50 Facts You Probably Didn't Know

[@Sideprojects]

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[@PiskenDragen]

Yeah, that's as useful as snake oil ¬_¬

[@gshaindrich]

13:48 "the earth isn´t a perfect circle" ... of course it isn´t you flat earther! How about reading up what the difference between a circle and a SPHERE is!

[@MaciejBogdanStepien]

For the next set, please make a note of human bioluminescence, smell of rain, and male microchimerism in the female human brain.

[@emiliaweber4427]

Pretty cool, I will definitely use the code to get a discount! I've wanted one of those for ages 🎉

[@vik.1903]

Loved this! But I've got two pieces of feedback... 1) For such a long video, which such an enormous amount of facts and numbers, we sort of need visual information to keep track of it. Mainly the numbers. Sometimes we're seeing something important, but you're saying numbers and my monkey brain can't focus on both things at the same time after a while. And, of course, metric. Not united statesian freedom units. 2) The video is quite bad. Not sure why (even Premium HD). Not sure if it's because the focus is on the back wall or something. But it feels like we're back in 2012 with a Canon 7D. Am I being harsh? Perhaps. Am I being unfair? Hardly. Did I actually love and appreciate this video and will watch the next ones if they have even LESS visual queues and worst camera quality? Absolutely! These are GREAT nonetheless.

[@Varizen87]

Gonna be honest, when he said Goosebumps are a bit out dated, I thought he was about to start roasting R.L. Stein.

[@Marykate465]

Same! lol

[@cannasseur_8246]

I, too, was born in the late 1900s. 😅

[@tsbulmer]

Makes me wonder what a Brain Blaze version of this video might be like.

[@amandam8609]

Lol me too!

[@ripadipaflipa4672]

ur all admitting Ur age 😂

[@strikercwl]

The idea of a tongue scanner has me cracking up picturing business people, military personnel and government officials looking like teen girls on Instagram to get into secure areas.

[@knaeckenrot3307]

Sir, our new securitysystem contains a tongue scanner, a voicescanner, a fingerprintscanner and a shoescanner. To spare some time u can activate all of them by following my orders: Show your tong, stretch your hands palm downwards to the scanner, lift your right foot behind your back. Afterwards say "UWU" to activate the scan.

[@some_haqr]

Ahegao is the search term you are looking for 😅

[@burnyizland]

I was a teen girl once, we already had to show our tongues to get backstage.

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

"Excuse me miss I need to check your tongue print, please eat this cherry flavored icee and lick here 😛 Also, I'll need to check for contraband so please smooch here 😘 "

[@bsadewitz]

@@some_haqr 💯

[@andrewgoss1682]

Fun fact about the "you cant feel wetness" fact. If you've ever been fly fishing or used waders, you still feel like you're getting wet. You feel the pressure of the water and the coldness and it really does feel like you're wet.

[@hospitalcakewalk]

that's temperature displacement. It's not 'wet.'

[@andrewgoss1682]

@@hospitalcakewalk what

[@hospitalcakewalk]

@andrewgoss1682 You cannot feel wet, you can feel the cold. The cold, for humans, is how we perceive 'wet.'

[@andrewgoss1682]

@@hospitalcakewalk yeah that's what I said

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

​@@hospitalcakewalk I am beginning to wonder if you read the original comment.

[@joshuamccarroll2188]

"repurpose as homes for mice " - you cannot just skip over such a statement - How ? Why ?

[@quicksilver2634]

Yes! Simon, do an episode about the mouse home balls

[@fritz1990]

Umm, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

[@razzle1964]

Why mice? Too small to house the Wombles of Wimbledon Common, I assume.

[@thomasfholland]

What’s a Wamble?

[@razzle1964]

@@thomasfholland A ‘womble’ is a creature that lives on Wimbledon Common. They live underground … overground, wombling free.

[@ZechsMerquise195]

Phantom pain is actually caused by axons of peripheral nerves (transmitter of the nerve) which regrows and tries to reconnect with its original end-organ. If that happens some functionality may be restored. If no good connection is made, like with an distal amputation or strong fibrosis, it can connect with nerves of the wrong muscles, the taste receptor on the wrong spot, or something else. And it will get the wrong signal, which results in phantom pain. And the trick with the mirrors absolutely works. Tried it with a patient during my recent internship. The lady was happy that now she could "scratch" that itch. PS. While complete nerves cannot be regrown, some parts, like the axon of peripheral nerves, can be.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Basically, its your nervous system being aware that normally there should be something there.

[@ZechsMerquise195]

@@Im-Not-a-DogYes and no. The nerve that has been severed reconnects to another nerve and get signals from that nerve. But that second nerve could be from something entirely unrelated. But because it comes through on the nerve from the amputated limb, it gets interpreted as originating from that nonexistent limb.

[@grymaldus40k41]

Whats the trick with the mirrors? Im guessing its in the video but im only 10mins in lol.

[@ZechsMerquise195]

@@grymaldus40k41Mirror the still existing limb, and have the patient look at the reflection, while scratching the limb.; The patients mind interprets this as scratching the missing limb.

[@angiebervinkle1575]

I had a massive stroke and ur brain grows back I know I was completely paralyzed but only got a few months but today I can walk there are ways to fix it brain like

[@ricaard6959]

The Nine-inch Banded Armadillo splitting its already fertilized egg is actually a great adaptation. It's basically increasing the odds of survival for their genes without sacrificing genetic diversity because since the egg is already fertilized its not clones in the sense that they're copies of the mother but copies of the genetically different offspring. In fact, it could be good for genetic diversity since the same genes could be exposed to varying environmental pressures and since we found that epigenetics is a thing, that could help the species adapt far better to drastic environmental changes.

[@TheTewjr]

I was going to ask where male armadillos come from until I realized Simon didn’t really mean, “clone.”

[@you2tooyou2too]

@@TheTewjr He did mean clones of one-another. Except for parthenogenesis, no child is a clone of either parent.

[@kyleellis1825]

Scientifically, we technically have tw different kinds of clones.@@TheTewjr

[@ianlaughlin85]

Fact : Simon has more youtube channels than anyone else alive. He also can't pronounce the word China. We love him anyway. Keep up the good work.

[@MikeP2055]

Or "tortoise", apparently. 😂

[@razzle1964]

Or ‘Tanzania’ I noticed, the other day. Ole’ Whistler pronounced it, repeatedly, as one would normally say ‘Tasmania’.

[@maxturgidson568]

Yea he and his replacement on that other channel seem like they learned English from a book and never hear the words spoken

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@maxturgidson568 Have you seen the "Not the Nine O'Clock News" sketch with the court case? It's on KZbin. I was reminded of it when some of my pupils started saying "gorge" instead of "gauge", and I realised they had read the word and not realised its correct pronunciation. "An aleebee, your honour". Rowan Atkinson plays the judge.

[@semaj_5022]

I don't hear where he messed up the pronunciation of China. It just sounds like a British dude saying "China" perfectly well.

[@adrianwarner8686]

You can always see your nose. Your brain just deletes it so you don't notice it all the time.

[@TBJ1118]

... unless you are Voldemort

[@bonnecherie]

@@TBJ1118Or have a large enough shnoz that your brain can't delete it.

[@michaelo5665]

@@bonnecherie mines prominent enough that my brain tries its best but I always have a noticable wedge of altered vision.

[@graemeking7336]

Then, how does you nose that?

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

​@@michaelo5665 well, at least you have your own personal sun dial 🤷‍♂️ Silver lining

[@zinkist]

These videos are the modern-day coffee-table Trivia Book, and I love it.

[@larzlarz1140]

Re Mongolia: “Meaning that its average population density is 2 million people per square mile.” Uhm. I think you’re off by a factor of one million.

[@maxandmols9526]

Yeeeeh someone gone fucked up their maths.

[@weazelzinacan8866]

That would mean 2 people per square metre... Not much personal space there...

[@RogueTurban]

fact boy needs to hire a fact checker

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

​@@RogueTurban Unlike script writers, fact checkers rarely survive captivity, usually because the script writers eat them after the third, umm actually.

[@anthonywarfield7348]

This has more to do with an editing mistake than fact checking.

[@Phonesavanh-dd7oh]

Fun fact : if you cover your feet while sleeping , ghost can’t touch you .

[@BruceWayne-kd8rg]

If you let your arm hang over the side of the bed the monster under the bed can grab it

[@kodiakjak1]

The last ice age is still going on. ~11,000 years ago we entered the Holocene, an interglacial period within the Quaternary Ice Age.

[@Alexanderthenotsobad]

I heard that as well from some renowned scientist. Possibly Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

[@user-fp8bm4ci3r]

😳🤯

[@TheRilluma]

its true. thats why climate change is not in our hands.. (every other planet is warming too and reason is unknown)

[@michaelo5665]

​@@TheRillumawow that's the biggest climate change denial I've seen in some time. Good job completely misunderstanding science.

[@aproxamillionwasps474]

@@TheRilluma🤦🏼‍♀️ don’t talk like that around people you want to respect you

[@joecorsaro1381]

Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are so massive that they literally bend the crust underneath them. Mauna Loa is actually over 50,000 feet tall when considering this

[@mattcromwell4308]

That's insane

[@brooksrownd2275]

It's a bit apples and oranges though. The undersea portions of mountains are not subject to erosion the way mountains in the air are, and of course in addition to erosion nobody is crediting mountain chains like the Himalayas etc with the full extent of their upthrust from the sea floor. Resident of Mauna Loa posting from the summit of Mauna Kea, BTW ;)

[@joecorsaro1381]

@@brooksrownd2275 very true! Just think it’s fascinating

[@brooksrownd2275]

@@joecorsaro1381 sometimes when certain earthquakes slosh us around a bit it feels like living on a big pile of jello ;D

[@fsinjin60]

⁠@@brooksrownd2275the part of the sea mounts at sea level are subject to the most intense erosion that the large land mountains never experience.

[@Nefville]

50 random facts to annoy your family, friends and coworkers with? Cool. PS Queen Elizabeth II was a qualified mechanic.

[@tinyb610]

Not just any mechanic a diesel mechanic who rode a motorcycle

[@rutgerb]

She is even a ship

[@GeorgeSmileyOBE]

@@tinyb610and a member of the diesel mechanic’s union. And paid dues. And carried the card.

[@tinyb610]

@@GeorgeSmileyOBE didn't know that, I learnt summit thanks

[@MsEsquire83]

She trained during WWII as a mechanic

[@Sketchicane]

Erebus isn't the only active volcano in Antarctica. Deception Island has had numerous eruptions, and has heated patches of beach that are warm enough to swim in.

[@The_Blazement]

that's just what the island wants us to believe, with a name like that I wouldn't trust it

[@jmd1980]

Man if I found such a massive cave and knew no one else knew about it I'd be tempted to make that my home.

[@MarcusMitchellatGoogle]

I might have agreed with you if I hadn't watched The Descent. Who knows what's down there?!

[@paulcollyer801]

Not the only example of someone surviving a free fall. A young girl, (11/12) fell in her seat from a plane that disintegrated over the Amazon. While cut up by branches, she survived and made it to habitation a few days later.

[@kyleellis1825]

Or the Amazon just created a child to infiltrate humanity...

[@debroofgreen]

She probably survived because her seat created a spinning motion to help slow it down, and the canopy of the Amazon must've helped her break her fall.

[@paulcollyer801]

@@debroofgreen canopy would defo have done that, & likely the seat provided some protection therein.

[@skozer22]

Hey now.. I may be a smoker, a joker or even a midnight toker but I ain't no stinkin space cowboy.

[@SeauxNOLALady]

Random little known facts are always interesting to me! I live in New Orleans, and work in the service industry, so I am either working during or present for trivia contests at the countless bars and clubs in the city. I am actually well known for winning many of these contests… I cant remember where I put my keys or phone, but I can remember some random useless fact I learned in middle school…

[@MikeP2055]

Same here! I absolutely CRUSH my friends and family when we watch Jeopardy, but know next to nothing about living life as a proper adult.

[@paradox7358]

Fun fact: There are about 8×10⁶⁷ possible combinations in a shuffled pack of cards, which is about the same as the approximate number of atoms in the Milky Way galaxy. I other words, every time you shuffle a pack of cards, it is almost certain that no other person in history has ever shuffled a pack of cards in the same order.

[@SeasonedRookie]

That’s insane

[@johnp5250]

Not insane just 52!

[@RichardMiller-tq6ut]

Not the milky way. Check again. And not "almost"

[@TheDarthSoldier]

I always shuffle in the same order

[@dabossman4211]

You that’s crazy nice fact

[@douglashank8480]

I like these longer ones! ...except that one last week that was 7.5 hours of replayed material, much of which I didn't want to rewatch. Keep up the good work!

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

@@robotmunkee He's admitted he's creatively bankrupt

[@carguybikeguy]

31:08 Was. Sadly he passed a few years ago. But not before I shared track time with him at VIR & then met him again in Palo Alto. Took me to Chinese food! Great fellow. He is missed. Badass car too.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

I came to read dumb comments and I have not been disappointed so far. Great work 👍

[@DeltaNovum]

Why?

[@samuelgarrod8327]

@@DeltaNovum Because reading dumb comments is fun.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

@@RS-vy9qv Ok shrink, how many fingers am I holding up?

[@fritz1990]

Love asking supposed psychics, when they ask me my age and birthdate, I just say, you're the psychic, you figure it out.

[@ethanirving1313]

​@@RS-vy9qv you brought the dumb comments directly to his front door. 😂🤣

[@JRS3540]

Your videos are always enlightening Simon, thank you and your writers for making them.

[@andyyang3029]

Dear Simon and team: We love these long-form videos. Tons of information and absolutely perfect for listening to at work. Please continue making them!! 😁 PS: the coolest fact was about the Tsar Bomba. Horrifying tbh.

[@gollem148]

I like these types of videos where i can watch on my other monitor while grinding out on a game. I need more of these! :)

[@davidjams2596]

I love you Simon. You are special and you make the world a better place.

[@jsinope2786]

Largest organism? Im disappointed Simon missed the opportunity to deliver a dead pam yo’ mama joke.

[@WeAreTheTrueMedia]

dead 'pan'*

[@samuelgarrod8327]

That's because he's not an arsehole.

[@tygical]

​@@samuelgarrod8327what? everyone loves a good "yo mama" joke.

[@tonysolino3131]

I really enjoyed this one. Fast facts which I have to say were quite informative. Well done.

[@marieonishenko]

My Family makes these spiced small cookies for Christmas every year and we roll them out into slim logs to ferment with the spices over night. These cookies use a good amount of nutmeg and other spices. The cookies are the size of a Canadian 5 cent or 25 cent piece. One night our 90 lb guardian dog ate a cookie tray full of the rolled out raw cookie logs. Our dog probably ate the equivalent of 1 Tbsp of nutmeg. We, after checking with the vet that she would be okay, locked her a room when she started growling in a corner at nothing. We realized she was hallucinating, and as she was a guardian dog breed if she had mistaken one of us as a threat she could have caused major damage in an attack. She was fine the next day but it was a little freaky.

[@MichaelMarucci]

"Welcome to Mongolia, we have 2 million people per square kilometer, in this square, and the other 1.4 million roam about yelling at eachtoher across valleys and fields."

[@EyesOfByes]

Reverse engineering...

[@alexswanson7127]

Possibly the worst financial decision in history was made by IBM in the early 1980s. At that time, the computer market was dominated by corporate multi-user systems but a few enthusiasts had started producing personal computers, very small and simple systems that could sit on a desk for use by one person. IBM decided that as a company which covered everything computery, they themselves should sell such systems if only for completeness. They developed a hardware design but couldn't be bothered to write an operating system for it, so they approached a small, obscure company called Microsoft and offered to buy one that they'd produced. Microsoft refused to sell and instead insisted on a per-machine licensing system. IBM executives didn't care, shrugged their shoulders, and agreed. The rest is history.

[@cindydawn4252]

My grandpa was on the Lexington and he really did eat a boatload (no pun intended) of ice cream before being rescued

[@Shipfixer]

Simon never fails to amaze. Kind thanks for all you and your crew do.

[@atkelar]

The "birthday death" thing can easily be attributed to record keeping errors. My dad died last year and the original death certificate I received showed his date of death to be some weeks in the future, which would have been his birthday. I did get an updated document eventually, but it shows that there is quite a bit of weirdness still going on; I mean not even modern digital document management software seems to check for "date of death must be in the past" aparently.

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

Quite wonderful ... and mostly eye-opening. Thanks

[@the-chillian]

Fun fact, as brought up by the British panel show QI: There's no such thing as a fish. Sure, there are lots of animals we *call* fish, but they're what's known as a paraphyletic group. That means they only superficially resemble each other, but aren't very closely related. Some fish, especially the lobe-finned fish, are more closely related to us than to other animals we would also call fish.

[@you2tooyou2too]

Isn't that like saying there is no such thing as a quadruped?

[@the-chillian]

@@you2tooyou2too No, because quadrupeds (Superclass Tetrapoda in cladistic terms) are not paraphyletic. They actually are all related -- and in fact are related to the lobe-finned fish (clade Sarcopterygii) from which they are all descended. In one view, tetrapods are just the dominant crown group of sarcopterygii.

[@hildisvinimattson]

In California, bees are legally fish. This was done to help conservation efforts. There was no legal way to make an insect a protected species, but a bee technically meets all the qualifications of a fish.

[@the-chillian]

@hildisvinimattson "Fish" in that case is a label for a protected category, not biological description. The category comprises "a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian or part, spawn or ovum of any of those animals." Note that under this law, other aquatic animals clearly not fish such as mussels, crayfish, and frogs are covered here. The legislative intent was probably to make for a comprehensive description of anything you might find living in water, but they wrote it in such a way as to be more expansive when they simply said "invertebrate."

[@hildisvinimattson]

@@the-chillian You are clearly more knowledgeable than I on the subject.

[@Tom-zy6ke]

Fascinating video as always, one observation though at 25:30 - Mongolia total population 3.4Million with population density of 2Million people per square KM? I think Mongolia is bigger than 2 square KM.

[@travisinthetrunk]

Finally a random facts video with info I really didn’t know.

[@shannonbreen3732]

I love videos like this. I’m a big fan of learning. Please make more of these videos. 🙏

[@spddiesel]

25:28 Population of Mongolia: 3.4 million people. Population density of Mongolia: 2 million/square km?

[@crakkbone]

Shut up. 😅 jk sorry

[@burningbarnavit]

My thoughts exactly lol.

[@clancykelly5508]

He DEF misspoke there.

[@matthewlaws3557]

He just reads what's on the script in front of him. Don't get me wrong, he's great at what he does, but he's basically Ron Burgundy. There are little slips like that in a LOT of his videos.@@clancykelly5508

[@carlroddam5285]

No, not a mis-speak; a mathematical / factual / logical error, because he goes on to say that “if the entire human race wanted to live with that same average population density, as Mongolia, we would require 3.7 billion square km of land which would be about seven times the entire surface of the Earth including all the oceans.”

[@bradmatz4150]

Good one Simon, quite interesting! 😊

[@the-chillian]

Nutmeg contains a hallucinogen? Well, That explains why Jon Townsend thinks he's living in the 18th century!

[@Ksoism]

To anyone contemplating having a go on nutmeg, don't. Junkies don't use it because it sucks so bad, that should be a firm hint on its pleasantness. Old friend who used everything you can imagine said that he can't believe that anyone has taken it twice.

[@fritz1990]

The Townsend's will survive while the world crashes.

[@neilo9265]

Nutmeg is toxic its a fine balance between making you very sick and you tripping

[@joshuabessire9169]

You say you want a revolution/yeah you know/we all want to change the king...

[@shandon360]

Homeboy seriously couldn't find that cave again near his home for 20 years? What does "near hos home" mean in that situation?

[@ItsPizza.]

People in vet med call the Friday after Thanksgiving brown Friday, too. But because everyone's dogs have diarrhea from table scraps

[@mattcromwell4308]

Lol!

[@nontrashfire2]

Plumbers also call it Brown Friday because people over eating and breaking their plumbing.

[@ItsPizza.]

@nontrashfire2 that was the fact in the video :^)

[@nontrashfire2]

@@ItsPizza. so should I inform you that you're not actually pizza?

[@ItsPizza.]

@@nontrashfire2 im not not the one repeating facts from the video in the comments

[@peerreviews3047]

At 25:35 I am pretty sure Mongolia does not have a population of 2 million people per square Km 😂

[@PubQuizMasters]

Great video, we have a great contrast between channels. You tell facts while we quiz people on how well they know their facts! Keep up the good work

[@michaelpipkin9942]

"The Agony of Victory" is an anthem for you, the one that thinks there's no song for you. For us.

[@V3RYG00DS1R]

So early I had to help put out snacks

[@rutgerb]

Thx

[@STRAKAZulu]

Thanks.

[@JennTN411]

Scrolled for three and a half days for this comment to say thank you 😊

[@RealGrooveRandom]

So late.. there were no snacks left..

[@sunesnigel]

Give this Simon man the Nobel prize. He knows so much, feel so much and is so much.

[@caustichonu]

I always tell people that Mauna Kea is the tallest, but Everest is the highest, and if I'm taller I demonstrate it by standing somewhere lower than them.

[@thetangieman3426]

I love that you used a clip from House for the phantom limb pain reference. That's one of the bed episodes of all broadcast television, IMHO. The plot is well above American television level, and the interaction between House and the Canadian Vet Amputee is possibly the most intense and well acted television drama of the last 40 years.

[@Opus313]

Fact: There is always more you can learn about the world!

[@andyyang3029]

Fact: There is always more you can learn about facts.

[@you2tooyou2too]

@@andyyang3029Hypothesis: No one knows more than a few percent (of what there is to know) about anything. All knowledge is fractal. We are all (repeatedly) sophomoric. The universe is (designed to be?) an enriched environment, for the benefit of our continued entertainment and development. 😀

[@angelitabecerra]

I actually learned a few new facts. Not many, but a few. Which is surprising and good in my book

[@Maver1ck911]

Fact: Rotten Turtle is OGBB

[@mattcromwell4308]

Am I right PETER

[@drewlovely2668]

I prefer rotting badger

[@EAWanderer]

Mauna Kea 🌋 Yep i knew that 1 Absolutely loving this long sideprojects podcast! 👏 👏 😊

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an interesting side project.. Thanks

[@Sam590ss]

13:42 flat earth folk will probably claim the bulge is formed by the bubble sealing at the edge.

[@elizabethebbighausen9341]

Fact boi spewing facts?? Yes! 💯💜

[@CinHotlanta]

Holy crap, just did the thumb trick with a television in the background and it worked, that's wild

[@oxcart4172]

The pope cant be an organ donor? There are so many out there who wish that priests could keep them to themselves! 😂😂

[@JB-bm1to]

Aye 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@EAWanderer]

17:30 😮 - Whoa!!! That is 1 MASSIVE cave!

[@crittaable]

Bonus fun fact: some of us found the mistake in editing 😂

[@ZackBlackwood97]

Wait, where

[@ReesieandLee]

Tennis balls-did you know you can buy used tennis balls for your dogs? Country Clubs or online have them for sale for cheap. I like the idea of a mouse house though ❤

[@briangrogan2553]

I guess for an american, it is easy to imagine the size of the Sahara because we understand the distance from LA to NYC.

[@Dexthesaga]

I am a connoisseur of random facts. That I forget.. until I remember them.😮😊

[@TheAtmnmdws]

Was that closet always there?

[@andyyang3029]

The writers are escaping the basement 😮

[@samuelgarrod8327]

@@andyyang3029 Good one, we all know it's AI.

[@billotto602]

Simon, this was fantastic ! Thank-you !

[@apathyguy8338]

If we had had social media at the same time as smallpox Not only would the disease still exist Q Anon would be defending its right to Life.

[@donaldwert7137]

Saying eradicated it, then saying two countries still have stocks of it, means we haven't eradicated it, just put it in the hands of people who might say "Well, what have we here?" under the right circumstances.

[@c8Lorraine1]

I think I read somewhere that Australia has population density of 1 per 4km if you spread 27 million across a land area the size of continental USA

[@the-chillian]

20:14 -- Is that person wearing a contact lens? In any event, our blind spot is a strong argument against creationism, or intelligent design. This flaw is not just present in us, but in all vertebrate life, and it's not an intelligent design at all. It's stupid. It exists because the optic nerve doesn't connect to the back of the retina, which is where you'd think and where any intelligent designer would put it, but to the front. That's why there are no light receptors there. It's nerve instead. And it's not as if better eyes are impossible. Cephalopods (squid, octopus, etc) have eyes as complex as ours, complete with iris, lens, retina, and everything else -- EXCEPT that their optic nerve connects at the _back_ of the retina. They therefore have no blind spot. These differences are entirely due to different eyes developing along different evolutionary pathways, most likely from different original structures, and are the opposite of what you'd expect from an intelligent designer.

[@acrazydurian]

that clip at 1:02 of blue whale yoinking a whole school of krill is very OCD friendly. If the camera would frame it more in the centre, i would pay to watch that

[@vexvoltage6456]

Epicprojects? Is business blaze spilling over?!

[@meganking3762]

Thank you Simon. You're making my boring chore time much better. The kids and I researched the fish with invisible blood 😂 They loved it.

[@acb9896]

I love hearing about Chiner And space facts about Nasser. Especially the centrifyoogle stories... ... Please close the door behind you.

[@dominicwaghorn6459]

This is adhd paradise

[@callistamccracken3744]

As I'm aggressively attempting to consume all things Simon, is always a delight to find one that's under a day old.

[@elainebelzDetroit]

That one about the pope is so utterly ridiculous. I'm not saying you got anything wrong - just that I think it's, well, ridiculous. If it's even mostly about the whole "he might become a saint" thing, well, (1) that implies we can expect popes to be sainted, which is sus; (2) is having donated organs in the past an impediment to becoming a pope? What about donating blood?; (3) most organs wouldn't make good relics, anyway; and (4) the Church used to maintain a 50-year rule on sainting someone after they die. Do we really expect an organ donation recipient to be around 50 years later, or more? Although, one could argue that a recipient of an organ donation from a saint would make that person's original parts third-order relics. OK, turns out this is kinda fun in the same way philosophical discussions, with all their counterfactuals, tend to be. At any rate, you'd think if the pope were somehow known to be the best match for someone with a hard-to-match bone marrow, wouldn't it sort of disqualify him from sainthood if he hogged it all and let the person die? Unless, of course, he used that opportunity to get in one of his minimum of 2 miracles.

[@accutronitisthe2nd95]

This was a great video AND I DID LEARN SOME THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW!

[@Alacernovum]

Does a Sphynx cat get goosebumps when it's mad?

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

I hope.

[@rarapas]

24:35 OMG I haven't seen a 5 Drachmas coin "Crown" side with the face of Αριστοτέλης in bloody AGES, let alone ever in a youtube video! Thank you for taking me back to the 20th century! Greetings from -you guessed it- Greece! :D (I should dust out my coin collection!) Love your videos!

[@motorphina]

What's crazy is the "your skin can't detect wetness " played at the exact second a raindrop fell on me and it not only tripped me out a bit feom the odd coincidence but because I immediately felt that it's true. I could feel the cold of it but not really the wet.....

[@paigeharrison3909]

I noticed quite awhile ago that I frequently mistake my feet being cold for being wet and vice versa, so this makes some sense.

[@mattnar3865]

I've noticed this after doing laundy, it can be tricky to tell if they're still damp or just cold from the wind

[@kyleellis1825]

I dunno, You ever play with mud/oatmeal/batter? That feels wetter than an actual liquid.

[@EdrickBluebeard]

That Forea device is what Magneto used to turn a senator into a jellyfish.

[@carschmn]

15:36 fingerprints aren’t actually unique, at least not at the level that we typically examine them. Case in point, the guy whose fingerprint matched the Atlanta Olympics bombing. Apple figured 1 in 50,000 misidentification rate for touch ID, which is not particularly low.

[@Prioxs]

Sweet good info homie, get a load of this big brain over here.

[@mattcromwell4308]

I mean the same can probably be said for voice authentication as well, right? There's gotta be someone that has such a similar voice to you that they'd be able to trick a system. I guess that's why the tongue uniqueness would be important, but I'm not looking forward to licking my phone to unlock it 😂😂

[@Prioxs]

@@mattcromwell4308 Well think about it, sure people who can mimic voices can be scary accurate however with a scanner it’d have to be perfect with the same pitch and tone, it’s very difficult if not impossible for most to perfectly mimic another’s voice, close sure, but to the extent that a machine meant for it I’d say that’s a pretty tough job plus it isn’t just strictly a voice scan, most times they’ll incorporate other ones to avoid the possibility of that happening, since as a retinal scan or a finger scan.

[@BionicMilkaholic]

​@@mattcromwell4308 If I'm sitting in another room listening to my mom and her sisters talking, I have no clue who is speaking. Individually, they sound similar but different. Get them together, and it sounds like one crazy person having a conversation with their other personalities.

[@F_L_U_X]

17:56 Those are stalagtites when they drip down. Stalagmites grow upwards.

[@4getnit]

Very good info, thanks!

[@chrislong3938]

8:49 - used for pilgrimages, to sell on the internet, or install in Russian battleships... 16:00 - Fun Fact - There is a set of triplets in the US (I think) where two of the sisters have identical fingerprints! - On a side note... ! once sliced one of my thumbs open and required stitches to heal it and since it healed, there is absolutely no scarring and I can no longer remember which was the thumb I originally sliced! I then think that aside from the pain involved, it would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to erase a fingerprint from a finger permanently.

[@deodfnehsyfoysp48377gogogoch]

Wonderful stream, Simon, thanks … but with Russia , of all countries, owning one of the last remaining samples of the smallpox virus, I hardly think we can assume that the disease will never bother us again..

[@sirfer6969]

"Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth" ... then shows a Sperm whale....still, gotta love Simon as a presenter @30:25...if the tunnel is a vacuum, how is there a terminal velocity?

[@SeraphRyan]

Yes/No - in the sense of air pressure.. no. But your "terminal" velocity will be reached when you reach the point (not necessarily the center due to differing mass densities in the layers of the mantle) where gravity is equal all the way around you, at which point you will be slowing down as you fall upwards.

[@you2tooyou2too]

@@SeraphRyanHe should have said 'maximum', since it is not the 'final' velocity, as it is in a para-jumper's free-fall (until he pulls the cord).

[@Mithrandir39]

He showed the Sperm whale twice! *LOL* \

[@rubycelica]

what an interesting video! i really hadn't heard about 3/4 of the facts, that's impressive:)

[@ydenneki]

13:20 It is quite easy to understand the difference between an object's HEIGHT and how TALL it is. HEIGHT is the vertical distance above a SPECIFIED FIXED POINT (be that the floor, the ground, sea level, etc), while how TALL something is is the measurement from its lowest point to its highest point above that level. So how TALL an object (person, vehicle, building, etc) is DOES NOT CHANGE, while the HEIGHT of moveable objects may vary greatly, depending on their location at any given time and where you're measuring FROM (usually the ground or the floor). This is why Mt Everest is the HIGHEST point above SEA LEVEL, while being only 3849 meters TALL (Everest's base level is the Himalayan plateau at 5000m),

[@laurachapple6795]

Golden retrievers the world over dream of someday chewing a Wimbledon tennis ball. It's supposed to be an experience like no other.

[@OrdinaryDude]

I'm curious whether he left the closet door open on purpose...

[@damenwhelan3236]

They've escaped!!

[@enscroggs]

0:33 Whistler says "blue whale" and immediately shows us a sperm whale, not a closely related rorqual like the fin whale, but a distantly related toothed whale, a member of the Odontoceti.

[@Revster]

He doesn’t edit the videos 😭

[@lexzbuddy]

The ice age has not ended, we are in an interglacial period.

[@grymaldus40k41]

That may well be indefinate.

[@GoodWoIf]

Forget iris, tongue, and fingerprints, in 2100 we're all going to be using bumhole prints.

[@valtonen77]

The earth getting green doesn't take onto consideration the fact there's lots of forests being replaced with single tree farms. Palms for palm oil etc.

[@treebles]

thanks for all the research done to compile this video! causing me to be a new subscriber!!

[@TrollyLoolly]

It's weird because the lip identifier from Futurama that Zapp brannigan used specifically said no tongue 😂

[@kyleellis1825]

Becaue he wasn't ctually Zapp the War hero and he actually replaced him!

[@RussetPotato]

new rule for the casual criminalist "Don't lick your crimes."