100 Facts About Earth
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2020
- Facts about Earth can touch on geology, biology, and astronomy, among many other subjects. The surprising Earth facts in this episode of The List Show will hopefully give you a little more appreciation (and many more fun facts) about our planet.
Erin (@erincmccarthy) shares a whole lot of facts about the planet Earth, from the etymology of the word earth to weird gravitational anomalies (and the reasons behind them). You’ll learn which type of organism makes up the majority of life on Earth, and which planet inspired albums by Joe Walsh and Marvin Gaye (hint: it isn’t Mars).
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This is a very local urban legend, but I know about its origin because I was there when the legend was created.
I am an amputee, and as a kid I skied with my leg on and two skis. You could not tell I was an amputee just by looking at me.
When I was 12 or 13 (this would have been 1982 or 1983) I was skiing when the bolt that holds my fake foot on came lose. I fell and when I came to rest my foot was pointed the wrong way. Unfortunately a new ski patrol person saw me fall. On top of that, when the bolt came lose it did so with a loud crack.
I tried to explain that I needed an Allen wrench to fix my leg, but the poor ski patrol person must have concluded I was in shock and decided I was not worth listening to.
Before long I had an entire team there trying to help me and calm me down. No one seemed to notice that their efforts were making me even more agitated.
I finally got to a place where I could pull my leg clean off to show them it was a fake leg and could be easily fixed. Everyone had a good laugh at the new guy, they got me an Allen wrench, I fixed my leg and finished the day skiing.
Fast forward 25 years. I'm skiing at the same ski area. I'm now skiing on one ski with my leg off. It was a slow day at the ski area and I'm joined by a ski patrol person. Not the same guy, obviously, but he starts off telling me this story with "There is a story, an urban legend, really. Probably BS but a good story..." and he tells me (more or less) the story I just shared.
When I told him the story was not BS, that I had been that kid he had me come to the main ski patrol office to introduce me to the crew.
I found out from one of the "old timers" (a guy who was my age) that the ski patrolman who saw me fall stayed on at the ski area working every season for several years, eventually become a manager and trainer. He said he told this story as an object lesson, to listen to the patient, and even if what they say sounds crazy, listen to them. There may be more going on that what you can see.
Ha! Great story! And with a valuable lesson for the medical (and ski patrol) field, no less.
That is fun
Great story. If I was that new ski patrol guy it probably would have flipped me out seeing someones leg fall off. I also think it is amazing that you can ski with only 1 leg. But goes to show. If someone wants to do something and has the will to do it. They can do anything.
@@williamcoleman3693 There was also a time when, as a very stupid kid I was running away from the police for no reason and the cop caught me just as I reached the top of a chain like fence. The cop grabbed my leg and... Well, you know those lizards that can shed their tail to escape predators?
That poor cop was scared for like I think.
So a large DIY globe would be an Eartha Kit?
That's cute
Jim Fortune meow.
Lol
Thanks for that giggle
😎 that’s so bad it’s good!
Loved that you included Eartha! I'm a Maine native and anytime I drive by it on I-95, I always point it out to whomever is in the car!
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Former USM student. Not used to hearing the school mentioned like that.
0:59 “Where are we”
Hi, you’re on a rock, floating in space.
Some of it’s water. Actually, f*%# it, most of its water.
I wouldn't be surprised if most subscribers to mental floss have at least 1 globe in their house. I have a couple of them myself.
Ha! Now I'd like to do a poll and figure out all the ways the Mental Floss audience diverges from the general public.
This makes Earth sound dope! I can't wait to visit!
You should check out Disney World on earth. Went two lightyears ago
@@brandonlawson2460 You are very far away then.
You may want to wait a year or so......
We call earth as 'Bumi' in Indonesian, literally translated as 'Home' in some local language
Love your videos. My new addiction. Thankyou guys x
What a marathon of a video! Nice job, Erin, as usual. Now get that AC back on!
I am surprised the spiral jetty was mentioned, its a really neat place! Smaller than you might imagine.
This was a great one!
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon is a very interesting urban legend that is also a great example of how urban legends reflect societal fears of the time, like the fear of war and gas attacks.
Yeah just like bibles fear of gods and the supermatural
A pity the dymaxion map didn't come up: it splits things up on the oceans, but the relative size and shape of the landmasses are accurate. It complements other maps very well.
Keith Gaughan I looked it up. Very interesting, thank you!
Oh wow hadn't heard of that, but it would've made a great inclusion on the list!
While a child, I realized the dymaxion map was most accurate, I preferred the top projections from this: www.quadibloc.com/maps/mapint.htm as I just found it easier to follow place to place.
The simplified, thus less accurate version is: www.unm.edu/~mehedihasan/hw3.htm
While I think I knew projection names, my memory is not as good now. Mercator is the only projection name I remember now and it is the least accurate but most commonly used.
Yes, part of that first illustration is missing - the California section. Seems ABC News or some other TV news organization used a simpler version (fewer sections and just white and blue) as a backdrop for their opening back in the 60's or 70's.
It's more that an electrical arc smells like ozone, because ... it's making ozone. And it smells like chlorine because they have a similar effect of corroding your nose tissues.
This is amazing 👍
I live near spiral jetty. I appreciate the shoutout to it.
small correction: Ferdinand Magellan was Portuguese, not Spanish. He was in charge of a Spanish expedition.
Fernao Magallanes was killed on the island of Mactan in April of 1521 when he thought he could teach the Filipino warriors there how to make war.
The Blue Dot makes me feel really weird. Earth is scary, magnificent, and insignificant.
Love the content. How did nobody tell her she had something between her teeth. The channel is literally called mental floss! Lol
It's not called Dental Floss...
Oh. We're half way there, whoo oooo, living where there's air!
What a great presentation xxx thanks
Urban Legend: Paul Bunyon from Maine. There is a gargantuan statue of him in my home town, Bangor!
@Jacob Poland Bangor, I don’t even know her.
That brings up an interesting point. What makes something an "urban legend" vs. a tall tale or folklore? My initial reaction was "Paul Bunyon's not an urban legend," but then I realized I don't have a strong definition of "urban legend" in my head. Something to look into!
Terra! my favorite planet!
"It's kinda hard to say where earth ends and space begins". Meanwhile, on screen, it literally says "The exosphere is where earth ends and space begins."
Okay, and _where_ is that?
Ferdinand Magellan - actually Fernão de Magalhães - was not Spanish, but Portuguese.
Erin and the team saved my sanity with this bless you for you energy and sharing of wisdom :) thank you for the huge effort which went into this.
urban legend of a surgeon who couldn't get a gallbladder out laparoscopically so he had to transfer the patient because he did not know how to remove the gallbladder with an open procedure
True earth fact: it's seriously really sad that you have to explain the difference between climate and weather in 2020.
I won't dwell on it too hard lol. I love your videos!
Lol, there is no difference. It's semantics for folks who desperately want to discredit climate change deniers or should I say man made climate change deniers.
@@richardjohnson8197 That's ridiculous.
Love the fact that you're a Teddy Roosevelt fan.
You forgot that the ozone layer is a blanket from the deadly laser.
I don't know if this counts: The cryptid Chupacabra is usually considered as a dangerous animal that kill life stock. The urban legend started in Puerto Rico after a woman reported seeing a deformed animal in the night and found carcasses of life stock in the morning. No specimens were ever found. The usual depiction of the Chupacabra extended from this woman's drawing, but this "animal" also bear a very strong resemblance to an alien creature created by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger for the movie "Species". Some sources say that this woman later admitted that she did see the film some time earlier than her Chupacabra sighting and the movie may have influenced her memory when she saw a wild animal in the night.
Shout out to moringa! We call it Malungai. And we eat it as a vegetable, drink it as a tea, use it for fertilizer, use it for fragrance, and for medicine.
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"A myriad of errors" made me twitch as that's an error in itself. Myriad originally meant "ten thousand" so that says "A ten thousand of errors", a grammatical hailstorm.
While people continue to MISUSE the word "myriad" by adding "of" to the end of it, that's neither accepted nor correct use. That's not to say it's not common, but common use is NOT the same as correct use.
I hate when people on educational or informative channels misuse words like this.
I read a scifi treatment of a fanfic.
The upshot is that one of the friendly aliens and one of the earth born characters came to the realization that both species name for both their birth planets in their own language boiled down to dirt or terra firma in the larger sense. How many times have people scooped up a handful of dirt and called it earth?
Im mad u didnt show pics or vids for tons of the stuff! Like i wanna see the biggest underwater waterfall in the world
Can’t see your eyebrows but I can see the effect of their raising by the space that occurs between your eyes and fringe.
one legend I grew up with was Diana of the Dunes. It is believed that the ghost of a woman named Alice Gray walks the beaches at the Indiana Dunes. She died after giving birth to her second child, perhaps by the hands of her murderous husband. Many have claimed to see this harmless ghost in white, who is called Diana due to her beauty, and if you are anywhere near the dunes, you might too. every time we would spend the weekend up at Indiana dunes, someone would tell this story around the camp fire.
#21: BIODOME!!! Come on!! Who thought that right away too???
8:07 Well, you can’t spell Earth without art.
impressive video
How about a video about Uranus?
I don't know if anyone said it yet, but Werewolves are believed to come from rabies infections.
Rabies infected dogs would bite a person, spreading the infection and that person will become more and more violent then, in the final stages, bite someone else
I'm pretty sure that, if an "astronomical unit" is the distance from the sun to the earth, then we are AT one AU from the sun, rather than "about one AU from the sun". js
OMG! Willow bark can be made into Aspirin Tea!? Thanks @Mental Floss! That is such a game changer! No more cold medicine on shelves anywhere right now, and we have a BAD flue and cold season, included with RSV and Covid. This could be very useful!
I LOVE the movie, The Core.
I had a map-puzzle of the US when I was little.
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That would have been a lot harder than an Australian map like we had!
I had a paper map from a travel atlas tacked to my wall with pushpins in all the places I wanted to visit.
If not taken seriously, or even looked at to be Razzy worthy, I actually like The Core lol
Erdapfel is also "potato" in some German dialects (Austro-Bavarian), although since the globe was introduced before the Columbian Exchange, there were no "earth apples" yet in Europe.
Actually, the biggest globe in the world as a circumference of nearly 25000 miles.
Have you seen it???
@@symet As a matter of fact, I have. So have you.
I wish....NASA turned me down because I'm too honest
@@symet You can see the globe by looking out the window. You don't need to go into space.
We're on different planes...Have a great day..
5:47 "earth apple" is also slang for horse droppings
Midgar, Old World, Eden Many nations had names for the Earth before it was Earth. And its funny how the rule of 3 comes into play.
What day of the week do you guys think the big bang started on? Im thinking a Wednesday
Someone burped and someone else said hey that sounds like a good name for our planet!! Earrrrrrrth
can you make a video about how does earth made . Because I don't now how earth made
Between one in and three and one in five. Hmm. Seems like there's a number for that
I like you Erin
Why is part of the map blurred out? 2:20
That's how it appears from our source, the Library of Congress. I'm guessing that it's just missing a little piece there, but would be curious if anyone can shed some light on that.
I understand that there are places that are so secret that they are not allowed to be placed on maps.
The Slender Man meme began when a competition on the comedy web forum 'Something Awful' asked for ideas for a modern myth/ photos that would terrify people. Eric Knudsen, using the pseudonym Victor Surge, replied by posting two photoshopped images, showing a tall, sinister figure lurking behind groups of children. He attached some vague text suggesting 14 young people and the photographer had gone missing. From the very beginning it was intended to be a meme, but Knudsen's fragmented post prompted a creative outburst. Eventually thousands of people were making drawings and writing stories. (Source BBC)
I love how we use BCE to dechristianize the era system yet still use the birth of Christ as the reference point.
That's why some people came up with some "human time" idea, which just adds 10k years and considers that the beginning of the human era, so to them we are in year 12020. "Holocene calendar" they call it.
I understand putting the aircon on would mess with your audio but we don't want you getting heat stroke! Maybe have the aircon on colder than normal the hour or so before you start filming?
#92 The Berwick witches of Scotland, it’s pronounced like “Berick”
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Thank you for this i just liked and subbed, want to be youtube friends?
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Terra, that was its name.
3:49 Some people can't look at anything without seeing something they don't like.
Looking at the word eorpe. I think the letter is not a 'p', by the way it's written, but what used to be a thorn in old english, pronounce 'th'. So it would have sounded like 'eorth'.
Number 50 is incorrect. It’s now the Philippines that is considered the most bio diverse place
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Earth... dirt...
We are dirtlings.
This feels right.
nice
I think the Earth formed around the same time as The Rolling Stones.
actually one of the names we have for earth is TERRA which is the name of a greek god/titan
Earth needs a check up....
The plot to the Core you because reasons. This would be fine if were complicated. It was not. The Earth's core was stopping spinning. This collapsed the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth. It is this magnetic field that protects us from Cosmic Radiation. Which would kill all life on Earth. Making Stanley Tucci et al the greatest heros in the history of cinema as they attempt to restart the core spinning.
Erin's spanner eyes!
Has Mental Floss made a video on facts about singing yet? Erin can sing!
Please start with ITS A SPHERE
More a oblate spheroid
@@sween187 true, just not FLAT
Oh no I’ve found Alices rabbit hole
6:57 uh, I'm pretty sure the planet earth is the largest rotating globe, checkmate guiness
Thunddderrballll!!!
our planet has a green name - Terra
Early man originally called the planet, Earph. The western European changed it to Earth. This difference in pronunciation is still around today.
Great video but.... I kept getting distracted by the thought that I saw something inside your left nostril.
Lol the earths core is a rusty nickel
How do you remember all this stuff?
In the past few years, politicians in Utah broadcasted commercials begging citizens to pray for rain! Unbelievable!
Enjoyed the video. At 11:00 minutes there is an error. If you want to find out how old a house is, you can get a rough idea if you find out how when the neighborhood was built. That doesn't work with celestial bodies. There is STILL a push to pretend that the Earth formed when the moon formed. The theory that a planet-sized body crashed into Earth forming the Earth and moon has been disproven. The rocks that came from the moon showed that the moon formed long before Earth and NO, tectonic plates does not explain why we don't have rocks the same age as the moon. We simply cannot explain the moons existence, how it arrived here, why it is hollow and several other strange anomalies. There are secrets and lies involving the moon. It's tidal rotation showing us only one face at all times is bizarre. The front side looks nothing like the rear side is bizarre. AEPs witnessed by the majority of astronauts is bizarre. An ancient people who have history and talk about a "Time before the moon" is telling. It might be a bit of a stretch, but it could very well be that the moon was towed here by intelligent beings that come and go to and from earth at least every eight minutes. Are we being farmed? There are those who likely know and to keep that info from all of mankind is unforgivable regardless of any good intent, which is highly doubtful. The moon came after the Earth. That is a known
Stick w John!
Humans directly affect 50% of the plants on land for use.
From avocados to trees.
(I know im late to the party and you'll never see this but) Holy shit girl, you got a hell of a singing voice!
True, the word Earth first appeared around the 14th century but there were many other names for the planet, e.g. "Terra" traceable back to the 3rd century B.C.E.
I'm not trying to be that guy but it was distracting.
Urban legends, the Chicago fire was not started by the O'Leary cow kicking over a lantern. Possibly lightning, meteorite, arson, etc.. The Chicago City Council voted to kill the cow story in 1992. It was made worse by a fire in a lumber town in Peshtigo, WI inbthe day prior to th Chicago one, where the CFD were tired out as they helped through mutual aid.
All star....Natasha Bedingfield lol
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam. "
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
GREENLAND IS 836000 SQUARE MILES AND REPUBLIC OF CONGO IS ONLY 132OOO SQUARE MILES. THE CONGO RIVER BASIN IS 900000 SQUARE MILES.
We use the Earths mass to calculate the mass of other planets . You can not then use those estimated weights (mass) to determines the Earths. Of course it will work out to the original estimate. DUH.
Your singing voice is so lovely 😊
Lakes do not curve. Wow.
Sad stuff miss
Some people see political beliefs in the Mercator projection because 1. Of course they do. And, 2. because they see nothing but that every time they open their eyes, and 3. they have nothing more important to do, so...of course they do.