25 Fascinating Facts Hidden in Plain Sight

From the full name of Cap'n Crunch to the surprisingly old origins of the word "hipster" Here are 25 Fascinating Facts Hidden in Plain

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It's time to look a little closer. Some things you look at every day are much more complicated than you might think.Like did you know that there is a tiny hole in the bottom of every padlock? And it could be the difference between it malfunctioning or not. Or how about the fact that there is only one state capital in America without a McDonald's. I bet you can't guess which one.From the full name of Cap'n Crunch to the surprisingly old origins of the word "hipster" Here are 25 Fascinating Facts Hidden in Plain

Author: Jackson Oka
Music: Grand Slam - Au.Ra

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - The numbers on recycling symbols
0:55 - There are around 50 serial killers on the loose in the US right now!
1:36 - The letters on tires
2:11 - The hole in the center of CDs and DVDs
2:57 - The function of the ridge on "5" keypads
3:27 - The function of the hole in a padlock
3:57 - Tape makes frosted glass transparent
4:31 - Buddha's head might be covered in snails
5:08 - Traffic signs are "retro-reflective"
5:39 - A "cumberground" is a useless person
6:11 - The part of your back you can't reach is called the "acnestis"
6:49 - The function of the small hole in gasoline nozzles
7:26 - Fruit snacks are made shiny using car wax
8:02 - Some fingernails grow faster
8:29 - Cap'n Crunch has a full name
9:04 - The purpose of raised lines on credit cards
9:31 - People used to answer the phone with "ahoy"
10:26 - A regulation golf ball has hundreds of dimples
11:02 - Only one state capital doesn't have a McDonald's
11:32 - Junk food is as addictive as drugs
12:08 - Schoolmaster is an anagram of "the classroom"
12:50 - Riding roller coasters helps to pass kidney stones
13:22 - The placement of a donkey's eyes helps it see all its feet
13:51 - Most collect calls are made on Father's day
14:21 - Pitch black isn't really black
14:55 - The word hipster goes back 90 years

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[johnwick]

At 38 years old I didnt think I was old enough to see that people have to be told why there is a hole in a CD

[randalmayeux]

Hi Mike! I remembered the name of Captain Crunch. I remember when it first came out in the mid-sixties. I pestered my mom into getting a box, and I was in love! Imagine my chagrin when another kid put a lot of lemon juice in my bowl of Captain Crunch when I wasn't looking. It curdled the milk, and when I unknowingly ate a big spoonful I gagged!

[mattfuller]

Love the videos!!! Thank you for all the good hard work!!

[PhantomFilmAustralia]

Fathers always get screwed, even on Father's Day. A tie, socks, underwear as a lame gift and he has to pay for the phone call from his own kids.

[scottduncan]

Hey you live in Gainesville?? I live out towards Trenton but work in Gainesville! Pretty cool! Go Gators!!!

[crystal_clown]

When I was in middle school we had to take some typing program called “All The Right Type” in the computer lab. The lessons required that we keep our hands in certain positions with one finger on each hand on the keys with the ridges. This was the mid-2000s so our generation had grown up on computers, while the school staff had learned in high school or college. When we tried their technique, our typing rate plummeted. Meanwhile, the teachers typed like chickens seeking and pecking at keys.

[Baldevi]

The Bhuddha's "bun" is not a bundle of hair. It is called "Ushnisha" and represents the Biddha's expanded Wisdom, but there are stories that as he reached enlightenment, Siddhartha's skull began to bulge up, so that is his skull under his hair.
I;ve never heard of the Buddha having snails all over his head... He was said to have very curly hair with tight, springy ringlets that could be stretched out many inches/centimeters. The tight curls were also a side effect of his Enlightenment, due to the "heat of the Divine Fire Within" that raised his body temp beyond what normal humans can endure, and made his hair curl tight like curling a ribbon with a scissor's edge.
Buddhism shaves heads now, but the Buddha was a Hindu, and Hinduism says that long hair connects humans to the divine more easily. So Siddhartha Buddha would not have shaved his head before enlightenment, and would not bother with his hair much afterwards.

[patticampana]

Great Burns, Mike 😀. Another winner 🏆!🙂✌️

[kaos]

That was a pretty good Burns impression.

[mr.punisher]

If you ever had a kidney stone, last thing you wanted to do is being jostled on a roller coaster.

[beepboop]

so i early to this i had to help set up chairs

[johnwhitehurst]

Your quickly becoming one of my go to channels. Thanks

[missbilbybadinage]

1:57 Tyres sold in Australia also have the date of manufacture

[Rigel_Chiokis]

Screens in movie theatres are also retro-reflective (and they may have been before road signs were). The original light sabre props in the original Star Wars movies had a spinning wooden dowel covered in screen material, to make them look like they were glowing. While the effect worked, animators had to rotoscope some extra glow onto the blades along with the flashes when they hit each other.

[davidva]

Planarwalk begins their videos with “ahoy-hoy”

[DrHaydentheFunny]

#10 The original greeting has a ring on it. Guess people didn't want to pirate "Ahoy".

[themr_wilson]

Close eyes and see the flickering of the screen and the bright white transitions. True. So bright

[gregoryblair]

In Norfolk, VA the recycle bins have a legend inside the lid showing which numbers can be recycled.

[dennisanderson]

1:32 That "limitation" kind of adds to the useless busy-work of recycling, when SO much still just gets dumped in the same landfills (but we *felt* gooder before it went there)!

[ladykay]

please research it. I was told that when a moose’s mate is unalived by a vehicle and is witnessed by the other moose it will hunt every vehicle and crash into it. So say a red van hit the moose then its mate will crash into every red van it sees. It’s kinda cool but I don’t know if it’s true.