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Science has done some genuinely incredible things. We’ve mapped the human genome, landed rovers on Mars, and figured out what happened in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
But then you look at the ocean floor, and there’s a rhythmic pulse beating every 26 seconds. It’s been doing it for at least 60 years, and nobody can agree on why. Or think about the disease that killed millions of people a century ago, literally turned the survivors into living statues, and just vanished without a trace. Look, some of the most fascinating questions in science aren't the ones we’ve answered. It's the ones that keep refusing to be. These are 25 strange facts that science still can't fully explain.
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Music: Science Montage - Jeremy Blake
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - A Volcanic Eruption Nobody Has Found Made 536 AD the Worst Year in History
1:40 - The Moon Occasionally Flashes and Glows for No Confirmed Reason
2:19 - A Disease Once Turned Millions of People Into Living Statues
3:00 - Certain Bamboo Species Flower Simultaneously Worldwide on a Century-Long Schedule Nobody Can Explain
3:52 - The Earth Has Been Pulsing Every 26 Seconds for at Least 60 Years
4:28 - Fibromyalgia Causes Real, Measurable Pain That Medicine Still Can't Fully Explain
5:06 - A 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has Never Been Classified
5:48 - A Crystal Can Spontaneously Change Form and Spread the Change Like a Contagion
6:40 - Every Cell in Your Body Contains a Mysterious Structure With No Known Function
7:20 - A Unique Marine Ecosystem Was Accidentally Destroyed Before It Could Be Studied
7:55 - Our Galaxy Is Being Pulled Toward Something We Can't Directly See
8:35 - A Disease Killed Healthy People Within Hours — Then Completely Vanished
9:17 - Nobody Fully Understands How Anesthesia Works
9:57 - Nearly 300 Children Collapsed at a Marching Band Competition for No Confirmed Reason
10:33 - A Disease Caused by Eating Fish Has a Toxin Nobody Has Isolated
11:06 - Elite Athletes Can Lose the Ability to Perform Routine Skills — and Medicine Doesn't Fully Understand Why
11:55 - A Quarter Million Veterans Are Still Sick From a War That Ended 30 Years Ago
12:35 - A Mysterious Illness Has Caused Explosive Diarrhea for Decades — and Nobody Knows Why
13:18 - A Condition Causes a Toe to Slowly and Spontaneously Amputate Itself
13:57 - The "p" in pH Has Never Been Officially Explained
14:31 - A Rare Condition Causes One Side of a Person's Face to Slowly Disappear
15:06 - Depression Is Not Caused by Low Serotonin — and Scientists Are Still Figuring Out What It Is Caused By
15:41 - An Entire Town Was Kept Awake for Weeks by a Sound Nobody Could Identify
16:20 - Cockroaches Can See in Darkness So Complete That Individual Photons Arrive Once Every Ten Seconds
16:56 - There Is Exactly One Specimen of an Organism That Doesn't Fit Any Known Category of Life
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Science has done some genuinely incredible things. We’ve mapped the human genome, landed rovers on Mars, and figured out what happened in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
But then you look at the ocean floor, and there’s a rhythmic pulse beating every 26 seconds. It’s been doing it for at least 60 years, and nobody can agree on why. Or think about the disease that killed millions of people a century ago, literally turned the survivors into living statues, and just vanished without a trace. Look, some of the most fascinating questions in science aren't the ones we’ve answered. It's the ones that keep refusing to be. These are 25 strange facts that science still can't fully explain.
Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon! Click the link to explore over 500 fun and fascinating facts! 👉👉amazon.com/WHAT-FACTS-ARE-TALKING-ABOUT-ebook/dp/B0DFNR2KHT
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Music: Science Montage - Jeremy Blake
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - A Volcanic Eruption Nobody Has Found Made 536 AD the Worst Year in History
1:40 - The Moon Occasionally Flashes and Glows for No Confirmed Reason
2:19 - A Disease Once Turned Millions of People Into Living Statues
3:00 - Certain Bamboo Species Flower Simultaneously Worldwide on a Century-Long Schedule Nobody Can Explain
3:52 - The Earth Has Been Pulsing Every 26 Seconds for at Least 60 Years
4:28 - Fibromyalgia Causes Real, Measurable Pain That Medicine Still Can't Fully Explain
5:06 - A 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has Never Been Classified
5:48 - A Crystal Can Spontaneously Change Form and Spread the Change Like a Contagion
6:40 - Every Cell in Your Body Contains a Mysterious Structure With No Known Function
7:20 - A Unique Marine Ecosystem Was Accidentally Destroyed Before It Could Be Studied
7:55 - Our Galaxy Is Being Pulled Toward Something We Can't Directly See
8:35 - A Disease Killed Healthy People Within Hours — Then Completely Vanished
9:17 - Nobody Fully Understands How Anesthesia Works
9:57 - Nearly 300 Children Collapsed at a Marching Band Competition for No Confirmed Reason
10:33 - A Disease Caused by Eating Fish Has a Toxin Nobody Has Isolated
11:06 - Elite Athletes Can Lose the Ability to Perform Routine Skills — and Medicine Doesn't Fully Understand Why
11:55 - A Quarter Million Veterans Are Still Sick From a War That Ended 30 Years Ago
12:35 - A Mysterious Illness Has Caused Explosive Diarrhea for Decades — and Nobody Knows Why
13:18 - A Condition Causes a Toe to Slowly and Spontaneously Amputate Itself
13:57 - The "p" in pH Has Never Been Officially Explained
14:31 - A Rare Condition Causes One Side of a Person's Face to Slowly Disappear
15:06 - Depression Is Not Caused by Low Serotonin — and Scientists Are Still Figuring Out What It Is Caused By
15:41 - An Entire Town Was Kept Awake for Weeks by a Sound Nobody Could Identify
16:20 - Cockroaches Can See in Darkness So Complete That Individual Photons Arrive Once Every Ten Seconds
16:56 - There Is Exactly One Specimen of an Organism That Doesn't Fit Any Known Category of Life
🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS:
►Life-Changing Facts You Won’t Believe Are True: youtu.be/vjRJHhuAnYY?si=VWRbobFuuQPHWYHe
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