Go to https://buyraycon.com/brainfood for 15% off your orde→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: How Did They Get the CGI in the 1993 Jurassic Park to Look So Good? https://youtu.be/l4UuQxjFpfU What Function Does Natural Aspirin Serve in Plants? https://youtu.be/ejLFtO1ieRM In this video: If Daredevil has taught us anything, it’s that, while a closely guarded secret within the blind community, blind people inevitably all become superheroes after losing their sight thanks to their other senses being insanely enhanced. But when talking the real world, does this enhancing of one’s other senses really occur when the lights go out permanently? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/05/do-blind-people-actually-hear-better-than-sighted-people-or-is-this-just-a-hollywood-myth/ Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378595514000185 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626264-800-blind-people-tap-unused-brain-to-hear-better/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-28853788 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040723093712.htm http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superpowers-for-the-blind-and-deaf/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544930/ http://www.hearingreview.com/2015/04/blind-people-dont-always-hear-better/ https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/blind-hearing-way-forward-can-be-tradeoff https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15678166 https://www.signia-hearing.com/blog/do-blind-people-have-a-better-hearing/ https://theconversation.com/do-blind-people-have-better-hearing-102282 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325032 https://neuroscience.sta