100 Amazing Facts - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep.225)

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Mental Floss

Mental Floss

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Amazing facts can come from all walks of life. The incredible facts in this episode of The List Show will amaze and astonish, like an old-timey circus, but with less risk of lion maiming.
The List Show is a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John busts through 100 facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND.
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@MentalFloss
@MentalFloss 4 жыл бұрын
If you enjoyed this video but thought, "Hmm, I wish there were roughly 400 more facts," today is your lucky day! John shares 500 Fun Facts in this episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2iQfJuqbr2hsMU
@kevinberg84
@kevinberg84 4 жыл бұрын
At 7:16 it should be 200 billion, not 200 thousand!
@Melinda8162
@Melinda8162 4 жыл бұрын
Glad to see this comment! I just found this channel, a couple weeks ago! And was wondering if you were still on as I'm seeing most that were posted 4-5 yrs ago! Love it!! Love it that you talk fast and move along.... can't listen to the ones who fool around with their personal inane ' comments ', or I should say ' opinions'!! 👍
@lornaduwn
@lornaduwn 4 жыл бұрын
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon.
@leonmoises647
@leonmoises647 3 жыл бұрын
i know Im asking randomly but does anyone know a trick to log back into an instagram account?? I was dumb forgot my account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me.
@archiedarwin7763
@archiedarwin7763 3 жыл бұрын
@Leon Moises instablaster ;)
@MrKgeigerjr
@MrKgeigerjr 10 жыл бұрын
I love these videos, and I am completely addicted to them.
@LauriNovak
@LauriNovak 10 жыл бұрын
I love that magazine.
@MrKgeigerjr
@MrKgeigerjr 10 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know they had a magazine.
@megashley1963
@megashley1963 10 жыл бұрын
Karl Geiger Jr The magazine actually came first.
@MrKgeigerjr
@MrKgeigerjr 10 жыл бұрын
Shut up Meg. Sorry I can't help myself. That doesn't surprise me, Meg Ashley. I've only known about Mental Floss for a couple of years. :)
@LauriNovak
@LauriNovak 10 жыл бұрын
I used to pick the mag up in airports when I was traveling.
@Tranquilmind89
@Tranquilmind89 10 жыл бұрын
John you just broke the first and second rule of Fight Club
@SliverCAN
@SliverCAN 9 жыл бұрын
"Canadians eat more donuts than any other country." Well, yes. Countries are hard to eat, especially compared to donuts.
@AnnaWebb37
@AnnaWebb37 8 жыл бұрын
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@henrybemis9956
@henrybemis9956 7 жыл бұрын
I looked it up and after exhaustive research, this is the correct answer.
@sciencenate
@sciencenate 4 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s a lame joke
@ScareSans
@ScareSans 4 жыл бұрын
Unoriginal, but still amusing.
@FreePalestine460
@FreePalestine460 10 жыл бұрын
I just learned that this guy wrote The Fault in Our Stars!
@aperson3868
@aperson3868 10 жыл бұрын
Finally, an episode for everyone.
@FireTalon24
@FireTalon24 10 жыл бұрын
Even for RT fans like us.(yes, I recognize the Michael RTAA image)
@bigbro44
@bigbro44 10 жыл бұрын
John Green has an amazing delivery and I quite enjoy his witty Mental Floss episodes.
@jasonhendrix413
@jasonhendrix413 10 жыл бұрын
"The milk yield of cows increases when they listen to relaxing music." Anyone who ever played Ocarina of Time already knew this to be true.
@thisguy9536
@thisguy9536 3 жыл бұрын
That was good lol
@tgapcharlie
@tgapcharlie Жыл бұрын
axyaxy
@AndreaMGC
@AndreaMGC 10 жыл бұрын
Wow John... you're not even going to tell us what toppings that pizza had? Talk about leaving out crucial information.
@soundaholixx
@soundaholixx 9 жыл бұрын
Wow, by the middle of this video i was wondering : Well damn, this guy sounds really like that cool dude from SciShow... I had no idea.
@kilgirlietrout
@kilgirlietrout 4 жыл бұрын
It's October 2020 and I can't imagine a day with no news on any level whatsoever
@DontMockMySmock
@DontMockMySmock 10 жыл бұрын
It is generally thought that "Humpty Dumpty" was originally a *riddle*, that's why it doesn't mention that it's an egg - that's the answer to the riddle. In any case, Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," which featured Humpty Dumpty pictured as an egg, pretty much cemented the idea so hard that no one thinks of it as a riddle any more 'cause the answer is even more obvious. As Humpty would say, "there's glory for you."
@ProfAwesomeO
@ProfAwesomeO 10 жыл бұрын
actually I believe there's historical evidence to humpty is a cannon
@dalawyah3364
@dalawyah3364 10 жыл бұрын
ProfAwesomeO as I've said in a comment above, there is more evidence that he wasn't that cannon. In summary, the timeline doesn't match up.
@Zineeta
@Zineeta 10 жыл бұрын
I was reading where Humpty Dumpty referred to a type of alcohol and a reference to drunks being clumsy.
@AndrewVelonis
@AndrewVelonis 3 жыл бұрын
I thought it was about a king (I forget his name) who happened to be a hunchback. I think Jon Solo has something on that.
@spottytongue
@spottytongue 10 жыл бұрын
7:21 So you found Alaska?
@Eric_D_6
@Eric_D_6 10 жыл бұрын
lol
@black-op345gaming5
@black-op345gaming5 10 жыл бұрын
No the premise of the book is finding A GIRL named Alaska
@spottytongue
@spottytongue 10 жыл бұрын
Far Superior I know, I read it. Just a joke :P
@black-op345gaming5
@black-op345gaming5 10 жыл бұрын
Well fuck
@williamsledge3151
@williamsledge3151 4 жыл бұрын
@@black-op345gaming5 r/woooosh
@tamerdp
@tamerdp 10 жыл бұрын
Welp. time to watch fight club again.
@jyjryu22799
@jyjryu22799 10 жыл бұрын
Right?
@ganjafi59
@ganjafi59 10 жыл бұрын
truuuuuuuuuuuuu
@thesoulofdark
@thesoulofdark 9 жыл бұрын
Humpty dumpy was a cannon if my memory serves me
@francejoshua5015
@francejoshua5015 9 жыл бұрын
HUMPY DUMPY COULD BE A BANANA DOU
@joshgadget
@joshgadget 10 жыл бұрын
This seems like it's a list of facts they discovered while researching other videos and couldn't use them there.
@kokoken1
@kokoken1 10 жыл бұрын
John, this 100 random facts video beats out any of the videos with a common theme. Do more of these, please.
@SoullessSHOES
@SoullessSHOES 10 жыл бұрын
This may be my favorite Mental Floss video yet. The editing was unintentionally hilarious, too - you could definitely tell which scenes were cut when John started laughing, which just made me laugh.
@cj-seejay-cj-seejay
@cj-seejay-cj-seejay 10 жыл бұрын
Why do you always say "Finally, I return to my salon to tell you..." when you've been in the sitting in the same room the whole episode?
@ladyi7609
@ladyi7609 6 жыл бұрын
Google "catchphrases". It'll do you a lot of good.
@TheGreyMartin
@TheGreyMartin 10 жыл бұрын
I love these videos, but what would be really cool (maybe best placed on the mentalfloss website?) would be some sources for these facts.
@MystycCheez
@MystycCheez 10 жыл бұрын
Why is fact 24 a picture of Einstein?
@MentalFloss
@MentalFloss 10 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I have no idea why/how that happened. Or how I didn't catch that...sorry! -mark
@Ninjanoodles78
@Ninjanoodles78 10 жыл бұрын
turn on annotations
@ImaCrackBaby69
@ImaCrackBaby69 10 жыл бұрын
Mental Floss You had one job mark....
@cbwasura
@cbwasura 9 жыл бұрын
Fluffles The Baby Cheetah huehuehue
@cbwasura
@cbwasura 9 жыл бұрын
thanks lol
@michaelmight468
@michaelmight468 10 жыл бұрын
WHOA YOU MENTION LOW CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID HEADACHES?! I have idiopathic intracranial hypertension and I'm really glad you even mentioned something obscure like that. It took me so long to get diagnosed because of how unknown it is, it took about the first 13-15 years of my life before getting multiple failing lumbar shunts and now I'm on my second brain shunt :P anyway it's nice to hear it talked about no matter how brief. Thanks :)
@Wired4Life2
@Wired4Life2 10 жыл бұрын
Why did you guys show Einstein when talking about how actor John Cazale's entire filmography consisted of Best Picture nominees/winners?
@九尾青
@九尾青 10 жыл бұрын
Turn annotations on.
@SidharthMakhija
@SidharthMakhija 10 жыл бұрын
Loved that Neil Armstrong fact!!
@666Tomato666
@666Tomato666 10 жыл бұрын
11 minutes of action in an NFL game? they must have stitched two games together to get so high
@tannergreening3331
@tannergreening3331 4 жыл бұрын
Bro your URL is insane
@reelillusionl123
@reelillusionl123 8 жыл бұрын
love the decoration around the numbers as they count up. lol
@voldlifilm
@voldlifilm 8 жыл бұрын
At around 1:32 when John said "Except" I automatically assumed the next word had to do with mongols.
@acetate909
@acetate909 7 жыл бұрын
That Bush Nixon fact was kind of amazing.
@dragonson04
@dragonson04 10 жыл бұрын
After you say "Thank you again for watching." And before you say "And as they say in my hometown...." you should say "May your brain stay minty fresh."
@Kandikane318
@Kandikane318 10 жыл бұрын
IM ADDICTED TO MENTAL FLOSS!!!! thank you mental floss for filling my head with random facts that I can spout out to my family and they can look at me like I am weirder than they thought I was!! haha
@themediaangel7413
@themediaangel7413 10 жыл бұрын
Here's my mind-blowing question: are there any creatures that have only one eye?
@reubenhowles
@reubenhowles 10 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mental Floss.
@Lazerblade95
@Lazerblade95 10 жыл бұрын
There's a problem around 3:30
@Roxor128
@Roxor128 10 жыл бұрын
Here's a couple of pieces of trivia if you do a "facts about currency" show: 1. Australian silver coins are actually mostly copper. The exact mix is 75% copper and 25% nickel 2. If you got rid of the US 1 and 5 cent coins, you could still make all multiples of 5 cents other than 5 or 15 with the remaining coins.
@emvandermeulen1908
@emvandermeulen1908 10 жыл бұрын
I have no proof of this, but there's no way the first thing purchased on the Internet wasn't porn.
@ajblake3045
@ajblake3045 10 жыл бұрын
Do you think it was a mail order thing though or like a membership to a porn site? Cause if it is a first "physical thing" I would think pizza could be right.
@ithina713
@ithina713 9 жыл бұрын
The first planned purchaee was actually weed between two different colleges. Technically, however, it was not ourchased online
@judemorrow2620
@judemorrow2620 9 жыл бұрын
Hi Mental Floss. I just want to clarify a fact posted on you're page. I am a huge Charlie Chaplin fan and the "fact of Charlie Chaplin entering a Charlie Chaplin Lookalike contest and losing isn't actually true - I came across a page in which someone actually mailed The Charlie Chaplin Society, which is run by his family, to ask if this story is true - the response was ... The only real reference I have ever seen to this story is in English newspaper clippings from 1918, when Mary Pickford was in London at an Anglo Saxon Club dinner, and told a story to Lord Desborough who repeated it to the press that Charles Chaplin entered a Chaplin walk contest at a fair in the US and came in 20th.This anecdote told by Lord Desborough, whoever he may have been, was quite widely reported in the British press at the time.There are no other references to such a competition in any other press clipping albums that I have seen so I can only assume that this is the source of that rumour, urban myth, whatever it is. So please Mental Floss - do a Charlie Chaplin Facts or Misconceptions show please :)
@lemondropslollipops
@lemondropslollipops 10 жыл бұрын
The app displayed a red gem on a blank screen. There were also words that said " I am rich"
@dingusthethird2384
@dingusthethird2384 10 жыл бұрын
Love you John Green and Mentalfloss!
@jyjryu22799
@jyjryu22799 10 жыл бұрын
No one wants 75 new jerseys. New Jersey is horrible (I say this as a person currently living in New Jersey)
@Th3D3vilishBoy
@Th3D3vilishBoy 10 жыл бұрын
You clearly haven't been to the much nicer places of NJ. I am going to assume you live in a large/major city in NJ rather than a rural or suburban area. They are wonderful places. Fun fact about NJ: It is the most densest state in the U.S., meaning that it has the most population per square mile. So, if the entire U.S. was as dense as NJ, the population would rise from 300 mil, to 4 bil (as of 2012) people.
@Neogin
@Neogin 10 жыл бұрын
It depends where and how you live. New Jersey is known for its notoriously high cost of living. However, New Jersey is not a joke, as many people make it out to be. Ignorance runs rampant.
@Th3D3vilishBoy
@Th3D3vilishBoy 10 жыл бұрын
I used to live in Trenton, and, basing the whole state off of the worse neighborhoods there, I can see why people think it is so bad. Now that I live in Bordentown, I can tell you that there is little to no crime in the city, and any crime in the city is something you can go to prison for about 4 years AT MOST, even though we are about 10 mins or so from Trenton.
@jyjryu22799
@jyjryu22799 10 жыл бұрын
Mighty_Devil _1 No I actually live in bergen county. It's very expensive, ridiculously so. I live in a rich racist town and it pisses me off. There are people that complain that their parents didn't get them limos for their birthdays.
@marwn6360
@marwn6360 10 жыл бұрын
i like new jerseys.. cause i had an old one..
@Samidooble
@Samidooble 8 жыл бұрын
"Pull it together, Oklahoma!" 😂
@DodderingOldMan
@DodderingOldMan 10 жыл бұрын
As a fan of QI, I knew a rather large number of these :P
@ilovemydog6847
@ilovemydog6847 4 жыл бұрын
DodderingOldMan Me too. Especially the O.M.G. fact.
@BBall0027
@BBall0027 10 жыл бұрын
"Something That Happened" does work for the "in your pants" rule.
@OKRolling
@OKRolling 10 жыл бұрын
I may be wrong but doesn't Q not appear on the periodic table either?
@ghuegel
@ghuegel 10 жыл бұрын
***** Good explanation. I would never have counted those temporary designations though... and a 3-letter symbol for an element is just right out! Side note - the shortest list of element symbols that contains all the letters (except Q & J of course), is: Ar, Bk, Cu, Dy, Fm, Ho, Lv, P, Sg, Ti, W, Xe, Zn
@EntityofDarkness696
@EntityofDarkness696 10 жыл бұрын
I think he meant that J has yet to appear.
@Rossmanproductions
@Rossmanproductions 10 жыл бұрын
Damn. When I saw the baby at 7:41 yawning, I yawned. Contagious indeed, Mr. Green. Contagious indeed.
@faeb.8597
@faeb.8597 8 жыл бұрын
@ Number 56: SO YOU COULD HAVE 75 OF ME
@kelpcrusader9840
@kelpcrusader9840 10 жыл бұрын
John Green wrote 'The fault in our stars'
@CottonDrifting
@CottonDrifting 10 жыл бұрын
Why did Czech census get picked on? There are 30x as many Jedi in the UK. There also more in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
@alexaliona
@alexaliona 10 жыл бұрын
IM A JEDI
@MarkiyC
@MarkiyC 10 жыл бұрын
I'd say it's because compared to those big countries, ČR has "only" 10 million inhabitants, therefore the total percentage of Jedis would be 1,5%. (In UK it was about 0,8%, Australia 0,37%, Canada 0,68% and NZ also around 1,5%)
@faithhoos9
@faithhoos9 9 жыл бұрын
I'm from New Jersey and I agree with you! Who wants 75 New Jerseys!?!?
@jackofallspades98
@jackofallspades98 10 жыл бұрын
Do another one of these sometime! I really enjoyed it!
@anaisroney102
@anaisroney102 10 жыл бұрын
Nice little "fault in our stars clouds" in the back... Really, it's a nice touch!
@tommykarrick9130
@tommykarrick9130 8 жыл бұрын
At 39, did anyone else think he was making a... "different" joke relating to "cheating" and "blowing?"No? Just me? Okay...
@julz7300
@julz7300 8 жыл бұрын
sub to my channel, comment done and ill do it back
@tomek6132
@tomek6132 8 жыл бұрын
+DJ Julian Holland I don't think mental_floss is the best page to run that racket
@GlowingAlien
@GlowingAlien 10 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah, Croatia did a thing!
@ClassicalStupidity
@ClassicalStupidity 8 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine scoring 8 grand for putting up a useless app?
@MarkSmith-lg7dk
@MarkSmith-lg7dk 8 жыл бұрын
pretty sure they lost half of it from people complaining not realizing it wasn't a joke
@nictheman144
@nictheman144 10 жыл бұрын
Glorious as always.
@brendanmeehan5370
@brendanmeehan5370 10 жыл бұрын
The whalers had a beautiful logo. Rip #NeverForget
@austint19
@austint19 7 жыл бұрын
I can't stop thinking about "Tony Starch" 😂😂
@IowaShihTzu00
@IowaShihTzu00 10 жыл бұрын
So you're telling me Einstein the same guy how said "any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl - is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves" never learned to drive himself?
@OptimusPhillip
@OptimusPhillip 10 жыл бұрын
That quote being on Einsteinian origin is actually debated
@garrettramsay16
@garrettramsay16 4 жыл бұрын
The Smartest Chimp He was too busy kissing girls
@rickrose5377
@rickrose5377 4 жыл бұрын
Regarding Fact #24: John Cazale who died tragically young, was also the great love of Meryl Streep's life.
@itskshitij
@itskshitij 10 жыл бұрын
I am 15. I used to have Myspace. Don't judge me okay? I'm not that current
@VentMagic102
@VentMagic102 10 жыл бұрын
What's a MySpace
@richielomas9564
@richielomas9564 10 жыл бұрын
That's weird, because I'm 21, and I consider MySpace "before my time"
@purplepurrs
@purplepurrs 10 жыл бұрын
Richie Lomas What? I'm 22 and back in school you just weren't cool if you didn't have one... I wasn't cool.
@richielomas9564
@richielomas9564 10 жыл бұрын
purplepurrs I vaguely remember a couple people having them in 7th and 8th grade, but around 8th and 9th grade is when everyone switched to facebook, and that happens to also be around the time I got interested in social media.
@itskshitij
@itskshitij 10 жыл бұрын
When I was 10, I'm not saying Facebook wasn't available, it was just more adult based at the time.
@thomaselbojensen8465
@thomaselbojensen8465 8 жыл бұрын
Actually - Niels Bohr did not have beer piped into his house... The Carlsberg Brewery owned a house, they awarded to people (scientists, artists, authors, ect.) as a free place to live, until death... The beer pipe was already installed.. :) Niels Bohr lived there for 30 years. :)
@DDazzle1
@DDazzle1 10 жыл бұрын
15? I'm 22 and no one I know has a MySpace account?
@DDazzle1
@DDazzle1 10 жыл бұрын
Also, "no one I know" must be the most incidentally synonym-loaded phrase, ever.
@Sakura11101
@Sakura11101 10 жыл бұрын
Dean Dazzle Because myspace isn't really a thing anymore. He meant that it was a thing, but 15 year olds were too young to remember it. Of course your friends don't have an account now; nobody does.
@Lt_Voss
@Lt_Voss 10 жыл бұрын
Dean Dazzle There are no synonyms in that phrase.
@Twosocks42
@Twosocks42 10 жыл бұрын
Sakura11101 To be fair, 22 might be just outside the range of when Myspace was still relevant to people using social media. Given that it peaked from '05 to '08, you would have to have been among the youngest users to have been using Myspace. someone 13-16 in the 07'-'08 range might have jumped straight to Facebook instead. But it's definitely outside the range for for a 15yr old. Myspace started a decline in '08-'09 and began to bottom out in '11, when the rebranded themselves as a social media for music (which seems to have salvaged the company, but made them no longer a relevant social media page for the average person).
@Sakura11101
@Sakura11101 10 жыл бұрын
Twosocks42 Eh, my 17 year old brother had one. He was 9, granted, but I get your point.
@FinnGerhardt
@FinnGerhardt 10 жыл бұрын
Good to see John Green back doing these! Loved some of the facts!
@FindMeInKurume
@FindMeInKurume 10 жыл бұрын
WHY ARE YOU TALKING SO FAST??!
@jyjryu22799
@jyjryu22799 10 жыл бұрын
*shrug* that's how he talks
@0ISanderI0
@0ISanderI0 10 жыл бұрын
because that way he can keep the attention of people who are used to browsing through the internet at a very fast pace. I am one of those people and I really appreciate the fast pace that John maintains. Although those last ones were a little too fast even for me
@TheYveltamate
@TheYveltamate 10 жыл бұрын
darude - sandstorm
@Jeseabell
@Jeseabell 10 жыл бұрын
Because he has a lot of information to go over in a set amount of time. They try to keep there videos under 15min I believe. And in Vlogbrothers unless educational they keep their videos under 4min.
@eleonorasmith4612
@eleonorasmith4612 10 жыл бұрын
Because he is AWESOME and AckAck's reason too :P He should make a video in one take.
@LamanKnight
@LamanKnight 9 жыл бұрын
4:48 They thought about naming our new territory "Bob," but most people said "We will have none of it." (I don't know if anyone gets that pun. Also, yes, I know that's not the correct way to pronounce Nunavut.)
@leeswain9241
@leeswain9241 9 жыл бұрын
lol
@charlesgoodman3358
@charlesgoodman3358 8 жыл бұрын
What is up on the slam on Fox News that was uncalled for
@GabeNewellDFTBA
@GabeNewellDFTBA 8 жыл бұрын
Nope, Fox News is awful
@kilrain
@kilrain 8 жыл бұрын
You at like you didn't know that Mental Floss is very left leaning.
@GabeNewellDFTBA
@GabeNewellDFTBA 8 жыл бұрын
kilrain I wouldn't say *very* per se, but definitely not right leaning at all.
@kilrain
@kilrain 8 жыл бұрын
Perhaps I should restate. The Mental Floss channel is actually pretty good at staying apolitical in most of it's videos and I appreciate that. I'll add that the occasional jab at Fox or the right is unnecessary but not intolerable, I'm pretty far from right wing anyway. That being said, it doesn't take much looking around to determine that the folks that run it are pretty left leaning. That's okay, I just don't want to watch political videos from them.
@yesanything4668
@yesanything4668 8 жыл бұрын
Fox, MSNBC and CNN don't get slammed nearly enough
@cookiemonster408
@cookiemonster408 9 жыл бұрын
haha when he said yawns were contagious I yawned
@SamsonCrosswood
@SamsonCrosswood 10 жыл бұрын
Fox bashing. That's original.
@KingdomOfDimensions
@KingdomOfDimensions 10 жыл бұрын
Honestly though, it never gets old.
@ranwolf76
@ranwolf76 10 жыл бұрын
always funny...
@bigge1495
@bigge1495 10 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is that other major news sources are just as bad if not worse, only difference being a liberal bias. I forgot which station blamed Ebola on the NRA... lol.
@ranwolf76
@ranwolf76 10 жыл бұрын
bigge1495 until you remember and provide evidence, I'm calling BS
@bigge1495
@bigge1495 10 жыл бұрын
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-nra-making-the-ebola-crisis-worse
@UFATCOW
@UFATCOW 10 жыл бұрын
Tom was the coolest friend I knew
@philip0320
@philip0320 10 жыл бұрын
Let's have another Bible shortage, during that period we would all be more intelligent.
@Trashboat444
@Trashboat444 10 жыл бұрын
can you show a correlation between being religious and how smart someone is tho?
@philip0320
@philip0320 10 жыл бұрын
jank1995 www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/14/religious-people-less-intelligent-atheists_n_3750096.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LynnHarveyNyborg-Atheism-IQ.svg "A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity": psr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/02/1088868313497266.full AND even economics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_economy.png If you say Wikipedia is not a reliable source, just see the references at the bottom.
@ViofThesea
@ViofThesea 10 жыл бұрын
Dont forget euphoric too
@IllegalTacos
@IllegalTacos 10 жыл бұрын
I sympathise with you but unfortunately I dont think so. People would seek out the remaining ones, and they would be preached to larger crowds.
@nessesaryschoolthing
@nessesaryschoolthing 10 жыл бұрын
I thought fedoras were just for sexist pigs and basement dwellers, why are atheists being lumped in with this should-be-dieing meme?
@flamedrag18
@flamedrag18 10 жыл бұрын
#26 not only that, but the prisoners complained about torture because they didn't like eating the insect like creatures and believed they were being force fed them....lobsters weren't stored well in cans back then due to no coating in the can, so they turned out black in the cans and supposedly tasted horrible because of it. lobsters were also so plentiful that they'd wash up on the beaches in the thousands after storms, local people even gathered them and used them for fertilizer in their gardens due to their high copper and phosphate content.....
@pepper70788
@pepper70788 10 жыл бұрын
As a nutmeger I'm offended. Go Whalers!!!
@wingwaabuddha
@wingwaabuddha 8 жыл бұрын
That ATM thing is partly true
@AlexWhiteAuthor
@AlexWhiteAuthor 10 жыл бұрын
You seem even more energetic than usual!
@cariboowho
@cariboowho 10 жыл бұрын
Happy 100th birthday Jonas Stalk
@helensheridan4360
@helensheridan4360 10 жыл бұрын
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon, at least according to a book I read once about the origins of nursery rhymes and fairy stories. I can't remember what it was called, I borrowed it from the library, but it was very interesting. Ring a ring a roses was about the black death and little miss muffet was about the daughter of a doctor who was well known at the time for reasons I can't remember.
@lillianbrewer6739
@lillianbrewer6739 10 жыл бұрын
Best one yet
@ClydeLeeM
@ClydeLeeM 10 жыл бұрын
Disney can't dodge the Pluto dilemma forever
@Th3D3vilishBoy
@Th3D3vilishBoy 10 жыл бұрын
Sure they can!
@nickgardell8128
@nickgardell8128 10 жыл бұрын
Disney can do what they want they basically own every cartoon character on tv right now
@nickgardell8128
@nickgardell8128 10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for answering!!!!!!
@ericroddy8831
@ericroddy8831 10 жыл бұрын
What would happen if Pinnochio said "My nose will grow"
@koolfoolhost1
@koolfoolhost1 10 жыл бұрын
That MySpace one. This dude is accurate
@kylebeveridge4245
@kylebeveridge4245 10 жыл бұрын
I love the hockey slam on hartford
@greypeppermoose145
@greypeppermoose145 9 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOSH!!! The Beatles as the vulchers would have been the funniest thing ever.
@y_fam_goeglyd
@y_fam_goeglyd 2 жыл бұрын
Watch Dumbo. (I'm 99% certain it's that film.) They're in it. Not the Beatles, but a quartet of (almost) Liverpudlian vultures!
@llamalover3893
@llamalover3893 7 жыл бұрын
"How can these kids tell who their top 8 friends are? I dont have that many friends.
@mwregents101
@mwregents101 9 жыл бұрын
If Fox News did that today, it would be a vast improvement on their normally scheduled programming.
@apollicino1705
@apollicino1705 9 жыл бұрын
First time poster, long time listener.....ok, actually I just started watching mental floss because a friend just told me about it. He won trivial pursuit when last we played and I'm not sure why he would arm an opponent with such arsenal as this program, but hey I'll take it. Anywho, first thing that comes to mind is "WOAH" this is a lot of facts, more facts then have been thrown at me since earning a worthless degree in 2009 (in 2015 I still find my brain wanting to learn and grow, your program fortunately is far cheaper and more entertaining than traditional education in the US). I dare say, it is a fine collection of factoids and if I may be so bold I would like to suggest an entree on Memory Athleticism. It will expose your viewers to brainy tips that will aid in the retention of this large assembly of facts of which you so abundantly share. Memory Athleticism is new to me, but thanks to very little effort on my part I am able to remember many things such as lengthy poetry like 'Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie' or lists of interests like the 25 top endangered animals on the planet or the states and capitals which I had since forgot from my elementary years (major shocker there). As someone who failed to thrive in the 'drill-as-many-facts-in-your-head-for-the-test-as-possible-until-we-cram-more-abstract-facts-for-the-next-test' type of educating in traditional schooling, I am glad that I finally stumbled on a simple and effective way to retain information as a young adult so I no longer have to waste my brain any further with this 'in one ear out the other' level of absorption (hows that for a run on sentence). With memory training I now feel confident in building a vast library of thoughts and facts in my mind which I previously thought to have a far smaller capacity. Thank you, and good day.
@Entropic_Alloy
@Entropic_Alloy 10 жыл бұрын
That gmail fact triggered my nostalgia and flashbacks just were jumping around my mind. My elementary school got us to make those old Garfield mail accounts. But it was kinda moot because very few people had internet capable computers back then.
@micahphilson
@micahphilson 10 жыл бұрын
I like that last one about the dollar. "You're so vain... you probably think this dollar's about you, don't you, don't you."
@RMoribayashi
@RMoribayashi 10 жыл бұрын
Even before cell phones existed, Amateur Radio operators in many areas have been able to make phone calls on their hand held radios. Unfortunately, since Hams are also banned from conducting any kind of business on the air, ordering a pizza with one is illegal.
@kayleeshook1593
@kayleeshook1593 10 жыл бұрын
Please do more of these kind...
@yeopazman
@yeopazman 4 жыл бұрын
The necktie is not from Croatia. It's technically a scarf, but ties are tied in a specific knot. Croatian women tied their scarves on their soldiers. Ties were inverted in the UK.
@EzAzAbc
@EzAzAbc 10 жыл бұрын
That tri force.... you have all my love sir.
@Vincisomething
@Vincisomething 10 жыл бұрын
Someone in our Chem class figured out the J thing, too. They said quote, "I got really bored."
@DrJimmy93
@DrJimmy93 10 жыл бұрын
LOL Thomas Edison looks like Gerard Depardieu!
@Th3D3vilishBoy
@Th3D3vilishBoy 10 жыл бұрын
You mean Gerard Depardieu looks like Thomas Edison since Edison was born before Gerard.
@leotaud06
@leotaud06 7 жыл бұрын
"For all we know he's a pterodactyl" lmao
@Dxs4all
@Dxs4all 10 жыл бұрын
I'm a college student, but I don't drink... I'm such a rebel.
@bfulks2001
@bfulks2001 9 жыл бұрын
that commercial was freaking ridiculously long
@dalawyah3364
@dalawyah3364 10 жыл бұрын
Love it! Great video!
@franciscoricci9924
@franciscoricci9924 10 жыл бұрын
So today there is no news , thank you very much . I will now leave you with Beethovens 5th symphony for the rest of the day
@maljaber3104
@maljaber3104 8 жыл бұрын
I yawned when he said yawning number 59
@gwynnesmith604
@gwynnesmith604 8 жыл бұрын
I yawned reading this comment.
@pndr
@pndr 10 жыл бұрын
in John Green we trust
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