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00:00 You'd need a drop of liquid, a state-of-the-art laser 3D printer, and a couple of hours of
00:05 work to make the tiniest fidget spinner ever.
00:08 Its width will be smaller than that of your hair strand.
00:11 At least researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory managed to do just that.
00:16 A double-stuffed Oreo cookie aren't double-stuffed, in fact.
00:20 A math teacher weighed 10 regular Oreos, 10 double-stuffed Oreos, 10 mega-stuffed Oreos.
00:26 Turns out, double-stuffed Oreos are only 1.86 stuffed Oreos.
00:33 Chipotle peppers aren't some special type of pepper.
00:36 They're good old jalapenos.
00:37 Dried and smoked jalapeno is Chipotle.
00:41 In its gaseous form, oxygen is colorless and doesn't have any odor.
00:46 But when it's liquid or solid, this substance looks pale blue.
00:51 After being caught by a black hole, a star gets ripped apart by its enormous gravitational
00:56 forces.
00:57 Some parts of the star's remains hurtle into the black hole.
01:01 The rest, in the form of a huge jet of plasma, is ejected with such force that it travels
01:06 hundreds of light-years away.
01:10 Not so long ago, scientists decided the Deinos family tree had to be redrawn for the first
01:15 time in 130 years.
01:18 Apparently, two species of dinosaurs had to be grouped together from the very beginning.
01:23 Dinosaurs were the lizard-hipped meat-eaters like T. rex and bird-hipped vegetarians such
01:29 as the Stegosaurus.
01:31 A camel can drink up to 30 gallons of water in a bit more than 10 minutes.
01:36 This water is stored in the animal's bloodstream.
01:39 As for its fatty hum, it provides the camel with nourishment when there's little food
01:43 around.
01:44 Some sea animals like salmon or turtles use our planet's magnetic field to find their
01:49 way home.
01:52 Our lungs not only help you breathe, but they also produce blood cells.
01:56 These cells are responsible for the clotting which stops bleeding.
02:00 The lungs make more than 10 million of these tiny cells per hour.
02:06 Only two letters never appear on the periodic table.
02:10 Those are J and Q.
02:13 Spin a ball when you drop it and it'll fly through the air while falling.
02:18 This phenomenon is known as the Magnus effect.
02:21 You can see it at work in different sports, for example tennis or baseball.
02:28 Anitidaphobia is the fear that at any point, somewhere in the world, a duck or a goose
02:34 may be watching you.
02:36 The person isn't necessarily afraid that the duck or goose will get close to them or even
02:41 touch them.
02:42 They just don't like the feeling of being watched.
02:46 It was first described in a comic strip to show you how anyone can be afraid of anything.
02:52 Anything can be a phobia.
02:53 A duck just watching my every move would certainly give me the heebie-jeebies.
02:57 I might just quack up.
03:01 Your favorite fruit candies may be shining because they're covered with carnauba wax.
03:07 Many fruits, especially apples, have a thin layer of this wax too.
03:11 Not only can it make the candies and fruit appear glossy, but it also makes your car
03:16 shine.
03:19 Peaches and nectarines seem different, but in fact, they're pretty much the same fruit.
03:24 If the fluffiness gene is dominant, we get peaches.
03:27 If not, we get smooth nectarines.
03:32 Crows are pretty good at recognizing people's faces and have been found to remember people
03:37 for a long time.
03:39 This could be a good or a bad thing, depending on how nice you are to them.
03:43 You don't want to come across a crow that's holding a grudge against you.
03:46 You probably can't tell which crow is which very easily, so it might be better to play
03:51 it safe and just give them a little wave.
03:56 In the city of Yoro in Central America, they have an annual event known as the Rain of
04:01 Fish.
04:03 Not that the locals get a choice for it anyways.
04:05 Every year in May or June, a torrential rainstorm rolls through the town, leaving a mass of
04:11 fish flopping around in the streets.
04:14 The phenomenon is believed to be caused by water spouts or water tornadoes which drop
04:19 the fish far from their home.
04:21 Seafood delivery for free?
04:23 Yes, please!
04:25 A single strand of spaghetti onto your fork has a name.
04:29 It's called a spaghetto.
04:31 In the Italian language, an "i" at the end of a word means that it's plural, while
04:36 an "o" is singular.
04:38 This goes for all types, like gnocco instead of gnocchi, fettuccino instead of fettuccini,
04:45 and raviolo for a single parcel of goodness.
04:50 Water can freeze and boil at the same time.
04:53 This is called the triple point.
04:55 That's when a substance can be solid, liquid, and gaseous at the same time.
05:00 But there's only one pressure temperature that can make it possible.
05:05 We're used to ranch dressing being white, but in reality, producers usually add titanium
05:11 dioxide to make it as white as your sunscreen.
05:14 Oh, sunscreen producers add some titanium dioxide to their products too.
05:19 Same with Caesar and blue cheese dressings.
05:24 Our moon used to have an atmosphere.
05:27 Terrible volcanic eruptions happened on Earth's natural satellite around 4 billion years ago.
05:32 They released immense volumes of gas, trillions of tons.
05:36 It was so much that the gas didn't have enough time to escape into space.
05:40 That's how an atmosphere was formed.
05:44 Cold water heats up faster than hot.
05:46 The speed of this process depends on the temperature difference between the liquid and its surroundings.
05:52 That's why cold water needs less time to absorb heat, but it doesn't mean it'll
05:56 boil faster than hot water.
06:01 Zealandia is a drowned continent in the Pacific Ocean.
06:04 It's often described as a continental fragment or a microcontinent.
06:08 Its area is almost 2 million square miles, about half as big as the US.
06:14 It went underwater about 23 million years ago.
06:17 New Zealand is Zealandia's largest part that remains above sea level.
06:23 People are still evolving.
06:25 Scientists have been tracking several millions of human anomalies.
06:28 It turns out some harmful genes are slowly but surely getting filtered out of human DNA.
06:37 Stars look as if they're twinkling because of the turbulence in Earth's atmosphere.
06:41 It makes the light from the stars move in a different direction before reaching our
06:45 eyes, and this looks as if the light is shaking.
06:48 In a supermarket, you pass by a shelf with eggs and try to decide which ones are better,
06:53 the white ones or the brown ones.
06:55 There's practically no difference between them.
06:58 The egg's color depends on the breed of the chicken.
07:00 These birds produce two different color pigments.
07:03 You can take eggs of any color because the nutritional components of the eggs are almost
07:08 the same.
07:09 So what came first, the brown egg or the white egg?
07:13 Never mind.
07:14 It's enough to use a small amount of toothpaste to brush your teeth, the size of a pea.
07:19 But the ads show that you have to cover the entire toothbrush with paste as a marketing
07:24 ploy.
07:25 Manufacturers want you to buy a new tube faster.
07:28 A plane leaves white lines behind in the blue sky thanks to the condensation of carbon dioxide,
07:34 steam, and burning fuel.
07:36 In winter, heated air visibly comes out of your mouth.
07:39 The same principle works here.
07:41 It's always icy at the altitude where planes are flying.
07:45 Exhaust and hot air comes out of the turbines.
07:48 When it collides with cold air, it creates thick lines of steam.
07:52 Almost all hotels have white bedsheets.
07:55 They choose this color specifically to show how high their standards of cleanliness are.
08:00 The whiter and brighter the sheets are, the more luxurious the hotel seems.
08:04 It's much easier to see dirt and stains on white linen.
08:07 It's like proof that you've checked into a cleaned room.
08:11 Gasoline looks like a rainbow in a puddle because it can't mix with water.
08:15 It forms a thin membrane over it.
08:18 When light reflects from it and the water at the same time, you've got a rainbow.
08:23 The "Do Not Disturb" sign on your hotel room door is not a requirement but just a
08:28 suggestion.
08:29 Maids and staff have the right to go there if they suspect something's wrong, especially
08:34 if you don't remove the sign for 24 hours.
08:38 Why do clocks go to the right?
08:40 The sun is the main reason.
08:41 In ancient times, when people invented the sundial, the sun's shadow was moving to
08:46 the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
08:51 Mechanical clocks were first invented in the Northern Hemisphere, so it always goes right.
08:56 Or as we now say, clockwise.
08:59 Why are the cups at parties colored red?
09:02 Because it helps you quickly find your drink on the table among snacks and drinks, and
09:06 all those other red cups.
09:08 Here's a hint – write your name, Michael, on the cup.
09:12 If your name is Michael.
09:13 Also, red is considered a color that provokes action.
09:17 At the psychological level, it seems the red cup is commanding you, "Hey, drink me up!"
09:23 They believe yellow taxis have their roots in 15th-century Italy.
09:28 One postal businessman used yellow cabins for delivering mail.
09:31 He wanted everyone to recognize his carts.
09:35 About 60-80% of people, mostly age 15-25, occasionally have goosebump-induced déjà
09:42 vu moments.
09:43 It's fleeting and unpredictable, and scientists are still not 100% sure why it happens and
09:49 can't control it.
09:51 To understand it better, they tried to create memories for patients under hypnosis.
09:56 Then they asked them to forget or remember the memory, and it made them experience déjà
10:01 vu later.
10:02 Other scientists tried to recreate it in virtual reality with scenes in games that looked alike.
10:08 The experiments made them believe déjà vu is your memory playing tricks on you.
10:13 You get into a situation that's similar to a real memory that you have, but you can't
10:18 remember it completely.
10:19 Your brain notices the similarities and leaves you with a strange feeling of already seen.
10:25 That's how déjà vu translates from French.
10:28 Another version is that it's a memory glitch.
10:30 It's more likely to happen when you're stressed.
10:33 So when you're under pressure or have a lot of information to process at once, some
10:38 of it can end up in long-term memory instead of short-term memory.
10:42 So you take your best friend Max to the doggy park.
10:46 He meets the labradoodle of his dreams, and they start playing together.
10:50 Peaceful tail wagging quickly grows into biting each other.
10:53 Oh no, they're going for the necks!
10:56 You grab Max and rush back home.
10:58 Well, in fact, there was no need to rush home.
11:02 Playing with open mouths is called mouth wrestling or jaw sparring.
11:05 It's a healthy way of interaction between dogs.
11:09 They inherited this habit from their wolf ancestors.
11:12 When a dog is a puppy, it has to learn some important skills, including fighting.
11:17 Mouthing is just an imitation of it.
11:20 When a puppy matures, it will know how to protect itself and respect boundaries of other
11:24 doggos.
11:25 All the chasing, wrestling, growling, and face-biting is a way to socialize with others
11:30 and have fun in the dog world.
11:32 It's something like sibling rivalry and playful fights in the human world.
11:37 Cute kittens and cats under the age of 2 also practice mouthing.
11:41 They often tumble over each other and bite one another's necks to let their hunter
11:45 instincts out.
11:47 In the wild, cats are fast and merciless, and they can't hide it behind all the purrs
11:52 in the world.
11:53 The Empire State Building's tower was designed to serve as a docking station for dirigibles.
11:59 At that time, people believed that these airships would become the main means of transportation
12:04 in the future.
12:05 The project included gangplanks, check-in and customs offices, and so on.
12:10 But then the engineers realized that the wind up there was too strong for their plans, and
12:14 they gave up on their idea.
12:17 Angel Falls, the largest uninterrupted waterfall on the planet, is more than twice as tall
12:22 as the Empire State Building.
12:24 During the dry season, the falling water sometimes evaporates before it reaches the ground.
12:30 One of the most mysterious sounds ever heard on Earth was the bloop.
12:34 It occurred in 1997 and resembled the noise of marine animals.
12:38 But the volume was too great for a sound produced by a living creature.
12:42 The bloop continued for one minute.
12:44 It started from a low rumble, and then rose in frequency.
12:49 Antarctica might just look like a giant field of ice, but there's actually a huge continent
12:54 underneath.
12:55 That means that it has volcanoes, mountains, and valleys, like any other continent.
13:00 Scientists have recently discovered that the Antarctic landmass has the lowest point on
13:04 the planet, as well as huge mountain ranges.
13:08 If any of the numerous volcanoes were to erupt, it would melt a huge part of the surface ice
13:13 and increase the spill of ice into the ocean.
13:16 The sea level would rise and flood coastal areas around the world.
13:20 The ocean waters would also be disrupted, putting marine life at risk.
13:25 Though all of these volcanoes are dormant at the moment.
13:29 Each day on the South Pole lasts six months on this continent.
13:33 The South Pole only has a single sunset and sunrise across an entire year.
13:39 Early Earth might have been purple, not green.
13:42 There's a theory that ancient microbes used molecules rather than chlorophyll to absorb
13:46 sunlight.
13:48 These molecules likely gave living organisms a violet tint.
13:53 During the Stone Age, the entire population of Central Europe was around 1,500 people,
13:58 which means they would all fit on a mid-sized cruise liner these days.
14:03 Astronomers have figured out that the Milky Way weighs around 1.5 trillion solar masses,
14:09 and one solar mass is the mass of our Sun.
14:12 A tiny part of this weight is a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy and
14:16 200 billion stars.
14:19 The rest is dark matter, mysterious and invisible.
14:23 If all sheets of Arctic ice and glaciers melted at the same time, the sea level would rise
14:28 for the height of a 26-story building.
14:31 Under black or UV light, ripening bananas look bright blue.
14:36 That's because of the chlorophyll that's breaking down when the fruit is ripening.
14:41 Because of tectonic plate movements, the Pacific Ocean shrinks every year, and the Atlantic
14:46 Ocean gets bigger by the same amount.
14:50 These days, there are only two ice sheets in the world left after the planet's last
14:54 ice age.
14:55 The first is the Greenland Ice Sheet.
14:58 The second, the Antarctic Ice Sheet, is enormous.
15:01 It's the size of Mexico and the continental US combined.
15:07 Tsunami waves often go unnoticed.
15:10 They don't rise for more than several inches above the surface until they reach shallow
15:14 waters.
15:15 When the ocean is deep, though, they can travel as fast as a long-distance passenger airplane.
15:23 Corals that live in shallow waters produce their own protection from the sun.
15:27 Without it, sunlight would harm the algae living inside them.
15:31 To protect these algae, which are the main source of food for the corals, they fluoresce.
15:35 This process makes proteins that act as sunscreen.
15:40 Almost 90% of the volcanic activity on Earth happens in the oceans.
15:45 The South Pacific has the largest concentration of volcanoes people know about.
15:50 There's one volcano cluster that has 1,133 volcanic cones.
15:55 All of them are active and cooped up in an area the size of New York State.
16:01 The Zemchug Canyon in the middle of the Bering Sea is the largest underwater canyon ever
16:07 discovered.
16:09 There are more treasures and artifacts at the bottom of the ocean than in all museums
16:13 in the world combined.
16:16 In 1900, one of the biggest hurricanes struck near Central America and in the Gulf of Mexico.
16:22 It then went as far as Florida and Texas and is considered to be the most devastating hurricane
16:27 in the United States' history.
16:29 They first detected it on August 27th and it lasted for many days.
16:34 By the time it reached the Texas coast, the storm had turned into a Category 4 hurricane.
16:40 Hurricanes are categorized on wind speed and intensity using something called a Saffir-Simpson
16:45 scale.
16:46 There are five different categories from 1 to 5, with 1 being the weakest and 5 being
16:51 the strongest.
16:54 The people of Galveston had less than four days to prepare for the arriving storm that
16:58 even stretched out to Oklahoma and Kansas.
17:01 The great hurricane then made its way to the Great Plains and turned towards the Great
17:05 Lakes, New England and reached southeastern Canada.
17:09 The storm was so bad that more than 3,600 homes were damaged even though they were sturdy
17:14 enough to withstand the storm.
17:17 Given the population numbers back then, it was equivalent to hundreds of thousands of
17:21 houses destroyed, if not millions.
17:25 There are two sides to every story.
17:28 Just like to a regular cotton pad, two different textures to be more precise.
17:33 One is smooth and you're supposed to use it for more sensitive areas of your face,
17:37 for example, the eyes.
17:39 The rougher side can help you remove makeup and clean your face in less sensitive areas,
17:44 like the forehead.
17:47 If you like having greenery in your home, you've probably noticed the flower pots have
17:51 holes at the bottom.
17:53 These holes are the reason your green friends live a happy life.
17:57 They're extremely important for water drainage.
18:01 Thanks to these holes, you'll avoid stagnant water buildup that can eventually ruin your
18:05 plant.
18:06 Also, thanks to those holes, roots can grow and expand beyond the limits of your pot.
18:13 Have you noticed aviator sunglasses mostly have green lenses?
18:18 It has something to do with their origin.
18:20 First, they showed up in the 1930s.
18:24 Before that, pilots had goggles to protect their eyes while they were in the air.
18:29 High altitudes with glaring sun and sub-zero temperatures were a real test for their eyes.
18:36 The goggles helped them with those issues, but there was another one.
18:40 Since the temperature differences between the air outside and within the goggles were
18:44 big, the lenses would fog up and obscure the pilot's view.
18:49 So the company Bausch & Lomb came up with teardrop lenses surrounded by a light metal
18:54 frame.
18:56 These lenses were dark green because this tint cuts out blue light, which is also a
19:01 problem for pilots when they're flying above the cloud line.
19:05 Plus, green lenses also reduce glare and improve contrast and sharpness.
19:12 Holes in the side of your Converse sneakers, hmm, are those really necessary?
19:16 Well, they allow air to enter your shoe so your feet can stay cool.
19:21 You can also use them to style up your shoes and tie them in different ways too.
19:28 There are two reasons plastic bottles have grooves.
19:31 First, if you're drinking cold water and it's hot outside, you'll see there's a lot of condensation
19:36 on your bottle.
19:38 Or maybe if you're playing some sport or working out.
19:41 Your hands are sweaty and if a bottle had a smooth surface it would be more difficult
19:45 to grip it, so the ridges are there to improve your hand grip.
19:50 The second reason is that because of these ridges, manufacturers can use thinner plastic.
19:56 That means they need less material in overall production.
20:00 And that plastic is still firm enough for the bottle to maintain its shape.
20:05 Wooden coat hangers are not just there to look nice.
20:09 Since they're made of cedar wood, they bring a nice scent to your closet.
20:12 Plus, they repel bugs.
20:15 They're also quite firm so they come in handy for heavy clothes such as jackets.
20:20 And it's hard to damage them.
20:21 So they'll serve you longer.
20:25 You may have noticed there's a colored square at the bottom of your toothpaste.
20:30 These blocks mostly come in blue, red, green and black.
20:35 They are some sort of eye marks, since they help manufacturing machines at the assembly
20:39 line recognize where and when to cut the toothpaste and seal the end of the tube.
20:46 Some boots have loops at their top and back.
20:50 Looks like a fashion statement, doesn't it?
20:51 Or maybe it's something that manufacturers add for fun.
20:55 But those loops actually have their purpose.
20:57 With them, you can pull the shoe up when trying to wear it.
21:01 Plus, you can easily hang them or use the loop for better support for the laces.
21:07 Confession time, remember those attachments your vacuum cleaner came with?
21:11 Did you also put them somewhere aside and never use them again?
21:15 They're actually pretty helpful when you're cleaning the house because you can use them
21:19 for particular areas that are sometimes hard to reach with the regular attachment.
21:25 We all know what the vegetable peeler is for, but besides peeling the skin of carrots or
21:29 potatoes, you can use it for onions too.
21:32 And maybe faster than doing it with a knife, plus it will save you some onion tears.
21:38 Some sweatshirts have something pretty specific in the neck area.
21:42 A V-shaped stitch you can see in the middle of the collar.
21:46 The ribbed insert, similar to the ribbing at the hem and the sleeves, would allow the
21:51 owner to put the garment on more easily, and it wouldn't even lose shape.
21:55 The V-insert would stretch so a person wearing the sweatshirt could get their head through
21:59 the neck.
22:00 Its purpose was also to absorb sweat.
22:03 In its early versions, sweatshirts had both the back and the front of the collars.
22:08 Through time, they lost the back one, and this V-insert became something decorative
22:12 since manufacturers started to stitch a V at the collar, without using the ribbed material
22:17 they had added before.
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