How to Clean Your Smartphone, Caffeine Benefits, and the World’s Busiest Air Route

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:

Caffeine Causes Widespread "Brain Entropy" — and That's Actually a Good Thing
The World's Busiest Air Route Goes to an Island You've Probably Never Heard of
This Is How to Clean Your Smartphone Without Destroying It

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cody Gough.
0:04.8	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:06.0	We're from Curiosity.com, and we've got three stories to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:10.8	Today you learn about the world's busiest air route, which goes to an island you've probably
0:14.6	never heard of, how caffeine affects your brain, and how to clean your smartphone without
0:19.4	destroying it.
0:20.4	Let's satisfy some curiosity. So where would you guess is the world's busiest air route?
0:25.0	I'd say like New York to LA.
0:28.0	Right, or New York to Chicago.
0:30.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:31.0	So we were curious about this and we found that air travel
0:33.9	intelligence company OAG has a list of the busiest air routes in the world which is
0:38.6	great. Guess what? Not a single route in the US made the top 10.
0:43.0	Wow.
0:43.8	Yeah, the winner was Seoul, South Korea, to Jiju.
0:48.7	Have you ever heard of Jiju?
0:49.7	No, I never have.
0:52.1	Well, approximately 200 flights run in either direction between the two destinations
0:56.4	every day according to Google flights. Wow. And 11 million people made the trip in 2014.
1:03.6	Jeju is nicknamed the Hawaii of South Korea
1:07.0	since Koreans regularly visit,
1:08.8	and they go to see natural wonders
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