Simple Things – Surprising Histories looked at white and brown eggs, noting that there isn’t really a difference in taste or nutrition between the two. In fact, the color of an egg is solely determined by the color of a chicken‘s earlobe feathers.

If a chicken has white feathers and white earlobes…it will almost always lay white eggs. …On the other hand, if a chicken has red or brown feathers and red earlobes, like the famous Rhode Island Red, it will lay brown eggs. 

The narrator also spoke about how brown eggs were sold as being more luxurious than white eggs, despite them being nutritionally the same.

The breeds of chickens that lay brown eggs are physically larger, heavier birds than the white egg-laying leghorns. Because they’re bigger, they require more food, more space, and more energy to maintain. The farmer has to spend significantly more money on chicken feed to get a brown egg than a white egg. That extra cost of production is simply passed on to you at he checkout counter. 

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Musician JunWu transformed the modern Super Mario Bros. theme into a sophisticated orchestral composition that would fit quite well within the classical music genre.

If Super Mario Bros had been released 100 years earlier

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In a very sweet clip from the David Attenborough series Planet Earth, two tiny polar bear cubs took their first outdoor steps onto the sunlit snow after a long, dark winter inside the den where they both were born. This adorably clumsy pair had a bit of difficulty getting their footing at first, but with the support of one another and their proud mother, they eventually got the hang of it.

Following four months of darkness, this polar bear family is starting to stir.

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Peter Austin explores the bizarre phenomenon of armed rabbits being featured so heavily in Medieval illuminated manuscripts over several centuries. He explained that these bizarre, deadly bunnies and killer snails are known as drolleries, which are often featured in Medieval art memes.

All such absurd illustrations found within illuminated manuscripts are known as grotesques or drolleries, a term derive from the same root word from which we get the modern adjective droll, as in whimsically amusing …So, one major category of drollery humor is the world turned upside down, a disruption of the natural order, or a subversion of expectations.

Austin also notes that the choice of bunnies and snails was purposeful, as these are pretty benign creatures.

The joke isn’t simply that any old animal is picking a fight with a human. it wouldn’t work as well if it was a lion or a bear. It’s that these particular animals are ones that were at the time so often on the receiving end of human violence, persecuted for their destruction of crops and even eaten by certain members of the population.

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English teacher Gideon Ben-Ami of LetThemTalkTV traveled back in linguistic history to show how casual phrases, such as saying “hello”, have evolved over 1,000 years. Ben-Ami used the timeline checkpoints of 1000, 1380, 1580, 1850, and 2026 to illustrate differences in English greetings.

How English Conversation has Changed 1000 to 2026

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Gamer Julian Hawkins quite knowledgeably broke down every element of a typical traffic light in the United States, noting that these lights don’t know why they are changing, but nonetheless, know when they need to change.

You see them every day. You stop at them, you wait, you go, and that’s about as far as it goes. ….this isn’t really a light. What you’re looking at here is just a visible part of a much larger system. This is an output device. It doesn’t make decisions. It doesn’t know anything about traffic. It doesn’t even know what color it’s showing. It just turns on when it’s told to. 

Hawkins also explains how the lights are timed to work with traffic and how a network of sensors keeps pedestrians and drivers safe.

I break down how traffic signals really operate, including how phases and timing work, how pedestrian signals and countdown timers function, and what’s actually happening behind the scenes in a real intersection.

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Feng E, a musician from Taiwan who previously rocked out an incredible cover of the classic Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in 2017, performed a captivating ukulele cover of the Hans Zimmer theme for Interstellar.

Hans Zimmer – Interstellar Main Theme (Ukulele Cover by Feng E) 

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The hilarious canned beverage company Liquid Death, who previously partnered with Spotify on an amusing urn that eternally streams music from a customized playlist, collaborated with Pit Viper to create a pair of performance sunglasses for dead people with UV protection so they can “see the light” without harming their eyes. It also allows the dearly departed to truly rock out in style.

Did you know there are more dead people on earth than alive people? So why have they been ignored by other sunglasses companies for years? That’s why we teamed up to create these limited edition shades designed for the performance needs of the dead.

Eternally Music Streaming Urn

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Lance Geiger of The History Guy explained, in his wonderfully forthright manner, the very long history of sugar, noting how the sugarcane crop evolved from humble beginnings into a worldwide phenomenon that shaped human behavior in ways both bitter and sweet.

Humans and sugar have had a long history, and it has driven human civilization in significant ways.

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The science channel Sketched Out used colorful animation to visually explain all 21 types of exoplanets in our universe.

We break down the physics, the extreme weather, and the terrifying realities of 21 unique alien planets.

Some of these classifications have some rather amusing names, including “Lava World”, “Eyeball Planet”, “Super-Earth”, “Hot Jupiter”, and “Super-Puff”.

Whether it’s an “Eyeball Planet” trapped in eternal twilight, a “Super-Puff” with the density of cotton candy, or a theoretical “Blanet” orbiting a supermassive black hole, the universe is far stranger than fiction.

NASA Exoplanet Explanation

First Images of Exoplanets

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While learning a new language can be difficult, a teacher with Levion shared how to count to 100 in Vietnamese with a very catchy rap song.

How to count in Vietnamese

The teacher also used the same technique for learning colors (plus flirting) and the days of the week.

Want to learn colors in Vietnamese? … But wait—stick around until the end for some fun flirty phrases to impress your crush! ?

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An absolutely adorable herd of hungry guinea pigs crowded around two watermelons that their collective human Cid Dwyer had stacked on a pole for them. The furry little rodents chomped through the juicy fruit, rind and all, in very little time.

Guinea pigs vs watermelon

They also quite enjoyed eating cut pieces of watermelon and other veggies.

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A beautiful bearded dragon named Lolita, who was left for dead because of her neurological difficulties, was taken in by Shakira Free of Special Needs Lizard Care, who, with a great deal of time and effort, brought Lolita back to life. This long healing process allowed the pair to bond deeply, and with that, now Lolita will come to Free like a dog in search of some good petting.

She started to recognize me fairly quickly, especially as she started to come out of the state of collapse. ….I hadn’t really comprehended that I could have such relationship with a reptile before. But I think because she had faced such an injustice, you can’t help but want to be there for her and take care of all of her needs possible and never allow her to suffer again.

Free also said that these reptiles are far more intelligent and loving than they might seem.

Many people don’t appreciate how complexly intelligent and smart these animals are. I think the reason that they’re so neglected, I believe, is because they just don’t seem to have the same facial expressions as other animals. And I think people just don’t have the sense of understanding that they have the capacity to suffer deeply, but also to create really good relationships with people as well.

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Video editor Bill McClintock created a seductive mashup that pairs “Roxanne” by The Police with the classic Donna Summer disco song “She Works Hard for the Money”, subtly noting how both songs have more in common than just their time signatures.

As with his previous mashups, McClintock spiced this up further with the inclusion of “Never Enough” by L.A. Guns and “Round and Round” by Ratt.

Music featured in this mashup:

Donna Summer – She Works Hard for the Money

The Police – Roxanne

L.A. Guns – Never Enough (Tracii Guns)

Ratt – Round and Round (Warren DeMartini)

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The food manufacturing channel The Process looked at how Nutella is made, noting how the first ingredient is not chocolate or even hazelnuts, but sugar. And while Nutella is modeled after the Italian delicacy of gianduja, it does not remain true to its decadent roots.

In Italy, where Nutella was invented, it cannot legally be called “chocolate cream” because it doesn’t contain enough cocoa. The original recipe — gianduja — was 70% hazelnut. Nutella is 13%. The name stayed. The ratio didn’t.

The narrator also discusses the chemical process that gives Nutella its distinctive texture, as well as the product’s legal issues.

hazelnuts are roasted at 140°C to create flavor through the Maillard reaction, why palm oil melts at body temperature (and why that matters for texture), why Ferrero settled a $3M class-action lawsuit over breakfast marketing, and what to look for on any jar that calls itself “hazelnut spread.”

Nutella, which remains popular despite all its issues, even made an appearance in space during the Artemis II mission orbiting around the moon.

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A heartwarming clip from the PBS series Baby Steps | Becoming Elephant: The Orphans of Reteti tells the story of Long’uro, a resilient young elephant at Reteti Sanctuary in Kenya, who lost most of his trunk as a baby when a hyena attacked him after he fell into a well.

Long’uro lost his trunk when he was just a few weeks old. – Long’uro fell into a well. The mother tried her best to pick the baby out, but the mother lost hope and left Long’uro inside the well. Long’uro stayed there the whole night, waving the trunk, looking for support. And a hyena came night and just grabbed the trunk.

His keeper Mary Lengees, who previously helped a clumsy baby ostrich learn to walk, has lovingly attended to Long’uro’s rehabilitation, marveling in his ability to bounce back.

When he was a very small boy, he was struggling to browse. But Long’uro found good ways to adapt. When the others are using the trunk, Long’uro kneels down using the mouth, like a cow.

It hasn’t been easy for Long’uro, but he has worked hard to make friends.

More Long’uro

Baby Ostrich Learns to Walk

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Paleontologist Danielle Dufault of Animalogic partnered with Panthera Cats and zoologist Lindsay Nikole to present the entire evolutionary history of cats.

Follow along as we tell you all about every cat that we know of and trace their amazing evolutionary path.

Dufault starts at the very beginning with the now-extinct Proailurus before moving on to the rise of the prehistoric Pseudaelurus, which is considered the first true cat. She discusses the era of Saber-Toothed tigers, then moves on to big cats before addressing the incredible diversity of small and domestic cats.

They went from civet-like hunters to domestic cats, lions, and sabertooth cats in just a few million years.

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The New York City Mayor’s Office poked gentle fun at Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s famous grin with a parody of the horror movie franchise Smile for the annual Inner Circle fundraiser gala by the New York City press corps. This is part of a long tradition of New York City mayors making fun of themselves for a good cause. The event took place on March 28, 2026.

Inner Circle is an annual charity gala organized by the NYC press corps. Every year, the Mayor’s office and staff are asked to be a part of it, making videos and sketches spoofing themselves.

The Mayor also joined forces with Curtis Sliwa, former mayoral candidate and founder of the Guardian Angels, in a very charming skit about consulting a doctor about adopting a cat despite being allergic to them. Sliwa played the doctor, and Mamdani played the patient.

The Mayor also used AutoTune for a song about “campaign promises”.

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Epic Aussie Encounters placed a large mirror in the Australian bush to capture how different animals would react to seeing their reflection.

Australian wildlife encounters a reflective surface placed in the bush, with each species reacting in its own way. This footage captures natural behavioural responses as different animals notice and respond to reflections in their environment.

Some birds paid no attention, while others, such as the laughing kookaburra, Australian magpie, and the white-necked heron, were fascinated. The red-necked wallaby was terrified by the reflection, but the brushtail possum and the kangaroo were quite fascinated with their own image. This project focuses on learning more about these animals in the wild.

Our aim is to observe and better understand wildlife behaviour through original trail camera footage while sharing the diversity of animals that move through the Australian bush.

Other Mirror Reactions

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A musician from Open Reel Ensemble played magnetic reel-to-reel tape in sync with Wikipedia articles to create a fun electronic dance song . This performance, which they called “Cyklepedia”, was created to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary.

We’ve released the Wikipedia 25th Anniversary piece “Cyklepedia”!

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