5 interesting things - episode 2

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In this episode:
1. Why is the end of a tape measure always wobbly
2. Why hammerhead sharks have hammer shaped heads
3. Why I can't give my wife a kidney
4. Why the north pole is a south pole
5. The ant with a door for a head
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[@SteveMould]

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[@jadeharleyirl]

awesome, thanks

[@arnav257]

You'd better not pull a Firefly on this series.

[@gmgunner]

Yo!

[@SteveMould]

Worse, I'm going to drag it out like the walking dead.

[@macronencer]

Does Hostinger provide free perpetual SSL licences? I'm looking for a provider that does that for my Wordpress blog so that I don't have the hassle of renewing them myself...

[@Graviton1066]

A group of Hammerhead Sharks should be called a Toolbox.

[@MGSLurmey]

I love it!

[@cjvilleneuve1566]

yep! alias ''the blacksmith '' !

[@CyberiusT]

It's a Box. As in, a "box of hammers". ;)

[@user-ug6hh4qg3n]

PETITION!!!!! DO IT!

[@avenuex3731]

I submit ‘a pounding’ of hammerheads.

[@vcguerrilla6438]

"North pole is actually South pole" _Fire trucks are actually water trucks_

[@IdontKnow-nm8bz]

Your toes are almost always touching, unless you don't have toes

[@anthonyanth8368]

@@IdontKnow-nm8bz kkkk nice

[@alimcrae13]

In the UK we call them fire engines, and a fire engine isn't a water engine 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Mihoshika]

@@IdontKnow-nm8bz N o. I have dividers between each toe all the time.

[@renagonpoi5747]

@@IdontKnow-nm8bz or have lost every other toe.

[@Jeffrey_Wong]

Ant: "What is my purpose?" God: "Your head is a door"

[@radon6317]

😂😂😂😂

[@louf7178]

LOL

[@kistuszek]

He is the doorman of the ant club.

[@onur1570]

Hodor!

[@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544]

Ant: “Oh my god...”

[@syphonuk]

Part of me wanted Thing 5 to end after you said "Look at its head".

[@Chiaros]

Yea, but then we wouldn't get the oreo-butt spider...

[@cozinoda]

Yeah, would have been quite funny

[@ceruleanwake8876]

Same here. I was soo prepaired for that I giggled and then almost clicked away, but then realized the sponser hadn't been talked about. So I stayed put so I didn't miss anything else in the video

[@MaiRmouche]

@@Chiaros so that's how they get that pattern

[@jonslg240]

Fun fact 5.2: we've decided it's illegal to pay someone for one of their kidneys, but we can still pay 10x more for the surgery itself than what someone would be willing to sell their kidney for. "Free Healthcare" advocates will chime in about this, however in a society with "free" Healthcare it of course isn't free, and you have no choices in who does your surgery. You also have to wait a lot longer, which leads to people needlessly dying. Both systems have flaws, but "free" Healthcare is absolutely not free. It ends up costing the same amount on average, leads to longer delay times for treatment because there's no value (monetary gain) for Healthcare providers to improve treatment times, and there's no choices available to the patients. (They can't choose to pay a little extra to improve their treatment quality or treatment time, unless they choose to completely give up their current benefits, making it only an option for the wealthy or the desperate)

[@user-tn7fh7mz7v]

OMG the tape measure thing has gone from annoying to satisfying

[@userPrehistoricman]

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

[@SteveMould]

@@userPrehistoricman damn, I wish I'd said this in the video!

[@VoltisArt]

#worksasintended

[@Tfaonc]

I work construction. I tried to explain this feature to some other workers, they didn't believe me. Kept insisting you have to be careful to measure the same way everytime. Smh

[@KjKase]

@@Tfaonc yeah when I first used a tape measure, it didn't have the wobbly head, I thought that it would be ever so slightly inaccurate if you used it pushing up against things. Then I got a better tape measure that had the sliding head and I instantly knew that that was actually a feature to fix that little issue with my cheaper tape. Makes perfect sense.

[@U014B]

It never really occurred to me how much a kidney bean actually looks like a kidney.

[@SteveMould]

Yes! I had the same realisation making the video.

[@jonjohns8145]

@@SteveMould That's because Kidney beans are actually the harvested kidneys of little tiny mouse like creatures. 🙂

[@craigcorson3036]

I wonder if that's how they got that name? 😏

[@josgeerink1350]

It's almost like they were named after them! By the way, kidneys are actually nqmed after the bean.

[@Jesse__H]

@@josgeerink1350 It's the same reason why Tiger Sharks have those neat retractable claws ... ...

[@Hellefleur]

3:15 "Yeah, if anyone ever needs footage of a man in rabbit ears aggressively eating a carrot while staring at the camera we'll let you know" Steve Mould:

[@silverviz5600]

I honestly didn’t notice the rabbit ears

[@anonym3]

Yeet

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

stock photo memes can be genius

[@TomatoBreadOrgasm]

"I will... I will do an impression." Thank you. Beautiful family, Steve. That kid is going to learn all kinds of cool stuff!

[@hakimal-hakim8890]

If you gave your wife a kidney before having kids and everything was good...and later she got pregnant : would her body reject the kidney? or might it influence the pregnancy?...or something else?

[@cxx23]

Great question!

[@woowooNeedsFaith]

If having first a kid with her makes her body to reject your kidney; giving your kidney to her first makes her body to reject the kid.

[@hoss1]

@@woowooNeedsFaith reject the kid, hahahaha

[@ramyemad6325]

It's gonna lead to a stillbirth

[@torypayne4716]

Additionally, On the whole kidney thing, why wouldn't the wife's second child and so on, not then get attacked by her immune system? (In Steve's hypothetical scenario, not the one you mentioned.)

[@andrewchapman2039]

Anyone else want to see Antscanada try keeping those funky round boys now?

[@user-us6nh5qy8q]

Hell yeah

[@OrdinaryLatvian]

I thought this was one of his videos when I saw the thumbnail, lol.

[@bigbananae]

astropapi1 it was on his TEDx

[@kinpoi260]

Yeaa

[@nickcook2775]

"The Doorstopper Dynasty"

[@imperialguard451]

idk why but i love the “this ant. look at its head....”

[@kieferonline]

I laughed when Steve imitated a hammerhead, but I think I'll never eat an Oreo again.

[@primus4cameron]

Good! Because they often have palm oil in 'em and are consequently UNHEALTHY for Orangutans

[@nu1x]

Also don't forget figs. Don't ever eat figs.

[@Maninawig]

That Oreo healthy joke made me laugh with a delay...

[@OhSoUnicornly]

"Which means they're healthy" This is how I justify my diet to myself every day...

[@wombat.6652]

Yup chocolate is made out of beans = beans are vegetables.

[@joachimlarsen2k]

@@wombat.6652 Chocolate is salad. Noted.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

​@@joachimlarsen2k So is a bar. Lots of potatos and grains.

[@bobillhomarshall8701]

Me: *watches this man's videos in the past* "yea I wont forget this man" Him: *grows beard* Me: "I've never met this man in in my life."

[@MrAsymmetry_]

I remember learning the "north" pole thing in Physics class years ago - it felt like I'd been lied to my whole life lol.

[@jjmetrejhon1743]

Your sense of humour makes my day every single time. I love learning from you!

[@Skankhunt_420]

I'm so high I thought that ant was carrying a Reese's peanut butter cup

[@tjken33]

웃 my man..lol

[@vinstinct]

I'm not high, but it did remind me of a Reese's peanut butter cup as well.

[@grayson9934]

that was an ant?

[@frozenbubbles4416]

Ohh, why is a oreo in this hole. Let's eat it!

[@thunderborn3231]

sounds like middle asia in a nutshell, dont forget to randomly season your spider

[@Aphelia.]

@@thunderborn3231 why is this comment so funny lol

[@hkitservices]

Hello, On your site you could put numbers like 11,12,13,15 then 21,22,23,24,25 to reflect the episode and the number (1 to 5) of that episode. Or a similar fashion of counting rather than the current one where you have to calculate a mod 5 of the number to figure out which youtube episode it is on.

[@SteveMould]

I like this idea. Will fix.

[@fghsgh]

@@SteveMould Maybe put a dot between them? 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.4...

[@willybee3056]

@@SteveMould tnx

[@matthewdavis6797]

It bothers me more than it should that you skipped 14

[@fiveoneecho]

@@matthewdavis6797 We don't speak of that number.

[@richardhead8264]

_That ant is like _*_"TALK TO THE HEAD, BABY!!!"_*

[@TheLunaLockhart]

that oreo-butt spider is the coolest bit of anatomy I've seen in an arachnid, and that is SAYING SOMETHING

[@MarcoRoepers]

according to the Dutch Wikipedia the hammersharks don't only have stereovision but als stereo Ampullae_of_Lorenzini, noses, Electroreception, etc. But that makes sense to me because stereovision seems to for hammersharks not that strong because of their direction of their eyes

[@slappy8941]

"Sence" isn't a word, but "sense" and "since" are. You idiots are ruining English.

[@ArmageddonAfterparty]

@@slappy8941 You mean the Dutch? Do you speak any? Dutch, I mean?

[@janglestick]

@@ArmageddonAfterparty could you send me some licorice?

[@ArmageddonAfterparty]

@@janglestick Not there atm...you like the salty, double salted or sweet? Damn, now I crave the stuff myself.

[@janglestick]

@@ArmageddonAfterparty I love it all, anything but the american / australian plant. Even the Chinese plant has a great taste albeit milder (you can get it in some older chinese cough syrups which are essentially candy). But, actually, I can't really eat sugar anymore, since I stopped it now has quite the kick, and the salmiak gives me heart palpitations ; I guess im just pretending to be macho. Still, when Ikea or Bed Bath Beyond gets the real stuff I occasionally binge. It starts with coins, to dooble coins, to cats, usually ends with the fish before I pass out. My favorite commercial brand was dutch from a place called Hema I think? They had their own versions of everything (I forgot to mention the little pee pee boys). I was there but when I got home, their website was all in dutch. Ahh well, enjoy your holidays, watch your glucose levels!

[@euclideanplane]

@steve mould 7:55 "Which means they're healthy!" LOL. man, I remember the other day when you commented that you were vegan : ), I think I've seen the comparison of the orb weaver spider to an Oreo before, glad you put it in the video.

[@photelegy]

6:32 Thank you 😊 I was always so confused about the reason why we call the north-pol north-pol.

[@helenaquinn7480]

Love this guy, thanks for sharing your time and thoughts with us!

[@Axel-Jett]

What if the North pole of the Earth is the actual North pole and we labeled the actual South of all the compass as North

[@neo7136]

Plot twist!

[@hannesgroesslinger]

What if the north pole is actually "down" instead of "up" and we have drawn all our maps the wrong way around?

[@UberAlphaSirus]

we did. even if the earth flipped, north will still be north, just all compasses will be wrong yet reliable.

[@ferdinandkraft857]

That would prove the earth is flat.

[@YourMJK]

What if electrons are actually positively charged and current flows from the positive lead of the source to the negative?

[@chriswatts5921]

"The north pole is actually... a south pole." Me: thinks about how the north on a compass attracts to the north pole. Also me: ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@thatjokerperson7062]

The compass rose would just be painted so the south side is colored north?

[@jaredalexander3403]

Not to be rude or classify you as a killer but look up the name chris watts

[@Kebabrulle4869]

We read about this in physics! There’s also a cool thing called magnetic declination, which is the difference between what a compass shows you is north and what’s actually north. There’s a neat gif on the Swedish Wikipedia page about it: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetisk_deklination

[@imthebitternessnoonewantsb3935]

North pole is actually ....a north pole...the north on the compass is just a name for the sake of not confusing people...if you know wat I mean

[@imthebitternessnoonewantsb3935]

The north on the compass is south..

[@johnfitzgerald8879]

Absolutely keep up these videos. Not just anything, but stuff you have found that is truly interesting.

[@willeykev]

Hey Steve! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME new series format!!! By all means, PLEASE continue with these incredible science tidbits!!! Love them all!!!

[@soranuareane]

Your kids are adorable. Your wife is gorgeous. You're a scientist. Don't you think you've made it in life?

[@pvic6959]

honestly lol

[@no-face2436]

Weird question

[@avenuex3731]

The worst thing about Mould is his charm. It not only seems to have gotten him a nice piece of cake, but then he eats it right there in front of us as he explains the baking process. Intolerable! He gives nerds a bad name. ....and I pushed the like button again....!

[@Vasharan]

We can only answer this if there is a control group.

[@Dixio]

He's incredibly attractive too though, and he seems to know it!

[@charliespinoza1966]

“which means they’re healthy!”

[@johnt.inscrutable1545]

Excellent video. I totally enjoy your work. Thanks.

[@TheRandomYoYo]

Absolutely amazing, Steve! Thank you so much for sharing these facts with us! Will definitely be spewing the last two around for a good while now, haha!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Number 3 was legitimately something I never knew about

[@riomio7852]

"Least not at market value" Hustle every dime, my man.

[@dariuscalvo3737]

Please make many more of these videos! I love learning facts like this.

[@RhynoD2]

Fun facts about hammerhead sharks: their hammer head also allows them to have a very broad field of ampullae of Lorenzini. Hammerhead sharks often dig for their prey, which might be rays, skates, or other fish hiding in the sand. Their broad arrangement of electrosensitive ampullae of Lorenzini gives them almost like "depth perception" for electric signals. They also use their hammer head as a kind of underwater wing. Sharks don't have swim bladders so they can't regulate their buoyancy. If they don't actively swim, they will slowly sink. The hammerheads' heads make swimming more efficient by creating a little bit of lift so they don't have to work quite as hard to stay up.

[@josephs.7960]

3:40 funniest thing I’ve seen today

[@wyattc9984]

Nah, 7:56 is way more funny "Oreos are vegan... which means they're healthy"🤣

[@fghsgh]

Someone make that a GIF.

[@soranuareane]

The placenta can rupture prematurely during pregnancy. This causes the fetus to experience the hostile environment directly, rather than through a protective membrane. Fortunately, we have treatments for this: there are immunosuppressants and other medications that prevent the mother's body from attacking and destroying the developing fetus. A friend of mine's sister was born through this scary experience. Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be any damage done as a result of the water breaking prematurely, and both mother and daughter are healthy today.

[@justnuttedinasock2054]

Ben Kahrmann shut up ben

[@Romanticoutlaw]

wild. Just cements my belief of pregnancy as parasitism

[@adrianpeterdelvi5915]

Beautiful and interesting. Thank you for sharing. Loved the logical approach.

[@DenisJava]

I very much like the interesting things format. This was fascinating. Keep 'em coming!

[@davidmaxwaterman]

'at least not at market value'....er, ok.

[@kr4zyy]

Just curious, what if you and your wife never had kids yet, and you give her your kidney. Then, what will happen when you have a child what if her body doesn't reject the child as foreign anymore? What happens then?

[@coolmonkey619]

kr4zyy omg good question

[@thalesguirino]

Well, I'm not a native english speaker, but I'll try to explain... please excuse me if I make some spelling mistakes. When a woman is pregnant, her immune system become naturaly depressed, by the action of hormones and stuff, so isn't likely to her to have a immune response to the fetus proteins. Just think about that: If she is pregnant of a second baby of the same father, she also would had previous contact to that father foreign proteins, so the case is similar. But, in both cases could occour an exception, and it's about blood types. Blood is a big thing in terms of proteins composition, and the Rh factor is just a matter of it. The fetus's and the mother's blood become directly in contact, on the tissues of the placenta, and if her have a negative type of blood, and the fetus, a positive type, due to the paternal genetics, the immune system of the mother could atack the fetus blood cells, eventually killing the baby. This isn't likely to happen in the first pregnancy, because the immune response usually is very weak, but in the second time, the case become very serious, causing what the doctors called fetal erythroblastosis. This could cause an expontaneus abortion, or damage severely the nervous system of the baby, due to the lack of oxygen caused by fetal anemia and etc. The incompatibility in blood types could would already make the kidney donation impossible, but about the pregnancys, this is an important subject. A lot of cases of erythroblastosis could be avoided by simple knowledge about this facts. Greetings form Brazil. I hope my answer was helpful somehow.

[@Steel0079]

@@thalesguirino so the erythroblastosis only occurs after the kidney donation or can it occur in couples who didn't have kidney transplants among each other? Is it related to blood types even if the kidney transplant between the couple didn't take place ? If it has high chance of occurring in second pregnancy regardless of kidney transplant between couples, does a couple who is about to get married need to check their blood compatibility before getting married so erythroblastosis doesn't occur once they get married? Sorry for lots of questions. My apologies if it's all confusing.

[@thalesguirino]

@@Steel0079 Hello, I'm glad somebody take the time to read my comment. I think you understood most of the points, that's nice. Well, yes, the fetal erythroblastosis can occour in multiple cases, independently of any kind of transplantation - it's related intrinsecaly to the negative Rh factor of the blood. So, if a Rh negative woman is pregnant of Rh positive baby (what could easily happen, because the positive Rh factor is expressed by a dominant gene), the erythroblastosis can occour during the pregnancy. If the mother has a positive blood type she is safe from that problem, even if the baby has a negative type of blood. (The negative reacts against positive, but the positive doesn't react agains negative). It's kind of similar to blood donations... the positive can hold Rh negative blood, but the negative can't hold positive blood, due to the presence of foreing (Rh) proteins. Actually, the negative can handle it, but just once - in the second time, the immune response can be potentially deadly. So, yes, it's smart to couples to check the blood compatibility before pregnancy, to prevent miscarriages due to fetal erythroblastosis, if the woman has a negative type of blood, of course. Some immunosuppressant medicine solves the problem entirely. I hope I was able to clear up your questions.

[@edwardlane1255]

@@thalesguirino muito obrigado - and your English is excellent

[@chanelvis8725]

This is a worthy compilation. Appreciate your effort and time man !!!

[@DjDolHaus86]

Hi Steve, further sub-facts to go with your bit on Hammerhead eyes - The vast majority of fish do the side to side head movement as a primitive version of depth perception when in motion, it is thought that it offers a form of detection improvement when looking for camouflaged predators by comparing relative object size over time (fish vision is typically poor at detecting detail but good at detecting movement). Chickens and other ground dwelling birds are believed to have developed a similar mechanism that involves bobbing their heads as they walk and feed

[@TheOnlyKosis]

The whole time I was like "get to the damn ant already" lol

[@shivajoshi9068]

Fun Fact 2.2 Prey usually have rectangular pupil or round one for wide vision And Predator have slit(cat) or front facing big round pupils to focus on its prey

[@michaelsorensen7567]

And then there's goats...

[@Wild_Bill57]

The tape measure issue (not an issue, of course) is one of the first thing someone learning to be a carpenter learns. Good to share with the general public though. Your video though is full of useful, interesting information.

[@bboyjunyor]

You.. man.. are just freaking amazing and a great teacher! Even a child could understand what you explain here! Kudos and keep it up!

[@nickcook2775]

_"…so instead we have the kidney exchange program"_

[@SteelSkin667]

Steve Mold Ruining Foods For Everyone episode 2 : Oreos (first episode was figs)

[@AvidAstronomer]

How did he ruin them?

[@jesuizanmich]

​@@AvidAstronomer they are crunchy because they are full of bees.... ...not really. But bees do need to go inside the fig and die. Female bees try to find a male fig to lay eggs in, but every now and then they enter female figs, and die inside. These fig flowers that had a female bee die inside become fruits. I think the bees are digested in the fig or something, so you shouldn't be (at least directly) eating any bees in figs. Also, the process of getting inside figs is brutal. The bee will loose its wings, some limbs, or other bits of its body as it forces itself into the fig flower apparently.

[@BritainRitten]

@@jesuizanmich And not bees, but wasps.

[@jesuizanmich]

@@BritainRitten Ah yes. Wasps!

[@AvidAstronomer]

@@jesuizanmich yeah I meant how did he ruin oreos.. Just because you now know they don't come from a cow's boobs doesn't make them taste any different

[@joshuarosen6242]

The tape measure one was a light bulb moment. I'd always noticed it but I didn't know why and sort of guessed that it was so you didn't have to have the measure perfectly perpendicular to the face it's resting on. As soon as you pointed out that you measure inside and outside the light switched on. I should have worked this out for myself but now I don't need to. Thank you.

[@gregoryashton]

Merry Christmas Steve. Thank you for this video right before Christmas ;)

[@med8615]

why would the wife's body become primed to deal with the baby's proteins? if that were the case wouldn't her immune system start attacking the baby?

[@SteveMould]

Good point. Because of how clever the placenta is the mother only really comes into contact with those proteins during child birth itself. That's my understanding anyway. I've not fact checked!

[@med8615]

​@@SteveMould Thx for response and ou I'll fact check for u... k so apparently when a person gets pregnant the endometrium of the uterus turns into a decidua (specialized uterine lining for pregnancy). Like any other cell in the body the decidual cells have genes that can make chemokine proteins (the proteins responsible for recruiting T cells and eliciting the 'rejection response' to foreign stuff). But unlike any other cell in the body the chemokine genes in decidual cell are inactivated!! Inactivated genes for chemokines -> No chemokines -> no T cells recruited -> No immune response to anything that contacts the decidua. Totally fact #3.1 worthy Source: NYU Langone Medical Center. "Pregnancy: Why mother's immune system does not reject developing fetus as foreign tissue." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 7 June 2012.

[@SteveMould]

@@med8615 that's awesome, thanks for doing the research! So interesting.

[@raykent3211]

I was wondering why semen doesn't trigger an immune response, nor saliva from kissing. Your explanation is beyond my comprehension, but then most stuff is, so thanks. I have an immune response to pollen and I'm confident that I don't have a placenta up my nose. Now if only I had some fava beans for supper.....

[@inthefade]

@@SteveMould And yet people say KZbin comments are the worst on the internet. This is even *sourced*!

[@landins]

I love magnets, thanks Steve

[@JayHarrisonGoogle]

Great video! do more of these! 👍

[@NoNo-gt2bo]

For some reason that ant head makes me want to crush all of them

[@misamokuzelpizu]

i wonder if hammerhead sharks have depth perception with their electrical sense.

[@Jakubkolo2000]

They actually do

[@pairot01]

As long as they can sense direction and have at least 2 of these organs then the binocular effect should work. We have depth perception on sound with out ears.

[@frechjo]

@@pairot01 We sense direction on sound, but we don't sense distance in the same way we do with vision. Each eye gives independent information on the angle of perception, and it's from both that we interpret distance. Angle in hearing is reconstructed from both ears, so there's less information and no accurate way to interpret distance. I'd suspect the same would happen with shark's electrical senses.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Ah! I use the tape measure to measure my disappointment.

[@MrAbeAllen]

if it wasn't for disappointment / I wouldn't have any appointments (They Might Be Giants - Snowball in Hell)

[@koysensei4424]

DUDEE YOUR REALLY EVERYWHEREEEE

[@akefayamenay104]

Beautiful family, man! Happy holidays!

[@docbaduck]

To elaborate on the tab on your tape measurers. The travel on the tab is to adjust for the thicknes of the blade. It gives a bit of play to accountfpr the loss of material from the cut. But when measuring a gap where you push the tab on the tab against a surface, there is no cut to make and thus no comprnsation needed.

[@wowsuchhandle]

It bothers me how some channels put "5 Interesting FACTS about COCO COLA that will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!" on title and get tens of millions views without even any interesting things in the video.

[@scorinth]

OH GOD SUDDEN SPIDER AT 7:48 JESUS CHRIST DON'T DO THAT TO ME

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

This comment has me worried.... I'm terrified of spiders.... Oh no

[@kranklg2s]

I wish I'd seen this comment. I was thinking when I saw the ant: "Phew, thank God it wasn't a spider" and 10 seconds later I almost had a panic attack. I'll never forget the time I came across a YT-video that actually had a spider-warning with a timestamp. I was so f-ing grateful for that one.

[@scorinth]

@@kranklg2s Added a timestamp to my comment. Of course it doesn't help that it's a particularly nasty looking spider and I, too, was relieved it was just an ant.

[@ArrowRaider]

Spiders are our bros. They just want to chill like you and I.

[@kranklg2s]

@@ArrowRaider Yeah see, that's neither helpful nor respectful.

[@dixichannel4422]

I started working with tape measures recently alot and thank you for confirming my theory.

[@sdevane75]

Love your content and delivery style

[@909sickle]

Please do an interesting fact about every snack food. You could end obesity worldwide.

[@Dolkarr]

Comparing them to the butts of various animals should do the trick!

[@salwa5608]

Ah good, good, gooooooood!

[@Davidowalls19]

Man.. This is both hilarious and interesting. I’d always wondered why tape measures were like that. I assumed it was just from the metal being warped bc of how it retracts so powerfully. Anyway, please keep throwing in those off the wall jokes. That was pure excellence. Also, Merry Christmas to you and yours. And may you have a happy New Year as well!!!

[@olivierstlaurent]

Love these "5 interesting things" episodes, thanks a lot !

[@holeysh]

what if I give kidney to my partner before we have kids ..is it gonna be an issue if we have kids in the future?

[@lightdark00]

When receiving a kidney you are put on anti-rejection drugs. Something that doesn't happen in a pregnancy. So hopefully the kidney before would see the child's proteins as friendly.

[@Grimmjeaux]

Any experts?

[@holeysh]

@@lightdark00 my worry was more about rejecting the kidney once getting pregnant

[@cxx23]

@@holeysh I'm very interested in the answer to that question.

[@unclekanethetiberiummain1994]

The milk will attack the kids.

[@damagedtalent]

Love your videos dude

[@AviatorRodent]

You absolute legend. The measuring tape thing makes so much sense now!

[@slidewaze]

I watch KZbin on a 'smart tv' and had to get to a pc to post this. I really liked this video! More please. (Great stuff!)

[@BGhoshPikaPikachu]

Yeeting and yoinking of kidneys is normal in human society

[@loganmonk3178]

Interesting Fact #6 - You have very pretty eyes!

[@azultarmizi]

Interesting fact #7 - he can move his eyes independently

[@craigcorson3036]

#8 He has a hot wife, too.

[@Nitrxgen]

Fact #6.1 "limbal rings" are the darker shade of colour around the edges of the iris, for example blue eyes people usually have light blue on the inside of the iris and darker blue around the outside - Fact #6.2 people with limbal rings are majorly considered to be much more beautiful than people without limbal rings - so back to Fact #6, Steve has limbal rings ;) - additionally, Steve has those features where his skin looks darker around his eyes resembling that of some types makeup, I have this same thing and people have asked me before if I put makeup on, except I'm also a guy so wtf

[@vermilionYT77]

gae

[@GreatKnightJ]

@7:43 The subtitles say "It's an example of Frank Moses" rather than "It's an example of Phragmosis" which cracked me up

[@splitmac]

This was great, subscribed!

[@jimmy-jamesolivier-mccutch2126]

domore like those please :)

[@MrKassieboy]

Very interesting! One question about the kidney thing: Does this only apply to kidneys or does it apply to more/all organs?

[@CRAZYCR1T1C]

Kasper S. The immune system would attack all aspects of a foreign object right down to the cell level. So yes it would apply to all organs.

[@KekkusMaximus]

@@CRAZYCR1T1C except for corneas since they are not vascolarized meaning that it is impossible for blood cells to reach them (they feed through osmosis)

[@anselmschueler]

@@KekkusMaximus never heard of cornea donation, is that a thing?

[@KekkusMaximus]

@@anselmschueler yup but only in cases of keratoconus or scars due to previous damage

[@iSchmidty13]

I always thought it was the other way around, and compasses had the south pole end painted red to point towards North!

[@Guy_6397]

I bloody love these videos

[@devapath5280]

I can already picture someone saying "Oh yeah its big brain time"

[@ToreHuschbeck]

4:26 - Interesting thing No. 3.1: "Genes" and "Jeans" is pronounced in the same way

[@R3dFlames]

Gotta love them homophones!

[@davidadams421]

Jeanealogy: the study of denim?

[@myth-termoth1621]

Hammerhead sharks derive several advantages from their curious heads. It functions as an auxilliary pair of fins enabling very tight turns when swimming very close to the sea floor. It also increases the area of the sea floor swept by its electroreceptors, enabling hammerheads to both locate and manuovre on prey hidden in sand

[@mike814031]

I'm glad you cleared that up I actually always did wonder why that is

[@gawni1612]

You've almost just ruined Oreos for me....ALMOST.

[@Grimmjeaux]

They looked crap to begin with.

[@dorbie]

Sharks have electroreceptors across their snout. Hammerheads feed on the bottom for buried fish including rays, the fish have evolved burying themselves as their survival strategy. A hammerheads wide heads lets them scan a larger area more effectively with more sensors for prey as they hunt along the bottom. You can see this behavior in the wild and shark electrosensory perception in hunting for buried fish has been tested in controlled experiments on wild sharks. It is a far more compelling explanation for the evolution of the hammerhead's wide head and is another example of the red queen hypothesis in evolution. In this case the hammerheads evolutionary response to burying prey.

[@TheVenerableMrKrieg]

Yep. Improved stereovision and field of view is certainly a factor, but much more likely an added bonus considering the animal's behaviors-- primarily hunting for buried prey, where such vision won't typically accomplish much, while the wider field of electrosensory receptors would be invaluable. Ah well, just a reminder to always look something up if it interests you.

[@CptCalicoJack]

Also, considering they eat rays, their wide-set eyes are protected from the flailing tail barb.

[@shanewhite3398]

do more interesting facts please I love em. u explain them so well

[@dishachakraborty2184]

Hi Steve! I came across a your channel via a youtube recommendation (Assassin's teapot) and since that i have gone through a couple of videos. The videos are really good. Thoroughly interesting! The way you present them is quite entertaining as well. Upon that, you've got an expressive face. Basically, i really like to see you speak! I am not sure how that sounds xD Keep creating!

[@daimonamasio5219]

Oreo's are vegan depending where they are manufactured. in my country they aren't, unfortunately.

[@girlwithaharp]

I stopped eating Oreos decades ago because they had lard in them. Showing my age I guess! Apparently in the mid-1990's they switched to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, and then removed the whey protein element in 2013, at least in the UK and the US. I'm in Canada, should check a package of them next time I'm in the grocery store.

[@gawayne1374]

How to make people never eat Oreos again... Is what this video should really be called

[@lightdark00]

As mainstream products become cheaper, they accidentally become vegan. Vegan healthy Whole-food plant-based == healthy

[@Ka112eb]

Thanks for restoring my faith in tape measure manufacturers.

[@VoltisArt]

Been waiting about 21.2667 months (very rough estimate) for this. Only disappointed there isn't more, but keep the quality first. Thanks Steve!

[@mahrezjanati3426]

Nooo we named the magnets north and south after the earths south and north so its an exceptional case here bcz north of magnets should look at the north of earth and the same for south

[@chrissandall6257]

I agree with Mahrez Janati. The earth’s magnetic North Pole is a North Pole it is explicitly named as such. The magnetic poles of every magnet on Earth that points north is the south pole.

[@SAOS451316]

oreos are vegan, if they're made in america. european oreos are not vegan last time i checked. never been glad to be in america before :P

[@jimdelsol1941]

I'll have to check myself I guess, always heard they are vegan where I am (somewhere in europe).

[@rdooski]

He was just joking. He said it because they look like that spiders bum. Edit- Come to find out they actually kinda are, well if you dont mind cross contact with milk at least.

[@jimdelsol1941]

@Hob Nob Did you not realize this is a general statement that does not apply to every living being ? Did you not take 5 sec to realize that a lot of herbivorous animals have a similar eyes placement ? Starting with monkeys ? Here, pandas : resize-parismatch.lanmedia.fr/img/var/news/storage/images/paris-match/actu/environnement/la-population-de-pandas-geants-augmente-1523561/24848072-1-fre-FR/La-population-de-pandas-geants-augmente.jpg Here, Monkeys : comps.canstockphoto.com/the-gorilla-eating-stock-photograph_csp4297669.jpg Having binocular vision does not imply that you're a predator/carnivore. The statement "Generally, beings with X are Y" does not imply that "If you have X you are Y". Affirming it is a fallacy. Moreover, you're doing an appeal to nature fallacy by saying "we're supposed to eat meat" based on what you see in nature. This in not a relevant argument when it comes to morality. And, studies show we do just fine without meat : www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864 "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes" And maybe even way better : www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408398.2016.1138447 "Conclusions: This comprehensive meta-analysis reports a significant protective effect of a vegetarian diet versus the incidence and/or mortality from ischemic heart disease (−25%) and incidence from total cancer (−8%). Vegan diet conferred a significant reduced risk (−15%) of incidence from total cancer."

[@marksainsbury2422]

Ok ... fact #5 and it@s equally fascinating and amazing. Wow! I love your 'regular' video's anyway ... but these are like catnip or something. The fascinating factoids just keep coming, thick and fast. Made my night!

[@q8ee59]

Your quietly uttered "Look at it's head..." and "It uses it's bum" made me laugh

[@GertrudeFilthbasket]

the WiFi in your right eye is out. FYI