10 Facts That Sound Like BS, But Are True (Part 6)

[@Ninja_Geek]

1:56 Ok, real talk. A town almost entirely inhabited by dolls that represent people who have died sounds like the plot to a seriously creepy horror story.

[@turntsnaco824]

Yeah, has a bit of a Wicker Man vibe to it. Not super parallel but I could see it pulling from that to embellish it.

[@craigstoner2632]

Its an episode of the twilight zone, except its a planet/asteroid

[@Mykil47]

Saying I put myself through Spartan torture sounds a lot better than alcoholism.

[@AKATenn]

yep i agree with the spartans, it's really a poision, just one that doesn't last long enough to prevent people from drinking it anyway... and while you can drink enough of it to kill you, it takes more than most can before they pass out...

[@Mykil47]

Hadwell they don’t call it alcohol poisoning for nothing.

[@mynameisgladiator1933]

@@Mykil47 It's wine. That's funny. And their point was to show their youth what drunkeness looks like.

[@TheWolfsnack]

pleashe...pleashe...don't make it stop.....

[@crustycurmudgeon2182]

I torture myself with beer.

[@thompson223]

I love that the kids parents decided blowing up the basement was unacceptable so told him to go in the shed 😂 This is my favourite list you've made for me, well done guys!

[@jerrypratt813]

(after losing arms in tug-of-war) ‘ ‘Tis but a scratch.’

[@garybarnes4169]

@2:00 I couldn't concentrate on what you were saying, as I couldn't make sense of a map where some sadist has made the sea white and the land blue.

[@mlfeathers7527]

Same!

[@xanbell7723]

OH it irked and distracted me to no end.

[@illbeyourstumbleine]

I was like "why is the dot for that town in the middle of the water?" Then I realized and was like "What freaking idiot thought this was okay?"

[@NyanyiC]

I just couldn't figure out what was going on on that image 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@tabby73]

Same!

[@Aeihd]

As for the nuculear reactor kid , He wasn't stealing tires. the neighbors thought he was. He realized the thing became too dangerous and he was trying to get secretly get rid of it.

[@gabrielkay6866]

"Disembodied snake head can bite you" Every Texan ever already knows this. Just in case.

[@projectmayhem6898]

The stars at night are big and bright ...

[@vontosmagicmurderbag2611]

People in other states don't know this because they don't go around cutting the heads off snakes like some kind of barbarians.

[@wordforger]

Anyone who's ever seen someone decapitate a snake knows this. Not everyone has.

[@happyhappyjoyjoy2154]

Yeah ..so do most normal thinking adults.

[@happyhappyjoyjoy2154]

@@vontosmagicmurderbag2611 yes we do and yes we do ...copperheads..rattlesnakes..chop chop

[@TheMerryWolf]

SNAKES ARE VENOMOUS, NOT POISONOUS!!! Except for this one weird species that actually is poisonous. Remember: if it bites you and you die, it's venomous; if you bite it and you die, it's poisonous.

[@vontosmagicmurderbag2611]

I feel like if you bit a cobra you'd probably die.

[@SuperCassieC]

The Merry Wolf TIL thanks

[@Stephengirty]

@@vontosmagicmurderbag2611 as long as the Cobra was still alive and awake I think that would be the outcome. But again it would bite you and you would die.

[@Cypresssina]

@@vontosmagicmurderbag2611 😂

[@ferociousgumby]

I'd say it's p -

[@The_Mimewar]

I laughed out loud at the phrase”indulge in melancholy”

[@timothyissler3815]

Simon: mentions the weight of clouds. *Me: looks fearfully out my window at the partly cloudy sky.*

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

Me: *sees the down pour outside* Nope.

[@willisverynice]

Are you also afraid of air? the weight of all the air above you is significantly higher than that of a cloud.

[@timothyissler3815]

@@willisverynice OH, NO!!!

[@francislong5114]

Wow, A, Airbus A380 weighs like the cloud it flies through..

[@bluemoon1115]

*cries in Washington state *

[@pamelamays4186]

Torture by wine? I'll just give myself up now to my Spartan over lords.

[@johnswabb9769]

Yessss!!! Love this series guys, keep em coming!

[@jackbarnhill9354]

One of the pictures of the nuclear Boy Scout is in fact a different boy who built a fusion reactor at 14 in a college lab.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

I think you mean a fission reactor, since building a fusion reactor (in terms of a sustainable reaction) is something which is still outside of the realm of reality despite literally billions of dollars being thrown at the problem (although it does appear as though we're getting close).

[@gerry5712]

@@melkiorwiseman5234 You can actually build a small scale fusion reactor rather simply, it's called a Farnsworth fusor. It uses electrostatic confinement and can fuse deuterium. It's nowhere near the point where you can extract any useful energy, but you can generate neutrons demonstrating that you are actually fusing hydrogen.

[@jamesrundle5007]

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[@jamesrundle5007]

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[@douglasbubbletrousers4763]

@@gerry5712 Invented by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth?

[@Legitti]

Wine and Spain. Love it.

[@JJ-ub3mw]

Anyone looking for a personal hermit, I am available.

[@ThomasinaJefferson-ke7xs]

Hired

[@crazypaul1961]

What? Why? I'm sorry I laughed.

[@crazypaul1961]

I'M Michelle

[@thedelapo1606]

Facts

[@JTC91]

This is one of the better list/fact channels. I’m glad they upload videos often

[@heights3091]

I agree! But don’t take everything he says for granted.

[@TheWolfsnack]

@@heights3091 indeed...and then there is the annoying factor...

[@turntsnaco824]

@@heights3091 They clearly don't take this content for granted. Unless you mean they should take everything he says with a grain of salt.

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

I want to be a druid Hermit living in a rich guys yard receiving Wine torture.

[@crustycurmudgeon2182]

I want to be your neighbor in the rich guy's house next door.

[@alex-po2lr]

Dude who got bit by the rattlesnake got what he deserved. Venomous snakes (really all wild snakes in general) want you to leave them alone just as much as you want them to stay away from you.

[@Paulafan5]

Uh, that's not true of black mambas and Rattlesnakes can be highly aggressive too.

[@dingusdingus2152]

The most aggressive snakes I've encountered are cottonmouth/water moccasins (agkistrodon piscivorus), which are native to the American south. They will attack unprovoked and chase people in a menacing fashion. Rattlesnakes by contrast are very timid and will always attempt to escape. They will only coil and strike if they feel they have no other option. 90% of all recorded snake bites in males occur on the face and forearms, and are a testosterone induced injury caused by dudes macho posturing in front of their buddies. Over 90% of snake bites to females occur on the feet and ankles, which is what is to be expected if a girl or woman was just walking along minding her own business and didn't see the snake...

[@johnopalko5223]

I already knew about the biting dead snake, the doll village, and the inter-species surrogacy; the rest were new to me. Thanks! Gotta wonder about baby-jumping, though...

[@MudderFukker-m6g]

“Wine or the rack?” ... Cake or Death?

[@xanbell7723]

TEA OR CAKE OR DEATH

[@joselara371]

Tea

[@RoadPickle]

My stepfather killed a few Mojave Greens (rattlesnakes in California) in front of my. The bodies writhed for nearly an hour and the heads still tried to strike. I was 10 years old and it was terrifying

[@PointyTailofSatan]

David Hahn did NOT make a nuclear reactor. All he did was collect a small amount of various radioactive materials. most of which were pretty much harmless. A very small amount was Americium, a highly radioactive synthetic element gathered from old fire detectors. But I suspect at best the amount he would have had totaled the size of a pin head, if that, since the amount of AM in a fire detector is so small, it's literally microscopic.. It would be dangerous if ingested or it's dust inhaled though, as would any radium compound gathered from glowing watch hands. Thus the somewhat overreractive (I made a funny!) response of the government to clear it up.

[@Bayougirl78]

I got to study a bit of the inter-species surrogacy when I did an internship during undergrad, at a facility that studied endangered species. Lions were used as surrogates for endangered tiger species. Quite interesting, actually.

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

LOVED the video.... please do one every week. I find them very interesting..... cheers.

[@not2busy]

Yes, I fully appreciate the torture by wine. Received a few of those last xmas. Another great vid. Keep 'em coming.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

Note to self: Never be the front person in a tug of war :/

[@DDonSon1]

You are amazing, thank you for including both forms or measurement.

[@ccreutzig]

Agreed. Although giving a rough estimate rounded to one significant figure in one unit system and then converting it to more than two digits in another system is purely ridiculous.

[@DDonSon1]

@@ccreutzig It was a thank you, nothing more nothing less. I wish you all the best

[@xXtenseXx]

The spanish tradition is so safe for babies, you should research romanian orthodox baptisms gone wrong. They basically waterboarding small babies, and ofcourse when everything goes wrong from time to time and the baby needs cpr just to survive the priests say the parents do not have enough faith.

[@terriehumphries6028]

Gonna travel across the world so a guy dressed up like a devil can jump over my kid and this is suppose to save my baby from original sin? Wow. Lol

[@jaycliinuy4627]

5:38 Any horror sub box might, most likely fictionalised ones, of course. Venom, not poison.

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

True. Most snakes are venomous but there are a couple that are poisonous.

[@Justin.Franks]

2:00 Stupid maps with blue land and non-blue water.

[@thenekom]

I would totally let a hermit live in my yard for my amusement.

[@105C09]

This is a well done, interesting forum. Thanks so much for making learning enjoyable.

[@Silentgrace11]

I was taught that about snakes when I was a kid. Whenever my older cousins killed a snake (usually on accident with a mower or some miscellaneous crud we were throwing at each other) we would make sure to steer clear of its general area until the next day, and only then give it a proper burial or do whatever it is they’ve planned on doing with it (I was the youngest in the family, so I usually did not bear witness to whatever happened to the miscellaneous dead animals in the yard ^^”)

[@playingwithkittycat8361]

1:10 challenge accepted- since you’d be in your home, you just wont know I’m brushing my teeth and washing

[@allandavis8201]

Another great list, thank you.

[@renatagross5959]

I always enjoy your videos. 👏🏾

[@crazypaul1961]

Michelle here... I'm impressed! I really love the topics. I really learn something new .

[@laurametheny1008]

Fascinating! Thanks🐇

[@amyosgood6044]

Thanks Simon! I love these video's!!!!!

[@midorialexandros]

PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE

[@TheWyldesidewithEricClark]

I play golf at The Hermitage often...I haven't seen any long-bearded old men ranting and raving, but I have seen long-bearded goats keeping the rough trimmed and dodging errant shots. And now I have a conversation starter.

[@ChrissieBear]

10:00 Actually, wine was watered down throughout human history. Ancient and medieval wine was actually far more alcoholic and quite nasty (in every sense of the word). So yeah, those helots probably did mind.

[@juliaconnell]

"needless to say the automatic energy merit badge has been banned from the Boy Scouts" 😂😂😂

[@nelsonricardo3729]

Simon, we need to talk about significant digits.

[@pamelamays4186]

It's all fun and games until someone loses an arm!

[@mlfeathers7527]

Pamela Mays 😩

[@greyjedi7005]

This comment is under rated

[@denisenova7494]

Hrhr apparently a lot of people are into Spartan toture. „Toture me like a Spartan, baby!“ sounds kinkier than „Let‘s drink wine!“.

[@eyeswideopen2536]

10 Toptenz back to back

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

3:54 I got an ad for surrogacy before this started. Surrogacy would be something I've never googled or looked anywhere about, nor do I recall ever getting an ad on this previously. I am a 45 year-old male who has been celibate for 13 years. So this was a strange, "What would possibly generate this ad in google's algorithms?" When I got to 3:54, part 7 was about "interspecies surrogacy." Did anybody else have this happen???

[@Stephengirty]

10:49. He was moving his reactor in to his car and someone called the cops on him saying he was stealing tires. He was not acctually stealing tires.

[@LoveratLoves]

Always fabulous !

[@davidsan9654]

Okay I can't be the only one who laughed out loud when he mentioned people jump over babies for fun

[@gstu2166]

Atomic energy merit badge was replaced by nuclear science and when I took it we talked about how nuclear weapons worked and were made. So... yeah.

[@Anonymous-ux3tu]

I watched this a year ago and it still constantly comes up on suggested video.

[@kenxclout]

The first one tho 😂😂😂 wtf

[@Heyitsaddie23]

This would be the perfect april fools video topic haha

[@marianpizeno8511]

VENOMOUS...not poisoness! Snakes are venomous! (Sorry... It drives me nuts! Lol)

[@JadeyCatgirl99]

Don't apologize, you corrected someone who was wrong in a non-rude manner. We all need a little help sometimes.

[@marianpizeno8511]

@@JadeyCatgirl99 thank you. :)

[@dingusdingus2152]

Poisonous. Misspelled words make me nuts lol

[@greenkoopa]

Have you been to the Cloud District? Oh, who am I kidding - of course you haven't 😋

[@ianpage2509]

Actually I have. I got drunk and I took the arrow to the knee.

[@projectmayhem6898]

Did you see a dog out there?

[@lnorman79]

I'd be a lot happier and a lot warmer with a belly full of mead. ohhh and NO LOLLYGAGGIN

[@Kerosene.Dreams]

Wine can be pretty gross.

[@runarandersen878]

The nuclear reactor was my favorite :)

[@cloudie_eye]

Venomous !!!It is a venomous snake, not poisonous…

[@darkamora5123]

Lol since we are adding corrections...a kilogram is a unit of mass not a unit of weight! There is no direct conversion between kilograms and pounds(without mentioning the gravity constant). A kilo is a kilo no matter where it is but weighs 2.205 pounds on the surface of the earth (1 g)and only 0.352 pounds on the moon (0.16 g). The metric measure of weight is units of force, or Newtons not kilograms.

[@cloudie_eye]

Darkamora accountability👍🏼

[@ccreutzig]

@@darkamora5123 Actually, the pound is also a unit of mass. Since the US is cryptometric (following international standards, such as the Paris kilogram when that was used, but using fixed conversion factors), it has been defined to be 0.45359237 kg. And then there is pound force, lbf - but there is also a lesser known metric equivalent, the kgf, kilogram force. As you would expect, 1kgf is about 9.81N on most places on earth.

[@benangel6831]

All l remember of earning the Atomic Energy merit badge was how the "scram" function operates to shut down a plant in the midst of a meltdown. I don't remember the requirement to build a functional nuclear plant as part of my Eagle Scout project...

[@sparkplug1018]

Yeah I kind of figured the requirement was along the lines of having an understanding of how a reactor functioned. Or atomic bomb I suppose. Not sure exactly what that kid was thinking.

[@laurakuhn8743]

The entry about the Cloud really amazed me.

[@LinguarumFautor]

Atomic Energy is still a merit badge. A heavily supervised one without a practicum.

[@robertmarra1341]

it was technically discontinued since it was renamed Nuclear Science in 2005

[@kaigraham1287]

no don't not another glass of wine... you know what would be diabolical a cheese board

[@TheElusiveReality]

you have the voice of a bbc world radio reporter

[@bettynolo23]

That snake story is horrible! Poor man is so lucky😱

[@carbonfiber492]

Eileen Cullen how was it not know though I thought it was common knowledge

[@bettynolo23]

@@carbonfiber492 I genuinely had no idea that a snake could bite after being decapitated and then dump its venom in that bite. This is like the stuff of nightmares 😱 I'm so glad I live in Ireland, the weather here is too miserable for snakes.

[@wordforger]

On that whole snake thing, it's really no joke. I grew up in the country and my Mom dealt with several when I was a kid. You have to be just as careful with dead snakes as living ones because dead ones STILL MOVE. It takes quite a while for them to stop. So if you ever have to kill a poisonous snake, wait for it to stop moving when you poke it with a stick before trying to dispose of it.

[@SunsetSeekers]

What an interesting video!

[@silvahelmer1282]

The Atomic Energy merit badge was discontinued - but Boy Scouts can still earn a Nuclear Science merit badge. As far as I know my son did not have to build a reactor to get his.

[@wkdravenna]

Is there a transgender badge yet?

[@ToddWPerry]

He didn’t build a nuclear reactor, he built a breeder reactor, there is a huge difference between the two!

[@Cypresssina]

@Krok Krok I cared 😢

[@steveconrad1525]

@@xenon6 Yep! That story is a favorite of mine. I noticed only 2 of the elements were mentioned (Thorium-232 and Radium-226). No mention of Americium-241 (at least by name).

[@nunyabznss5866]

Breeder reactors are a type of nuclear reactor.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

....but did he get the Eagle award?

[@Mike-tg7dj]

Definitely soon WTF moments for sure.

[@tracerm6c]

hate to say this but you can still get the Nuclear Science badge in the scouts you have severely missed the mark. The requirements to earn the badge have changed as well as the curriculum covered during the class but its still a badge you can earn I know I got one and my brother too. My mother taught the class for years even after the reactor incident

[@dadoctah]

A cloud "weighs as much as 1.1 million pounds or 498,952 kilograms". Way to preserve the proper number of significant digits in that conversion, Simon!

[@jasonwebb1882]

There is a HUGE difference between poison and venom. The Rattlesnake is very much VENOMOUS and not poisonous.

[@Bayougirl78]

Yeah, that's a pet peeve of mine. So many people don't realize the difference between the terminology. If you die from it biting you = venomous. If you die from biting it = poisonous :)

[@salsylexhagen7423]

The Japanese doll lady makes the Guilty Remnants look sane.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Considering that Dr. Michio Kaku, astrophysicist at NYCU, made an atomic collider as a teen, the size of a football field, yes, I can believe a boy scout would make a nuclear reactor. And there was soooo much nuclear material out there!

[@stevenmartinek4419]

I was speaking with an unsavory gentleman who falsely informed me that Mr.Whistler was a wuss.I quickly corrected him by telling him of Mr.Whistler and the conflicts with combatants he faced and the expediency at which they were disposed of.This gentleman didn't believe me so I wished him the best of luck.After all,he's gonna need it.

[@rayb7917]

I grew up along the Texas, Oklahoma border and we were always told to either bury snake heads deep in the dirt or toss them into the fire.

[@RNAvirus]

I earned the atomic energy merit badge. While atomic energy has been discontinued, they did introduce nuclear science.

[@aaronhavens8167]

Tim Cordes most fun I had earning a merit badge. Got to go to Los Alamos. It was great.

[@RNAvirus]

@@aaronhavens8167 - That is sweet. I only go to go to a nuclear power plant. Sadly Sector 7G was closed that day.

[@jariolavilipponen3500]

For anyone thinking they would want to be a hermit, I've got a challenge for you. For the next month NO tv, NO radio, NO phones, NO social media of any kind and limited resources and human interactions. To pass the time you will have a small number of books of the educational or philosophical kind so you will sound smarter when somebody visits. And remember not to shower or change your clothes more than once. Still sound fun? I thought so...

[@IggyWon]

#4 Uh... Simon.. a cloud crashing down is called a Microburst and they're dangerous as hell.

[@BreadApologist]

Wine? Screw that, gives me the worst hangovers, id tell the spartans whatever they wanted.

[@jerelull2619]

The "token Hermit" one sounds so Monty Python-esque!

[@markrowland1366]

In Britten, if a cloud has too much moisture it usually snows. That snow melts as it reaches lower altitudes and falls to the ground as rain.

[@mikeedwards4436]

I would be acting like Burr Rabbit. Spartan what ever you do, don’t make me drink wink 🍷

[@hakimcameldriver]

Interspecies surrogacy was done in Australia over 35 years ago when camels were used to carry alpaca embryos. Camels cost 1/10 of the cost of an alpaca. Alpaca embryos cost 1/50th the cost of a live animal to import. Very cost effective.

[@roddoney7568]

I've seen a video of an alagators head chopped off and a guy poking at it and still tryes to bite.

[@Cypresssina]

I like the Victorian homeless/hermit solution almost as much as I liked Carlin's solution for it.

[@oliverguenther2955]

Well Biden, Harris and Pelosi need to take a few hundred illegals into their yards!🤭

[@christelheadington1136]

Hangovers are the torture.

[@bioLarzen]

How exactly does a 17-year-old student buy "thousands of lamps" without raising any kind of suspicion? LOL

[@pris0nergaming641]

While the major effects in humans from the Western Diamondback's venom involves blood as well as blood vessels, it may also induce neurotoxic effects, in which impairs the nervous system. Most U.S. Rattlesnake's primarily have proteolytic hemotoxic venom, which is a horrible toxin that damages tissues and destroys red blood cells. Along with severe pain, Rattlesnake bites usually cause blistering, skin discoloration, headaches, swelling, nausea and tingling to the head. Blood may appear in lips, gums, nails and as well as urine and stool.

[@TheDiplomancer]

I will say that undiluted Greek wine is NOT like modern wine. It HAD to be diluted to be safe to drink because it was so strong. Those prisoners probably weren't just a little drunk. Those people were pretty much poisoned.

[@Paulafan5]

Probably went blind.

[@BWPT.]

Learn something new every day! There is a Hermitage Road in my home town which would imply there was a Hermitage down there somewhere. I am a big fan of local history so that's given me something to do for a while :)

[@MrEsMysteriesMagicks]

Yeah, okay, so they took away the Atomic Energy merit badge. Did they give the kid his Eagle rank? Just FYI, an Eagle project is supposed to be approved by a committee of adult leaders. What on earth were those idiots thinking approving something like that?

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

This was probably why that rule exists.

[@QueenCheetah]

TIL that the 'Japanese Garden' sight gag in "The Police Squad" series was pretty much a real thing back in the 1700's. ...huh.

[@hampusvh1]

There is no such thing as a poisonous snake. There are plenty of venomous snakes, though :)

[@kenxclout]

What is the difference?

[@aidanlevy2841]

Would you eat a snake from Chernobyl? or a Superfund site? or that eats poisonous frogs? If today is a day for pointless pedantic corrections on the internet then neener neener neener, you should have said "a naturally poisonous snake" I am so smart.

[@aidanlevy2841]

@@kenxclout Poison is ingested while venom is delivered. Poison is generally a species wide deterrent because the poisonous individual dies before the poison has any effect. Venom is both a weapon and an individual active defensive method because the venomous individual actively uses it.

[@Kerosene.Dreams]

@@aidanlevy2841 You are my hero on the netz today.

[@hampusvh1]

@@aidanlevy2841 If a snake eats a poisonous frog, then that poison will eventually be broken down by the snakes digestive system. You can then eat that snake, and of course, you wouldn't be in trouble. And I guess a snake from Chernobyl is not poisonous, but rather radioactive. Correct me if I am wrong please. I love to learn things :)

[@daniellewaibz3857]

SNAKES ARE VENOMOUS

[@manuellopez1956]

The Spartan wine ordeal? Where's the bad?