00:00Hey everyone! What if I told you that in the 1700s, people would pay $8,000 just to rent a fruit for one night?
00:08Or that there's a place on earth where it literally rains diamonds?
00:12Today, we're going deeper than ever before.
00:15We're starting with 30 facts that sound 100% fake, diving into the insane history of the world's most dangerous fruit,
00:22and ending at the bottom of the fact iceberg, where the things we find are actually terrifying.
00:27Stay tuned, because by the end of this video, you'll never look at your own body the same way again.
00:34Fake but true facts.
00:37Fact 1. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
00:42Fact 2. A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
00:49Fact 3. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
00:55Fact 4. Wombat poop is cube-shaped to prevent it from rolling away.
01:01Fact 5. The world's oldest known living tree is over 4,800 years old.
01:07Fact 6. A shrimp's heart is located in its head.
01:11Fact 7. Scotland has 421 words for, snow.
01:16Fact 8. The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
01:21Fact 9. A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.
01:26Fact 10. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
01:31Fact 11. It is impossible to hum while holding your nose.
01:36Fact 12. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
01:40Fact 13. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 centimeters taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.
01:46Fact 14. Honey never spoils, archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.
01:55Fact 15. A group of crows is called a f-murder.
01:59Fact 16. Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
02:04Fact 17. Octopuses have 3 hearts and blue blood.
02:08Fact 18. There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
02:13Fact 19. The Ems on MNMS are printed with edible vegetable dye.
02:20Fact 20. Cashews grow on the bottom of apples that look like bell peppers.
02:25Fact 21. Sharks have been on earth longer than trees.
02:30Fact 22. Panthers are not a distinct species, they are just leopards or jaguars with melanism.
02:37Fact 23. Cows have best friends and become stressed when separated from them.
02:42Fact 24. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
02:48Fact 25. Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves.
02:54Fact 26. The dot over the lowercase i and j is called a tittle.
03:00Those were just the appetizers.
03:02Now, let's talk about a fruit that started literal wars.
03:06Let's look at the pineapple.
03:09Today, it's a pizza topping.
03:11But in the 1700s, a single pineapple cost the equivalent of $8,000.
03:17They were so rare that people didn't eat them, they rented them for parties just to show off their wealth.
03:23If you had a pineapple, you were a billionaire.
03:26But here is the creepy part, the pineapple eats you back.
03:31It contains an enzyme called bromelain that breaks down proteins.
03:35That tingle on your tongue.
03:37That's the fruit trying to digest your mouth.
03:41It takes almost two years for a single pineapple to grow.
03:45Imagine waiting two years for a fruit that wants to eat you.
03:48A blue whale's heart is the size of a bumper car.
03:52The US government once planned to drop XL condoms on the Soviet Union to make them think Americans were biologically superior.
04:00The Great Emu War of 1932, the Australian military actually lost a war against large, flightless birds.
04:09If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on Earth, the entire human race would fit inside the size of a single sugar cube.
04:19We are 99.9% nothing.
04:22We've gone from the luxury of the 1700s to the emptiness of the human atom.
04:27If your brain feels a little bigger now, hit that subscribe button.
04:31But the weirdest facts aren't actually about history, they're about space.
04:35See you on the next video on why NASA is actually terrified of what they found on the moon.
04:42Please subscribe, like and tell me in the comment section which fact interested you the most.
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