hey guys what's up it's Charlie here and today we're going to be looking at why
taking photos of the Eiffel Tower at night is illegal in the world there are
some amazing facts and questions we always ask but we simply don't know the
answer to many of these amazing and interesting questions today we're going
to answer why South Korea goes silent for one day every year what the falling
code in the Matrix movie actually means along with a bunch more very interesting
questions about the world but first why not subscribe and press the notification
bell to the first question we need to get to the bottom of is why it's illegal
to take a photo of the Eiffel Tower at night we all know the Eiffel Tower
located in Paris France it was built back in 1887 and it attracts around 7
million visitors every single year naturally many of these visitors take
photos of the Eiffel Tower but if you plan on going to the Eiffel Tower and
taking a photo at night this is technically illegal but why exactly is
this well it's all about copyright law in France copyright law says if you make
something you own the rights to it for as long as you live and then sometime
afterwards this means the actual copyright of the Eiffel Tower expired in
1993 this means its design and likeness is in the public domain so in the
daytime you're allowed to take as many pictures as you want off the Eiffel
Tower and Selvin but at night this is not the case that's because the Eiffel
Towers a nighttime light show was added in 1985 and this means it hasn't been
100 years since the creator of this passed on a hundred years after the
creator of something passes on whatever they made false into public domain but
because it was only made in 1985 this means it's still protected under
France's copyright law that means it's illegal to sell or share images of the
Eiffel Tower at night but if you're suddenly worried thinking I shared a
photo of the Eiffel Tower a night on Facebook then don't be that's because
the Eiffel Towers copyright has never been enforced in court enforcing this
law against millions of tourists is very impractical also it's likely not going
to hurt the Eiffel Tower if someone posts a photo of it at night
Facebook or elsewhere online however if you want to sell a photo of the Eiffel
Tower at night you probably should ask for permission luckily for me though
animated images of the Eiffel Tower at night are just fine next up we have why
South Korea goes silent for one day a year imagine this a silence falling all
over one single country well that's actually what happens one day every year
in South Korea this usually takes place sometime in late November for example
last year it took place on the 26th of November at 8:40 a.m. local time
everyone goes quiet for the benefit of students that's because on that day over
half a million students will take an exam they've been preparing their entire
lives for this is called the Suneung this is an eight-hour marathon of
back-to-back exams which happen in South Korea this will decide where these
students go to university and also affects their jobs and income they'll
have in the future in South Korea students work very hard
preparing for 12 years before taking this exam now you can actually take the
exam more than once some students even take the exam up to
five times to get the best possible grades but on that day November every
year the country comes to a standstill and everywhere is silent many shops and
banks closed and even market stalls open late construction works also holds and
many planes and military training exercises are grounded even police
sirens actually turn their volumes down believe it or not because of how
important this stay is in South Korea the day is very solemn literally no one
makes noise as they want to make sure that no one's distracted in their exams
and there's also very extensive security checks before the kids go in to take
their exams they actually have to go through a metal detector before going
into school this is to make sure all confiscated items are taken away from
them this includes things like phones watches bags and books but most recently
people have tried to sneak in spy glasses and even earpieces
so that's why they brought in metal detectors to weed out these cheating
efforts but it's pretty crazy how the entire country of South Korea comes to a
still and everyone goes silent for an entire day thought to be fair after
twelve years of preparation I think these kids need all the help they can
get I honestly cannot imagine doing eight hour back-to-back exams coming up
next is what does the falling code in the matrix actually mean I am pretty
sure by now we've all seen the falling code in the movie The Matrix
the reigning code has since been monthly most famous parts of the movie and you
may think it's simply binary code that doesn't mean anything but in 2017 the
movies production designer actually revealed how he made the psychotic
visual strangely enough the dubbed Green rain was actually inspired by his wife's
Japanese cookbooks that's right the matrix is code is actually a Japanese
sushi recipe what he did was scan his wife's
cookbooks and then digitally manipulates them into raining streams of code so if
you're wondering what kind of code neo was summoning the matrix around it was a
Japanese sushi recipe this is a pretty hilarious fact which nobody knew until
2017 the next question on our list is why the Chinese lottery winners wear
costumes if you looked at the news in China you'd probably wonder why every
lorry winner seems to be really into dressing up as an animal well it's not
some kind of big coincidence that people who like dressing up as animals win the
lottery often in China instead it's actually a very funny Chinese tradition
that goes back decades much like in some US states in China lorry winners are
required to come forward and reveal their identities to the public this is
to make the lottery more transparent and assure regular individuals to have a
chance of winning the game now I've already done an entire video about why
weddings a lottery can be the worst thing to happen to you and a lot of this
is because you get people looking for handouts and criminals trying to take
advantage of you that's why many lottery winners in China are kind of annoyed
when they have to reveal their identities revealing their identities
consists of taking a publicity photo for the news guards one day a Chinese lotto
winner came up with a very clever way of remaining private while still obeying
the law freeze rules that is accepting the lottery check and posing for the
photos wearing a costume why lottery winner from guanxi decided to
trussed up in a monkey costume he won 40 million dollars which at the
time was the fifth largest lottery prize ever in China he followed the lotteries
rules getting his photo taken but he remained anonymous by wearing the
costume since then other Chinese lottery winners half dressed up as mice horses
and even Mickey Mouse and even the luckiest lottery winner in all of China
who won the top prize ever dressed up as a panda the very lucky Panda won the
equivalent of eighty eight point five million dollars so while these costumes
may seem silly they're actually being very smart about their winnings
they're staying fully anonymous to make sure their friends family and criminals
don't try and take advantage of them and if you still think this is a dumb idea
then check out my video of why winning the lottery is the worst thing that can
happen to you and now it's time for the final fact on this list how an unknown
Brazilian company made iPhones if I asked you who made I phone then you'd
probably say Apple but that's actually not the case the Apple iPhone was first
released in June of 2007 but all the way back in the year 2000 an unknown
electronics firm Persil actually trademark the word iPhone they began
selling the iPhone that has gone through various different models the Brazilian
electronics firm based in South Paulo is called foreign tenting and the funniest
part is their iPhone actually runs off of Android
when Apple tried to file the trademark for iPhone in 2007 they were surprised
when it was denied and that's all because this brazilian electronics
company made the term iPhone back in 2000 and trademarked at the end so those
were some amazing facts and questions answered that I hope you found very
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