5 interesting things - episode 2

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]

Hope you like this second instalment of short interesting things. And here's the sponsor info:

[Graviton]

A group of Hammerhead Sharks should be called a Toolbox.

[vcguerrilla]

"North pole is actually South pole"

_Fire trucks are actually water trucks_

[tnfhmzv]

OMG the tape measure thing has gone from annoying to satisfying

[syphonuk]

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

[UB]

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

[Jeffrey_Wong]

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

[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:

[hakimal-hakim]

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?

[Kaelygon]

One teacher thought the measurement tape was broken, so he re-riveted it to stay still.

[andrewchapman]

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

[jjmetrejhon]

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

[imperialguard]

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

[bobillhomarshall]

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."

[OhSoUnicornly]

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

[kieferonline]

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

[Maninawig]

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

[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.

[electric_claire]

While pairing two couples up is one way Kidney Exchange Programs operate, there's actually a much more interesting method they used called a chain donation. When somebody donates their kidney the KEP will set up a donation chain where each donor gets a kidney for their loved one and donates to the next stranger down the line. These chains can be quite large even topping 100 kidneys exchanged.

In effect the single altruistic kidney donation becomes a key unlocking dozens of other kidney donations that couldn't have happened otherwise.

[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.