Hi, I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

We've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

Today you learn about whether it's safe to eat food with freezer burn, you learn about a

flying reptile besides of a giraffe, and a technique that can help you learn skills twice as fast.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

So have you ever opened your freezer and reached for some ice cream and just seen it surrounded

by ice?

Yes, it is gross and I don't want to eat it. And it's depressing, like you want an ice cream.

And what is this mess?

Well, Curiosity, research to how Freezerburn works.

And we found out that it's actually safe to eat freezer burn food

even if it's maybe not that appetizing. So what happens

is the water inside your frozen food actually comes out. Kind of like when you're

boiling water and water escapes in the form of steam,

water inside frozen food sublimates. The water escapes and it

dehydrates the food that's been staying in your freezer.

So what's happened in your freezer is the water inside the meat or the ice cream or the veggies or whatever

has actually been drawn out into the air and then turned back into solid ice crystals on its surface, which is why if you've ever, I don't

know, Cody, if you've ever put a tray of ice cubes in the freezer and then haven't looked

at them for months and you go back and they're smaller, that's because they're sublimating.

That ice is actually coming out into the air and sticking to other things in your freezer.

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