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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Some well-known facts are actually lies passed down through the ages, others are just downright too crazy to be true, and the truth behind them is almost unbelievable! So, prepare to have your mind-blown into another time zone as we take a look at some facts that sound so crazy, you won’t believe they’re true!
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0:00.0 | There are a lot of facts that everybody seems to know, but whether they're from textbooks, |
0:05.0 | the internet, or your teachers, we tend to believe a lot of them without questioning whether |
0:09.7 | they're actually true or not. Well, it turns out some of these well-known facts are actually |
0:14.7 | lies passed down through the ages, others are just downright wrong, and the truth behind them |
0:20.3 | is almost unbelievable. |
0:23.0 | So prepare to have your mind blown into another time zone as we take a look at some facts that sounds so crazy, you won't believe they're true. |
0:33.1 | You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. Be amazed. Imagine you have a super tasty bowl of spaghetti in front of you. |
0:45.3 | You twirl your fork around and pick up one lone spaghetti noodle. |
0:49.3 | It's just that, right? |
0:51.3 | A single strand of spaghetti? |
0:53.3 | Well, actually it has a name. |
0:55.1 | It turns out spaghetti, an Italian word, is the plural noun for all those strings of pasta. |
1:00.8 | Here's a quick crash course in Italian. |
1:02.9 | An eye on the end of a noun usually indicates that it's plural, where an O or A indicates |
1:08.8 | it's singular. |
1:10.3 | This means a single strand of spaghetti is actually called a spaghetti. |
1:14.8 | And the pasta madness doesn't stop there. |
1:17.5 | Nako is the singular for yoki, Fetucino is the singular for Fettuccini, and raviolo is the singular |
1:24.5 | for ravioli. |
1:26.2 | But this leaves me with just one question. What in God's |
1:29.4 | name is a Spaghetti-o then? I don't think I'm ready to know. Next up, every year Americans |
1:35.4 | all over the great U.S. of Ace Celebrate Columbus Day. This is a holiday commemorating |
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