Let's Find Out - r/todayilearned ASMR | science, history and interesting trivia

Episode Date: July 1, 2019

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Hey guys, welcome back to today I learned that putting honey in the hot water is pretty fantastic. Now it's always a little bit of a struggle sifting through the more boring ones, but bottom line is we come out with some interesting facts, even if it's only 10% success rate. So I'm going to do my best to act as a filter so you guys can relax, get comfortable, pop in the headphones so we can zone out, get your work done, go to sleep, or just relax. I think I said that all right. To start with, today I learned the common black garden aunt queen has an average lifespan of 15 years.

15 years, that's some living to around 30 p.m. And while under laboratory conditions, workers can live up to four years. I would never guess that. It's kind of creepy. 30 years. Hell, it's out there older than a lot of us. This son tragically died in Mumbai. He went around filling up to 600 potholes since 2015.

Today I learned the famous bass line of Seven Nation Army. The Weistripe is played by a guitar. The band didn't even have a bass player. I actually, I knew that, but I didn't. I didn't know that. I thought it was just like the black keys, when it was just a duo, guitar and drums. You assume that while they're actually recording,

they're going to use a bass guitar, and then just kind of wing it when they're on stage. Described as a rare example of documented slave humor of the period. Today I learned when a former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years of back pay as proof of good faith on a mass scale. You know it's like the

Nazis to be generic that such evils are a fruit that is about the size of a grape looks like a watermelon and tastes tastes like a mix between cucumber and a lime take over five and a half days traveling at the speed of light to reach the outer limits

of our solar system yeah it's interesting that I think Pluto is maybe like a light day but the solar system and that's like the most distant from the sun large body that we kind of know about.

And then we have a bunch of smattering of other general fields of objects like the orc cloud in the Kuiper belt. Real close to the sun and slingshot way back out for centuries or millennium, maybe even millions of years. Gravitational dominion of the sun is pretty vast. Today I learned Portland Oregon's first bicycling boom.

was by prostitutes in 1900 they began to ride them to solicit customers around town speaking of extending one's range of effectiveness soon women riding bikes were assumed to be prostitutes and the other respectable women stopped it's too bad a Swiss American engineer was the lead engineer of more than half of New York City's crossings including the George Washington Bridge in the Lincoln Tunnel. His designs were inexpensive

and elegant. The projects to be completed on time and under budget. Here's one. Today I learned the practice of the practice of fox tossing. A once popular sport involving catapulting

a live fox or a badger or a hair wolf, whatever, as high as possible in dodging it as it falls. Dodging it as it falls. I got a category of blood sport. So in the 16 and 1700, it's only 300 years ago. Cockfighting, greyhounds, chasing down a hair and ripping it apart. Any entertainment that involves bloodshed.

So MMA, certainly. falls in that category but benefits of learning about history is that you realize how much bloodshed I mean the context of it was that so much disease war

famine suffering just so many hardships were endured in a very sense back really before 1900 before the last hundred years. Technology allowed us so much freedom from suffering.

So it really puts it in perspective that we were not only fortunate and privileged and we don't only owe enormous amount of gratitude to the great scientists, inventors that have allowed this luxuriant lifestyle of our modern day but also to the bloodshed the countless

millions of people who have died over the course of all history just just think of all the wars all the you know all the despots and tyrants that had to be fought for the average person to

not only be called a citizen but not a slave you know the uh I feel like the rule It's really a dictatorship, and it's really comparatively rare that for the average person in the world to have the rights and the privileges and freedoms and opportunities that we just take, you know, most of us take for granted, I certainly did up until pretty recently. So, yeah, I don't know, I just always love, I get a lot of enjoyment and it, when you have the perspective, a real accurate, or even a roughly accurate historical perspective, it really makes you appreciate what you have and how ridiculously rare and unheard of and completely novel our current situation really is. You know, we're worried about whatever trivial, non-life-threatening situation you're worried about.

It arises. Just try to remember, you know, barbaric. People's lives were dismissed and written off recently as just a hundred years ago, you know, when the dueling was a pretty relatively common practice still. So I read the president, Andrew Jackson, the guy on the $20 bill. I think he got into something like... I think it was 20 duels. And of course in a duel you either get killed

or you get pretty badly injured, especially if it's with a gun. Or really, I mean, if you're tooling with a sword, maybe that's even worse because a gun at least has the potential to just give you a clean wound. Swords, no doubt, get a lot more messy. But yeah, he was in a duel, like up to 20 times,

and that's a precedent. So that's, I mean, he was a... in the military too so he was a bledent very you know he was no stranger to conflict but uh it's just interesting you wouldn't hear about that nowadays you know so well today maybe you learned i think i might have even read that on here 1984 an eight-year-old girl with sickle cell disease developed acute myeloid leukemia to treat the cancer

her doctors gave her chemo and a stem cell transplant from her sibling. Not only did this cure her cancer, but it cured her SCD as well. She remains disease-free, nearly three decades later. Land Cruiser originated after Imperial Japanese, the Imperial Japanese Army captured an American Jeep in World War II and tried to reverse engineer it. Trading, you know, it's like my whole head in decades. There's a free flow of you can travel to the same spots that you would have got outright murdered in years, decades before. Marlon Waynes was cast as a lighter on a lighter note.

Today I learned Marlon Wains was cast as Robin in the 1992 film Batman Returns and still receives income from the film despite his character getting cut from the script. I would have guessed that. Is that the one with George Clooney? I'm curious how many of you have seen the movie Dead Poets Society. It's Robin Williams.

I think Ethan Hawk plays a kid in there. There was a headmaster in the school. Who's still very much alive. He's 104 years old. His latest screen appearance was in the 2015 comedy train wreck. Wow. But he out there, especially if you're young, because it's a very relatable to be.

young and confused about which way to go in the world. Robin Williams did a... I mean, he was an amazing actor, but Williams did a phenomenal job in that movie. But the script in general was just a beautiful, uh, beautiful portrayal of, you know, whatever you end up doing in life. If you can appreciate the sincere introspection

and, you know, know really just it's about philosophy it's about philosophy about the world and how to live through poetry and it just gives you a nice perspective on the world knowing that there's there's beauty and every nook and cranny you find yourself in today I learned it took three botched attempts to be had Mary Queen of Scots for treason against Queen Elizabeth And remember that, uh, this was actually the time for any of you who've seen my video about Guy Fawkes. I think this was in, be 1500s. It was a while ago, but still, the executioner finally lifted the bloodied head, cried God save the queen, only for it to crash to the floor because Mary was wearing a wig.

It's full of perspective, say how, so even if we're still executing people for crimes. I don't know about treason anymore. I'm sure we do. There's a significant discrepancy, a huge divide between the fact that we can talk about it, but we don't necessarily stand around and witness it these days. But no doubt there was a ton of people standing around watching Mary Queen of Scots get beheaded. Not efficiently, apparently. It typically adds around 600 to 1,200 pounds. 7 coats of paint on the Emirates A380 added roughly 2,400 pounds or 1,100 kilograms, kilos to its weight.

Stuff you don't really think about. That's an extra 1,000 pounds of just paint, just paint. Honey bees make their own bread out of the pollen they bring back. This bee bread contains proteins and vitamins for them to consume. It's the main source of protein. The bees make the bread by mixing pollen with nectar, honey, and saliva. You know, speaking of Dead Poet Society and Robin Williams, today I learned of the Disney Asbro Flubber Fiasca.

Rob Williams did a remake. This was a toy from the original movie. When the son of Flubber toy buddy came out, it caused over 1600 children's faces, or cases of face and throat rash in children. Three call units. They couldn't be burned or dumped at sea, so they were buried under the Hasbro parking lot.

Imagine that. Today I learned Vladimir Pokilko. Co-creator of Tetris, a Russian academic and clinical

psychologist. He helped shape the final version of the game with Alexei Pijito Pugitinov, I guess.

Financial ruin killed his family and himself in 1998 Wow. Of the overwhelming success. of Nintendo's implementation of that game. It's out of 9.5 billion with a B dollars in 2016.

Surprisingly, the group with the most, the group the most likely to get scammed were millennial men aged 18 to 34, who were three times more likely to get scammed than millennial women. I had to guess, I would say it's because men, typically at that age, especially at that age, especially, at that age, take risks a little more than women, or at least less calculated risks. Because no doubt you see men getting a lot more fights, just do a lot more dumb things at that age. I certainly was one of them. Today I learned Italy has 34 native languages in everyday use, still used. Many of these are not dialects of the Italian language, but evolved independent.

from common Latin. Sandia National Laboratories they hired a team of experts to design landscape, design a landscape that was so nightmarish that it would prevent humans from interfering with the nuclear waste disposal sites

for the next 10,000 years. We gotta see what that looks like. A thousand years in the future discovering a strange construction of granite New Mexico desert By centuries their shadows

stretching at sinister angles the wailing figure of Edward Monk's painting the scream itself long ago turned to dust appears on sporadic signs near these totems

all in several languages may be one of which the wanderer can decipher are the words this place is not a place of honor no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message, and part of a system of messages.

Pay attention to it. Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. It says not 10,000 years, but 100,000 years. Modern Homo sapiens have been around for 100,000 years, roughly. More like two or three hundred, actually. But what will humans be like

100,000 years in the future? Which is the time scale they hope to keep this waste buried. Some guy opening our competition and... It's basically... It's basically a scar on the ground. The first prize is going to Alex Bendelli's

forgotten Prometheus. It's basically a scar on the ground. Suggestion of a wound that will never heal. It was joined in second place by a forest genetically of genetically modified trees

that would grow an uncanny blue and in third place by a children's song that would perpetuate the warning about the sight through an oral tradition. They're all pretty legitimate,

I guess. This part was this part was the most interesting to me. A seemingly whimsical idea is that people love cats and have kept them around for centuries. So what if cats were genetically modified to change colors when around radioactivity? The people of the 99% Invisible Podcasts. These people about this idea.

Pestigo Fire, a forest fire, so hot that it spawned fire tornadoes, firewurles, vortexes, and people that jumped in wells to escape the blaze were boiled alive. Gaelic in Iceland, as long as a century before, the Vikings settled there in 874. Oh, this is interesting. My girlfriend's cousin, Molly. Molly's cousins actually just went to Pompeii. Took a little tour around Italy a couple weeks ago. Today I learned Pliny the Elder, the Roman author,

and philosopher. He was a famous guy died after sailing on a rescue mission to Pompeii to save his friends from the eruption. Perspective, today I learned that the first transatlantic telegraph message

was sent in 1858 and it was from Queen Victoria to James Buchanan, the U.S. president at the time. The 98-98 world, she sent took 16 hours to send 16 hours actually come to realize that you know we can have these ideas and we need to have ideals to bring to bring forth progress and more good than evil into the

world we we want to generally have a or i guess it would be this way we want to generally have an upward trajectory of progress and for each individual person more opportunities to live a full life but um we'll appreciate what we do have during our short lifespans because we can't live to two hundred five a thousand years old to see immense progress I mean, although we are living in a time in which we are very, very much perceiving and undergoing progress, and being a part of progress at much faster rate than ever before, um, we certainly still, we have to tailor that. Our expectations by reality in historical knowledge helps you,

helps me at least understand that understand and be able to appreciate what it is that we've built up to and exists in all these bits of almost unimaginably advanced technologies even 20 years ago for me it's it was never elaborated on it was never made as clear as I would have hoped, you know, again, you can only work with what you have, that the more you appreciate what you currently have and what it took, all the millions of, you know, billions of years of evolution, hundreds of thousands of years of human sacrifice, actually sacrificing their lives for the betterment, and this gradual upticking, this ratchet, up of progress dissemination of power and opportunity and respect to the individual slow culmination of the society that embeds the concept of equality of opportunity within it it's such a rare thing and it's so It's almost depressing at first when you're like, yeah, I can't.

Everything, I can't live my ideal. But in reality, I think learning about history and all about how much suffering other people went through to get all of us, all of us here today. All the heroic men and women that have just left everything they ever had to offer on earth of a brighter, better future for all of us it's uh i think to me that makes you very appreciative of what we have you know and and it also makes you feel like you're a part of something something unfolding something bigger than just yourself and that's a beautiful thing you know i don't have kids yet i like some But I know that have children

very, very often immediately you shift, you have a shift of a paradigm shift and in place of the person that you've always held to be most important, which is you, your children, I guess,

come to fill that gap. So it's a beautiful thing to be a part of a family but also to feel a connection with much, much more than just your family. Perhaps it's... The ideal is to feel a connection with your species, which itself is almost unattainable, but if someone could manage that, and I feel like many people have in the past,

that would be a beautiful, a really beautiful thing. And then beyond that, of course, just feel a connection with the universe, your, you know, Earth and the solar system in general, the galaxy, everything. That would be cool. You can tell my voice, it's getting a little hoarse. So, hope you learned some things. Hope it was worth it for you. It was fun for me, so I will chalk it up as a success.

Until the next time, guys. I hope you all sleep well. I hope you were able to relax, focus on whatever you...