50 Science Facts that Will Shock You

Dive into a whirlwind of knowledge with 50 mind-blowing scientific facts! From cosmic wonders to microscopic marvels, discover the universe's secrets in this captivating journey through the realms of science.

[LetsSingTheDoomSong]

As a kid who grew up on a 1000-acre farm in the middle of nowhere with no neighbors, i occupied myself by having odd pets. I raised 3 crows and 2 raccoons. Best pets ive ever had. My crow would follow me everywhere, including when I'd drive the ATV miles down the dirt road. They'd come when called, and would either land on my outstretched arm or, painfully, my head and get tangled in my hair 🤣 My raccoons purred like cats and would pat all over my face with their hands and always try shove their hands into my nostrils or my mouth, scavenging for goodies I guess 🤣❤️

[johncromer]

I made friends with a murder of crows near my work. The one time i had to call out, I discovered the entire flock outside my bedroom window checking up on me. I loved those guys.

[tytusromek]

I can confirm that with the crow. My mother used to feed crows, they remembered her, the time and were already waiting. When she went out, they always greeted her xD.
The best thing was when we took the dog for a walk or drove the car, they sometimes followed us, you felt like you were being watched.😂

[DavidStruveDesigns]

I remember reading some years ago a theory that the very first accounts or descriptions of an "afterlife" might have actually been a misinterpretation of the "life flashing before your eyes" phenomenon. People thought they had entered the afterlife because they were younger again, and they saw family members who had already passed away - but that those might have been their own memories playing back, since being younger and seeing parents and grandparents is exactly what you'd see. Since few of us actually remember our great grandparents they are less common in afterlife descriptions, and any generations before that are often missing entirely from afterlife descriptions (but often inferred or suggested). Also because our brains don't actually have any concept of time outside of external sources and stimuli such as the sun being up, those memories from our perspective potentially could seem to play back over "forever" - adding to the idea the afterlife is a thing and lasts forever. Also, if the parts of our brain that deal with imagination and dreams also activate at this time, those memories could be mixed in with a dream state and allow the person to interact with and alter the memories as if you are conscious in the "afterlife". After all, people can have entire lives play out in dreams - including getting married, having kids and growing old. Yet that dream may only have lasted a few seconds at most in reality. So maybe that's what the afterlife is - a type of "life flashing before our eyes", moments before or as our brains die, and it actually only lasts for a few minutes at most.

[IamZeus]

Crows are great . I’ve been regularly feeding the ones who live near my property out in the woods the last few years and they occasionally bring me shiny things . If I caw or whistle for them they know I’m throwing food outside and go get theirs friends so they can eat . They caw to me when they’re hungry at times too, love having them around .

Meanwhile, my buddies co worker messed with the crows at their job just once or a twice and from then until the the few years later he quit those crows would always shit on his car and even him sometimes if he was out on a smoke break . Sometimes they’d even fly at him.

Don’t piss off crows, be their friend .

[winterjones]

Number 31. I've experienced this phenomenon strongly. As the weather starts to warm up, there comes a time where all of a sudden it just "smells like spring." I can't describe that sensation any other way. Every year, when I first smell spring, I get very strong flashbacks to the first time I tried and became addicted to cocaine. These are intense flashbacks, to the point where my mind will trick me into remembering the essence of ether/acetone even when it's not there. The first few days of spring are a yearly struggle for me as I continue to cling on to my sobriety from the thing that used to control me

[Swampy]

When I delivered for Amazon, I’d always bring snacks just for the crows.
They’d follow me throughout the day.

[nevermindmeijustinjectedaw]

i wonder when will the first case be televised of a cctv recording a murder of crows coming in to protect a lady being robbed (or worse) who has fed the crows in the past. imagine the perpetrator being then followed for a while, going back home, being weirded out by the whole thing, going to sleep, getting up in the morning, but when going on the prowl again, seeing to his terror, that the crows know exactly where he lives, what he's done and that more and more murders of crows know of his misdeeds by the minute. imagine being bullied out of crime by some birds. now that'd be a story that made a whole lot more sense than alfred hitchcock's

[novaethedimensional]

I made liquid oxygen in highschool for my final science project. The light blueish tone is amazing

[ericdavis]

My father tried saving some baby rabbits when i was a child. He could hear the screams through the valley as one crow would swoop down and chase the mother while the other crows would wait for her to run come down take the baby and carry it away. After many hours or trying to shoot the crows or scare them away with his gun ... needles to say they ended up knowing when he had his gun even if he loaded the weapon . He tried every thing but if he so much as had a bullet in the gun they knew . Anothet time he was aiming his 2206 and we live in the back woods of siloam new york. From a fair distance we had an opening into the woods from our kitchen window, one day he decided to sight his gun in and saw some crows eating seed out in the woods. He shot one, thinking he was clever they didnt notice him in a panic they all started looking around for the reason their friend is dead. After awhile they left and came back he shot another but, this time when the flew away they never came back to that spot .... when he stepped out on to his porch later that day our house was surrounded all the trees filled with crows . Something out of a horror film. They had found where the shot had come from .just unreal..

[wesbeuning]

Stay away from bananas and make friends with crows, got it.

[kataseiko]

"Areas where dairy farming was common, particularly Europe" -- shows an old Asian man drinking milk. Your editor was really on point with that one!

[dominicwaghorn]

Dude is this free?!??? Best high-hour I’ve had in a long time

[theoldbear]

Another thing - some scientists think that crows in Yellowstone National Park are taming the wolves. Not being symbiotic, not scavaging from them, but forming a relationship with them akin to what we did with the ancestors of modern dogs. I think that's both awesome and scary lol

[Saavik]

Marie Curie's notebooks are still so hot (as in, radioactive) that they are kept in lead-lined boxes, you need to sign a waiver, and wear a protection suit if you want to view them. She died of leukemia because of obvious reasons.

[roxannlegg]

Finger pruning because of water is one Ive contemplated since learning during my medical science degree, that its a sympathtic nervous system response. Ppl in hightened stress and low blood volume or anaemia also experience this. My theory is that its a mechanism to prevent heat loss from the body. Water is a fabulous conductor and extractor of heat - so by removing blood vessel circulation in the fingers, you are in fact reducing heat loss thru fingers and hands and feet. This might not seem much but the surface area of the hands and feet are much more than people thing and due to the number of highly sensitive receptors in hands and feet - it makes sense for the body to have a protective mechanism against heat loss damage in the peripheries. The second benefit of this is that it ensures a concentration of heat to the trunk of the body, preserving life. Just IMHO

[jcorkable]

“Ideally ten fingers and toes”

Excuse me but my extra fingers are extremely *ahem* handy… I am the true ideal human

[UnicornsPoopRainbows]

29:00 My daughter slipped on a banana peel when she was 2. She fell exactly like a cartoon. Her equal parts shock, fear, and confusion made it even funnier. I wish I had it on camera 😂😂

[woeshaling]

I subscribe to the view of tomatoes being botanically a fruit and culinarily a vegetable

[paulm]

30:01 Another "shocking" fact about the banana plant - it's also classified as an herb and is distantly related to ginger.