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00:00Warning. What you're about to see could be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.
00:13What happens when a town is faced with an actual whale of a problem?
00:19This thing is decomposing by the day, and it might fall apart if pushed or pulled.
00:26They want to pack this thing with so much dynamite that it will literally vaporize.
00:30You might be thinking, it's a bit excessive, isn't it?
00:33Or how does one deal with an island overrun by snakes?
00:38These animals are almost impossible to kill.
00:40So the plan is to bomb the jungle from helicopters with mice.
00:45Here's where it gets complicated.
00:48What about the astonishing way one man keeps his family warm?
00:52He needs to find something to burn to save his daughter's life.
00:56They're throwing stack after stack of money onto the fire, $10,000 at a time.
01:05These are the ideas so outlandish.
01:07They are truly unbelievable.
01:22It started as a calm day on the Oregon coast until a strange stench filled the air and set the
01:28stage for one of the most bizarre cleanup efforts in history.
01:34It's a lovely fall day in Oregon in 1970.
01:39People are taking November walks down the beach, and all of a sudden they see this massive whale washed up
01:47on the shore.
01:47This is a rotting sperm whale that's the size of a school bus.
01:55We're talking 45 feet long and 8 tons.
02:00At first, the whale is kind of an attraction.
02:03People go to check it out.
02:05People are taking pictures.
02:07But pretty soon, things start to turn in a different direction.
02:12It starts to reek very badly.
02:15I mean, this is a massive, rotting mammal.
02:18You've probably had something go bad in the back of your refrigerator.
02:22Well, imagine 8 tons of rotting leftovers.
02:26People can smell it a mile away.
02:29Back then, beach cleanup fell upon an unlikely source.
02:33The Oregon State Highway Division.
02:36The Highway Division considers their options.
02:39This thing is decomposing by the day, and it might fall apart if pushed or pulled, making an even bigger
02:47mess.
02:48They have to find a way to get rid of it without moving it.
02:52After consulting with the Navy, the State Highway Division comes up with an explosive plan.
02:58They want to bring in a half a ton of dynamite.
03:01Now, 1,000 pounds of dynamite, you might be thinking, it's a bit excessive, isn't it?
03:05That's the plan, though.
03:07The plan is to pack this thing with so much dynamite that it will literally vaporize.
03:11They want to blow it to smithereens.
03:13The idea is, the bigger the explosive charge, the better the chances it will disintegrate the whale carcass.
03:19And whatever small pieces of the whale are left, well, those will get eaten by seagulls and other little scavengers
03:25like crabs.
03:26That morning, hundreds of people show up.
03:28And the local news even sends their best anchor to cover the story.
03:32If there's any large chunks left, possibly set another charge.
03:37They pack the whale full of dynamite, and they start the countdown, and everybody's getting excited.
03:41And they count it down with 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
03:49As the pink mist of blood and blubber spray the beach, it seems as though the idea is a success.
03:55And then people start running, because what goes up must come down.
04:01Even from 900 feet away, people are being pummeled with whale blubber and blood and everything that was rotting inside
04:09this giant carcass.
04:13People are desperately trying to avoid getting crushed by these 50-pound chunks of whale.
04:21While no onlookers suffer any major injuries, one spectator takes a different kind of hit.
04:28That day, Walter Ummenhofer drives to the beach in his beautiful, new 1969 Oldsmobile Regency.
04:38Walter is parked a full quarter mile from the explosion.
04:42But that doesn't stop a gigantic, 5-foot-long slab of whale flesh from landing directly on top of his
04:53new car.
04:54But here's the best part. When Walter went to go buy this car, he bought it from the dealership that
04:59was holding a sale that was called Get a Whale of a Deal.
05:03Safe to say if another whale ever washes ashore in Lane County, the folks in charge will definitely think twice
05:09before lighting the fuse.
05:12Lesson learned. Now, 7,500 miles away, there's another mammal trying very hard to not get blown up.
05:22Cambodia is the site of a great deal of Cold War combat, stretching from the 1960s all the way through
05:28to the 1990s.
05:30During this time, combatant groups found landmines to be a very effective way of fighting the war.
05:37It's an extremely reliable weapon. You can put it somewhere, walk away, and forget about it.
05:44Long after the war ends, the forgotten landmines remain buried, turning ordinary fields into death traps.
05:51By 2016 in Cambodia, it is estimated that there are close to 6 million active landmines and other undetonated explosives
06:00spread throughout the countryside.
06:02Now, you have to appreciate how incredibly scary this is. They have absolutely no record of where these mines and
06:10these bombs are. They could be anywhere.
06:14For years, the solution has been to send bomb experts in body armor using metal detectors and soil density detectors.
06:21But this is expensive. It's very, very slow. Also, it's incredibly dangerous.
06:28That's when a plan comes along to bring in an unusual squadron of bomb detectives to sniff out the problem.
06:35About 5,000 miles away, in the country of Tanzania, there is an organization called Apopo. Apopo are using giant
06:45African pouched rats to sniff out landmines in conflict areas around the globe.
06:54The giant African pouched rat is kind of the perfect bomb sniffing animal. They actually have very bad eyesight, so
07:01they really rely on this incredibly fine-tuned sense of smell to do just about everything, to navigate, to find
07:09food, and so on.
07:10They call them hero rats, and their noses are even more sensitive than those found on dogs.
07:16There's also another crucial benefit that works in their favor.
07:21Most mines take approximately 11 pounds of pressure to set off the detonation switch.
07:28Well, the heaviest an African pouched rat can be is 2 to 2 1⁄2 pounds, so they can traverse the
07:35terrain incredibly well and safely.
07:38So how do you get a rat to sniff out a landmine?
07:43Mind-sniffing rats take about a year to train.
07:46At 10 weeks, the pups are weaned from their mothers and given basic clicker training, where they learn to associate
07:54the sound of a click with a tasty food reward.
07:57Then, they're introduced to a small metal ball containing TNT.
08:03When they sniff it, they'd hear a click, and they'd get a little tasty reward, like a banana.
08:09From there, they're taken to the field, where they begin to train with real but deactivated landmines.
08:17By 2016, the Cambodian government is ready to put these African mine-sniffing rats to work.
08:23They're going to be targeting the Shre Nui area of Siem Reap, where it is known that the farmland is
08:29littered with anti-personnel mines.
08:31The rats are brought out to a field where they'll be working, and they're all hooked to a string that's
08:36about knee height.
08:38Picture a grid system in which each rat is hooked to a line via a short leash, and as they
08:46are sent out along this grid system, they trail behind them a measuring tape.
08:51So, when the rat detects a mine, the handler can pinpoint its exact spot.
08:57Once a mine is detected, the rats signal to their handlers.
09:01The rats put their noses high up into the air and sniff, while enthusiastically scratching at the ground in front
09:09of them.
09:12The hero rats are not only thorough, they're able to work incredibly efficiently.
09:17It could take a crew of human beings five days to clear an area the size of a tennis court.
09:23Hero rats could do that in 30 minutes.
09:25Since 2016, hero rats have found roughly 1,200 anti-personnel mines and more than 700 unexploded bombs in Cambodia.
09:36But one stands out from the pack.
09:39Magwa, the goat of hero rats.
09:42This little giant has sniffed out over 100 landmines and other explosives during five years of active duty in Cambodia.
09:52In 2020, Magwa is actually awarded a gold medal by a UK veterinary charity because of his life-saving devotion
10:01to duty.
10:04After retiring from service, the bomb sniffers get to live out their lives in the lap of luxury with other
10:10hero rats.
10:11Back home in Tanzania, not a bad way to spend your golden years.
10:19Today, modern dentistry has put a perfect smile within reach of anyone with enough cash.
10:24But there was a time when that pristine set of chompers required a much bigger sacrifice.
10:33In 1815 in London, dental care is nothing like it is today.
10:38You can't just pop down to the drugstore and buy toothpaste.
10:41And it'll be another 40 years before there's anything resembling trained dentists.
10:47Suffice to say, teeth are in pretty bad shape.
10:52If you are a rich Georgian living in London at this time, what you really, really want is a beautiful
10:59set of teeth.
11:01Which is easier said than done, because the upper class has a bit of a sweet tooth.
11:07Sugar is a status symbol.
11:09The more confections that you have on your table, the greater your wealth is presented to your friends and your
11:15peers.
11:16There's cakes, there's candies, there's sweet treats and pastries.
11:19They have no idea that the sugar is actually rotting away their teeth.
11:24And any false teeth at the time, those are going to be made from ivory that is taken from animals,
11:29like elephant.
11:30But they don't feel good, they wobble, and it makes it really hard to chew.
11:35And for some people, it even affects the way they speak.
11:38So what's the only surefire replacement for a human tooth?
11:42More human teeth.
11:44So there's an entire black market amongst the poor to sell their teeth to dentists.
11:50And they go straight into the mouths of the rich.
11:52The problem is that there aren't enough human teeth around for the supply to meet the demand.
11:59So these experts turn to another source.
12:03Not the living, but the recently deceased.
12:07And just as the demand for dentures grows, fate delivers a grim solution.
12:12On June 18th, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo takes place.
12:19This is the final battle in Napoleon's 23-year quest to take over Europe.
12:2670,000 French forces take arms against over 113,000 British and their allies, and the French are defeated.
12:37In the course of battle, 47,000 soldiers die.
12:41It doesn't take long for gruesome opportunists to turn the bloodshed into a business.
12:46These scavengers go around yanking out tooth after tooth after tooth.
12:54After they collect these, they sell them to dentists for six pence a tooth.
12:59It's about seven bucks today.
13:01If that sounds like not very much, think about more than a million teeth.
13:04This is more than a seven million dollar deal, all told.
13:07And what makes these ones so great is that they're predominantly from people in their early 20s or even younger.
13:14So these are fit, healthy people, good teeth.
13:18Dentists across London begin filling orders for what will come to be known as Waterloo teeth.
13:25Of course, the dentists mark up that six pence a tooth price when they're creating these dentures.
13:32But everyone wants to get a set of Waterloo teeth, because that means you have the teeth of a young,
13:38healthy soldier.
13:39It even becomes something of a bragging statement for someone to say,
13:43Hey, I've got a mouthful of Waterloo teeth.
13:47Thankfully, it doesn't become a permanent solution.
13:51By the middle of the 19th century, advances in technology like porcelain and vulcanized rubber
13:56render obsolete the practices of harvesting teeth from the deceased.
14:02Sure, money can buy a fancy new set of pearly whites, but it can't fix everything.
14:07Unless, of course, you're the most ruthless drug cartel kingpin in history.
14:12In the cocaine capital of South America, with bombings every night,
14:16Medellin begins to look like a city under siege.
14:18Pablo Escobar is easily the world's biggest drug trafficker in the 80s and the 90s.
14:25At his height, he is supplying the United States with about 80% of its cocaine.
14:32Western demand for the drug almost outstrips supplies.
14:36This makes him one of the richest people on planet Earth,
14:39with roughly $30 billion to his name, about $75 billion in today's money.
14:47And Pablo Escobar has no problem showing off his wealth.
14:50He's got a private zoo, yachts and mansions and cars.
14:56He's also got no problem using his money to buy influence with politicians,
15:00and in some cases, using his money to pay for the murder of people that might get in his way.
15:06Eventually, by 1991, mounting pressure forces the Colombian government to act, kind of.
15:12They put Escobar in a very low-security prison.
15:16So low, in fact, that they let him design it himself.
15:19And he puts in a sauna and a pool and a nightclub.
15:24Unfortunately, but not surprisingly,
15:26Pablo's actually still running his criminal enterprise from inside these prison walls.
15:31And when he commits a murder on prison grounds, the Colombian government has had enough.
15:35When prison officials attempt to transfer him to a higher-security institution, Escobar flees.
15:43Escobar collects his wife, his young daughter, his son, and a few bodyguards,
15:48and they go into hiding, jumping from safe house to safe house.
15:52Escobar is hiding out in a safe house that is located very high up in the Andes Mountains.
15:57One night, his eight-year-old daughter, Manuela, complains about being cold.
16:02Escobar and his wife can see that she's shivering and turning blue, suffering from hypothermia.
16:08With Manuela's condition getting worse,
16:10Escobar realizes he needs to make a fire to warm his daughter up, but this is rocky terrain.
16:16There is no tree to cut down to build a fire,
16:18and he needs to find something to burn to save his daughter's life.
16:22Luckily, this is one problem he can still use his money for.
16:28Like a lot of drug dealers, a good amount of his fortune is in paper cash,
16:32which he's hidden in cellars and in walls in his hideaways.
16:36So his plan is to literally burn his money.
16:44The cash is collected, and then he sets it on fire.
16:49Now, we're not dealing with Colombian pesos.
16:52This is U.S. currency, and as the fire builds,
16:55they're throwing stack after stack of money onto the fire, $10,000 at a time.
17:03That night, Pablo Escobar burns $2 million to keep his daughter warm.
17:09It helps to stave off the hypothermia, and the Escobar family lives to run another day.
17:14But this doesn't last forever.
17:16On December 2nd, 1993, Pablo Escobar is shot in the head and killed
17:21during a shootout with authorities on a rooftop in Colombia.
17:28Technically, given Escobar's $30 billion fortune,
17:31he could have kept up his very expensive life hack every night for over 40 years.
17:39Controlling pests is as old and vexing as any problem in human history.
17:44But when a Micronesian island becomes overrun with unwanted vermin,
17:49their solution is a bit outside the box.
17:53The Pacific island of Guam is part of Micronesia, but it's a U.S. territory.
17:59It's beautiful islands, got resorts and palm trees and beautiful beaches.
18:03But behind all that, you've got all of this jungle.
18:08And that jungle is just totally and completely littered with venomous snakes.
18:14They're known as brown tree snakes.
18:16These nocturnal predators can grow to be over six feet long.
18:21The brown tree snake is an invasive creature.
18:24They started showing up on the island shortly after World War II,
18:28hiding in Indonesian shipping vessels destined for the ports of Guam.
18:32When they were unloaded on Guam, the animals slithered off into the jungle
18:36and entered an environment where they face absolutely no predator at all.
18:43They're at the top of the food chain, so they can literally eat anything that they want to.
18:47They've eaten most of Guam's birds, and because of that,
18:50there are no birds that are seeding the ground anymore,
18:52which causes the thinning of the forest.
18:54They're eating power lines, biting villagers, and they're biting children.
18:59And so it's decided that these snakes have got to go.
19:04These animals are almost impossible to kill because they are nocturnal.
19:09Plus, they're arboreal, which means that they're pretty much out of reach at most points
19:13because they're way at the top of the canopy.
19:15Laying traps in the ground is virtually useless.
19:18They have to try to figure out how to get them where they feed, and that's in the trees.
19:23So the plan is to bomb the jungle from helicopters with mice.
19:29But not just any ordinary mice.
19:31These mice are packing a secret weapon.
19:35In 2000, the Department of Agriculture does a study.
19:39What can kill these snakes?
19:40They're feeding them various poisons, but also some over-the-counter drugs.
19:45And what they discover is that these snakes are highly reactive to acetaminophen,
19:50the active ingredient in Tylenol.
19:53And with just 80 milligrams of acetaminophen,
19:57there's a 100% kill rate among these snakes.
19:59So they take 2,000 frozen dead mice and just stuff them with Tylenol.
20:06Here's where it gets complicated.
20:08If you drop a frozen mouse from a helicopter,
20:10it's just going to go through the trees and hit the ground.
20:12But what we could do is glue the mouse to a piece of cardboard
20:16and then attach some streamers in hopes that it will slow it down enough
20:20that it'll kind of catch in the trees and get stuck.
20:22Boom. Dead snake.
20:26But the choppers fired up its time for the first mission,
20:28to bomb the hell out of some snakes.
20:31Just before sundown, the military helicopters fly in,
20:34and one by one, they drop their Tylenol mice bombs
20:36and watch them slowly descend into the jungle.
20:39And then they wait to see if the hungry snakes will take the bait.
20:44The next day, officials find dead snakes everywhere.
20:49They're on the ground, they're hanging from tree limbs, they're on fences.
20:53They estimate that in this area alone, 80% of the snakes have been killed off.
20:58The U.S. government decides to run a few more mice bomb missions,
21:02but these missions are running up a pretty high tab.
21:06It turns out dropping a few thousand mice from helicopters
21:09costs nearly $8 million per mission.
21:12That's a whole lot of cheese.
21:14After a few years, they decide to move on to a cheaper,
21:18more toxic-based chemical that they can just automatically drop onto the trees.
21:23The snakes might have been a nuisance,
21:25but for one island, the location itself was the biggest headache of all.
21:31Sitting off the coast of Wisconsin's Lake Chippewa
21:35is what appears to be a pretty nice-sized island.
21:38You might expect to see some beautiful houses
21:40or a farmer's market on Sundays, but it's deserted.
21:43That's because this isn't technically an island.
21:45It's a giant, floating bog.
21:47And Lake Chippewa is loaded with them.
21:52Lake Chippewa is a man-made lake, about 22 miles in diameter.
21:56When it was created in 1923,
21:58engineers basically just flooded an existing swampland,
22:01covering its peat bogs with about 90 feet of water.
22:04And when they let that water rush in,
22:08some of those bogs floated to the surface,
22:11held together by a network of roots and peat.
22:14Unlike an island, which is attached to the earth,
22:18these aren't anchored by anything.
22:20So when the winds are high,
22:22these tamarack trees, well, they act as a sail.
22:25The islands start moving all over the lake.
22:30One bog in particular is the most restless,
22:32known as the 40-acre bog.
22:36Beginning in the early 2000s,
22:38when the winds are just right,
22:39they blow this 200-ton, 40-acre bog island
22:43across the lake
22:44and lodge it underneath a highway bridge.
22:47Whenever this happens during a busy summer,
22:50fishing boats and pontoon boats
22:51can't cross to the other side.
22:53And the people on those boats
22:54are understandably ticked off about it.
22:57At first, some suggest blowing it up.
23:00The 40-acre bog
23:03has been on that lake for decades.
23:05There's different species of wildlife that live on it.
23:09Migratory birds use it.
23:11So now, it's about destroying a whole ecosystem,
23:14and clearly that's not something people want to do.
23:17That's when the community of Lake Chippewa
23:19comes together with a pretty outlandish idea.
23:23They ultimately decide to push the bog.
23:26You might imagine a complicated operation
23:29run by the Army Corps of Engineers
23:30involving barges and pulleys,
23:32but no, this is actually going to be carried out
23:34by 10 local fishing boats.
23:37They all line up.
23:39On the count of three,
23:41they all rev their engines.
23:47This thing is massive.
23:49It's 200 tons,
23:51and at full throttle,
23:53they just barely get it to budge.
23:57They realize
24:00they're going to need more boats.
24:03Pretty soon,
24:04boats from all over the lake
24:05volunteer to join this cause.
24:07So now you have 50 boats
24:08working together
24:09to try and push this thing.
24:13Eventually, after several hours,
24:15the makeshift armada
24:16gets the 40-acre bog
24:17away from the bridge.
24:19Unfortunately,
24:20it's only a temporary solution.
24:23Every year,
24:24that bog
24:25still floats underneath
24:26the bridge
24:27and blocks the waterway.
24:28And every year,
24:29the people of Lake Chippewa
24:31push the bog out
24:32to where it can't be a nuisance.
24:35But the residents
24:36of Lake Chippewa
24:37don't seem to mind.
24:38And at this point,
24:39it's become an annual tradition
24:40where they hold
24:42this kind of big,
24:43yearly,
24:43bog-moving boat party.
24:47At least they get
24:48a party out of it.
24:52Medicine is full of miracles
24:53and occasionally
24:55totally insane-sounding ideas
24:57that somehow work.
25:00Every year,
25:01approximately one-third
25:02of organ transplantations
25:04are rejected.
25:05And that is because
25:07their body says,
25:08yes,
25:09this is the right organ.
25:10But no,
25:11it did not come from me.
25:13And the body tries to kill it.
25:15And this amounts to
25:16thousands of lives
25:17lost per year.
25:20In 2017,
25:21scientists at the
25:22Salk Institute
25:23for Biological Sciences
25:24are trying to solve
25:26this problem
25:26in a very strange way.
25:29As crazy as it sounds,
25:31they are trying to grow
25:32human-compatible organs
25:33inside of pigs.
25:36We're talking about
25:38using the stem cells
25:40from the patient themselves
25:41that are then grown
25:43into real human organs
25:45using the pig body
25:47as a host.
25:48This way,
25:50the organs
25:50are fully developed,
25:52fully functioning,
25:52and guaranteed
25:53not to be rejected.
25:56Pigs are already
25:58the best candidates
25:59for organ donation
26:00to humans
26:01because the organs
26:02are anatomically
26:04and functionally
26:05very similar
26:06to the human organs.
26:08They call these pig
26:09human organs chimera
26:11after the hybrid monster
26:13from Greek mythology.
26:14To pull off this experiment,
26:16scientists inject
26:18a small number
26:19of human stem cells
26:20into a pig embryo.
26:23The pig embryo
26:24with human cells inside
26:26is then implanted
26:28into the womb
26:29of a sow.
26:3028 days later,
26:32the chimera embryo
26:32is removed from the mother.
26:34It's just the size
26:35of a grain of rice.
26:37But inside
26:38is a small miracle.
26:39The researchers
26:40examine the chimera
26:43and they find
26:43functional human cells
26:46in the heart,
26:47in the brain,
26:48in the liver.
26:50Potentially,
26:51this means
26:51that if one
26:52of these chimera
26:54were allowed
26:55to fully develop,
26:56its organs
26:57could be transplanted
26:59into the human
27:00that donated
27:01the original stem cells
27:02and function fully
27:04as if it were thereon.
27:07While this could solve
27:08the problem of organ rejection,
27:10it could present
27:11a whole new set
27:12of nightmares.
27:13The worry is
27:14that if pig
27:15and human DNA
27:16co-mingle,
27:17we might one day
27:18get a real
27:19human-pig hybrid
27:21living among us.
27:22For now,
27:23at least,
27:24the scientists
27:24are only allowed
27:26to let their chimera
27:27develop for 28 days.
27:29They have a lot
27:30more work to do
27:31before proving it's safe
27:33to allow one
27:34to mature.
27:35Thankfully,
27:36it doesn't look like
27:36we will be living
27:37on Planet of the Swine
27:38any time soon.
27:40Meanwhile,
27:41a beekeeper in Turkey
27:42is dealing
27:43with his own group
27:44of piggies.
27:48Ibrahim Sedef
27:49is an agricultural engineer
27:51who has a honey farm
27:52in the town of Trabzon
27:54along the Black Sea.
27:56This isn't any old
27:58honey he's making.
27:59This is top-shelf stuff
28:00that goes for as much
28:02as $40 a jar.
28:03This is a part
28:04of the world
28:05where they had been
28:06making honey
28:07for thousands of years.
28:09His stuff is like
28:11honey gold.
28:12The problem is
28:13someone's been
28:14helping themselves
28:15to Ibrahim's supply,
28:16so he sets up cameras.
28:19Every night,
28:21hungry brown bears
28:22break into his farm,
28:23sniff out hives,
28:24and steal his honey.
28:26Over the last three years,
28:28Ibrahim has lost
28:29$10,000
28:30to these brown bears.
28:32With the average pest,
28:34you could just go outside
28:36and shoo them away,
28:36but these are
28:37eight-foot-tall bears.
28:41They will maul you.
28:44So night after night,
28:46he's watching on the camera
28:47these bears come in
28:49and steal his honey.
28:51So his first thought is,
28:52I'll just hide
28:53the honey better.
28:55He puts the hives
28:56in harder-to-reach places,
28:57and the bears just
28:58climb up and find it.
28:59He even takes heavy rocks
29:01and puts them on the hives,
29:02and the bears
29:03just flick them away.
29:04He tries leaving
29:05other sweets
29:06and other foods behind,
29:07like apples
29:08and sourdough bread
29:10and even store-bought honey,
29:11but these bears
29:12are having none of it.
29:13They just walk right past it
29:15and go right for the good stuff.
29:16So he starts to get creative
29:18because he realizes
29:19this is really not a fight
29:21that he can win,
29:21so let's figure out
29:23how to turn this
29:23into something positive.
29:25That's when he comes up
29:26with a truly
29:27unbelievable idea.
29:29Since these giant bears
29:31are obviously
29:31connoisseurs of honey,
29:33he decides to put
29:34their expert palates
29:36to work for him,
29:36and he sets up
29:38a taste test
29:39to see which of his honeys
29:41they like best.
29:42If all goes to plan,
29:43he could actually charge
29:44more for his honey
29:45because it comes
29:46with the brown bear
29:48seal of approval.
29:50So he decides
29:51to set out a table
29:52with four different bowls
29:53on it.
29:54One has cherry jam
29:55and the other three bowls
29:56all have different
29:57types of honey in it.
29:59There's flower honey,
30:01chestnut honey,
30:02and answer honey.
30:05Night falls.
30:06They show up.
30:07They see the cherry jam.
30:10They're like not interested
30:11in it at all.
30:12They sniff the two
30:14other honeys.
30:15They're like,
30:16hmm, whatever.
30:17Then they come
30:18to the answer honey
30:19and they go crazy for it.
30:23Answer honey
30:24is the most expensive
30:26honey in the world.
30:27It's made from the nectar
30:28of 90 flowers.
30:30You're talking about
30:31$150 a pound.
30:34For Ibrahim,
30:35this is everything.
30:36This is video proof
30:37that brown bears
30:39prefer the answer honey.
30:41His answer honey.
30:43He's got
30:44bear approved honey.
30:48Ibrahim says
30:49his bear approved honey
30:51has become so popular
30:52he no longer minds
30:53the regular donations
30:54to his taste testers.
30:58When a family
30:59in Northern California
31:00decides to spend
31:01their afternoon
31:02amidst the clouds,
31:03their trip goes
31:04from peaceful
31:05to chaotic
31:06in a matter of seconds.
31:07With their lives
31:08on the line,
31:09a brilliant,
31:10unexpected fix
31:11appears just
31:11in the nick of time.
31:1538-year-old
31:16Artem Kanonuk
31:18along with his wife
31:19and their
31:19two-year-old child
31:20are buzzing
31:21with excitement.
31:22Artem,
31:23who is an amateur pilot,
31:24has chartered
31:25a plane for the family
31:26to spend
31:26their spring afternoon
31:27flying above
31:28the Northern California scenery.
31:32After takeoff,
31:33the family
31:34and the plane
31:34are gliding south,
31:36observing the treetops
31:37as they head
31:38towards their family home
31:39in Santa Rosa.
31:42That's when the chug
31:43of the plane's engine
31:44stops.
31:46It's just lost all power
31:482,600 feet
31:49above the trees.
31:52Artem is desperately
31:53trying to restart
31:54the aircraft,
31:55but he's running
31:55out of altitude
31:56very quickly.
31:58Artem's big challenge
31:59is that there's
32:00no field anywhere
32:01in sight.
32:02He's looking down
32:03on a vast expanse
32:05of forest
32:05with no place
32:06to put the aircraft down.
32:09It's quite possible
32:10that the terrain
32:12collision avoided system
32:13called TCAS
32:14is screaming at them,
32:16terrain, terrain,
32:18pull up, pull up,
32:19and there's nothing
32:20that they can do
32:21because they have
32:22no power
32:22to that engine.
32:24His wife and child
32:25are beginning
32:26to freak out.
32:27He then tells them,
32:28brace for impact.
32:31That's when something
32:32unbelievable happens.
32:36They're suddenly
32:38a jolt.
32:39and then calm.
32:42The plane feels like
32:44it's just floating.
32:47Are they being carted off
32:48to the pearly gates
32:49by angels?
32:50Not quite.
32:51Artem has just
32:52pulled the lever
32:53to deploy the Cirrus
32:55Airframe Parachute System,
32:57or CAPS.
32:58This is actually
33:00a parachute
33:00for an entire aircraft.
33:02This is a 2,400-square-foot
33:04parachute
33:04that deploys
33:06by virtue of a rocket
33:07that gets it open
33:08very quickly,
33:08and it has the effect
33:10of slowing
33:10the descent
33:11of the aircraft
33:12from dangerous
33:13and fatal speed
33:14to a survivable speed.
33:17Because it is
33:18at the weight center
33:19of the plane,
33:19it keeps the aircraft
33:21completely level.
33:23The airplane parachute
33:24is invented
33:25by Cirrus co-founder
33:27Alan Klapmeyer
33:28after he survives
33:30a mid-air collision
33:31in 1985.
33:32After that experience,
33:34he decides
33:34that he is going
33:35to put a life-saving parachute
33:36in every single Cirrus plane.
33:40Luckily for the
33:41Kanonuk family,
33:42by 1998,
33:44this becomes a reality.
33:47Miraculously,
33:48they are more or less
33:50unscathed.
33:51They have survived
33:51this horrible incident,
33:53and now they also
33:54have a great family story
33:55where they can talk
33:56about how one parachute
33:57saved three people.
34:01To date,
34:02this airplane parachute
34:03system has saved
34:04249 lives.
34:06Maybe one day
34:07they'll put one
34:07on the red eye
34:08out of Los Angeles,
34:09just in case.
34:11Next up,
34:12something unusual
34:13that protects
34:14against a different
34:15type of disaster.
34:19In China,
34:20in 2008 and 2010,
34:22there were two
34:22devastating earthquakes
34:23that hit in the middle
34:24of the night
34:25and ended up
34:26killing thousands
34:27of people,
34:28mostly because
34:28they were crushed
34:29by buildings
34:30that collapsed.
34:32This leads
34:33an ambitious inventor
34:34by the name
34:34of Wang Wenqi
34:35to come up
34:36with an idea
34:37that could save
34:37your life
34:38from the comfort
34:39of your own bed.
34:41In 2010,
34:42Wang secures
34:43the patent
34:44for his invention
34:45known as
34:46an earthquake bed.
34:48Say, for example,
34:49you're in bed
34:50with your wife
34:51or your husband
34:51and an earthquake
34:53happens.
34:54A series of sensors
34:56detect vibrations
34:57and within seconds,
35:00the mattress
35:01folds you
35:01and your loved one
35:02into a taco
35:03and draws you in
35:04into the reinforced
35:05steel frame
35:06beneath the bed.
35:07Once you and your partner
35:09have hit the bottom
35:09of the metal box,
35:10the steel bed frame slabs
35:12slide into place
35:13and provide a lid
35:14for you.
35:15So now you're
35:16enclosed in this
35:17giant metal box
35:18basically
35:19that's going to
35:19protect you
35:20from any sort
35:20of falling debris.
35:24It's said
35:25the earthquake bed
35:26can resist
35:276,000 pounds
35:29of vertical roof load
35:30so that even
35:31if the building
35:32you're in collapses,
35:34you won't be
35:34crushed by the debris.
35:36While you're
35:37waiting to be rescued,
35:38you still get to
35:39enjoy all the
35:40comforts of home.
35:41The earthquake bed
35:42is a little bit
35:43more than just a bed.
35:43It's almost like
35:45a studio apartment.
35:46It's got a
35:47ventilation system,
35:48it's got food,
35:49it's got water,
35:50it's got a gas mask.
35:51It's got a
35:52makeshift toilet
35:53which sounds gross
35:54but if you think
35:55about it
35:56it's super necessary
35:57and wait for it,
35:59there's Wi-Fi.
36:01Most importantly
36:02of all,
36:03there's a radio beacon
36:05so rescuers
36:06can pinpoint
36:06your exact location.
36:08The base model bed
36:10starts around
36:11$6,000
36:12but you can
36:13upgrade it from there
36:14if you want to put in
36:14say a TV
36:15or maybe a nice bar.
36:17A person
36:18or persons
36:19can survive
36:19for about a week
36:20in there
36:20before being rescued.
36:21That means
36:22you can just
36:22stay in there,
36:23you can binge watch
36:24your favorite shows,
36:25you can take calls,
36:26you can close
36:27important deals,
36:28you can do
36:29whatever you want.
36:31Guess it's time
36:31to ditch that
36:32I can't work today,
36:33I'm stuck in the rubble
36:34of an earthquake excuse.
36:38The early 1940s
36:39is the era
36:40of new ideas.
36:41Color television,
36:43the Polaroid camera,
36:44even the first
36:44jet aircraft
36:45take to the skies.
36:46And of course,
36:48a machine
36:48for babies
36:49too busy
36:50to make it
36:51to the gym.
36:53In 1940s England,
36:55parents are being told
36:56that their babies
36:57might not be
36:58exercising enough
36:59to be able
36:59to take their first steps.
37:01Fortunately for parents,
37:02there's a solution
37:03for this.
37:04called the
37:04baby exercise machine.
37:07Not only does it
37:08give baby
37:09something to do
37:09when it's not
37:10eating or sleeping,
37:11but it also develops
37:12the leg muscles,
37:13making every child
37:14a potential
37:15soccer international.
37:16The idea
37:17is that with each kick,
37:18the baby's leg muscles
37:20are getting stronger.
37:22And soon enough,
37:23your baby will be
37:24the first one
37:25to start walking,
37:26the first one
37:27to start running.
37:27This invention, though,
37:29does have
37:30a pretty good
37:31dual purpose.
37:31it's strengthening
37:33your baby,
37:34but it's also
37:34a great way
37:35to distract
37:36fussy babies
37:38and keep them occupied.
37:39The little basket
37:40even doubles
37:41as a bassinet,
37:42which might be
37:42the most useful
37:43feature of all.
37:44When Junior's
37:45all done kicking,
37:46he's tired,
37:47and so he's going
37:48to sleep,
37:49which means
37:49maybe you can too.
37:53Keeping the family
37:54strong isn't just
37:56about working out.
37:56How do you make
37:57the most
37:58of precious time
37:59together?
37:59One inventor
38:00has a bizarre idea.
38:02We've discovered
38:03the answer
38:03to every motorist's
38:04problem.
38:05Introducing
38:05Charlie Steinlow
38:06and his family.
38:07Charlie's family
38:08bicycle,
38:09which he showcases
38:10in an exhibition
38:10in Chicago
38:11in 1939,
38:13is this ginormous
38:14two-story bike
38:16that fits,
38:17well,
38:17the whole family.
38:18Charlie himself
38:19is on the second floor
38:21pedaling and steering
38:23the bike
38:23with a steering wheel.
38:25Below him
38:26is his son,
38:27Charlie Jr.,
38:28pedaling along
38:28with his dad,
38:29and at the front
38:30is his daughter,
38:31Maria,
38:32on the lookout
38:33for any potholes.
38:34And mom
38:35is in the middle
38:37operating a foot pedal
38:38sewing machine.
38:39As Mr. Steinlow
38:40wears out the seat
38:41of his pants,
38:41Mr. Steinlow
38:42puts in a new seat.
38:43Because even on a bike
38:44ride in 1939,
38:46a mom's work
38:47is never done.
38:48Kind of a sign
38:49of the times, right?
38:50As the rest of her family
38:51gets to leisurely ride
38:52through the streets,
38:53she's just
38:53sewing away.
38:55So where did
38:56Charlie's outlandish
38:57idea come from?
38:58Charlie is an inventor,
39:00a creator,
39:00a tinkerer.
39:01He likes repairing things.
39:03And fittingly,
39:04his wife's sewing machine
39:05wasn't working,
39:06so she brought it
39:07to his workshop
39:07to repair.
39:09She didn't get it back
39:10for a while,
39:10and then when she went
39:11to look for it,
39:13it now had wheels on it
39:14and was part
39:15of a two-story bike.
39:16So the Steinlow family
39:17just keep rolling along.
39:20Sure,
39:20a bike that does everything
39:22might keep the family unit
39:23nice and tight
39:23on dry land,
39:25but it won't help you
39:26on open water.
39:29So in 1959,
39:31Canterbury Motors
39:32comes up with an idea.
39:34It's a motorcycle
39:35with a sidecar,
39:37but not just
39:38any sidecar.
39:39A young couple
39:40sets out for a day's run
39:41in a motorcycle combination.
39:43Nothing unusual about that,
39:44but in fact,
39:45it's unique.
39:46The sidecar is actually
39:48a seaworthy boat,
39:50the amphibious sidecar motorcycle.
39:53Once pulled aside
39:55your favorite body of water,
39:56just you and your wife
39:57can remove the boat,
39:59place it in the water,
40:00and you are off
40:01on a romantic boat ride
40:03for two.
40:04You actually start it
40:06much as you might
40:08a lawnmower,
40:08and it has an 80cc motor,
40:11so it's capable
40:12of speeds
40:13of about 13 miles per hour
40:15when you have
40:16two people
40:16aboard ship.
40:17The idea behind this boat
40:20is to really just
40:21spark the romance,
40:22but you're sitting
40:23front to back,
40:24so it would be really hard
40:26to whisper sweet nothings
40:27into your darling's ear.
40:29Plus, if you move
40:31too rapidly,
40:33you could tip over,
40:35both of you.
40:37Ultimately,
40:37it's too expensive
40:38for mass production.
40:41Just five are made,
40:43and sadly,
40:44the Canterbury Bell
40:45is relegated
40:46to the Garage of History.
40:49Whether you're blowing up
40:50beached whale carcasses,
40:52dropping mice bombs
40:53to kill snakes,
40:53or burning millions
40:54to make sure
40:55your daughter doesn't freeze,
40:57there's an idea
40:58to solve any problem.
40:59But it's only
41:00the most outlandish
41:01that are truly
41:02unbelievable.
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