6 Myths Debunked About The Human Body

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Just how unique are your fingerprints? Appendix’s purpose? Why aren’t we totally human? How do we really taste things?
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Plus a couple more myths and misconceptions you thought were true!
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Sources: PLOS ONE, Columbia University Medical Centre, BBC, The Guardian, Live Science, Huffington post, Science Museum, Source: British Medical Journal, Researchgate, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Comptes Rendus Palevol, Science Daily, Duke University Medical Center, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, the University of Stellenbosch, the French National Museum of Natural History, Scientific American, Futurism, Smithsonian, Science ABC, The Guardian, BBC, The Second Book Of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & Mitchinson, and The New York Times.
Some available links for further reading:
Taste:
- www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/s...
- whoami.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wh...
Heat:
- www.researchgate.net/publicat...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2...
Finger Prints:
- www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
- www.scienceabc.com/humans/fin...
Appendix:
- www.sciencedirect.com/science...
- www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
Pee Color:
- www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Microbiome:
- www.sciencefocus.com/the-huma...
- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z...

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@DebunkedOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Should You POP PIMPLES? Acne Myths DEBUNKED kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9RdgZmp0cfFYYk.html

@s.m.o2306 2 жыл бұрын

And dolphins are smarter...

@Ezzzplays 2 жыл бұрын

@@s.m.o2306 ya

@adriankalitka3762 2 жыл бұрын

I was just curious why did your animation only show men submerged under the water?

@chrismoore7895 Жыл бұрын

We are not the most intelligent species😂 We only use about 6% of the brain's potential. Dolphins are the smartest living creatures. Using 20%. Who, next to swine, are our closer relatives. We aren't related to monkeys. They'd still be evolving into humans if that were the case. We eat swine because he has the same exact skin, preventing cannibalism. And we have webbed fingers and toes for swimming. Such monkeys don't have. We're water creatures adapted to land. We are not land creatures originally. At 14% brain function bats and sea animals developed sonar abilities. We are actually at the bottom of the list.

@killchasey Жыл бұрын

Ah, percentages, the easiest way to appear informed without actually informing much of anything. 6% of a truck full of cereal is still more cereal than 20% of a bowl of cereal. 14% phone battery current is not equivalent to 14% metropolitan area current.

@kridcsr1341 2 жыл бұрын

i swear i can taste food with my tongue. my mom confirmed many times that i don't have brains.

@kingest1999 Жыл бұрын

😂

@blakefr Жыл бұрын

@willyberg123IKR

@meirl2941 Жыл бұрын

what

@kellyshaw9410 11 ай бұрын

❤😂

@Shortimations 10 ай бұрын

LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@joeriandries 4 жыл бұрын

so our body is still 100% human, but being human (or any animal) we house bacteria to keep us alive... that does not make out body less human, it just makes these bacteria part of our human body

@kaical8273 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you that's like putting water in a jar and saying the jar is made of water.

@Olleetheowl 2 жыл бұрын

You will find that included in our DNA, is DNA from Viruses/Viri whatever. Which have hijacked our DNA to enable their reproduction. And those traces still remain.

@gabrielamaral978 Жыл бұрын

@@kaical8273 Not at all. Is more like. Someone look at water and say H2O is water... and you say "yeah, but the thing we normally refer as water is not H2O, it have other substances". So we are talking about two different things with the same name. Water in a pure chemical way and water in a day by day life. When i say to you "get me glass of water", i'm not asking you to get water from my sink and destilates it just to bring me H2O, i'm asking you to get this mix of things that includes H2O put in a glass and bring to me... in other words "bring me a glass of water".

@drebk Жыл бұрын

The only myth I've never heard or is the #1 ranked myth. Never not once

@MJohns-ui2vs Жыл бұрын

I can already tell that y’all ain’t no fun at parties

@TheNightsWolfYT 4 жыл бұрын

Well now I can tell people I’m not alone

@athenatanyimin4035 2 жыл бұрын

Because there's always someone among us 😁

@Kalaamari 2 жыл бұрын

@@athenatanyimin4035 sussy

@hollyhartwick3832 2 жыл бұрын

You’re never alone. We’re always watching. Bwahahaha! :P

@mauriciogerhardt3209 Жыл бұрын

You said that fingerprints aren't unique, but didn't debunk it, in fact you pretty much confirmed the opposite.

@beccaboo6355 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing because it sounds like they are unique but that the system just doesn’t analyze it completely & just uses markers which is ridiculous. Let’s play with peoples lives & possibly put someone in prison forever by not thoroughly doing our job & checking the entire finger print. 🤦‍♀️

@MacNerfer Жыл бұрын

@@beccaboo6355 Also, a lot of prints recovered from a crime scene are partial prints, so you may not get the full 12 reference points you're supposed to. Compare this to the TV shows, where they can miraculously get good fingerprints off of any surface.

@hugh5114 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Juan Vucetich.

@konuralpyldzkan1495 Жыл бұрын

the problem is finger prints are probably unique, not definitely. it has not been mathematically proven yet. so he debunked the statement being a fact.

@Kaiji700M 2 ай бұрын

Yes, bull crap for click bait, fingerprints are indeed very unique.

@godofeverything4625 4 жыл бұрын

This is teaching me more than public school

@kattberckley7811 4 жыл бұрын

that's because public school taught us all myths

@JohnCena8351 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should start paying attention.

@gorillasociety36 4 жыл бұрын

@@kattberckley7811 AGREE UwU

@justhere.4142 4 жыл бұрын

Facts

@resphantom 4 жыл бұрын

@@JohnCena8351 Of the stuff I learned from school only a handful of it was applied in adult life sofar. I pretty much learned all I know for my work either from the internet or other people at work. On top of that, I'm a junior DevOps engineer. Sure it's good to have a paper saying you can do this and that, but at the end of the day it all boils down to experience and understanding.

@kinescope-zr8lh 4 жыл бұрын

I remember learning about the tongue map in kindergarten. I raised my hand and asked what was in the middle and the teacher said "it's just... Tongue." I still remember that very vividly

@kemziclestudios6489 4 жыл бұрын

fhhjjk yfvvhjj I learnt that the middle was salty and there was no salty taste buds on the sides. The only taste buds on the sides were the sour ones.....

@broskiibean 3 жыл бұрын

You made your teacher silently panic

@damianmandras8283 Жыл бұрын

No there is a taste

@Fotoschiki 3 жыл бұрын

"Many people believe Dolphins to be the dumbest creatures on earth, because with all their brain capacity instead of building civilisation and advancing as a species, they just swim around and enjoy life. Others believe they are the most intelligent creatures on earth ... for the same reason." - A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

@9308323 Жыл бұрын

Eh...not really. The only atrocities dolphins don't do humans do are the ones they can't do. Anything from bullying, killing, and raping are pretty common pastimes for dolphins.

@Fotoschiki Жыл бұрын

@@9308323 Dude that's a joke out of a british space comedy about how people interpret the same facts wildly different because of their perspective. It's not actually about dolphins.

@9308323 Жыл бұрын

@@Fotoschiki These "facts" are demonstrably false, though. Just because it's meant to be a joke doesn't mean the point it's trying to make (which is serious enough, as you yourself demonstrated) wasn't undermined by the poor choice of example. Dolphins are one of, if not the biggest assholes of marine life.

@zackzintho48 Жыл бұрын

First point is so stupid. It is like saying your eyes don't actually see anything, light just goes into them and stimulates nerves which send signals to be interpreted in the brain. Or that your nose doesn't smell.

@thecomet8759 Жыл бұрын

Well yeah

@thecomet8759 Жыл бұрын

@bonglee66 I know right

@raul88.88 Жыл бұрын

If you manage to destroy the back side of your brain (called central cecity), you will be blind without needing to hurt the eyes in any way

@sharondacox6178 Жыл бұрын

As a child, I kept trying to prove the tongue map thing unsuccessfully.

@MacNerfer Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the map and just instinctively thinking that's not right. But they taught that for decades without any good proof. Crazy.

@cavemann_ Ай бұрын

Still can't believe they just taught me a lie.

@janetross1900 Жыл бұрын

I think that the “fact” that you lose more body heat through your head was so that Mom can make sure the kids wore hats in the winter

@YourFBIagent_ 4 жыл бұрын

“The human is the only animal with chins” Leafy is not human finally confirmed

@firecat2465 4 жыл бұрын

Your FBI agent i knew it

@brenda6574 4 жыл бұрын

Leafy from bfdi or Leafy from a KZfaq channel?

@thecapitalg 3 жыл бұрын

so the kid from Up is not human?

@markjackson6325 11 ай бұрын

Surely saying we taste in the brain, not the tongue, is like saying we see with our brain, not our eyes, or hear with our brain, not our ears, etc. The brain also interprets all those, they're all just chemical and electrical signals too.

@LinuxIsNotAnOperatingSystem 11 ай бұрын

yeah, it is kinda pointless

@peculiarlystrangelyoddlypa4012 10 ай бұрын

You just have said it... "Evidently we are able to Taste into our brains [Because that's where the vast majority of the properly done functions that we managed to do thro' our day are somehow "Stored" to be passed towards the *Next Generation* continuing with the Family bonds.] Not *with* using our brains "literally speaking"

@frankenstein6677 9 ай бұрын

I mean not really when you consider the experiment, in which you modify the brain, amd them the receptors in the tongue, unaffected, will give you different results to the normally expected.

@hollyhartwick3832 2 жыл бұрын

Urine can still be an indicator of other health problems. For example, if it’s tinged with red, it may be an indicator of blood (or having consumed too much red food dye.) If it’s cloudy, it could be a sign of a yeast or other infections. If you spot anything particularly odd, it’s generally a good idea to see a physician.

@9308323 Жыл бұрын

Sure, but that has nothing to do with the point made in the video. It's only talking about hydration levels reflecting on the color of one's urine. That's like a video saying "phlegm color doesn't indicate if you're on your way to recovery from your coughs" and you commenting "But it can also indicate blood if it's colored red." I mean, duh. 🤣 Pretty sure most people wouldn't "yeah, that's normal" as they spit or urinate blood.

@siyacer 4 жыл бұрын

The 'fact' that we are mainly microbe is also a myth. The amount of microbial cells and human cells are about equal most of the time, slightly fluctuating, but after defecation (and therefore flushing of the gut microbes) there are more human cells in the body compared to microbes.

@DebunkedOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

The original myth about this is that microbes out number us around 10 to 1, but the fact is that it is closer to 1 to 1 (43%/57%), but this ratio varies from person to person. Thanks for watching.

@Thrawnmulus 4 жыл бұрын

@@DebunkedOfficial then why in the video it it addressed as humans think we are human, but the 'fact' is that we are more microbe than human?

@DebunkedOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

@@Thrawnmulus I like you're thinking, however I don't think the microbe part of us has much thought on the matter. Thanks for watching

@jovan-noble-guy749 4 жыл бұрын

In your next video i am gonna coment of how did those life hacks channels luyed about the " toothpaste fixes broked phone screen (they could of say about a tablet screen, laugh or leave : )

@ficialintelligence1869 2 жыл бұрын

Everything is processed in the brain. Vision happens in the brain, not in your eyes, if you want to take that perspective.

@mehdicirtensis Жыл бұрын

It's the brain that gives a specific sensation to the signals from our sensory organs, it's not just for the taste.

@MacNerfer Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that part seemed a bit odd. You could say the exact same thing about smell, eyesight, hearing, etc. But the point that we were told you only tasted salty things on one section of your tongue is a lie, and I knew it as a kid when I first heard that.

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 жыл бұрын

Another myth about the body: You need 8 hours of sleep all the time Gamers: *What is sleep?*

@jamesanderson6373 4 жыл бұрын

Gamers: what is a girlfriend?

@siyacer 4 жыл бұрын

@Timothy L. Fanai pretty much. Just subscribe to as many popular channels as you can and turn on notifications for them.

@deltabeta5527 4 жыл бұрын

Doom is eternal

@deltabeta5527 4 жыл бұрын

@Timothy L. Fanai isn't it "OK Doomer"???

@deltabeta5527 4 жыл бұрын

@Timothy L. Fanai I'm not American, so I don't know the meaning of those terms!

@JBoesman 2 жыл бұрын

The taste section of this video is very true. When I was a stupid teenager (14), I was in a skateboarding accident (no helmet) that caused me to have a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). I landed head first on the pavement. When I woke up days later in the hospital, I lost both my sense of taste and smell. For years, both senses were faint. The loss of smell came in handy during the diaper changing years, however. Since that accident, my taste and smell have come back to some extent, but it seems only half. To this day, I just turned 45, there are things I can't smell or taste, or taste different than I remember.

@MrCandySkull 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, sucks that you had to go through life like this, fortunately your accident wasn't fatal. So I say youre a lucky guy 😄👍

@dawidsienczak9821 2 жыл бұрын

you want to go through what he went through, no ? then he 's not lucky

@JBoesman 2 жыл бұрын

@@dawidsienczak9821 No worries. I lived through it. I was lucky. I learned from it. I was a stupid kid and learned a valuable lesson: Life is a gift that in a blink of an eye, it can be snuffed out. Sure I lost my smell and taste, but I eventually got some of that back. I am glad I didn't go blind, or worse, die from brain swelling. I was lucky.Thank you.

@newphonewhodis9940 2 жыл бұрын

@@dawidsienczak9821 talking for others and being wrong in the process, nothing to add here.

@dawidsienczak9821 2 жыл бұрын

@@newphonewhodis9940 saying it was lucky is stupid, saying it was partially lucky in some interpreted sense , maybe , I still don't agrre with this logic , also you seem sad.

@ratthew7497 4 жыл бұрын

Humans aren’t humans Yes, the floor here isn’t made of floor

@UnusualPete 4 жыл бұрын

Floor is not a material.

@easyybreezeyy 4 жыл бұрын

Ice Bear r/wooosh

@akinokusami3623 4 жыл бұрын

Yep wall isn't made of wall & amazingly, unicorn isn't made of unicorn!

@nene_san 4 жыл бұрын

@@akinokusami3623 unicorn is made of horse tho

@lemons3738 8 ай бұрын

I feel like the tongue one could be used for a lot of other parts, like you don't actually see with your eyes you see with your brain, you don't feel pain with your skin you feel pain with your brain. You don't smell with your nose, you smell with your brain

@nobodythere94 Жыл бұрын

"the tongue taste map is wrong" no wonder the "sweet part" of my tongue is always burning whenever i eat spicy foods

@connorroot5728 2 жыл бұрын

No one in the medical field say that it is useless, they just say you don’t need it and for some it may cause more trouble than need be

@TysonJensen 2 жыл бұрын

Doctors have known for about 40 years - people a lot older than me have had theirs removed for no reason, but no one my age has. That’s the dividing line between doctors thinking there’s no harm in removing it versus doctors feeling that the appendix is useful and should only be removed when it’s dangerously inflamed.

@martyroy6844 Жыл бұрын

I guess we don't use only 10% of our brain either. For some, probably much less.

@ddg7889 Жыл бұрын

think maga

@user-ug2fu8mj2j 10 ай бұрын

We don't. We use 1005 on our brains every day, but not at the same time. If that were to happen you would be having a seizure.

@metromusenate 2 жыл бұрын

the bacteria thing is misleading since it's not static. You lose a bunch of that "57%" whenever you take a dump

@SeaScoutDan Жыл бұрын

For the "40% of heat from head" . . . The point is if you are wearing a thick jacket and no hat . . . and you are still cold . . . You will feel warmer by putting on a hat, than putting on a thicker jacket.

@CaspianandFriends Жыл бұрын

The top 3 things I learned from the thumbnail of this video: 1. Fingerprints arent unique. 2. Tongues aren't real. 3. Humans aren't human.

@isaacshaver6218 Жыл бұрын

Thats what I heard

@MacNerfer Жыл бұрын

Fingerprints are unique, if you look at them closely enough. But our legal system doesn't. Our legal system makes a lot of assumptions that actual scientists shake their heads at. Like looking at fire damage can definitely prove it was arson and where it started ... sometimes it works, but many times the "experts" are pretty much guessing, but the lawyers don't paint it that way at all. Lie detectors are very vague indicators of actually lying.Even DNA evidence may not be right, cross contamination is just one way it can fail.

@DebunkedOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Which Animal is More VENOMOUS Than Any Other?! The answer is quite surprising! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m76fm8eW3Lm-kWg.html

@IbadassI 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video. Is the coccyx used for anything? Or is it useless?

@ssmarveledits652 4 жыл бұрын

Box jellyfish ?

@michaelleonard903 4 жыл бұрын

Depends on the context, most different venoms? I think the sea snail, with each species having 80+ different venoms. Most amount of venom, probably the daddy long leg.

@Ajz092 3 жыл бұрын

Without watching the video, I can tell you that oz for oz, an Inland Taipan's venom is the most potent in the world. The box jellyfish is also very very high on the venom tier list.

@milesgriffin3332 3 жыл бұрын

Debunked why did u lie about the fingerprint mislead

@weshard1 4 жыл бұрын

For years, it was thought that, on cell-count, we were only 10% human. I’m glad the updated information was included in the video.

@JimFortune 3 жыл бұрын

You have to wonder how many of these debunks will be debunked in the next five years.

@echoxulan2188 4 жыл бұрын

Is this why I feel like I can taste something I smell?

@Liggliluff 4 жыл бұрын

Other myths; that you only have 5 senses, ignoring things like balance and hunger. Then the one about having to pee 6-7 times a day ... or is it true? Because if we sleep 8 hours, that menas you have to pee 6 times for 16 hours, that is almost every 3rd hour. Maybe it is true for some, but it just seems to often.

@DebunkedOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Great suggestions for a future video.

@RenyxGhoul 4 жыл бұрын

The more liquid you consume, the more likely you will go to the toilet. If you consume alcohol, the frequency could increase up to 30minutes if you had a lot of liquid in your body beforehand. (Based off experience) I think most humans have to pee after they wake up.

@HexaBurger 2 жыл бұрын

My mother's phone can be opened with my left middle finger as it has a similar fingerprint to her right index finger

@SK-rr1sv 2 жыл бұрын

Lucky

@mann_idonotreadreplies Жыл бұрын

Never use fingerprint to unlock first boot on any phone.

@danielclark863 11 ай бұрын

You say you taste with your brain, not with your tongue. I rubbed a pizza on my head. I couldn't taste anything!😂😂😂😂😂

@XLORDPROPL 10 ай бұрын

You have a brain outside 💀

@dickjohnson7547 5 ай бұрын

Next time you're out shopping you should buy a pack of common sense. Try rubbing that on your head and see if it helps. I am pretty sure you'll be able to grasp some of these concepts a bit easier...

@tovarishcheleonora8542 5 ай бұрын

@@dickjohnson7547 Or maybe you should buy a pack or sense of humour, or two. Because danielclark was clearly just joking.

@Officalvegeta749 2 ай бұрын

Brain not head

@oravlaful Жыл бұрын

the taste map really is stating where most receptors for each taste are in our tongue, saying it is fake because taste if felt in the brain makes no sense. it's like saying that our eyes don't have specific regions for perceiving colour and brightness because sight is actually in the brain

@huckwalton2307 2 жыл бұрын

Next they’re going to tell me that the brain named itself….. oh god….

@spartanv0 2 жыл бұрын

It was at this moment he knew, the brain named itself.

@GeneralMimzy 9 ай бұрын

We need a shirt that says “I’m not fat my microbes are”

@duddel5341 8 ай бұрын

12:29 "If I'm not human, what am I?" A dancer

@LexusLFA554 6 ай бұрын

Ah, a cultured Killers fan :)

@elementcreed257 4 жыл бұрын

I have a few choice words to tell my teacher now *Mainly* "You wrong"😂😂

@luddity 3 жыл бұрын

So much of what they taught me in grade school was a lie! Now I have to unlearn it all.

@lornaj3310 11 ай бұрын

Seems like if the fingerprint system pings on a match, you'd either re-run the scan woth more points, or do it manually.

@tovarishcheleonora8542 5 ай бұрын

Honestly, it was pretty painful when he said that "your fingerprint can match with others" while showing an image about % of accuracy. 💀 Like as..... matching of two things isn't supposed to be exactly 100% to call it matching? Otherwise it's just "similar".

@isaiescamilla550 2 жыл бұрын

So... Finger prints are still person specific..

@ninjapumpkin0127 4 жыл бұрын

I have a finger that has a scar down the middle of it. On one side of the scar the fingerprint is an arch and on the other it is a loop and they would not match up if the scar was not there.

@djjazzyjeff1232 4 жыл бұрын

Sort of not related, but I am a guitar player and my left hand is so callused that when I was in high school we had a fingerprint scanner thing to pay for our school lunches since it was a lot faster and simpler than a card or whatever, but they wanted everyone to use their left pointer finger, and I was the only person I knew of that routinely had to use my right since it would just come up as basically a blank print with my left hand because the skin was so hard the machine couldn't read it.

@kikook222 4 жыл бұрын

Fucking HATE fingerprints so much. I have to get old people to digitally scan their finger print for my job and it's impossible for 80 percent of them to do it. Their fingerprints no longer exist from a life of hardlabor.

@Erimioa 2 жыл бұрын

As nurse I can say all dehydrated people have darker urin, but that doesn't mean vice versa would be true. (okey, not "all". There are very specific illnesses (e.g. diabetes insipidus) or drugs (many diuretics) who fake this, or people with big areas with freshly burned skin. But that are edge cases)

@bukachell 2 жыл бұрын

shoutouts to all the little guys in there

@zenfrodo 2 жыл бұрын

So our fingerprints *are* different enough to be used for ID, but our methods of analysis are deeply flawed & need to be standardized, nor should any criminal case rest solely on fingerprints. You'd think with tech constantly getting better/cheaper/smaller, we'd have moved to computerized analysis already, since computers could be programmed to match as many reference points as possible.

@sophiegrey9576 4 жыл бұрын

Hypo, meaning low, natre, referring to sodium, or more formally natrium, and emia, meaning presence in blood. Hyponatremia Low sodium presence in blood.

@Xavier-mz1wt 4 жыл бұрын

Chubbyemu, i think, right?

@Pacific_Soda 4 жыл бұрын

Why shinx luxray is better

@usernametaken017 3 жыл бұрын

"We have good bacteria" "oNe hUnDrEd pErCeNt oF oUr bOdY iS hUmAn"

@stijnvanhees5281 2 жыл бұрын

People will do anything but workout to lose weigt... Now they are going to say that their microbes dont let them lose weight.

@MostlyBuicks 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah and your eyes do not see, your ears do not hear, your nose does not smell and your skin does not feel, YOUR BRAIN DOES.

@arctrog Жыл бұрын

Extracting microbiomes from athletes in poor schools for use by the upper class sounds like a great writing prompt

@twrow219 Жыл бұрын

No animal besides humans have a chin? Poppycock! The definition of chin is: the protruding part of the face below the mouth, formed by the apex of the lower jaw. I am writing this as I’m scratching my cats chin. Lol

@carolnorton2551 Жыл бұрын

You are scratching it's lower jaw. A chin PROTRUDES beyond the face.A cats jaw does not.

@rosayusef1299 3 жыл бұрын

fun fact: I had a teacher once who had adermatoglyphia and she said that she was almost denied into the country (Qatar) b/c of it. Its actually kinda cool

@Noone-of-your-Business 3 жыл бұрын

#6: Saying you taste with your brain rather than your tongue is pure sophism - that goes for _every_ other perception as well - the signals from the retina do not become "sight" before being processed in the visual cortex, to name just _one_ example. Also, this way of splitting hairs does not address the problem of the "taste map". Also also, most of the sensory information making up the "taste" sensation comes from *smell* receptors in the _nasal cavity,_ not on the tongue. Hold your nose closed to find out how bad this makes you at recognizing foods. With closed eyes, obviously. #1: The 45% microbiome number has long been challenged (it is also left completely unclear _what_ percentage is measured here: *weight* or *number* of cells??), and once you are going there, why did you gloss over mitochondria? Our microbiome is not technically speaking _part of our human body,_ they just *_inhabit_* it. Our mitochondria, however, are essential parts of our every cells, and yet, they have their completely separate DNA that does not mingle with ours. Their evolutionary history from symbiotic single cell organisms suggests to classify _them_ as "not _strictly speaking_ part of our human body." From a channel called "Debunked", I really expect better.

@user-gp7vp9lq7d 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you shouldn't known better, anyone that has the word debunked in the title is looking for attention. A specific kind of attention; i think you can guess what I'm talking about.

@Noone-of-your-Business 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-gp7vp9lq7d Well fortunately, the word "debunk" is also used by really high quality channels like Captain Disillusion (yes, in spite of this name, he makes really good videos), so it is not an automatic turn-off for me. Also, flat earth debunkers use the term widely, and those who do have a solid education in natural sciences and do know what they are talking about.

@user-gp7vp9lq7d 3 жыл бұрын

@@Noone-of-your-Business ok,thank you for correcting me But if you look at hes channel. You will start to understand Hes THAT type of debunking channel

@user-gp7vp9lq7d 3 жыл бұрын

And they are annoying

@user-gp7vp9lq7d 3 жыл бұрын

@@Noone-of-your-Business also im going to check that channel you mentioned captain disillusion

@cdeford 3 жыл бұрын

My own experience backs up the theory about pee colour indicating hydration. I knew it was my microbiome making me fat, and nothing to do with all those cream cakes.

@PickeringSamuel 2 жыл бұрын

I reckon I could blow up 5 party balloons within the first hour of waking up

@UltimaJC 2 жыл бұрын

"The most intelligent species on the planet." Dude I work at a call center and can prove that is not true lol. I've met ants smarter than the people who call me on a daily basis lol

@vivekrawat5626 2 жыл бұрын

Its like saying our eyes dont see, our brain does

@Oleg-oe1rc 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, all of our senses are techincally "in our brain", but without somthing to send distinct signals to the brain in the first place, you wouldn't have senses at all. It's like saying the processor in a digital thermometer is what really senses the temperature, but disconnect the thermocouple and the processor won't be processing anything. Most of these "facts" are quite close minded and lead to just as mamy misconceptions as they dispel

@EvilNeuro 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah like for instance the fact a issue with ur eye or brain can make u blind, there both key for it to work… but really ur brain is what sees. Ur brain is you without it YOU can’t see anything

@PlasmaMongoose Жыл бұрын

As for the 2nd myth, when I was a kid, I was told that 20% of all the body heat was produced by the brain, not that the head produces the most heat.

@jamesstead2256 Жыл бұрын

my Head🍌 produces lots of Heat🤪🤪

@tobyihli9470 4 жыл бұрын

Really? 0.08% of the people convicted primarily by comparing fingerprints have been wrongly convicted? That’s a very large number of innocent people locked up. AM I THE ONLY ONE who feels those people need out right now!

@ismokekillz 4 жыл бұрын

Bro fuckin really

@nene_san 4 жыл бұрын

sarcasm?

@mLBB-x-HoK22savg Жыл бұрын

So basically human body is actually symbiotic

@reloup8969 6 ай бұрын

Even more, the human body is an ecosystem where different species live in ways that do not even affect us (commensalism)

@Daniel-ht4wr 4 жыл бұрын

Napoleon wasn't short, he was 5ft 7 which was on the tall side for the average french person at that time. Its just that he was 5ft 2 in french inches rather than British inches which were larger and was exploited as propaganda by the British, however in a twist of irony, spreading the metric system across Europe would mean this mistake would never happen again

@DebunkedOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Great extra myth! Thanks for watching, please share and subscribe 😊

@gabrielnunez2427 4 жыл бұрын

Also people say he was short because he was usually around people way taller than him

@garymingy8671 4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah . But he looked shorter in person ....

@nop2774 3 жыл бұрын

it feels like most of these myths were at most only partially debunked, like the urine color one seemed to only say that hydration is not the only thing that influences urine color not that being dehydrated doesn't change urine color.

@brutusblutwurst86 3 жыл бұрын

There is a 1 in 64 BILLION cance that you find someone with the same fingerprint. So basically it is unique.

@viktor1496 3 жыл бұрын

Not really, just like there is a 50% chance that 23 people in a room share a birthday, the fact that we have billions of people means there are many of them who share a fingerprint. Is it exceedingly rare? Yes, but the chance that nobody has the same print is even rarer.

@brutusblutwurst86 3 жыл бұрын

@@viktor1496 thats why i said basically.

@radicaldreamer927 4 жыл бұрын

Not entirely sure how microbes living inside us as entirely separate beings that we have a symbiotic relationship with makes us less human, but alright.

@allisond.46 4 жыл бұрын

It means that some cells inside our bodies aren’t human. Other than that, it doesn’t.

@nati7292 4 жыл бұрын

hello my microbes, please make me thinner

@MrTVx99 4 жыл бұрын

"You're fat" Me: No my microbiome just extracts more energy from food than everyone else

@ravenmills-prouduscitizenm9609 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@MrGlies 4 жыл бұрын

less*

@friedec3622 4 жыл бұрын

it's the opposite I think. Energy that extracted by bacteria not stored as a fat, because fat is a human cell. you are fat because there are many 'fat eater bacteria' requesting more fried chicken to your brain instead of 'vege eater bacteria'. Eat balanced food.

@T1Oracle 2 жыл бұрын

So next time I want a treat, I'll cut my head open and stuff it in my brain since my tongue does nothing...

@igorotgamer7881 4 жыл бұрын

Please manipulate my brain so that i can always taste some Pizza..

@friedec3622 4 жыл бұрын

Friend: Why you can't get fat despite eating all of that? Me: I'm feeding my little friend.

@user-ug2fu8mj2j 10 ай бұрын

One of those misconceptions should be that we are the smartest species on earth. Have you not seen some of the stupid shit we do?!

@UnusualPete 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone who thinks that ear wax is actually wax needs a brain transplant.

@dishitasharma9532 4 жыл бұрын

No human brain transplant has ever been conducted, they shall die

@joedurham811 2 жыл бұрын

Alot of these dont disprove the previous idea.

@michaelrigoletti2410 2 жыл бұрын

A question on number 5: It is understandable that surface area won't lose heat as fast as any other part of the body, but could the heat loss from the head be attributed to breathing out warm air and inhaling cold air, as it is the only part that actively takes in and expells external air at high volumes?

@shena1256 3 жыл бұрын

Enough gas every day to fill a balloon? My girlfriend has enough to fill a hot air balloon!! 😂 😂

@DebunkedOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

😆

@samschreiber1640 3 жыл бұрын

🤢

@shamarwashington5574 3 жыл бұрын

I was about to say, that’s definitely not enough for me😂😂😂

@aurealis8290 2 жыл бұрын

I’m going to put a gastroenterologist on speed-dial.

@user-pr2jx4vb8u 4 жыл бұрын

1 in over a billion match between two fingerprints. That is very close to there not being two identical finger prints...

@helgenlane 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, that means that each person on this planet could have at least 700 other people who would have at least one matching fingerprint.

@slavicspider7762 4 жыл бұрын

I just want to say this we're not the only species to do drugs

@f.b.i6889 4 жыл бұрын

That's kinda obvious, since a lot of drugs come from plants.

@burieddreamer 5 ай бұрын

The tongue one is quite a pointless fact. Every perception EVER occurs in the brain. That's no news for anyone.

@warrik3958 4 жыл бұрын

The heat one I dont think is wrong, think its misunderstood. Theres two ways to look at it. 1. You lose 40% to 45% of your body heat through your head. Or 2. They lost 40% to 45% of their heat from their head. If you wrap them up, and bang them in the artic or what not, they still lost 40% to 45% of their heat because they didnt cover their head. Thats still a very important statement and shows the importance to cover up properly. I hate hats, but this does prove why i should wear when needed.

@nathanclayton9449 2 жыл бұрын

The taste map was literally taught to me in elementary school wtf 😐

@NabekenProG87 Жыл бұрын

Same

@VALENSlO 4 жыл бұрын

How do people believe the tongue one? You can taste that it's not real

@randomorange6807 2 жыл бұрын

12:30 I SWEAR TO GOD, THE MOMENT HE SAID "ITCHY MAYBE" MY BACK STARTED ITCHING

@andthoseotherguys 2 жыл бұрын

Lmao...when I read you say it...mine did. Weird how that works. Kind of like how yawns are contagious. For me, just reading the word yawn, makes me yawn. And if I see or hear someone yawning...I'll be yawning all day. What about you? Lol

@wayneamelie278 3 жыл бұрын

The last myth is kinda stupid to measure by numbers of cells instead of volume because eukaryotic cells (human cells) are 1,000-10,000 larger by volume than prokaryotic cells (bacteria) with viruses being even smaller.

@shadowninja6689 Жыл бұрын

It actually HAS been proven that fingerprints aren't unique. There was a terrorist who set off a bomb on a train in Spain that proved this. The fingerprints came up as a match in the fingerprint database for someone in the US, who briefly got arrested for the crime even though they had never even been to Spain in the first place. Eventually the police found the actual bomber (and a ton of evidence that they were in the area at the time of the bombing) and they also had the same finger prints. The prosecution was later forced to admit in court that the person in the US had identical finger prints to the bomber..

@jeffreee7420 Жыл бұрын

Damm

@LevineLawrence Жыл бұрын

But this story proves that there are only two people with matching finger prints, which is good enough!

@blisterbrain Жыл бұрын

They likely weren't identical, just very similar. They don't go over every tiny bit of each print,they just search for matching areas or details, and if there are enough, they figure they belong to a certain person.

@LiveFreeOrDie2A Жыл бұрын

You’re WRONG. Just because two different people had “identical” fingerprints according to the fingerprint database does NOT mean fingerprints aren’t unique. All that means is that the law enforcement techniques/ fingerprint database matching software aren’t fine-tuned enough yet to 100% accuracy. Fingerprints are so completely unique they only need a dozen or so reference points of the fingerprint to match for them to declare a match with certainty. Except for the apparent extremely rare occasions where two people have highly similar fingerprints, having the necessary number of identical reference points to the software analysis. The actual level of detail the software is even capable of analyzing is the 30,000 foot view of our fingerprints. It’s laughable to claim they’ve “proven fingerprints aren’t unique” based on an error in law enforcement forensic science techniques.

@cmlacosta 4 жыл бұрын

If the "taste" is only in the brain, can we reprogram (or manipulate) our brain to taste vegetables like chocolates?

@slaz_snipezz7869 4 жыл бұрын

Well yes but actually no

@pricey0986ify 4 жыл бұрын

Or the other way around lol

@61lastchild 2 жыл бұрын

So why does having a cold mess up taste?

@01denese 4 жыл бұрын

They say that about tonsils now too. It used to be we were told tonsils didn't matter. Now they say tonsils are the first line of defense against viruses and bacteria that can harm the rest of the body.

@jodf1307 4 жыл бұрын

once unlocked my friends phone with my finger

@datboy038 4 жыл бұрын

“The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some considered to be unnatural. “

@doggonemess1 Жыл бұрын

0:23 Misconception #1: Humans are not 1,800,000 meters tall. Most are a million times shorter!

@DavidRLentz Жыл бұрын

I am 1.8 m tall. I ought to have been 1.9 m tall. However, I was a breech birth, during which the delivering physician's blunder in dropping me twisted my neck; the resulting trauma resulted in scoliosis, kyphosis, etc., signifi- cantly diminishing my stature. Given the considerable number of sprain injuries I over the years have sustained from different ways to fall, I am quite apprecia- tive not to have grown as tall as I ought to have. As it is, I have a 93 cm inside leg (36" inseam), size 14 feet, and poor vision, which in the aggregate are causal for all my numerous ambulatory mishaps.

@jenniedarling3710 3 жыл бұрын

There's a bit of detail to go with each fact in this, I like that it's a better format than many KZfaq channels.

@ricileigh88 Жыл бұрын

They taught us about the tongue in school. I remember testing the taste map and it made no sense.

@joshdudeguy2830 2 жыл бұрын

Even in nursing we use the general rule of thumb that hydration is tied to urine being darker and more concentrated. That is not a myth. There's simply more to it. There are few things that most people will not come into contact with that will change urine color, but it does happen. Still, it works as a general rule of thumb and is not entirely, or even mostly false. This is another misleading item in your list. edit: it is worth noting that we observe color of urine for presence of blood and proteinuria (protein in the pee) more often though, since there are better indicators of dehydration.

@cardcaptor_xia6227 4 жыл бұрын

With the fingerprint thing, I always thought it was weird because I have a feternal twin and we both use fingerprint locks on our phone. My ring finger print unlocks her phone even tho she used her pointer finger to lock it and non of her finger prints can unlock mine 🤔 She probably has a bad phone but still 😅

@evanasche8882 4 жыл бұрын

Umami? I thought that was a saying Mexican guys use when they're attracted to a female?

@toketillubroke 10 ай бұрын

I can definitely fill a weather balloon

@DebunkedOfficial 10 ай бұрын

😆

@bobh6728 5 ай бұрын

The heat out of the head experiment is totally flawed. The claim is based on the whole body in air. The experiment is measuring heat loss to water versus heat loss to air. Not the same thing.

@r.charlie 5 ай бұрын

came here to say this.

@danknight_2770 4 жыл бұрын

Hello, I see you also got this in your recommended😊

@DebunkedOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

We hope you enjoyed the Premiere! If you missed it and have any questions, comment below and we'll try and answer you. Thanks

@siyacer 4 жыл бұрын

The last myth has also been debunked, there are roughly equal amounts of human and non-human cells, which fluctuates but is generally more human after defecation.

@AA-fn9xz 4 жыл бұрын

We can’t say for definite that we’re the most intelligent species on Earth. How do you know some species don’t understand the most intricate workings of the universe? Lots of animals can do incredible things.

@dicetuning3466 4 жыл бұрын

Aggreed

@kittikhat 4 жыл бұрын

DiceTuning34 *agreed

@Xyearo 4 жыл бұрын

Because the size of their brain compared to their body? One things for sure, you're definitely not the most intelligent species on earth. Do animals talk? No they dont. Do animals build giant flawless buildings? No they dont. Do animals build electronic devices and digital websites? No, they dont.

@AA-fn9xz 4 жыл бұрын

Just Some Wendigo With Internet Access Oh the irony of an idiot telling me I’m not the most intelligent species on Earth. There are many incredible things other species can do that we can’t. Look at primates memorising 15 sequence patterns in less than a second. What about animals that use Earth’s magnetic field as a navigation system? We have obvious intelligence, but animals can do very incredible things and clearly use physics on a daily basis. How do you know that there aren’t animals that use quantum physics that we aren’t even close to comprehending? The answer is: you don’t.

@Xyearo 4 жыл бұрын

Oh the irony of an idiot who ignores obvious science and common sense. Oh and also, the answer is I do and so does like every scientist. I mean you don't because your in like 3rd grade. Idiot I know because we fucking study them you don't see a cow writing down everything about the fucking universe no you don't you see them eating grass and taking shits either way other animals don't imagine or think about things other than survival also it doesn't matter what animals can do that's their thing just because a bird can fly and humans can't doesn't mean it's smarter than it