50 Facts You Probably Didn't Know

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[Varizen]

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

[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.

[joshuamccarroll]

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

[ianlaughlin]

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.

[adrianwarner]

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

[ZechsMerquise]

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.

[larzlarz]

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.

[kodiakjak]

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

[andrewgoss]

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.

[zinkist]

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

[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.

[joecorsaro]

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

[ricaard]

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.

[Nefville]

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

[jmd]

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.

[alexlubbers]

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.

[travisinthetrunk]

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

[samuelgarrod]

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

[skozer]

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

[jsinope]

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