You may have heard the myth before that you are physically taller in the morning than at night. This is actually true. But why? In the morning you are about 0.2 inches taller than at night. This is because the discs in your spine have been relaxed all night and able to spread out. Then…
You’ve probably said it to anyone walking out to perform on a stage… “break a leg!” But why are we wishing this awful harm as a form of good luck? Turns out the term has nothing to do with physical harm at all. It goes back to the old days of stage performing crossing the…
Another Olympic themed Mundane Mysteries for you! There have been a few brand new events added to this year’s Summer Olympics like skateboarding, surfing, and a few others. But I was wondering if there were any events they’ve gotten rid of over the years. There are, and there’s definitely a few I feel they should…
I started wondering this after seeing Xander Schauffele win gold for the U.S. in golf last week. Did his caddie get a medal too? He did not. But that made me wonder do any coaches in the Olympics get medals or ANYTHING? So Olympic coaches do not get official medals from the International Olympic Committee…
While watching all the swimming, diving, and water polo in the summer Olympics this past week you’ve probably wondered at some point “how much water does it take to fill that thing?” An Olympic pool has about 2.5 million liters of water. This is enough to fill up 8,200 bathtubs. That’s A LOT of bubble…
If you watched even a few minute of the Summer Olympics coverage you’ve probably noticed that despite it being 2021 right now everything still says “Tokyo 2020”. Obviously the games were postponed last year due to the pandemic. But why didn’t they change the year? The International Olympic Committee decided to keep everything as “2020”…
If you’ve been watching any of the diving events in the summer Olympics you’ve probably noticed one interesting thing that every diver does. They shower in between dives. But why?! I thought it might have been to wash the chlorine and chemicals off? But that’s not it at all. The pool water is very cold…
Let’s keep the Olympic theme going for today’s mystery… how deep are the pools in the Summer Olympics? The regular swimming pools for the swimming events in Tokyo are almost 10 feet deep. Pretty standard. The diving pools which obviously need to be deeper are between 10 and 16 feet depending on the event. The…
Keeping with our Olympics theme for Mundane Mysteries today’s question… what happens if there is a tie for gold? This obviously doesn’t happen that often since a lot of the timed events are decided by a tenth of a second, but it does happen. So they have to have a system for it. Which they do.…