Facts or Not
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FACT 1:
Yawning really is contagious. If you’ve ever wondered why watching someone else yawn action us to yawn in return, look no further! Recent investigations has revealed that our yawn mimicking possibly relates to subconscious ‘herding behaviour’, similar to the mechanism that cause flocks of birds to take flight simultaneously. And it's not just humans who suffer from contagious yawning – apes are at it too! Chimpanzees are thought to be the only other creatures, apart from humans, who do so.
FACT 2:
Sugar intake does not have a behavioural effect on children. Many parents have often complained about the link between fizzy drinks, sweets and hyperactivity, contending that sugar dramatically alters their activity levels. Surprisingly, physicians have been quick to negate any such claims and it would seem that their scientific findings speak for themselves! When scientists looked at controlled studies of sugar intake in children consuming large amounts of sugar, they found no evidence of hypoglycaemia or other blood sugar abnormalities. Still don’t believe us now?
FACT 3:
Cats don’t always land on their feet. It is said that if a cat fell out of a 20-story building it would have a better chance of surviving than if it fell from a 7-story building, because it takes the feline critter at least 7 stories to co-ordinate itself to land on its feet.
Skylduverkefni 1:
MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created by Peter Rees and produced by Australia'sBeyond Television Productions[1] for the Discovery Channel. The series is transmitted by numerous international broadcasters, including SBS Australia (New episodes, repeat episodes show on 7mate Australia), and other Discovery channels worldwide. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories. The show is one of the oldest—and the most popular—on Discovery Channel currently in production, being preceded only by How It's Made in the US and Daily Planet in Canada.
Filming is based in San Francisco, though some elements of production are done in Artarmon, Australia. Planning and some experimentation take place at Hyneman's workshops in San Francisco; experiments requiring more space or special accommodations are filmed on location, typically around the San Francisco Bay area and other locations innorthern California, going to other states or even countries on occasion when required.
During the second season, members of Savage's and Hyneman's behind-the-scenes team were organized into a second team of Mythbusters ("The Build Team"). They generally tested myths separately from the main duo and operated from another workshop. This arrangement continued until August 2014, when it was announced at the end of "Plane Boarding" that Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, and Grant Imahara would be leaving the show, leaving only Hyneman and Savage as presenters and taking the show back to its origins.[2][3]
MythBusters refers both to the name of the documentary and also the cast members who test the experiments.
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