Have you ever tried watching Paint Try?

Granted, it's not as entertaining as a good movie or podcast,

but it's certainly equivalent to an action movie for the people who have the patience needed

to watch something for decades and still be waiting in anticipation.

Just be thankful that me telling the story doesn't take anywhere near as long.

An incredibly dedicated group of viewers

have been waiting for almost a century

to see an incredibly bizarre

yet important event you've probably never even heard of.

Let's explore the pitch drop experiment.

You're listening.

You're listening.

You're listening to be're listening. You're listening. You're listening. Be amazed.

After nearly 100 years, this is the longest-running scientific endeavor, according to the

Guinness World Records.

Back in 1927, Thomas Parnell, a professor at the University of Queensland in Australia,

set out to demonstrate to his students that while some substances appear solid,

they're actually highly viscous fluids.

So he poured a heated substance called pitch into a sealed funnel and allowed the material

to cool for three years. Pitch is the term given to a number of natural or manufactured

viscoelastic polymers that are derived from plants, petroleum, or coal tar. Some forms of pitch

may also be known as bitumen or asphalt. It can be hit with a hammer and it reacts much like glass

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