Awesome Learning

Learn about how much money we have, how dirty it is and more in one of the most valuable episodes of Vsauce yet. The amount of priceless knowledge packed in the video left us dizzy.

Mental Floss’ List Show lays out the meaning behind some of the acronyms & initialisms of popular brands, people and more. It’ll give you a new reason to hate the USA PATRIOT Act, whether you agree with it or not.

BuzzFeed compares the price of common food items in various countries. It’s interesting to see how the country where food seems cheapest is so close to the one where things are painfully expensive.

Did you know that there we actually cry three different types of tears? Learn all about them and more as AsapScience discusses a couple of theories and claims about why humans are such crybabies.

The eighth installment of Household Hacker’s Quick and Simple Life Hacks series. We think some of the tips are pretty common – if not outright obvious – but the spaghetti trick is pretty neat.

(NSFL) ZeFrank’s latest True Facts episode may feature a very common animal, but trust us, this is his weirdest and freakiest episode yet. Ducks are straight up hentai material.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield performs an experiment suggested by a couple of 10th grade students: what happens when you wring a wet washcloth in space? One of the most bizarre things we’ve ever seen.

Blue Ocean Network looks at the shoe counterfeiting industry in Putian. Apparently some of the shoes are so well made that they can fool quality assurance inspectors, prompting people to label them “legitimate knockoffs.”

Nora Thoes and Damian Pérez’ brief documentary about the title sequence. Learn about its utilitarian origin, the technologies that influenced its evolution and one director who doesn’t like using title sequences.

Minute Earth explains that theoretically, our planet could have mountains up to 5 times the height of Mount Everest. So why don’t such towering landforms exist? Watch the video to find out.

PBS Idea Channel ponders the philosophical and cultural relevance of Community. Sadly, just as it got the definitions out of the way and set up guide questions, Idea Channel drops the topic. What? Moar!

The bumbling engineer Mehdi Sadaghdar takes on his simplest topic yet. This time he shows us the do’s and don’ts of changing a light bulb. Mostly the don’ts. Keep that in mind if you want to use this as a guide.

Minute Physics shares some of the scientific theories regarding one of the most fascinating and terrifying possibilities we can ever conceive: that not only are we not alone, there may even be more than one of each of us.

Vsauce brightens our day with another educational clip, which explains all of the crazy things that would happen to us if the Sun were to vanish. Guess we’d have 8 minutes and 20 seconds of blissful ignorance at least.

Mental Floss continues to make learning history a lot more fun. Learn about the idiosyncracies of US Presidents, the weird names of their pets, an ancient speed limit rule and more in this video.

Canned air is a very handy cleaning tool, but if you want to save money and the environment, try this trick by Household Hacker. It turns a disposable can into a refillable one using a bike tire valve and some epoxy.

Vimeo Video School shares three tricks that can help even two amateur auteurs with simple equipment do the job of several actors and cameramen. They assume that you already have decent editing skills though.

Smarter Every Day talks about the Prince Rupert’s Drop. Made of molten glass that’s been dripped into cold water, its thick end is very durable, but the slightest of cracks on its tail end causes it to explode.

Many of us think of the snooze button as an ally, an insider against the relentless enemy that is the alarm. But ASAP Science suggests that sleeping again right after we wake up can do more harm than good.

Heartwarming anecdotes about Fred Rogers, a man who was a saint both on and off the air. Seriously. He wanted to keep his weight at 143lbs. because, you know, those numbers stand for I love you.

Blind film critic Tommy Edison tries to answer a question that he gets more often than any other, as sighted people seem to have difficulty grasping the idea that you could see nothing.

PBS Off Book takes a look at just a few of the thousands of great web comics. A few notable authors talk about how they make comics and the advantages of publishing their work online.

Humans have more than five senses, shaving does not make hair grow back thicker and Ron Burgundy never said “Well, that escalated quickly.” These and more shockers in Mental Floss’ debunkathon.