A Solid 15 Minutes Of Science Facts (w/ Mark Rober & More!)

[@TommoCarroll]

What was your favourite fact? Let me know 👇👇👇

[@animationspace8550]

That you still exist and seem to be doing well

[@Cytrillex]

Tom Scott's hehehe

[@Mike23443]

I had 2 that blew my mind. The fact that there is so little gold in the world (duh, that's why it's so expensive, but it's hard to visualize it) and that Siberian tigers are HUUUUUUGE.

[@nishadhsingh4059]

all the planets between earth and moon what !!

[@marcberm]

I don't know, but I feel like there's a whole subset of people on the Internet who've been just waiting breathlessly for 2:22 🤣

[@Ascertivon]

I burst out laughing at Tom Scott's fact. That man is a treasure.

[@natekurz4029]

Ikr I love him

[@bcjdjjdjfjjdks7889]

😂😂

[@annawhistles]

Same, I love his videos!

[@goatsandstuff4319]

Time stamp?

[@Ascertivon]

@@goatsandstuff4319 2:42

[@TierZoo]

This was so fun to be a part of! Happy new year y'all

[@TommoCarroll]

Thanks for being a part of it mate! Unofficial official face reveal too, all in a day’s work 👍

[@jewishburgers]

Lookin cute TierZoo 👀👀

[@shoaibakhtar4389]

You choose to play as a human player! I thought you are an alien.

[@eacalvert]

So excited I got see you that's so cool! I have to be 💯 you are very attractive to look at. You did great job with specing out your character's charisma skill

[@eacalvert]

@@jewishburgers IKR?!

[@roanmartin1996]

My own: NASA has launched two satellites that are exactly opposite sides of the Earth, and they use them to measure distance and gravitational anomalies. Because it appears the satellites are "chasing" each other, they have nicknamed them "Tom" and "Jerry".

[@maskboy2743]

I love this

[@amandaweedmark7165]

O h my god

[@cherries4164]

so cute😔

[@zacharymaneja1207]

Imagine the debate settled because of this name

[@johnnyjohnson2894]

imagine not knowing nasa uses pools that have full sized replicas of the iss, piano wired harnesses and chroma key screens

[@asterix7842]

One of my favorite pieces of trivia: The first manmade object to break the sound barrier was the tip of a whip.

[@Vee-Hive]

Racist dog whistle

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

Explain

[@asterix7842]

@@TheBluePhoenix008 To quote Scientific American: "The crack of a whip comes from a loop traveling along the whip, gaining speed until it reaches the speed of sound and creates a sonic boom," Goriely says. He notes that even though some parts of the whip travel at greater speeds, "it is the loop itself that generates the sonic boom."

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

@@asterix7842 whao

[@SumriseHD]

And it was in Point Comfort, Virginia, near Jamestown in August 1619.

[@bellagsilva762]

My personal favourite: We're either alone on the universe, or we're not. Both are equally amazing and terrifying

[@gsausse8_019]

How is being alone terrifying? We would be safe from the Great Filter. (Look up the Fermi Paradox if you don't know what I'm talking about)

[@allefalconhalsaren2640]

@@gsausse8_019 I mean you got a point. But also if we fuck up now, there would be no intelligent life at all left in the universe to rely on and the universe would be all empty. The purpose of anything existing would disappear. The universe would forever be dead and that is terrifying.

[@TestarossaF110]

Damn.

[@xtramaze-musicmaster9165]

@@allefalconhalsaren2640 *fear intensifies*

[@eleventhus]

That’s like saying every 60 seconds passed on earth a minute passes in Africa Repeating yourself

[@benjaminbadrakh1644]

2:42 "If you took all the veins and arteries and capillaries in your body, all the blood vessels, and you laid them out end to end, *you would die* " That killed me 😂

[@BrawlerEnoch]

Lmao same

[@cubegaming1941]

We are here to mourn the loss of our friends Brawler Enoch and Benjamin Badrakh.

[@cubegaming1941]

@@BrawlerEnoch also how many trophies you got

[@dianeridley9804]

Me too

[@TheMiniBlockade]

So you actually got your arteries and veins stretched out....glad you sacrificed for science, mate. You will be remembered.

[@nikolaangelovski2252]

"If you were to put all your arteries and veins on the floor in one big line..... You would die.." God i love tom scott

[@jovetj]

Those cheeky Toms!

[@julier.1902]

If everyone on earth held hands around the equator, a lot of them would drown. :)

[@nihmanadoudou5082]

@@julier.1902 apparently if every 8 billion people were to hold hands with 1 meter apart in a huge circle, that circle would reach even farther that the orbit of the moon

[@sepsysmurf6982]

goddamit you spoiled the joke! still funny tho

[@nikolaangelovski2252]

@@sepsysmurf6982 Ah, sorry, didnt think about that

[@berrybannanas]

My favourite is the “if you have two legs you already have more legs than the average human” Im a double amputee and I say this to folks all the time. It’s so funny to see their faces trying to work it out 😂

[@MacNerfer]

Yes, cuz math. Guessing on the numbers, but about 99% have 2 legs, and 1% have less than 2 legs, so on average.... When Elizabeth Warren was claiming Native American ancestry, but only had a small percentage, some pundits were saying that Americans on average had something like 1 or 2% native American ancestry in them. Technically true, but actually about 80% have absolutely zero, 19% have mixed amount, and maybe 1% are full or almost full blooded native Americans.

[@xspbgaming8053]

that makes sense because since people have 1 or even 0 legs, it brings down the average from 2 to 1 point something

[@Froge4291]

It took me a good while to get it LMFAO

[@cjmusicscotland]

@@MacNerfer are you agreeing? 😐

[@anole]

what about my honorary third leg

[@yuvalne]

"If you took all the veins and arteries and capillaries, all your blood vessels, and you laid them down end-to-end, you would die." Gee thanks Tom, I could not have known that without you.

[@MattWeber]

Sadly there are people that would probably argue that they arent needed to circulate blood.

[@FloatingJetsam]

so the secret is to NOT lay them down end to end... then you could live without a circulatory system... cool fact -- laying down your circulatory system end to end will kill you... the removal of same is not a death sentence though... lol.

[@iamthinking2252_]

At least they’d stretch three times round the earth

[@Arterexius]

@@MattWeber Well, there certainly are people who argues that the natural pH value of our bodies must be 0

[@samiam619]

This is why I no longer watch the insufferable Tom Scott!

[@loganuck1451]

Platypuses produce both milk and eggs, making them a portable source of omeletes

[@Strange1_au]

They can also make their own custard....

[@abinayafuun6839]

They also produce venom which makes them good for assassinating people who love omelettes

[@takohno8635]

@@abinayafuun6839 my *favorite* hobby

[@annaireton8816]

If that katana is made out of aluminum I believe I have a similar one pretty cool photo

[@banteurshef2431]

Omletes don't have milk

[@KhAnubis]

Probably my personal favorite example of a tautology is “The La Brea Tar Pits”, or “The The Tar Tar Pits”

[@TommoCarroll]

Oh dude! That would have been such a good addition! Fancy getting involved in the next video?

[@KhAnubis]

Tom Carroll - Let‘s do it!

[@hezzr3]

My favourite is Pendleton Hill, translating to Hill Hill Hill Hill

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

[@GreenLarsen]

Mine is the nation Timor-Leste, meaning East East ^^

[@Roberto-REME]

There is nothing "...useless about this facts,..." These are fun facts, ...entertaining facts, ...educational and very interesting to know. Thank you for the great video.

[@astropig_3212]

well they arent usefull, so

[@Skyymon]

@@astropig_3212 the volcano lightning one may or may not be useful to a very small handful of people, altho im not even sure if someone has died to lightning from a volcanic ash cloud before

[@donf4227]

Some of these are certainly more useful than others. If more people knew that more of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants in the ocean than from trees, that could affect things, for instance.

[@freethink]

That platypus fact will now live in our brains rent free, forever.

[@TommoCarroll]

Sabrina will be glad haha!

[@LaterXavier-TX]

That was one of the only facts I actually knew, only because it was a joke in Phineas and Ferb.

[@aduckwithayoutubechannel]

Seeing as platypus can produce both milk and eggs, they are technically portable omelette makers.

[@Dogsofwar1989]

They are also venomous.... you're welcome

[@ohkay8939]

My biology-learned friend told me this ages ago, but it's basically not limited to platypuses. If I remember correctly, milk glands are just sweat glands that just add a few proteins. The similarity between the liquid produce also accounts for the "cheesy" smell of sweaty feet.

[@christophgrun3743]

Damn, Tom Scott cracked me up. That was so unexpected.

[@evrlstMUSIC]

Love that man lmao

[@TheNamesArif]

Sadly he died from vape smokes

[@deathpie24]

@@TheNamesArif kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaSmhGh4hM-Xnc0 The description shows the original video the clip is from

[@monochromedevdle5697]

@@TheNamesArif I actually spent 3 minutes looking up whether Tom Scott was dead or not becuz of this

[@BiasOfficialChannel]

@@monochromedevdle5697 He just posted a video, so I’m pretty sure he’s alive 😮‍💨

[@SophsNotes]

Didn’t realise I’d be appearing alongside this many legends! And I wish I could reach Tom Scott’s level of wisdom. Loved it

[@TommoCarroll]

Well they also didn't know they'd be appearing alongside someone as legendary as yourself! ;)

[@thehighground265]

I never thought I was part Shakespeare butt I guess I have to become a writer now.

[@KJOB]

saw this comment while you appeared on screen with that fabulous mustache

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@thehighground265 "part Shakespeare butt" will now be how I describe myself in all future introductions.

[@amarmkulkarni]

My fav science fact : 'You literally buy your body parts from the grocery store, as the foof you eat, atoms of that food replace a portion of your body cells.'

[@ecxstasy347]

No

[@vontabi]

"If you have 2 legs, you have more legs than the average human" People with 1 or no legs : *whyareweherejusttosuffer*

[@benjamindraws9676]

I don’t get it

[@redrobbie7977]

@@benjamindraws9676 imma just assume that most dead people are missing a leg or two

[@bartoszjaroszynski4711]

@@redrobbie7977 most humans have two legs but some have 1 or none. So the average human has something like 1.9999 legs. That means you have more legs than the average human

[@krakenbyte7377]

@@bartoszjaroszynski4711 oh, that makes sense now

[@gonsoku7701]

@@bartoszjaroszynski4711 but no. Of legs cant be in decimal Right?

[@ant0625]

love how the timestamps started nicely and then just died away

[@dominationgaming952]

Lmao

[@nairsreehari96]

😂😂😂

[@hamptoncalledmehisfriend6y383]

what

[@JiveDadson]

How does one use a timestamp? Or is that a useless science fact?

[@johnbrennick8738]

There is a book named “The value of useless knowledge.” The topics being studied by researchers at the time of that book (decades ago) were expected to perhaps be useful in more than 100 years. It turned out a that several of the topics generated industries within 10-20 years.

[@wolfy1398]

and thus i present to you: SS = sperm storage!

[@theastuteangler]

Did you mean “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge” published in the 1930s?

[@Gazmus]

@@theastuteangler Or the one on Amazon from 2017? Let us know John!

[@martinboyd447]

@@Gazmus uhm, it's 2021 as I type this, and you asked if the useless knowledge book that DEMONSTRATED to actually, in effect, be useful, within 10-20 years after printing was from 2017? The only thing worse than my grammar is either 1. Your poorly phrased request for clarity or 2. Poor math skills. Even an ahole such as myself can see this.

[@davidcookmfs6950]

@@theastuteangler I think that is what he meant. it was an essay in Harpers rather than a book though.

[@lyndsayms]

I don’t consider these useless, they’re great facts to know! I knew about 30% of these; definitely appreciate you sharing them 😀

[@asterisque9252]

I knew the fact Tom Scott was abt to speak, but he caught me off guard and had to explain to mom why my drink was all over my homework project.

[@jasonfan4701]

lel

[@akseldamberg6135]

“If you have two legs, you have more legs than the average human” i love that fact

[@vineetguleria6722]

If you have one heart then you have less hearts than average human.

[@jackyjess7273]

I dont get it

[@akseldamberg6135]

@@jackyjess7273 because most people have two legs, but some people were either born with only one leg, some without any, and some lost their legs during their life, therefore the average legs per person must be around 1,9 something, wich makes having two legs more than average.

[@stoneytheclown]

Look up mean, mode and median averages. This fact only works with one of them

[@rubyred186]

@@akseldamberg6135 but what about those who were born with more than 2 legs due to genetic mutations??

[@SilliS]

"It is impossible to tickle yourself" Either that was a trap that I walked straight into or I just debunked a hypothesis. Great video regardless!

[@MykahCroom]

Yeah, i can tickle myself too on my toes.

[@MysteriousE0]

@@MykahCroom same

[@jeffmarquis4612]

Ive heard you can tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue. I get a very mild tickle when i try.

[@Gabriela-pw7pn]

@@jeffmarquis4612 i get that! i can also tickle the palms of my hands

[@jotomato]

@@jeffmarquis4612 oh I hate that 😵

[@SentinelGhost]

"the worlds oldest living rose is over one thousand years old planted in Germany in 1815" ..... Look I suck at math but...

[@coolfeet1]

He misspoke, I looked it up, it was planted in *815*.

[@sparkleglitch13]

Yeah this stumped me too

[@markfieten9558]

@@sparkleglitch13 Was a little late to the party and just deleted my comment containing the same question!

[@DrAndrewSteele]

Did you know there are over nine facts in this video? Great to be in such illustrious company, thanks for having me on dude!

[@TommoCarroll]

You know what....YOU’RE RIGHT! Thanks for getting involved mate :)

[@NeilCrabbe]

1:14 Mark Rober: If you had a rope that stretched round the equator of the earth. Post-production animator: I'll just show that top to bottom.

[@redefinedrevdis4943]

As he is assuming the earth is completely spherical it really doesn't matter hence idk lol

[@alyoshakaramazov8469]

C2-C1=[2pi*(r+n)]-[2pi*r} = 2pi*r + 2pi*n - 2pi*r = 2pi*n, (n=1 meter, C2-C1= about 6 meters) It doesn't matter if you circle the milky way galaxy with a rope and then put another rope one meter farther out, it only adds about 6 meters to the length of the rope required. It completely astounds me. I wonder if I can make any money with this.

[@ghostplayz9754]

@@alyoshakaramazov8469 business mindset 😳😳😳😳 wow Jeffrey bezos billionaire mindset susssss

[@Gowties]

POV: You're trying to remember some facts for you to tell your imaginary friends.

[@patrickedwards2078]

POV: You’re trying to think of a witty KZbin comment but fail

[@omega-man1736]

What is POV

[@leaderbad1548]

Same

[@cevastiandeguzman1039]

@@omega-man1736 Point Of View

[@omega-man1736]

@@cevastiandeguzman1039 thanks

[@S1su]

9:58 that has actually happened in space once and it almost messed up one whole mission. If I remember right it was something about door getting stuck. Dont mark my words

[@0netwoguy54]

*Sees Tom Scott* Me: "Oh cool, he's like the guy I watch the most among these people" Also Tom Scott: *"If you take all the blood vessels out of your body, you die"* No shit, sherlock-

[@zjanez2868]

useless? yes scinece? yes fact? yes it counts

[@samiam619]

@@zjanez2868 “fact?” Yes and no. The end to end part is where he got the saying wrong. He SHOULD have said “...they would stretch around the world”.

[@laurencefraser]

@@samiam619 hence the text on the screen at the same time.

[@kasd1002]

@@zjanez2868 what no, it’s not useless, I was about to do that, don’t ask on who or why...

[@h8moss766]

@@laurencefraser right but it is true, if you do take all of your blood vessels out of your body, you WILL die, so it is, by definition, a fact

[@genericembarrassingusernam7843]

Thanks Tom Scott, very cool. I didn't know that I would die without blood vessels.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

And that's a thing you might not know!

[@gracetalbot]

when they call the only type of facts you know “useless”: 👁👄👁

[@vaishnavinrao7231]

😂😂

[@hikingOpussomJ]

Thats why they gave you a shoutout

[@hikingOpussomJ]

Jk

[@MoodyBurgerson]

My favorite had to be the australia vs moon thing. I never thought about it, it makes sense in numbers, but doesn't fit in my brain. Cool fact.

[@masterdementer]

In simple terms Tom Scott said: People die when they are killed

[@incog0956]

That's pretty on brand for him

[@toutafarel9436]

Well actually dying is a side effect of getting killed, which affects 100% of its victims

[@angelaanderson7131]

@@toutafarel9436 why just why

[@adamhakimimuhamadfaizal8054]

Claim your "shirou said that" ticket

[@Ashish.1.1]

@@adamhakimimuhamadfaizal8054 um what?

[@AhmedIbru]

Weird listening to Tom Scott without knowing the place he is in or him introducing us to the place

[@MandrakeGuy]

i am at

[@cooperbennett3043]

@@MandrakeGuy ...your mom's house

[@MandrakeGuy]

@@cooperbennett3043 my dads house actually ez

[@foxthx1138]

"the world's oldest living Rose is over 1,000 years old , planted in Germany in 1815" Are we living on the 2800's?

[@LLanfri]

Maybe it has been transplanted

[@papamouse5231]

I wondered about that, too. According to Laidback Gardener, that was supposed to be 815.

[@jk-gb4et]

yes we are living in the 2800's, it turned 2821 a few weeks ago, are you stupid?

[@chigy6301]

I made it 69 nice

[@L4JP]

Yup, 815, not 1815. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-year_Rose

[@shalimarlake7852]

The Mercury one was pretty cool. Thinking about how one side gets super hot and one super cold because no atmosphere and it takes so long to turn around.

[@yaduk7710]

The fact the you can't see the peak of Olympus Mons from its base because it is past the horizon blew my mind.

[@jamesedmonds7519]

Imagine how flat Earthers feel about it. Assuming that they believe all planets are flat of course.

[@Aryan-ck9lv]

@@jamesedmonds7519 They think Earth is special and the only flat planet

[@PercivalBlakeney]

Also remember that the entire surface area of Mars is less than the surface area of the Pacific Ocean.

[@klamup]

This comment really upset me.

[@Roozyj]

@@jamesedmonds7519 I think most flat earthers don't believe in space or the planets as actual celestial bodies. Most of them think space is a projection.

[@chowdog8184]

For some reason I was fully expecting Tom to say "You will die" in his fact

[@ConstantDerivative]

same-

[@dolphinman9253]

Which Tom tho, the British one?

[@ConstantDerivative]

@@dolphinman9253 tom scott, yes the british one

[@Gmackematix]

I thought Tom Scott could do better than that old joke.

[@ConstantDerivative]

Gmackematix no it's exactly what tom Scott would say

[@sergelevesque2718]

"A million second is about 2 weeks, but a billion seconds is around 32 years..." LOVE that this is the first fact presented! And it's the comparison I always go to when I try to make people realize that politicians promising to spend BILLIONS should NEVER be a trivial thing!

[@oldsguy354]

Be sure and add that a trillion seconds is 30,000 years. That really puts a 3.5 trillion dollar add-on spending/borrowing proposal in perspective.

[@jacqslabz]

@@oldsguy354 That's good to know as well. I got mildly curious: 100,000 seconds is about 28 hours (so not that much over 1 day). So, when it comes to people's income: 6 figures is on the scale of a few days, millionaires is on the scale of weeks, but with billionaires it doesn't take that much before need to switch to using centuries to measure it. This is part of why the notion that "no one needs that much money" exists when we start talking about some of the richest people out there. So with a few billion dollars, you could spend a dollar every single second you exists (counting while asleep of course) and you wouldn't run out out of money before you died. Meanwhile, my max manual income on record is around 14hrs and my current income is like 6hrs.

[@willvr4]

Yeah the difference between a million and a billion is insane especially when you start thinking about it in terms of money. There's really no reason any human being should be a billionaire.

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

I use that fact to point out if someone like Bill Gates, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos wanted to count their money at a dollar per second they would have to have started counting almost 5,000 years ago, centuries before the first pyramids were built. 33 years X 150 (billion) = 4,950 years. Oldest pyramids 2,650 BC + 2,020 = 4,670 years

[@jotarogers]

@serge levesque That is exactly what I thought!

[@crazyguy0_0]

1:02 BRO!!! this is the first video that I saw on this channel and I just wanna say your workspace looks absolutely amazing!!! CLEAN AF!

[@Amytoddberg]

School: I like this man’s idea let’s just make the time seven hours

[@chr13]

I normally just learn about three new facts on a school day.

[@maxmori8616]

But every once in a while, make them get up and hit each other with basketballs.

[@alphanova01]

So true

[@ritzxo7101]

nah

[@sethwilliams6391]

With daily uploads

[@joelherrey]

“A spec of dust is in the middle size between earth and an atom”. THAT made my eyes go O_O

[@orbismworldbuilding8428]

same, that is heckin incredible

[@bumbo222]

This means that humans are roughly the middle size between the Earth and an atom o_o.

[@harrymcgilligan5807]

@@bumbo222 that math doesnt check out

[@peterstrong772]

Really gives a sense of scale,. Along with if you took out all the space between the atoms of every human, the human race would only be as big as a sugar cube

[@bumbo222]

@@peterstrong772 Tasty! I can put the entire human race in my lemonade!

[@NaudVanDalen]

"If you have two legs, that means that you have more legs than the average human." Finally, something I'm above average in.

[@CesarMartinez-wi7wc]

*above average

[@zack4527]

At 15:15 he says it’s impossible to tickle yourself but if I tickle the bottom of my foot it does tickle

[@Smellygerman123]

I can't not say Tom Scott's was my favorite.

[@buffalojones341]

So, say it!

[@Smellygerman123]

@@buffalojones341 Tom Scott was my favorite

[@buffalojones341]

@@Smellygerman123 good job! 😁😁😁

[@sluttymacycheezboiiii]

so you can?

[@Joeygalvez494]

Idk I can't agree with you, mark Rober is the cooliest

[@mAximUm123451]

14:02 - oldest rose is 1000+ years old, planted in 1815... Time really does go fast!

[@EternaI_A]

Lol how does that work.

[@EternaI_A]

I think it was a mistake

[@alanam994]

yea he actually meant 815* not 1815 ... o.O

[@dontreadmyprofile7118]

He's already living in 2800s😂

[@NiffirgkcaJ]

That "And you lay them out, end to end, you would die" line was really unexpected and Tom's smug face at the end makes it much better~ 🤣

[@DrWh1teCat]

12:55 The 'trigeminal' sensation is why mint was the only thing i could correctly identify when tested for anosmia (inability to smell). My exact words were "That's mint because it's cold." The other options were strawberry, tobacco, cinnamon, and orange.

[@StefanMilo]

Crazy to see myself on a video with you all. Don't give up on your dreams kids!

[@TommoCarroll]

I'm stoked to be in a video with you finally chap!

[@eacalvert]

And I love that you had the spoon mic... OG spoon mic ❤️

[@afkninjachickenwithfries4102]

what dream? they died a long time ago

[@sajana_397]

Don't forget, there are more airplanes in the sea than submarines in the sky. Let that _sink in_ ...

[@nateverge1167]

Hold my blimp

[@bajonk9024]

It will be perfect if you add 'let that sink in'

[@sajana_397]

@@bajonk9024 done

[@ziadsherif7523]

Concerned *hmmmmmm*

[@samuelwan4346]

PUN CITY!!!!

[@kittenswithketchup]

My favorite fact is that the lowest note in the universe known to man is a B flat 57 octaves below middle C. It comes from the black hole at the center of the Perseus cluster and the peaks of the wave are around 1 million years apart.

[@zissou4978]

Wow, that's some cool fact. Thanks for sharing!

[@originalpmac]

Ugh, tuning to that would take FOREVER

[@kittenswithketchup]

@@originalpmac Gold tier response.

[@potawatomi100]

Love your videos, Tommo. They are informative, fun, engaging and very interesting. The narration, too, I think is very well done!

[@mohammadshayanfazal6149]

Fact : There are more trees than stars in the Milky Way Humans: Not on my watch

[@TommoCarroll]

Haha! That’s depressingly funny 😂

[@FaceOfDad]

there is less sand on the planet earth than there are stars.

[@mohammedfouzan9115]

Wait really? That many trees? But like Benjamin said I also thought there are more stars than sand So that mean there are more trees than sand... I bet mrbeast did that

[@nekro1977]

@@mohammedfouzan9115 more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way. theres more stars in the universe than grains of sand. Theres also more stars in the universe than trees on earth.

[@mohammedfouzan9115]

@@nekro1977 what First you said more trees then stars then at the end you said more stars than trees, I think it should be more stars than trees

[@edwarddurrans8489]

A mathematician I'd recently met and I were discussing the birthday "paradox", only to find out we have the same birthday!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Just like the simulations.

[@bumbo222]

Hey, when is your birthday? Maybe we share the same one!

[@deecee6780]

@@bumbo222 April 14 here haha. Any famous person/s with the same date?

[@Al.j.Vasquez]

That's a bitchslap of irony if you were sceptic about it.

[@bumbo222]

@@deecee6780 Haha, my birthday is March 14! Aka pi day. What is the coincidence we share the same day but in different months?!

[@vXv_Cobra_vXv]

Inability to tickle yourself is FALSE. The roof of my mouth is VERY ticklish using only my tongue (especially since I started using dentures)

[@ethanbove629]

The quality on this channel never ceases to surprise me

[@TommoCarroll]

The quality of your channel name has just surprised me. Nicely done!

[@ethanbove629]

@@TommoCarroll Haha! Thanks

[@КотБеленький-д6т]

You shouldve added a fact about how quickly humans forget things because when you asked which one was my favourite, i realised i couldn't remember a single one

[@deathpie24]

Short-term memory is like 20 seconds

[@mquietsch6736]

This is also due to the fact that they are talking so bloody fast and don't leave even a second to think over what they said between the facts. Basically these were pretty remarkable facts, but listening without being able to memorise them is a waste of time. smh ... Give me a book each time...

[@Coccinelf]

@@mquietsch6736 Yeah I agree, English is not my first language and I'm stoned with a certain vaccine. This video hit really hard.

[@Gilthans]

"If you have 2 legs, you have more legs than the average human" Mind=Blown

[@bumbo222]

So in a way they are saying I am not the average human because I have two legs and the average has 1.999999999999 legs.

[@user-uq1fq6gs3i]

@@bumbo222 No, that’s not how averages work. For tings like humans you cannot use a mean to calculate an average, because no human have .9 of a leg. Basically you have to use the mode, which is a much better method of average in this case. Meaning that the average human has 2 legs, which is correct.

[@djinthemixxX]

@@user-uq1fq6gs3i some ppl miss a toe. isnt that .9 of a leg? ;)

[@catlover7015]

It took me a whole ten seconds to realize what they meant by that

[@abdhulhackul2620]

@@catlover7015 what? Is it the comment above where 1.999 percent because of amputees??

[@bobthreetimes2286]

the darkness blind spot one is interesting because i always debated whether a light in my room exists at night because i can see it in the side of my view but not when looking directly at it

[@jkent9915]

“You can fit all the planets in the our solar system between the earth and moon.” That’s pretty crazy but the sun is still 3 times larger than that gap.

[@jacksonsmith2955]

...wait, that's it? damn, i kinda assumed it was bigger honestly

[@skysight1553]

@@jacksonsmith2955 do you realize how far moon is from earth.

[@jacksonsmith2955]

@@skysight1553 I just always assume that the sun is way bigger than I think it is.

[@garrick2781]

The Chinese for penguin 企鵝 actually means standing goose, it just happens that the character for standing is also been used in the phrase that means business

[@oldsguy354]

I misheard him and thought he said pangolin, which made it even more abstract for me.

[@MrNicePotato]

Yeah, but business goose sounds funnier so I'd believe that.

[@christianearle5605]

Baby’s: have gold in their hair. Me: going to an orphanage...

[@gunslingingbird74]

Baby's = something appertaining to a baby. Babies = more than one baby. Please take a basic grammar class before further posting comments on the internet.

[@christianearle5605]

@@gunslingingbird74 I’m sorry ;-;

[@AndrewThibeault]

Yes but they have gold nanoparticles, which are very, very hard to isolate out of a substance. You'd have better luck collecting the iridium and platinum from car exhaust dust on the side of the freeway. 😉 (no really, catalytic converters in gas powered cars use rare metals to catalyze reactions with reactive nitrogen gasses from combustion, and some portion of that catalyst is lost as dust on the side of the road. You can actually collect the dust and get iridium from it, but you don't get a lot and you'll need to use a kiln.)

[@WeeTheDuck]

These orphans are getting OBLITERATED. If you get the reference, you should subscribe to Technoblade

[@darthgroot1309]

Orphans: Why do I hear Pigstep?

[@thomasmount3530]

That Siberian Tiger is half the length of a London bus was definitely my favorite!

[@Anton-cg7og]

Schools: "Are you kidding me? That's insultingly low."

[@milkywegian]

nice ksp pfp

[@Mephisto69420]

here's your 69th like

[@len322]

I love how tom scott, whenever he's not filming videos, is ALWAYS at the same pub with his friends

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Especially considering he just gets a pint of water.

[@AzurisSheer]

it *is* a cool superpower

[@Jesse__H]

14:52 A new paper has shown that the Elephant Nose Fish uses complex language to communicate - the first fish to have been shown to do so!

[@ErikErosa]

This sounds super cool. Any chance we could get a link?

[@nkronert]

So it doesn't just look weird after all 😸

[@louisrobitaille5810]

14:35 Emus are also the only animal to have ever won a war against humans (in Australia).

[@marypeterson506]

My favorite was "If you have two legs, you have more legs than the average human" 😂

[@shreya...007]

I still don't get it..... Please don't roast me I'm not stupid

[@anzacxlag2606]

@@shreya...007 Some people have one or no legs due to amputation or birth defects. 7 billion people, most have 2 legs but not all, so there is less than 14 billion legs. So, on average, less than 2 legs per person.

[@shreya...007]

Thank you for explaining it 💖💖

[@Nohorizon1]

Some of these facts are actually pretty cool to know.. Anything that leaves me more intelligent than before is definitely not useless. Good work!!

[@bamb8s436]

Knowledge and intelligence r 2 completely different things

[@Monjipour]

i'm still doubting one of the last ones: you can't tickle yourself I can assure you, I can tickle myself. Most people can. Try rubbing the tip of your tongue on your pallet, most people are ticklish there.

[@bananaeclipse3324]

A true tickle, the one where you can’t help to start moving and stuff, you can’t do to yourself.

[@ms06rider]

@@bananaeclipse3324 Can't tell about the "and stuff" part because that could kinda include a lot, but I can certainly tickle myself so much that I move involuntarily.

[@bananaeclipse3324]

I say “and stuff” to mean “you know what I mean”. I’m just not in the mood to perfectly explain everything that goes into it. Here is the definition: lightly touch or prod (a person or a part of the body) in a way that causes itching and often laughter. I’m too lazy to explain why that only mean to someone else.

[@PRIMEVAL543]

Ah, oh god... A tomato has 7000 more genes than a human... I was like... where the f does it store all those jeans O_o

[@matthewdeacon4877]

In the seam

[@monalisa3510]

In your mom

[@maxblair3317]

9:01 absolutely blew my mind. This is the best example of the scale of things around us that I've ever been told!

[@ilmbutton]

The shoelaces experiencing 7g of force was my favorite one. Its nice to know why they keep coming untied, it also speaks to the power of the double knot!

[@AcolyteOfLucifer]

bro just levitate everywhere, problem solved

[@randomfamilyvideos2728]

@@watchusaiyankakaren This is true, and it would be interesting to do a study on how many people know this. I'm guessing close to 50% of people tie their shoes wrong.

[@earthimmigrant]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4TFlnyYadecgZI This video beautifully explains the problem with ‘granny knots’. If your shoelaces come undone on their own with any regularity, this is truly one simple trick that will change your life!

[@dianeridley9804]

Thank you, Tom Scott, for the best laugh I've had quite in a long time.

[@Corporis]

This is some excellent company to sho up alongside. Thanks for including me bud!

[@TommoCarroll]

Thank YOU for taking part! Lots of love for ya matey!

[@williamcadence]

You can totally tickle yourself, my feet are ridiculously sensitive to tickling and I can’t touch the soles of my own feet without reacting

[@t3601su]

My new year's resolution in the late 70s was that i wouldn't make any more new year's resolutions. So far, so good.

[@lesnyk255]

"It is impossible to tickle yourself." WRONG. I cannot scratch the bottom of my own feet - it tickles too much.

[@MarcusHawksley]

Also people can tickle the roof of their mouth with their tongue 😛

[@itsjustleo3371]

yes i was thinking the same thing, that statement is absolute bs. i hate when it itches on my sole :(

[@RichardBronosky]

@@MarcusHawksley I came here to say both of these things.

[@lesnyk255]

@Not Applicable Not according to the number of commenters who've weighed in on the subject

[@thefisherking78]

😂

[@uchihazoro2083]

This video: solid 15 minutes of useless science facts School : those are rookie numbers

[@jacobwhite1897]

Lol

[@BigDrawls79]

Things to do: 1. Move to point Nemo…

[@HarshRaj-xd6ix]

2:43 LOL I literally laughed so hard

[@dereksummers8598]

For me, best video on KZbin. This is the “useless” type knowledge that I enjoy learning and sharing. I have ALOT of “useless knowledge” and yet only knew about 1/4 of these facts. Great video guys

[@SeansWoodBarn]

This was an amazing collaboration of facts from some really cool KZbinrs! Thanks for putting it together. It took me two hours to watch because everything was so intriguing I paused the video to research the topic some more.

[@ЭнрикеЧурин]

So it was a whole 2 hours of useless information for you

[@iNinBreak]

the blind spot in the middle of the night is something that makes so much sense since everytime its dark i tend to look with my (near) peripheral view but never knew why

[@AlexDainisPhD]

This entire video was delightful and made me very happy. A very good start to 2021!

[@TommoCarroll]

Thanks for getting involved Alex :) really happy to have your poop perfume fact in the video 😂

[@erosebud123]

I love business goose, it is the purest explanation of what a penguin is

[@garrick2781]

Sorry to break it to you, but it actually means standing goose, it just happens that the character meaning stand can also be used in phrase business

[@AdelleOverton]

"The world's oldest rose is over 1000 years old, planted in 1815." That maths isn't correct... Did you mean 815? 🤔😳

[@Olivia-vs5mz]

I was a bit confused at that part too.I looked it up and it’s actually 815, not 1815

[@AndrewThibeault]

No it's actually 2815, we've all just been lying to you. You're in your own Truman show where you think it's still 2021.

[@porguinturtle3854]

@@AndrewThibeault Wake up, the accident was not your fault

[@lenymatlala6124]

👍🏽

[@lenymatlala6124]

👍🏽

[@jeepmega629]

You’ve gained a subscriber man, this video was very fun!

[@TommoCarroll]

Welcome to the herd! I actually released a sequel to this a few days ago too :)

[@jeepmega629]

@@TommoCarroll Great! I will make sure to watch it!

[@dukeshaver199]

Such a freaking good video!! I ran into my daughter's and my sister's room so many times to tell them cool facts. They were so upset lol

[@plutoniumin]

I wouldn't be mad at all!

[@kenwaid8239]

Why didn’t you grab them and have them watch the video with you for some quality family time?

[@dao6435]

... why does your sister and daughter have a room together...?

[@knightlon]

How does someone live with both their daughter and their sister?

[@Afro_Blue]

That rope fact actually blows my mind, so interesting

[@737smartin]

My favorite, too. ✌️

[@gruhl6122]

I was sure this was wrong until I worked out the math myself. Crazy.

[@samuelkabakoff5217]

@@gruhl6122 it doesn’t make any sense. If you calculate the circumference of the rope for something with a foot more radius than it’s got to be proportionality longer. Like calculate the diameter of the earth with its actual radius I’m feet, and then radius +1, it’s got to be a whole lot more than 6 feet difference

[@samuelkabakoff5217]

@@gruhl6122 nm I just thought it through. So one foot of radius always equals about 6 feet of diameter

[@gruhl6122]

@@samuelkabakoff5217 exactly, except I think you meant circumference instead of diameter. And one inch more of radius equals about 6.28 inches of circumference, i.e., 2Xpi more inches.

[@adamkaldeway4794]

“It is impossible to tickle yourself” Me: Tickles the roof of my mouth.

[@EditorDan]

The roof of my mouth wont stop tingling now

[@jonathans1759]

I vaguely remember someone has tried to make a self tickle machine (built in signal delay).

[@ryankiel7553]

POV: you just tried ticking the roof of your mouth

[@ditzfough]

Actually 4-10% of ppl can tickle themselves and it linked to traits of schitzophrenia. Source Smithsonian magazine.

[@rishenreni7618]

@@ditzfough After realising *oh shit*

[@raj6913]

14:04 The world's oldest living rose is 1000 years old planted in Germany in 1815. What?

[@jssamp4442]

My favorite is the time traveling German rose at 14:06. It was planted in 1815 but it is over 1000 years old. Must be a relativity time dilation thing.

[@andersquist8436]

He meant to say the year 815.

[@nichcool4651]

Thank god, I was beginning to wonder whether there's something wrong with my maths center

[@2520WasTaken]

actually I noticed it too

[@kindlin]

I actually didnt hear the -teen until you pointed it out, I thought he said it right. My brain is fixing math for me without me noticing.

[@intheendtherewasonlybread1315]

Never mind I missread your comment 💀😅

[@jogoutorusa9181]

"I'm now in Alaska where are you?" "Oh I'm on Hawaii, I'm waiting for it to drift there"

[@eternaldarkness3139]

Won't be long, those two islands are already so close to each other. I've seen plenty of US maps.

[@phildane7411]

Still quicker than flying there by Ryanair (if the few that route).

[@bryan.d0616]

@@eternaldarkness3139 Why is Alaska cold if it's right next to Hawaii?

[@eternaldarkness3139]

@@bryan.d0616 I blame flat Earther's...

[@pedropesserl]

5:03 so that's why when I'm looking directly at a star it kind of disappears, but when I look around it I can see it! I always wondered why that happened

[@garrylarry890]

Here’s my favourite one: “there are more hydrogen atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the world”

[@Dragoninja26]

My favorite was Tom Scott's (also one of his videos was the previous video i watched), but most of them were interesting and it's good to see so many great science people working together even on just some silly stuff like this

[@alansmithee419]

9:30 "Don't worry, we'll be dead long before that." Yeah not very comforting.

[@jackgorman2177]

Fr this made me scared of death

[@savasorama]

14:03 oldest living rose is over 1000 years old planted in Germany in 1815. So we are in 2815 🧐

[@kalin83]

i tought of that to. dont get it. They know alot of science but suck at math.

[@JH-we7xf]

It could have also been a slip of the tongue. It's presence has been documented in Germany since 815.

[@johnpinion8033]

Slight variations arise in the tale of the establishment of the diocese by King Louis the Pious at Hildesheim in 815 but the rose bush is a common theme in all versions.

[@eriklarsen6790]

@@kalin83 I’m sure they just accidentally misspoke

[@navneethballal9427]

He meant to say 815.

[@billy9144]

This is the best fact video I've seen! I actually had to think about each one and looked a whole bunch of them up. Very cool stuff, I learned a lot! Thank you! I suspect the birthday paradox is because in certain months, there are more babies born than others. In the US there is around 80-90K discrepancy between the highest month and the lowest, multiply that over 20 years and you have a TON more people born in July & August, than any other month, thus the 50% of 2 people sharing a birthday in that period.