True Facts: Plants That Explode

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

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  • @zefrank
    @zefrank  5 месяцев назад +445

    Thanks to Opera for sponsoring this video. Click here opr.as/Opera-browser-zefrank to upgrade your browser for FREE!
    (also please look in the description for some important corrections)

    • @researcherchameleon4602
      @researcherchameleon4602 5 месяцев назад +27

      Matpat actually did a theory saying that the Minecraft creepers are plants, they are green, they sound like leaves, and the evolutionary advantage of exploding like that is that an unalived Steve can make for good fertilizer, and if he survives, then he can distribute the seeds as he walks around

    • @mylittleheartscar
      @mylittleheartscar 5 месяцев назад +8

      I've never been this early hi! Could you do another vid on sea creatures or shrooms?

    • @paulosborne6517
      @paulosborne6517 5 месяцев назад +16

      If your Hairy Wild Petunia feels itchy, you need a Manscape sponsored video...

    • @andrewgivens5070
      @andrewgivens5070 5 месяцев назад +2

      You didn't watch to the end

    • @skipjack91
      @skipjack91 5 месяцев назад +10

      Is there a place where one can listen to the music you make? There's a tune you used to have on some older videos that I KNOW I have heard in a full song format but cannot find anymore
      Also I love your content ♥

  • @gabdraws7003
    @gabdraws7003 5 месяцев назад +2867

    the sound effects for the flower launching mechanisms are just magnificent

  • @TheDeltaSight
    @TheDeltaSight 5 месяцев назад +4311

    there's something fucking hilarious about an educational channel getting tired of telling you the names of things

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 5 месяцев назад +120

      When people are too lazy to do their own search typing....this is validation. The struggle is real

    • @samhaines8228
      @samhaines8228 5 месяцев назад +18

      so true!

    • @BackyardDogPark9862
      @BackyardDogPark9862 5 месяцев назад +83

      "I'm on to you, science hippies." 😆

    • @andrewfleenor7459
      @andrewfleenor7459 5 месяцев назад +71

      I remember a day when True Facts contained no actual true facts. :D

    • @KarmaCadet
      @KarmaCadet 5 месяцев назад +46

      @@andrewfleenor7459 is that the one about the backwards hippo? I still have nightmares about that one

  • @alexianluqman6275
    @alexianluqman6275 5 месяцев назад +3005

    Squirting Cucumber sounds like a bad euphemism

    • @freerangemtb
      @freerangemtb 5 месяцев назад +229

      It's also a good name for a rock band.

    • @roempoetliar7995
      @roempoetliar7995 5 месяцев назад +63

      of all cucumbers that i know only the real one that cant squirt

    • @Immortalrounin
      @Immortalrounin 5 месяцев назад +113

      Not your average veggieTale😂

    • @28russ
      @28russ 5 месяцев назад

      It sounds like the other end of a euthanasia 🤷‍♂☠😂

    • @28russ
      @28russ 5 месяцев назад

      It sounds like the other end of a euthanasia 🤷‍♂☠😂

  • @_Mute_
    @_Mute_ 5 месяцев назад +975

    1:20 "You don't want to be covered with baby juice."
    You don't know how I like to spend my weekends sir

    • @RedactedATS
      @RedactedATS 5 месяцев назад +63

      I would have hit like on this, but the juvenile part of me was amused the hit count was at 69 and I didn't want to ruin your weekend

    • @h0ly208
      @h0ly208 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@RedactedATSwell it's at 99 now so you might as well hit like!

    • @NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore
      @NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore 5 месяцев назад +41

      At least with your user name we can assume you'd be discrete

    • @hfordfett809
      @hfordfett809 5 месяцев назад +14

      You can tell he was still smiling while saying this

    • @emordnilap4747
      @emordnilap4747 5 месяцев назад

      His browser history must be pretty tame, if he thinks nobody wants to get covered in baby juice, by a squirting cucumber.

  • @ajmatheson2807
    @ajmatheson2807 5 месяцев назад +169

    "Its like backstage at the nipple" has got to be one of the best opening jokes ever

  • @0cellusDS
    @0cellusDS 5 месяцев назад +2639

    I swear, whenever science fiction comes up with alien species, they are so much less weird than what's already going on on earth.

    • @Tylendal242
      @Tylendal242 5 месяцев назад +50

      This video certainly made The Day of the Triffids seem a lot less fantastical.

    • @sunnyd9884
      @sunnyd9884 5 месяцев назад +37

      i think you need to watch scavengers reign, then

    • @Xenomorthian
      @Xenomorthian 5 месяцев назад +41

      ​@sunnyd9884 I'm getting real sick of hearing exclusively good things about scavengers reign if you all don't stop I might have to watch it and we don't want that now do we

    • @Mereologist
      @Mereologist 5 месяцев назад +83

      "Real life is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."

    • @aleksandrakrolak
      @aleksandrakrolak 5 месяцев назад +34

      @@nathanielalderson9111 it's not cause it doesn't exist :D It's Evolution 💚

  • @LendriMujina
    @LendriMujina 5 месяцев назад +525

    How fitting that one of the more dramatically-exploding plants is called the "impatiens". I, too, explode all over the place when my patiens runs out.

    • @AndroChimera
      @AndroChimera 5 месяцев назад +13

      cof cof that's hot.

    • @memary6730
      @memary6730 5 месяцев назад +1

      Teeheehee... well done.😂✌️

  • @angieemm
    @angieemm 5 месяцев назад +620

    It's the sound effects of the spore propulsion that really makes this video.

    • @1000PaperBunnies
      @1000PaperBunnies 5 месяцев назад +30

      Agreed. There's something so satisfying about knowing you aren't the only one that makes sound effects no one asked for but everyone NEEDED.

    • @Erhannis
      @Erhannis 5 месяцев назад +9

      I am struggling to not try to replicate the sounds, in the crowded airport.

    • @angieemm
      @angieemm 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@Erhannis dooooo iiiittttt

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@Erhannisbetter in the airport than in the crowded plane....

  • @rustygears6211
    @rustygears6211 5 месяцев назад +232

    I never thought seeing spores walk could bring me so much joy

    • @themosaicshow
      @themosaicshow 5 месяцев назад +4

      every day when you walkin down da street

    • @tombeal364
      @tombeal364 6 дней назад +1

      And the people that ya meet
      Has an original point of view

  • @HLBear
    @HLBear 5 месяцев назад +285

    I was about 10 years old and home sick one week. The Southern Magnolias were blooming by my dad's work. He brought home one bud and put it in a vase beside the couch where I was napping, and it smelled great. Then, in the morning, it POPPED open and threw what I assume were stamens across the room. I'll never forget that - it was such a shock and made me laugh. 😊

    • @Redsauceconsumer
      @Redsauceconsumer 4 месяца назад +2

      💥

    • @kayw8224
      @kayw8224 4 месяца назад +4

      So wholesome 🎉
      Those are the types of memories we should have of parents. 😊

  • @brianbrian1769
    @brianbrian1769 5 месяцев назад +678

    And the award for the most innuendos in 11 minutes goes to.

    • @BradleyBellwether-oy2qi
      @BradleyBellwether-oy2qi 5 месяцев назад +47

      Idk. The 10 minute videos on "nudibranchs" and "proboscis monkeys" might have more.
      But this one is definitely choked full.

    • @DragoonMS
      @DragoonMS 5 месяцев назад +40

      You oughta check out an older one about armadillos...that comes out swinging right out the gate: "Here are True Facts about the armadildo...oops, that's a typo. Here are True Facts about the ARMADILDO...oh, I said it again." 😂🤣

    • @MsVorpalBlade
      @MsVorpalBlade 5 месяцев назад +17

      and yet 'sowing wild oats' was completely left alone

    • @jamrockprincess
      @jamrockprincess 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@MsVorpalBlade Hahahah Right???? How could he miss that???!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @tazzyanderson1192
      @tazzyanderson1192 5 месяцев назад

      I didn't think he could beat his video on the corkscrew penis of a duck, but he outdid himself here 😂

  • @Draedaja
    @Draedaja 5 месяцев назад +205

    I don't know what's better - the sound effects or the "it's called nunya business" bits xD

  • @orthochronicity6428
    @orthochronicity6428 5 месяцев назад +120

    Liverwort is about to become an exam problem the next time I teach intro mechanics. I'm always happy to find a reason for making watching YT a workplace activity.

  • @shidiwen9329
    @shidiwen9329 5 месяцев назад +35

    This was honestly one of your best videos to date. This must be a personal best for sound effects too. You’re really challenging yourself to keep each explosion fresh. I appreciate that.

  • @arspsychologia4401
    @arspsychologia4401 5 месяцев назад +28

    The addition of rifling to the seed pod was a wonderful design touch.

    • @pizzeria_mayhem8736
      @pizzeria_mayhem8736 4 месяца назад

      Even nature understands

    • @turkeyminer9194
      @turkeyminer9194 3 месяца назад +1

      Intelligent design has a lot going for it

    • @watsonwrote
      @watsonwrote 2 месяца назад

      ​@@turkeyminer9194 no, it's because the ones that developed beneficial structures were more successful and the ones that developed unhelpful structures died or failed to reproduce. With hundreds of thousands of plants creating many seeds every year, there is a lot of trail and error. Only the successful pass on and continue to iterate on changes, repeating continuously into more and more effective structures. We don't see the millions of seedpods with unhelpful grooves because they barely fell away from their parent and failed to sprout.

  • @joshuamahon260
    @joshuamahon260 5 месяцев назад +174

    The perfect blend of silliness and education. It's beautiful

  • @Rock_on_R0bita
    @Rock_on_R0bita 5 месяцев назад +663

    "Yay~!"
    "Whoppie~!"
    "Woohoo~!"
    "I'm not ready~!"
    I can't! 😂

    • @mo_streetheat3217
      @mo_streetheat3217 5 месяцев назад +4

      literally took me out 🤣🤣

    • @SetiSupreme
      @SetiSupreme 5 месяцев назад +3

      You better begin to can!

    • @rebeccakoch9203
      @rebeccakoch9203 5 месяцев назад +4

      I want to like this, but it's at 69 and I'm not about to ruin that

    • @134StormShadow
      @134StormShadow 5 месяцев назад +1

      😂😅😂🤣🤣👍👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @KellyHeggem
      @KellyHeggem 5 месяцев назад +2

      I'm of the not ready variety, never did like amusement park rides.

  • @NobleUnclean
    @NobleUnclean 5 месяцев назад +89

    I've got a fever of 102 and honestly feel like death. But as long as I'm watching Ze Frank's creature madness, I noticed I can't stop smiling, regardless of how I feel. Thanks Papa Ze!

  • @Encaris
    @Encaris 5 месяцев назад +15

    This is by far my favorite Ze Frank video (and there are alot of great videos) but people tent to forget how amazing and cool plants, lichens, mosses, and ferns are and this just goes to prove that. Awesome video as always.

  • @Triairius
    @Triairius 5 месяцев назад +11

    The popper at the end. You are truly a man of your craft.

  • @RumBrave
    @RumBrave 5 месяцев назад +126

    I'm so glad this built up to stork's bill, also known as filaree! I found out about this plant when they got all curled up in my dog's fur after a romp in a frequently mowed-to-death field that sprang up full of stork's bill. I was so amazed by them and excitedly brought the seeds in a little baggie to show my family. It was met with a resounding, "cool..." yet as foolish as I felt, my awe of the brilliant little plant didn't leave me! I still grab a pod every time I see it to play with the seeds. It really is a fascinating thing.

    • @quietone748
      @quietone748 5 месяцев назад +3

      I have one in my new flowerbed and have let it grow, as I didn't know what it was and I'm curious. Now I know my entire yard will be covered in this plant for the foreseeable future and that's ok!

    • @RumBrave
      @RumBrave 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@quietone748it's generally regarded as invasive but I think you're lucky! They have cute little purple flowers and they're fully edible, too. Tastes a bit like parsley, I quite like it. Very healthy for people and livestock alike!

    • @FrieFie
      @FrieFie Месяц назад

      @@RumBrave So after cultivating wild stork´s bill (the one with the tiny pink flowers, geranium robertianum - discriminated as "stinking stork´s bill in German!) on my balcony for 20 years, letting it seed all over and only weeding out where it´s not wanted, I learn that it´s edible?!?!? I can´t thank you enough!
      I can only recommend it as the nicest weed you can have. Easy to keep in check, flowering from early spring to autumn, fernlike, grows in full sun (smaller,with reddish leaves) but also in half and full shade (the shadyer, the taller and greener). Extra plus: the cat doesn´t like it and doesn´t dig in the pots where it´s planted (so "stinky to cats" would be correct).
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium_robertianum

  • @scpdatabase69420
    @scpdatabase69420 5 месяцев назад +162

    It never occurred to me pinecones use dehydration to open up. This makes so much sense.
    These videos are actually so educational. I love it

    • @bluesioux9538
      @bluesioux9538 5 месяцев назад +18

      There is even certain pines whose pinecone won't open until there's a fire...a cool way to reseed after a forest fire!

    • @danielleking262
      @danielleking262 5 месяцев назад +2

      me neither! I was surprised by that

    • @TK-ij2xi
      @TK-ij2xi 5 месяцев назад +7

      About a decade ago I decided my pinecones were too dark, and bleached them. They closed right up and I thought it was my job to tell everyone I knew what happened. I was in awe of my closed, pale, pinecones.
      Wait - is context necessary? This was for holiday decor. They dried out and reopened. I'm not bleaching pinecones on trees.

    • @MsVilecat
      @MsVilecat 5 месяцев назад +1

      Those pinecones have a waxy exterior to keep the seeds safe during the fire.

  • @SeeingSebastian
    @SeeingSebastian 5 месяцев назад +118

    The glued wood bending when it loses its moisture is so interesting. I've always been curious as to why a pinecone in water is never open like the ones on the ground. These videos are fanfriggintastic 👏🏾

    • @CardZed
      @CardZed 5 месяцев назад +7

      It's also something you need to account for when woodworking! Furniture has to have some wiggle room for the wood to be able to expand and contract without cracking.

    • @BlutoBlutarsky
      @BlutoBlutarsky 5 месяцев назад +2

      Try leaving a sheet of plywood out in the rain. Or don't if you want to actually use it for something. 😁

    • @pong9000
      @pong9000 5 месяцев назад

      There's far more to watertight barrels than one would imagine.

  • @liquidnick
    @liquidnick 5 месяцев назад +20

    @zefrank Thank you for being the best thing on the internet. I can always count on you to make my day better no matter what.

  • @exotank
    @exotank 5 месяцев назад +25

    I was not ready for the "I'm not ready"! 🤣😂

  • @jamies6337
    @jamies6337 5 месяцев назад +1741

    Ahhhh the popper, I'm distraught.

    • @cozmoos
      @cozmoos 5 месяцев назад +14

      Dam you speedy

    • @brianbrian1769
      @brianbrian1769 5 месяцев назад +6

      @cozmoos Hmm. 14 hours ago huh? It only 'came out 14 minutes ago. Odd.

    • @stolenlaptop
      @stolenlaptop 5 месяцев назад +21

      I found a giant popper in my mom's room when I was a kid. She wasn't happy I was playing with it...

    • @jamies6337
      @jamies6337 5 месяцев назад +39

      @brianbrian1769 It was released members only first. I love Zefrank content okay lol

    • @brianbrian1769
      @brianbrian1769 5 месяцев назад +4

      @ja.ies6337 How'd you manage to comment 13 hours before the video was 'released? You came too soon. Can you explain that to an old science hippy?

  • @ChIGuY-town22_
    @ChIGuY-town22_ 5 месяцев назад +726

    "You don't want to be covered with baby juice"
    Sounds like a threat, it's quite effective...unless you are a Emporer shrimp.

    • @mithrildragonlh
      @mithrildragonlh 5 месяцев назад

      Or enjoy bukkake

    • @qwertydavid8070
      @qwertydavid8070 5 месяцев назад

      😳I wouldn't mind getting covered in baby juice...

    • @_ruddegar
      @_ruddegar 5 месяцев назад +35

      Or that one girl i knew.

    • @roku3216
      @roku3216 5 месяцев назад +29

      Plant bukkake.

    • @takenname8053
      @takenname8053 5 месяцев назад +20

      Fresh water mussels know this trick all too well.

  • @frankschaeffer6545
    @frankschaeffer6545 5 месяцев назад +75

    0:33 These are called “gemmae” and the inverse nipple is called a gemmae cup. A gemma is essentially a clone that will grow into another liverwort. Liverworts also produce spores but that is after they do sexy time.

    • @LabGecko
      @LabGecko 5 месяцев назад +9

      So a developing gemmae is a behbeh gehmmeh?

    • @user-ol5jn8jf7c
      @user-ol5jn8jf7c 3 месяца назад

      "gimme a cup" ? 😂

    • @VjorikaBrooks
      @VjorikaBrooks Месяц назад

      They corrected it in the description, but thank you 😊

  • @arielkelly5518
    @arielkelly5518 5 месяцев назад +7

    Jewel weed has really cool seed pods that explode and curl when you touch them, loved popping them as a kid

  • @mxdwnfrcemdia
    @mxdwnfrcemdia Месяц назад +6

    2:12 OMG IM IN TEARS I LOVE THE SOUND EFFECTS HE MAKES

  • @xXAkirhaXx
    @xXAkirhaXx 5 месяцев назад +682

    " A jacket called 'who gives a shit what it's called'" is what made me giggle for the rest of the episode.

    • @solraccarpy
      @solraccarpy 5 месяцев назад +8

      But what is it called

    • @PatriotOSRS
      @PatriotOSRS 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yea that one caught me off guard too

    • @danielleking262
      @danielleking262 5 месяцев назад

      same, I was just about to comment this 😂😂😂

    • @mrlucasftw42
      @mrlucasftw42 5 месяцев назад +5

      When the naming committee has run out of coffee and just wants to be done with it.

    • @redhotmoon1656
      @redhotmoon1656 5 месяцев назад +9

      Jerry was on vacation

  • @relyc_
    @relyc_ 5 месяцев назад +37

    You can genuinely hear how much fun Ze Frank had with the noises in this video 😁

  • @sleepyzeph
    @sleepyzeph 5 месяцев назад +138

    dunno how common it is for little guys to use rain to propel themselves, but bird's nest fungi do it! they're tiny little fungi that look like tiny tiny bird nests with eggs in them, and the eggs are spore sacs that go flying when a raindrop hits the nest. some of them even have a sticky goop trail so when they fly, the goop can stick to a plant and the egg becomes spiderman.

    • @qwertydavid8070
      @qwertydavid8070 5 месяцев назад +1

      sticky goop trai 😳

    • @benmcreynolds8581
      @benmcreynolds8581 5 месяцев назад +11

      I've always wondered what those bird nest fungi do with their little basket of eggs looking stuff. They look like little forest fairy decorations. Nature is so freaking creative

    • @RoySATX
      @RoySATX 5 месяцев назад +3

      "some of them even have a sticky goop trail so when they fly, the goop can stick...." so they not only look like birds' nests, but they also mimic the birds that fly over my car?! Nature can be so full of shi, er, goop at times!

    • @caseytenney2150
      @caseytenney2150 5 месяцев назад

      Favorite comment ever

  • @wrongsalvation8904
    @wrongsalvation8904 5 месяцев назад +42

    I love how you acknowledge people being upset about the popper not popping.
    I also find it very funny. I think it's very fitting for a video that was about reproduction of plants, plants that explode. No one was completely satisfied😂😂😂

    • @metalmamasue3680
      @metalmamasue3680 4 месяца назад

      It did pop at the very end after the credits. 😂

  • @flordeespinart
    @flordeespinart 5 месяцев назад +6

    sound effects are 5 michelin stars. cheff's kiss. top tier!!

  • @armartin0003
    @armartin0003 5 месяцев назад +25

    The ending. Sweet release. You're such a tease, Zefrank.

  • @skipmage
    @skipmage 5 месяцев назад +59

    Looking forward to the Creepy Dave version of this, with him trying to justify why plants is best favourite animal

  • @syrenet
    @syrenet 5 месяцев назад +59

    ah yes, my childhood entertainment, back when we didnt have mobile phones, pc's.
    just go around poking random plants and the ones that blew up became my favourites.

    • @stylogaming..
      @stylogaming.. 5 месяцев назад +9

      And later realizing you're just inhaling straight shroom spores because you were pretending they were smoke bombs.

    • @linabasilisk1955
      @linabasilisk1955 4 месяца назад +1

      Any good childhood has a fair amount of poking things and seeing what happens. I remember when my brother and I discovered swamp gas by poking sticks in the mud of the pond. It smelled bad and put us in mind of farts (not hard to do at the age we were). Naturally we thought it was hilarious and proceeded to poke around for more.

  • @owenmuschette323
    @owenmuschette323 5 месяцев назад +3

    The elaborate adaptations are amazing in my opinion. Plus this dude's a comedy gold mine, so it's a win win 👌🏾

  • @ravensmythe1
    @ravensmythe1 5 месяцев назад +184

    Please please please Ze Frank, please do a video on horseshoe crabs! I grew up by the Atlantic Bay and used to fish off a bridge. The horseshoe crabs would gather and breed at night and I remember thinking how creepy, fascinating, ancient, and bizarre they were! As always, your videos are amazing!

    • @highgoat6474
      @highgoat6474 5 месяцев назад +6

      Excellent suggestion!

    • @ravensmythe1
      @ravensmythe1 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@highgoat6474 thank you very much! Hopefully it'll happen eventually!

    • @tishie42
      @tishie42 5 месяцев назад +8

      Petition signed. 😊

    • @PlayingGilly
      @PlayingGilly 5 месяцев назад +7

      Pre mutated mirelurks. For sure.

    • @youretheChrist
      @youretheChrist 5 месяцев назад +4

      Yes please

  • @partack1
    @partack1 5 месяцев назад +122

    oh thank god, the popper actually popped. Ze Frank isn't a PSYCHO.

    • @eledatowle8767
      @eledatowle8767 5 месяцев назад +15

      I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, LOL

    • @xenopsychologist4943
      @xenopsychologist4943 5 месяцев назад +12

      i was hoping it wouldnt, but some people just wanna watch the world burn, i guess.

    • @Mereologist
      @Mereologist 5 месяцев назад +6

      Yah... that totally didn't bother me until he MENTIONED that it might bother me. Then it TOTALLY bothered me...

    • @kareningram6093
      @kareningram6093 5 месяцев назад +3

      I was starting to sweat a little towards the end there. 😂

  • @CosmicEnbyOllie
    @CosmicEnbyOllie 5 месяцев назад +33

    I don't know why I need these "totally accurate exploding noises" to be my new text tones. I've been holding back laughing at work so hard I almost exploded like one of these seeds lol! Always fantastic content dude. Never fails.

  • @mikecook6553
    @mikecook6553 5 месяцев назад +15

    Your channel is the only channel i dont skip the advertisements.

  • @lizzle13a
    @lizzle13a 5 месяцев назад +3

    "Called a Who-Gives-A-Shit-What-Its-Called" was one of ur best jokes 😂well done

  • @drobvensick
    @drobvensick 5 месяцев назад +22

    My favorite exploding pods from Philippine Mahogany. Its audible and the seeds have wings, so you hear a loud pop then the seed fly and spirals down. Beautiful sight to see during windy days.

  • @theGreaterAwareness
    @theGreaterAwareness 5 месяцев назад +27

    The fact that seeds use moisture as a way to power movement is amazing, I had no idea that the structures could generate movement with functionality.

  • @hadesbaby2180
    @hadesbaby2180 5 месяцев назад +146

    It always surprises me how alive plants are

    • @Alfred-Neuman
      @Alfred-Neuman 5 месяцев назад +18

      My cucumber is very alive, it can throw its seeds surprisingly far.

    • @TiredofGaming
      @TiredofGaming 5 месяцев назад +28

      @@Alfred-Neuman Sir this is a Wendy's

    • @Alfred-Neuman
      @Alfred-Neuman 5 месяцев назад +12

      @@TiredofGaming
      Yes, I know.
      I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

    • @unlikelysuspect5491
      @unlikelysuspect5491 5 месяцев назад +6

      It's cus there so damn slow

    • @ippanpedrozo1162
      @ippanpedrozo1162 5 месяцев назад +6

      yeah that's why im a carnivore, plants are too 'alive' for me

  • @devanpauline8334
    @devanpauline8334 5 месяцев назад +1

    I show this channel to my friends who didn’t do much/well in school, I’ll tell you man the excitement and engagement from them is crazy. Gotta find a way to make a PG version for kids to learn in a new way.

    • @quietone748
      @quietone748 5 месяцев назад +1

      He does have another channel that is child-friendly. Or friendly for those adults who don't act like children :)

  • @Madamegato
    @Madamegato 5 месяцев назад +1

    That popper literally made me want to cry. LOLOL. Excellent use of antici...
    pation.

  • @Secret_Takodachi
    @Secret_Takodachi 5 месяцев назад +27

    As someone with ADHD & not OCD:
    That ending was hilarious, this video was 10 minutes longer than my regular attention span & I still managed to half-watch the whole thing while I folded laundry. ❤ thanks for brightening my day with your humor-tainment

  • @elizabethebbighausen9341
    @elizabethebbighausen9341 5 месяцев назад +25

    Came to the comments to give props to the magnificent sound effects and I'm so happy to see that I'm not the only one who appreciated them. As always, your videos bring laughter with education which are my two favorite things in the world. Thank you, ZeFrank! 💜💜💜

  • @graphite2786
    @graphite2786 5 месяцев назад +339

    The sounds of seed pods exploding were unbelievably appropriate
    Flllt-oing!
    Pffffftt!
    yay upi! Wuhu! noredi!
    doooosh!
    Bleerrrrh!

    • @tishie42
      @tishie42 5 месяцев назад +4

      I love onomatopoeias. 😂

    • @xaayer
      @xaayer 5 месяцев назад +17

      That third one was the voice of the seeds celebrating release lol
      "Yay"
      "Whoopie!"
      "Woohoo!"
      "I'm not ready! :("

    • @burtbacarach5034
      @burtbacarach5034 5 месяцев назад

      MINT!NEWT!

  • @Twisted_Rose96
    @Twisted_Rose96 5 месяцев назад +4

    Hilarity aside, I was genuinely awestruck. Today I learned that some seeds are super cool

  • @konnosx1213
    @konnosx1213 5 месяцев назад +11

    "Creeping Wood Sorrow" sounds like a creepypasta title, i love it

    • @dragoncubes1074
      @dragoncubes1074 5 месяцев назад +5

      I think it's sorrel.

    • @pegasus5287
      @pegasus5287 3 месяца назад

      Sounds like an olde tyme potion of some sort.

  • @LeaC-lw8xl
    @LeaC-lw8xl 5 месяцев назад +61

    Took botany in college. It was not boring and your video proves it. All Life is amazing. We used to pop the operculum to watch the spores blow out. I love your humor Ze. Behbehs get me all the time!
    Will be watching this at least twice more. Thank you!

    • @tofystedeth
      @tofystedeth 5 месяцев назад +1

      I dunno, that wild oat seed looked like it was boring (heyooo)

    • @ClanImprobable
      @ClanImprobable 4 месяца назад

      Behbehs never grows old, never never...

  • @thrdai
    @thrdai 5 месяцев назад +51

    Oh boy, the mating song at the end should be a real banger..

    • @c1borgen
      @c1borgen 5 месяцев назад +18

      Fr, Ze Frank should make full versions of his songs. I'm still waiting for "Cricket that don't give a fuck" and "Pigeon love"

  • @Merfolk_
    @Merfolk_ 5 месяцев назад +416

    They're called "get off your lazy ass and google it" LMAO

    • @DarthWells
      @DarthWells 5 месяцев назад +8

      I actually lol'd

    • @seattlegrrlie
      @seattlegrrlie 5 месяцев назад +3

      I shall put that on my exam

  • @NickCombs
    @NickCombs 5 месяцев назад +1

    And we use a very similar idea to these dry-out-and-bend plants with bimetallic strips. Ours bend with temperature changes though, since some metals expand more than others when they warm up. Any basic thermostat or stove range has them.

  • @clairelindsay6951
    @clairelindsay6951 5 месяцев назад +3

    The popping sound effects!! 😂😂😂

  • @noladavis5085
    @noladavis5085 5 месяцев назад +59

    I wish my friend was around to watch this video. RIP Brian, I miss you my dear friend. You introduced me to ZeFrank and taught me so much. I'm forever grateful to have met you.

    • @user-nu8in3ey8c
      @user-nu8in3ey8c 5 месяцев назад +4

      Yeah, I used to watch these with a family member who passed away, it is sad. I used to wait to watch them, so that we could watch the new Ze Frank videos together. I love this channel, it is a fun channel.

  • @SteedRuckus
    @SteedRuckus 5 месяцев назад +9

    I really appreciate the effort put into the sound effects in the subtitles.

  • @thepleblian2079
    @thepleblian2079 5 месяцев назад +103

    Plants that have perfected the art of the money shot.

  • @BrunoCortina
    @BrunoCortina 5 месяцев назад +1

    This for me, is most likely the best channel on youtube. I can not imagine my life without trying to hold on my laugh while learning incredible facts about science, animals, plants and life and humor all in one. Thank you so much Ze Frank, you are unique!

  • @livingdecay2570
    @livingdecay2570 5 месяцев назад +1

    Might be 22hrs ago but I just saw this vid here now and its my birthday and home alone. Seeing that you have a new vid out is a great birthday present. Love ya work brother...
    And thankyou for letting it pop. I'm not sure I could have dealt with it otherwise ;)

  • @its_deer
    @its_deer 5 месяцев назад +587

    imma call one of my friends a sphagnum today as a social experiment

    • @daorkimedes7076
      @daorkimedes7076 5 месяцев назад +32

      you had best tell us here how it goes!
      ...
      please and thank you!

    • @samnelson2343
      @samnelson2343 5 месяцев назад +15

      Yes you gotta update us

    • @meria2082
      @meria2082 5 месяцев назад +10

      Leaving a comment cause i wanna see what happens

    • @TheTrueForbidden
      @TheTrueForbidden 5 месяцев назад +8

      must tell us how it goes

    • @burbanpoison2494
      @burbanpoison2494 5 месяцев назад +33

      Enunciate very carefully.

  • @Kiyoone
    @Kiyoone 5 месяцев назад +27

    Those plants are just amazing. Any NASA space engineer would be jealous of those incredible mechanisms that they use. Nature is just unbeatable and humans still have so much to learn.

  • @CallumPRobertson
    @CallumPRobertson 5 месяцев назад +246

    I remember as as a kid (and mega-nerd) I found a patch of Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera, invasive in the UK, evil) by the local river.
    I invited all the local kids round to see them - they weren't impressed (again, I'm a mega-nerd) - so instead of me showing them the cool seed dispersion... I got one of them to poke the seedpod - and being spring-loaded (the outside of seed pod curls up rapidly and fires the seeds up to 7 meters apparently)
    Well, the kid got a fright and pushed me in the river.
    Definitely worth it. =D

    • @jayde4872
      @jayde4872 5 месяцев назад +8

      What were the other kids’ reactions?

    • @ItsAllNunya
      @ItsAllNunya 5 месяцев назад +22

      "Invasive in the Uk, evil" got me cackling AND noddin my head in agreement invasive plants are in fact a prime evil that cannot truly be fixed 😔

    • @S3lkie-Gutz
      @S3lkie-Gutz 5 месяцев назад

      we have them in western canada too, especially in roadside ditches and sloughs. evil lil bastards.

    • @onyxxninja3262
      @onyxxninja3262 5 месяцев назад +12

      mum! mum! some kid at school shot me with a plant!!

    • @muttthingy9908
      @muttthingy9908 5 месяцев назад +1

      i used to love popping them when i was a kid!

  • @jonkendall8378
    @jonkendall8378 5 месяцев назад +1

    You are an absolute comic genius, Ze! And an S-level champion for Mother Nature, too? TOTALLY a fan!!! :-D

  • @cindys2617
    @cindys2617 5 месяцев назад +1

    Unreservedly the best channel on RUclips.

  • @pavarottiaardvark3431
    @pavarottiaardvark3431 5 месяцев назад +41

    Broom plants pop their pods with such force that on a summer's day you can actually hear them cracking

    • @janelj54
      @janelj54 5 месяцев назад +14

      My friend's Ring camera kept getting triggered by exploding wisteria pods.

    • @dragoncubes1074
      @dragoncubes1074 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@janelj54 We had a huge wisteria across the front of our house. It would sound like kids throwing rocks. The seeds would wind up about 30 feet away, and when they were popping, you had to run from the driveway to the front door.
      My Dad took some wisteria pods to work and gave them to his co-worker, who left them on top of a filing cabinet and forgot about them. In about three weeks, they exploded, scaring the co-worker and making my Dad laugh. Thankfully no one got hurt.

  • @FrisbeeGorbeh
    @FrisbeeGorbeh 5 месяцев назад +551

    Today I learned that leaves could be jealous of flowers and try to copy them. I guess you could say they're green with envy 😎
    I'll see myself out

    • @t.c.2776
      @t.c.2776 5 месяцев назад +6

      🤣

    • @ethanpflederer3395
      @ethanpflederer3395 5 месяцев назад +29

      I guess you should leaf after that joke

    • @JustCallMeNaz
      @JustCallMeNaz 5 месяцев назад +3

      And never come back

    • @LindaC616
      @LindaC616 5 месяцев назад +13

      Ok, leaf, go where the wind takes you, but never forget your roots

    • @darkocelot7342
      @darkocelot7342 5 месяцев назад +4

      You could say they're green with envy but the ones showcased were anything but!

  • @Pren4573
    @Pren4573 5 месяцев назад +104

    Whenever Ze Frank says, stop it, after saying something that can be misconstrued, it’s like a college professor giving a presentation and they’re saying things that people laugh at 2:06

    • @thatdarnkitteh
      @thatdarnkitteh 5 месяцев назад +5

      He's talking to me. Sorry.

    • @JackDanyaKemplin
      @JackDanyaKemplin 5 месяцев назад +1

      When I was in college, my biology professor asked, "Does anyone know what capraphage means?" I said, "Eat shit!"

  • @VickyViolet
    @VickyViolet 5 месяцев назад +2

    Each and every sound effect he makes himself is comedy gold, it's sending me. 😂

  • @irocurseoxoff
    @irocurseoxoff 5 месяцев назад +1

    This one might be my favourite of the recent true facts vids. So good!

  • @FloridaMeng
    @FloridaMeng 5 месяцев назад +17

    Ze Frank I need you to know that I grew up watching discovery channel for the documentaries and before you I greatly missed their narration style. You are the adult version of my childhood and I couldn't imagine anything better. If anything happened to you I would riot.

  • @1961Lara
    @1961Lara 5 месяцев назад +40

    OMG…. I always click immediately when notified ZeFrank has a new video. They never fail to make me laugh out loud. He is a treasure!!!

  • @TheSkunkyMonk
    @TheSkunkyMonk 5 месяцев назад +32

    Is it time for Jerry to get a raise yet? Thanks for all the content never fail to make me laugh.

  • @RedactedATS
    @RedactedATS 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for popping it at the end. The relief! It's the most action I've had in years. I feel so much better now

  • @tainalorenz6767
    @tainalorenz6767 5 месяцев назад +1

    This so freakin’ awesome!!! Thank you ZeFrank!!

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 5 месяцев назад +44

    You had me at wild hairy petunia and creeping wood sorrow 😂

    • @FitzChivalryFarseer2
      @FitzChivalryFarseer2 5 месяцев назад

      The first an innuendo and the latter a band name

    • @SuziQ.
      @SuziQ. 5 месяцев назад +4

      It’s “creeping wood sorrel” and launches its seeds in a similar way to oxalis, another yellow flowered invasive.

    • @Erewhon2024
      @Erewhon2024 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@SuziQ. "Wood sorrel" is a common name for many, if not most, species of Oxalis, at least in English speaking areas. It is not similar, it is identical.

    • @jadewalker2443
      @jadewalker2443 5 месяцев назад

      Those were the names of the two bullies at my middle school.

    • @SuziQ.
      @SuziQ. 5 месяцев назад

      @@Erewhon2024 ,
      We have many varieties of oxalis, some cultivated, but many are weeds. We don’t get the wood sorrel that looks like the common oxalis weed (probably because we don’t have much land that counts as typical forest).

  • @michaelccopelandsr7120
    @michaelccopelandsr7120 5 месяцев назад +14

    A new True Facts! All is right with the world. Thank you, Ze!

  • @sammaguire5787
    @sammaguire5787 5 месяцев назад +24

    Jerry really keeping his head down this episode

    • @castonyoung7514
      @castonyoung7514 5 месяцев назад

      I haven't even heard of Jerry in a long time, like multiple episodes. Did he get fired?

    • @Allie-w1l
      @Allie-w1l 5 месяцев назад

      @@castonyoung7514 No he was scolded a couple of times in the previous episode.

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart 5 месяцев назад

      @@Allie-w1l - Are you SURE he's okay? Sometimes ZeFrank sounds............ _dark._

  • @rugvedkulkarni1593
    @rugvedkulkarni1593 28 дней назад +3

    6:14 the jacket surrounding the seeds of a creeping wood sorrel are called an "Aril"

  • @louisewoolify
    @louisewoolify 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you sooo much for putting this out. You do keep some of us sane!!

  • @brianlammers9283
    @brianlammers9283 5 месяцев назад +6

    Always a treat when Ze Frank uploads a video.

  • @SeeingSebastian
    @SeeingSebastian 5 месяцев назад +31

    The explosion sound effects are killing me😂😂😂

  • @malraj427
    @malraj427 5 месяцев назад +138

    "Some plants are shady" 😂

  • @megan5867
    @megan5867 5 месяцев назад +1

    Just watched this yesterday. I'm already back. There isn't enough Ze Frank content out there. I need more, constantly.

  • @danielemur
    @danielemur 5 месяцев назад +1

    The sound design for the slow-mo shots was **chef’s kiss**

  • @TheCappuccino04
    @TheCappuccino04 5 месяцев назад +12

    DROP EVERYTHING BABE NEW ZEFRANK UPLOAD ABOUT PLANTS

  • @MrGeekFreek
    @MrGeekFreek 5 месяцев назад +85

    Death by exploding plant seeds is an episode of CSI I want to see.

    • @kolbywilliams7234
      @kolbywilliams7234 5 месяцев назад +11

      Sandbox tree.

    • @brettbaker8497
      @brettbaker8497 5 месяцев назад +8

      "Murder weapon?"
      "Well, we think he deliberately planted these exploding seeds near the---where are you going?"
      "Nope. Nope. I'm out."

    • @anderporascu5026
      @anderporascu5026 5 месяцев назад +1

      Apparently death by chocolate is a dime a dozen according to police records.

    • @chezmoi42
      @chezmoi42 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@kolbywilliams7234 Oh, thank you, that's new to me! And a good suspect.

    • @ericpresler3935
      @ericpresler3935 5 месяцев назад +1

      CSI: Gotham

  • @averieldeathrider8407
    @averieldeathrider8407 5 месяцев назад +12

    Love how he mixes funny commentary & educational at same time 🤣🤣⚰️⚰️

  • @fluff926
    @fluff926 5 месяцев назад +1

    One of the most fascinating episodes yet

  • @nextos
    @nextos 5 месяцев назад +1

    always love the songs at the end

  • @robbierobot5799
    @robbierobot5799 5 месяцев назад +4

    "I'm not readyyyy ...." along with many others ... lmfao. This was brilliantly entertaining ... thank you, I needed a good laugh.👏

  • @crazywilly85
    @crazywilly85 5 месяцев назад +36

    6:58 I'm not ready 😂

  • @ABronyNamedBurnie
    @ABronyNamedBurnie 5 месяцев назад +14

    The scientists making those biodegradable seed spinners to better spread plants are God damn heroes as far as I'm concerned

  • @Ghost-Mama
    @Ghost-Mama 5 месяцев назад

    Narration was 100% on the nose for me. Very entertaining! 🌱🍃

  • @toniatalley1977
    @toniatalley1977 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love your channel so much. You always make me lol for real. So fun. I love learning and this just makes it so much more fun