I’m My Own Grandpa

From Facts in Motion. You might have heard this in a song already—there is a way someone can become their own grandfather. But how, exactly? Sources: 8:45 London Literary Gazette – 12 Jan 1822 https://archive.org/details/sim_literary-gazette_1822-01-12_260/page/30/mode/2up 9:30 Titusville Hearald – 22 Nov 1866 https://archive.org/details/newspaperarchive-titusville-herald?tab=collection&query=Titusville+Hearald+%281866-11-22%29 10:08 Dover Chronicle – Friday 19 July 1872 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004171/18720719/109/0007 Sleaford Gazette –…

A Tire Company Gives Out The Most Prestigious Food Award – Here’s Why

From Facts in Motion. Go to https://brilliant.org/fim/ to sign up for free and get 20% off the annual subscription. Or check out the daily challenges at https://brilliant.org/daily-problems/eat-like-a-bird/ Why does Michelin – a tire manufacturer – rate restaurants? SOURCES: https://www.beyond.fr/food/michelin-guide-history.html Why Does a Tire Company Publish the Michelin Guide? How Restaurants Get Michelin Stars: A Brief…

Why Snails Kill 200 000 People Every Year

From Facts in Motion. Did you know that snails are the second deadliest animal on the planet and responsible for around 200 000 deaths every year? Here’s why. Sources: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/schistosomiasis https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-13/why-snails-are-one-worlds-deadliest-creatures https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/schistosomiasis-bilharzia https://phys.org/news/2019-02-mosquitoes-malaria-million-years.html https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/schistosomiasis/biology.html https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/f10/departments/departments/parasitology/research/schistosoma/lifecycle https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resources/vector337to356.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9467732 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971216311808 https://schisto.stanford.edu/pdf/Japan.pdf An Example of Phylum Platyhelminthes: Schistosoma Haematobium https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X16300843 Thanks for watching. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Why Great Whites are So Dangerous

From Facts in Motion. How do sharks hunt and why do they sometimes attack humans? Thanks again to Brilliant: Go to https://brilliant.org/fim/ to sign up for free and get 20% off the annual subscription. Sources: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/shark-attacks-in-the-us/ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2004/01/great-white-shark-myths/ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33049099 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160817-one-creature-had-a-bite-more-powerful-than-any-other https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13412-013-0107-2 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/maps/world/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sharks-reputation-as-man-eaters-is-unfair-and-threatens-the-species-authors-say/2013/02/04/5b7b6542-6bd7-11e2-bd36-c0fe61a205f6_story.html?utm_term=.a407c4511616 https://www.livescience.com/8309-jaws-changed-view-great-white-sharks.html https://www.livescience.com/64799-great-white-shark-genome.html https://www.livescience.com/8797-shark-smell-myth-fishy.html https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-sharks-attack https://www.livescience.com/3899-truth-great-white-sharks-30-years-jaws.html Who is more aggressive, a Bull Shark…

This Animation Shows You How Small Atoms Really Are

From Facts in Motion. Atoms: The building blocks of everything around us. But how small are they? This animation will show you. Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248399628_An_estimation_of_the_number_of_cells_in_the_human_body http://book.bionumbers.org/how-big-is-a-human-cell/ https://foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Ch03_1.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radii_of_the_elements_(data_page) Thanks for watching. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/