8 Hour Sleep Music - 😴 200 Random Boring Facts to Help You Fall Asleep | 1-Hour of Relaxing Facts with 8 Hours of Nature Sounds, Thunder, & Sleep Music 💤

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Starting point is 00:04:10 The human liver can regrow to full size from just 25% of its original mass. The only internal organ that can do this. The epiglottis manages breathing and swallowing. ...occur together. Can reach 100 miles per hour. Powerful sneeze ejects air at up to 100 miles per hour. Sprinting droplets for several feet. Fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.

Starting point is 00:05:07 Your dominant hand sees more circulation and use, which makes those fingernails grow a bit quicker. 300 bones, many of which fused together during growth to form 206 the largest and strongest bone in your body. Pressure. Gail seahorses carry and birth their young from a specialized pouch. Your hearts located in their heads near their stomach and brain. Tiny rest cycles instead of prolonged sleep, taking 100. hundreds of micronaps daily.

Starting point is 00:06:37 Mycena, chlorophrose, voluminousensensis to attract insects or deter predators. Dersilk is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar. Incredibly durable for its size. Xolodlals regenerate nearly anything. These amphibians can regrow entire limbs, parts of their heart, even brain tissue, Paracitic wasps lay eggs in caterpillars.

Starting point is 00:07:38 Some wasps use live caterpillars as nurseries, injecting them with eggs caliber bullet. Enough to shatter aquarium glass. Some jellyfish can produce clones by splitting into two genetically identical individuals. The radioactive, potassium 40, a naturally occurring isotope that emits low levels of radiation simultaneously. Under the right conditions in a vacuum chamber, water reaches its triple point and freezing at once.

Starting point is 00:08:58 Rivers, frigid atmosphere, 700 times per second. Fastest spinning objects in the cosmos. Single teaspoon weigh about 15,200s England. Pineapples were so rare and expensive that people rented them for parties to show off wealth. Cachues grow on. Cachew nuts grow out of the bottom of the cashew apple that is edible. Wasabi is usually fake. Ceyrant wasabi is just colored horseradish. As real wasabi root is rare and expense studies show that chewing gum increases blood flow to the brain,

Starting point is 00:19:32 and may aid concentration per year than shark attacks in tropical areas. 2006, Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet because it hadn't cleared its orbit. Which person, a thousand cookies. The average American will eat tens of thousands of cookies. Now that's a lot of sugar. Mosquitoes like banana eaters increase lactic acid and body odor to attract mosquitoes. Millicent Tells Iconic doll has an official full name in a fictional hometown. Willows, Wisconsin.

Starting point is 00:21:10 First alarm clock only rang at 4 a.m. Levi Hutchins invented the first mechanical alarm clock in 1787. But it was fixed to go off, if you ask me. Aaskin town lives in one building. The population of Whittier, Alaska, about 200 people, lives in a single 14-story building. It also contains a school, a church, and a post office. Honest, exhaustion lowers inhibitions, so people are more likely to confess secrets. late at night is 20% of your energy.

Starting point is 00:22:18 Despite being just 2% of your body weight, your brain demands a massive portion of your daily caloric burn. Theory suggests that yawning helps regulate brain temperature. By bringing in cool, placebo's work, studies show that knowingly taking a placebo can still relieve symptoms, triggers healing pathways, Immunity lowers stress hormones and increases blood circulation. Some people fall in love with objects.

Starting point is 00:23:24 Objectophilia is a real condition where people develop romantic or sexual attraction to inanimate objects. Fear of long words is a long word. Ironically, the name for the fear of long words is itself comically long. Hippapato monstrosesquipidagliofobia. Now that's a mouthful. More likely to be ambidextrous. Left-handed people have more adaptable brains,

Starting point is 00:24:09 making them statistically more likely to become ambidextrous. New sights slow time. When your brain processes unfamiliar information, time feels like it moves slower, often called time dilation. rectangular pupils. Their horizontal, rectangular pupils give them a wide field of vision, ideal for spotting predators. Pigeons can do math. Studies have shown pigeons can understand numerical rules and basic math concepts.

Starting point is 00:25:00 Spiders can't get caught in their own webs. They avoid sticking by stepping only on non-adhesive strands and producing a waxy coating on their legs. As long as it has oxygen, a human heart can beat when removed during surgery or transplants prep. A jellyfish killed the most people at once. The box jellyfish has caused more. More deaths in Australia than sharks, crocodiles, and snakes combined.

Starting point is 00:25:51 The closest living relatives to dinosaurs. Birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Modern-day descendants of creatures like the T-Rex. Has nine brain. One central brain in each of its eight tentacles help with coordination and independent movement. Their cases, lakes saturated with CO2, like Lake Nios in Cameroon, can erupt, suffocating nearby life. The first email was sent in 1971. It was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself, and he doesn't remember what it said.

Starting point is 00:27:04 Your phone has more computing power than NASA in 1969. Smartphone in your hand is more powerful than the computers that sent astronauts to the moon. It was designed to slow you down. It was created to prevent typewriter jams by separating common letter pairs. ...D Denmark and Norway, just like how Bluetooth unites devices. CD printers can print or use living cells to print human tissues, and researchers are working toward printing full organs. Get citizenship. In 2017, Saudi Arabia gave citizenship to Sophia, a humanoid robot with AI-driven facial

Starting point is 00:28:25 expressions, wasn't invented for email around since the Middle Ages, and was used by merchants to mean, at the rate of. NASA uses duct tape in space. Duck tape is considered mission-critical equipment. It's been used to save lives, patch spacecraft, and fixed tool. The smell simulator in development. Scientists are working on digital scent devices to let you smell things over the internet. Like a virtual scratch and sniff,

Starting point is 00:29:18 robotic vacuums use sensors and AI to create digital maps of your home as they clean. they clean, feels faster as you age. As your brain processes fewer new experiences, time seems to pass more quickly compared to childhood. The brain takes around 80 milliseconds to process visual stimuli, so you're seeing the world slightly after it happens. Mooner cycles per year. While we follow a 12-month solar calendar, the moon complete.

Starting point is 00:30:21 13 full cycles each year. Time zones exist. All is 5 hours and 45 minutes ahead of general mean time. One of the few time zones offset by 45 minutes. Train your brain to lucid dream. With enough practice, people can learn to become aware while they're dreaming and even control their dreams. Doomsday clock isn't real.

Starting point is 00:31:04 But it's symbolic. It's changed by scientists. It metaphorically tracks how close we are to global catastrophe. Some people, often with ADHD, have trouble perceiving the passage of time, leading to chronic lateness or rushing. Earth's rotation is speeding up. In recent years, Earth has had its shortest days on record, leading scientists to consider leap second adjustments. It used to be only 22 hours long.

Starting point is 00:31:57 Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Earth spun faster, giving us shorter days than today's 24-hour cycle. You can survive without most of your internal organs. You only need one kidney, a portion of your liver, part of your brain, and one lung to survive. As muscles stiffen or relax and gases build up, bodies can appear to switch or change position

Starting point is 00:32:41 actually grow after death. It's an illusion caused by skin retracting as it drives, exposing more of the hair or nail. Lomification happened naturally in bogs. Ancient bodies dropped into peat bogs have been preserved for thousands of of years due to low oxygen and acidity. Decomposition starts minutes after death. Enzymes begin breaking down cells quickly before external signs of decomposition appear and sit up in coffins.

Starting point is 00:33:39 The Lazarus reflex, sudden muscle contractions in the spine can occur shortly after death. In some cultures, graves are reused. used. Space-saving practices in parts of Europe and Asia involve reusing grave plots after a few decades. The human body glows faintly after death. As bacteria break down the body, it can emit faint, bioluminescent gases under the right conditions. Your body digests itself after death. Without circulation, enzymes in your digestive system begin breaking down your own tissues from within. There's a word for throwing someone out of a window.

Starting point is 00:34:46 It's called de-fenestration. From Latin, finestra, meaning window. A term made famous in Prague's history, Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words. Words like bedroom, lonely, and Swagger were first used in Shakespeare's plays that rhymes perfectly with Orange. The poets and lyricists have long noted that Orange has no perfect rhyme in the English language. Sondoku describes the act of buying books and letting them pile up unread. February 2nd 2020 or November 11th, 2011 are read the same

Starting point is 00:35:59 way forward and backward. Or visual oddity. There's a phobia of palindromes called ibophobia. There's a museum of broken relationships. In Zagreb, Croatia, it displays mementos from failed relationships submitted by people around the world. Originally meant destiny. It comes from Old English, and it referred to fate, as in the weird sisters in

Starting point is 00:36:45 Macbeth. Shortest complete English sentence is go. It has a subject, you implied, and a verb, making it a grammatically complete directive. Figures have striped skin, not just fur. If you shave a tiger, the stripes remain. They are part of the skin's pigmentation pattern. For muscular tail and leg structure make it physically impossible to walk in reverse. Horses can't vomit. A one-way valve in their digestive system prevents vomiting, which is why certain illnesses can be fatal quickly. Regenerate with two heads and can continue living that way.

Starting point is 00:38:07 Sharks are immune to all known diseases. Almost. Sharks have incredibly robust. incredibly robust immune systems and rarely get sick, though they are not helped protect their eyes from sand and sun in desert conditions. By conditions, some snails enter a deep, dormant state and won't wake up until moisture returns. Thousand time adds up to about 10% of your waking hours spent blinking.

Starting point is 00:39:12 Humans glow more brightly during the day. Innocence in the body, invisible to our eyes, peaks in the afternoon, possibly linked to metabolism. Your taste buds have a lifespan of 10 days. They wear out quickly, but are constantly regenerating unless damaged by trauma or smoking. Noses can detect over one trillion cents. Once thought to detect only 10,000 odors, humans actually have a highly nuanced sense of smell. You can survive without a pulse. Ventricular assist devices can circulate blood continuously,

Starting point is 00:40:12 meaning a patient might be alive without a detectable heartbeat. Don't shed tears until about a month old, but tear production typically begins around. two to four weeks after birth while holding your nose quires air to escape through the nose Pinching it shut makes it impossible faster during the summer Increased blood flow from warmer temperatures stimulates hair follicles to grow slightly faster gets stronger with age Unlike modern concrete ancient Roman concrete develops mineral over time that strengthen its structure. Genghis Khan's empire had a global passport system.

Starting point is 00:41:28 He created a standardized pass, or Paisa, allowing travelers safe passage across vast lands. Use the cucumber for shelter. In Switzerland, it's illegal to own just one guinea pig. They're social animals, so laws require keeping them in pairs to avoid loneliness. President Taft once got stuck in a bathtub. Over 300 pounds, the 27th U.S. President reportedly required assistance to be lifted out of a tub. Shakespeare's will mentions

Starting point is 00:42:31 his second-best bed. He left it to his wife, Anne Hathaway. Scholars debate whether it was sentimental or snide. In ancient Rome, urine, was used. for laundry. Public urinals collected urine for ammonia, which was then used to clean togas, was almost dismantled. It was invented to be temporary for the 1889 World's Fair, but became permanent after proving useful for radio signals. Wasn't actually 5'4. Exaggerated his height to mock him. The 1800s people sent children in the mail. Some Americans mailed their kids via the Postal Service to grandparents, paying postage by the pound.

Starting point is 00:43:55 55 Cancary E is a carbon-rich planet believed to contain massive quantities of crystalline diamond. Sound travels faster in water than air. It's nearly five times faster, about 1,500 meters per second compared to 343 in air. The place in the universe is man-made. MIT created a Bose-Einstein condensate, just a few billions of a degree above absolute zero. and volcano releases sulfuric gases ignited. Could float in water. By its size, Saturn's density is so low that it would float in a very large bathtub of water.

Starting point is 00:45:23 No stars. Free floating planets roam the galaxy, unattached to any sun, essentially planetary orphans in space. Jupiter has a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth. Its immense magnetosphere could fit several Earths inside by tidal stresses and cooling. These tremors can last up to 10 minutes longer than earthquake. No center. Expansion happens uniformly. Every point in space moves away from every other point, like dots,

Starting point is 00:46:26 on an inflating balloon. After devouring gas or stars, black holes can release powerful jets of radiation and indigestion. The pusses throw things at each other when annoyed. Observed in the wild, they've been seen hurling shells or silt, sometimes at other octopuses. There's a species of fungus that turns ants into zombies. Ophiocortis insects, infects ants' brains, manipulating them to climb and die in a favorable place for fungal growth. Pufferfish make underwater art to attract mates. Male pufferfish create intricate sand mandolas on the ocean floor, delicate and precise circles to woo females.

Starting point is 00:47:41 There's a museum dedicated to failure. The Museum of Failure in Sweden showcases flopped inventions like Colgate beef lasagna was anti-monomime. It was designed to demonstrate the evils of wealth inequality, not promote real estate dominance. Share 60% of your DNA with bananas. Wildly different, humans share a surprising amount of genetic material with bananas. There's a psychological phenomenon called the Baba effect. People are more likely to perceive speech as human-like if paired with acute animal-like sound.

Starting point is 00:48:52 Even nonsense words doesn't separate from liquid in your stomach. So burping would bring up more than just air. Vaseline ate a spoonful of it every day. Robert Chesbrough believed. lived in its healing properties so strongly that he consumed it daily, and lived to be 96. A ferrets is called a business. It's a fittingly chaotic name for a very energetic and mischievous group of animals. There's a species of clam 500 years.

Starting point is 00:49:59 Holds the record for the longest-lived non-colonial animal. One was aged at 507. When people hear colors. Sinesthesia causes a blending of the senses. Someone might hear music and simultaneously see colors. Species of jellyfish that clones itself when injured. Instead of healing wounds, Pacificum simply duplicates into multiple offspring. We're once thought to be poisonous.

Starting point is 00:50:48 In the 10th century Europe, people thought to tomatoes were toxic, mostly because they reacted with lead in pewter plates. Move their eyes. They were fixed in their so they rotate their entire heads up to 270 degrees and survive being struck by lightning multiple times. Roy Sullivan, a park ranger, survived being struck by lightning seven separate times. The rich blood supply and constant moisture. The tongue heals itself from cuts faster than other muscles.

Starting point is 00:52:15 When listening to music, the music like classical has been shown to relax cows and increase milk yield. There's a place on Earth where it hasn't rained in over two million years. The dry valleys of Antarctica are so arid and cold that no rain has fallen in millennia. Bell's heartbeat can be heard from over two miles away. Being over 400 pounds, beats once every 10 seconds, and is audible underwater for miles. A person has about 70,000 thoughts per day. Most are repetitive or irrelevant. Shed around 600,000 skin particles per hour.

Starting point is 00:53:26 That's about 1.5 pounds of skin per hour. per year. Worth this more, possibly due to black and white TV, some people can hear their eyeballs move. A rare condition called Superior Canal Dehiscence syndrome causes this in hallucinate from sleep deprivation. Severe lack of sleep affects the brain like psychosis, estimated 2.5 petabytes of information That's roughly 3 million hours of TV shows. As strong as shark teeth. Similarly durable material versus dentin.

Starting point is 00:54:41 Expects even people born without limbs. Expects the limb to be there and generates sensation. Connections in your brain, then stars in over 100 trillion synapses. It rotates backward rise in the west and set in the east. English word. has 189,819 letters. It's the full chemical name of a protein called titin. CET has the most definitions.

Starting point is 00:55:47 It has over 430 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. A commonly used letter appears in about 11% of all word consecutive double letters. This is very rare. very rare and the only word that ends in MT. Linguistic oddity. Winding water prevent their survival and the rest of the world in Norway freezes over every winter. Continent in all four hemispheres, south, east and west, is larger than Pluto.

Starting point is 00:57:46 Russia is 17 million square kilometers, while Pluto is only 16.7 million. There's a crater in Canada with an eternal flame. It seeps natural gas and is called Eternal Flame Falls. Sahara wasn't always a desert. 6,000 years ago, it was green and lush. It is so salty, you can float naturally. Its salinity is nearly 10 times that of the ocean. You can visit four U.S. states at once.

Starting point is 00:58:38 The Four Corners Monument links Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico is as unique as a fingerprint. Owners of science, nature, and human life. If you're still awake, feel free to let your mind wander back over your favorite oddities, or simply allow the gentle ambient sounds to guide you the rest of the way into sleep. Thank you for spending this time with me. You are safe. You are at peace. And you deserve this moment of stillness.

Starting point is 00:59:43 Good night, my sleepy heads.

8 Hour Sleep Music - 😴 200 Random Boring Facts to Help You Fall Asleep | 1-Hour of Relaxing Facts with 8 Hours of Nature Sounds, Thunder, & Sleep Music 💤

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