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Ever heard the claim that your blood vessels could wrap around Earth twice at 100,000 kilometers long? We did, and it blew our minds! So much so that we invested over a year to verify it. Spoiler: the truth is a bit tangled. Dive into our investigative journey filled with outdated science and unexpected twists.
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Yall might need some therapy for awsome people after this
Roman
2025-02-25 12:49:37 +0000 UTCUnglaublicher Aufwand, nur um so was "Unwichtiges" zu überprüfen - respekt! Echt inspirierend und zeigt, wie hart ihr arbeitet. Weiter so! :)
Patrick
2024-12-07 10:32:10 +0000 UTCI've been watching your videos for about 10 years now, back when I was still a broke undergraduate student. Recently, watching your 2 videos i.e. "4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour" and this one, practically compelled me to support your patreon. Keep up the great work as always!!! 👍
Sai
2024-11-10 11:30:51 +0000 UTCAs a high school librarian, I totally plan on incorporating this.
Anthony Devine
2024-11-09 08:38:08 +0000 UTCAfter years of enjoying your videos and buying your merch, this is the video that finally got me to support through Patreon. My first ever use of Patreon!
Anthony Devine
2024-11-09 08:36:53 +0000 UTCthe fact that you guys up this much detail and hard work into your videos is the reason why I subbed to your patron
Nocala
2024-11-08 04:55:30 +0000 UTCYou people are the best kind of insane. Thanks for all your hard work.
James Dominguez
2024-10-29 12:29:27 +0000 UTCThis one feels like it should be available to teachers and professors to show students.
Lisa Marie Fuqua
2024-10-28 21:30:58 +0000 UTCVery interesting information and not surprising that it's at least wrong by a multiple of 5 to 10. But, more interesting to me is this answer on the Internet of the question of how long all of the DNA in the body would be if measured end to end: "Each human cell has around 6 feet of DNA. Let's say each human has around 10 trillion cells (this is actually a low ball estimate). This would mean that each person has around 60 trillion feet or around 10 billion miles of DNA inside of them. The Earth is about 93 million miles away from the sun." I have absolutely no faith that there is even the slightest amount of reality in this answer.
plight
2024-10-28 21:11:59 +0000 UTCWell, obviously. They sold out of that calendar about 10,000 years ago. Pretty sure they're selling 12,025 calendars right now.
Emmanuel Russell
2024-10-28 14:21:45 +0000 UTCThis was a really interesting and unique one. Thank you for spreading light on the fact that any established "credible" fact can be distorted out of it's context. This is well needed in an age of information where a lot of these catchy fun facts circle around without any clear origin
Anabebola
2024-10-28 09:12:45 +0000 UTChttps://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/bacteriophage-plushie?variant=40580777312304 Looks like it's been added to the store :)
Gaëtan Perrault
2024-10-27 21:44:51 +0000 UTCThis makes me want to find the source for the thermal output of the human body us mechanical engineers use for our thermal load calculations in HVAC design. We tend to just use it uncritically without asking where it came from.
Jeff Doll
2024-10-27 20:01:04 +0000 UTCI believe a similar story was that spinach has so much iron in it, it just got accepted at some point and even though it isn't true, and there now are papers about it, it is hard to get rid of the saying because it is so popular xD Love your story and channel, keep up the good work/research +1
IceZyclon
2024-10-27 19:28:49 +0000 UTCLove the "Behind The Scenes" of the birbs in a real office.
Paul Lenoue
2024-10-27 19:06:17 +0000 UTCWell, as long as you do not suddenly unearth that what the physics community had always taken as a fact is untrue and electromagnetic waves in a near vacuum actually travel much faster as we currently calculate with, I am just amazed but not really shocked that this little back of the envelope "guesstimation" from over a 100 years ago had survived for so long in the scientific community... After all, scientists are also just mere humans and prone to err now and then just like everyone else. Well I at least hope they are human... :D
hitchhiker0680
2024-10-27 18:11:16 +0000 UTCWhere does one buy that Bacteriophage plushy?
Fogel
2024-10-27 17:33:08 +0000 UTCAs always, a really interesting video and love your dedication to accuracy!
J Rejc
2024-10-27 16:46:28 +0000 UTCThanks team! Lot of work, we appreciate it.
Jackson Walker
2024-10-27 16:38:28 +0000 UTC(Also, amazing stuff here.)
john kraemer
2024-10-27 16:07:46 +0000 UTCMy 2025 calendar never arrived.
john kraemer
2024-10-27 16:06:01 +0000 UTCThanks for your dedication to looking into the topics that underpin your informative content.
Daniel Turner
2024-10-27 15:06:54 +0000 UTC
