7 Facts - True or False?
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Channel: Sebastian ioan · 2015 · Education
1000 SUBSCRIBERS! Thank you so much for your support! This video is a special one to mark reaching this milestone. I hope you'll enjoy it. Peace :) Learn, Share, Subscribe ------------------------------------------------ Watch 7 Facts from Asia here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZJ71IJGFRRGIkTyr4u371Fx6e88Qx2N Here is the European Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZJ71IJGFRTa_XMM9a4hDh2Yo9CsZzOR Follow: https://plus.google.com/+blinder00 https://twitter.com/Sebastian2Go https://www.facebook.com/official7facts ------------------------------------------------ True or false? How well do you think you know the world around you? More information about the video content bellow: 1. If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would reach the Moon. True (in theory): A 500 page ream (pack) of paper is about 5 cm thick. That means one page is about 0.01 cm high. Mean distance from the Earth is about 384,000 km. Here’s the trick: f I fold it a third time, I’ll see that it’s 8 pages thick. Paper folding is exponential, so that if I fold it a fourth time, it’ll be 16 pages thick. By time I get to 20 foldings, my folded paper is more than 10 kilometers high, which surpasses Mt. Everest. 41 foldings will get me slightly more than halfway to the Moon, so that means that 42 foldings is all it takes! And about 94 foldings of a paper would make something the size of the entire visible Universe! 2. Mark Twain invented and patented the bra-strap clasp. True: Here’s the patent http://www.google.com/patents/US121992?hl=ro By the way, his real name is Samuel L. Clemens. 3. In London, UK, if you happen to die in the House of Parliament, you are technically entitled to a state funeral, because the building is considered too sacred a place. False: This myth may have arisen because under the UK’s Coroners Act 1988, the coroner of the Queen’s household has jurisdiction over an inquest into a death in a royal palace. However, state funerals are not mandatory. 4. Newlyweds in France are forced to drink leftovers from their wedding out of a toilet bowl. True: This is a very old tradition in France called La Soupe. After the bride and groom have left their wedding reception, the bridal party (friends and family) clean up the mess by gathering leftover food and drink and dumping it into a toilet to make La soupe. They then make their way to the honeymoon suite, and force the couple to drink part of the soupy mixture. The reasoning behind the tradition was to give the couple fuel to have sex. 5. Drinking alcohol kills brain cells. False: Drinking pretty much any non-fatal amount of alcohol won’t add enough alcohol to your blood stream to destroy your neurons. 6. The popular image of Santa Claus – chubby, bearded, in red and white clothes – was invented by Coca-Cola for an ad campaign. False: Santa was portrayed like that for decades before Coke got in on the act. 7. There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells. True: All the bacteria living inside you would fill a two litre jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cell. More Info: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/08/31/paper-folding-to-the-moon/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/29/wedding-traditions_n_3964844.html http://gizmodo.com/drinking-alcohol-doesnt-actually-kill-brain-cells-1498785941 http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/its-like-santa-isnt-real-at-all-or-something#.jnmweV4OP Music: Jason Shaw – Groovy Baby http://freemusicarchive.org/ Images: http://www.seriouseats.com/images/2014/07/20140709-garnish101-chocolate-decorating-vicky-wasik-4.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AmFMJC45f1Q/maxresdefault.jpg http://wallpapercolor.net/wallpapers/cute-moon-cartoon-wallpaper-17068.jpg http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2227848/original.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/The_death.svg/2000px-The_death.svg.png https://come2drum.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/thumbs-up.jpg http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3269320/images/o-BRIDE-EATING-facebook.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Australian_Toilet.JPG http://d3819ii77zvwic.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2014-05-22-at-11.15.25-AM.png http://www.coventryrugbyccg.nhs.uk/mf.ashx?ID=a6dc4a30-5c88-48bd-9cc8-dabcc77583c4 http://www.mtlblog.com/uploads/2013/10/o-ALCOHOL-facebook.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/537753138_ea18756322_b.jpg http://koikoikoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cokelore_santa_toys_cutout.jpg http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/media-1279/CarteNoel_1906_6.jpg http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/11/14/gutbrain-connectionfinal_wide-cb9feac5f39d9f01a5c02737cda2ac48541b2929.jpg?s=1400
