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  • Chameleons also change color when they see a predator. I worked at a pet store and whenever a chameloen spotted a snake it changed it’s color quickly. Perhaps it makes them look more intimidating as they puff up too.

    • Yeah I own a chameleon and if you are in there enclosure doing working you move aggressively and they think you are a predator they change color to blend in with their

    • Yeah I remember my Dad accidentally spooked one and it changed it’s colour to a dull brown.

    • Yes actually chameleons do change their colour as camouflage, but more commonly in social signalling and in reactions to temperature and other conditions. This varies between species.

    • Connected to that is that they also change for mood. Tense or stressed their color mutes, relaxed or excited/amorous their color gets more intense & vibrant…fired up.

  • I knew a little about the effects of explosions because I wanted to learn more about the Home Front as a child (WW2, UK). Sometimes people were found deceased after a nearby bomb but with no physical marks or damage on them and they just looked incredibly peaceful. It was how the bombs sucked all the air out affected the human body. That and the “Sandwich Shelters” always stayed in my mind. What a brilliant video though again, never knew what direction it would take next 😊

  • On a lighter note, I think that a lot of people know that Frankenstein’s monster’s name is Herman Munster.

  • I think it was a mythbusters episode that explained the slow explosion walk. Its all about perspective. The actors are actually a safe distance from the explosion, but the angle of the camera along with some editing makes it look closer than it is.

  • I read a graphic novel adaptation of Frankenstein. One line: “I asked the humans for kindness, but they ignored me” really hit home for me

  • It isn’t just milk producers that extolled milk; it was the United States government. From the USDA with its Food Guide Pyramid that had “Dairy” as a separate category, to it being part of WIC (low income food program), in the form of cheese.
    Of course, the Food Guide Pyramid was heavily influenced by lobbies in general, which is why carbohydrates were at the bottom rather than vegetables. They were encouraged to do so by the wheat lobby.

    • @@ianmacfarlane1241 The US inventing the Nuclear Bomb and being one of the few industrialized countries relatively untouched by the effects of WWII gave them a LOT of influence over the world at large

    • @Icalasari  I’ve read some astonishingly idiotic comments online over the years, but you’ve raised the bar to new heights…
      I suppose convccgratulations are in order, so well done!!!

    • The USDA, FDA, and all the lobbyists and their subsidies is just a corrupt mess. The Mediterranean diet (minus dairy and without red meat) has been known to be the superior diet for human health for decades yet people out there actually believe you HAVE to have dairy, meat, and bread or you will just die. I used to have a regular American diet until the age of 34 when I developed colon cancer and had high blood pressure as well to compound the issue (I survived thankfully).

      I would eat your regular breakfast of bacon, eggs, and toast with a glass of milk. For lunch I would generally eat fast food or a sandwich I packed at home consisting of white bread, processed meats/cheese, and mayo with a side of greasy potato chips. For dinner I would usually eat pasta, pizza, or a frozen dinner.

      Switched to a diet consisting of 90% unblemished foods such as unsalted almonds, fresh fruit, vegetables, seeds, occasional fish, occasional eggs, beans, lentils, and an occasional piece or two of dark chocolate if I feel like sweets. I pretty much only drink water other than the occasional glass of wine before bed.

      Completely quit fast food and processed foods other than dark chocolate. After my health scare I gave away literally everything bad for me in my fridge/freezer and pantry to people in need and despite it being much more work to cook meals now and missing fatty red meat when I see others eating it I have stood strong for over 19 years now.

      My brother has been trying to convince me to “live a little” by offering me McDonald’s a few times, delivery pizza a dozen+ times, as well as BBQ at 6-7 of his cookouts and his fried catfish as well but I’ve stayed strong. The only time I almost gave in was when he made filet mignons and lobster tails soaked in butter during the superbowl 3 years back, I had some but I knew that if I screwed up once I’d do it again.

      I just don’t want to die yet, I have two children and a grandchild and they mean more to me than taking the easy route and gorging on junk food all the time. Ate about 1000 Big Mac’s in my life so I think I’ve had more than enough as it is.

    • ​@ianmacfarlane1241 so, Ian, you don’t believe that the (now discarded) food pyramid was shaped by lobbyists…?

  • Yes, excellent! I was hoping you would cover the spider myth! Very satisfying to watch it covered truthfully, and I learned a ton of new things too. Great video!

  • When I was in high school (’81-’85), I had a job at my church that included sweeping up after weddings. When I started the job, I swept the rice so that no one would slip and fall on it. Everyone threw rice. Then people eventually started referring to the exploding pigeons thing and a few critics started telling me to be more thorough in my sweeping so pigeons wouldn’t explode. That’s when some people started throwing seed instead of rice at weddings. By ’85, no one was throwing rice, and everyone was throwing seed. The total transition from rice to seed happened pretty quickly. Bad information spread quickly even before the internet.

    • It’s crazy how the internet didn’t speed up the spread of bad information, but did speed up the spread of corrective information. Completely counter what the popular opinion about “Stuff from the internet” was from the 90’s thru the 2000’s

  • I don’t know about the milk thing. I’ve drank milk since forever, gotten hurt plenty, never broke a bone, even when I should’ve. Even suffered a fall hitting around my eye-socket, and the doctor I saw was surprised I didn’t break or fracture something. I even healed up in a less than a week, just the blood vessels in my eye took longer.

  • Here’s another fun fact about senses. Despite what you might think, you can’t actually feel moisture. If you touch something moist, you feel the difference in texture and temperature, and certain combinations of this are interpreted by your brain as wet. That’s why, when you wear rubber gloves and put them in water, it feels like your hand is wet, even though it isn’t. Certain animals, such as some spiders, however, do have specific receptors that let them actually detect moisture.

    • Thanks for that. There are many sense illusions. If I put my tongue on a weak 9v battery, I get a real bitter taste.

  • As a plumber I have had to lay down and work in colonies of spiders over a hundred spiders strong. I’ve also had a multitude of tarantulas crawling over me while camping during migration season. Never even bothered me a bit. But I can’t imagine how horrifying this video was for people who are afraid of spiders. It even made me feel a little uncomfortable.

  • Interesting note on the Pigeon Puffs; In the early 1900s, one of the species of finches on a Galápagos Islands seems to be forming into two new species – the average beak length did not form a neat Bell curve graph as is often seen, but had two separate peaks, showing that two beak lengths were becoming apparent and this could mean the single group was likely to split into two if other factors came into play.

    However, when this research was done again in the 1990s, the same bird species had only one dominant beak length, the usual bell curve turned up when graphed ( Though not strongly). N-one was sure why for another few years . . . Until a study of the records noted that humans settled on the island and regularly put of feeders for the finches, containing unused rice in the main, about he thime the beak length change occurred.

    Beak length and size relates directly to the food source mostly consumed by the bird; In the case of pre-human settlement, there were two major seeds sources, of slightly different sizes on the island. The finches ate both, but on one side of the island, one plant was more common than the other, and so the two beak lengths appeared depending on the location of the birds. However, when birds were fed by humans, who tended to feed them frequently because of caring for them, the birds became dependent upon the rice and their beak length began to reflect that.

    Evolution in action, happening indisputably before our eyes? Now, who would try and cover that up, I wonder.

    • A statement doesn’t have to be true to be factual. First definition for fact is “A thing that is known to be true or proven”. These are all statements that people claim to know are true, they’re just wrong, as you are in claiming that facts are never false. Though at least in your case, there are contexts where you’re correct, like when talking about the facts of a court case.

    • @@KamiNoBaka1 But then doesn’t that still mean that it’s not a fact? Because claiming to know something is true doesn’t mean you actually know that it’s true, and if the definition is “A thing that is known to be true or proven”, then that is different from “A thing that is claimed to be known to be true or proven”.

    • @@thawebkharroubi232 This is literally what the guy above already explained – Not every statement is a fact. A fact is a statement that is proven to be true. All other statements are just statements, sometimes falsehoods if they are known to be false.

      So it short – Anybody can make any statement. A statement can be true, false or status unknown. If a statement is true – it’s called a fact. Therefore there can be no “false facts” because by definition a fact is something that is true.

  • Rabbits tend to like carrots as they have significant sugar content for veggie side, and rabbits have a sweet tooth. This actually increases why you should limit carrots for bunnies as too much sugar is very bad for them, too. Give them the leafy greens, and probably some pellets, and a piece of banana or strawberry for a quick sweet treat. Bunny will love it.

    • Leafy greens (including carrot leaves) a the best for rabbits but it’s important to also give them hard vegetables like carrots, turnip and swede or an apple because like all rodents their front teeth continually grow and need wearing down. Always make it an option in their diet, they’ll know when they need it. Just don’t feed them celery (it gives them diarrhoea).

    • @@danielriley7380 Rabbits are not rodents, they’re lagomorphs. Their diet should be mostly hay, with leafy greens. The vegetables and fruits you listed as “hard” are not in fact hard for a rabbit and that much starch can cause them to have diarrhea or go into stasis.

    • @@joeervin1985 I listed what the pet shop owner informed were safe supplements to the hay diet. Having just checked 3 websites on the matter nothing I mentioned listed as a harmful food (as long the apples are deseeded).

    • @@danielriley7380sure they’re safe supplements – but that means a small piece of it, not “an apple” or an entire turnip or swede. And I don’t know who told you you could leave these around and they’d munch on them in moderation if they need it. You might check out sites like the House Rabbit Society.

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