100 More Science Facts that Will Shock You
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Probably won’t ❤
I genuinely may look at this - would be the first YT sponsor ad read I've taken an interest in!
😅😅😅
Umm we figured dark oxygen out, it's a chemical reaction due to a type of rock.
They have video footage and enough testing done that they know where a majority of it comes from now.
LOL, as a 64 yr old avid gamer, I often listen to Simon's videos as I play. Not sure how much information I retain, but I enjoy his voice and it helps me feel less guilty about wasting too much precious time gaming. 😊 Take care, all!
you gigachad.
always find inspiring how much we have in common even if we are different in terms of age, but one thing we all do have in common is the passion and dedication,
so kudos to you, bless you and stay healthy and safe.
Legend 🤘
awww this is so sweet ❤
I studied learning and the brain three times in my life and long ago discovered the importance of PLAY to LEARNING...the SCIENCE is SOLID❤
Never feel guilty for doing what you love. Keep going you're an inspiration
Bro has enough channels to start his own streaming service
I know this is meant to be hyperbolic, but honestly the amount of content he has is likely on par with what College Humor had when they made their own streaming service.
Aren't we watching SimonTube?
Thought it was WhistleTube. 🤔
It's definitely the Whistler-verse
I would pay for that over yt premium, not gonna lie.
The craziest thing about the butterfly turning to soup during metamorphosis is that as a butterfly it retains memories from before it went into the cocoon. I don’t remember if researches used electric shock, heat, some form of light, or something else, but researchers trained caterpillars to learn and respond to know some action would lead to some uncomfortable outcome and when they put these caterpillars through the same situation when they became butterflies they responded by avoiding the unpleasant outcome. They have repeated this enough to conclude the information they learned as a caterpillar remained with them through the cocoon soup and all. Crazy
It was electric shocks associated with another stimulus, which if I remember correctly was a specific scent
Woah that's so cool!!!!
So far-fetched things like ancestral memory may have some basis in fact.
I assume then that they also had a control group who were not exposed to the conditioned stimulus as a caterpillar and thus did not respond to the conditioned stimulus as adults. That would be necessary to prove the behavior is learned and not instinctual. And what species did they experiment with? Do all butterflies respond that way? Do other types of insects also retain learned behavior after metamorphosis? I got more questions. I better try and find that. It's an interesting hypothesis. Some neurons must survive the metamorphosis to retain learned information. It begs the question about how much we learn and retain from our time as a fetus or embryo. Very interesting. 🙂👍🏻☮️
@@stevendorries Yep! I went back and found it. As counterintuitive as it is, when you think about it it’s maybe less surprising than I originally imagined. Everything, even a soup is made up of tiny bits of things. Perhaps whatever the structure of something like a neural pathway is small enough to mix into a soup.
I wanna say a big thank you to the writers that research all of this. The way my poor brain would turn to mush trying to discern actual, factual research papers and posts from well constructed bogus ones, yet they know how to read, differentiate and then transfer it in a script to cohesively convey it to others; in an engaging manner no less!.I'm always in awe ❤
0:30 - N°1 - Underwater lava can form pillow shapes
1:15 - N°2 - Caterpillars turn into a soup during metamorphosis
2:35 - N°3 - Sloth's hand clench when relaxed
3:45 - N°4 - You can safely hold liquid nitrogen in your mouth
5:05 - N°5 - Mitochondria have their own DNA
6:55 - N°6 - Lightning can be positive or negative
7:55 - N°7 - Venus flytraps can count
9:25 - N°8 - Urine was collected in WWII to recycle antibiotics
10:15 - N°9 - Narwhals can have 2 horns
11:05 - N°10 - Cheetahs are so closely related it is causing problems
12:05 - N°11 - 4 elements are named after the same place
12:55 - N°12 - There is mysterious "dark oxygen" at the bottom of the ocean
14:00 - N°13 - Bloodworms have copper teeth
14:30 - N°14 - A black hole can be formed entirely out of light
15:30 - N°15 - A single neuron can connect to more than a 1000 others
16:05 - Mid roll ads
17:35 - N°16 - Pistol shrimps can create temperatures almost as hot as the sun
18:35 - N°17 - Stromboli has been in constant eruption for 1000 of years
19:25 - N°18 - Almost all vertebrates yawn
20:20 - N°19 - Lake tangayika has a high level of endemism
21:05 - N°20 - Bird poop interrupted the discovery of the CMB
22:35 - N°21 - Nearly all of earth's coal was made during the carboniferous period
24:00 - N°22 - Bismuth is barely radioactive
25:00 - N°23 - Some viruses are larger than bacteria
26:00 - N°24 - Luminous plasma can form on the edges of ships & airplanes
26:50 - N°25 - The dark spots on the moon are ancient lava lakes
27:45 - N°26 - Neutrinos are constantly passing through your body
28:50 - N°27 - Neutrinos can change flavor as they travel
29:50 - N°28 - There is a disorder that makes you unable to recognize faces
31:15 - N°29 - Gallium melts in your hand
32:10 - N°30 - There may be planets that look like eyeballs
33:15 - N°31 - Some fish can recognize themselves in the mirror
35:15 - N°32 - The liver has hundreds of functions
36:00 - N°33 - Cuttlefish communicate through patterns
37:10 - N°34 - The ISS orbits the earth every 90 minutes
37:35 - N°35 - There is a gigantic water reservoir in space
38:25 - N°36 - A day on earth used to be only 18h long
39:05 - N°37 - The earth has a natural nuclear reactor
40:00 - N°38 - Earth largest impact crater may be located in antartica
41:50 - N°39 - We can scan brains thanks to antimatter
43:40 - N°40 - Tibetans have evolved better lungs
44:45 - N°41 - Plants can "hear" water
45:40 - N°42 - The sahara was once a lush paradise
47:00 - N°43 - Electrons are made of 3 quasiparticles
48:00 - N°44 - The ancestors of whales lived on land
49:15 - N°45 - The loudest sound in recorded history was a volcano
50:10 - N°46 - Most of your body is ancient
50:55 - N°47 - Each octopus arm has its own brain
51:30 - N°48 - The great wall of china is held together with sticky rice
52:20 - N°49 - The majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean
53:00 - N°50 - DNA has a half life
54:05 - N°51 - Fungi are more closely related to animals than plants
55:15 - N°52 - The speed of light can be slowed down
56:40 - N°53 - Bananas are radioactive
57:20 - N°54 - Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas
58:15 - N°55 - The human nose can detect 1 trillion scents
59:30 - N°56 - The brain uses 20% of our energy
1:00:30 - N°57 - The smell of freshly cut grass is a distress signal
1:01:10 - N°58 - The 1st synthetic dye was made by accident
1:02:15 - N°59 - Our eyes can detect a single photon
1:03:10 - N°60 - Animals can photosynthesize too
1:03:55 - N°61 - The cornea does not have a blood supply
1:04:55 - N°62 - Helium was 1st found in space
1:05:40 - N°63 - Light can be used to date archaeological artifacts
1:06:55 - N°64 - Osmium is the densest naturally occuring element
1:07:25 - N°65 - Blob fish don't actually look like that
1:08:10 - N°66 - Butterflies taste with their feet
1:08:55 - N°67 - Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system
1:09:50 - N°68 - There is an immortal species of jellyfish
1:10:25 - N°69 - There is a planet that smells like rotten eggs
1:11:15 - N°70 - Tick bites can make you allergic to meat
1:12:20 - N°71 - The casimir effect creates force from empty space
1:13:40 - N°72 - Beetles are the most common animal on earth
1:14:30 - N°73 - Tumors can grow teeth & eyes
1:15:25 - N°74 - Lost weight is exhaled
1:16:05 - N°75 - There is an opposite to the placebo effect
1:16:55 - N°76 - There are 10 nonillions viruses on earth
1:17:50 - N°77 - Antartica has a red waterfall
1:18:45 - N°78 - Saturn's rings are disappearing
1:19:55 - N°79 - The amazon has flying rivers
1:20:50 - N°80 - Africa is splitting in 2
1:21:55 - N°81 - Magnet lose their properties if they get too hot
1:23:15 - N°82 - There are some extremely rare blood types
1:24:25 - N°83 - Your blood type can be changed
1:25:15 - N°84 - Most species have left no fossil record behind
1:26:55 - N°85 - The moon has an atmosphere
1:27:50 - N°86 - The namib desert is the oldest desert on earth
1:28:45 - N°87 - There is enough gold on earth to cover the entire planet
1:29:45 - N°88 - It is constantly snowing on the ocean floor
1:31:00 - N°89 - Diamonds can burn
1:32:20 - N°90 - Liquid oxygen is magnetic
1:33:25 - N°91 - Mount everest is made of marine limestone
1:34:15 - N°92 - Antartica holds the majority of the world's fresh water
1:34:45 - N°93 - Brain surgery can be done without general anesthesia
1:35:45 - N°94 - Most volcanic activity occurs underwater
1:36:50 - N°95 - Chimpanzees self medicate
1:38:00 - N°96 - Mosquitos use 6 needles to bite you
1:39:15 - N°97 - Your body contains more bacteria than human cells
1:40:10 - N°98 - Our sun will become a white dwarf
1:41:10 - N°99 - Mars has blue sunsets
1:42:00 - N°100 - Cosmic rays produce antimatter in our atmosphere
Wow!
Hey man, tnx for doing this! If you don't mind, can I ask WHY you type out the contents table? OCD? (No judgement here. I have it, too). Or are you just a good guy? Just tryin' to do your part for the betterment of humanity? Maybe you are hoping to be noticed by Simon Whistler? Unrequited love? No big deal. Just curious...
@@DanHarkins-jk9miIt's AI generated probably
@DanHarkins-jk9mi It's spelt thanks! Learn English.
@@jeffdroog Spelt?
I was literally about to take a nap & Simon posts a two hour long video 💜 this man knows me too well.
He is one among my favorite speakers to listen to, nearly all English, esp when trying wind down to sleep. In fact, it’s dangerous for me to listen to him if I’m tired and driving. I’ll admit his repeated use of the non-word “lengthLy” - not lengthily, makes my inner grammar-nazi’s asshole twitch. But I still love his work.
Simon should do a channel where he just reads us Goodnight Moon.
What a narcissistic attitude you have lol Nothing has been done for you. You're a speck of dust in the vastness of the universe.
@@jeffdroog everything alright at home buddy
He doesn't you know exist, you're just a number of a counter to him😂
I love how we managed to solve 2 big ancient construction secrets in one year. We figured out what made the great wall's mortar so good, and we also figured out why Roman concrete is so damn durable. Romans put volcanic ash in their concrete, Chinese put rice water in theirs; I'm digging the regional resource utilization.
Oh! Hadn’t heard they figured out the Roman concrete!
Now we just need the recipe for Greek fire! 🔥
It’s probably for the best that we leave Greek fire lost to history 😅 We have more than enough methods for destroying ourselves.
Already done. It's basically napalm, but with slightly different levels of all the key ingredients.
That isn't what made Roman concrete so resilient. It's the fact that they mixed chunky quick-lime into it and added sea water, so as time goes by, any cracks in the concrete are self-repaired by the re-wetted quick-lime.
@@bryanergau6682 I'm 99% sure you're 99% right, but I'm 100% certain that the volcanic ash had something to do with the process, it's been a while since I read the article though.
The only scientific fact that would surprise me is if Simon would confess he's a Lizard Overlord.
Bearded dragon
@josekentucky86 LOL!!!!! Allegedly.
I'm assuming it's the admission, not him being siluruian :)
@@Hillbilly001 that's a weird beard, it changes length right before my eyes several times a day,,, something only a bearded dragon lizard overlord could allegedly do
Would it really surprise us tho?
How else can we explain the amount of content that gets produced by, allegedly, one man?
(I talking purely about the hosting job obviously)
This is my favorite type of upload, time to learn!
Me too 😊
@@CameronVine-wp8fl Yeah it is fun! And Heck... I like to think informative ;)
Learn something new everyday.
*Looks up all Simon channels.*
I once heard the purpose of yawning explained by a person who had a condition that caused them to yawn every few seconds (so they yawned about twenty times as they explained it). Here's what he said: As wear on our bodies increases, transmission of oxygen becomes less efficient. The body induces yawns so that a burst of oxygen can help maintain the balance. Eventually, when we sleep, the debris from our body's wear and tear is cleaned out of our blood, returning our circulation to full efficiency and removing the need for yawns and tiredness. The man who explained this to me said that the part of his brain that monitors that oxygen balance was stuck in the "yawn now" state, so that he continuously yawns, whether he's tired or not, and whether or not he tries to stop. A part of me still wonders if he was just messing with me, but the explanation made sense to me.
Like the involved cells learned a new pattern? Created an 'addiction'? Re-structured 'normal' &/or altered their function?
Now explain square wombat poop
So... ironically, the narwhals with two horns are figurative unicorns😂
Bicorns are so more much rarer lol
A sloth’s grip sounds like a truck’s air brakes.
Love how the YT ad cuts through the "don't try this at home" statement. Like TH-cam wants people to swallow liquid nitrogen
But swallowing disinfectant is fine with the Don.
😂thought it was just me that got the terrible ad placement
I've read that Cheetahs make good pets. I'm not sure that I'd want one though.
Since we're mostly nothing there is plenty of room for neutrinos to pass through us.
That wouldn't surprise me in the least.. It certainly adds a whole new meaning to 'taking a chill pill' 😳😱🤯
I love cuttlefish so freaking much. I call them Cthulhufish because they look like my boi. The aquarium near me has some on display in a very convenient place for them to watch Tourist TV.
I love interacting with them! I make different motions with my hands, I offer different colors if I have any on me. I try not to make them turn red. There's usually one or two bored Cthulhufish who'll play with me.
They are the absolute best squiddy friends!
Thanks for sharing. I shall hereafter refer to cuttlefish by your brilliant "upgrade"...that is SO PUNderful. ❤
You know you can pet cuttlefish too, right? They seem to like it.
@@c16621 OMG where do I go to pet cuttlefish?!
Technically the speed that the light is traveling is not slowed or altered in any way. Its just taking a detour, per say, or getting destracted, per say. South park vampires lol
It takes its time because it is learning its way through complex situations.
ISS did a circuit of the Earth by the time this video ended. Mind blown.
I thought St. Elmo was the patron saint of Sesame Street.... lol 😅
@11:55
"You made a super cheetah."
CERN: "Yeah, we even improved it. It can run 200 kilometers an hour, live on 6 calories a day, and it doesn't need sleep or water!"
"Why?"
CERN "To save the cheetahs"
"... What about the rest of the things that live on land?"
Imaginal Discs sound like some sorta MCU MacGuffin
i had a dog that passed the mirror test, he would stop and admire himself at any mirror he passed. i think he figured it out because once i was in the mirror too. he was an exceptionally smart dog.
My dog did the same, also knew me in a mirror.
A cat was filmed on TH-cam having made an existential moment of self recognition. I encouraged the owner to let her make kittens because she was so intelligent.
Cheetahs are the only cats that can’t retract their claws.
Speaking of eyes... your eyes absolutely see the flickering of of your light as it turns on and off with alternating current. Your brain cancels out the flicker effect. But your eyes see the flicker.
Your eyes are just a lens. They can't see anything.
@chndlr18 well, Mr. Symantics, in that case neither does your brain as it is only recieving the electrical impulses generated by photons hitting your cones and rods.
So if you have to split hairs that badly, your "photon detectors" can react, respond, are capable of registering the on/off of AC current. Your processor, brain, organic gpu, or whatever you wanna call it, just filters it out before outpitting to your consiousness. :) go backs to da 70s and dyes yur hair orange, my friend troll!
Noteabout DOGS and MIRRORS, both of my dogs often look at ME in the mirror. They know how to spy on us in another room by looking for our reflection in any mirror they might be able to spot us in. So, there’s that.
It's always amusing when Tanzania does something to land in one of Simon's videos
I think my dog has figured out mirrors. He is reactive to other dogs. The first time he saw one he barked at his reflection. But subsequently he has gotten chill and has no real interest in mirrors and just walks passed them.
Remind me not to take penicillin during any times of scarcity
A stinky planet? I KNEW that Professor Farnsworth's Smell O' Scope would change the world! 😂
My favorite version of you, Simon. Like Trivial Pursuit at a pub.
I couldn’t stop myself from yawning after seeing the animals yawn 🥱
19:58 I noticed my aquarium fish yawning when I was a kid. It looked exactly like a yawn, and when I mentioned my observation to my 7th-grade science teacher, she was uninterested. Simon shows us several yawning creatures, including a hippopotamus. However, a "yawning" hippo may not be yawning at all. It could be a threat display meaning, "Go away, or I may attack you."
The coolest part of the caterpillars turning into slurry is that they retain memories betwen forms. As in, teach a caterpillar red = poison or something and the butterflies will avoid red. I can't rememeber the exact independent variable the study used, but yeah... caterpilar slurry has memory.
Nooooo way?!?!?!?
DNA!
Simón, l love so much your videos! They are not only very well researched, they are extremely well presented by you. My deepest admiration for your work and your teams work. I preach you will never tired ❤😊
I think i have watched that much of Simon's content that im getting a HUGE sense of de ja vu. Im almost 90% certain i have watched this video a few years back, as im sure i have heard Simon list many of these entries in a previous single video.
Compilations are everywhere on TH-cam these days, along with AI narrators.
“Almost all vertebrates yawn”
My brain: That’s my queue! Initiate yawn!
"Pre-owned penicillin"
Why do I feel the need to pee?
😂😂 Mint!
That's government speck for budget cut.
1:00:30 Cut grass maybe give a signal, but it is not a distress signal. Grass species only exist because they are regularly cut or eaten.
in moderate climates every grass field will turn in a forest, with almost no grass left.
The big prairies only existed because bisons were grazing there. The African Savannah only exists because of grazing animals.
Sprouts of trees can not easily grow back after being cut / eaten but grass does, keeping the terrain for their own. Also, grass need the grazing animals droppings as fertilizer.
This makes sense and explains the picture of a sports ground I saw in Pripyat, which is a forest now.
FACT 101 ...
Simon didn't go off script once!...
in a video
That's not unusual.
The human brain is not only the most complex structure in the known universe, it's also the most dysfunctional. With results like these, maybe it's time for mother nature to go back to the old drawing board.
another Nocebo effect:
a study done by Pew Review showed that praying for a heathy recovery for another with their knowledge of it has a negative effect.
in the study, 3 groups participated.
no prayer, prayer but the patient wasnt informed, prayer but the patient was informed. first two categories had expected, normal outcomes. third category had a VERY slight decrease in treatment effectiveness. this was chalked up to the increased stress of the expectations of the recovery.
"gather in my name and you shall move mountains" my ass
correction: i stated it was pew review that published the research. it was actually the NIH (national institute of health), and Pew Review wrote an article about it.
Edit 2: found another study by NIH that showcases that prayer DOES work in treatment when the prayer is lead by the patient
I'll continue with prayer.
1:26:11 paleontologist here: we believe jellyfish have existed for over 500 million years, but bc they're rarely preserved, it appears as if they're missing from nearly every marine ocean preserved in the fossil record. it's so so so wild
The coal thing. Not so sure. I think coal formsuch faster than we think. They have found things completly encased in coal that weren't all that old, which means the coal formed around that object.
I love these long facts videos. Sometimes it may take me more that one sitting to watch the whole thing, I do always come back and finish the vid.
Simon & Co., I absolutely love this. This 'did you know' stuff has been my favourite since I was just a kid. I am 51 in a week and still find it properly fascinating! Thanks a million for this. More please!
I was so confused at what a PT scan is....we call em PET scans here in the US
He’s saying p e t quickly
The shroud of Turin is the most studied artifact in the history of human civilization. Physicists have calculated that replicating a fraud would require micro lasers applying 34 thousand billion Watts of power in 1/40th of a second.
Additionally, physics has proven that particles only behave as waves when they are observed. Without waves, protons permanently bind with electrons and the entire universe becomes inert.
Do an episode based on this. I double dog dare you!
Simon the GOAT of TH-cam 🙌🏻
Another interesting thing when caterpillars turn into butterflies. Their brain and nervous system are two of the organs that stay intact. So they are conscious while they basically melt. So they feel it when it happens.
Is it just me or the first 2 lightnings Simon didn't pronounce the n?
You are correct. I just added a comment about it then came across this post. Funny that it sounded correct after that. I could understand the first one when reading the script but by context it should have been caught for the second one
I heard it, too. backed up the video to confirm.
I prefer positive lighting.
Hey don't make fun of Simon, he's British they speak Erngrish lol
@ don’t think it was accent related. Gonna say misread.
I am the QUEEN of useless information and you just turned me into the MEGA QUEEN of “useless information”!!
Thank you Simon!! You’re the MAAAAN!!!
I think I’m getting ready to binge the crap outta these particular videos…lol Gotta keep up the status quo!! Hehe😉Hehe Right¿?¿
No knowledge is useless.
This is genius. I will be falling asleep to it. 😉
My father has O- blood and mother has A+. I have A- it’s funny how you can acquire a blood type from one parent and a -or + from the other
At first I thought this might be another compilation, but then I saw which of his 400 channels it was and I figured it wouldn't be.
Your post is 7 hours old, Simon is now up to 526 channels! ;-}
@@syyneater We have a problem...
it's growing too fast
it basically still is
I’m an EE biologist. Mitochondria weren’t eaten by proto-eukaria. The mitochondria was a parasite that was then selected toward mutualism. The evidence rests on the likelihood, since we’re still looking for a diary. One cell eating another that then not only survives inside, but thrives and breeds, in a sudden, came prepared fashion, AND gives a reproductive advantage to that first hungry hippo? Not impossible, but orders of magnitude less likely than the slow adaptation of a parasite, a relationship that we’ve seen before.
They're producing something that's easily digestible for people who don't actually know science. The only people who the wording needs to be specific are those in the field. Laypeople don't need to know the exact mechanism as to how mitochondria came to be inside the cell.
Sounds to me like cutting edge science! Neither side have it quite right yet... but it is amazing that we... the species about to destroy ourselves (thank you nukes) are so close eh?
I've wondered for some time whether our cells are individually micro-organisms, after all they can live in vitro, and whether we are colonies of micro-organisms working together, also whether those cells/micro-organisms are also made up of smaller micro-organisms.
This was brilliant, learning stuff with fact boi. The reason I started watching the Whistlerverse in the first place back in the biographics days.. Loads of interesting facts I've gleamed in this. Great stuff
Number 95, 1:36:49, talks about chimps self medicating. There are spiders that will create a cast out of web if a leg is injured
So sloths basically have nature's version of air brakes like in buses. Cool.
Why isn't Simon hosting Jeopardy already??? 🤣🤣🤔👍
The brain is so curious about itself that it has developed so many technologies just peer at itself
"light can be used to date archaeological artifacts".
It's a lot harder in the dark.
Sorry, I couldn't help it 😔
I saw a video where a narwhal used its tooth to disable fish. Much like a sword fish 10:41
Sloths move so slowly that they actually have moths that live in their fur, they are called sloth moths.
Once I had worked on a military project, I had joked that the Sahara Forest was consumed because the Eguptians had developed MIL SPEC documentation...
I like how Simon has his light switches marked "M" for Megaprojects and "S" for Sideprojects lol
36:12 chameleons don’t change color to blend in. It’s usually involved in mating and they only change to set the pattern/colors. It’s also not a particularly fast process.
I was thinking America for the 4 element question. Berklium, Californium, Tennessine, and Americium.🤠
Canada or Brazil?
@theplaguebearer666 For the question, which four elements are named after the same place. The better answer was Sweden. Ytterbium, and it's like. But this answer came to my mind first.
Great vid. Kept me interested and I learned a few new things. Cheers to Simon and the team
I didn’t think your voice was going to make it! Well done!
they killed the pigeons before realizing they had nothing to do with the noise
You forgot the most important fact of all simon. ETA still lives, and is currently plotting world dominion in your basement
I moved to a new apartment last week and I'm listening to a bunch of Simon's videos while I unpack stuff! I gotta say, out of all of the fact channels I've found on TH-cam, anything from Simon is gonna be my favorite. He talks fast enough that I can actually absorb the information 🥹
Scientist 1: This thing is such a mystery, what should we call it?
Scientist 2: Oh just throw "Dark" in at the beginning.
Wow. Did you just info dump on us? That was like a brief overview of everything ever and I’m here for it! Thanks!
Solid!
Top KEK!
Peace be with you.
St Elmo’s Fire also occurs on the windshield of aircraft. It’s really fascinating. 26:01
Did you know that if you hold a live squirrel up to your ear, you can hear what it sounds like to be attacked by a squirrel?
Caterpillars keep memories when they metamorph.
Of course, I immediately started yawning when he was explaining it and showing the clips of yawning animals.
I'd like to see Simon make a video of his top 5 favorite topics he's done a video on.
@1:01:20.... are you sure that's not David Letterman? 🤔☠️👍
In addition to speculative jousting contests under the ice, narwhals have another use for the tusk that has recently been documented. Smaller fish have frequently been recorded swimming at a safe distance from larger predators such as sharks, forming a bubble-like empty space around the threat. Schools of smaller fish that find themselves near a narwhal use the same strategy, but seem unaware of the slender tusk moving alongside. Narwhals use the tusk like a club, striking the target suddenly. This stuns the prey, making it an easy snack for the hungry narwhal.
I swear, this day and age, Simon is prob an early AI project gone self aware 😂😂😂
“Gallium has 1 strange property…”
Completely fails to mention that gallium exposure turns aluminum more brittle and fragile than cheap windows glass
Side project on Panavia Tornado 💥💥💥 The European variable-sweep wing strike fighter!
Did anyone else yawn when the wolf yawned? 😂
He’s the official narrator of TH-cam at this point
Science fact: Simon isn't even real. The fellas in the basement is just a front. The glasses and beard are working in tandem.
Awesome....now give me 100 more!
21:00 "bird poop interrupted the study of the CMB" immediately shows an image of a nebula that looks suspiciously like bird poop
NASA has just been photoshopping the same bird poop scans for decades and we're like "wow so colorful" lol
Here is a geo engineering idea for you to have just have a think about ;) seed metal into our deep oceans to make "dark oxygen", thus increasing the oxygen to co2 levels. I dont know if it will work, but I think it's worth a think :) sounds a lot easier than pinning an ice sheet lol
I wish I was Simon's mate so I could call Him and say Ello Guv Na'
She might object...but we don't know, she might also find it amusing.
This was an awesome episode! Well done.
Started yawning when I saw the animals yawn lol
at 58:06 " . . . that basnanas don't have." That little extra emphasis just made me laugh. I mean . . . R O F L . . . and I have no idea why I found it so funny.
You have paid lot of attention to create these informative suberbe video clips. Your machine-gun-teachings-video clips about increasing knowledge of basically everyting have been both informative but funny way dozing infos per day ((and nigh). Simon-tells Sideprojects are worth full attention paid or got freesome educational priviledge. Than you.
Re. sloth hands clenching when relaxed, bats are essentially the same (with their feet), as a tendon does a weird lock thing that they have to input energy to release and open the foot. Hence when they die they often stay hanging until decomposition makes them literally fall apart or they're taken by scavengers. Also of course means they can sleep, rest, etc. without inputting constant energy.
When we getting the podcast "Simon Says"?!
My brain 🧠 feels like it had an extremely healthy organic meal.
Yawning is a result of our lungs and diaphragm needing a stretch.
Simon, nobody has the quality of tone of voice that you have. So many video creationist could learn something from you. I do like your longer videos.
It’s funny, but I’d do listen to the longer Simon Whistler videos to fall asleep. This isn’t an insult. I find poorly done reading and narrating too annoying to fall asleep to. So guys like David Attenborough and Morgan Freeman get listened to repeatedly. Glad to add Simon to this list. I don’t mind going back to see how far I got before slumber overtakes me.