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[@danielthrasher]

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[@GriffinZambia]

*Dont_Read_My_Names* 😏...

[@nagatouzumaki2155]

Fun fact using a sattelite to see the world but cant still find yoir dad 💀

[@chilledkat]

@@nagatouzumaki2155 Lmao that actually funny 💀 💀

[@parsnipguy2986]

@pictureperfectpawel; true: Horus became the king of egyptian gods by ejaculating on Set's salad; false: Loki had his butt stitched together by dwarves (it was actually his mouth for always lying)

[@baconator2484]

fun fact, doctors just say there is something wrong with us then put us to sleep and after we wake up they say that we are "fixed" and charge us thousands of dollars

[@camthecamposer5912]

Fun fact: Back in 1802, there was a book titled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" written by american businessman Timothy Dexter, which he used to complain about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. However, the book was special in that it used zero punctuation and he pretty much spelled every word he could unconventionally. There were so many complaints that in the second edition, published in 1805, he added an extra page at the end with 11 lines of nothing but punctuation marks, which readers were instructed to insert wherever they felt they were necessary.

[@somebody2528]

What a legendary person

[@satiatedpanda]

sam o'nella

[@Calavyr]

i know this one cuz of sam o'nella

[@amonke865]

Dexter was also dropped out of school when he wad very young too (I think around 8 years old).

[@oliver...8209]

I have this book.

[@ornitorrinco_en_la_caverna]

Loved the editor's explanation. Simple, to the point, giving this channel's vibes. Just perfect.

[@GriffinZambia]

*Dont_Read_My_Names* 😏...

[@wapple3770]

@@GriffinZambia breathn't

[@RealSamulation]

He has his own channel, it's the funniest thing: Jeremyoneasy

[@IDcLuc]

@@GriffinZambia Dont_Breathe_Oxygen

[@ECHO77257]

When your comment gets more likes when the KZbinrs

[@NickAsNickName]

fun fact: in norwegian, in certain dialects, a small and simple conversation can be had without the use of any consonants, only vowels. (a very situational one, but it is possible.)

[@Lp-AAA]

That's cool...

[@briansmoot8234]

​@@Lp-AAA you mean..."a oo"

[@guyjperson]

True. As well, the sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is ALSO a legitimate sentence.

[@JannPoo]

@@guyjperson that can go up to 8x buffalo and it would still be a technically correct sentence.

[@slimyduck2140]

​@@guyjperson And, and, and I just put comas between and and and and and and and. This sentence makes sence

[@typo1345]

Fun fact: The roman emperor Caligula was widely considered to be mad, once forcing an entire legion to do nothing but collect seashells after a defeat, and is said to have made his favorite horse, Incitatus, a consul. It's also said he once had an entire section of the audience at an arena tossed in with the wild beasts during intermission because he was bored

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

I'm actively serving and can confirm doing inane activites after training is still a commonly practiced tradition. And knowing a bit about history, I can also tell you that making Incitatus a senator was supposed to be an insult to the senate. "You're so bad at your jobs my fucking horse could do it"

[@riley3087]

If I recall, he had abandoned an attack on Britannia right at the shores of now France, impromptu declaring war on Neptune himself and having his men stab at the water.

[@9895_]

Rick Riordan still doesn't fail me

[@Anni-fy9dm]

Most modern historians actually doubt these stories due to the biases and inconsistencies of the writers. Also, he PLANNED to make his horse a consul, but never fully did.

[@lucym5322]

me too@@9895_

[@maybesomeluca]

Fun fact: Kermit is implied to have caused 9/11. In a Muppets special in 2002, Kermit is shown the world if he didn’t exist, and the Twin Towers are still up. This implies that Kermit somehow caused it.

[@aaabirdman]

Omg

[@loganh2735]

IN 2002? AFTER IT HAPPENED?

[@maybesomeluca]

@@loganh2735 YEAP

[@maidenreligion12]

@@loganh2735 It was in production before 9/11 and the editors forgot to go and edit out the twin towers.

[@MrEggus]

@@maidenreligion12 that’s what they want you to think😂

[@AnanasVert]

Fun fact: otters have a little pouch of skin under the arms, where they keep their favorite rock. It helps them open seashells, among other things, and we've got records of them getting upset when losing the Special Rock.

[@unoreverse-qe5dk]

I've actually heard about this recently. i don't remember if it was in school or just surfing on the internet lol

[@emmaturtle19]

i accidentally first read this as "others" as in "others have a little pouch of skin under the arms" as in "other humans have a little pouch of skin under the arms where they keep their favorite rock and use it to open seashells and we've apparently been observing these other humans because we have records of them getting upset when they lose their skin pouch rock"

[@ZenLord]

@@emmaturtle19 that is really funny

[@theultimatetaco42]

We need to find Rosa the Otter’s rock

[@marmotlord6940]

Fun fact: In 1997 a cat named Stubbs became the honorary mayor Talkeetna, an Alaskan town. The town didn't even have a real human mayor. He served as honorary mayor until 2017.

[@jaypuck5783]

I have visited this town lol

[@julianneloy6010]

Fun Fact: It was common practice for Egyptian kings to schedule battles with their enemies, and if the other king couldn't make it that day, they would reschedule. 😁

[@StressedYeti]

Fun fact: the word "oxymoron" comes from 2 Greek words: Oxy (Oxus) - meaning sharp Moron (Mōros) - meaning slow, stupid, or dull So "oxymoron" means "sharp-dull" making it an oxymoron itself.

[@olivercharles2930]

ah i love etymology

[@willzyx23]

@@olivercharles2930 the fact that the word palindrome is not a palindrome itself always makes me sad

[@moo342]

The fact that I have no clue what any of these words mean makes me sad

[@olivercharles2930]

@@moo342 well, they are greek.

[@gh05tparkourfreerunning31]

@@willzyx23 it is if you spell it wrong enough

[@xaviertullis4804]

Fun fact: The first guy to use anesthesia in surgery, Robert Liston, also once cut a persons leg off so fast that a spectator died of shock, the patient and an aide to Robert also both died of sepsis from the unclean saw. This lead to the only known surgery with a 300 percent death rate.

[@myra7011]

I see someone’s being keeping up with their puppet history

[@andrewcross4193]

this is one of my favorite things I know

[@Dr_zevia]

Just “forgot” to leave out that this was because, at the time, surgery had to be done extremely quickly to minimize blood loss and risk of infection.

[@silviasanchez648]

The aide died because he accidentally amputated his fingers together with the leg. I imagine the aide was holding the patient to place and Liston got... uh too enthusiastic.

[@ArianaCapraro]

... I have to look this up now because I can’t trust anything after this vid. You could all be in on this. IS EVERYTHING A LIE?!

[@samuelt8602]

One of my favorites is that it's illegal to suspiciously carry a Salmon in the UK. It's part of the Salmon Act of 1986, and aimed at discouraging poaching, and it sort of just stuck around. This goes alongside some of my other favorite dumb laws like in some places, wearing clown costumes. Not sure where that came from. (s_tselnik)

[@rubolph1954]

how do you suspiciously carry a salmon? what methods of carrying salmon are suspicious as opposed to non-suspicious methods? how do you carry a salmon non-suspiciously?

[@eglol]

I feel like is I've heard this somewhere, but I don't know if that's because it's true, or false This happens with a lot of the questions in this video though lol

[@KainoaB4]

“IS THAT FUCKING FISH JENGA?!”

[@Henny.777]

“That guy looks fishy, he’s hiding something in his coat!”

[@thatweirdgirl8466]

In Pennsylvania there’s a super old law stating it’s illegal to have oral sex, and one that says it’s illegal to sleep in a bathtub

[@michaeloffner8515]

Fun fact: many people know that the word orange existed first as the fruit, and then the color was named after it. However, the word orange has existed in Europe since before orange fruits were brought to Europe from India. By etymological coincidence, a region in France came to be known as "the Principality of Orange" over 100 years before the first oranges were brought to Europe. The Prince of Orange married into the Dutch royal family, so the Dutch had an association with orange before it was even a color.

[@SpizNitrate]

Fun Fact: If you buy a bigger bed you get more bedroom but less bedroom

[@JuniorJunison]

This hurts my head.

[@dropfish3109]

loft bed

[@Chizinky]

@DrOpFiSh nah bro let's not start on that one

[@lara_spithfire]

Love this XD

[@BlahajLovingGirl]

this works better in person, for this to be correct you need to say you get more bed room but less bedroom

[@katied3374]

my absolute favorite fun fact: that arrangement of four spikes at the end of a stegosaurus's tail is called, scientifically, a thagomizer. It simply did not have a name until Gary Larson, creator of the Far Side comics, drew a panel in which a caveman lecturer is explaining dinosaur anatomy and says "Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons" and the scientific community just kinda ran with it (@katie.cali)

[@4xdblack]

I love this fun fact so much I can already tell it'll make me happy for years to come

[@meganm4877]

I just saw the word thagomizer for the first time yesterday (i think in an article or video about women’s body parts being named after men who ‘discovered’ them)… what’s the word for the phenomenon where you have never heard of something and then when you hear about it the first time, suddenly you see it everywhere?

[@fivelake]

lmao as a huge gary larson fan this has always been one of my favourite facts

[@nickyFan]

@@4xdblack no

[@Expoz3DxSpaRtaN]

@@meganm4877 The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. It's definitely an interesting one.

[@lucahermann3040]

Fun Fact: Penicillin was only discovered because Alexander Fleming was too lazy to clean up after himself. "In 1928 Dr Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mould seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He soon identified that the mould produced a self-defence chemical that could kill bacteria. He named the substance penicillin."

[@Daesma999]

moral of the story: laziness has a chance to give you Nobel Prize

[@FieryPheonix-pq8sh]

That’s kind of a commonly known fact

[@AlexArthur94]

@@FieryPheonix-pq8sh I didn't know he discovered penicillin out of laziness. I assumed he was studying the mold when he made the discovery.

[@JacobBeckstrand]

I hate to be "that" guy, but it isn't 'mould' it's actually 'mold'.

[@AlexArthur94]

@@JacobBeckstrand I'm pretty sure "mould" is the British English spelling. But in American English, yes, it is "mold."

[@titan8068]

5:41 fun fact, the reason why he drew instead of painting was because his paintings were worth a lot more than the total check. So whenever he had a big family meal, he told everyone he would be paying but not a single penny would come out of his bank.

[@tinkletoes13]

Editor should win an award. He really had to travel all that way for a single slip of paper.

[@drenz1523]

dont forget the cameraman

[@sebastianramirez3812]

Fun fact: Charles Darwin kinda hated barnacles, like, really despise them, this was all because they have biological traits that are quite similar to other species of animals, so they were really hard to classify. So Darwin, as a gentleman he was, took a 8 year long side quest to research them. So he tried to studied em and classify em and they just did no give a damn bout this bearded man's investigations. So he once claimed the quote I hold more dear to my heart: "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship." -Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, my man.

[@KainoaB4]

As Ash Ketcham once said, “Yo real quick, this dude spent 8 years studying barnacle dick”

[@gentlenaa]

Fun fact: Lichens are a symbiotic union between a fungi and an algae, which basically fusion and make a new body to survive. It's shapes and color depends on the conditions they got united on. The fungi gives the algae water, the algae gives food to the fungi, and they usually make this symbiosis when conditions are hard for them to survive alone.

[@Haru-spicy]

i'm lichen this fact

[@sebastianquintero689]

One of my favorite fun facts: The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet.

[@brianroberts783]

So you're telling me that the one in Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" wasn't the first one?

[@lexisasmrroleplays8947]

THE SACRED TEXTS

[@holosocko4818]

This is true, contrary to popular belief it was not the Titus Andronicus that was the first, it was actually Babylonian tablets, presumably made by students. Although most of the joke has been lost over thousands of years, there is one thing that is certain from this joke, they are talking about your mother [part that was lost over thousands of years] of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it?

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

what was it and did some one ask who's Joe?

[@evangelakillian4273]

So what was the joke?

[@mayamenon6759]

Fun fact: Ninjas didn’t actually wear black, in the night they usually wore grey or navy as it blended in better with the sky or walls (black would have a more distinct silhouette), or they wore regular civilian clothing during the day to blend in with a crowd. The reason why ninjas are said to wear black comes from the theatre, when the “stage crew” would wear black (they weren’t members of the cast but they might have held/moved props or scenery) and so people were used to just sort of mentally cropping them out. One playwright used this to their advantage and had one of the stage crew murder a character, and because they were made to be ignored, it seemed as thought they appeared out of thin air - like a ninja. I always like facts about misconceptions :)

[@sirlee5264]

This is my favourite one.

[@Ducktoez]

Fun fact: this guy forgot to put his twitter username :/

[@midnight_blue_moon]

As a theater nerd I actually love the fact that that misconception comes from theater (and also that playwright is a genius)

[@Ducktoez]

@@midnight_blue_moon agreed

[@kinkajouforrest]

Fun fact to go with this fun fact: Kuroko is the term for the stagehands of traditional Japanese theater, and they are typically dressed in all black. They could also wear all white or blue to blend in with snowy or watery backdrops.

[@Jaden_Iv3y]

Daniel is actually rly smart and funny, it’s harder to tell from his sketches but honestly seems like a rly fun guy to hang out with

[@SectorPi]

As a dev, the 11% of America that think HTML is a disease had me ROLLING on the floor 🤣

[@MrSilverspirit24]

One of my favorites: Renoir (painter) had a really bad arthritis by the end of his life. To stay warm, he’d keep cats on his lap. As a result, one of the indicators of an authentic Renoir is cat hair trapped in the paint. @BarbaraBlush

[@samanthawilliams638]

The fact that Daniel grew up in Florida answers all the questions I ever had about his content 😆

[@TheBlakus420]

Half my family is from Florida. I back this statement

[@ethanisnotme]

this is a great example of how most generally-intelligent people can get trivia right just based off of common-sense reasoning rather than memorization

[@mihaleben6051]

Secret: this works for biology. Once you memorize all laws of physics you got it.

[@azijer6268]

Fun fact about Dali: After his death he was buried with his mustache pointing to ten past ten. Around 30 years later, when his body was exhumed for study, it was still in the same position.

[@agnieszkakmieciak225]

Okay, I don't know if anyone mentioned it before (I don't want to go through all the comments), about the Charlie Chaplin one. The issue was that when he entered the contest, he was walking as he usually does. Meaning: at the normal human pace. The other contestants however, where imitating the accelerated speed from the movies. He lost the contest for being most like him... by acting exactly as he does. 😂 Personally, I always find it amusing 🙂

[@cheetahman515]

I did not know that part of it! wasnt there also someone else (also a comedien) who entered a them look alike contest and lost? other than Chaplin.

[@agnieszkakmieciak225]

@@cheetahman515 I honestly don't know. I knew about Chaplin, because I read about it somewhere long time ago. However, upon a quick google search I came across a story about Dolly Parton losing in a drag-queen Dolly Parton look-alike contest, which is even funnier.😂

[@skittybug1558]

@@cheetahman515 I think you're thinking of Dolly Parton, who lost because she was "too tall."

[@lenawenger2140]

FunFact: Once you had your first hiccup, you never truly stop hiccuping again, the intervals between the hiccups simply get longer

[@osheridan]

*sob*

[@Nehamaze]

Same with claps

[@TheBlakus420]

Same with sneezes? And/or coughs and farts?

[@viravos]

once you are born, life is simply the long interval of time from when you came from nothing to wait until you return to nothingness

[@frenchtantan]

That's more of a shower thought than a fun fact but I dig it

[@pengoh_]

Fun fact: there is something called the Russian dog head experiment, and it was when Russian scientists reanimated a decapitated dog head successfully and it responded to the external stimuli even though it was just a head. It remained animated for several hours (I think don’t exactly know, you can fact check it)

[@juhel5531]

This man should be a professor. Professor Thrasher is such a nice villain name.

[@13mungoman13]

Here's one: When a horse was being prepped for surgery in 2012, they tried to oxygenate it by putting it in a pressure chamber filled with oxygen. They had forgotten to remove its horseshoes, however, so when it panicked and kicked the metal walls, it created a spark and EXPLODED THE CHAMBER.

[@asphxdel]

@deprimeretchetah1416 ... how anybody ever knows a "fun" fact that wasn't thought in school.

[@victrola2007]

Oh God. 🤯

[@trionvera3231]

Was the horse ok?

[@kaput_hodge]

@@trionvera3231 youd assume not

[@trionvera3231]

@@kaput_hodge 🐴 💥

[@bubbledoubletrouble]

1:22 Fun fact: While Winnie the Pooh from the story is now public domain (which is why the Blood and Honey movie next year is in the clear), the red shirt he is usually depicted in is a Disney invention and *not* public domain. Furthermore, that red shirt is a trademark, not a copyright, so it will never be public domain so long as Disney keeps renewing the trademark. Oh, whoops, I forgot this was supposed to be fun. A group of pugs is called a grumble.

[@gracekaram4947]

A group of pugs is called a grumble?! That's amazing!

[@REUBZ27]

Fun fact: If you're a sheep farmer and want to protect your sheep from wolves and such, you can just stick a llama in the field. The sheep assume the llama is just a big sheep, the llama assumes the sheep are all small llamas and that it is now the alpha llama. The llama will now patrol the field and if a predator comes in the sheep will naturally hide behind the llama, and the llama is big enough and brave enough to scare off the predator. Much cheaper than constantly checking your fencing and less effort than watching the sheep all day. (@reubsbarry)

[@wackyanimations3326]

is that actually true or are you messing with us

[@marble-soda-pop-pop]

@@wackyanimations3326 It seems real. They're called guard llamas and they act kind of like a shepherd dogs.

[@iHandleEasily]

@@wackyanimations3326 It's true. Llamas aren't exactly peacefull creatures, and they WILL bite if given the chance. Super moody, with a penchant for vengance. Of course, it won't chase away a hungry bear or a pack of wolves looking for an easy snack. I'd still recommend a proper guard dog over a fluffy, oversized sheep-tank, but to each their own.

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

@@iHandleEasily You think a guard dog would fend of a bear or wolves any better than a llama? 🤣 Pfft

[@theflameingredpanda659]

@@iHandleEasily artillery spit shells

[@thornajal1045]

Liking just for the editors face when he learned the truth. Truly reflected how we would all feel learning this

[@LoraCoggins]

I read a book about the rubber ducky spill! It was a lot of fun to read. It's called "Moby-Duck".

[@bloodwolf2609]

Fun Fact: All reptiles are cold-blooded, but the reason they sit in the sun is not only to warm their bodies but also because the vast majority of their predators have infrared vision, so it also doubles as a form of camouflage.

[@nicksmit7145]

Sub fun fact: Some reptiles are even partly warm blooded

[@leighjoelscott]

Oh, this is good! What's your insta :)

[@nicksmit7145]

@@leighjoelscott mine?

[@SLStrawberry]

I think one of my favorite odd facts is that rhino's can jump, but they just basically don't do that ever 😂

[@phoebusapollo8365]

For a 2 ton animal that’s quite impressive

[@user-en2tr8eh7c]

Wait I kinda want to see that

[@Donald_Trump_2024]

to be honest, humans can jump and they dont do it either, at least for the most part

[@e5858]

@@Donald_Trump_2024Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever jumped for a practical reason (other than exercise or something)

[@MozIleto]

​@Cryptic_Cannabis_Consumer never thought of it like that

[@rainstorm____]

7:30 heh.. predicted it-

[@hareeshsugumaran]

I know, right?

[@Mavrick-yh6rt]

7:30 bro really predicted that 💀

[@leilanibelanger9937]

fun fact: there was a town in Alaska that had a cat as mayor for like 20 years also, the state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon also, also, before alarm clocks were invented, there was a legitimate job where you went from client to client tapping on their window or door to wake them up

[@peterheinisch2294]

You also forgot the fact there were paid rock throwers, and/or people would use nails to tack into a candle to wake them up in a similar manner

[@midnight_blue_moon]

I knew the one about the cat mayor

[@nadie9058]

The alarm clock one is funny because Plato invented one back in B. C. Likely it wasn't used for many centuries before a comercial version was invented.

[@lavieenrose7618]

I went to Alaska in May and got to see the cat mayor

[@leighjoelscott]

OK, ok - you can't have ALL the gift cards, but these are great! Love the Mayoral Kitty. What's your insta?

[@ODISeth]

Fun Fact: A samurai could have theoretically sent a telegram to Abraham Lincoln at some point between the invention of the telegraph in 1844 and Lincoln’s death in 1865, as samurai weren’t abolished in Japan until 1876. I don’t have an Instagram I just wanted to share.

[@alyxjames]

Isn't it a fax, not a telegram, in this fact?

[@hillbillysamurai]

From a submarine

[@jessicamaree8212]

Why did... why has NO ONE commented about 4:45??? Like what? There seems to be no acknowledgement, anywhere, from the comments, from Daniel, from the other people in the room, or from the editor, of the words "what's crazy is he brought back a MASSIVE toblerone" ?????

[@quasalor1480]

This is the best thing ever. I'm so glad I'm subscribed to this channel.

[@jaceyjones4065]

Fun fact: the obrina olivewing butterfly is the only known animal to actually produce a true blue pigment. Other blue in nature is a trick of light.

[@Bruh234]

its one of very very few, but not the only one, for example the blue poison dart frog has blue pigments instead of light scattering

[@Garffunguy]

Fun Fact: the word helicopter doesnt actually originate from the two words "Heli" and "Copter" But rather "Helix" (meaning spiral) and "Pteron" (meaning wing)

[@666_cthulhu]

how the fuck do you go from “pteron” to “copter”

[@Garffunguy]

@@666_cthulhu remove the on and its pter.. "Helico" "pter" its weird i know but that how it is

[@666_cthulhu]

@@Garffunguy ahhh i see it now, okay. etymology is weird af

[@HungryWarden]

1:30 this proves that being a hero and a troll aren’t mutually exclusive, and I love it.

[@lincolneiswald7181]

Fun fact: water guns were invented on accident. Man named Lonnie Johnsons was an inventor/engineer and in 1982 while performing an experiment with water and piping he accidentally squirted water on himself. Instead of being mad he was intrigued by what he had made and it later became known as the first ever water gun.

[@Da-chimp]

That is false The Heilongjiang hand cannon or hand-gun is a bronze hand cannon manufactured no later than 1288 and is the world's oldest confirmed surviving firearm. It weighs 3.55 kg (7.83 pounds) and is 34 centimeters (13.4 inches) long.

[@great_hedgehog8199]

​@@Da-chimp Bro, the comment was about water guns, not firearms

[@Da-chimp]

@@great_hedgehog8199 ohhhhhh My bad

[@Daesma999]

a lot of discoveries and inventions are usually accidental and the story behind it. But this is pretty funny, ngl

[@leslielandberg5620]

Water pistols are nearly as old as the pistol itself, probably the first one was in the early 1700's.

[@theexplosivephoenixvlaming5048]

Fun fact the story about carrots being good for your eyesight was started in WW2 by the allies to try and hide the fact that they had invented radar from the Germans. It was very successful at least temporarily and the axis powers shipped hundreds of tons of carrots out to the front lines for their soldiers.

[@goeland4585]

"the axis powers shipped hundreds of tons of carrots" has not been confirmed, we only have proof that consumption went up in England. According to John Stolarczyk, curator of the World Carrot Museum, “there are apocryphal takes that the Germans started feeding their own pilots carrots, as they thought there was some truth in it.”

[@familyflamerich4541]

@Goéland where can i buy the tickets to this museum this is the best thing I ever heard of. How the hell did I not know there was a world carrot museum!

[@familyflamerich4541]

@Goéland i have searched it up and am very sad to see that it is virtual. I am the most disappointed I could possibly be.

[@goeland4585]

@@familyflamerich4541 sorry 😂

[@CW-qw9nx]

And it was also done to make the British people eat carrots, because they were in short supply of most other foods

[@-bunu-3691]

Daniel clapping / dancing every time he gets them right is so sweet to me

[@AlmondAxis987]

I can't wait for Daniel to make a full movie. It will be hit for sure.

[@nutmeg4533]

Fun fact! It would be theoretically possible for a Cowboy, Samurai, Victorian thief, and an old French pirate to meet up because they all existed in the same timeframe and would have been alive to meet each other

[@rosieposie1760]

There were a surprising number of Samurai in Mexico in the 1600s (iirc, don't feel like googling to check) who acted as mercenaries. They had a greater presence in Mexico and Central America than in Europe.

[@michaelolympus5994]

Sounds like sets of Pokémon Starters

[@joaogomes9405]

So you're telling me Persona 5 was actually a documentary?

[@MyLokelani08]

Good gosh I love your videos! and your editor is *chef's kiss*

[@powmonkeyRBLX]

Hey, headsup: the editor was wrong about the winnie the pooh question. The wikipedia page that lists the highest grossing media franchises was primarily edited by a user whose sourcing quality was substandard at best and outright deceptive at worst. We're still cleaning up after him. Anyway, the value quoted in the article for pokemon's net worth was only valid as of 2019. By 2021, pokemon's value had risen to over 100 billion dollars.

[@LordStarkillerII]

This is my favorite fact Fun fact: if you were to take all the veins, arteries, and capillaries in your body and place them end to end, you would die. They would also wrap around the earth 3 times but that's less fun.

[@intwalibruce]

So, I'm not 5'3, I'm 74,565 miles tall?

[@LordStarkillerII]

@@intwalibruce if you were to be stretched out to a single strand yes

[@Chris-qc2kd]

Fun fact: the color orange was named after the fruit. when the orange was first discovered, it’s color was considered as a type of red, so at one point in time, it was perfectly valid to ask, “What color is an orange?”

[@embertea789]

the color orange was originally called geoluhread, meaning "yellow-red" :)

[@gljames24]

It's the same way we still treat cyan and azure with blue and chartreuse and mint with green. Cyan is the same distance from blue as yellow is from red.

[@aayushgupta9773]

still not valid unless a person's blind or 4 years old tho

[@merlin3361]

Also fun fact: The orange was not discovered, it was bred with pomelo and mandarin. No oranges in the old times. That applies to lots of citrus fruits.

[@Chris-qc2kd]

@@merlin3361 Interesting. corn is also a plant that was man-made. it was made by the Native Americans, but I can't remember what they made it from.

[@greeniscoollol]

3:24 damn, no wonder babies are scary…you can just feel them judging you… JK 😂😂😂

[@Blitzkrieg72571]

Fun fact: In 1949, the Agricultural Act was passed which said that the government would pay farmers for their produce. Well, dairy farmers had a sort of a problem, they're produce couldn't be stored for long, or else it would go bad. So they turned it into cheese. There was so much of this cheese they didn't know what to do with it, and they started storing them in vaults. There are many cheese vaults across America. And it makes sense when you hear about: Cheesy fries, stuffed crust pizza, big mac with cheese. The government is trying to get rid of it all with programs like, "Got Milk?". In 1981 I believe, they handed out free government cheese.

[@BoiseFreerunner]

Fun Fact: There exists a species of Newt that uses its ribs as a weapon in self defense. When threatened, it breaks its own ribs, stabs them through its own skin (not through already existing openings.) and uses these newly formed bloody rib swords to stab whatever is trying to eat it.

[@notyourfathersdm]

Fun fact: only one person has ever won the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in combat without ever firing a gun. Conscientious objector and combat medic Desmond Doss received the Medal of Honor in 1945 for saving the lives of 75 men on the slopes of Okinawa. His commanding officer credited him for saving a hundred men, but Doss thought it couldn't be more than fifty, so they split the difference and wrote seventy-five on the official report.

[@projectpearblossoms]

2:04 WHAT 😂 YOUR EDITOR HAVING A LIL SIDE QUEST IS AMAZING SO FUNNY

[@BuiHieuDong]

0:52 Daniel casually laughing at the death of the Pringles inventor is the most Daniel moment i've ever seen.

[@rossdavis3890]

Fun Fact: Frosty the Snowman is a retelling of an ancient Germanic folk tale about the Lady of Winter’s children, who roamed the forests and villages to spread her glory and permanently freeze men and women in the glorious snow, making a snowman army for her winter rule.

[@ianhogben3472]

classic

[@kaym.5058]

Gotta love children's fairytales and fables. They're always so bright and cheery.

[@Neion8]

That's metal as fuck ngl

[@WaywardFae42]

Won a gift card and put it towards an R2D2 toaster as my toaster is old and boring lol Thank you Santa Dan!! Hope you are having a great holiday/end of the year!

[@elisquier5380]

OMG I ACTUALLY WON A GIFT CARD, JUST PLACED MY ORDER WITH IT!!!!!! I got a really cute pair of cat ears that I've been wanting for cosplay reasons, and I'm so excited to finally have a reason to buy them XD, tysm for this😭❤

[@dropkickedmurphy6463]

Fun Fact: Spiders do not have muscles, but walk around on a hydraulic system. As many will joke, they are essentially walking around on 8 boners. Their legs curl when they die for this exact reason.

[@Victorsandergamer]

WOW

[@somekindofdude1130]

That is false. They do have a slightly different way of flexing muscle tissue but they still have it

[@dropkickedmurphy6463]

Aren't they mostly bonery tho?

[@naveenkovack]

Fun Fact: Formula one cars have cooling systems for the wheels during races in above forty degree temperatures. This is because if the rubber gets too hot, the rubber becomes sticky and tacky. Then the tires grip onto the track too much almost like a glue making it harder to move. Formula one drivers often describe it feeling like a flat tire, yet when they go to check its perfectly pumped up. This was discovered in early 2007 and since then they have designed the wheels so air can pass through them to cool it down. They have also made cooling blankets; giant blanket like things filled with ice that they wrap around the tires for four hours before racing.

[@4bidn1]

I think the most fun part about this fact is that they also have the complete opposite for the exact opposite reasons, at any track where the weather is cooler, they have tyre warming blankets, because cold tyres have 0 grip. Race tyres are super temperamental and have a very small optimum temp window!

[@MissesWitch]

your editor is amazing and makes this video great!

[@Zali_]

5:26 I'm from Queensland Australia and I've never heard of this wonderful event

[@kaylynnbuente4535]

Fun fact: Ramin Karimloo played many roles in Phantom of the Opera. He played Raoul in one version, Phantom during the 25th Anniversary version, and he even played Christine’s dad in the 2004 film.

[@actually-god0816]

Fun fact: Adolphe Sax, the inventor and maker of the saxophone, had so many close calls with death some believe divine intervention was at play so that the saxophone could be invented. As a child, he fell from 3 stories up, hit his head on a stone, and was believed to be dead, but miraculously survived. At 3, he drank a bowl full of acid (acidic water, not pure acid, but essentially same effect) thinking it was milk. As a young child he swallowed a pin, and somehow didn't die from internal bleeding. He almost died from a gunpowder explosion, but survived with serious burns. He fell into a hot cast iron pan, burning his sides. In more than one instance, he somehow survived accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from furniture that was recently varnished in a closed room, while sleeping. While young he was struck in the head by a stone and nearly drowned in a nearby river after being either unconscious or delirious Because of these incidents, his mother swore that he wouldn't live because of his bad luck, and he was known by neighbors as "little Sax, the ghost" (hunter.mauer)

[@SandMan10K]

Just thought i would say thank you as this helped me with my presentation for school. 3:45

[@Revildagre]

I got an ad at 5:57 and it was perfectly timed with the scream lol

[@TheThinker2478]

I saw someone else write a guillotine fact, which inspired me to write this one. When the guillotine was still being used as a method of execution, they would have to replace the baskets that the heads would fall in after each use. This was because the severed heads would chew through the baskets, making them unusable. The heads would also continue to blink after being disconnected from the body.

[@skittybug1558]

That's because the severed heads could survive for up to 60 seconds after decapitation. It's really fucked up to realize they were alive, could feel pain, but couldn't scream or breathe or anything else.

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

@@skittybug1558 i was gonna say that

[@maidenreligion12]

@@skittybug1558 It's still uncertain if severed heads are still alive enough to be conscious or feel pain. The general consensus is that it's the last of the brain's neurons firing off and causing muscles to naturally tense and relax, much like how putting salt on freshly slaughtered meat will still cause it to twitch. And well, we're not really in the age to be trying it out again to see what the reality is.

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

@@maidenreligion12 I remembera story where they did a test and told the inmate to blink a certain way if they could hear the doctor and they did.

[@ImSquiggs]

@@cdogthehedgehog6923I’m pretty sure that’s just a Whitest Kids U Know sketch :P the original story it’s based on was myth

[@darkriver26]

Fun Fact: Spiral staircases in medieval castles run clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs, they would not be able to use their right hand, which was holding the sword, because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no trouble, except left-handed people could never become knights because they were assumed to be descendants of the devil. (darkriver26)

[@Evsta]

Fun Fact: An Australian author named John Flanagan wrote 3 linked series that I think you'd enjoy reading in this order: Rangers Apprentice, Brotherband Chronicles, Royal Ranger

[@OmniscientWarrior]

Not all, majority. Ironically, this did give the few left handed swordsmen an advantage

[@gabrielknight9996]

@@Evsta I love those

[@seanmsw5977]

True, and the individual steps themselves were nonuniform in height so that only people who actually lived their would be surefooted on them.

[@typo1345]

well I guess I'm descended from the devil

[@heedmydemands]

Ok I gotta say that commercial is amazing! Very nice work lol

[@Shiftey-tg6ip]

fun fact: Daniel Thrasher is amazing and inspirational

[@RamadaArtist]

I have to commend Daniel's acting skills; he was so convincing playing the editor that it even looks like he was played by someone else.

[@whatTFisThis]

3:55 for anyone wondering why race horses have such weird names, its because when you register them for their breed they are they need a unique name so they dont get confused with another horse Often times horses have crazy long registered names but in actuality the name the horse responds to is smth like "Jeff" or "Lily" Or simply just one of the words in their name, like if a horse was named "A Summer Night" then theyd most likely go by "Summer" or "Night" So yea most of us dont actually call out "PIZZA PARTY FRIDAY, COME HERE PIZZA PARTY FRIDAY!" On a regular basis

[@skittybug1558]

Well, you should.

[@StudlyFudd13]

My own horse had the registered name of Automotive Express. I called him Moe. His sister is named Automatic Express. Her name is Matty. Horse names are fun.

[@TheBlakus420]

Aaah. Okay. So, if a rigged horse race has a horse named "Lucky Number Sleven", more than likely the horse's name is "Sleven Kelevra". Right? 😉😏

[@whenthemoon]

So we were struggling to make unique usernames even before the internet

[@whatTFisThis]

@@whenthemoon pfffft basically yea in some cases

[@USSTitan]

1:28 Yeah Us Brits Are Chill Like That

[@kevkin2981]

The tug o war bit had me dead 😂😂😂😂 amazing editor

[@SoulReap199]

Fun fact: On december 31, 2016, 1 second was added to global time. Similar to a leap year, this accounts for the fraction of time lost.

[@nataliemorett1911]

So wait we lost a second of time??

[@SoulReap199]

@@nataliemorett1911 i guess

[@9895_]

Damn I knew I lost one of those somewhere

[@SoulReap199]

@@9895_ lol

[@wantedtoshare]

Fun fact: There's a seemingly innocent thing that happened during the cold war, when Germany was divided into its two parts, that barely any people know about. One of the nowadays most beloved children's TV figures, the Sandmännchen (Translation: Sandman) was a figure coined and used for cold war propaganda. Not only did both sides of Germany have their own Sandmännchen, basically copying whatever the other did, but the most famed incident was when the eastern Sandmännchen (so the part of the Sowjet Union) had an episode where it landed on the moon as the first person ever, 11 days before the first person ever (American) landed on the moon.

[@giantmastersword]

Uhhhh d- daniel. Daniel, stop predicting the future. DANIEL

[@TheEpicMusic161]

Winnie the pooh actually isn't the highest grossing media franchise of all time its only number 3 so Daniel was correct, the highest is pokemon followed by hello kitty

[@sarahtoews8466]

Fun fact: when the guillotine was first introduced, onlookers were disappointed by the lack of blood and general mess, calling it less showy and interesting. The last (legal, I imagine) use of the guillotine was the same year star wars was released!

[@Neion8]

Not so fun fact: it was invented to be a more humane method of killing people - as the usual axe (or sword if you were noble) often took several swings before the person's head came off/they expired. It's one of the reasons many nations like England typically opted for hanging as it's harder to get wrong while doing basically the same thing.

[@hellsice2421]

Fun fact: in the lord of the rings extended edition during bilbo's birthday scenes, the cake prop they used caught fire during the scene, the actors didn't stop and it made the final cut. You can see people panicking in the background because of a fire. Another fun fact, one of the landscape scenes in lord of the rings is actually just a picture of a painting. Last lord of the rings fun fact: the hobbits are actually a tribe of people in New Zealand that the director thought fit the hobbits the best, so he hired them

[@Teh-Penguin]

the editor seeking ancient, secret knowledge bit was great :D

[@BirchMonkey857]

Potoooooooo's name happened when a stablehand was writing his name on a feed bin, and misunderstood it. The horse's owner found that amusing, and so kept the name. The Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through like a full quarantine process, not just customs. - Five (potential) fun facts, one of which is false: 1. The term "portmanteau," meaning a single word that is a combination of two words, was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass. 2. Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Trotsky, and Freud all lived in Vienna simultaneously. 3. Bananas don't actually emit an exceptional amount of radiation. 4. Justin Bailey was intended to be a character in the NES Metroid, aiding Samus, however they were scrapped due to hardware limitations. 5. An actual corpse, mistaken for a wax figure, was used in an amusement park's haunted house as a prop of a hanged man. They found this out when the arm broke off.

[@Justsomedude_867]

Fun fact: Elephants aren’t actually afraid of mice. Mice are so small, so the elephants can’t see them coming. It’s like being jumpscared. Another fun fact: Elephants release Dopamine when they see humans, which is the same thing humans release when they see puppies. That means elephants think we are cute as puppies 😊

[@EvilMike349]

Not a single one of your videos has ever UNpoisoned my brain, young man.

[@user-qx1om2wj1h]

Daniel: I knew learning random trivia facts would benefit me some day.

[@yourihollanders]

Fun fact: In Greek Mythology the godess Athena had an epithet (nickname) that was Parthenos. This nickname translates to: The Virgin. Athena was literally called a virgin every time that prayed to her. (@yhollanders)

[@venomenace]

Fun fact: Benjamin Franklin denounced the bald eagle as the American national bird and lamented how he thought it was a creature of "bad moral character". He instead thought the turkey would've been a more suitable symbol, claiming it was "more respectable".

[@amandap7733]

No he was fine with the bald eagle he just thought it was a bad drawing of one and complained that it looked like a turkey

[@alexandermcclureidrinkoliv3663]

@@amandap7733 FACTCHECK

[@dragonzbw]

And he was goddamn right

[@dacreatorofvideos]

I like how no ones talking about the ad, that’s the best ad I’ve ever seen!

[@caleb.s715]

Fun fact: axolotls can regenerate almost any part of their body. They are also being used in cancer research so their a really important animal. Also they’re amphibians but they have gills still. This is due to a condition all axolotls share called neoteny. This basically keeps them stuck in their juvenile form and leaves them unable to become their adult forms. This is why even though they are amphibians they have to almost constantly be inside of water. But they can be outside of the water for up to an hour in damp areas because they have lungs and can breath through their skin. But if they were outside the water for too long would dry out the slimy coating that helps protect them. Despite only being able to be in their juvenile form they still develop reproductive organs. The weird frills on the sides of their heads are their gills. However, some people have found out if you inject them with the right hormones they can progress to their adult forms. They look a lot like salamanders when you do this which makes sense because they are closely related to them. Last fact is that they were added to Minecraft :) @caleb.s_715

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

Fun fact about that: The “x” in axolotl is not actually pronounced “ks”. In Nahuatl, the native Aztec language the word comes from, the letter “x” is pronounced with a “sh” sound. So, phonetically, it’s pronounced “asholotl”

[@Bruh234]

they dont just look like other species of salamanders, they become another species salamanders, losing their gills and ability to breath underwater and developing stronger bones and tougher skin

[@caleb.s715]

@@Bruh234 true except that they are still technically called axolotls

[@Bruh234]

@@caleb.s715 true, i've edited my original reply to make this more apparent

[@Szaleos]

The way he did the ad lol loved it

[@ultimateninjaboi]

Fun Fact: Pringles man's children bought the pringles can from a pharmacy on their way to his funeral, even having a small discussion as to what flavor (eventually deciding Original was the only appropriate way to go).

[@ultimateninjaboi]

@@mixedplatecait that part was in the video already. Its why i left it out

[@thehauntedhive]

*Fun Fact:* The mariachi & horn instrumentals that are in the Johnny Cash song _Ring of Fire_ are there because they came to him in a dream.