Hello, my curious people! Be all…
Weeeeeeeeelcome to a new video!
This time I want to skip the whole boring part to go straight to the action...
So get comfortable!
And enjoy it, my friend!
I'm the Curious Ben. And... How curious are you?
The First Hospital For Elephants
Did you know that last year, in India, they built the world's first hospital dedicated exclusively to elephants?
The facilities were opened in November thanks to the support of an environmental organization
called WildLife SOS.
They built it in the city of Mathura in northern India,
and currently employ 20 to 30 specialists
who are trained to take care of elephants like nowhere else in the world.
The reason that this exclusive hospital for these animals was opened is simple...
India is one of the countries with the largest population of elephants in the world,
and although there are several shelters for them around the country,
none were as trained to care properly as this new hospital.
Something that also relates to the construction of this site is that, in India,
a good percentage of elephants are exploited economically by very bad people.
Although for many Hindus, an elephant is a sacred animal,
but you already imagine that for some people that does not matter at all,
and only seek to profit from them without worrying about their health.
So the hospital for elephants has been planned with two objectives in mind...
To take care of the health of these animals, and to serve as a refuge.
Interesting, right?
Number 9
The Story Of Franz Reichelt
In 1912, a tailor named Franz Reichelt made a parachute suit
based on the designs of the great Leonardo da Vinci.
That suit was ugly, right?
What Franz did not imagine when designing,
was that this parachute would be responsible for his own death.
The story goes that the first time Franz wanted to try the suit
he used a wooden mannequin and threw it from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
As you can imagine, the suit was not opened at all and the mannequin was destroyed
due to the strong impact on the ground.
But Franz was a stubborn man!
He was so convinced that his design was perfect
that he said publicly that his suit had not worked
because it was not designed for a mannequin, but for a human.
That's the stupidest thing I heard!
According to him, for the suit to work, the person who carried it
would have to open his arms in mid-flight to generate the necessary resistance.
It was in this way that, deceived by his own idea...
Franz Reichelt jumped from the top of the Eiffel Tower around 8:22 in the morning
of February 4, 1912.
And you can imagine how that ended, right?
Yep! Franz and his invention crashed to the ground leaving a hole 15 centimeters deep,
and now he is remembered for this tragic anecdote that ended his life.
Number 8
Hranice abyss
Located in the Czech Republic, the Hranice abyss is the deepest flooded cave known in the world.
Although there is no exact number of depth,
since it has been imposible to get to the bottom,
experts estimate that the abyss is 1,000 or 1,200 meters deep, which is a lot.
Did you know that the biggest abyss that was known before this one, only measures 360 meters deep?
So you already understand why this abyss is an important finding for experts...
The Hranice abyss was discovered in 1999 by a Polish diver named Krzysztof Starnawski.
Or something like that!
Since he discovered it, he and a team of speleologists
have spent years studying the area more in detail.
As I already told you, the interesting part of this gigantic abyss
is that they have never managed to get to the bottom of it, and they have tried it several times.
The last time they tried it was in September 2016.
That time, the remotely operated submarine they sent managed to reach up to 404 meters deep,
but it got stuck with rocks and sediments so they could not descend any further.
Although the real depth of Hranice's abyss is still a mystery,
it is only estimated that it could be around 1,000 meters, which is certain,
is that this is the deepest flooded cave on our planet.
Or at least it is the deepest known.
That's cool, right?
Number 7
Beijing Pollution
Did you know that about 4,000 people die a day in Beijing due to pollution?
Did you hear well? 4,000 people!
According to a study conducted by the Berkeley Earth organization,
about 1 million 600 thousand people die in Beijing every year
because of small particles known as PM2.5.
In case you have no idea what that is...
The PM 2.5!
Are super toxic particles that can cause heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer, asthma,
among other similar conditions.
That sounds very serious, does not it?
PM2.5 is present in the air of the most polluted cities in the world,
as in the case of Beijing, or even Mexico City.
Remember that in the last four decades, Beijing has grown economically at a crazy pace,
but so has pollution!
It is enough to see the cloud of polluted air that swallows the city every morning
so you can get an idea of how dangerous it is to breathe the air in that city.
And however ugly it may sound, directly or indirectly,
4,000 people a day die here because of that polluted air.
Terrifying, right?
Number 6
Sewer Cleaner
Did you know that in the capital of India, some people make their living cleaning sewers manually?
It is considered that this work is one of the worst that exists today
because of the risks it represents for the health of those who dedicate themselves to it.
The sewer cleaners do not have any type of tools or machinery to perform their work.
They only use a bucket, rubber gloves, if they have money to buy rubber gloves,
and some underpants to cover their parts...
You know what I'm talking about!
Their job basically consists of submerging themselves inside the black water
to unclog or clean a pipe.
As you can imagine, the health of the people who dedicate themselves to this is very bad.
They become infected quickly, they lose their sense of smell because of the strong odors,
or in the worst cases they die of some severe disease
or because they drowned in the mass of feces and sewage.
And do you know how much these people earn per day?
-Between 5 and 10 dollars a day! -Damn garbage!
Benny, get out of there!
Are you crazy?
It is estimated that every 5 days, a person who works from this dies!
So as you can imagine, manual sewer cleaning is illegal work in India.
And speaking of horrible jobs,
if you would like me to make a video talking about the worst jobs in the world,
as well as this, manual sewer cleaning...
Leave me a comment supporting this idea, okay?
Number 5
The Intelligence Of The Dolphins
Did you know that dolphins are the most intelligent marine animals known?
Although the intelligence of an animal is very complicated to quantify
because it depends on several factors, it is known that dolphins have certain behaviors
that give us an idea of how smart they are.
For example, did you know that on one occasion,
a group of young dolphins that were recreationally drugged with the toxins of a puffer fish were recorded?
Puffer fish have a toxin called tetrodotoxin.
In small amounts, tetrodotoxin produces a narcotic effect that seems to please dolphins.
How crazy, right?
Another curious fact about these animals is that dolphins are among the few animals
capable of identifying or recognizing themselves in a mirror,
which indicates that they have their own conscience.
These behaviors and characteristics, as well as many others,
are linked to the complex brain structure that dolphins have.
In fact, I do not know if you knew,
but they are one of the animals with the largest brain in relation to their body size.
So, in case you ever asked yourself which is the most intelligent animal,
or one of the most intelligent, now you know that dolphins are one of them.
Number 4
The Houses Of Burj Al Babas
Did you know that in Turkey there is a ghost town with 730 houses similar to castles?
The funny thing is that these houses were never inhabited by anyone, and the area is in total neglect.
In case you wonder, the houses were built in the province of Bolu,
on the shores of the Black Sea, in Turkey...
And a few days ago, the construction company said the project had been a total failure.
The reason for this failure has nothing to do with the location of the houses,
much less with their design, but due to the economic situation of the country...
Turkey!
I do not know if you know but the last months things have not gone well there.
The collapse in the price of oil and the fluctuation of its currency
have made the pockets of the wealthy suffer too much.
And as the price of these houses in the form of a castle
was around 400 thousand or 500 thousand dollars,
the project ended up failing badly because nobody could pay so much money for a castle-house.
Well, I will build my own theme park
with games of chance and sluts!
Now the complex of luxury houses Burj Al Babas
adorns the landscape of the shores of the Black Sea, and who knows if one day someone lives in them.
Number 3
Grandpa Gang
In April 2015, a gang of robbers known as 'Grandpa Gang',
stole a security deposit with diamonds valued at 20 million dollars.
To date, that remains the biggest theft in the history of England.
The story tells that the gang, formed by 5 retired men between 59 and 75 years old,
had a long history of robberies and convictions, so it was not simple elders,
but men who knew very well what they were doing.
The story tells that from 2012 to 2015,
the grandparents met every Friday at the same bar
to plan all the theft and to agree on how the loot would be distributed.
It was in this way that, taking advantage of the Easter holidays of 2015,
the elderly, with the help of heavy equipment, drilled a security vault
that kept diamonds valued at 20 million dollars.
Unfortunately for them, the joy lasted very little
because the police managed to catch them and the diamonds very quickly.
Now they are serving sentences of between 6 and 8 years in prison.
Interestingly, the story of this theft served as inspiration for the movie King of the Thieves...
That premiered last year!
It's crazy, right?
Number 2
The UFOs of 1954
On October 27, 1954, while a soccer game was played between Fiorentina and Pistoiese,
the 10,000 people who had atended the stadium to watch the match,
observed some strange lights in the sky that until now could not be explained.
They must be the dominant species of the planet
and they will destroy us all in order to achieve it.
According to the story published in the local newspaper 'La Nazionale',
the lights appeared out of nowhere when the second half of the match began.
The article relates that these lights floated slowly over the stadium for several minutes
in front of everyone's view, causing the game to even stop because nobody understood what was happening.
To verify the version, it is even said that many people who lived in the vicinity of the stadium
could observe those mysterious lights...
They said that just as they came, they left... With an unknown destination and without any explanation.
A strange substance known as Angel Hair was also mentioned in the newspaper article.
In case you do not know anything about that, the Angel Hair is very similar to the spider web
only that has a gelatinous consistency, is thicker and disappears on contact.
Supposedly, Angel Hair appears during UFO sightings or paranormal appearances.
This sounds chilling, right?
Either way, the point is that never known what the 10,000 people gathered in that stadium
saw that day, and I think it will remain a complete mystery to this day.
They will destroy us all! They will destroy us all!
Number 1
Overtoun Bridge
The Overtoun bridge is located in the district of Milton, Scotland,
and is famous because it is estimated that about 500 dogs have taken their lives in this place.
The witnesses say that the animals are thrown from the bridge for no apparent reason,
and almost none of the dogs survives the 16 meters high that the bridge has.
-Bullshit! -Benny, get off the bridge.
You are going to kill yourself!
Supposedly these cases have been known since the 1960s
and different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the phenomenon,
but none of them is so convincing as to be definitive.
Interestingly, this desire to jump off the bridge seems to only happen with certain races...
Golden Retriever, Collie and Labrador.
Weird, right?
So the experts think that it could be linked with certain odors or something like that.
Although, as I say again, there is nothing definitive.
For all those strange deaths of dogs, which already exceed 500,
the Scottish bridge of Overtoun is one of the most disturbed of our planet.
And that's all for today!
This video was really interesting, right?
Well if you liked it as much as I did, you should leave a thumbs up because that helps me a lot
to know which topics you really like, and which I should not investigate again.
So if you would like me to do the fourth part of this series...
You already know what to do!
If we reach 75 thousand thumbs up in the next few hours...
Then take it for granted!
And although this time there was no riddle at the beginning of the video as we always do,
I remind you that you can see the other 2 parts of this series
by clicking on the link that will appear here above.
We have a deal?
And as I always tell you at the end... Before you leave,
do not forget to share this video with all your friends
so that the family of curious continues to grow.
And follow me on social networks so you can learn new curiosities every day.
Now look at another of my tops by clicking on one of those little windows
that you see on your screen right now.
And let the show continue!
I see you in the next one!
Goooooooooodbye!
♪♪♪