Seeing Opinions as Facts, Bird-Killing Pisonia Trees, and How Much the Tooth Fairy Pays

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Your Brain Involuntarily Sees Opinions You Agree With as Facts
The Stroop Effect Is A Window Into Perception
The Pisonia Tree Lures and Murders Birds for No Good Reason
The Tooth Fairy Pays a Lot More Than She Used To

For a more adult perspective on dental health over time in the United States, check out "Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America" by health journalist Mary Otto. Curious for more of nature's killers? Check out "Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities."

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.3	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.2	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.2	Today you learn about a tree that lures and murders birds for no good reason, why your brain
0:12.3	sees opinions you agree with as facts, and how much the
0:15.5	tooth fairy is paying these days.
0:17.7	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:19.5	So Ashley, how much did the tooth fairy pay for your teeth?
0:22.1	Oh gosh, probably a quarter.
0:24.0	Probably, you know what, my dad really liked rare coins,
0:26.0	so probably like a 50 cent piece or like a dollar coin or something?
0:30.0	Those are cool.
0:31.0	Yeah.
0:32.0	Or like a $2 bill. I never had the two dollar bill. He was more into coins, but yeah that would be awesome to get under your pillow. Right. I do not remember how much the tooth fairy gave me. Unfortunately and in case you didn't grow up with a Tooth Fairy for some reason or you haven't seen the Disney film on the same name starring The Rock, here's how the Tooth Fairy works. When your tooth falls out, you put it under your pillow before you go to bed and when you wake up there's money there.
0:53.6	Wow. Yeah, it's magic. It is literally magic.
0:56.8	How much money though? A new study says the tooth fairy is adjusting for inflation.
1:01.5	Of course she is. A survey asked baby boomer, Gen X, millennial, and Gen Z participants how much money
1:09.8	they've gotten from the tooth fairy over time.
1:12.0	They found it's gone up quite a bit.
1:13.7	So people older than 53 made about 69 cents per tooth.
1:17.3	I'm guessing this is an average and...
1:19.2	And this is when the people older than 53 were children.
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