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The Truth About Radiation Sickness: What Actually Happens?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1gTF5cgKxA {♫Intro♫} Radiation sickness might sound like something out of a post-apocalyptic horror film. And it often is.00:00:15 It’s been portrayed in movies and television for more than 50 years.00:00:19 And those portrayals vary a lot.00:00:20 I mean, the fate-worse-than-death described in 1959’s On the Beach is very different than the ‘based on a true…

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Radiation – Worst Ways to Die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ICfwQg75E It’s almost two in the morning on the 26th of April 1986.00:00:03 25-year old firefighter Vasily Ignatenko is part of the first response team tasked with putting out a fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station.00:00:11 Chunks of highly radioactive graphite lie around the site.00:00:14 The men pick up bits and kick them around,…

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What Does Radiation Poisoning Do to Your Body?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhUuFCrDOlw Ionizing radiation is like cupcakes. One cupcake, that’s fine.00:00:03 1000 cupcakes, all at once? Not fine! You’ve probably seen acute radiation poisoning on TV, people wrapped in bandages, and such… but chances are you don’t know what’s going on there… so let’s shed some visible light radiation on this mystery. There are a few…

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Heart-Wrenching Parrot’s Plea for Help: A Story of Love and Redemption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZAUbf0taZs 00:00:03Once upon a time in the city of Hamburg Germany there lived an African grey parrot named Lori unfortunately00:00:11Lori’s owner a man named Biedermann was not a caring and responsible guardian00:00:17he left Lori alone for days without food and water and the poor parrot could often be heard screaming into stress00:00:24Alexander and Petra Ungamah…

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What Booth Said After He Killed Lincoln

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVLM0BSqx5o NARRATOR: The Lincolns and their guests arrive at Ford’s in high spirits.00:00:05 The crowd applauds the President. They stop the play.00:00:16 They sit down and the play begins. Comes to they’re barking up the wrong tree about the oak.00:00:26 About 10 minutes after 10, Booth began to mount the stairs leading up to the…

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What happens when you fall into piranha-infested waters? – Antonio Machado-Allison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIYcrqBrq2U 00:00:07You’re peering into the Amazon River when, suddenly, you lose your footing and fall.00:00:12 Piranhas dart about in the rapidly approaching water. So, are you doomed? Will your fall trigger a fatal feeding frenzy? To forecast your fate, let’s see what we know about these fish. There are more than 30 piranha species.00:00:28 All…

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A 5,300-year-old murder mystery – Albert Zink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRa0Gi_mRjs 00:00:06On September 19th, 1991, two hikers traversing the Ötzal Alps on the border of Austria and Italy discovered a corpse emerging from the ice. Researchers soon realized they weren’t looking at the victim of a recent climbing accident, as initially assumed, but the mummified body of a man who’d lived about 5,300 years ago,…

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