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Why Do Mexican Jumping Beans Jump? (2016x176)


Fecha de emisión: Ago 25, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Who Invented the Sporting "Mexican" Wave? https://youtu.be/pbxeAUFMYmY?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Why Do Olympians Wear Colored Tape? https://youtu.be/sHs-TMXk5PA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: Not actually a bean at all (beans being seeds from the family Fabaceae, also known as Leguminosae), the Mexican Jumping Bean is the seed pod of a shrub called Sebastiania pavoniana that has been implanted with larva from the Laspeyresia saltitans (also called Cydia deshaisiana) moth. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/mexican-jumping-beans-jump/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia_deshaisiana http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/UCM297627.pdf http://www.beansthatjump.com/life-cycle.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_jumping_bean http://www.britannica.com/animal/Mexican-jumping-bean-moth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_vulgaris https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MexicanJumpingBeans.jpg

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