my brother was in a band called popular misconception. when people all said they were a good band, the band always said "yeah that's a popular misconception."
Fun fact: the story that carrots imporve eyesight in the dark comes from ww2. You see, the brits had a knew piece of technology, the radar, and they wanted to keep it a secret. And how did they explain that they were seeing enemy bombers in the night? They said, the pilots eat lots of carrots, that improve their night vision!
i heard somewhere that during WW2 when the british supplies were low, they found carrots to be easy to farm to feed the masses, so they started propaganda saying it magically improved your eyesight to encourage consumption of them i believe my source is food theory, tho it has been a while (yes the matpat channel)
While "improving" night vision likely is myth, there is some basis to say that Vitamin A (and hence carrots, in the form of β-carotene) will "improve" it in cases of deficiency. Eating carrots beyond that point might turn your skin orange won't improve vision. [Vitamin A deficiency in the retina primarily affects the rods, which results in night blindness] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835581/
I KNEW ABOUT THE TASTEBUDS. I was in elementary school and i wondered if your whole mouth could taste so i put a skittle on the roof of my mouth. AND I TOLD MY TEACHER and she had the class LAUGH AT ME. geniuses truly aren’t appreciated in their time
bro my biology books are legit filled to the brim with these misconceptions. The alpha wolves, the praying Mantis, even the carrots and eyes myth. And then people in my nation wonder why we are always considered slow and underdeveloped with the rest of the Europe
God I knew this as a child as well when I had to take awful medicine when sick. The logic was simple: if only certain parts of the tounge could sense certain tastes, I just had to avoid them while taking the medicine. It never worked of course I'm baffled at the fact that your teacher made the class laugh at you, its insane they leave these fucking clowns to be teachers
That one surprised me. My parents and even my doctor suggested eating ice cream whenever i had a cold as a kid. Makes sense though, the cooling effect and the happiness might contribute a little to getting well.
@@DonVayaCornholio happiness has significant contributions to disease prevention and recovery. You tend to care for yourself better when you are happy and your immune system tends to work overtime
It's not the cold. It's the effect of the milk on mucus production which does increase. Making your symptoms worse. It doesn't make you sicker. You just show more
@@DonVayaCornholioice cream is good for soothing your tonsil. Your cold could have been a light tonsillitis. That would explain the docter's recommendation.
My favourite type of common misconception is "annoyed parents don't want their child doing something but can't come up with an actual reason it's bad for them, then they never admit it."
I'm confused... are you saying that's true or false? It's a sore spot for me because recently, at my daughter's sports day, she was chastised for pulling her cardigan up over her head while she was waiting in line for her turn. I asked why it was a problem and received the BS answer that she wasn't being engaged. She performed better than most of the other kids despite feeling very nervous and overwhelmed (which is why she had it over her head). Nobody could admit that she wasn't actually doing anything worth stopping. It was sad. Rant over.
Well. I didn’t say anything you couldn’t believe or we could disagree on, I’m just saying that if you’re gonna believe whatever information that “makes sense” to you but not whether if it is objectively true or false, then you *must* at least do some of your own research into all information you believe in (if you research very well that is) to verify and determine what it is actually true or not. *I already debunked some of these “debunks” of every common “misconception”* which the channel owner could have easily fixed if he actually put in the time and effort to researching about these “misconceptions” which doesn’t take that long or that much effort either. *Go see my other comments, and you’ll see some of the corrections and explanations I posted.*
@@AdhvaithSaneYou seem outright delusional to me. Everything explained in the video is true. I'll adress some of the comments you made. The perception of the sun in the color yellow IS due to atmospheric scattering. The earth's atmosphere scatters the smaller wavelengths of sun light more effectively, causing blue light to be predominant (hence the color of the atmosphere being blue) and the sun when looked at directly as yellow. Colors of larger wavelengths can be perceived during sunset and sunrise due to the tilt of the location opposing the sun. Light intensity (luminous flux) has nothing to do with it, as the sun's color perceived in the international space station is completely white, while the surface under the atmosphere perceives it as yellow. The unconductivity of water due to the presence of impurities is the exact and correct way to explain it. Pure H2O is inherently unconductive, while metallic ions diffused in water (like SALT, LITERALLY SODIUM (METAL) CHLORIDE) increases it's electric conductivity drastically. Anything that makes water less pure h2o is called an impurity. Just like any different metals present in gold. Camels do not directly store water in their humps; they are reservoirs of fatty tissue. When this tissue is metabolized, it yields a greater mass of water to evaporate from the lungs during respiration. Since oxygen is required for the metabolic process, there still is a net decrease in water, but it is still more than 90% efficient. Camels use this adaptation to store excess fat tissue, then convert and immediately use water from these reserves to sustain water intake when needed. Because of the way you describe objective scientific facts as "pushed on agendas" and "psuedoscience" makes me believe you should get yourself checked out for schizophrenia or psychosis. These are seriously not based in reality. Perhaps some religious undertones are at play altering your perception of science, but please dont share your delusions with others on the internet to misinform them.
@@AdhvaithSane you're right, researching something youve 'learned' from someone else will also; A. Find out the answer isn't 100% correct and not believe it. B. Even when it is correct, the incident of learning it will be more memorable (Personal Experience)
A notable exception to the “cutting worms in half” myth is hammerhead worms, which _do_ become two separate worms when split in half. That’s why they’re such an invasive species, bc they’re nigh impossible to kill outside of dissolving them.
In case you’re curious about how to dissolve them: 1. Put worm in a container. 2. Pour some vinegar or salt into the container. 3. Seal the container shut. 4. Stick it in the freezer for 2 days or until it’s dissolved. Don’t feel bad, these things are terrible for the environment. They feed on earthworms, which are very important for the ecosystem.
Whenever I hear someone mention that you swallow a certain number of spiders I always say “that’s a myth. Spiders love moist and dark places so it’s probably way more”
@@viceversaanimates7398 Yeah I know, it’s just really funny to say to the people that are claiming some specific number because they have no clue if it’s true or not. They’re just blindly copying the fun facts page they saw on facebook. Gotta fight misinformation with more misinformation
The reason why bullfighting capes are red by the way? Not only is red the color of passion and drama, but matadors hide their swords in the red cape and stab the bull as it charges past, and what better color to mask the bloodstains? There's a reason it's called "bullfighting" and not "bull-happy-funtime-hour"
1:58 Bro the tongue myth was taught at my college chemistry lab and I flat out refused it because I could taste on all my buds 🤣 4:32 While tomatoes are fruits, they are also considered vegetables. The term "vegetable" is not scientific, but rather a culinary term, in which tomatoes amongst leafy greens and other types of plants are described as. It's similar to saying "Lettuce is actually a leaf, not a vegetable".
The tongue thing is not a myth. Saying some parts of the tongue are responsible for different tastes means that some parts are MORE SENSITIVE to some tastes. If anyone thinks that those parts can sense only one taste, well that's just a misunderstanding.
I've literally caught my dog eating cat shit, especially when my old now deceased cat had stomach problems and would have liquid shit she could hardly control. The fact that my parents still let that dog lick their face is absurd to me.
The sun is closer than Sirius, so it naturally appears brighter. But in terms of the brightest star, that title goes to Sirius as it’s only 8.611 light years away from Earth compared to the Sun's 93 million miles (149 million kilometers)
#3 is incorrect. Goldfish secrete a growth limiting hormone. This builds up in their aquarium and limits the size of their growth. If they are released into a lake or large pond, they will then grow to a large size. This is a natural adaptation that will limit their growth if they become too overcrowded, or if they become stuck in a small body of water. A goldfish in an aquarium that receives frequent large water changes will grow bigger than one in an aquarium that receives fewer water changes. You can easily look up pictures of goldfish released into lakes or ponds that have grown to a very large size.
was about to say this, also they lose their color in the wild either naturally or after interbreeding with carps because they're basically just a breed of carp. had to look it up as there are carps and goldfish in a local pond and i was looking for a way to id a carp from a brown goldfish. the easiest way besides counting scales, carps have a moustache and goldfish don't. but then there's also the japanese koi fish who look like goldfish but have the stache... not sure if they can turn brown tho.
@@qwru4863It's just the class of star, based on how hot it is. The sun emits what seems like a white light but you can see in photos observing sunspots or when looking through eclipse glasses that the sun is overall yellow.
@@Ciprian-IonutPanaitcommon misconception. It’s white right now, but as our sun begins to turn into a red giant it will reach a point where it actually is yellow.
Similar to giving cats milk, you shouldn't feed birds breadcrumbs. Bread isn't nutritiously viable, and fills them up, so they don't eat proper food. Too much bread can lead to vitamin deficiency or even starvation.
I love how you explain why the misconceptions aren't true rather than just saying they aren't true, except for the more common ones where people might have already heard that they aren't true but they just refuse to believe it
Not completely colourblind. There’s different types of colourblindness. Complete colourblindness is called Achromatopsia. The one he described for dogs seems to be either Protanopia or Deuteranopia which is a colourblindness to reds and greens respectively, making others see mostly blues and yellows.
@@ShockInazuma That is correct, however, when most people talk about colorblindness, they talk about the inability to distinguish certain colors, not achromatopsia
@@kittenchopper4646that’s just not true, I’d say more times than not if you asked someone what colorblindness is they’d say “you can’t see colors you only see black and white” because ppl are uninformed
“Tomatoes aren’t vegetables, they’re fruits” is actually a common misconception in of itself. “Vegetable” is a culinary term referring to any kind of plant matter used for cooking, while “fruit” is a scientific term referring to any kind of seeded plant mass. Since tomatoes fit both of these descriptions, tomatoes are both fruits AND vegetables. This also applies to cucumbers, eggplants, squash, pumpkins, and many other vegetable fruits.
@@PixeledPuffball Well apples aren’t typically used for cooking spare from desserts, and it is generally accepted that vegetables aren’t sweet. I guess to be more specific you could define a vegetable as any nonsweet plant matter used in cooking.
My favourite one is the frog one, cause the guy who did the experiment technically proved it right. However, the only way he got the frogs to stay in the water gradually heating was by removing the frog's brain.
this "experiment" is nearly never meant to represent the actual process of slow cooking frogs but as a metaphor for other things and most typically societal short comings, political nonsense or other more colloquial uses.
Kudos to this champ! Goes to show you can make a profitable TH-cam channel with only putting in a half hour of research per video. If you get something wrong people will comment on it which drives engagement even more! I salute you sir
I think it’s more like “check this out on your own time” considering its 6 minutes covering a ridiculous amount of topics. It’s tells you what to know and if your curious or think it’s wrong you can investigate more
@@Vexmaxxing i've heard both that a monk said it and that pagan one, im scandi and it apperantly comes from norse paganisim which is called 'yule' in english but in modern scandinavian countries yule and christmas are the same holiday and we call it 'jul' (which is pronounced like yule). So i have no idea if its a ''left-over'' from it or if its the monk thing or just is what it is. Yule was originally like the reverse of midsummer, it was to celebrate the sun coming back or the days getting lighter and not darker (as it gets darker after midsummer)
@@SagaRydberg Im a practising norse pagan Christians use the genealogy to get the date exact and it lands on December 25th, this is backed by multiple historians Norse Paganism didnt have an influence with Christian till about a thousand years after when Christians were met with invaders from the east coast of the UK. Winter Solstice is Yule and the Solstice is the 21st of December, but back then they likely did not have the exact dates we have today so its again up to interpretation Edit: since converted to LDS, best decision ive made ngl
1:43 "average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Yeah, but I know a few people that are that stupid, and I have seen quite a few stupid animals to, not everyone can be smart, if everyone was smart, then no one would be.
1:38 it’s advised to not eat ice cream whilst you have a cold, as that makes your body have to use energy to return to the ideal body temperature, which is higher when you have a cold. It’s the same reason why people get higher temperatures when they have a fever
Yeah, that and you know... It's not good to flood your gut with sugar when your immune system is already struggling to fight off an infection of some kind
This does not have any credible scientific backing. First, research shows that using fever reducers does not increase the time in which you are ill or how ill you get. Most doctors will recommend patients use fever reducers if it provides more comfort as your immune cells are really what does the job. Second, this energy requirement would not be significant enough to affect your illness in anyway unless you were already hypothermic and struggling to keep warm. The perceived feeling of "chills" is different and is the natural response to trigger shivering which warms you from the movement.
About Carrots.. One of the biggest symptoms of vitamin A deficiency is night blindness... Carrots absolutely help with seeing in the dark, because they supply vitamin A to the photorecepters called rods. Specifically Vit A helps turnover retinal from a light sensing protein called opsin.
The answer to #32 is actually quite a misconception itself. The connection of the date of Christmas and pagan holidays is surprisingly lacking in historical evidence. The TH-cam channel “Inspiring Philosophy” does a great job of explaining it. 🤙
Yeah, it's most likely that the date was selected since it was the recorded date for the solstice at the time. Some other festivals and holidays likely fall around that time because they also viewed the solstice as significant.
#42: Technically still true. Tomatoes are BOTANICALLY classified as fruits due to bearing seeds within them, but they can also be CULTURALLY thought of as a vegetable. A "vegetable" really has no botanical definition. Ergo, food can be both a vegetable and a fruit at the same time, as it's like comparing apples to oranges (fruit pun intended).
I'm the one responsible for spreading misinformation in my region and everyone here is shocked with this video, maybe check you local misinformation spreading center and voice your concerns.
@@Zahoblazethe headteacher at my primary school - "boys must keep their fringes short to keep the hair out of the eyes, otherwise you'll get a squint. Another was - Wednesday got its name because it was the day weddings usually happened.
#10 is a half-truth. The earth’s orbit does change quite a bit in its distance from the sun, but any effects that would have on seasons are mitigated by the fact that the northern hemisphere is mostly land and the southern is mostly water
The Earth is furthest from the sun in early July, closest in January. This is due to the ellipticity of the earth's orbit. It makes a detectable difference in several things (like power available from solar energy) and the actual solar day deviates up to about 12 minutes from the average solar day through the year.
its the tilt of the earth. distance from the sun is not a factor. the hemisphere receiving more direct sunlight experiences summer and the other winter as the earth orbits the sun the tilt of the earth proceeds and the seasons flip.
The misconception wasn't about whether dogs are colorblind or not. It's referencing the idea that it's common for movies and media to depict dogs as only seeing black or white, which spread among common belief and is the actual misconception he was correcting.
Technically black and white vision is also colourblindness, just one of the many types, specially the rarest. Achromatopsia is black and white vision, but blue/yellow vision would be called Tritanopia in humans
@@BallisticWistfullyExactly, colorblindness is a human concept. To us humans yes the dog would be « colorblind » but from a dog point of view, the dog sees colors the same as all other dogs, thus we can’t speak about colorblindness.
An add on to the whole bull thing, not only do they only attack the curtain because the waviness over the color, if you stand completely still and not appear like a threat, it will not attack you. A bunch of college students stood still in a grid like pattern and one of them ran. The bull tried its best to dodge the people standing still whilst still running after the person running away.
Biologist here. 50 is extreme oversimplification. Human body is not coal power plant and cannot be explained by simple calories intake subtraction. The meal timing, frequency and nutrients conusmed DO matter.
Back in the school days i’ve read about some experiments of soviet scientists who were testing the probability theory by flipping coins for around 50000 times (different guys did different amount of flips, but the highest score was around this amount) and the results were actually coming close to 50%/50% chance (the more flips guys did, the closer the chance get). If somebody knows the names of scientists in question or can elaborate, please do it as i don’t know where to search for it
For the 10th one about Earth being closer to the sun during summer: While this is false and while it is true that seasons are determined by the Earth's tilt, it is also important to note that due to the Earth's elliptical orbit, we have two points of the Earth's rotational orbit which we call the "Perihelion" and the "Aphelion." The Perihelion is the point of Earth's elliptical orbit where it is the closest to the sun, and the Aphelion is the point where it is the farthest from the sun. The Perihelion of Earth's orbit is during January (Winter) and the Aphelion is during July (Summer).
Nutritionist here. Eating at night makes you gain more weight because sleeping on a full stomach doesn’t allow your body to properly digest the food, as you are laying down and in a less active state of homeostasis. The body cannot efficiently digest food in these instances. That being said he’s technically correct in his phrasing, as the timing of eating does not matter. As long as you’ve given your body a couple hours to digest before sleeping, there will be no unusual consequences to eating at night.
It’s kinda the same with the “the cold will make you sick” misconception. The cold itself doesn’t make you sick but it can limit your immune system, making it harder to fight off infections.
Thank you I was going to say all the men in my family have big guts from eating late and beer, I literally gain a pant size when I eat before bed versus when I eat 4 hours before bed
Carrots contain carotene which is converted to retinoids in 3 forms (retinol, retinal, and retinoic acid) which all have a beta-ionone, all trans ring with 4 double bonds. They are used to make a pigment called rhodopsin, the pigment in rods of the eye that allow for photoreception. Carrots do help with vision and improve night blindness.
Carrots improve vision in those with an already deteriorated vision due to certain causes. A disorder like night blindness or "nyctalopia" can be improved with carrots but carrots cannot enhance or help with a level of vision that is already within normal standards.
True but it has no effect on temperature, differences in temperature across seasons is due to the earth’s tilt; the half of the earth tilted towards the sun absorbs the same amount of light across a larger area, hence a lower temperature, and vice versa. As the earth progresses in its orbit the part that tilts towards the sun changes, hence seasons rotate year round.
I don't think so, since the earth's orbit's eccentricity doesn't line up with the seasons, and is *much* more pronounced than the slight different a tilt makes.
@@bolt7 The earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees! which actually has a huge impact on light distribution. This explanation is also widely considered to be correct. Here’s some more information if you’re interested! www.weather.gov/lmk/seasons#:~:text=The%20earth's%20spin%20axis%20is,away%2C%20winter%20can%20be%20expected.
To be fair, Earth *does* change it's distance from Sun. The difference between the farthest and the closest is ~5 million kilometers. But it affects the temperature minimally.
Vitamin A actually aids with night vision! Vitamin A is a precursor of rhodopsin, the photopigment found in rods within the retina of our eye that helps us to see at night. While it may not directly affect it, it's definitely useful in aiding eye health which the direct cause of night blindness.
In fact, the first automobile was invented by the French military engineer Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in 1769 and it used a small steam engine to power a 2 ton monstruosity called the "Fardier à vapeur" which he thought would be useful to tract cannons for the French royal army. Benz invented the first gasoline powered automobile. It's telling that in the English-speaking world people attribute inventions to predominantly english people. Nikolas Tesla invented the radio, not Marconi, Denis Papin (who also invented the pressure cooker) invented the steam engine, not James Watt who perfected it, etc.
The thing about being closer to the sun in summer is both true and false. In the northern hemisphere, we are closest to the sun in winter, not summer. However the opposite is true for the southern hemisphere. However I get what you were trying to say. Summer is due to the tilt of the earth, not the distance between the earth and sun.
Wait how does the coin toss thing work? How is it more probable that the side facing up at the start of the toss wins? Doesn't that all depend on flicking speed, spin, height of the toss, etc.?
its not more probable. There are many factors that affect the outcome of a coin toss yet mathematically and in every way that counts, it is a strict 50/50.
@@perfectlyimperfectgirl2631 I do not use any social media . Used to have a FB account years ago until I developed software for it and then renounced it. I am just saying Australia is an island full of animals bent to kill humans and is often they come into your home including snakes and spiders.
Tomatoes are fruits AND vegetables like eggplants, zucchinis and many others… Vegetable is a culinary term meaning plants that we eat (mostly associated with salt but not necessarily) that can be leaves, flowers, fruits… A fruit has a botanic definition so you can be a botanic fruit AND a culinary vegetable, like tomatoes!
Its not universally poor. Actually the conversion rate adapts to your current Vit.A need. Also cooking plant until theyre soft helps with digesting any micronutrients from plants. Also consuming Vit. A(or beta carotin in the case of carrots), D, E, K with a sufficient amount of fatty acids, significantly increases bioabsorption.
@@CommanderKappa For vitamin a it's much better to eat something like eggs. The conversion rate of beta carotene is about 1:12. It's true that ingesting certain things alongside beta carotene will increase it's absorption rate but your body doesn't magically get better at converting beta carotene if you have a defficiency. It will convert more if it needs more, but it doesn't get better at it.
@@ZTRCTGuy There's no evidence that vegans, (those may only get Vit.A from Beta Carotine), are at risk of a vitamin a deficiency, UNLESS they have genetic defect that inhibits the production of that enzyme that converts BC to VA.
That's what colorblind means, not that you can't see colors, rather not being able to distinguish two specific colors, leaving you with a diminished spectrum of color you can see, in that sense dogs are literally colorblind in the same way some people are
3:25 The explanation is also wrong, most scholars now believe the reason for Christmas was because early christians had already coincided on the date for the annunciation and incarnation, so December 25 coincided with 9 months after that date. The channel Religionforbreakfast has a good video explaining this
Overcharging isn't the problem. The problem is your phone is still consuming power while charging. So while it's at 100%, it's constantly using energy and then gaining it back. Every time you do this though the less effective the battery gets at holding a charge.
Also, my friend worked at a phone store where they left the display phones plugged in for about 18 months straight until they finally sold them. She said that every phone they left plugged in had a bulging battery, and in the years before this became common procedure they would unplug the phones every night and none of those ever had a bulging battery.
It should be able to disconnect the battery and run directly on the power being fed to it, at least I would be very surprised if it didn’t do that. Wikipedia says: “Simply storing lithium-ion batteries in the charged state also reduces their capacity (the amount of cyclable Li+) and increases the cell resistance (primarily due to the continuous growth of the solid electrolyte interface on the anode).”
@@circuit10 that would make the circuits in the phone subject to any voltage/current fluctuations with the current coming from the charger. it'd be like swimming in a small lake vs swimming in the river that leads to the lake.
@@thisfeatureissostupid Laptops especially gaming laptops do infact take power directly from the adapter(charger) when plugged in and not from the battery. Although battery still acts like a buffer incase of power fluctuations. But phones only charge the battery while plugged in, so it takes power from the battery exclusively unlike laptops.
"dogs aren't colour blind... they just have difficulty distinguishing between green and red" remind me again what is one of the most common types of colour blindness in human, oh, red-green where it is difficult to tell between green and red, oh geez maybe, no, dogs can't be colour blind when compared to humans. In all honesty tho humans seem colour blind when compared to other species so we are all colour blind, just some more then others.
@@thewitness8321 no, therefor i am colour blind when compared to animals that can see UV light, tho i can see a bit into the infrared light spectrum which is fun but still
What’s really annoying about this is, if you attempt to correct someone on it, they’re almost always going to be adamant they’re correct unless you show them actual proof lmao
Fossil fuel comes from many sources not just plants. Most of the coal comes from plants, especially from one era (Carboniferous). But oil mostly comes from plankton and algae.
@@AdhvaithSane all fossil fuels are organic. they're carbon based. thats why theyre called fossil fuels. (correct me if theres some big exception which i have missed)
Finally SOMEONE says it! Too many people give their cats milk when they aren't supposed to and we can thank old cartoons and the media for that blunder.
For the 5th one, it's not due to air force being the reason why dropping a penny from a skyscraper won't kill you, but the fact that the force of impact is just very, very low. Let's say we're dropping a penny from the top of Empire State Building, which is 1250 feet above ground, on a 5 foot tall man. 1250 feet would be equal to 381 meters and 5 feet would be 1.524 meters. Subtracting the two, we get 379.476 meters which is the distance the penny will travel. Using the kinematic equation for distance, d=1/2gt^2 where g is the acceleration due to gravity on Earth = 9.81 m/s^2, d = 379.476, and t is unknown, we get 379.476 = 1/2(9.81)t^2 379.476 = 4.905t^2 sq379.476 = sq4.905t 19.48 = 2.21t t = 8.81 seconds, where t is the time it takes for the penny to drop from the top of the Empire State to the head of the man. Now, find the velocity. vf = vi + gt, where vf is the final velocity which we are trying to evaluate, vi is the initial velocity which equals zero, t is time which is 8.81 seconds, and a is the acceleration due to gravity being 9.81 m/s^2. So we can use the Impulse-Momentum equation to estimate the force. Since vi = 0, we get vf = gt v = gt v = (9.81)(8.81) v = 86.4261 m/s which is the FINAL speed that the penny moves in Finally, to find the calculate force, we use the impulse-momentum formula which is: F = mv/t, with mv calculating the momentum and t being the time. The approximate mass of a penny in kilograms is 0.0025 kilograms. Now, since we're calculating the FORCE of IMPACT, we would need to calculate the Impact force. In this face, we don't use 8.81 seconds as the time for this formula because the impact force would be exactly when the penny hits the head of the man, which will be a VERY small amount of time. Let's say 0.01 seconds. F = (0.0025 kg)(86.4261 m/s) / (0.01s) F = ~ 21.61 Newtons. To put that number up to comparison, the average swing of a bat is about 300-500 newtons. It takes approximately 3500-5000 newtons to kill the average human. Therefore, dropping a penny on the head of a man from the top of the empire state building will do very little damage.
First of all, that coin is gonna be flipping midair, massively reducing speed, and using force isnt good for "would it penetrate your skull", you only care abiut pressure there
misconception 32 is quite the misconception itself. the earliest record stating that Sol Invictus was in December 25 comes long after christianity was a famous and state religion, making it more likely that pagans adapted their holyday instead. More likely, early christians probably calculated when mary became pregnant from various details in the new testament and jewish traditions then added 9 months. This is shown in the book "Christmas - theological anticipations". However, there is many other early calculations for christmas that are not followed today. The point is about celebrating Jesus's birth since it is given importance by 2 of the gospels; not the specific date. i doubt if we knew the exact date of jesus's birth it would change how people behave about christmas.
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I remember in first grade, our teacher made us drink 8 glasses of water in a row and said that's all we needed for the day lol. She even made us bring our own glasses.
Stupidest misconception ever. How can it be 8 glasses for everyone. Yeah let's give an athlete who runs marathons versus a kid who's in school and 20kg bodyweight the same recommended water intake.
Dietary nutrition student here! The time of day itself generally doesn’t matter in terms of becoming fat from eating, but since most people don’t do much other than sleeping at night, their body won’t consume as many calories as it would during the day. So it’s good to have a little night snack if you feel like you haven’t eaten enough during the day, but since your body will turn glucose gained from foods into fats when not used, and fats are harder for your body to turn into energy than glucose, it’s generally best to avoid eating at night if you can avoid it.
42: worse. They are both. Vegetable is a culinary term, not botanical. Vegetables are all edible parts of a plant that are not a fruits, grains or nuts. Fruits (in culinary) are all edible parts of the plants that have a sweet or tart (as in orange or kiwi) taste. In fact, vegetables don't exist in botany. So, tomatoes are vegetables, but only when being cooked or eaten. The very same way peanuts are also nuts. Culinary nuts.
0:52 Actually, the earth is indeed closer to the sun during summer. Even though the seasons are a consequence of the translation of the earth around the sun coupled with the tilt of the earth axis, the earth is indeed closer to the sun in the summer and further in the winter. This is due to the shape of the earth's translation path being an elipse and not a circle. When the earth is closer to the sun is called aphelion and normally it is on July, and when is the furthest its called perihelion, and normally occurs on December or January.
If the earth is close to the sun in summer (assuming northern hemisphere) then how the fuck it's winter in the other hemisphere. Also the earth's orbit is very close to a circle, so it doesn't affect that much.
@@thewarmachine3732it's about photon density How many photons across which area? That's where the tilt matters, more angle = more area but the number of photons is the same
Although most worms you would think of, like earthworms, wont duplicate, there is actually a species of flatworm (a planarian) called a hammerhead worm which does indeed duplicate if cut into pieces by use of very powerful pluripotent stem cells
you can't stop me from duplicating worms
D:
Worm army 🪱🪱🪱
I love worms 🪱 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱
We will have many worm clones
The worm arsenal they are my FAVORITE ANIMALS and btw they fucking conquered the americas upon arrival. *WORM EMPIRE!!!!*
my brother was in a band called popular misconception. when people all said they were a good band, the band always said "yeah that's a popular misconception."
How many albums that they produce?
@SuryaBudimansyah well their a popular misconception
is it "the popular misconceptions" on spotify? If it is i really liked the one song
@@yalinnalp i seriously doubt it but i'll have a look soon and get back to you.
@@yalinnalp i posted a link to a video from the guitarist of them from 92 but it doesn't seem to be here now...wtf youtube?
Fun fact: the story that carrots imporve eyesight in the dark comes from ww2.
You see, the brits had a knew piece of technology, the radar, and they wanted to keep it a secret. And how did they explain that they were seeing enemy bombers in the night? They said, the pilots eat lots of carrots, that improve their night vision!
And also they wanted to trick the Germans by creating bad propaganda, making the Germans think the British were incompetent
You sound like one of those shorts TH-camr that explain random shit that people proclaim and debunk it
i heard somewhere that during WW2 when the british supplies were low, they found carrots to be easy to farm to feed the masses, so they started propaganda saying it magically improved your eyesight to encourage consumption of them
i believe my source is food theory, tho it has been a while
(yes the matpat channel)
It was the french that had the radar mf
While "improving" night vision likely is myth, there is some basis to say that Vitamin A (and hence carrots, in the form of β-carotene) will "improve" it in cases of deficiency. Eating carrots beyond that point might turn your skin orange won't improve vision.
[Vitamin A deficiency in the retina primarily affects the rods, which results in night blindness]
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835581/
I KNEW ABOUT THE TASTEBUDS. I was in elementary school and i wondered if your whole mouth could taste so i put a skittle on the roof of my mouth. AND I TOLD MY TEACHER and she had the class LAUGH AT ME. geniuses truly aren’t appreciated in their time
the class laughed at you?? 😭😭😭
bro my biology books are legit filled to the brim with these misconceptions. The alpha wolves, the praying Mantis, even the carrots and eyes myth. And then people in my nation wonder why we are always considered slow and underdeveloped with the rest of the Europe
You think you're a genius because of an observation?
I knew about it too, and I know the tounge tastes every flavor the same, but don't certain parts technically taste it stronger too?
God I knew this as a child as well when I had to take awful medicine when sick. The logic was simple: if only certain parts of the tounge could sense certain tastes, I just had to avoid them while taking the medicine. It never worked of course
I'm baffled at the fact that your teacher made the class laugh at you, its insane they leave these fucking clowns to be teachers
"eating ice-cream while sick doesn't make you sicker" going to use that with my parents everytime now
Parents definitely made that one up
That one surprised me. My parents and even my doctor suggested eating ice cream whenever i had a cold as a kid.
Makes sense though, the cooling effect and the happiness might contribute a little to getting well.
@@DonVayaCornholio happiness has significant contributions to disease prevention and recovery. You tend to care for yourself better when you are happy and your immune system tends to work overtime
It's not the cold. It's the effect of the milk on mucus production which does increase. Making your symptoms worse. It doesn't make you sicker. You just show more
@@DonVayaCornholioice cream is good for soothing your tonsil. Your cold could have been a light tonsillitis. That would explain the docter's recommendation.
My favourite type of common misconception is "annoyed parents don't want their child doing something but can't come up with an actual reason it's bad for them, then they never admit it."
I'm confused... are you saying that's true or false? It's a sore spot for me because recently, at my daughter's sports day, she was chastised for pulling her cardigan up over her head while she was waiting in line for her turn. I asked why it was a problem and received the BS answer that she wasn't being engaged. She performed better than most of the other kids despite feeling very nervous and overwhelmed (which is why she had it over her head). Nobody could admit that she wasn't actually doing anything worth stopping. It was sad. Rant over.
@@martincattell6820 True. I meant as a genre/classification of origin
then it's a сommon concept/injustice
Them not wanting you to do that thing is a reason in itself. What don’t they want you doing?
You sound like a child that's just been sent to his room
No intro, no outro, lots of examples given to help understand, slow pace speaking but gets through all the concepts fast, too good .
Yes. But don’t believe everything you hear or even see.
@@AdhvaithSaneOkay, so i won‘t believe this comment, bc. the ytber actually gave examples, while you just were cryptic
Well. I didn’t say anything you couldn’t believe or we could disagree on, I’m just saying that if you’re gonna believe whatever information that “makes sense” to you but not whether if it is objectively true or false, then you *must* at least do some of your own research into all information you believe in (if you research very well that is) to verify and determine what it is actually true or not.
*I already debunked some of these “debunks” of every common “misconception”* which the channel owner could have easily fixed if he actually put in the time and effort to researching about these “misconceptions” which doesn’t take that long or that much effort either.
*Go see my other comments, and you’ll see some of the corrections and explanations I posted.*
@@AdhvaithSaneYou seem outright delusional to me. Everything explained in the video is true. I'll adress some of the comments you made.
The perception of the sun in the color yellow IS due to atmospheric scattering. The earth's atmosphere scatters the smaller wavelengths of sun light more effectively, causing blue light to be predominant (hence the color of the atmosphere being blue) and the sun when looked at directly as yellow. Colors of larger wavelengths can be perceived during sunset and sunrise due to the tilt of the location opposing the sun. Light intensity (luminous flux) has nothing to do with it, as the sun's color perceived in the international space station is completely white, while the surface under the atmosphere perceives it as yellow.
The unconductivity of water due to the presence of impurities is the exact and correct way to explain it. Pure H2O is inherently unconductive, while metallic ions diffused in water (like SALT, LITERALLY SODIUM (METAL) CHLORIDE) increases it's electric conductivity drastically. Anything that makes water less pure h2o is called an impurity. Just like any different metals present in gold.
Camels do not directly store water in their humps; they are reservoirs of fatty tissue. When this tissue is metabolized, it yields a greater mass of water to evaporate from the lungs during respiration. Since oxygen is required for the metabolic process, there still is a net decrease in water, but it is still more than 90% efficient. Camels use this adaptation to store excess fat tissue, then convert and immediately use water from these reserves to sustain water intake when needed.
Because of the way you describe objective scientific facts as "pushed on agendas" and "psuedoscience" makes me believe you should get yourself checked out for schizophrenia or psychosis. These are seriously not based in reality. Perhaps some religious undertones are at play altering your perception of science, but please dont share your delusions with others on the internet to misinform them.
@@AdhvaithSane you're right, researching something youve 'learned' from someone else will also;
A. Find out the answer isn't 100% correct and not believe it.
B. Even when it is correct, the incident of learning it will be more memorable
(Personal Experience)
Who the F thinks Adidas stands for "all day I dream about sports"..
...people who dream about sports all day?
Sounds like something made up on the playground
It was a common myth in the 90’s and early 2000’s, Korn made a parody song called All Day I Dream About Sex
@@koen5396 korn mentioned!! rare day 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
you are not a person of culture then
A notable exception to the “cutting worms in half” myth is hammerhead worms, which _do_ become two separate worms when split in half. That’s why they’re such an invasive species, bc they’re nigh impossible to kill outside of dissolving them.
In case you’re curious about how to dissolve them:
1. Put worm in a container.
2. Pour some vinegar or salt into the container.
3. Seal the container shut.
4. Stick it in the freezer for 2 days or until it’s dissolved.
Don’t feel bad, these things are terrible for the environment. They feed on earthworms, which are very important for the ecosystem.
Whenever I hear someone mention that you swallow a certain number of spiders I always say “that’s a myth. Spiders love moist and dark places so it’s probably way more”
You watch CGP?
@@viceversaanimates7398 Yup, learned it from him 😂
@@Orrinn123 that is actually not true lol, he lied because he couldn't find any evidence, as a joke.
@@viceversaanimates7398 Yeah I know, it’s just really funny to say to the people that are claiming some specific number because they have no clue if it’s true or not. They’re just blindly copying the fun facts page they saw on facebook.
Gotta fight misinformation with more misinformation
My friends have a joke where there’s just one person swallowing billions of spiders and skewing the numbers for the rest of us
The reason why bullfighting capes are red by the way? Not only is red the color of passion and drama, but matadors hide their swords in the red cape and stab the bull as it charges past, and what better color to mask the bloodstains? There's a reason it's called "bullfighting" and not "bull-happy-funtime-hour"
Black? I guess?
That sounds plausible, as well catching the attention of the spectators if not the bull.
wait wtf they stab the bulls? i seriously did not know that
@@realElectroZap well, not anymore, at least not legally.
@@Nitecookie oh ok
1:58 Bro the tongue myth was taught at my college chemistry lab and I flat out refused it because I could taste on all my buds 🤣
4:32 While tomatoes are fruits, they are also considered vegetables. The term "vegetable" is not scientific, but rather a culinary term, in which tomatoes amongst leafy greens and other types of plants are described as. It's similar to saying "Lettuce is actually a leaf, not a vegetable".
the point is that tomatos were classified as vegetables for tax/import reasons, not physical ones
@@Nazuiko Hmm I didn't know that! All things lead back to taxes huh.
The tongue thing is not a myth. Saying some parts of the tongue are responsible for different tastes means that some parts are MORE SENSITIVE to some tastes. If anyone thinks that those parts can sense only one taste, well that's just a misunderstanding.
what courses are you taking? good luck!
These tastebuds are just sense signals came from your brain
anyone that thinks a dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans mouth has not seen what my dog does with his tongue
Or his mouth. 💩
Show me video of your dog being nasty, and then we'll visit orange youtube. Spoiler: your dog would be cleaner
I've literally caught my dog eating cat shit, especially when my old now deceased cat had stomach problems and would have liquid shit she could hardly control.
The fact that my parents still let that dog lick their face is absurd to me.
What’s that supposed to mean? you aren’t doing anything to your dog are you?
@@SolidGizmo
Nah dude their talking about how dogs eat shit, barf, other gross stuff. I caught my dogs drinking eachothers piss the other day.
"The North Star is not the brightest star is the sky, that title belongs to Sirius"
Sun: "Excuse me?"
How can the sun be the brightest star in the night sky?
They are obviously talking about stars other than the sun there.
@@listerofsmeg884Obviously, but it was never mentioned that it's the night sky, and also: It's a joke, please don't take it seriously
@@anonymus9570 I'm not. Just responding to a stupid comment
The sun is closer than Sirius, so it naturally appears brighter. But in terms of the brightest star, that title goes to Sirius as it’s only 8.611 light years away from Earth compared to the Sun's 93 million miles (149 million kilometers)
@@listerofsmeg884 the stupid comment in question is a joke
#3 is incorrect. Goldfish secrete a growth limiting hormone. This builds up in their aquarium and limits the size of their growth. If they are released into a lake or large pond, they will then grow to a large size. This is a natural adaptation that will limit their growth if they become too overcrowded, or if they become stuck in a small body of water. A goldfish in an aquarium that receives frequent large water changes will grow bigger than one in an aquarium that receives fewer water changes. You can easily look up pictures of goldfish released into lakes or ponds that have grown to a very large size.
Published headline: "Goldfish dumped in lakes growing to more than 1ft, threatening ecosystems"
Thank you I thought i knew that goldfish one wasn't true
🤓
was about to say this, also they lose their color in the wild either naturally or after interbreeding with carps because they're basically just a breed of carp. had to look it up as there are carps and goldfish in a local pond and i was looking for a way to id a carp from a brown goldfish. the easiest way besides counting scales, carps have a moustache and goldfish don't. but then there's also the japanese koi fish who look like goldfish but have the stache... not sure if they can turn brown tho.
@@l3g1tfad34 you know what the video you watched was about right?
6:02 I realized just a couple years ago that the sun was yellow for the same reason the sky is blue; the atmosphere scatters the blue light
the sun is yellow because it is a yellow star. in the evening it shows red because little light can pass and red has the highest wave length
@@Ciprian-IonutPanait The sun is white
@@qwru4863It's just the class of star, based on how hot it is. The sun emits what seems like a white light but you can see in photos observing sunspots or when looking through eclipse glasses that the sun is overall yellow.
If you add all the blue light of the sky to the sun, it'll be back to it's original color : white.
@@Ciprian-IonutPanaitcommon misconception. It’s white right now, but as our sun begins to turn into a red giant it will reach a point where it actually is yellow.
Similar to giving cats milk, you shouldn't feed birds breadcrumbs. Bread isn't nutritiously viable, and fills them up, so they don't eat proper food. Too much bread can lead to vitamin deficiency or even starvation.
Yes! Please don't feed birds bread! If anything feeds veggies, low sugar fruits, feeder insects, or legumes.
@@zookeepersam888🤓☝️
@@anjuscuccosshut up please
@@anjuscuccos That’s not how to use the nerd emoji my guy
@@zookeepersam888I feed them my vitamin pills
I love how you explain why the misconceptions aren't true rather than just saying they aren't true, except for the more common ones where people might have already heard that they aren't true but they just refuse to believe it
"Dogs aren't colorblind. *proceeds to describe dogs as colorblind*"
Not completely colourblind. There’s different types of colourblindness. Complete colourblindness is called Achromatopsia. The one he described for dogs seems to be either Protanopia or Deuteranopia which is a colourblindness to reds and greens respectively, making others see mostly blues and yellows.
@@ShockInazuma That is correct, however, when most people talk about colorblindness, they talk about the inability to distinguish certain colors, not achromatopsia
@@kittenchopper4646that’s just not true, I’d say more times than not if you asked someone what colorblindness is they’d say “you can’t see colors you only see black and white” because ppl are uninformed
@@anonymous-ml8sl literally never heard anyone refer to colorblindness universally as black and white
The common misconception is that dogs see in black and white.
“Tomatoes aren’t vegetables, they’re fruits” is actually a common misconception in of itself. “Vegetable” is a culinary term referring to any kind of plant matter used for cooking, while “fruit” is a scientific term referring to any kind of seeded plant mass. Since tomatoes fit both of these descriptions, tomatoes are both fruits AND vegetables. This also applies to cucumbers, eggplants, squash, pumpkins, and many other vegetable fruits.
This 🙏
If vegetable are any plant matter used for cooking, are apples vegetables?
@@PixeledPuffball Well apples aren’t typically used for cooking spare from desserts, and it is generally accepted that vegetables aren’t sweet. I guess to be more specific you could define a vegetable as any nonsweet plant matter used in cooking.
@@GOATaro_ I thought tomatoes were sweet?
@@PixeledPuffball Would you eat a tomato for dessert?
My favourite one is the frog one, cause the guy who did the experiment technically proved it right. However, the only way he got the frogs to stay in the water gradually heating was by removing the frog's brain.
So what the experiment proved is animals without brains have a severely decreased survival instinct. Who would have guessed
this "experiment" is nearly never meant to represent the actual process of slow cooking frogs but as a metaphor for other things and most typically societal short comings, political nonsense or other more colloquial uses.
Why would you cook a frog in the first place? 🤮
5:36 you better not enrage my alpha wolf..... if you do, you'll see my TRUE form......
All types of frogs explained (I love frogs)
Me too
@@ThePaintExplainer let’s go you’re a real person 😂 🐸
We all know a MILF (Man I Love Frogs).
I see you are a "Man, I Love Frogs" team
Same 🐸
0:39 Dear lord that looks like 6 year old me posing for a Christmas photo.
3:29 “the sun isn’t yellow, it’s chicken” - Bob Dylan
2:53 i thought it was the austrian painter
Hitler?
@@zerverGreat man
@@quantashonjamaldigglerbury4934yeah if he didn’t fail art school
actually he was a member of the painter's party
If he passed
0:39 LOOK GARY THERE I AM!!!
Kudos to this champ! Goes to show you can make a profitable TH-cam channel with only putting in a half hour of research per video. If you get something wrong people will comment on it which drives engagement even more! I salute you sir
most of This feels less like "debunking" and more like "this isn't correct. onto the next thing"
I think it’s more like “check this out on your own time” considering its 6 minutes covering a ridiculous amount of topics. It’s tells you what to know and if your curious or think it’s wrong you can investigate more
Well for one thing he’s blatantly wrong about the Christmas thing 😂
@@Vexmaxxing i've heard both that a monk said it and that pagan one, im scandi and it apperantly comes from norse paganisim which is called 'yule' in english but in modern scandinavian countries yule and christmas are the same holiday and we call it 'jul' (which is pronounced like yule). So i have no idea if its a ''left-over'' from it or if its the monk thing or just is what it is. Yule was originally like the reverse of midsummer, it was to celebrate the sun coming back or the days getting lighter and not darker (as it gets darker after midsummer)
@@SagaRydberg Im a practising norse pagan
Christians use the genealogy to get the date exact and it lands on December 25th, this is backed by multiple historians
Norse Paganism didnt have an influence with Christian till about a thousand years after when Christians were met with invaders from the east coast of the UK.
Winter Solstice is Yule and the Solstice is the 21st of December, but back then they likely did not have the exact dates we have today so its again up to interpretation
Edit: since converted to LDS, best decision ive made ngl
thats what debunking is btw...
1:43 "average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
This is why we should use the median and not the average
I'm surprised I didn't see the legend of gum staying in your stomach for several years here!!
Edit: I forgot there was a part one-
That’s already in another video
That's because it's in part 1 lol
@@ThePaintExplainer This video isn't titled 'part 2' lol
@@ThePaintExplainer Ah, I remember now! Dunno why it didn't say part 2 tho 😅
Watch Part 1 lil baby
3:52 its because, people put their foods on upper drawers, but they had to put cheese in lower drawers and mice could only eat them
Thank you for debunking the boiling frog myth. Living things aren't that stupid. I hate when people bring that myth up in an argument
"Living things aren't that stupid"
Buddy, have you ever met me?
Yeah, but I know a few people that are that stupid, and I have seen quite a few stupid animals to, not everyone can be smart, if everyone was smart, then no one would be.
Explain MAGAts then...🤣
Although one could argue that if it was a _committee_ of frogs...
@@rgarlinyc I couldn't imagine being controlled by politics that hard 💀
1:38 it’s advised to not eat ice cream whilst you have a cold, as that makes your body have to use energy to return to the ideal body temperature, which is higher when you have a cold. It’s the same reason why people get higher temperatures when they have a fever
Yeah, that and you know... It's not good to flood your gut with sugar when your immune system is already struggling to fight off an infection of some kind
People just take all these "facts" for granted without doing any actual research.
This does not have any credible scientific backing. First, research shows that using fever reducers does not increase the time in which you are ill or how ill you get. Most doctors will recommend patients use fever reducers if it provides more comfort as your immune cells are really what does the job. Second, this energy requirement would not be significant enough to affect your illness in anyway unless you were already hypothermic and struggling to keep warm. The perceived feeling of "chills" is different and is the natural response to trigger shivering which warms you from the movement.
nonsense. eating ice cream doesn’t affect core body temperature.
@@warrengroth5842you intake cold item, its gonna lower the surrounding temperature (your body)
straight to the point as usual. keep going!
About Carrots..
One of the biggest symptoms of vitamin A deficiency is night blindness... Carrots absolutely help with seeing in the dark, because they supply vitamin A to the photorecepters called rods. Specifically Vit A helps turnover retinal from a light sensing protein called opsin.
The answer to #32 is actually quite a misconception itself. The connection of the date of Christmas and pagan holidays is surprisingly lacking in historical evidence. The TH-cam channel “Inspiring Philosophy” does a great job of explaining it. 🤙
I was about to point it out myself, nice job 👍 (IP is the goat)
Yes
Yeah, it's most likely that the date was selected since it was the recorded date for the solstice at the time. Some other festivals and holidays likely fall around that time because they also viewed the solstice as significant.
And it's nine months after the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, aka Jesus' conception.
"Actually" 🤓. Stupid reddit nerd
#42: Technically still true. Tomatoes are BOTANICALLY classified as fruits due to bearing seeds within them, but they can also be CULTURALLY thought of as a vegetable. A "vegetable" really has no botanical definition. Ergo, food can be both a vegetable and a fruit at the same time, as it's like comparing apples to oranges (fruit pun intended).
yeah there where a lot of wrong things in this video which in themselves where misconceptions.
well botanically vegatables doesnt exist and everything (part that grows from the flower) is called a fruit.
@@blazewarkinglike what?
Maybe I live under a rock but I've never heard more than half of these. Who comes up with this stuff?
I'm the one responsible for spreading misinformation in my region and everyone here is shocked with this video, maybe check you local misinformation spreading center and voice your concerns.
Elementary schoolers. And sometimes movies.
There were a few I haven't heard of (like the one about adidas) and most of them I already knew to be false. Which feels pretty good.
@@Zahoblazethe headteacher at my primary school - "boys must keep their fringes short to keep the hair out of the eyes, otherwise you'll get a squint.
Another was - Wednesday got its name because it was the day weddings usually happened.
Right? Who here Is actually thinking of these 😭
#10 is a half-truth. The earth’s orbit does change quite a bit in its distance from the sun, but any effects that would have on seasons are mitigated by the fact that the northern hemisphere is mostly land and the southern is mostly water
the earths change in the distance from the sun barely affects the seasons at all. we’re so far away from it that the change is basically negligible
The Earth is furthest from the sun in early July, closest in January. This is due to the ellipticity of the earth's orbit. It makes a detectable difference in several things (like power available from solar energy) and the actual solar day deviates up to about 12 minutes from the average solar day through the year.
its the tilt of the earth. distance from the sun is not a factor. the hemisphere receiving more direct sunlight experiences summer and the other winter as the earth orbits the sun the tilt of the earth proceeds and the seasons flip.
Thank you i was trying to find this because the earth does not rotate in a perfect circle
1:21 That's literally what colorblindness is. Seems like we aren't the only ones falling to common misconceptions.
Was about to comment this. He was almost insinuating that colorblindess means you can't see color at all.
The misconception wasn't about whether dogs are colorblind or not. It's referencing the idea that it's common for movies and media to depict dogs as only seeing black or white, which spread among common belief and is the actual misconception he was correcting.
Technically black and white vision is also colourblindness, just one of the many types, specially the rarest. Achromatopsia is black and white vision, but blue/yellow vision would be called Tritanopia in humans
Colorblindness happens when you can't see colors in a normal way. Dogs see color like that normally, so it should not fall under colorblindness.
@@BallisticWistfullyExactly, colorblindness is a human concept. To us humans yes the dog would be « colorblind » but from a dog point of view, the dog sees colors the same as all other dogs, thus we can’t speak about colorblindness.
An add on to the whole bull thing, not only do they only attack the curtain because the waviness over the color, if you stand completely still and not appear like a threat, it will not attack you. A bunch of college students stood still in a grid like pattern and one of them ran. The bull tried its best to dodge the people standing still whilst still running after the person running away.
There were some of these that made me question how people believe it to be true
What, porcupines don't shoot their spikes???
Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, but he invented the assembly line, allowing for much greater production.
He did not invent the assembly line. He got the idea from the Chicago stockyards.
2:11 they live for 10 seconds when i pull out my bug spray
😭
Another great video! Love your channel.
Biologist here. 50 is extreme oversimplification. Human body is not coal power plant and cannot be explained by simple calories intake subtraction. The meal timing, frequency and nutrients conusmed DO matter.
You should do more of these! This is fun to watch and listen to.
Back in the school days i’ve read about some experiments of soviet scientists who were testing the probability theory by flipping coins for around 50000 times (different guys did different amount of flips, but the highest score was around this amount) and the results were actually coming close to 50%/50% chance (the more flips guys did, the closer the chance get). If somebody knows the names of scientists in question or can elaborate, please do it as i don’t know where to search for it
For the 10th one about Earth being closer to the sun during summer:
While this is false and while it is true that seasons are determined by the Earth's tilt, it is also important to note that due to the Earth's elliptical orbit, we have two points of the Earth's rotational orbit which we call the "Perihelion" and the "Aphelion." The Perihelion is the point of Earth's elliptical orbit where it is the closest to the sun, and the Aphelion is the point where it is the farthest from the sun. The Perihelion of Earth's orbit is during January (Winter) and the Aphelion is during July (Summer).
2:51 this name gives me some weird flashbacks
Yeah 😂
guess who he was good friends with
korn
When I clicked the time stamp, this is not quite what I was expecting…
cringe.
Nutritionist here. Eating at night makes you gain more weight because sleeping on a full stomach doesn’t allow your body to properly digest the food, as you are laying down and in a less active state of homeostasis. The body cannot efficiently digest food in these instances. That being said he’s technically correct in his phrasing, as the timing of eating does not matter. As long as you’ve given your body a couple hours to digest before sleeping, there will be no unusual consequences to eating at night.
So eating at night helps with bulking?
@@ber093 the core principle of calories in calories out still applies
It’s kinda the same with the “the cold will make you sick” misconception. The cold itself doesn’t make you sick but it can limit your immune system, making it harder to fight off infections.
@@derpythya8924 thats a good way to conceptualize this type of misconception. well said.
Thank you I was going to say all the men in my family have big guts from eating late and beer, I literally gain a pant size when I eat before bed versus when I eat 4 hours before bed
Carrots contain carotene which is converted to retinoids in 3 forms (retinol, retinal, and retinoic acid) which all have a beta-ionone, all trans ring with 4 double bonds. They are used to make a pigment called rhodopsin, the pigment in rods of the eye that allow for photoreception. Carrots do help with vision and improve night blindness.
@@jweursdfh4050 yep typo thanks
Get mad nerd
Carrots improve vision in those with an already deteriorated vision due to certain causes. A disorder like night blindness or "nyctalopia" can be improved with carrots but carrots cannot enhance or help with a level of vision that is already within normal standards.
Whaaaaaat, that’s actually crazy.
WOW!!!!! Very good. I was straighten out about a few of these, Keep them coming!!!!!!!!!
0:50 This actually depends on your hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere it is further away in the summer, but in the Southern hemisphere its closer
True but it has no effect on temperature, differences in temperature across seasons is due to the earth’s tilt; the half of the earth tilted towards the sun absorbs the same amount of light across a larger area, hence a lower temperature, and vice versa. As the earth progresses in its orbit the part that tilts towards the sun changes, hence seasons rotate year round.
I don't think so, since the earth's orbit's eccentricity doesn't line up with the seasons, and is *much* more pronounced than the slight different a tilt makes.
@@bolt7 The earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees! which actually has a huge impact on light distribution. This explanation is also widely considered to be correct. Here’s some more information if you’re interested!
www.weather.gov/lmk/seasons#:~:text=The%20earth's%20spin%20axis%20is,away%2C%20winter%20can%20be%20expected.
To be fair, Earth *does* change it's distance from Sun. The difference between the farthest and the closest is ~5 million kilometers. But it affects the temperature minimally.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 Is the effect more noticable near the equator?
So dogs aren’t color blind, they’re color blind
Bats aren't blind
This was mentioned in the previous version of this video.
@@DamianJoseph661 my bad. I probably took it from one of he's videos myself, my dumbass is too lazy to remember lol
@@gibbsduhem1066 memory recollection doesnt coincide with laziness. You can tell an entire detailed story while dying
@@TactileTherapy true. I can't argue with that
Vitamin A actually aids with night vision! Vitamin A is a precursor of rhodopsin, the photopigment found in rods within the retina of our eye that helps us to see at night. While it may not directly affect it, it's definitely useful in aiding eye health which the direct cause of night blindness.
Some of these I didn't even know existed
In fact, the first automobile was invented by the French military engineer Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in 1769 and it used a small steam engine to power a 2 ton monstruosity called the "Fardier à vapeur" which he thought would be useful to tract cannons for the French royal army.
Benz invented the first gasoline powered automobile.
It's telling that in the English-speaking world people attribute inventions to predominantly english people.
Nikolas Tesla invented the radio, not Marconi, Denis Papin (who also invented the pressure cooker) invented the steam engine, not James Watt who perfected it, etc.
1:00 so that’s why my chihuahua is like 20 and still going
The thing about being closer to the sun in summer is both true and false. In the northern hemisphere, we are closest to the sun in winter, not summer. However the opposite is true for the southern hemisphere.
However I get what you were trying to say. Summer is due to the tilt of the earth, not the distance between the earth and sun.
Fun fact: Tomatoes can be both vegetables and fruits. It's a fruit botanically and a vegetable in a culinary sense.
I literally tell ppl this all the time omg ty
Ahhhh that's the kind of quality content I love. Great work man!!!
Wait how does the coin toss thing work? How is it more probable that the side facing up at the start of the toss wins? Doesn't that all depend on flicking speed, spin, height of the toss, etc.?
I believe that it's an average of all of those things, but I'm not sure if its actually true
my guess is it's possible for the coin to not flip and just fall straight down, which in my book doesn't count as a coin flip, but that's just a guess
its not more probable. There are many factors that affect the outcome of a coin toss yet mathematically and in every way that counts, it is a strict 50/50.
in school we tested whether various materials conduct electricity. the water group found it didn't, but the teacher refused to believe it.
There's another common misconception
"Teacher understand what they are teaching"
1:46 spiders georg is a statistical outlier and therefore should not be counted
was just thinking of this
if you live in australua the myth might be true
I see you use tumblr as well
@@perfectlyimperfectgirl2631 I do not use any social media . Used to have a FB account years ago until I developed software for it and then renounced it. I am just saying Australia is an island full of animals bent to kill humans and is often they come into your home including snakes and spiders.
Tomatoes are fruits AND vegetables like eggplants, zucchinis and many others… Vegetable is a culinary term meaning plants that we eat (mostly associated with salt but not necessarily) that can be leaves, flowers, fruits… A fruit has a botanic definition so you can be a botanic fruit AND a culinary vegetable, like tomatoes!
There's no vitamin a in carrots, it's beta carotene, which converts to vitamin a in the body, but it's conversion rate is poor.
That’s a chemical element put in the carrots, he’s not talking about chemically modified carrots but naturally grown carrots from farms.
Its not universally poor.
Actually the conversion rate adapts to your current Vit.A need.
Also cooking plant until theyre soft helps with digesting any micronutrients from plants.
Also consuming Vit. A(or beta carotin in the case of carrots), D, E, K with a sufficient amount of fatty acids, significantly increases bioabsorption.
@@CommanderKappa For vitamin a it's much better to eat something like eggs. The conversion rate of beta carotene is about 1:12. It's true that ingesting certain things alongside beta carotene will increase it's absorption rate but your body doesn't magically get better at converting beta carotene if you have a defficiency.
It will convert more if it needs more, but it doesn't get better at it.
@@ZTRCTGuy There's no evidence that vegans, (those may only get Vit.A from Beta Carotine), are at risk of a vitamin a deficiency, UNLESS they have genetic defect that inhibits the production of that enzyme that converts BC to VA.
So It seems the conversion rate must be adequate enough
That's what colorblind means, not that you can't see colors, rather not being able to distinguish two specific colors, leaving you with a diminished spectrum of color you can see, in that sense dogs are literally colorblind in the same way some people are
To some creatures like birds that can see ultraviolet, we may be the "colorblind" ones
3:25 The explanation is also wrong, most scholars now believe the reason for Christmas was because early christians had already coincided on the date for the annunciation and incarnation, so December 25 coincided with 9 months after that date. The channel Religionforbreakfast has a good video explaining this
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Overcharging isn't the problem. The problem is your phone is still consuming power while charging. So while it's at 100%, it's constantly using energy and then gaining it back. Every time you do this though the less effective the battery gets at holding a charge.
Also, my friend worked at a phone store where they left the display phones plugged in for about 18 months straight until they finally sold them. She said that every phone they left plugged in had a bulging battery, and in the years before this became common procedure they would unplug the phones every night and none of those ever had a bulging battery.
It should be able to disconnect the battery and run directly on the power being fed to it, at least I would be very surprised if it didn’t do that. Wikipedia says:
“Simply storing lithium-ion batteries in the charged state also reduces their capacity (the amount of cyclable Li+) and increases the cell resistance (primarily due to the continuous growth of the solid electrolyte interface on the anode).”
@@circuit10 that would make the circuits in the phone subject to any voltage/current fluctuations with the current coming from the charger. it'd be like swimming in a small lake vs swimming in the river that leads to the lake.
@@thisfeatureissostupid Laptops especially gaming laptops do infact take power directly from the adapter(charger) when plugged in and not from the battery. Although battery still acts like a buffer incase of power fluctuations.
But phones only charge the battery while plugged in, so it takes power from the battery exclusively unlike laptops.
How to get everyone to avoid you at a party.
does the atmosphere itself not bulge at the equator making the mountain thing cancel out?
Unfortunate that the infinite worm dupe got patched. Birds and fishermen might need to reconsider their class.
"dogs aren't colour blind... they just have difficulty distinguishing between green and red" remind me again what is one of the most common types of colour blindness in human, oh, red-green where it is difficult to tell between green and red, oh geez maybe, no, dogs can't be colour blind when compared to humans. In all honesty tho humans seem colour blind when compared to other species so we are all colour blind, just some more then others.
Can you see UV light?
@@thewitness8321 no, therefor i am colour blind when compared to animals that can see UV light, tho i can see a bit into the infrared light spectrum which is fun but still
What’s really annoying about this is, if you attempt to correct someone on it, they’re almost always going to be adamant they’re correct unless you show them actual proof lmao
5:00 the sun quit the chat
Yes
But if ur talkng about night the sun did leave the chat
2:23 wrong, that is where Kong lives
Fossil fuel comes from many sources not just plants. Most of the coal comes from plants, especially from one era (Carboniferous). But oil mostly comes from plankton and algae.
No. Not the coal in the mines, the coal in the mines are 100% stone and have no organic origin whatsoever.
@@AdhvaithSane all fossil fuels are organic. they're carbon based. thats why theyre called fossil fuels. (correct me if theres some big exception which i have missed)
@@AdhvaithSane are you okay?
Finally SOMEONE says it! Too many people give their cats milk when they aren't supposed to and we can thank old cartoons and the media for that blunder.
For the 5th one, it's not due to air force being the reason why dropping a penny from a skyscraper won't kill you, but the fact that the force of impact is just very, very low.
Let's say we're dropping a penny from the top of Empire State Building, which is 1250 feet above ground, on a 5 foot tall man. 1250 feet would be equal to 381 meters and 5 feet would be 1.524 meters. Subtracting the two, we get 379.476 meters which is the distance the penny will travel.
Using the kinematic equation for distance, d=1/2gt^2 where g is the acceleration due to gravity on Earth = 9.81 m/s^2, d = 379.476, and t is unknown, we get 379.476 = 1/2(9.81)t^2
379.476 = 4.905t^2
sq379.476 = sq4.905t
19.48 = 2.21t
t = 8.81 seconds, where t is the time it takes for the penny to drop from the top of the Empire State to the head of the man.
Now, find the velocity.
vf = vi + gt, where vf is the final velocity which we are trying to evaluate, vi is the initial velocity which equals zero, t is time which is 8.81 seconds, and a is the acceleration due to gravity being 9.81 m/s^2. So we can use the Impulse-Momentum equation to estimate the force.
Since vi = 0, we get
vf = gt
v = gt
v = (9.81)(8.81)
v = 86.4261 m/s which is the FINAL speed that the penny moves in
Finally, to find the calculate force, we use the impulse-momentum formula which is:
F = mv/t, with mv calculating the momentum and t being the time.
The approximate mass of a penny in kilograms is 0.0025 kilograms.
Now, since we're calculating the FORCE of IMPACT, we would need to calculate the Impact force. In this face, we don't use 8.81 seconds as the time for this formula because the impact force would be exactly when the penny hits the head of the man, which will be a VERY small amount of time. Let's say 0.01 seconds.
F = (0.0025 kg)(86.4261 m/s) / (0.01s)
F = ~ 21.61 Newtons.
To put that number up to comparison, the average swing of a bat is about 300-500 newtons. It takes approximately 3500-5000 newtons to kill the average human. Therefore, dropping a penny on the head of a man from the top of the empire state building will do very little damage.
First of all, that coin is gonna be flipping midair, massively reducing speed, and using force isnt good for "would it penetrate your skull", you only care abiut pressure there
I mean 500 kN at 500 m^2 is the same as 1 kN at 1 m^2 (exaggerated example)
Yeah but the sun IS a yellow dwarf and APPEARS yellow in our sky so it IS indeed yellow.
Mfs when misnomers:
misconception 32 is quite the misconception itself. the earliest record stating that Sol Invictus was in December 25 comes long after christianity was a famous and state religion, making it more likely that pagans adapted their holyday instead. More likely, early christians probably calculated when mary became pregnant from various details in the new testament and jewish traditions then added 9 months. This is shown in the book "Christmas - theological anticipations". However, there is many other early calculations for christmas that are not followed today. The point is about celebrating Jesus's birth since it is given importance by 2 of the gospels; not the specific date. i doubt if we knew the exact date of jesus's birth it would change how people behave about christmas.
Might be your best video yet
I learned alot
- TIMESTAMPS -
0:00 Waking a Sleepwalker
0:06 Bulls & Color Red
0:13 Goldfish Growing
0:18 Frogs & Warts
0:20 Dropping a Penny
0:24 Growth after Death
0:31- Shark Smell
0:38 Human Evolution
0:45 Carrots & Night Vision
0:49 Earth During Summer
0:55 Dog Aging
1:02 Tounge Color
1:10 Venin Color
1:15 Sugar/Diabetes
1:21 Color Blindness in Dogs
1:30 8 Glasses of Water
1:38 Ice Cream during Cold
1:43 Swallowing Spiders in Sleep
1:49 Tastebuds
2:01 Coffee Stunts Growth
2:03 Reading in the Dark
2:08 Fly Lifespan
2:13 Vikings drink from Skulls
2:18 Earths Core Composition
2:24 Mount Everest
2:35 Houseplants & Oxygen Levels
2:42 Dog Mouths
2:49 Adidas Brand
2:57 Microwaves Cause Cancer
3:05 Mozart Effect
3:19 Jesus Birthday
3:29 Sun Color
3:34 Wolves Howling
3:43 Frogs & Boiling Water
3:49 Mice like Cheese
3:53 Urine on Jellyfish Sting
4:02 Fossil Fuels
4:09 The First Automobile
4:17 Charging Phone to 100%
4:25 Bear Hibernation
4:33 Tomatoes are Vegetables
4:35 Dog Tail Wags
4:41 Worms can Split
4:48 Duck Quacks
4:50 Camel Humps
4:53 Losing heat from Head
4:58 North Star Brightness
5:03 Water Conductivity
5:12 Eating at Night
5:20 Twinkling Stars
5:24 Pink Hippo Milk
5:33 Peanuts are Nuts
5:36 Alpha Wolves
5:40 Porcupines Shooting Quills
5:43 Praying Mantis Eats Mates
5:49 Milk is Good for Cats
5:52 Coin Toss Probabilities
This is a great video!! Ty for all the knowledge 😊
0:13 dont sharks grow to the size of the aquarium?
I mean... if you want to be technical... the sun is the brightest star in the sky 😂
Only for us because were closest. But there are stars in the universe that shine much brighter than the sun
4:55 I find this hard to believe because we always have a plume of warm air coming off our heads
BECAUSE it’s the only uncovered part, like he said, and no we dont.
"But the inner core is solid metal."
Hell yeah 🤟
I remember in first grade, our teacher made us drink 8 glasses of water in a row and said that's all we needed for the day lol. She even made us bring our own glasses.
i would've vomited
Stupidest misconception ever. How can it be 8 glasses for everyone. Yeah let's give an athlete who runs marathons versus a kid who's in school and 20kg bodyweight the same recommended water intake.
Dietary nutrition student here!
The time of day itself generally doesn’t matter in terms of becoming fat from eating, but since most people don’t do much other than sleeping at night, their body won’t consume as many calories as it would during the day.
So it’s good to have a little night snack if you feel like you haven’t eaten enough during the day, but since your body will turn glucose gained from foods into fats when not used, and fats are harder for your body to turn into energy than glucose, it’s generally best to avoid eating at night if you can avoid it.
42: worse. They are both.
Vegetable is a culinary term, not botanical. Vegetables are all edible parts of a plant that are not a fruits, grains or nuts.
Fruits (in culinary) are all edible parts of the plants that have a sweet or tart (as in orange or kiwi) taste.
In fact, vegetables don't exist in botany.
So, tomatoes are vegetables, but only when being cooked or eaten.
The very same way peanuts are also nuts. Culinary nuts.
great video ! really informative.
1:20 boss, that is literally the definition of colorblind
I would imagine he meant to say that dogs don’t see in black and white rather than not being colorflind
can you see UV light?
@@thewitness8321 Is UV considered a "color"?
@@disorganizedorg nope its not in visible spectrum for humans
@@disorganizedorg UV is on the same EM spectrum as visible light (R,G,B)
the christmas thing really makes me think about it differently because im christian and i didnt know this
0:52 Actually, the earth is indeed closer to the sun during summer.
Even though the seasons are a consequence of the translation of the earth around the sun coupled with the tilt of the earth axis, the earth is indeed closer to the sun in the summer and further in the winter. This is due to the shape of the earth's translation path being an elipse and not a circle. When the earth is closer to the sun is called aphelion and normally it is on July, and when is the furthest its called perihelion, and normally occurs on December or January.
If the earth is close to the sun in summer (assuming northern hemisphere) then how the fuck it's winter in the other hemisphere.
Also the earth's orbit is very close to a circle, so it doesn't affect that much.
@@kaizakikenta2669 The Southern Hemisphere would be in winter because the Earth's tilt causes it to receive much less sunlight.
You have it the wrong way around, it's further in the summer
@@thewarmachine3732it's about photon density
How many photons across which area? That's where the tilt matters, more angle = more area but the number of photons is the same
Although most worms you would think of, like earthworms, wont duplicate, there is actually a species of flatworm (a planarian) called a hammerhead worm which does indeed duplicate if cut into pieces by use of very powerful pluripotent stem cells