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00:00 You've probably mislabeled many other food items, like say, raspberries, as they're
00:05 actually a member of the rose family, along with cherries, apricots, plums, pears, apples,
00:10 peaches, or blackberries.
00:12 They are added to this category based on their flowers.
00:15 They bloom in 5 equal petals arranged around a central core.
00:20 Bananas are considered berries, while strawberries aren't since they belong to the same rose
00:25 family.
00:26 We also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas, which explains why both bananas and certain
00:32 attractive people can both have a peel.
00:36 Another common misconception – white chocolate isn't actually chocolate since it doesn't
00:41 contain any chocolate solids.
00:43 It's made only from a mixture of sugar, milk products, vanilla, lecithin, and cocoa
00:48 butter.
00:49 Parents all over the world don't try to convince their kids to eat broccoli for no
00:53 reason.
00:54 On a calorie-by-calorie basis, it turns out that broccoli has nearly as much protein in
00:59 it as a steak.
01:00 Now, I'm not convinced parents actually know that, but given the low fat content,
01:06 broccoli has many other health benefits as opposed to meat.
01:10 We now see it as the mandatory companion for fries, but at some point in time, ketchup
01:15 was actually considered to have healing properties.
01:18 In the 1880s, a doctor based in Ohio indicated that tomatoes could help treat digestive issues.
01:24 Publishing a ketchup-like formula that was later transformed into a pill.
01:29 Hey, you wanna have a pill with those fries?
01:32 Speaking of French fries, it turns out one of the most popular side dishes in the world
01:36 isn't actually French.
01:39 Potatoes served this way actually originated in Belgium, but they're called that because
01:43 of how they're cut.
01:45 And maybe also because the name "Brussels sprouts" was already taken.
01:49 I'm almost certain there's a jar of peanut butter somewhere in your cupboard, but I'll
01:54 bet you didn't know how valuable it actually was.
01:57 And I'm not talking about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
02:01 Studies have shown that Americans go through enough peanut butter to coat the floor of
02:05 the Grand Canyon each year.
02:07 Just to be a bit more precise here, that's about 500 million pounds.
02:11 Hey, if somebody did that on YouTube, I'd watch!
02:15 The pink coloring of salmon isn't always like that by default.
02:19 White salmon is pink due to a large amount of shrimp they consume natively.
02:24 Farm-raised salmon, however, is generally white, so producers need to add plant-based
02:29 pigments to get that light pink hue.
02:32 Carrots weren't originally orange either.
02:34 The red-yellow tint we are now familiar with comes from a genetic mutation of the well-known
02:39 vegetable that occurred somewhere in the 16th century.
02:43 Carrots were initially white or purple.
02:46 Just like you add ketchup to the side of fries, you're most likely having a dab of wasabi
02:51 with every plate of sushi.
02:53 Well, it's most certainly dyed horseradish.
02:56 The Japanese alternative to horseradish is quite expensive.
03:00 That's why 99% of restaurants in the US actually use regular horseradish instead.
03:06 You may see them packed together in the supermarket, but red, green, and yellow peppers aren't
03:11 actually the same vegetable.
03:13 You'd need different types of seeds to be able to grow them individually, as they're
03:17 each their own type of plant species.
03:20 Did you know 1 in 4 hazelnuts ends up in a Nutella jar?
03:24 The creamy spread is so popular that scientists are looking into ways to grow hazelnuts in
03:29 labs to counteract the global shortage.
03:32 That's something to think about when you ask for an extra topping.
03:35 Sure, there's an expiration date on each bottle of water, but the water itself doesn't actually
03:41 expire.
03:42 The date mentioned there is, in fact, for the bottle itself, since the plastic can eventually
03:47 leak harmful substances into the water.
03:50 Ever wondered why airplane food sometimes tastes bland?
03:54 The chef may not always be to blame.
03:56 The altitude you're flying at has some effects on your body chemistry, making you taste things
04:01 differently.
04:02 You've added it to a salad at least once, but you may be surprised to know that cilantro
04:08 and coriander are not in fact the same thing.
04:11 Coriander is what the dried seeds are called, while the leaves and the stems go by cilantro.
04:17 So now you know.
04:19 For all the fruit lovers out there, scientists came up with a fruit salad tree.
04:23 Yep, that's right, a tree that can grow different types of fruit at the same time.
04:28 They were developed in Australia and can support up to 6 different types of fruit.
04:34 There's a stone fruit variation that features peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, and
04:39 peach cots, and a citrus variation for those who prefer lemons, limes, mandarins, oranges,
04:45 or even tangelos, pomelos, and grapefruits.
04:49 You most likely avoid it because it can give you bad breath, but garlic is considered one
04:54 of the most nutrient-dense foods out there.
04:56 A single clove of garlic can contain 2% of your vitamin B6 the whole day.
05:02 Studies have shown that the chemical that gives garlic its distinctive flavor, called
05:06 allicin, is good for your health.
05:09 The only type of food that never spoils when stored properly is honey.
05:14 Or at least, the only one we've discovered so far.
05:17 That's because it contains a high amount of sugar and has a low moisture content.
05:21 An enzyme created by bees also helps do the trick, as it can suppress any bacterial growth.
05:28 Of course, if you store your honey the wrong way and expose it to additional moisture,
05:32 it can go bad, but honey that is sealed and stored correctly technically has no expiration
05:38 date.
05:39 If you're just starting out with your cooking skills, you'll be pleased to know mushrooms
05:43 can't be overcooked.
05:45 That's because they contain a polymer called chitin.
05:48 This chemical allows them to remain tender even if you cook them from a few minutes to
05:52 up to an hour.
05:53 Hey, just add some butter and garlic, nobody will ever know!
06:00 Wombats – animals with pouches on their bellies – usually have them facing upwards,
06:04 but not wombats.
06:06 These toothy critters like digging too much, which is why their pouches are turned down
06:10 to their hind paws.
06:12 This way, they can dig without harming their babies.
06:15 By the way, all marsupial cubs are called joeys.
06:18 That includes kangaroos, koalas, and, of course, wombats too.
06:24 Spiders have a tiny brain, but their web is a powerful tool.
06:27 They use it to see, hear, and feel everything around.
06:31 Crazier still, the web also serves as a kind of a memory bank.
06:35 Instead of remembering where they stashed the prey, spiders leave it to the web.
06:41 Kangaroo rats can survive for years without water at all.
06:45 They get all the moisture they need from seeds they eat, and living in an arid desert doesn't
06:49 cause them any trouble.
06:52 Plumed basculus blizzards can run on water.
06:55 Their hind feet have long toes with fringes of skin spreading out in water.
07:00 As a result, a bigger surface of the lizard's foot comes into contact with the water, and
07:05 then the lizard has only to pump its legs real fast.
07:09 When a cardinal fish guzzles too much special zooplankton, the tiny creature starts to glow
07:15 inside the fish's body.
07:17 It becomes more visible to predators and spits the plankton out, which looks as if it breathes
07:22 out bursts of bluish fire.
07:25 There's a particular jellyfish species in the world's oceans, which can live forever.
07:31 When the creature reaches the end of its life, it transforms back into its polyp state and
07:36 restarts its life cycle over and over again.
07:40 Tarsiers have the biggest eye-to-body size ratio.
07:44 Their eyes take up almost the whole head.
07:46 In return, these huge eyeballs allow the animal to see at night as clearly as during the day.
07:52 Gecko lizards are equipped with tiny hairs on their foot pads.
07:56 These things let them climb any surface and run on it as if on the ground, even if it's
08:01 your ceiling.
08:03 The pistol shrimp gets its name from its weird claw.
08:06 It's normally open, but when it snaps shut, it creates a bubble projectile that stuns
08:11 its prey.
08:12 The snap is so powerful, it creates a flash of light and momentarily heats up the water
08:17 to the temperature of the sun's surface.
08:20 A possum is any snake's natural nemesis.
08:23 These creatures are immune to snake venom and like to munch on serpents a lot.
08:28 Not to be confused with possums, though.
08:31 When hippos get too hot, they ooze a pinkish liquid through their skin.
08:36 It soon covers their bodies and protects them from sunburns.
08:40 Meerkats, also seeing lots of sunny days, have black rings around their eyes that look
08:46 like they're wearing sunglasses.
08:48 Well, it's exactly what those rings do.
08:51 The black fur blocks out sunlight, allowing meerkats to look straight at the sky.
08:57 Parrots, with their ability to mimic human speech, pale in comparison with lyrebirds.
09:03 These copycats can learn and produce over 20 different sounds, including chainsaws,
09:08 dog barks, car engines, and fire alarms.
09:12 And of course, other bird songs too.
09:15 The alpine ibex is the absolute climbing champion of the animal world.
09:20 Mother goats with their kids seem to be defying gravity by scaling flat vertical cliff walls
09:25 where no other creature can walk.
09:27 Male goats, on the other hand, prefer flatlands themselves.
09:32 Lizards are known to regrow their tails, and sometimes even other limbs, but the axolotl
09:37 beat them all.
09:39 These strange critters can regenerate even such complex organs as their heart or brain.
09:45 Salmon, this graceful water racer, has a built-in navigation system.
09:50 Its body reacts to the magnetic field of the Earth and helps the fish find its way across
09:55 thousands of miles.
09:58 When threatened, bombardier beetles pop open the tip of their behind and spray the attacker
10:03 with nauseous liquid.
10:05 The chemical reaction inside the beetle's body makes this spray as hot as boiling water.
10:11 Fleas may be small, but they're the best jumpers in all creation.
10:15 If humans could jump like these tiny pests, we'd be able to hop over the top of the Eiffel
10:20 Tower.
10:22 Millipedes are scary enough by themselves, but some of their defense mechanisms are something
10:27 else.
10:28 For example, they might exude cyanide, burning in response to threat, and others can glow
10:33 in the dark.
10:35 Octopuses have three hearts, two of which pump blood to the gills, and the third one
10:40 rolls it to the other organs.
10:42 Their blood is blue, by the way, and they also have as many as nine brains.
10:48 One is central, and the other eight are, you guessed it, controlling their limbs.
10:54 Horses have frogs in their feet.
10:55 No, not live ones.
10:57 A horse's frog is a triangular organ that absorbs shock from stepping on the foot, and
11:02 it helps pump blood from their feet up.
11:06 On the topic of horses' feet, their hooves are made of the same stuff your nails and
11:10 hair are – keratin.
11:13 So basically, horses run on their nails.
11:17 The starfish doesn't have either brain or heart, and neither does it have lungs.
11:22 Yet it has hundreds of tiny feet, allowing it to walk, and it also pumps water with them
11:26 through the star's body.
11:28 The water acts like blood for this creature.
11:32 Not the phones ringing.
11:34 Must be something urgent.
11:35 At 11 PM?
11:37 Only all the gadgets in the house are silent.
11:40 It's your ears that are ringing.
11:42 You can also hear some hissing, whistling, buzzing, and even roaring.
11:46 But all this noise doesn't have an external source.
11:50 That's why it's known as phantom sounds.
11:53 They can occur in one or both ears, constantly or from time to time.
11:58 They're usually most noticeable at night when nothing distracts you.
12:02 Hearing noise in your ears is called tinnitus.
12:04 It's quite common and affects 15-20% of people.
12:08 Tinnitus starts in the part of your inner ear shaped like a snail.
12:12 It's called the cochlea.
12:16 Your middle ear picks up sound waves.
12:18 They get translated into electrical impulses in the inner ear.
12:22 Then, sensory nerves carry these impulses to your brain.
12:26 If your inner ear works incorrectly, your brain can misinterpret the sounds.
12:31 Tinnitus occurs when there are some changes in the cochlea's nerve.
12:35 They can be caused by loud noise, like chainsaws, jackhammers, loud music, or shouting.
12:41 Tinnitus can start after a head, neck, or ear injury, or after you begin to take certain
12:46 medications.
12:48 You can also hear ringing in your ears if you have some blood pressure issues.
12:52 Elsewhere in the amazing human body, some of the bacteria living in your gut can produce
12:58 electricity.
12:59 Shocking.
13:00 They give off electrons, and this creates tiny electrical currents.
13:04 That's likely to be the bacteria's backup system, their way to generate energy.
13:10 Humans are the only animals that have chins.
13:13 Even our closest genetic relatives, gorillas and chimps, lack this small piece of bone
13:18 that extends forward from the jaw.
13:20 Their lower jaws slant down and back from their front teeth.
13:24 Scientists still haven't figured out this mystery.
13:27 The opinions about why people are made this way differ.
13:30 Some researchers think chins help us chew our food.
13:33 Others are sure they have something to do with speaking.
13:36 A few of us think it's simply a special place to grow a goatee.
13:41 Blinking keeps your eyes clean and moist.
13:43 But that's not all.
13:45 Every time you blink, you take a micro-nap.
13:48 Researchers from Washington University have found out that blinking makes your attention
13:53 sharper and works as a teeny recharge.
13:58 Ever seen tiny dots traveling in squiggly lines, especially when you're looking at
14:02 a bright blue sky?
14:04 These dots are only visible for a second or so and might look like itty-bitty worms.
14:09 Those are your white blood cells moving through the capillaries in front of the retina.
14:14 That's the light-sensitive tissue at the back of your eyes.
14:17 Curiously, most people don't even notice the dots unless asked to pay attention.
14:23 The pineal gland in your brain handles the production of melatonin.
14:27 That's the very hormone that regulates your sleep patterns.
14:31 The gland looks like a pine nut, and that's how it got its name.
14:35 The human brain is 73% water, and the same is true about the heart.
14:40 That's why if your brain loses even 2% of liquid, you start to feel tired.
14:46 It also makes your memory worse, shortens your attention span, and puts a dampener on
14:51 your mood.
14:52 By the way, your brain makes sure you don't drink too little or too much water.
14:58 After you swallow some liquid, your mouth and throat start to fire signals to your brain,
15:03 telling it to stop drinking.
15:05 Otherwise you'd be gulping down water for the entire 10 to 60 minutes it takes the liquid
15:09 to get to your cells.
15:12 Your eyes can see something for a mere 13 milliseconds, and your brain will already
15:16 process this image.
15:18 For comparison, the average blink lasts from 100 to 400 milliseconds.
15:24 Even though the tongue isn't the strongest muscle in your body, it never gets tired.
15:29 That's because of the way it's built.
15:31 It's made up of 8 inner-woven muscles.
15:34 But unlike other muscles in your body, these aren't situated around a supporting bone.
15:39 The tongue's structure is similar to an elephant's trunk or an octopus's tentacles.
15:47 Your body emits visible light.
15:49 That's why they call me sunny.
15:52 You're the brightest at 4 PM, and your glow is the least visible at 10 AM.
15:58 Unfortunately, this glowing is a thousand times less intense than what your eyes can
16:02 see.
16:04 Sweat is mostly water mixed with proteins, sugars, ammonia, and a lot of other stuff.
16:09 It even contains tiny amounts of trace metals, like copper, zinc, nickel, iron, and so on.
16:16 What makes sweat taste salty is the sodium it contains.
16:19 Plus, the more salt you eat, the saltier your sweat is.
16:23 Your body's trying to get rid of the excess, and the fastest way is to sweat it out.
16:29 In an adult, the blood makes up 7-8% of the total body weight.
16:34 About 55% of your blood is liquid plasma.
16:37 The rest is red and white blood cells and platelets.
16:41 They form clots and prevent bleeding.
16:44 You can't swallow and breathe at the same time.
16:47 The food you swallow and the air you breathe go down the same part of your throat at first.
16:53 Only a bit deeper, the passage splits into the esophagus (for food and liquid) and trachea
16:58 (for air).
17:00 When you swallow, your airway gets automatically closed off.
17:03 This prevents you from accidentally inhaling food.
17:07 But occasionally, it still happens.
17:10 Your brain sometimes generates more than 48 thoughts in just one minute.
17:14 That's almost 3,000 thoughts per hour and 69,000 per day!
17:19 Here's some facts you'll find hard to digest.
17:24 Your stomach has a pretty incredible capacity, being able to hold up to half a gallon of
17:29 liquids.
17:30 That's a whole large bottle of Coke!
17:32 It's pretty hard to estimate how much hard food you can eat because it's processed
17:37 with your teeth before it gets to your stomach.
17:40 There's definitely not enough room for a turkey, but a good-sized chicken would probably
17:44 fit in it.
17:47 If you were asked where your stomach was, you would probably point to your tummy.
17:51 Sorry, that's wrong.
17:53 It's actually up here, hidden in between your ribs.
17:58 Scientists believe that the appendix will disappear eventually.
18:01 Nobody really knows why we need it, but some researchers claim it might've existed to
18:07 help our ancestors digest tree bark.
18:10 Because it's no longer part of our daily diet, the appendix isn't necessary and can
18:14 disappear from our bodies without any consequences.
18:19 The appendix isn't the only obsolete part of our body.
18:22 Wisdom teeth aren't that useful either.
18:24 Yeah, they used to come in handy whenever our ancestors lost some of their teeth, but
18:29 the only thing they help us lose now is the money we spend extracting them.
18:36 Almost all of our body is covered with hairs, even if we don't notice them.
18:40 They grow even in the belly button.
18:42 Their purpose is to catch lint.
18:44 Check it out.
18:46 See?
18:47 Your liver acts as your own personal bodyguard, protecting you from toxins and many other
18:52 things you don't want hanging around in your body.
18:55 It's also pretty indestructible and can even regenerate.
19:01 Only about 43% of you is actually you.
19:05 Over 50% of the cells in your body belong to tiny little creatures that mainly live
19:10 in your gut.
19:11 Still, even though your own cells are fewer than microbial ones, there are, on average,
19:16 about 100 trillion of them in you.
19:19 See?
19:20 You're not alone!
19:22 With this in mind, your own genes are less than half of what you really consist of.
19:27 If you take all the microbes dwelling within your body and count their genes, you'll
19:32 find between 2 to 20 million.
19:36 If you sleep, it doesn't mean all of your body sleeps.
19:39 In fact, sometimes your brain has to work even harder when you're asleep.
19:44 It needs to process tons of information, and reports usually take a lot of time.
19:50 The nose definitely gets a good rest while you're sleeping.
19:54 Amazingly, your sense of smell basically deactivates at night.
19:58 You wouldn't even be bothered if there was a really terrible smell in your bedroom.
20:02 No comment.
20:05 The nose is probably one of the most underappreciated parts of the body.
20:09 We wouldn't even be able to enjoy eating without it.
20:13 About 80% of the taste of any food is thanks to the nose and its ability to recognize odors.
20:19 If you hold your nose while eating, you will taste almost nothing.
20:23 With no sense of smell, you're likely to recognize food mostly by texture.
20:27 So an onion might seem no different than a big refreshing apple.
20:32 Yeah, try that and leave me a comment on how that goes.
20:37 Scientists used to believe we could distinguish about 10,000 smells, but they were wrong.
20:42 Recent research showed that people are actually able to distinguish between more than a trillion
20:48 smells.
20:49 We also remember them better than anything else, and smells can even evoke some distant
20:53 memories.
20:56 Your nose just doesn't help you breathe and catch odors.
20:59 It filters the air for sensitive throats and lungs.
21:02 If we inhale dry air, the nose moistens it, cools it, and heats it if it's necessary.
21:08 Also the nose cleans the air of dirt.
21:12 When you age, your brain is gradually reducing in size.
21:17 By age 75, it's much smaller than at 30, and it starts shrinking by the age of 40.
21:23 It happens to everyone and doesn't affect your mental strength in any way.
21:28 Our brain can store only 7 bits in its short-term memory.
21:32 Don't even try to compare your brain with a phone capacity, not even the one you had
21:36 back in 2005.
21:38 That's why you can't even learn a phone number by heart.
21:43 Our short-term memory functions just like a chalkboard.
21:46 You can get some information, but sooner or later, you run out of space.
21:50 To check your working memory capacity, try this test.
21:54 Ask a friend to write a list of 10 words and read it to you.
21:58 Most people recall 7 or fewer items from that list.
22:03 Your RAM, or working memory, is an essential thing that we need to perform almost any everyday
22:09 activity, including basic conversations, surfing the net, and even petting your dog.
22:16 Our strongest and emotional memories are often fake.
22:19 The central memory gives us the confidence to believe that we remember everything, even
22:24 though most of the details are made up in our heads.
22:29 Not only your brain shrinks as you get older, you too shrink dramatically.
22:33 The bones get more brittle, the backbone gets compressed.
22:37 A similar thing happens when you rest at night.
22:39 Your bones kinda relax too.
22:42 Because of this, you wake up taller in the mornings than you are at the end of the day.
22:48 Among mammals, only humans can walk on two legs for their entire lives.
22:52 You might think that kangaroos or gorillas move in the same way, but kangaroos use their
22:57 tail as a third leg, and gorillas use their long arms to keep balance.
23:04 Your bones take part in metabolism too.
23:07 Since they mostly consist of calcium, when there's not enough of this element in your
23:11 blood, bones start shedding it into the bloodstream, balancing your body.
23:16 The same reaction works in reverse too.
23:18 When there's too much calcium in your blood, it goes into the bones to be stored for later.
23:25 The only bone to have a sense of humor in your body is inside your upper arm.
23:29 That's why it's called the humerus.
23:31 Ok, I made that one up.
23:33 Moving along…
23:36 The only bones that never grow are found in our ears.
23:39 We can hear, thanks to these tiny bones, because they have adapted to transmit sound vibrations.
23:45 Doctors call them the oscular chain.
23:48 One of these hearing bones, the stapes, is the smallest bone in your entire body.
23:52 It's no larger than a grain of rice.
23:57 Our height, shape of our body, and skin color depend a lot on where our ancestors used to
24:02 live.
24:03 But we can adapt to new conditions even within our own lifespan.
24:08 For example, if you move from plains to the mountains, you'll eventually develop more
24:12 red blood cells to compensate for the lack of oxygen.
24:16 And naturally, if you move from a colder climate to a hotter and sunnier one, your skin will
24:21 get darker to adapt.
24:24 Our lifespan is programmed within our cells.
24:27 They constantly renew and divide, but they have a sort of internal timer that stops at
24:33 some point.
24:34 Some cells also stop reproducing sooner than others.
24:37 On average, cells cease dividing when we reach the age of 100.
24:42 That means, if we could find a way to trick ourselves into turning off the timer, we could
24:46 potentially live forever.
24:49 Oceans cover 70% of the Earth.
24:51 On average, the ocean is 8 Empire State Buildings deep, and less than 5% of its mysterious depths
24:56 have been explored.
24:58 It's even possible to find lakes and rivers beneath the ocean.
25:01 They're denser than the rest of the water surrounding them, so you can clearly see the
25:05 difference.
25:06 When the coral is in shallow waters, intense sunlight can damage the algae living inside
25:11 it.
25:12 To protect the algae, the coral produces some proteins that act as some kind of sunscreen
25:16 for it.
25:17 So, they really don't need to spend money on it.
25:20 Okay, most of the ocean may not be explored, but what we do know is about 20 million tons
25:25 of gold is dispersed through its dark waters.
25:28 It's concentrated in really small amounts, which is why it doesn't pay off to mine it.
25:33 If we could take it out, every person on the planet would get 9 pounds of gold.
25:38 When sharks need their morning joe, they go to a cafe too.
25:42 Back in 2002, researchers found an area in the Pacific Ocean called the White Shark Cafe,
25:48 where great white sharks come during the winter.
25:50 They simply hang out, tell jokes, and laugh at stories of how many humans they've scared,
25:54 and then go back to the coast to scare us a little bit more when the weather gets warmer.
25:58 Hey, have you had a great white latte?
26:01 Try one!
26:02 The widest point of the Pacific Ocean goes from Indonesia to Colombia, and at that part
26:07 it's 12,300 miles across, over 5 times wider than the diameter of the Moon.
26:13 We might imagine oceans are cold, especially in depths where the temperature is only 40
26:17 degrees Fahrenheit.
26:18 But there's an exception.
26:20 Water that comes out of hydrothermal vents in the seafloor has a temperature of up to
26:24 750 degrees.
26:26 Humans are the only animals whose brain gets smaller.
26:30 Yep, as we get older, it tends to shrink.
26:33 It can do so even because of isolation and loneliness.
26:36 Other animals, even some of our distant cousins from another side of the family tree like
26:40 monkeys and chimpanzees, have no problem with that.
26:44 I'm guessing television is the probable cause.
26:47 Our eardrums have nothing to do with the sense of sight, but they still move when we move
26:51 our eyes.
26:53 In the average lifetime, our heart beats over 2.5 billion times.
26:57 I've counted.
26:59 Our nose can detect over 1 trillion smells, and our lips are hundreds of times more sensitive
27:04 than the tips of our fingers.
27:06 Two of our body parts never stop growing – your nose and your ears.
27:12 Cockroaches are tough.
27:13 They can survive harsh conditions and have been around since dinosaurs ruled our planet.
27:18 But the termite queen beats all that with a lifespan of 50 years.
27:22 That's the longest any insect can live.
27:25 Regular termites live only 1-2 years.
27:27 It's not the water camels store in their humps, but fat.
27:31 They store water in their bloodstream.
27:34 These can fly really high – more than 29,500 feet, which is even higher than Mount Everest,
27:39 the tallest mountain on our planet.
27:42 Sloths are able to hold their breath longer than dolphins.
27:44 Yup, they slow their heart rates, and they can stay that way for almost 40 minutes.
27:50 Dolphins have to come to the surface to catch some air every 10 minutes.
27:53 The Moon has volcanoes, and scientists believe these might've been active around 100 million
27:58 years ago, when dinosaurs still ruled our planet.
28:01 Wow, the view must've been magnificent!
28:05 There are watermelons the size of a grape.
28:08 Cucamelons, if you prefer, mouse melons, actually look like really small watermelons, but at
28:13 the same time have a citrus flavor.
28:16 Not just mouse melons, there's also the kangaroo mouse.
28:20 This animal doesn't feel the need to drink water.
28:22 It lives in the Nevada desert, and since its habitat is really dry, it simply learned to
28:27 quench its thirst through seeds it likes to eat.
28:30 You may think parking is expensive in the area where you live, but it's probably cheaper
28:35 than a spot you'd pay in Hong Kong.
28:37 Just a 135-square-foot spot placed in front of the center, which is the 5th tallest building
28:43 in the city, was purchased for almost a million bucks.
28:46 Hmm, I'll take a bus ticket, please.
28:49 Speaking of expensive, and I was, the world's priciest hot dog is $169, and you can try
28:55 it out in Seattle, Washington.
28:57 Hmm, I don't have the money, but I am a little intrigued, must admit.
29:02 An Australian barista set a world record for the most cappuccinos made in one hour.
29:07 420 of them!
29:09 That's really a Java jive!
29:11 You can taste garlic with your feet.
29:13 Rub a clove right in your feet (of course, take the socks off beforehand) and wait for
29:18 it.
29:19 The chemical responsible for its unique smell can be absorbed through the skin even though
29:23 the clove was never in your mouth.
29:26 By the way, lobsters can try out the same experiment.
29:29 Well, they actually taste any food with their feet.
29:32 Okay, researchers have found many things that are evidence of prehistoric animals or our
29:37 human ancestors that lived thousands of years ago, like bones, teeth, stone tools, and a
29:42 piece of chewing gum, dating from almost 10,000 years ago.
29:47 In Tibet, there are black diamond apples that aren't green or red, but dark purple.
29:52 The place where they grow has plenty of ultraviolet light over the day, while the temperatures
29:57 drastically go down during the night, which makes the apple skin get a darker color.
30:02 Australia has a lake of naturally bubblegum pink color.
30:06 The unusual color is there because of the pigment from a certain type of algae living
30:10 there.
30:11 Clouds look so fluffy like they're made of giant puffs of cotton, but the average
30:16 one weighs around 1.1 million pounds, so please, stay up there!
30:21 A farmer from Iowa got hiccups that didn't stop for the next 68 years.
30:26 First hiccuping was about 40 times a minute, and after a while, 20 times.
30:31 He actually spent 70% of his life hiccuping.
30:34 A million seconds is somewhere around 12 days, and a billion seconds is almost 32 years.
30:41 Nothing unusual here, just a little bit of good old math that reminds us how cool the
30:46 time is.
30:48 The Mozilla Firefox logo is a fox embracing the planet.
30:53 The original browser's logo was a phoenix bird reborn from its flames, designed in 2002.
30:59 Back then, the browser was named Mozilla Firebird.
31:03 Two years later, they changed the name to Firefox.
31:06 It's the English nickname for the red panda.
31:09 It's a rare and protected animal from Asia.
31:13 There's a bear standing on its hind legs hidden within the famous Toblerone logo.
31:18 The mountain-shaped chocolate bar was created in Bern, the Swiss capital, by Emil Baumann
31:23 and Theodor Tobler.
31:26 It's nicknamed the "City of Bears" and has a bear featured on its coat of arms.
31:31 That's why this animal is featured in the image of the Matterhorn Mountain that inspired
31:35 the logo.
31:37 The image of a happy girl in Wendy's logo was inspired by the daughter of the fast food
31:41 chain's creator, Dave Thomas.
31:43 Wendy is her nickname.
31:45 If you look closer, you'll notice her collar spells out the word "Mom."
31:50 Whether intentional or not, it became something to mean a homely feel the restaurant gives
31:54 its guests.
31:56 941, set as the time in iPhone's ads, isn't a random choice of numbers.
32:02 In 2007, Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone to the public after a 41-minute presentation
32:09 at exactly 9.41 a.m.
32:12 The first Apple logo was designed in 1976 and featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting under
32:17 a tree with an apple about to fall on his head.
32:21 It seemed too complex and unclear to many, so Steve Jobs wanted it replaced.
32:27 The designer of the new logo, Rob Yanov, made it an apple we all know today.
32:33 He was most likely inspired by the original logo but wanted to make it more simple.
32:37 He added the "byte" so that no one would confuse it with a cherry, a peach, or any
32:41 other round fruit with a stem.
32:44 Without realizing it, he added a fun pun to the logo.
32:47 Byte seems very much like the computer term.
32:50 Toyota's logo symbolizes the merge of the hearts of customers and the company.
32:56 Two overlapping ovals stand for "T" for Toyota and the steering wheel.
33:00 The outer oval is for the world-embracing Toyota.
33:04 The background space represents the infinite values of the company.
33:08 Great quality, value beyond expectation, the joy of driving, innovation and integrity and
33:14 safety, the environment, and social responsibility.
33:19 Life insurance for Apollo 11 astronauts cost a fortune since the mission was so risky and
33:24 unpredictable.
33:26 The astronauts couldn't afford it, so they signed hundreds of covers that their families
33:30 could sell to fund some big expenses in case anything went wrong.
33:36 Snickers candy bar was created by Frank Mars, founder of Mars, Inc.
33:40 It was inspired by an already existing snack made of nougat, peanut, and caramel and named
33:46 after Mars' family horse.
33:49 Until 1990, they called it a "marathon" candy bar in the UK.
33:54 As soon as they switched the name to Snickers there, it went from the number one selling
33:57 candy bar in Britain to the number three.
34:01 When NBC's logo was developed, color televisions were revolutionary gadgets.
34:06 The logo with a rainbow of colors points it out.
34:09 The peacock illustrates the phrase "as proud as a peacock."
34:13 It was meant to show they were proud of their new color system.
34:17 The six different colors of the feathers represent the six different divisions of NBC.
34:23 The yellow arrow in the Amazon logo that starts at A and ends at Z shows you can buy anything
34:29 from them, from A to Z.
34:31 It also looks like a smile, symbolizing the happiness of their customers.
34:36 The original name of the business was not Amazon, but Cadabra Inc.
34:40 Jeff Bezos experimented with different names for his website as well, and one of them,
34:46 Relentless.com, still redirects to Amazon.
34:50 Papa John's Pizza CEO, John Schnatter, started his business in a broom closet in a bar he
34:56 co-owned with his dad in Indiana in 1984.
35:01 Over the years, it has grown to the third largest pizza chain in the world, with 5,500
35:08 restaurants in 49 countries.
35:11 Baskin-Robbins has 31 different flavors, and the letters B and R in the logo hide this
35:18 number.
35:19 The B curve stands for three, and the stem of the R stands for one.
35:25 You can visit the first website ever created, called the World Wide Web Project, even today.
35:31 It went live in 1991 and now serves as a historical archive about the World Wide Web.
35:37 It doesn't have a single picture, just text.
35:40 The web itself was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist working at CERN, the European
35:46 Organization for Nuclear Research, in 1989.
35:51 The first product ever scanned at a supermarket was a 10-pack of Wrigley Juicy Fruit Gum in
35:56 1974 in Troy, Ohio.
35:59 The barcode was invented and patented back in 1952, but the idea only took off when its
36:05 inventor started working for IBM.
36:07 Until then, grocery clerks had to put a price sticker on every item, and cashiers had to
36:12 read those tags and type the price by hand.
36:16 The Quicksilver logo is a customized version of the Great Wave off Kanagawa, a famous woodprint
36:22 by Japanese artist Hokusai.
36:25 When Quicksilver expanded their business and started a woman's brand, Roxy, they mirrored
36:29 their logo so that one looks like a heart.
36:33 Until 2010, rural broadband internet was slower than carrier pigeons.
36:39 In a speed test, they let pigeons with USB sticks fly from a Yorkshire farm to cover
36:44 the distance of 50 miles.
36:46 They finished the race an hour and a quarter later.
36:49 By this time, only 24% of a 300-megabyte file had been uploaded.
36:55 Picasa lets you organize and view your images online, and its logo is more than a simple
37:00 colorful camera shutter.
37:02 The white space in the middle forms a house, meaning it will be a safe home for your photos.
37:08 It also has a house, or casa in its name, and P stands for pixels.
37:14 Letters L and G in the LG logo form a human face, L is the nose, and G represents the
37:20 rest of it.
37:21 They call it the face of the future, and the idea was to give the brand some human element
37:26 and make it friendlier.
37:29 Many tech companies test their new products in New Zealand.
37:32 It's an ethnically diverse country with English-speaking people, and most importantly, it's so isolated,
37:38 news about product failure won't spread quickly.
37:42 FedEx logo might seem basic when it comes to its colors and font, but it's hiding an
37:47 arrow between the letters E and X.
37:49 It stands for speed, accuracy, striving for perfection, and perseverance in achieving
37:55 goals.
37:57 The four rings in the Audi logo represent the four companies that blended together to
38:01 form it.
38:02 Audi, DKW, Porsche, and Wanderer.
38:07 The latter started as a bicycle repair shop.
38:11 Gillette company, famous for its razors, wanted their logo to be as sharp and precise as possible.
38:16 This is how they ended up with a cut between G and I that forms blade-like shapes on top
38:21 of each other.
38:23 Black and white colors in the logo symbolize the elegance, purity, prestige, and excellence
38:28 of the products.
38:31 Some people have a fear of technology, aka technophobia.
38:35 Now it mostly has to do with complex new devices like computers, but it has its roots back
38:40 in the time of the Industrial Revolution.
38:43 It began in the 18th century when workers were afraid new machines would take their
38:46 jobs.
38:49 Google rents goats from a special company in California to mow their lawns.
38:53 They bring about 200 goats to Google headquarters at Mountain View.
38:57 It takes them around one week to eat all the unnecessary grass and fertilize the land.
39:03 The founders of Domino's were originally planning to add a dot to the Domino's in
39:07 the logo for every new place they opened.
39:10 But it was growing way too fast and too big for that, so they decided to keep just three
39:14 dots for the three original locations.
39:18 In 2004, @ became the first new character to be added to Morse code for the first time
39:24 in at least 60 years.
39:26 It consists of the signals for A and C with no break in between, so you can spell your
39:31 email in Morse code now if you ever have to.
39:35 In its 150-year history, Levi's had eight logo redesigns.
39:40 The first one was called the Two Horse Brand.
39:43 It had a lot of detail in it.
39:45 The current logo, known as Batwing, is over 50 years old and represents the shape of a
39:49 pocket you can find on every pair of Levi's jeans.
39:54 It's supposed to give a youthful yet timeless feel.
39:58 The Evernote app stores your notes and has an elephant for its logo, because a saying
40:02 goes, "An elephant never forgets."
40:05 And these animals do have an impressive memory.
40:08 The ear on the elephant is curled over, like a post-it note.
40:12 The H in the Hyundai logo isn't just for the company's name.
40:15 It's the outlines of two people firmly shaking hands.
40:18 It's an exchange of trust between the company and its customers.
40:22 The oval around the figures is a symbol of Hyundai's global expansion.
40:26 The silver color symbolizes sophistication and perfection.
40:30 The digital blue version reflects reliability and excellence.
40:35 Lacoste got its iconic logo thanks to a bet René Lacoste, co-founder of the company and
40:40 tennis player, made with the captain of the French Davis Cup team.
40:43 The captain promised to give Lacoste a crocodile-skin suitcase if he won the match.
40:48 Lacoste didn't win, but got his nickname "Crocodile" out of it.
40:52 He had a crocodile embroidered on his tennis court blazer.
40:55 When it was time to launch his apparel brand, the crocodile came in handy.
41:00 Oreos are the world's most popular manufactured cookie, with over 40 billion pieces produced
41:05 every year.
41:07 Originally, they were sold by weight at the price of $2.35 for 9 and a quarter pounds.
41:14 A circle topped with a two-bar cross stamped on each cookie is an Abisko logo that is a
41:19 European symbol of quality.
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