump's vehicle is a bomb-proof limousine which is called the Beast it has been specially engineered to survive a military or chemical attack it has bulletproof windows super protected fuel tank stocks of shotguns tear gas launchers night-vision goggles and even firefighting equipment to tackle any situation Wow 10% of the world's population is left-handed by the way men are more likely to be left-handed than women and expressed the left hand more dominantly are you left-handed or right-handed the average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools saliva is important it helps in digestion and protects your teeth each day you make up to two liters of saliva [Music] humans can't digest grass despite health fanatics claiming wheatgrass aids digestion humans would actually need several more stomachs to digest it like cows half the shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes that's how you should do it if you must any guesses which countries were involved in it it was between Britain and Zanzibar a snail can sleep for 3 years the average age of a snail is 15 years so it may spend 1/5 of its life time sleeping just imagine that elephants are the only animals that can't jump even crocodiles can but there's no moment in time when an elephant has all four legs in the air without touching the ground we all know lobsters taste good but lobsters themselves taste with their feet yep tiny bristles inside a lobsters little pincers are their equivalent to human taste buds just imagine feeling the taste of sand with your feet nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctica lasher's is penguin urine whoa due to the temperatures being well below zero it can't evaporate so it simply freezes the human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap soap to clean the very same body blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant their hearts meanwhile can weigh almost a ton and need to be just once every 10 seconds you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television actually there's many more effortless ways of burning calories like laughing kissing drinking water and even chewing gum [Music] banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour but remember exercising is more effective and less traumatic doctors warn that holding a sneeze can actually hurt you if you often try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die ooh death by sneeze there are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet that's creepy so don't skip showers the life forms tend to multiply 95% of people text things they can never say in person no wonder many people don't even bother to break up in person cherrylle phobia is the fear of fun it comes from the Greek word Charo which means I rejoice it basically means that they are afraid to participate in anything fun party pooper more people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food by the way children with milk allergies are much more likely to develop allergic reactions to other foods including eggs soy and peanuts the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime the average moderately active person takes around 7,500 steps a day where they are walking - nobody knows the famous Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona the Spanish that he thought the design was too ugly so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead the Empire State Building has its own zip code it's home to 101 one-eighth the tower stands within the geographical boundaries of Manhattan's 100 o1 zip code which covers land east of Fifth Avenue and between 25th and 35th streets aren't you glad to know that three musketeers bars got their name because they used to come with three flavors vanilla chocolate or strawberry what do you like more three musketeers our Mars a hard-boiled egg will spin but a soft-boiled egg will not this is how you can check if the egg has been cooked or not just let it spin the toothpaste Colgate in Spanish translates to go hang yourself the original verb is colgar a waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down upside down waterfalls happen when strong gusts of wind blow against a waterfalls flow thus forcing the stream of water to spray upward or blow backward in 2011 a woman named Amy Davison purchased a non-visible piece of art for ten thousand dollars the art working question was fresh air did she get a frame with that British Prince Charles and Prince William always travel in separate planes it's logical though in case there is a crash one needs to survive in Las Vegas casinos have no clocks it's pretty smart isn't it customers lose track of time and keep gambling have you been to Vegas the Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music in the late 1950s a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock and roll considering it a threat to quality music you think the money changed all that there's this island in Brazil the 110 acres snake island in Sao Paulo has 4,000 snakes which is one snake for every six yards it is one of the world's deadliest Islands hey you want to go there a lightning strike can reach a temperature of 30,000 centigrade or 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit about 400 people are hit by lightning each year shocking isn't it yeah but I'll bet they get a charge out of it alright enough every human being has 99% of their DNA in common a parent and child shared 99.5% of the same DNA and you have 98% of your DNA in common with a chimpanzee yeah I like bananas women are usually just the carriers of the genetic mutation for colorblindness which is passed on through the X chromosome it is mostly men who inherit colorblindness affecting about 1 in 20 men for everyone in 200 women bubbles keep your bath water warm or longer so next time you want to enjoy a warm relaxing bath add some bubbles to it you two ladies bats are the world's only group of mammals that have wings although some other groups of mammals are capable to glide using skin membranes only bats are capable of true flight bananas contain high levels of potassium and thus are slightly radioactive it's not something you need to worry about because 0.01% of the potassium already in your body is the same radioactive type potassium is essential for proper nutrition it gives you that glow the annual number of worldwide shark bites is ten times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York so a getaway to the ocean might be a safer idea than a weekend in the Big Apple camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand boy mother nature sure knows everything about taking precautions cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory they do it this way as opposed to the way dogs do it because they have scent glands in their faces [Music] the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet oh should we try it you first no nevermind bad idea the average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words the flea can jump 350 times its body length it's like a human jumping the length of a football field a crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail its bite however is something you want to avoid dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures the average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child no wonder they're our best friends a person can live without food for about a month but only about a week without water if the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1% you'll feel thirsty if it's reduced by 10% you'll die in Switzerland it's illegal to own only one guinea pig everybody needs somebody relative to their bodies chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world next time you see a chihuahua pay attention to its big smart head and little teeny body in Great Britain and Japan black cats are perceived as auspicious in the English Midlands new Brides are given black cats to bless their marriage and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck particularly for single women ice pops were invented by an eleven-year-old by accident in 1905 an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson left soda powder and water outside overnight with its wooden stirrer still in the cup the mixture at frozen and he sold the treat around his neighborhood thank you Frank during Prohibition moonshiners would wear cow shoes the fancy footwear left hoof prints instead of footprints helping distillers and smugglers evade police perhaps the police were tipped off when they found no cow pies to go along with the hoof prints just saying the word muscle comes from the Latin term meaning little mouse which is what ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled do you thinking what I'm thinking yeah Mighty Mouse the human heart beats more than three billion times in an average lifespan just think about it three billion times boy if I had a nickel if you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth the entire world population could fit into an apple yet another example of how small we really are scientists estimate that the nose can recognize a trillion different cents so when a shop assistant tells you the perfume is a blend of magnolia flower essence orange jasmine cedar and patchouli try to feel it you totally can in 2014 tinder made its first match on the continent of Antarctica not surprisingly both parties involved were research scientists none were penguins in Japan letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck I got nothing humans are the only species known to blush or needs - according to Mark Twain so don't be ashamed of blushing it makes you unique facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body that's all I have to say about that [Music] guinness estimates that 93 thousand liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone most of these are men a man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body well women have approximately 5 liters which makes men somewhat juicier I think have you ever wondered why people actually say bless you when you sneeze when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond that's actually not the reason for all the Gaston Heights but it's a better story with a medical spin I think if you eat enough carrots about 3 large carrots a day for several weeks it increases the beta carotene in your body and could turn your skin orange so moderate consumption that's what's needed otherwise you might look like never mind [Music] China owns all of the pandas in the world they rent them out for about a million bucks a year so you can call it a true panda monopolist the finger prints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene who's the robber a koala yeah that little furry guy there with the loot Tigers have striped skin and each pattern is unique basically it's their fingerprint maybe they should be talking to the koalas around 50% of orangutans have fractured bones due to falling out of trees on a regular basis what they forget to hang on or something it's pretty dangerous being an orangutan a grizzly bears bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball so the takeaway here is never ever invite a grizzly bear to a bowling alley if your smart animal behaviorists have concluded that cats don't meow as a way to communicate with each other rather as a method to get attention from people yo I'm hungry here and I need shuttle make it snappy dude honey is the only food that does not spoil honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archeologists and found edible but the graham crackers are pretty stale Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears they should have brought bowling balls son Dooku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them probably each of us has once participated in this act eh babies are born with blue eyes more than any other color the melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby's true eye color if you yelled for eight years seven months and six days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee you might also be mistaken for a politician in an election year blood donors in Sweden receive a thank-you text when their blood is used according to blood service representatives they want to give the donors feedback on their effort isn't that thoughtful my noe Nebraska is the only town in the United States with an official population of one person yeah she owes taxes to herself she's in her 80s and she's employed as the villages mayor librarian and bartender by the age of 60 most people will have lost half of their taste buds so now they have to keep asking other people so how's that taste bud Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust wow what a coincidence huh in colonial America lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy it was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners if only they knew what kind of treatment they received one third of all the airports in the world are located in the US so where's everybody going somewhere else when high-heeled-shoes first came into fashion in the 10th century they were intended for men it wasn't until the 18th century that more women wore high heels than men Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world not to have any rivers so it's a pretty safe bet that it probably has no towns named Riverside Spain is considered the most mountainous country in Europe and has over 8,000 kilometers of beaches so they're 90 percent of the world's freshwater is in Antarctica Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world with 851 individual languages listed Ethiopia and Liberia are the only two countries in Africa that were not colonized by the European powers the largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across it is said to have landed on someone's tongue and crushed them no not really the Spanish national anthem has no words so everybody hums or what when we breathe through our nose we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other and this changes every 15 minutes what is called a French kiss in the english-speaking world is known as an English kiss in France figures an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain doesn't say here if it's also bigger than his stomach but let's not assume the placement of a donkey's eyes in his head enables it to see all four feet at all times sounds like it would be useful many sharks lay eggs but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents young hammerheads are usually born headfirst with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth good thing hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan state Superior State University in Michigan offers a unicorn hunting license unsurprisingly the chief herald of the unicorn hunters was once quoted saying the pursuit of the unicorn is a lonely quest a better to go looking for the golden magical trumpet another unique horn unicorn unicorn yeah according to a 2014 study one in nine Americans exactly 11% of the population think hTML is actually a disease these people need to reboot right away the world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old and it was stuck under my desk in third grade go see for yourself [Music] so the average person spends approximately six months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green this is exactly how much we dedicate to looking at the traffic lights come on pal there's only one shade of green astronauts can grow up to two inches taller in space for instance after spending almost a year at the ISS astronaut scott kelly returned to earth two inches taller than he had been before the trip hello would you go into space in order to get some extra height shadows are darker on the moon than on earth Neil Armstrong said he had trouble seeing where he was going is there an explanation of course on earth air scatters light and allows objects not in direct sunlight to be still well-lit but on the moon there is no air so shadows are very dark and where sunlight hits very bright space has a distinct smell a bouquet of diesel fumes gunpowder and barbeque the aroma is mostly produced by dying stars sounds like something pretty unique doesn't it a u.s. dollar bill can be folded approximately four thousand times in the same place before it will tear the paper for US currency is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen and each paper note weighs approximately one gram Donald Trump's vehicle is a bomb-proof limousine which is called the Beast it has been specially engineered to survive a military or chemical attack it has bulletproof windows super protected fuel tank stocks of shotguns tear gas launchers night-vision goggles and even firefighting equipment to tackle any situation Wow 10% of the world's population is left-handed by the way men are more likely to be left-handed than women and expressed the left hand more dominantly are you left-handed or right-handed the average person produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools saliva is important it helps in digestion and protects your teeth each day you make up to two liters of saliva humans can't digest grass despite health fanatics claiming wheatgrass aids digestion humans would actually need several more stomachs to digest it like cows half the shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes that's how you should do it if you must any guesses which countries were involved in it it was between Britain and Zanzibar a snail can sleep for 3 years the average age of a snail is 15 years so it may spend 1/5 of its life time sleeping just imagine that elephants are the only animals that can't jump even crocodiles can but there's no moment in time when an elephant has all four legs in the air without touching the ground we all know lobsters taste good but lobsters themselves taste with their feet yep tiny bristles inside a lobsters little pincers are their equivalent to human taste buds just imagine feeling the taste of sand with your feet nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctica lasher's is penguin urine ho due to the temperatures being well below zero it can't evaporate so it simply freezes the human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap soap to clean the very same body blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant their hearts meanwhile can weigh almost a ton and need to be just once every 10 seconds you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television actually there's many more effortless ways of burning calories like laughing kissing drinking water and even chewing gum [Music] banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour but remember exercising is more effective and less traumatic doctors warn that holding a sneeze can actually hurt you if you often try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die whew death by sneeze there are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet that's creepy so don't skip showers the life forms tend to multiply 95% of people text things they could never say in person no wonder many people don't even bother to break up in person charile phobia is the fear of fun it comes from the Greek word Charo which means I rejoice it basically means that they are afraid to participate in anything fun party pooper [Music] more people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food by the way children with milk allergies are much more likely to develop allergic reactions to other foods including eggs soy and peanuts the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime the average moderately active person takes around 7,500 steps a day where they are walking to nobody knows [Music] the famous Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona the Spanish that he thought the design was too ugly so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead the Empire State Building has its own zip code it's home to 101 one-eighth the tower stands within the geographical boundaries of Manhattan's 100 o1 zip code which covers land east of Fifth Avenue and between 25th and 35th streets aren't you glad you know that Three Musketeers bars got their name because they used to come with three flavors vanilla chocolate or strawberry what do you like more three musketeers our Mars a hard-boiled egg will spin but a soft-boiled egg will not this is how you can check if the egg has been cooked or not just let it spin the toothpaste Colgate in Spanish translates to go hang yourself the original verb is colgar a waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down upside down waterfalls happen when strong gusts of wind blow against a waterfalls flow thus forcing the stream of water to spray upward or blow backward in 2011 a woman named Amy Davison purchased a non-visible piece of art for $10,000 the art working question was fresh air did she get a frame with that British Prince Charles and Prince William always travel in separate planes it's logical though in case there is a crash one needs to survive in Las Vegas casinos have no clocks it's pretty smart isn't it customers lose track of time and keep gambling have you been to Vegas the Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music in the late 1950s a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock and roll considering it a threat to quality music you think the money changed all that there's this island in Brazil the 110 acres snake island in Sao Paulo has 4,000 snakes which is one snake for every six yards it is one of the world's deadliest Islands hey you want to go there a lightning strike can reach a temperature of 30 thousand centigrade or 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit about 400 people are hit by lightning each year shocking isn't it yeah but I'll bet they get a charge out of it all right enough every human being has 99% of their DNA in common a parent and child share 99.5% of the same DNA and you have 98% of your DNA in common with a chimpanzee yeah I like bananas women are usually just the carriers of the genetic mutation for colorblindness which is passed on through the X chromosome it is mostly men who inherit colorblindness affecting about 1 in 20 men for everyone in 200 women bubbles keep your bath water warm or longer so next time you want to enjoy a warm relaxing bath add some bubbles to it you two ladies that's our the world's only group of mammals that have wings although some other groups of mammals are capable to glide using skin membranes only bats are capable of true flight bananas contain high levels of potassium and thus are slightly radioactive it's not something you need to worry about because 0.01% of the potassium already in your body is the same radioactive time potassium is essential for proper nutrition it gives you that glow the annual number of worldwide shark bites is ten times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York so a getaway to the ocean might be a safer idea than a weekend in the Big Apple camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand boy mother nature sure knows everything about taking precautions cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory they do it this way as opposed to the way dogs do it because they have scent glands in their faces the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet Oh should we try it you first no never mind bad idea the average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words the flea can jump 350 times its body length it's like a human jumping the length of a football field a crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail its bite however is something you want to avoid dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures the average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child no wonder they're our best friends a person can live without food for about a month but only about a week without water if the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1% you'll feel thirsty if it's reduced by 10% you'll die in Switzerland it's illegal to own only one guinea pig everybody needs somebody relative to their bodies chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world next time you see a chihuahua pay attention to its big smart head and little teeny body in Great Britain and Japan black cats are perceived as auspicious in the English Midlands new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck particularly for single women ice pops were invented by an eleven-year-old by accident in 1905 an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson left soda powder and water outside overnight with its wooden stirrers still in the cup the mixture had frozen and he sold the treat around his neighborhood thank you Frank [Music] during Prohibition moonshiners would wear cow shoes the fancy footwear left hoof prints instead of footprints helping distillers and smugglers evade police perhaps the police were tipped off when they found no cow pies to go along with the hoof prints just saying the word muscle comes from the Latin term meaning little mouse which is what ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled do you think and what I'm thinking yeah Mighty Mouse the human heart beats more than three billion times in an average lifespan just think about it three billion times boy if I had a nickel if you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth the entire world population could fit into an apple yet another example of how small we really are scientists estimate that the nose can recognize a trillion different cents so when a shop assistant tells you the perfume is a blend of magnolia flower essence orange jasmine cedar and patchouli try to feel it you totally can in 2014 tinder made its first match on the continent of Antarctica not surprisingly both parties involved were research scientists none more penguins in Japan letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck I got nothing humans are the only species known to blush or needs - according to Mark Twain so don't be ashamed of blushing it makes you unique facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body that's all I have to say about that guinness estimates that 93 thousand liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone most of these are men a man has approximately 6.8 liters of blood in the body well women have approximately 5 liters which makes men somewhat juicier I think have you ever wondered why people actually say bless you when you sneeze when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond that's actually not the reason for all the Gaston Heights but it's a better story with the medical spin I think if you eat enough carrots about three large carrots a day for several weeks it increases the beta carotene in your body and could turn your skin orange so moderate consumption that's what's needed otherwise you might look like never mind [Music] China owns all of the pandas in the world they rent them out for about a million bucks a year so you can call it a true panda monopolist the finger prints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene who's the robber a koala yeah that little furry guy there with the loot Tigers have striped skin and each pattern is unique basically it's their fingerprint maybe they should be talking to the koalas around 50% of orangutans have fractured bones due to falling out of trees on a regular basis what they forget to hang on or something it's pretty dangerous being an orangutan a grizzly bears bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball so the takeaway here is never ever invite a grizzly bear to a bowling alley if your smart animal behaviorists have concluded that cats don't meow as a way to communicate with each other rather as a method to get attention from people yo I'm hungry here and I need a cuddle make it snappy dude honey is the only food that does not spoil honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible but the graham crackers are pretty stale Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears they should have brought bowling balls son Dooku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them probably each of us has once participated in this act eh babies are born with blue eyes more than any other color the melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby's true eye color if you yelled for eight years seven months and six days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee you might also be mistaken for a politician in an election year blood donors in Sweden receive a thank-you text when their blood is used according to blood service representatives they want to give the donors feedback on their effort isn't that thoughtful my noé Nebraska is the only town in the United States with an official population of one person yeah she owes taxes to herself she's in her 80s and she's employed as the villages mayor librarian and bartender by the age of 60 most people will have lost half of their taste buds so now they have to keep asking other people so how's that taste bud Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was allergic to moon dust wow what a coincidence huh in colonial America lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy it was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners if only they knew what kind of treatment they received one third of all the airports in the world are located in the US so where's everybody going somewhere else when high-heeled-shoes first came into fashion in the 10th century they were intended for men it wasn't until the 18th century that more women wore high heels than men [Music] Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world not to have any rivers so it's a pretty safe bet that it probably has no towns named rivers
