Literal vs Reality English Compound Words Compilation!

[00:00:00]Elephant.

[00:00:01]Shrew. Elephant. Shrew.

[00:00:07]Elephant. Shrew.

[00:00:10]Not a shrew. Not related to elephants.

[00:00:14]More closely related to arvarks and manatees than to any shrew. Has a long flexible nose. It twitches constantly to smell. runs at speeds up to 28 kilometers per hour, making it one of the fastest small mammals alive. Brain coral. Brain coral.

[00:00:37]Brain coral.

[00:00:41]A coral that grows in a shape identical to the human brain. Grooves and ridges.

[00:00:47]The same topology, completely unrelated to neurology, grows at a rate of less than 1 cm per year. Some specimens are over 900 years old. Which hazel?

[00:01:02]Which hazel?

[00:01:05]Which hazel?

[00:01:08]A shrub that flowers in late autumn after every other plant has finished.

[00:01:14]The witch in the name comes from the old English Weiss meaning flexible or bendable not from witchcraft. Blood moon blood moon blood moon lit by every sunrise and every sunset on earth happening at the same moment. All that orange and red light from every horizon focused onto the moon at once.

[00:01:44]The moon turns the color of all the sunsets on Earth combined.

[00:01:50]Nobody planned this. It just happens four times in a row every 17 years. Fire walk. Firewalk.

[00:02:02]Firewalk.

[00:02:05]Practiced independently on every continent. India, China, Greece, Fiji, Trinidad. No contact between them. Same fire. Same bare feet. Thousands of years apart. Scientists explained it.

[00:02:20]Lightenrost effect. Low thermal conductivity of ash. Brief contact time.

[00:02:26]The physics are real. The explanation does not make it easier to take the first step. Every person who has done it says the same thing. The decision to step is harder than the step itself.

[00:02:42]Sword swallower.

[00:02:45]Sword swallower.

[00:02:49]Sword swallower.

[00:02:53]Not a trick. The sword goes in. The blade travels down the esophagus and enters the stomach. The gag reflex must be fully suppressed. Takes years. Swords have perforated esophaguses. Lacerated stomachs. The injuries are in medical literature. Sword swallowers have taught doctors more about the upper gastrointestinal tract than almost anyone else. They are the only people who regularly let doctors look inside a living one with something already in it.