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Guy Reveals 12 Things That A Lot Of People Thought Happened Years Ago, But Are In Fact More Recent
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With people being constantly busy, things changing every day, and various events happening all the time, time flies super fast. So sometimes it might seem that some of the things that we just witnessed or experienced happened a long time ago. And it turns out that the same logic can be applied to some of the greatest inventions and concepts that we know today.
This TikTok account called @idea.soup decided to share some of the things that only were discovered recently even though we might think that they are quite old and have been here for ages.
Idea Soup is where people can find interesting educational content on various topics. Its creator Michael R McBride is the one who makes and shares this content with people on various social media platforms.
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We didn’t know how mountains formed until 1966. And not just mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes too. Like we were putting men into space and yet every time there was an earthquake, we were just like “What the hell is going on?”
Bored Panda contacted the creator of Idea Soup Michael McBride to find out more about the project and his love for science. McBride shared that the idea to create videos about some of the things that were discovered only recently was born out of curiosity and interest in science. “I'm fascinated by how science is not an institution, but rather an organic, ever-evolving body of knowledge. The fact that we discovered these things recently is evidence that science is working! The beauty of the field is that it is constantly questioning itself”, shared the creator.
Most women in America couldn’t open a credit card until 1974. But if you think that’s bad, women didn’t get the right to vote in Switzerland until 1991.
Women in Switzerland fought for their right to vote for decades. The first time it was seriously considered was in 1959 when a referendum was held to conclude the matter and the voters, who were only men at the time, decided against giving the right of vote to women by 654,939 votes (66.9%) to 323,727 (33%).
Women continued their protests and after another referendum women got the right to vote in 1971 and Switzerland became one of the last countries in Europe to recognize women as equal members to men in the political sphere.
However, Switzerland consists of 26 cantons and the last canton to give the right to vote was that of Appenzell Innerrhoden and it happened in 1991. This fact means that the whole country of Switzerland provided women with the right to vote only in that year.
Thats not fully correct: It was only the state of Appenzell Innerrhoden that didn't allow women to vote until 1991. The canton was then overruled by the constitutional court after women filed a lawsuit. But we still were freaking late to the party by only introducing it in 1971 - It even had to pass a peoples (men's) voting.
It took us until 2002 to confirm what was at the center of the Milky Way. We are rotating around a supermassive black hole, but we didn’t know that until after Britney Spears had released her first album.
We didn’t (fully) sequence the human genome until four months ago. We had not mapped one human’s full DNA until May 2021. The Human Genome Project which completed in 2003? Yeah, they were missing 15% of DNA base pairs. Very bold of them to call that complete. That’s like a frat guy in a group project’s version of complete.
Well i mean DNA is insanely complex, so although it is the 2020’s, I’m glad we got this now rather than later
If you’re curious to know the process of making these videos, McBride revealed that it might take from 15 minutes to 10 hours depending on the research that has to be done and the time used for editing. He also added a simple yet effective take on how he creates videos: “I don't really have any process for finding facts—I'm just an incredibly curious person and I love learning. As I come across things, I share them.”
The Heimlich maneuver wasn’t invented until 1974. I mean, this was so recent that Dr. Heimlich was alive until 2016. He could have played Minecraft.
America’s first seatbelt laws were only in 1984 and New Hampshire still doesn’t even have them.
The 'Live Free Or Die" state. Those New Hampshirites ain't kidding.
Smoking wasn’t banned on all US flights until the year 2000 and pilots were actually exempt. They can still legally smoke on airplanes today.
We didn’t know why the ocean was salty until 1979. We were just like: “Yup, whole planet’s covered in this stuff. No idea where it comes from.”
McBride also revealed what is one recently discovered thing that shocked him the most: “The theory of tectonic plates—it blows my mind that we weren't sure how mountains formed or earthquakes occurred until the '60s!”
Which one of these recent discoveries do you find most shocking? Leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
We didn’t know that a meteor killed the dinosaurs until 1991. That’s the same year that Home Alone came out.
Technically, since no humans witnessed it, no dinosaurs left autobiographical records of their own, and the aliens refuse to share their footage, we still don't KNOW.
We didn’t have wheeled luggage until 1970. Which means that astronauts that went to the moon had to carry their own suitcases.
We didn’t know that babies could feel pain until 1987. When Back to the Future came out, we were not using anesthesia on babies.
Well by your standards babies were not feeling pain because they did use muscle relaxants. No crying there. No, but seriously, dosing and monitoring is hard and was harder then and kept the myth alive that babies wouldn't feel or remember or have any measurable effects of the stress. Just like today. We do a lot of things that cause unnecessary stress while performing medical procedures. Huck the whole US health system is one big stress inducing system. People don't seek help because they will become bankrupt.
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Actually this is 100% False, they knew babies could feel pain hundreds of years ago. The reason why they did not use anesthesia on babies is they didnt know how to properly administer it without killing the baby (With adults it is very tricky with a high error rate, this isnt an exact science). It was in 1987 they finally figured out how to give it to babies WITHOUT KILLING THEM. THe myth about pain came around later, but is not based in any fact
I choose to believe your version, because the other one doesn't make sense. Why would somebody even posit it as a theory randomly? We all know that humans can feel pain, what sort of mental gymnastics would you even have to engage in to decide that there is a certain age when that might not be true anymore, even though it is true for all the other ages?
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"We" (the Establishment) might not have admitted to knowing, but every mother in history knew her baby felt pain. However, as today, she was considered a silly, hysterical female.
I think the actual premise was “they won’t remember the pain”. Now, however, we know past trauma can show up later in life in a variety of different manifestations, whether the trauma is Remembered or not. Scary s**t.
And THIS is why I did not get my two sons circumcised. Doctor said 'babies don't feel pain like we do' and also that it would only take a few moments. Ugh, you do it to yourself first, then circle back Doc.
Well circumcision is just unnecessary 🙄 for anyone, except when having medical issues like gangrene etc which can't be treated with medication. I didn't circumcise my daughter. People don't do that nowadays right? I really hope so...
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Why on earth would anyone even assume that babies can't feel pain? It makes absolutely no sense.
Also many assume animals don't feel pain. How can they be so blind??????????
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No.... It would be more accurate to say 'For a short time we believed babies couldn't feel pain.' People largely believed that infants were more sensitive to pain than adults, for centuries! The change of opinion was all the fault of one woman, Myrtle McGraw! After the development of anaesthesia it was readily given to children and infants in the 1940's. The problem was that the risk to the patient was VERY high and death or brain damage was extremely common. Most surgeons did not want to risk the patients life for simple procedures, so searched for an answer. Along comes Dr McGraw, she stuck pins in babies and because some didn't cry, that meant that babies didn't feel pain (and the shocked/surprised look apparently wasn't related either). Everyone was happy to accept her answer because she was a renowned child psychologist.
That is nuts. If you pinch a baby they cry. Not that I've done it. Would slicing into them without anesthesia, no problem. Nuts
It is nuts, it is a made-up item. Just this week it appeared (correctly) in another BP list: In 1987, the US college of surgeons forbade operating on babies without anaesthetics... Up to then, many surgeons assessed the balance of risk/reward to not using anaesthetics, because of the significant chance of overdosing and killing the baby (low chance of reviving when anything goes wrong).
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Women still don't feel pain, according to doctors and nurses who do gynie stuff without numbing anything
That's absurd. What nobody accidentally poked a baby with a diaper pin back in the day? My kids always got what was needed for the circumstances.
Oh, many women knew this; we witnessed cause and effect. Male doctors didn't know. But then, they still lack reasonable understanding of female medical issues, so it stands to reason they're slow.
Sad and its like white men thinking black men bled black, snd were jot intelligent
We WERE using anaesthesia on babies, just not as widely and thoroughly as we are now.
I think they were more afraid of what anesthesia could damage than pain ... And babies forget ... For sure ..
"We didn't know that babies could feel pain until 1987." I'm pretty sure this figure is off by several thousand years. Reluctance to use anesthesia has more to do with safety concerns than some bizarre fantasy that the ability to feel pain comes some time _after_ birth.
That seems rampantly stupid. How could they think that babies don’t experience pain?!
we did not use Anesthesia earlier, because it might very well have killed them....
Probably also because doctors were worried about anesthetizing a baby and it might die
Bonnie, your husband had a medical problem connected to sexual performance. He could have done the procedure to cut a bit for the foreskin to slide. But he chose cutting off the whole erogenous zone. His choice. Newborns shouldn't have it done until they are sexually active and it poses a problem. The whole world are managing great without cutting piece of their sexual organs.
Thankfully I didn't have my first surgery until I was 3. In 1980.
This is BS.... my son had an operation in Jan 84 and they used anesthesia on him :/
We are STILL not using anesthesia on certain painfull WOMEN'S procedures, like uterine's biopsies among others... So most certain we KNOW and DON'T give a fu%# about it.
That, is a terrible crime! What was missing in the education of medical doctors?
Any moron could see that babies feel pain, I don't know why the idea that they don't came about.
Who came with this? Anyone could see that babies react badly to painful stimulus. And when were humans supposed to start feel pain?
omg...I was born in 1986 with a hernia and had to have surgery. I wonder if I wasn't under anesthesia during the procedure. I also wonder if that is where my extreme fear of doctors and hospitals comes from. I haven't been to the doctor since 1995 because I just cant do it.
Me too, born in 1972 and had an operation to fix a tendon on my hand
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I was born and underwent multiple surgeries only a couple of years after infant anesthesia become mandatory. My surgeons had earlier done these same surgeries to inadequately anaesthetised patients. It was a horrifying thing to learn.
True that babies were not given anesthesia for circumcision but they most certainly were given anesthesia for other surgery, especially for major surgery.
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We didn’t know how anesthesia worked until 2020. We were just ragdolling people into unconsciousness with no idea how it actually worked.
Well, that's just not true. Maybe mechanisms for some few general anesthetics remain to be fully described, but we certainly knew how many of them work and we also knew very well how most of the locals work.
BP, you're slipping. Just having followers does not mean this guy knows what he's talking about. Most of his bits of "knowledge" are verifiably false, a few more are very loose interpretations of the historical timeline, and only a couple don't scream "fake news".
"BP, you're slipping." They are and always were the s**t-post re-post. Their policies and procedures consist entirely of "Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V". Political bias is their religion. Get real.
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We didn't know until 2009 that Pandas could be Bored, until it was discovered by a Lithuanian man.
Basic fact checking out the window....no wonder our kids believe any crap on the Internet now!
Kids? Do you you know how many old people fall for fake news online?
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What was the point of this? The guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
So we can see the guy make bizarre faces and show us he has 2 pairs of ugly glasses? Soooooo much out there that isn't tikTok or FB or old Reddit or sites full of garbage that no one's posted on for 4 years.
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Uhg, I have and it reminds of seeing a college freshman come out a semesters worth of psych 101 talking like they just graduated with that degree.
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We didn't know the same picture could be used on 5 different articles in one month
This is one of those 'I wrote it on the internet so therefore it is true' things. Thanks to everyone who debunked this nonsense, which was in most of the cases.
Getting sick of the vague and not often correct "facts" BP always posts .... At least we have some heros who will pipe up and tell us straight in the comments! 😂
The dinosaur one doesn't sound right. I'm certain I can remember learning about it in school in the mid 80's.
It's not true. The first formal theory that a meteorite had ended the Cretaceous-Paleogene era was postulated in 1980. 1990 was the year that the Chicxulub Crater was formally introduced to the world, and it was first discovered back in 1978 (and postulated to exist all the way back in the 1940s).
Load More Replies... Okay I'm not a doctor and I know the baby one is because they probably didn't know how to administer anesthesia to babies.
This is really bad. Most were outright wrong. Many played with words to pretend to be right.
All this tells me is that we're the Orks... and our scientists and engineers are MekBoyz just hammering things together till they work. If we ever get to the stars, other intelligent beings will look at us and wonder, how has your species not blow itself into extinction a trillion times over?
While entertaining, and somewhat true to certain degrees, I believe some of these are aggrandizations of certain facts. For example, my grandfather was a distinguished anesthesiologist in Los Angeles from about the 60s to the 90's, and he and his medical colleagues knew exactly how it worked. While anesthesia may be different and even more effective today, medical practitioners and experts knew its properties and how it worked.
Great examples here of why soundbites are terrible ways to give out information.
Can you believe it took them 'til 2023 to figure out that causality isn't real?
BS, my mother had a wallet full of credit cards in the early 70's. At least 20, maybe even 30 including gas cards, bank cards, store cards and VISA etc. Don't hype the "woe to the woman" crap.
BP, you're slipping. Just having followers does not mean this guy knows what he's talking about. Most of his bits of "knowledge" are verifiably false, a few more are very loose interpretations of the historical timeline, and only a couple don't scream "fake news".
"BP, you're slipping." They are and always were the s**t-post re-post. Their policies and procedures consist entirely of "Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V". Political bias is their religion. Get real.
Load More Replies... We didn't know until 2009 that Pandas could be Bored, until it was discovered by a Lithuanian man.
Basic fact checking out the window....no wonder our kids believe any crap on the Internet now!
Kids? Do you you know how many old people fall for fake news online?
Load More Replies... What was the point of this? The guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
So we can see the guy make bizarre faces and show us he has 2 pairs of ugly glasses? Soooooo much out there that isn't tikTok or FB or old Reddit or sites full of garbage that no one's posted on for 4 years.
Load More Replies... Uhg, I have and it reminds of seeing a college freshman come out a semesters worth of psych 101 talking like they just graduated with that degree.
Load More Replies... We didn't know the same picture could be used on 5 different articles in one month
This is one of those 'I wrote it on the internet so therefore it is true' things. Thanks to everyone who debunked this nonsense, which was in most of the cases.
Getting sick of the vague and not often correct "facts" BP always posts .... At least we have some heros who will pipe up and tell us straight in the comments! 😂
The dinosaur one doesn't sound right. I'm certain I can remember learning about it in school in the mid 80's.
It's not true. The first formal theory that a meteorite had ended the Cretaceous-Paleogene era was postulated in 1980. 1990 was the year that the Chicxulub Crater was formally introduced to the world, and it was first discovered back in 1978 (and postulated to exist all the way back in the 1940s).
Load More Replies... Okay I'm not a doctor and I know the baby one is because they probably didn't know how to administer anesthesia to babies.
This is really bad. Most were outright wrong. Many played with words to pretend to be right.
All this tells me is that we're the Orks... and our scientists and engineers are MekBoyz just hammering things together till they work. If we ever get to the stars, other intelligent beings will look at us and wonder, how has your species not blow itself into extinction a trillion times over?
While entertaining, and somewhat true to certain degrees, I believe some of these are aggrandizations of certain facts. For example, my grandfather was a distinguished anesthesiologist in Los Angeles from about the 60s to the 90's, and he and his medical colleagues knew exactly how it worked. While anesthesia may be different and even more effective today, medical practitioners and experts knew its properties and how it worked.
Great examples here of why soundbites are terrible ways to give out information.
Can you believe it took them 'til 2023 to figure out that causality isn't real?
BS, my mother had a wallet full of credit cards in the early 70's. At least 20, maybe even 30 including gas cards, bank cards, store cards and VISA etc. Don't hype the "woe to the woman" crap.
