→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 Why a Bakers Dozen is 13 Instead of 12 https://youtu.be/UPDV0POS5d0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Why Vampires Can't Exist... and 9 Other Amazing Facts https://youtu.be/cDlat4Pdd4U?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO In this video: Medicine balls, for those of you who haven’t been to a gym or never accidentally kicked one thinking it was like a soccer ball (true story), are heavy weighted balls coming in a variety of sizes and weights (with the biggest we could find ringing in at a whopping 150 pounds) with a diverse range of fitness applications. But why exactly are they called medicine balls when, at its core, a medicine ball is just a big heavy ball? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/04/called-medicine-ball-just-heavy-ball/ Sources: http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/fitness/equipment/an-introduction-to-the-medicine-ball.html http://ragehealthandfitness.com/the-medicine-ball-a-history-of/ http://www.livestrong.com/article/160928-why-is-it-called-a-medicine-ball/ http://zbtherapy.com/medicineBall.html http://www.performbetter.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/PBOnePieceView?storeId=10151&catalogId=10751&pagename=115 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/06/us-fitness-medicineballs-idUSKCN0HV0O020141006.......0 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4YXTQxelfmYC&pg=PT80&dq=medicine+ball+history&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IEzjVPPRJ-u67gbYsIDgBA&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=medicine%20ball%20history&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Z-rVa50Vx94C&pg=PA78&dq=Hieronymus+Mercurialis+medicinal+gymnastics&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Rk3jVMOsEbHU7Aa1z4HwDg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAQ#v=