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18 Cool Things Your School Teachers Never Taught You, Read now...

18 Cool Things Your School Teachers Never Taught You



We are all taught so many things at school, both boring and interesting stuff that is meant to help us understand the world around us better. But, how many of us could understand what the teachers taught us right away? Or sometimes even after a few repeated explanations? We would have found it much easier to understand what we were taught if we saw it in action, with visual demonstrations.

So, we have found some cool things in the form of GIFs and images that will help you visualize and understand better the things that might have eluded you at school.

1. Three 90-degree angles in curved space

Three 90-degree angles in curved spaceThis is one of the reasons we know Earth is round.

2. This would help you if you ever had trouble with the logic of parallel parking

parallel parking

3. Physics is phun

how physics workMythbusters fire a soccer ball at 50mph out of a cannon on a truck driving at 50mph in the opposite direction.

4. What happens when you put on sun cream

how sun sees youArtist Thomas Leveritt set up an ultraviolet camera and viewing monitor in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to show people what their skin looks like in ultraviolet light.

5. The difference between Earth’s axial tilts during winter and summer solstices.

Axial title

6. Real life demonstration of Pythagoras’ theorem: a2+b2=c2

Pythagorean TheoramHence proved!

7. The river changing its course over the years

River change with years

8. In case you ever find yourself in an emergency, here is a way to cut the rope. 

cut rope in an emergency

9. A slow motion of how dogs actually drink water

How dogs actually drink water

10. If you are wondering how a key unlocks your door…

How Keys Work

11. How braces change your teeth from crooked to perfect…

How braces affect your teeth

12. What happens when you squeeze an orange peel onto a candle flame…

Squeezing a orange peel onto a flame
Image courtesy: NightHawkInLight/youtube

13. That’s why you don’t use water to put out grease fire. The grease splatters out into the air and the fire along with it!

Why you don't use water to put out a grease fire
Image source: NRK/youtube

14. The development of human face in the womb

Human Face Development
Image source: BBC/youtube

15. This is how the cheetahs are perfect runners – they use their tails to reduce inertia every time they have to change direction. 

cheetah uses its tail
Image source: imgur

16. A male seahorse giving birth to as many as thousand seahorses. 

Seahorse giving birth
Image source: seahorsecrazy/youtube

17. A perfect example of total internal reflection. The light gets reflected back into the water because angle at which it touches the surface of the water is greater than its angle of refraction. That is how optical fibers work too. 

Bending light with water
Image source: news.yahoo.com

18. A very interesting explanation for the value of pi. And that is how pi works!

How pi works.
Image source: imgur
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