28 Fascinating Facts About Time

[@nothingtoospiffy7913]

I'm just in ✨time✨ for this video

[@route2070]

Today, person misses a train: "Either I gotta wait for the next one, or I need to call ride share. 1870's person misses the train: time is broken. Let's start timezones.

[@smallzebra19]

Welcome to the comment section. We have a pillow, a warm blanket, and some cookies.

[@leumas75]

I’m in Houston, TX, going on our 3rd day with no electricity, and as of this evening now on a boil notice. I accept your kind offerings.

[@smallzebra19]

@@leumas75 lol

[@spiralnapkin]

WHERE ARE THE COOKIES

[@smallzebra19]

@@spiralnapkinYou have been scammed

[@philliprogers964]

We are in a time loop of our own making. We refuse to believe that people are more important than money

[@NeonVisual]

I haven't got time for this.

[@Proteus846]

9:45 I'm so beyond ready for DST to permanently end. My state passed a law to allow it, but we can't actually do it unless the federal government allows it.

[@NK-pr9xy]

Seriously? I was so excited for our state to vote on this, but am disappointed that it may not matter

[@claysoggyfries]

If you sleep you can skip time. Basically time travel

[@maxcelcat]

Oh, fun timezones in Australia. There are several vast states here, who all keep their own time. However, some of the border areas are closer to another state which is using a different time, and this makes things complicated for people crossing the border. So there are a few towns that effectively have their own timezone, and follow the time of a neighbouring state! Broken Hill Time being one.

[@OrganicAlkemyst]

Another odd fact about time zones: There are places that are 30 minutes or 45 minutes different rather than the normal 60 minutes.

[@binnetlover2swag]

cap

[@claudiobeachball]

@@binnetlover2swagNewfoundland time and Chatham Islands time would disagree with you 🚫🧢

[@joshuaychung]

11:15 Koala car collisions? Is this a reference to a the ill-fated koala rescue attempted last week (2/8?) or is this some reference that's just going right over my head? I am fully willing to accept that I'm an ignoramus.

[@gqsmooth1969]

I pictured koalas driving around in little cars. Lmao

[@Kaidoesthething]

Hi! Australian here. A lot of our native animals are capsular (active at dawn & dusk). Therefore, adjusting the hour that we get out of bed means there's less overlap with us driving and animals crossing the road. Also, despite being home to some really big animals (red kangaroo, emu, etc) one of the worst animals to collide with is a wombat. That's because of its lower Centre of gravity, and how muscular they are. Driving into an emu typically results in an explosion of feathers, the body of the animal going over the top of the car, relatively low damage to the driver/vehicle and a sad emu. Running over a wombat has been known to rip out the exhaust from under your car, which is problematic in the bush. After a collision Wombats have then been known to gets up, shake themselves off and keep walking. Wombats are absolute units.

[@joshuaychung]

​@@Kaidoesthething Thank you for the insight. If and when I make the trip out to Australia, I'll watch out for the wombats ... and koalas. The emus, however, I'm running them over. As I understand from other youtube channels, the emus are avis non grata in Australia to a level that there was a war to erdicate them.

[@jphilb]

My wife and I were married on leap day. We were glad the 400 year thing gave us an actual anniversary in 2000.

[@kf10147]

Okay so I would love to hear you all cover King Tutankhamun's stolen body parts of maybe even Charles Bryne's skeleton. Though you do have many options like Chopin's heart or Percy Shelley's heart or even Bentham's head or Galileo's middle finger.

[@maxcelcat]

My fave timezone story? Between the wars, the Netherlands had their own timezone. It was 18 mins and 23 seconds ahead of UTC, (or something like that). It was so odd there's no easy way to represent it in modern software.

[@twoscoopsofhappiness]

Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts) was deaf! She had scarlet fever as a kid, which worsened her hearing in one ear, and then on a wedding day a piece of rice was lodged in her other ear, and damaged her hearing in that one!

[@happyfacefries]

Wtf, damn

[@nickgov66]

A time measuring device is only a "clock" if it chimes, as the word "clock" comes from the French "cloche" meaning "bell", if it does not chime then it is a "timepiece". Tennis scoring was originally based on a clock face, on scoring the first point the minute hand was pointed to 3 or 15 minutes past the hour, next to 6 or 30 minutes past the hour, originally the next was 45 when the hand was at 9, but this was changed to 40 as more convenient. "Love" in Tennis is so called because 0 looks like an egg or "l'oeuf" , this is similar to cricket where a batsman who does not score is "out for a duck" originally "a duck egg".

[@JosedeJesusFigueroaGarcia]

Thank you for not using the Aztec Calendar during the Mayan Calendar fact explanation.

[@magister343]

I tend to think the most logical way of mapping time onto directions in space would be for the past to be up and the future to be down, as traveling through time is rather like being in free fall where we seem to be traveling into the future ever faster with no way of going back up to the past.

[@IMakeupStuff]

It's more like wibbly-wombly, timey-wimey... stuff.

[@stecky87]

The timing (ha!) on this is good, cuz It's Okay to be Smart also recently did a video on time that ties in nicely with your #1 fact

[@leftlane_dre]

Love these videos

[@otakuworldwide]

A new episode, it’s about time!

[@happyfacefries]

Also, the Holy Right, or Saint Stephen in Budapest is something I found out not too long ago. They have festivals related to it.

[@1973Washu]

Time is relative , a couple of hours talking to a person you really like can seem like a few seconds , but hurting your hand for a few seconds on a hot stove can seem like hours ...

[@BenRollinsActor]

Historical body parts, you say? How about Rasputin's... umm... how to put it delicately... appendage?

[@MentalFloss]

Hahha we've started the script and are already using that exact euphemism for the same appendage of another historical figure.

[@jdts7]

All this talk of time and no mention of why the day is divided as it is. For those interested in some quick fun facts: -In ancient times the day and the night were originally considered two independent events rather than one whole cycle. This is one of the reasons Clocks count to 12 twice instead of counting to 24. -the original day/night was split into 12 hours for 2 primary reasons: ---1: Egyptian astrologists were able to observe 24 stars and assigned half to the day and half to night (essentially using the stars to track time.) -------EX: before the 24 stars they actually used 36, with 12 day stars, 12 night stars, and 3 stars at both twilight periods. ---2: Where most western countries think in tens and are taught to count to 10 on their hands, the ancient Egyptians instead used 12 in the same manner. Using your thumb, you can count the number of segments on the same hand to get to twelve. -------EX: This method is also why there are 60 seconds/minutes in a minute/hour respectively. Using your other hand, you can keep track of how many times you count to twelve with your fingers (the whole finger now, not the segments).

[@nefertalakkad]

Historical figure body parts? BENTHAM'S HEAD anyone? :D

[@ownplz5632]

Easy- galelio's middle finger, van Gogh's ear. Haha

[@kevinfore92]

I always read Ben Franklin came up with DST

[@happyfacefries]

He was the first one to suggest it but it didn't catch on

[@delusionnnnn]

Nothing about the French Revolutionary Clock? You left your best fact on le table.

[@ritchiehenshaw9075]

In cricket, a score of 111 is referred to as a 'Nelson' as it is said that the admiral had 'one eye, one arm and one ball.' It's seen as an unlucky score in English cricket.

[@russbuck1000]

The mummified right hand of Saint Istvan, first Christian ruler of Hungary, is in a chapel in Budapest's basilica - you can put a coin into a slot to activate a light above the golden reliquary box

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

English goes both ways in terms of applying space to time. We can look forward to the following week and look back on the preceding year. In three dimensional space, we should look back at what is following and forward to what precedes.

[@ZennExile]

#1 Time is an illusion, and now 28 Facts(ish) about how this illusion is created. Time is the observation of entropy. Adding energy to a system of entropy results in a slowing of entropy. Taking energy away results in an acceleration of entropy. This is the illusion of time.

[@stephaniehight2771]

Historical body parts: Abraham Lincoln's beard, Tycho Brahe's nose.

[@edsiebert5986]

Arg, lego hair!

[@mojosbigsticks]

Try Tom Scott's video on Ruth Belville and Time Balls.

[@neo.616]

“According to Einstein’s theory, you could travel back in time by moving faster than the speed of light, as long as you could somehow have infinite mass” ============ 1. You cannot travel to a place that does not exist. 2. Einstein made it very clear that C is the universal speed limit. 3. Can you give one example of the existence of infinite mass?

[@neo.616]

“Einstein’s theory also states that gravity can warp time” ============ A concept cannot be warped. . But some can be demolished

[@alexjcord]

Joaquin Murrieta was a vigilante/outlaw in California in the mid-1800s. His purported head was on display in a jar of whiskey in San Francisco and passed among several eccentric owners before disappearing during the 1906 earthquake. Some legends say that it wasn’t Murrieta’s head at all, and that he actually survived.

[@rsm8995]

Welcome to this comment If you‘re reading this, yes, I miss John Green too

[@bobbyf1626]

While I do also miss John Green, Erin is absolutely amazing. She’s great.

[@Velata]

I don't know if this person is considered a historical figure, but in the Yukon Territory of Canada, we have a cocktail called the "Sour Toe". Legend has it that a pair of rum-running brothers, Louie and Otto, ran into a blizzard and Otto had to cut off Louie's frostbitten big toe. In 1973, Captain Dick Stevenson found the mummified toe and created the "Sour Toe" cocktail. Basically, it's a shot of Yukon Jack whiskey with the toe soaking in it. The original toe was purposefully swallowed by a patron. But when Stevenson passed away, he willed his own toes (both of them!) to the Sour Toe Cocktail club to continue the tradition.

[@Apophis324]

Koala car collisions? Who lets those furry critters drive cars? :P

[@MentalFloss]

Sure the accidents are through the roof, but how cute are those tiny koala driving gloves?

[@Apophis324]

Haha, adorable indeed ^^

[@Laurpud]

Milton Berle's infamous contest win 😉 🍌

[@memyopinionsche6610]

TONY IOMMI LEAD GUITARIST FOR BLACK SABBATH. Accidentally chopped off the tips of his middle finger and ring finger. And listen to any Sabbath song he's playing with molded bottle caps for fingertips. And JEFF HEALEY of the JEFF HEALEY BAND. Is the songwriter and guitars for the band. While being blind. He's a guitar player as well. RICK ALLEN drummer of DEF LEPPARD. Lost his left arm to an auto accident. So he's the only one-armed two feet playing drummer. And he designed his own drum kit to play that way.

[@ThomWalbranA1]

Erin, two things stopped ''time'' for me today, from the second you started talking all I wanted to do was to Kiss you. Our KISS is the reason I am inventing 'ErinTV' or KISS-O-VISION. 😘

[@meligarrett9197]

Koala car collisions? 😳 I didn’t know koalas could drive!

[@JeeWeeD]

Let's do the Time Warp again!

[@olivedrop]

I right away thought of Jeremy Bentham's head!

[@dyhrbergdk9541]

I miss John Green

[@CichlidStyleForums]

It's just not the same without him

[@bayloch]

Sylvester Stallone's face and speech was altered at birth due to the doctor using those big salad tongs to extract him. For decades, the record for the longest field goal in the NFL (63 yards in 1970) was by a guy named Tom Dempsey (N.O. Saints) who kicked with half a foot. It wasn't surpassed until 2013 when Matt Prater for the Denver Broncos kicked a 64-yarder. thesportingbase.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Tom-Dempsey.jpg I've also heard that once upon a time, archers held up their middle fingers to the enemy as a taunt and to show that they still had them ... because chopping those fingers off was often a consequence of archers being captured. Thus, it's the origin of giving someone the finger. I don't know if that's true, but it's kind of awesome if so.

[@happyfacefries]

Forceps?

[@Bflorio12]

So, um, this may not be exactly what you are going for regarding famous body parts of historic figures, but you should look into the Holy Prepuce

[@MentalFloss]

This is always exactly what we're going for.

[@seanbaugh3239]

@@MentalFloss *HOLY FORESKIN BATMAN !!! ✂🍆😳* *"NUFF SAID"™*

[@qwaqwa1960]

Tycho Brahe's nose??

[@matthewickman]

Just chiming in to say how much we love your haircut!

[@tommydebo5]

Haydn's head got stolen after he died, now he has two skulls in his tomb

[@Dreska_]

Wouldn't you have to define the altitude that the occilations of the caesium atom occur at then? Among other things

[@MentalFloss]

I think the answer is "yes, depending on what you're trying to determine." I believe this quotation is correct: "The number of cycles per second [of 2 clocks at different altitudes] will stay the same, but 2 clocks relative to each other will move at different rates due to the length of the second." You can read more about it here physics.stackexchange.com/questions/327372/is-an-atomic-clock-itself-affected-by-gravity

[@Dreska_]

@@MentalFloss wow thank you for the informative reply! Yes that makes sense, it is the second that is changing not the cycles within the second. I was aware of gravity & velocity having an effect on time, but whenever I've heard about atomic clocks I've always just heard a simple explanation of them being 'very accurate', but logically they have to be affected by gravity & velocity as much as everything else. However, if you are standing next to an atomic clock, you are basically experiencing time at the same rate as the clock, so you could consider its time 'accurate' in that location, its only when you starting comparing relative times from 2 different locations that a discrepancy is found. It makes me wonder if it will ever be possible to one day define or calculate a default/standard/baseline time and all times as a multiple of that (such as how we say 1.1G as in 1.1 Earth gravities). If humanity became a galaxy-spanning civilisation it might be valuable to have a time standard, perhaps measured at a certain point on Earth, but a problem with that is time is variable everywhere. The rate Earth experiences time fluctuates in the short term & will permanently shift in the long term. Its presumably not a constant anywhere as celestial bodies move etc.

[@MentalFloss]

@@Dreska_ Thanks for asking the question. Your reply actually helped clarify things for me, as well!

[@Dreska_]

@@MentalFloss Sorry I rambled, time is exciting!

[@axelasdf]

Causality was bad verbage at the 4:10 timestamp. The moon's distance at a time wouldn't change the earth's rotation in the past.

[@TheOfficialTarynTots]

At 11:58 please tell me that is a sword that Su Song is holding.

[@Laurpud]

😄

[@neo.616]

“Every person on Earth is living in the past” “Our brains don’t perceive events until ... after they’ve happened” ============ . Using that logic: watching a movie is living in the past, since we are seeing things that have already happened. Seeing things that have already happened in the past is not the same thing as “living in the past.” You have conflated the meanings of the words “observed” and “lived.”

[@neo.616]

“If you put a bunch of sychronized atomic clocks at various altitudes, eventually those clocks would fall out of sync” ============ True. But you are actually referring to the devices that measure time ... not to time itself.

[@whoever6458]

What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? It's irrelevant!

[@adamc1966]

Now that is funny. 😂

[@rjrnj1]

B.C.E. Thank you.

[@jaderising1]

Ooo she's looking at the camera.

[@ScarletDeath]

Time is a social construct

[@chefcabbage]

Preserved body parts? How about the body of Jeremy Bentham?

[@Grumpyagain]

Due to inbreeding the "Habsburg Jaw" became an item during the 17th/18th century being very elongated.

[@Jaryth14]

Surely we can't do an episode about interesting historical body parts without mentioning the golden nose of Tycho Brahe

[@MichaelPaoli]

leap seconds - "developers have no way of working them into their codes" - no, that's not the case, and not what has, e..g. caused web sites to crash. It's a well understood situation, and there are very much ways of dealing with it, but, like leap days and timezone changes, etc., some developers don't properly write and test their code ... hence, bugs, and from that, sometimes, yes, problems.

[@rickseiden1]

Denzel's pinky (but he's had it fixed)

[@gregorygarcia7807]

I guess time is a construct. would you agree?

[@kennethlindahl9206]

time is an illusion lunchtime doubly so we are all time travelers we all travel forward in time

[@JiveDadson]

Einstein's general theory models gravity as warpage in space and time - _spacetime._ The gravity we feel at the surface of earth is almost entirely a warp in _time._ _Space_ is not warped enough to notice.

[@jnovuse]

First fact, brain doesn’t process anything ‘til 80ms. **scoffs in Linus infused PCMR**

[@AveryMilieu]

#8 "Gravity is the reason days are getting longer." IS NOT ACCURATE. The planet is actually gaining a bit of speed -- in milliseconds, but it IS rotating faster than it was five years ago.

[@GoingBrogue]

You guys misspelled "Mark Kelley" in the credits as "Makr". Looking forward to the next video all the same!

[@MentalFloss]

Eek good catch, and thansks for sharign it in a friednly way!

[@GoingBrogue]

@@MentalFloss you guys are always awesome!

[@c.l.7525]

I like cats!😺

[@neo.616]

“Someone blasting through space will age slower than the people still hanging out on Earth” ============ People who don’t drink and smoke will age slower than those who do; so what?

[@elihyland4781]

10:50 WUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTT?????????????

[@neo.616]

“wormholes” “string theory” ============ Those 2 theories contain about as much evidence as you'll find in a ... . young-Earth creationist video

[@Hillers62]

You never talked about how the older you get, the faster time moves...

[@MichaBerger]

You don't have to go to cultures in the Andes... In English, hings that happen first are *before* those that happen later. In Hebrew or Aramaic (the only two other languages I know), "before" is לפני (lifnei), whether we mean "in front of" or "earlier than". And "after" is אחרי (acharei), which is also "behind". The idea of traveling through time facing backwards, so we only see where were have been already, is a lot more universal than that. I have a feeling things didn't change in Europe or the Middle East until the invention of the timeline as a way of laying out a sequence of events in print.

[@robynobrien9446]

Time does not exist, but clocks do .

[@PilotVBall]

2:56 that is an incorrect assumption of what Einstein meant. But if that's what Einstein meant, he was incorrect.

[@DrewSoucy22]

I have never, ever visualized time going by in any direction. I was puzzled and confused when you first started speaking of the idea. To me, it's just in the past or in the future, now or then. Not up down or left or right. Even if you're talking not in your head - it's the same spot (relative).... there's no "direction" to it. That seems so incredibly strange and weird to imagine that someone would actually be picturing such a thing in their head. There's nothing visual about it unless you're going to make a powerpoint presentation or be like Doc Brown writing it down. I also am one of those people that do NOT hear or imagine any voice in my head while reading. That too is such a strange and weird concept to me to automatically do that. Sure -- if you see a pic of darth vader and then some words above it, then yes, imagine it in that voice. It's so strange how people can be so different. I never realized that I thought in abstracts so much compared to others, but I do. A lot! Thinks just "are".

[@MentalFloss]

Interesting. I must admit, I don't know that I "picture" time spatially either, unless (as you said) making a timeline or somesuch, but I know many people do. But on the interior monologue thing we completely diverge. When you're thinking, do you not have any sense of "hearing" the words (i.e. you could "hear" the same string of words in different tones depending on the attitude you ascribe to them)?

[@happyfacefries]

You're definitely a rarity. This is very, very common

[@justayoutuber1906]

The daylight saving time car crash theory is debunked. Its people resetting their car clocks while driving. They get it in the spring and fall.

[@neo.616]

“some physicists argue that there is no such thing as ‘now’ and that the present moment is no more than an illusion” ============ If there is no “now,” . how does one get from the past to the future?

[@neo.616]

“Traveling back in time is possible - theoretically at least” ============ If you believe that time travel is possible ... then you do not understand what time is. Time is not a place that you can travel to or from. Time does not exist in the physical universe but only in the realm of concepts.

[@HughJass-jv2lt]

FAKE NEWS!

[@carterreid9869]

We miss john

[@brittanyblakeley2174]

Body parts! Grover Cleveland's teeth!!

[@gmsherry1953]

For Item 7, you missed a fascinating real-life example. We HAVE a bunch of synchronized atomic clocks at a different altitude than the surface of earth -- in the GPS satellites. Their clocks run slower because of their speed and faster because of less gravity, and the gravity effect is greater, so their time must be corrected or GPS wouldn't work. physicscentral.com/explore/writers/will.cfm

[@karenbeech3591]

You need to look in to Jeremy Bentham's stolen head!!

[@usernameed]

It’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff

[@mortalclown3812]

Why isn't Erin on anymore?? She was awesome. ♡

[@colleenkeefer2545]

Why does it seem to take longer going on a trip rather than coming home?

[@MentalFloss]

Lol so true (i have no idea)

[@PlaysWithSquirrels32]

Benedict Arnold's leg makes for an interesting story!

[@PepperAnnRunway]

Did she say koala car crashes??!?!?!?!??!?

[@el-can]

🤯

[@californiumblog]

Historical body part. Teddy Roosevelt's big beefy chest that was able to stop a bullet. I think it stayed in there until his death.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

I thought it was his speech in his pocket

[@yukalue]

It was actually the PTA (Parent Teacher Association) who advocated for the change to daylight savings. Their reason was so kids trick or treating would be visible for longer and thus safer.

[@qwaqwa1960]

Sandford, not Stanford. Sigh... Not Sanford either. Like Bell, a teenaged Scot who came to Canada and changed the world.

[@zzz181085]

Check out the Netflix series "Daяк"

[@seanbaugh3239]

*#1: Fascinating Fact About Time :* The time between hearing a fart and smelling a fart can be measured applying the Weber-Fechner law: I = a × log(c) + b, where I is the perceived physiological intensity at the dilution step on the butanol scale, a is the Weber-Fechner coefficient, C is the chemical concentrations, and b is the intercept constant (0.5 by definition) also known as *"The Speed of Funk"* 🤔....😖💨🎶💩.... 😳🤧 *The More You Know🌈🌟©* *"NUFF SAID"™*

[@Melinda8162]

So.....then that means you have time run AWAY from it!! 😁😁.

[@seanbaugh3239]

@@Melinda8162 Unfortunately when you unleash a Bass-heavy fart you can run from the smell but not the skid marks. 🤔... 🏃💨💩... 😳 *EXCELSIOR !!!*

[@Melinda8162]

@@seanbaugh3239 LOLOLOL!! 😆😆. 🤦🏻‍♀️