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Hey there, I'm Mike, this is Mental Floss on YouTube, and did you know that Iceland has

a very specific yet useful dating app? The population there is pretty small, it's around 323,000 people, so the app ensures

that you're not related to the person you're dating using an Icelandic genealogy database

That's the first of many weird apps and games that you can download onto your smartphone that I'm going to tell you about today

Another bizarre dating app, Crowdpilot. You can stream your date via your phone to your friends, who can then help you with what

to say if things get awkward. Like say if you chose to stream your date via your phone to your friends

For when you can't get someone off the phone, there's Fake an Excuse, an app that plays

a sound like a siren or a doorbell or a killer bee attack so that you'll have an excuse

to end the call. Pimple Popper is a game in which you pop pimples on a cartoon face by squeezing your actual fingers

There are also themed versions of the game for Halloween, Easter, Christmas, and Valentine's Day

How romantic. A little less gross but similarly weird is Shave Me

You try to shave a beard without making the face bleed. There's even little bits of tissue for when you mess up

You can pay extra for a razor, tweezers, and shaving cream. Some of us are lucky enough to be able to play the not app version of this game

The description of the pointless game reads warning this game is pointless

All you do is hold your finger on the screen of your phone You get one point for each second making the game strictly speaking I guess not totally pointless a similar app is Hold On in which you press a button for as long as you can The high scores are for multiple hours

Another button pressing game, 30 Second Life. For this one you push two buttons as fast as possible

Pushing fast enough will allow you to become something cool, like a doctor or a millionaire

Or maybe John Green? We should be so lucky. The Punch a Hipster app is exactly what it sounds like

You get points for beating up cartoon hipsters. You can also upload photos of hipsters you know to punch

With Spirit Story Box, you can investigate the paranormal for just 99 cents

The app tells you words associated with paranormal energy it picks up from wherever you are

For example, one user went to a cafe and got the words shin, engineer, using chisel, crowbar

and harm neck. If you're looking for something less specific, you can download an EMF meter for your phone

will detect electromagnetic fields just like they do on ghost hunting shows

Equally spooky, the death app. You just put your name in and it'll tell you the day you are going to die and what of

I got 2015 mental floss production mishap, uh oh. Crack my screen is a prank app that makes it look like your screen got cracked

Which is probably fun like, one time. BowelMover allows you to track your bowel movements

Plus, it asks how many cups of water you've drank, whether your meals were gluten-free

and what the texture of your BMs were. Unfortunately, unlike the Pimple Popper app, this one doesn't have its own built-in Valentine's

Day mode, so you're gonna have to solve that problem on your own. And if BowelMover not enough you can download Places I Pooped the app that allows you to remember everywhere that you pooped For fictional toilet use there the iDrag Paper Game in which you unroll toilet paper as fast as you can This app also doubles as a simulation of what it like to be a cat

The Toothbrush Fitness app times your tooth brushing, while also displaying a 3D animation of where you should be brushing and for how long

CarMady is a simple app that helps you remember where you parked your car, but it's pirate-themed

so you don't park your car, you dock your ship and drop your anchor

Talking Tomcat has over 390 million downloads and all it is, is a cartoon cat who repeats your words in a weird voice

...repeats your words in a weird voice. For something a little more intimate, there was passion. It's now unavailable

You would pull the app up and leave it on your bed while having sex and it told you how good you were at it

On a scale from bad to perfect. Because why ask your partner when you can ask your phone

You might be wondering who would download an app like that. Probably the same people who would use the I am a man app

This allows cool guys to track the menstrual cycles of multiple girlfriends

And they can have a different password for each lady in case one of them catches them using it

It will look like they are the only one being tracked. And when they get dumped by their multiple girlfriends, they can download the Watching Cute Girl app

which contains video of a young woman who stares at you and sometimes says something nice

or asks if you want a hug. Speaking of breakups, Breakup Notifier was shut down in 2011

after getting 3.6 million downloads. The app would let you know when your crush had changed

their Facebook relationship status, but Facebook put their foot down and blocked the app

They cited irreconcilable differences as the cause iVoodoo is a virtual voodoo doll that you can stick pins in and yes before you ask you can customize the face You can set the iNap at Work app to make office sounds so people will think that you are working

when you're actually napping at your desk. The sound options include typing, mouse clicking, and stapling

You can even pick which sounds you want played and how often. CNN Money has named Zips Lite the number one dumbest app

All the app does is let you zip and unzip pants. Now that is literally pointless

It costs $4.99 to download the Cry Translator on iTunes despite its one-star rating

The app claims to be able to know why your baby is crying and what you have to do to

stop it. The Annoy-A-Teen app plays sounds at a high enough frequency that adults can't hear it

but it drives teenagers crazy. The app iFrenchKiss claims it can rate your kissing skills by just having you make out

with your phone. Please don't do this. Phones are covered in germs, especially if you're an avid Places I've Pooped user

Finally, I return to the salon, which is clearly in need of a new fireplace app, to tell you

that the Melon Meter app will charge you $2 to access its amazing technology that knows

whether a watermelon is ripe or not. For it to work, you have to hold your phone mic on a watermelon and then you knock on

the fruit until it tells you to stop. Then the app will let you know if the watermelon is okay to eat

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Let me know which of these apps you have downloaded. I would love to hear about your experiences

Maybe not if you download the places I pooped. My name is Mike Ragnetta. If you like my face, you can find more of it on YouTube at PBS Idea Channel

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