Most of us only know Kuwait from the early 1990s Gulf War, and once it left that news cycle it left most of our consciousnesses. Take a minute, then, to watch this video and learn a bit more about Kuwait. It begins with a basic geographic introduction to Kuwait, situating it within the wider Persian Gulf. It then offers some of the most interesting sites to see in Kuwait, as well as some of this history of the Gulf War, and then on to even more interesting facts about Kuwait.

If you’ve ever been sideswiped by a wave at the beach or had a cannonball go awry, then you know the pain of having water shoot up your nose. Paradoxically, though, nettipots allow you to pour water straight through your sinuses without any problems whatsoever. What’s the deal? This SciShow episode explains the difference between accidental water-up-noseage and intentional, starting by explaining the anatomy of the nose. Take a look, and then plug your nose the next time you cannonball into the pool.

Since the Boston Tea Party, Americans have been crazy for coffee, choosing it as their caffeine fix. But obviously that’s not the origin of java. Naturally, the history of coffee goes back much earlier. This video goes back to the very first cup of coffee ever brewed and sipped, and then it traces the spread of coffee around the world. So get out your Chemex, grind some beans, boil some water, and sit down to watch this history of coffee with a cup of your own.

There are lots of overplayed, clichéd ways that horror films freak people out. You know the tropes: being isolated somewhere without cell service, jump scares in the dark, and so on. But this video examines another reason that horror movies freak us out, and the reason that horror movies can really get under our skin: empathy. It’s important to note the difference between empathy and sympathy. Empathy means that you put yourself in someone else’s shoes; sympathy means that you see someone else’s problems for your own perspective. 

There are tons of urban legends and old wives’ tales about getting swole––exercise, that is. But don’t worry, there are loads of studies about those exercise myths, and this video looks at a handful of them. For example, many people believe that running damages the cartilage in your knees. But is that the case? Studies disagree, but it doesn’t seem like you should avoid running for fear of hurting your knees. And what about those cramps you get from running? Do pickles and bananas really help with those? Take a look at this video to find out more.

We all know a real life Peter Pan. You know––those guys (or gals, but it’s mostly guys) who refuse to really grow up and instead keep being immature and unproductive their whole lives. Or for most of their lives until they realize they’ve been immature and unproductive (which usually happens around forty- or fifty-years-old) and then they have to deal with the tragedy of their own lives. Jordan Peterson describes how that happens––and how to avoid it––in this video. 

You might have heard of Esperanto, an language that’s supposed to be internationally accessible. You probably haven’t heard of Solresol, a language entirely based on music. Its creator was an idealist, and hoped that he could unite all humankind with a universally accessible language built on something we all know: music. Solresol combines the do-re-me syllables used for teaching music into two-, three-, and four-syllable words, grouped into categories of similar words. Because there are only seven syllables, the language easily translates to hand signals. 

It is a few weeks into the new year, which means that your New Year’s resolutions are probably waning if not dead already. Hopefully, this video will be useful for those of you who resolved to exercise more. It lays out the ways that exercise affects your brain. But more than that, it teaches your why exercise has such impacts as increasing your energy, focus, and your memory. That might be just the motivation your need to keep your New Year’s resolution.

A woman that Dan Harmon sexually harassed recently called him out for supporting the #MeToo movement when he himself had not made his own mistakes right. In this video, you’ll see Harmon’s full, unedited apology. The woman he harassed has called it a “master class” in apologies. That’s because Harmon doesn’t justify what he did, he doesn’t make excuses, he just explains what happened and why. He admits to everything, lays it out as objectively as possible, and leaves it at that. 

Dasani, Coke’s cheap-o bottled water, makes about a billion bucks a year in the United States. Coke wanted to tap into that kind of cash across the pond, so it released Dasani in the UK, with the aim of spreading to the Continent. But things went…very poorly. First, UK media found out that the water was basically filtered tap water. This reminded people of a British comedy show in which people tried to sell tap water at a high markup. Then, to make matters worse, Coke claimed that Dasani water was full of spunk. Spunk, in British slang, is semen. 

There was a Black Mirror episode in which elderly people plugged into a virtual world much like The Matrix. At the end of the episode, some elderly people choose to permanently upload their consciousnesses into the virtual world. Other bits of pop culture have examined this––Transcendence, for example. This video examines some of the philosophical dilemmas of mind-uploading. Many of those questions revolve around how you define consciousness. In other words, is the being in the computer conscious? And if so, what happens then? 

Canada has a vigilante pedophile hunter. He spends his evenings pretending to be a teenage boy, tricking pedophiles into falling for his trap. Don’t expect Batman or Bruce Wayne, Justin Payne is just your everyday guy. But through his vigilante activity, he’s publicly shamed hundreds of pedophiles. Learn all about how he vets, stalks, and shames his victims in this nearly hour-long Vice documentary, as well as some of the complications with the police.