You might have heard of the Library of Alexandria in your history class, but you probably haven’t thought of it much since then. So if you need a refresher, the Library of Alexandria was essentially a massive ancient library with tons of ancient wisdom. Unfortunately, the most of the contents of the library was lost to a conflagration in the first century BCE. But exactly how that fire started is something of a debate among historians. Take a look at the video to learn more.

Have you ever wondered why you can’t send yourself from an airport in Louisville to, say, Norway overnight but you can send a box there overnight? The answer is simple in principle but complicated in action: shipping companies like UPS and FedEx have massive shipping infrastructures and far more space at airports than commercial flights get. The result is that your packages can fly from airport to airport way easier than you can. Here’s how different companies have it set up. 

To honor the memory of John Mahoney (a.k.a. Martin Crane from Frasier), this Binging with Babish installment teaches you to make two dishes from the famous fictional gourmand. Or, more accurately, one from the gourmand––that’d be Frasier––and one from someone with a little bit more common tastes––that’d be Martin. Frasier’s dish is a nice quail with honey-pomegranate sauce. Martin’s is a BBQ pudding dip. The quail turns out pretty well, as you might expect. The BBQ pudding dip, though…well, don’t try this at home.

It’s not such a common trope anymore, but once upon a time it was common to joke around about women easily fainting at surprising news or trying circumstances. Heck, that’s why there are sofas in ladies rooms. But where did this trope come from? This video explains the history of the fainting lady phenomenon. It begins, as you might have known, with corsets. Tight corsets led to poor circulation which led to…well, splat. But that’s not all. The fainting also has to do with the sheer amount of clothes women had to wear, even during the heat of summer.

What’s more terrifying than your average blizzard dumping feet of snow and threatening to lock you in your home like the Donner Party? When thunderstorms create the perfect conditions for a rare phenomenon called thundersnow. This SciShow episode explains the atmospheric conditions required to produce thundersnow and explains why it’s so cool; namely, because the conditions required for thundersnow are extremely rare. If you really want to experience it, hang out near a body of water during a snowfall.

Everyone slips into a funk sometimes. You don’t have to be clinically or chronically depressed to fall into a funk––indeed, you don’t need any kind of diagnosed condition. Going through depressive periods is just part of the undulations of life. When you slip into a funk you can’t seem to break out of, try these five tips. They’ll help you break out of that funk and get back to your old self. But of course, if you can’t do this on your own, please seek professional help.

While you’re watching figure skating at the Winter Olympics, you’ll see a lot of triple axels––that is, a jump with three spins thrown in before the skater lands on the ice. If you’re lucky, you might even see a quad––four spins. But no matter how much skating you watch, you’ll probably never see a quintuple jump. This video explains the science of figure skating jumping and why five spins will probably never happen.

When we think of bacteria, we tend to think that bacteria is always bad for you. But that’s not true, of course, since most of your digestion happens through good bacterial in your gut. So have an open mind when you watch this video. There are tons of interesting bacteria out there, and this video highlights six of the coolest bacteria. One, for example, is basically immune to radiation. If you dose it with enough radiation to kill a human six times over, this bacteria will be fine. 

About ten minutes after the first gun was invented, you know that someone looked at it and asked, “How big can we make one of these suckers?” This video is about that perennial human desire to make a bigger, more powerful way to kill each other. Actually, only the first half of the video is about guns that are specifically and solely meant to kill people. The other half is about guns that were designed to shoot things into space. Mostly satellites and stuff, but there is the possibility that some of those projectiles will be weapons.

You’ve probably heard that President Trump watches Fox and Friends, and that Fox and Friends knows that Trump is watching them. You may have also heard that Fox and Friends directly speaks to Trump, and that Trump repeats the “news” that he hears on Fox and Friends. Well, that’s entirely true. Whether you think that’s problem might depend on your political leaning, but this video makes a good case that this relationship is problematic. 

Watching awkward footage is like watching a train wreck. You don’t want to look, and you know that you shouldn’t look, but darn if you can’t stop looking. This video is like watching train wreck after train wreck, and good luck stopping, because each video is cringier than the last, and it draws you further and further into the video.Whether you like watching stage presentations get interrupted and or super awkward dance competitions, this video has your awkward moment of choice.

The first Deadpool movie took the internet––and the movie-going public––by storm. With its layer on layer of meta jokes, its multiple breaks of the fourth wall, and it’s filthy filthy potty humor, Deadpool was a different kind of superhero move. And now, finally, there’s going to be a second Deadpool movie. If this trailer is any indication, then we can expect the same awesome style of superhero movie as the first. Let us know your reactions in the comments.