20 Random Facts You Need To Know

[@cherylcampbell9369]

In Oregon we all laugh at the exploding whale. Paul Linman was the reporter who covered the event. And the event nearly covered him.

[@sethbrooks8889]

I had his son Jason Linnman as a teacher, his son is a great guy, I'm sure his dad, despite having to see an exploding whale, was also a good man haha and of course his son taught me this fact; showed the video in class

[@1973Washu]

The beavers dropping from the sky on parachutes were probably thinking about changing their opinion of traveling by truck to be more favorable.

[@EddieVanAidan]

Wait Mental Floss is 20?! I had always assumed it was a John/Hank Green spin off. Would love a short video on your history 😄 Keep up the greatness!

[@MentalFloss]

I don't know if we're gonna make a video, but we did make a post on the site breaking down some of the history: www.mentalfloss.com/article/639307/mental-floss-facts

[@CrystalWilliamsoncoach]

20 years and still going strong! Thank you Mental Floss

[@fleetwoodmacadamianut]

Does anyone else put on Mental Floss videos to fall asleep to? I’ve heard the lobster fact like 30 times but never finished this video 😂

[@nyls1717]

Thank you for 20 years of learning and entertainment Mental Floss! Can’t wait for the next 20 years to come!

[@jamielancaster01]

I have a FACT: Mary the murderest elephant was hung on September 13, 1916 in Erwin Tennessee. She was Asian elephant and was part of the Sparks World Famous Shows circus.

[@oldschoolm8]

Please keep up the good work Mental Floss. I absolutely love random trivia, because I find the world and everything on it utterly fascinating!

[@marcrugani326]

Would love you to bring back the magazine!

[@fireaza]

Italian Futurists: *PROPOSES ITALY EAT RICE INSTEAD OF PASTA* Italians: *ANGRY GESTICULATING*

[@kevinogracia1615]

I remember when Mental Floss was a magazine. Three thumbs up.

[@Poptart21ish]

8:13 when she said Lego is the world’s most prolific tire manufacturer. My response: “A tire is a tire. And it counts. Rather it’s a spare, flat, bicycle or Lego!” 🤣🤣🤣

[@BbqMikeG]

I was selling a lobster when it peed out of it’s face. A lady by the counter lost it and yelled “It’s crying!” So she cried too. That’s how vegetarians are made.

[@lisalisalisalisa7]

Omg 🤣 I'm dyin! Ty for that lol! I needed it! Whew

[@marvintpandroid2213]

..... For lobsters, people.

[@amanussa9488]

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[@MattyKay7879]

For lobster people

[@TaunellE]

@@MattyKay7879 For Lobsters!

[@dstinnettmusic]

How many lobsters is a person worth?

[@gl15col]

Tv show "The West Wing" had an entire episode named "Big Block of Cheese Day" commemorating the cheese incident. It's a great episode.

[@LuisHuangSF]

A very memorable WW episode!

[@samiam619]

I disagree. They are ALL great episodes!

[@childofivy]

20 years of mental floss?! Grats! Now I feel old.

[@greenredblue]

Fun fact about that "eating pills instead of food" trope - it's nonsense, and you can figure this out pretty easily with math. The most energy-dense substance we can easily access is gasoline, so use that as a basis for comparison. Assuming the average human consumes 2000 Calories a day, (and assuming i've done the math right) then that equates to about a quarter cup of gasoline. So in order to replace food with pills you'd need to find some kind of chemical(s) with an energy density several times higher than gasoline which, unlike gasoline, is nontoxic and bioavailable. If you can't do that, then you'd have to eat so many pills each day that you might as well just have food.

[@shaneminer4526]

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!

[@Poptart21ish]

Unless it’s candy shaped as pills or some other food shaped as pills… definitely can’t replace food with pills. 🤦🏾‍♀️ It’s crazy that my hubby asked what’s for dinner. And after watching this… my answer is PILLS. 🤣🤣🤣 With a side of effects. 🤣🤣

[@orangestars701]

Exploding wale animal park and parachuting beavers! 😂 😂 I’m done ☠️

[@matthewrotella8886]

The local news station that covered the story recently made a new 4K transfer from the original film and released it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGemfaijqM6laZY

[@orangestars701]

@@matthewrotella8886 haha that was awesome! Thnx for the link! It was gross and cool to watch 😂 I watched it twice lol

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Happy anniversary! And thank you for sharing so many oddities. It suits this oddity right here lol. Here's to another 20 years - minimum! 🍻

[@Vonliktenstien]

More bloopers and levity in future videos please. Great vid. That nacho fact blew my mind.

[@KitC916]

cool except for her voice

[@Varizen87]

See, Erin, you leave me with so many questions. Is this entry on here because you really like lobsters? Or do you just really like endocrine and urinary based facts? How did you learn this? What exactly was going on in your life the day you learned this? Was this a rabbit hole adventure of knowledge or was it just something you chanced upon? What aspect of this resonated with you so hard? What was your back up 2nd place choice? Would it too have been excratorily based? Or would it have been face based? Or would it have been Lobster based? Also, why is a fact about No.1 listed as No. 2? I'm going to lay awake at night for weeks trying to figure out what led you down that path.

[@amanussa9488]

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[@guarddog318]

Seems lobsters bring whole new meaning to the term "pissing contest". lol

[@OculusQuestFun]

Assuming people live roughly 100 years, the United States is only about 3 people old. That's a thought from a comic. Forget which one.

[@jphilb]

#6. Love the video from the incident. "Oh the humanity!!!"

[@theelerdingteam6263]

Well done! Keep up the good work!

[@btetschner]

I used to work at an underwater sea connector factory in Burwell, Nebraska that produced some parts that were used to discover the titanic underwater. It is called Subconn (a portmanteau of Submarine Connectors). Very interesting facts, thank you for the video.

[@btetschner]

That cheese fact is worthy of its own comedy! Hahahahaha

[@VideoNOLA]

Been a fun ride. Keep it going!

[@cherylcampbell9369]

Always good to see Erin here.

[@Yosser70]

Wheel of cheese day, one of the West Wing staffs favourite days! lol

[@fathertime96]

I just watched the first of the Big Block of Cheese Day episodes lol

[@mairezu]

Congratulations on the twentieth anniversary. Erin, kudos to you. Those poop and pee facts never get old!

[@maxcelcat]

The Myhtbusters actually managed to re-float a ship by pumping it full of ping pong balls.

[@onlyrick]

That was a rare image of Mastodonus Klepticus, noted for stealing an extra set of tusks (and they weren't picky where they got 'em from).

[@musicalintentions]

LOVE your videos. Was it Justin that submitted the fact about Mr. Belvedere?

[@Aames32]

I absolutely love Jam. My favorite breakfast food is hot biscuits and jam

[@chefcabbage]

I'm not sure if you have or not yet, you may find the origins of the tradition of a 'Honeymoon" interesting. You mentioned "Mead" and that reminded me of it. True or legend? That's up to you to decide.

[@romulusnr]

Na3C6H5O7 would normally be written C6H5Na3O7, they just rearrange it for that cute "fact"

[@RinJackson]

.................#10 gives me far, far, far more information than I ever wanted/needed to know >_>

[@DuluthTW]

I love this channel.

[@maxcelcat]

Apparently Buzz was very annoyed that he wasn't going to be the first to set foot on the lunar surface - which was largely because of the direction the door opened on the lander! So we refused to take any photos of Armstrong on the moon.

[@garethtudor836]

Did you ever get that pork chop party John was saving for?

[@maxcelcat]

Wombats, and the other marsupials, are really really weird. You should do a whole episode on them. Male platypuses have venomous spines on their back legs. And they can detect electrical impulses from muscles movements with sensors in their beaks. For starters....

[@Apophis324]

Congratulations on reach 20 years of existence and relevance, Mental Floss ^ -^ I hope you had cake to celebrate? Also.. what do you mean, peeing on people is not considered useful for fighting or courtship for humans?

[@samiam619]

What you do at home…

[@Bekah_N14RNH]

Wombats faeces is also square due to the fact that it contains minimal amount of liquid and nutrients, most of it is absorbed and used in the body therefore there's not much left to get rid off, proving better for the animal

[@DenisRyan]

Twenty years!! Congrats! And congrats to Erin on nine years.

[@iconpoet]

Yall should do an episode of the history of cornbread

[@mikesands4681]

Good luck going onward!

[@netherfield2000]

Jane Austen brewed beer? Awesome!

[@Yairgr123]

I had zero clue mental floss was 20 years old. Wow. I thought it might've been around 8 max

[@Duncan_Idaho_Potato]

Regarding the whale story: IIRC, that "damaged" Oldsmobile was a convertible that had its entire roof crushed by a 3 ft (1 meter) chunk of rotting whale blubber. I'm sure the car was a total loss. If not for the damage, then at least for the smell. I hear blubber stinks like hell when it's fresh. I can't imagine what it would smell like after rotting in the sun for days.

[@phife1878]

I once witnessed two tortoises doing it at the Fort Worth zoo. Heard the noises before we saw them.

[@Poptart21ish]

1,400 lbs of cheese? 🤦🏾‍♀️ I doubt if I’ve collectively consumed that much in my 31 years of living.

[@jeffersonott4357]

Goodyear is 4th than. 1. Lego 2. Bridgestone 3. Michelin 4. Goodyear.

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

"peeing at" 😆

[@dzikijohnny]

Pizze-wallah probably means a sweet lover. New term in the Navy are “Gedunk” for candy.

[@shastaham7630]

The beavers were thinking, "Geronibeaver."

[@timothychamberlin6985]

Thank you....

[@benostiguy7215]

That is a loose interpretation of cube.

[@tfranken1561]

Dare you to poop a better one 😃

[@turtle4llama]

It would be my greatest accomplishment to eat 10 lbs of White House cheese before they kicked me out.

[@loquayrocks]

My grandfather was 11 when Jack the Ripper committed his murders... I'm not yet 50

[@ericluchinski]

My great grandfather was born pre civil war.

[@exaelhernandeznogales]

Nice... 20 years!... time flies... also flies on animal poop haahhah

[@matthewhines9787]

I love the John Tyler's grandson fact...but how do we really know that it was the 74 yr old who got the 32 yr old Julia Tyler pregnant...and not some virile side piece who worked in the stables?

[@CountryandIrishFan]

Wowza

[@tadarth7]

I love Erin 💘

[@seatbelttruck]

I will never not love the exploding whale story.

[@MR.AIRWALK]

Mental floss ?? More like Dental floss!!!! Use it!!

[@manofGreeness]

Peepee, poopoo, and private parts were recurring themes

[@romulusnr]

"...the futurist movement, a far-ranging school of thought that began in the art world, and spread to other parts of society. Eventually futurists were advocating for" ... uh, well, *fascism.* no, really, futurism developed into Mussolinian fascism

[@gibberishname]

... not JUST for lobseters

[@MrWicked17]

What happened to this channel??

[@MsOldmom]

Mary Shelley...the original goth

[@BlasphemousBill2023]

As an Oldsmobile guy I am Horrified of that whale story! :) thanks!

[@MentalFloss]

Haha one of the sources we read said a Cadillac, but our intrepid fact-checker set us straight.

[@matthewrotella8886]

The local news station that covered the story recently made a new 4K transfer from the original film and released it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGemfaijqM6laZY

[@SECONDQUEST]

The whale was supposed to completely disintegrate, it would have been a good idea had they more dynamite

[@greenredblue]

Maybe it would have been a good idea if they could have gotten it to fully oxidize in the process, but that's not really what high explosives are good at. They're reactive, not incindiary. Make the explosion bigger and it just spreads rancid meat over a larger area.

[@joetrolo7076]

I miss John Green

[@YouBazinga]

No, I really don't need too.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

This one is funny

[@jacktribble5253]

Congratulations.

[@Leery_Bard]

That isn't how you pronounce Bysshe! It would have been quick and easy to check... Sloppy!

[@gretchenbockenfeld]

How dare you calling me „curious weirdo“, im not curious.

[@goofoffchannel]

2:04 *Russel Brand voice* too much cheeese!

[@SaucerJess]

💙🌞💙

[@razvanlo]

I like you Erin. You seem nice.

[@EnzoDraws]

Wombat's squarish stool Cube crap Squared shit Paralellogram poop

[@thanefalkner6156]

Where is Hank??

[@AllFloofAndNoThoughts]

The pronunciation of payette lake hurt my ears…. Should be pronounced pay not pi

[@boothroid71]

God these facts are so old. This channel blows

[@KitC916]

they're not so bad but I would prefer them narrated by a grown woman or a grown man instead of a woman with a girl's voice

[@The_Other_Ghost]

This is why Erin is married.

[@flyingfox707b]

I find her voice annoying. I prefer the boss.

[@hunterchristian8372]

Please stop trying to be funny. Comedy is not your thing. This is a public service announcement.

[@ChrisBrown-nr1on]

I really hope you're not listening to this chick about us actually landing on the moon because it never happened