Eliahu Pietruszka escaped from Poland at the start of World War Two. He assumed that his entirely family perished, either in the concentration camps or in the war. He lived most of his life thinking that he was the only survivor in his family line, but he recently learned that his brother survived the war and had a family. In this video, you can watch the first meeting of Eliahu Pietruszka and his nephew.

However bad your job is, take comfort in that it’s probably not as bad as the poor clerk of a Denver 7/11. He was behind the counter when he heard an explosion from the store’s microwaves, where people usually warm up their Hot Pockets or whatever. This explosion was not the result of a snack gone wrong, though. It was from a woman trying to warm up a urine sample for a drug test down the street. Obviously turning in a cold sample would be no good, so she warmed it up.

The premise of George Orwell’s 1984 was that if you limit someone’s linguistic capabilities then you also limit their ability to think complex thoughts. By preventing someone from knowing the words for, say, democracy or freedom then you prevent them from knowing the concept of democracy or freedom. This comes from the linguistic theory that language determines how your brain can think. Unfortunately, that’s not entirely true because your brain obviously reacts to external stimuli. So if you experience oppression, you can still feel it and react to it, even if you don’t know the name of it.

After the disastrous FCC bill that abolished net neutrality, some states are taking matters into their own hands. The Connecticut Senate was recently tied in an 18-18 vote to restore net neutrality. Nancy Wyman, lieutenant governor, voted to break the tie and bring back net neutrality. That wasn’t even the bill’s closest call––it was initially killed in committee but was resurrected. The state Senate believes that this bill will prove to its constituents that the state government is serious about standing up to big telecom companies. 

John Mayer had a bit of a meltdown a few years ago, and he has another meltdown on this show. Of course, this is a spicy-food induced meltdown and has nothing to do with “sexual napalm.” But just because this video lacks a star losing his mind and credibility dramatically doesn’t mean it’s worth skipping. John Mayer has a lot of interesting conversation here, and our particular favorite part is when he talks about the infamous “guitar face.” 

There are tons of historical myths floating around. You have probably heard a lot of them without knowing it. For example, it’s a myth that any alleged witches were burned in the Salem Witch Trials. In fact, most of the victims (including a dog, poor doggo) were hanged. One particularly BA older gentleman allowed himself to be crushed to death rather than speak. There are also a lot of myths out there around the Buddha––for example, he was not fat. The Buddha you see at Chinese restaurants was another one.

Sherlock Holmes famously compared his memory to an attic: memories get stored in your head like furniture in an attic, and there is only so much room. While he’s equally famously wrong about that, the idea does lead to an interesting question: what if you could remember anything? But before you can answer that question, you have to understand how memory works. This video explains that, and throws a sweet Discworld reference in as an easter egg.

The latest peace trend on the Korean peninsula promises potential denuclearization, at least in that region. That raises a few interesting questions. First, is it possible for the world to denuclearize? That is a really tough question, and perhaps impossible. Nevertheless it leads to another question that has very real consequences: how do we get rid of nuclear weapons safely? The video runs through some of the possibilities: bury nuclear waste deep undergrad, dump it deep in the ocean, or perhaps even send it to space.

Future Darwin Award winner Prabhu Bhatara spotted an injured bear and tried to get a selfie with it. As you can imagine, this story does not have a happy ending. After Bhatara, against the advice of everyone he was with, snapped a photo with the bear, the bear attacked him. He died almost immediately. 

You might have noticed that there aren’t nearly as many naked folks on the internet, pornography aside. So why isn’t the internet overrun with nudes? That’s because algorithms know how to censor naked images. This is way, way harder than it sounds, since you can’t program a computer with every single example of a nude person. This video explains, in great detail, how programmers made algorithms that are able to identify nudes and prevent them from spamming your internet browsing experience. 

This video may well have been sponsored by Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson. Essentially, it argues that the government backed up the research of scientists in the mid-twentieth century. Those scientists had a huge impact on the way that we understand food today, and an even bigger impact on how we plan our diets. The only problem is that much of that science is faulty to say the least. The video explains what is wrong with those scientists’ findings. 

Ping Kuen Shum of Vancouver, Canada just won a lottery jackpot of two million Canadian dollars, which is about tone and a half million United States Dollars. He bought lottery ticket on a lark, since he was feeling pretty good that it was his last day of work and his birthday. He picked all the numbers of the winning lottery draw, which earned him the entire jackpot. The odds of picking all of those numbers were one in 13,983,816.