Oh, is you ready?
Because the facts are coming at you lickety split.
Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind.
The moon is about one 400th the size of our
sun, but is also one 400th the distance from Earth,
which results in the moon and the sun being the
same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by
any other known planet moon combination.
Billy west, who does the voice of Philip J.
Fry on Futurama, among other characters, intentionally made
Fry's voice close to his natural voice.
He did this as a job security measure because
it would make it more difficult to replace him.
When theatrical producer David Merrick got bad reviews for
his 1961 musical, he found seven random denizens of
New York with names identical to those of top
seven theater critics at the time.
He asked the civilians to talk ecstatically
about the musical, then published an ad
with their praises and names.
The NFL once made a committee to falsify information
to cover up brain damage in their players.
If you publish a book in Norway, the government will
buy 1000 copies, or even 1500 if it's a children's
book and distribute them to libraries throughout the country.
Schwarzenegger faked interest in the movie stop or my mom
will shoot to trick Stallone into starring in it.
Stallone later called the movie maybe one of
the worst films in the entire solar system,
including Alien productions we've never seen.
In 1959, a white man from Texas
disguised himself as a black man and
traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses.
After publishing his experiences with racism, he
was forced to move to Mexico for
several years due to death threats.
A woman who successfully underwent a lung transplant
went into anaphylactic shock after eating peanut butter.
Prior to her transplant, she never
had any problems eating peanuts.
She learned that the twelve year old who
donated the lungs had had a peanut allergy
and had died from an anaphylactic shock.
Comedian Ryan Stiles, from whose line
is it anyway, has been a frequent
fundraiser for children with burn injuries.
He's raised over $500,000 for burned children recovery
centers since 2009, helping the foundation to recover
from the economic crash of 2008.
Wayne Gretzky is the only hockey player to have
ever scored over 200 points in a single season,
and he did so a total of four times.
His stunning success as a hockey player was immortalized
in the fact that not only did his own
team retire 99, which was Gretzky's jersey number, but
the league as a whole did as well.
When Brendan Shanahan was 14 years old, he
asked star hockey player Rick Vive for an
autograph, but he was rudely brushed away.
Four years later, Shanahan was in the NHL
and fought and beat up vive for the
first time that they played against each other.
While filming Spiderman Homecoming from 2017,
Michael Keaton would whisper I'm Batman to Tom Holland
during fight scenes, Holland said, we have a fight
in the movie and I punch him.
He turns around and says in a deep voice, I'm Batman.
And he kept doing Batman quotes on set.
The drink eight glasses of water a
day thing is based on a 1945
recommendation that actually has no medical basis.
The current recommendation is drink when you're thirsty,
unless you're outside on a hot day or
are elderly, then drink a bit more.
When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game
of Thrones, she refused to sit on the
Iron Throne because there's a law disallowing her
from sitting on a foreign throne.
Joseph Bazalgette the man who designed London sewers
in the 1860s, said, well, we're only going to
do this once and there's always room for the
unforeseen, and doubled the pipe diameter.
If he had not done this, it would have overflowed
in the 1960s and is still in use today.
Kelly a dolphin sorry, let me try it again.
Kelly's a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing
them litter in dead seagulls to clean her pool.
She started hiding fish under a rock in her
pool, then used the fish to lure gulls, which
she brought to her trainers to get more fish.
She taught her calf the same strategy
who taught more calves dolphin calves.
Soon after Bill Gates had gone to start Microsoft,
a Harvard professor who had worked with him recalled
he had moved to Albuquerque to run a small
company, writing code for microprocessors, of all things.
I remember thinking, such a brilliant kid.
What a waste.
The first man to finish the 1904 Olympic
marathon rode in a car half the race.
The actual winner had to be carried across
the finish line after his coaches gave him
a mix of brandy and eggs.
The fourth place winner stole two peaches
from a spectator, ate rotten apples from
an orchard and then took a nap.
It seems the Olympics have changed a bit. Yeah.
In 2014, there was a 7500 player battle
in Eve online, with thousands of ships being
destroyed and an estimated $300,000 of real world
money being lost in the conflict.
Only 48 people were rescued out of 212
cruise ship overboard incidents from 2009 to 2019.
That's not very promising.
It's always sunny in Philadelphia, has never
won an Emmy in its entire run.
It has never even been nominated in a
major category with three nominations for outstanding stunt
coordination being the only ones it's ever received.
Oh, Ned wants in. Hold on. Give me a second.
I have a kitty that wants attention.
Want to say hi to everybody, Ned? Hello.
My name's Ned.
I'm baby Ned.
These are the facts. Okay? I love you.
The eastern front alone is enough to make
World War II one of the, if not
the single deadliest war of all time.
Of the approximately 40 million deaths caused by
World War II, about 40 million of them
were caused on the eastern front.
The smallest body of water that has
a perceptible tide is Lake Superior.
The Simpsons show within a show the itchy and
scratchy show isn't actually based on Tom and Jerry.
It's based on a more obscure cartoon
called Herman and catnip, which was notorious
for being violent and mean spirited.
Roughly one in eight people, or 12.3% in the
USA, live in New York City, Chicago or LA.
Urban areas.
These urban areas account for
only 0.2% of America's land.
The expression's ignorance is bliss,
The end justifies
the means, and honor among thieves are all
attributed to a roman slave, Publilius Syrus.
Gargoyles on buildings were used to divert water
on the roof away from the building by
spraying the water through the mouth.
It's related to the word gargle.
In 2023, National Geographic magazine cut 17 editorial positions,
including all of the publication staff writers and editors
who have been on staff for 40 years.
The magazine still had more than 1.7
million subscribers at the end of 2022.
Loyalty, am I right?
Victor Lustig was a con artist who famously sold the
Eiffel Tower twice in 1925 to scrap metal dealers.
They were two of the most audacious scams in history.
In 1982, 28 year old Vladimir Smirnoff
ranked number one in the world for fencing,
but was killed at the world fencing championships
when a broken foil pierced his mask, entering
his eye socket and penetrated his frontal lobe.
The incident was actually the reason why fencing
uniforms now include Kevlar as a standard.
Hi, my boy. I know.
I love you, Ned.
I'm trying to film buddy, son. Okay?
Say hi to everybody. Okay? Okay.
I got to get back to it. I love you.
I'll snuggle you in a bit. Kitty.
Glitter all over me now.
Michael Jordan scored 38 points against the
Utah Jazz in 1997 despite suffering vomiting
and diarrhea from food poisoning.
The flu game shoes he wore were later given to a
ball boy from the Utah Jazz. In 1960, some 14,000 cats
were dropped by parachute over Borneo to combat a rat plague.
But it actually worked.
Similar to UFOs, or more recently, UAPs,
the US Navy has a classification for
unidentified submerged objects, or usos.
These are usually large, unidentified marine animals
and have caused more damage to naval
vessels than ufos have to planes.
Modern birds come from four distinct
lineages that survived the asteroid impact.
These are ostriches and relatives.
Water fowl, ground living fowl and modern birds.
Minecraft became the first video game to ever
reach 300 million copies sold worldwide, and this
equates to having sold 47 copies per minute
every minute since the game's release in 2011.
Since 1843, the US treasury has held an
account for donating directly to the government.
Yeah, I'll get right on that.
US zip codes as we know it only started in the 1960s.
There's a family run butcher shop in Takasago City
in western Japan that sells Kobe beef croquettes, and
they're so popular that there's a waiting list for
them that is, wait for it 30 years long.
Marcus Licinius Crassus, often called the richest man
in Rome in the time of Julius Caesar,
created the first ever roman fire brigade.
However, the brigade wouldn't put out the fire
until the owner would sell the property in
question to him for a miserable price.
Modern Africa is associated with large
animals like elephants, lions, and rhinos.
But large mammals had a global distribution until
a mass extinction roughly 11,700 years ago.
And Africa is simply the only continent
that retained a large amount of them.
The feels like temperature refers to an
actual physical difference in how quickly your
body loses heat, rather than just how
the temperature is perceived psychologically.
The Cabbage Patch Kids War of 1983 was
a phenomenon where parents across the United States
engaged in frenzied shopping battles to secure cabbage
patch kids dolls for Christmas.
The demand for these dolls far exceeded the supply,
leading to store stampedes, fights, and even injuries.
The CPR doll is modeled after a real person.
Her name was L'Inconnue de la Seine and she
drowned in a river near Paris.
She has come to be known
as the world's most kissed face.
The island of Okracoke in North Carolina
was the location where the pirate blackbeard
died on November of 1718.
Shorts were once considered taboo in America.
The city of Honesdale, PA, actually banned
the wearing of shorts in 1938.
They said, and I quote, honesdale is
a modest town, not a bathing beach.
Then, in May of 1959, Plattsburg, New York, banned
the wearing of shorts by anyone over 16.
Violators received a $25 fine or 25 days in jail.
Jan Palash was a student at Prague University
in January of 1969 when he self-immolated in
protest of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
26 other selfimulations were made, and Jan became
an icon of czech freedom and eventually a
national hero after the velvet revolution.
Candle wicks have an asymmetrical braiding.
When it burns, it curls on that side.
Before that invention, you actually had to trim the
wick every few hours as your candle would smoke.
The IRS cannot cash single checks, including
cashier's checks, for more than $100 million.
This is not an IRS limit, but instead,
the Federal Reserve banks can't handle checks in
the automated system with that many digits due
to ten digit limits in the automated check
processing equipment and field designation.
There is, however, a provision for
oneoff exceptions such as lottery winnings.
NASA actually has their own SWAT team.
Yes, you heard that right.
Only about 20% of homes in the United Kingdom
are completely detached with zero walls, whereas about 85%
of homes in the US are detached.
That's 50 facts.
Yeah. Bye now.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
And if you enjoyed this, please share it and
leave a like, both help me out a lot.
And of course, an extra special thank you to
my channel members who get exclusive access to the
bloopers from this video, which is one of the
clickable links on screen right now.
I'll see you guys next time. Much love.