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How Trash Goes From Garbage Cans to Landfills (Every Step Explained) | WIRED

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Every day New York City picks up 12,000 tons of refuse and recycling. How does all this trash go from the garbage can to its final destination? Former New York City Sanitation Commissioner Ed Grayson is here to explain.

Cool Facts About Snakes, Lizards and Dragons

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There are over 8,000 species of snakes and lizards. Find out some of the secrets behind their scaly skin.

Kingdom Of Plants - An Evolutionary Quirk

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David Attenborough takes us through the jade plant and its extraordinary evolutionary quirk.

VFX Artist Reveals The True Scale Of The Universe

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If The Earth was shrunk down to the size of a tennis ball, how big would the universe be?

You Are Not Where You Think You Are

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Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that?

How To Make Elephant Toothpaste

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For this fun experiment, we have transformed our kitchen into a laboratory.

The Super Secrets of Sewage

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In 2020, many cities started monitoring wastewater for viruses, and there are a lot of non-virus reasons to keep doing it.

25 MILLION Orbeez In A Pool

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We filled a pool with 25 million Orbeez so I could settle an argument about how far you sink if you jump in.

How does heart transplant surgery work? - Roni Shanoada

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Dig into the science of how heart transplants happen, how donors are matched and find out how this complex surgery saves lives.

Food And Culture On The Space Station

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Learn about the intersection of food and culture in space from NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams.

How Tutankhamun Got His Gold

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Archeologists are trying to find out how the pharaoh mined and amassed so much gold.

How Is Cotton Candy Made?

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Learn how cotton candy machines turn regular sugar into fluffy, delicious cotton candy.

Normal Stuff In Not-So Normal Places

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So, what happens to normal stuff (like water) when it goes to not so normal places?

Cool Facts About Sharks

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Did you know there are over 300 different species of sharks in our oceans?

Combinations of 52 cards (52 factorial)

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Whenever you shuffle a deck of 52 cards, it is quite likely that you are achieving something never done before in history. The number of combinations is 52 factorial.

Time Zones For Kids

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Do you know what a time zone is, or which time zone you live in?

Floating Dry Ice Experiment

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What happens when dry ice is added to a shallow amount of water? In this experiment, you can test this out for yourself.

Planetary Plants

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What could plant life look like on other planets?

Cool Facts About Alligators And Crocodiles

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Find out how alligators and crocodiles are different in “Things You Wanna Know.”

The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba

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If you too want to overcome your existential dread, make your life beautiful and support Kurzgesagt, you can get sciency products made with love in our shop. Thanks so much to everyone who's supporting us.

Petrified Forest National Park

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Learn cool facts about petrified wood––like how it became fossilized and why it’s scattered in eastern Arizona.