25 Strange Facts About Well Known Cities

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  • Are there really no stop signs in Paris? And what’s the reason that the building in Times Square is almost completely empty?
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    Are there really no stop signs in Paris? And what’s the reason that the building in Times Square is almost completely empty?You might think you know these world-famous cities, but they each have their strange little secrets. And we’ve compiled some of the best from all around the world. From the spy capital of World War 2 to the animal that serves as Norway’s colonel-in-chief. Here are 25 Strange Facts About Well Known Cities
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    Author: Jackson Oka
    Music: Old World Saga by Hanu Dixit
    Chapters:
    0:00 - Intro
    0:18 - Christ the Redeemer is struck by lightning four times a year
    1:02 - Museum filled with venomous spiders
    1:35 - Paris doesn’t have STOP signs
    2:13 - Utrecht has party hats on CCTV cameras
    2:54 - Greece: An entire underground ancient city
    3:33 - Hamburg walls use hydrophobic paint
    4:07 - Trullo was built to evade taxes
    4:55 - Hong Kong has a half-mile-long escalator
    5:29 - Melbourne used to be named Batmania
    6:15 - Lisbon and Estoril were full of spies in World War 2
    6:53 - Warsaw has the narrowest house in the world
    7:30 - The Happy Meal originated in Kansas City
    8:17 - Red Bull was derived from a drink called Krating Daeng
    9:11 - The Bintangor tree in Malaysia may cure AIDS
    9:41 - Rome has a museum dedicated to pasta
    10:20 - The City of Mumbai was formed from 7 islands
    10:55 - New York’s ‘Hog Island’ Mysteriously Vanished
    11:35 - The iconic palm trees of Los Angeles were imported from Mexico
    12:08 - Tokyo’s subways have dedicated ‘pushers’
    13:10 - The empty building in the middle of Times Square
    13:42 - Old Sacramento underneath the city
    14:30 - Port Royal - the wickedest city on Earth
    15:15 - Norway’s unlikely colonel-in-chief..in Edinburgh?
    15:55 - Australia’s first police force was convicts
    16:27 - Galesnjak, Croatia - a romantically shaped island
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  • @list25
    @list25  13 днів тому +3

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  • @mrpeterjb69
    @mrpeterjb69 12 днів тому +14

    The last time I checked, Malaysia was a country, not a city

  • @brentonlively9322
    @brentonlively9322 11 днів тому +6

    Appreciate all the work Mike and List25 crew does to bring us all the great content

  • @TheBlindDyslexic
    @TheBlindDyslexic 12 днів тому +4

    Until the government felt it was Far too dangerous, a father and son duo used to clean the Redemer stature.

  • @AshesAshes44
    @AshesAshes44 12 днів тому +6

    Ermigherd! Party hats on cameras is an option?!! BRB, I need to find my party hats and glue sticks

  • @saltields7649
    @saltields7649 12 днів тому +8

    Seattle WA also has an underground Seattle. Everette WA is Boeing’s biggest plant and at one time had its own weather.

  • @mclarkins
    @mclarkins 12 днів тому +2

    I live in Lake City, Minnesota. The town where Water Skiing was invented. It was all thanks to a gentleman named Ralph Samuelson.

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +1

      Thank you Mr Samuelson. As a free child growing up in Alabama all we had were aluminum boats, fishing rods, water ski's and our imaginations. As a 50 yr old the dr asked about my broken arm. "Have you ever had a broken bone before?" 🙄 1 or 2. Ok 6. But I am having a great time✌

  • @micklofty
    @micklofty 10 днів тому +2

    In the early days of Australia we turned small time criminals into police now the police academy turns good people into great criminals. Rodger Rodgerson for first example

  • @keivondricbrown8579
    @keivondricbrown8579 12 днів тому +2

    3:58 was PERFECTLY DELIVERED😂😂😂

  • @tourmalino3205
    @tourmalino3205 11 днів тому +3

    Heart? that island looks like a ballsack, lol

  • @michaelcouzens5633
    @michaelcouzens5633 12 днів тому +4

    I've driven in Paris & it's a nightmare 😮

  • @sparkyprojects
    @sparkyprojects 12 днів тому +3

    The channel 'The B1M' ay the times square building is being redeveloped, and opening in 2025.

  • @sheilaholmes8455
    @sheilaholmes8455 11 днів тому +1

    They have tours of the tunnels underneath Old Sacramento.
    And we have palm trees too.

  • @T-W-M
    @T-W-M 12 днів тому +3

    Let’s go! LIST 25 back at it!

  • @joshlunt7827
    @joshlunt7827 7 днів тому

    Interesting video as always, Mike!

  • @paulscott5379
    @paulscott5379 12 днів тому +3

    Utrecht trying to be Glagow with their wee hats 😂, we put cones on statues 😊

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +1

      I taught 15 yr olds about Trig, Geo, and Calculus. So I put cones on the kids. - JK, don't come for me.

  • @jessicacanfield5058
    @jessicacanfield5058 12 днів тому +1

    I lived about an hour south from L.A. most of my life and have never heard about the palm trees or that fact that more were planted for the Olympics

  • @HoV326
    @HoV326 11 днів тому +1

    You could not pay me enough to get on a subway in Tokyo rush hour. Honest to God, I would rather walk or wait

  • @4ak458
    @4ak458 12 днів тому +1

    The 34th Infantry Division, also known as the Red Bulls, was one of the first US units to see action in World War II. The division's involvement in the war included:
    North Africa My dad was in the 34th. I have the Red Bull patch from his uniform. Mike, no criticism about your comments. I love list 25 and believe you like history. Thought you might find this interesting.

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +1

      Thank you to the whole family for the service and sacrifice.🌟

  • @mCblue79
    @mCblue79 12 днів тому +4

    FUN FACT: There's an actual train station in Melbourne named Batman 😁

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +1

      Cool! There's a Melbourne in Florida, loaded with all the things you find in NSW...roller coasters, gators, deadly snakes...

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 8 днів тому

      I now have an earworm, the 1960s Batman TV series. 😁

    • @mCblue79
      @mCblue79 8 днів тому

      @@alwaysflushinpublic Melbourne is in Victoria. Sydney is in NSW

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 7 днів тому +1

      @@mCblue79 May mokol toronga whakangau with aparangi from makutu. Kia Ora

    • @mCblue79
      @mCblue79 7 днів тому +1

      @@alwaysflushinpublic kia pai to haerenga whakangau teina👍

  • @missrita1826
    @missrita1826 12 днів тому +4

    The men might as well turn side ways to use the walls for a toilet, maybe they won't get sprayed back with their own pee.

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +2

      As a teen 2 friends and I took off to find New Orleans' famous French Quarter. We turned down a dark road and found 4 naked men making wall art at which point we screamed "FOUND IT"

  • @CybeleCotter
    @CybeleCotter 9 днів тому +1

    "I believe...that I made a mistake...when I bought a 30-story, one-room building." -- Steve Martin

  • @buckysgirl4945
    @buckysgirl4945 11 днів тому +1

    People from all over the U.S. send their Valentines through my little home city of Loveland, CO to get the yearly stamp.

  • @marypasco2213
    @marypasco2213 11 днів тому +1

    Absolutely LOVE to listen to you pronounce places/peoples names of the world. Do you need to practice a lot, or does it just come naturally? ❤

    • @list25
      @list25  11 днів тому +1

      Both! LoL depending on the word

    • @marypasco2213
      @marypasco2213 10 днів тому

      @list25 - Give me a few weeks, and my accent will sound just like the locals.

  • @michellewood3468
    @michellewood3468 11 днів тому

    Awesome 🤩 these cities have amazing history and culture ❤

  • @rq1851
    @rq1851 6 днів тому

    Downtown's "underground" is a system of tunnels 20 feet below Houston's Downtown streets and more than six miles long. Starting in the 1930s as a tunnel between two movie theaters, today Downtown's subterranean network connects 95 city blocks and has weekday workday food, shops and services.

  • @teemusid
    @teemusid 11 днів тому +1

    I played baseball with a pair of Batman brothers.

  • @barnesy31
    @barnesy31 10 днів тому +1

    love the shirt !!

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 8 днів тому

    Los Angeles isn't the only place with imported palm trees. You can find them in parks in Cornwall and other parts of South West England too.

  • @T-W-M
    @T-W-M 8 днів тому +1

    That Poland thinnest house.
    You mean every single apartment in NYC?

  • @TheBlindDyslexic
    @TheBlindDyslexic 12 днів тому

    Are you talking about Burger Chef? God I'd love for that place to come back.
    Plus, keep the Retro look to the joint.

  • @jodyharnish9104
    @jodyharnish9104 9 днів тому +1

    Good job pronouncing Utrecht, Mike! Dutch is a tricky language.

  • @krisnayres
    @krisnayres 3 дні тому

    The longest escalator in the Western hemisphere is in my town-Wheaton, Maryland.

  • @DneilB007
    @DneilB007 11 днів тому +1

    Hey Mike, just checking in to see if you care that Florida is just one win away from the Stanley Cup, or if (as a Lightning fan) you’re cheering for an Edmonton Oilers comeback?

  • @autistictreasures72
    @autistictreasures72 11 днів тому +1

    There’s a whole city underneath seattle

  • @justahappylittlebunny2656
    @justahappylittlebunny2656 12 днів тому +3

    Apparently no one can tell the French what to do ... surprised not .

  • @krazeekidz3
    @krazeekidz3 11 днів тому

    Billings, Montana has many intersections without stop signs, too!

  • @teresafinch7790
    @teresafinch7790 11 днів тому

    That's Finland of my list of places to go.

  • @davidduvall1947
    @davidduvall1947 8 днів тому

    In Portland, Maine, the location of the old plague house became a meat processing plant. Yum!

  • @djphlange
    @djphlange 9 днів тому +1

    With the hydrophobic walls, if you pee at an angle....then you wont get any splash lol
    Just turning maybe 45⁰ and that solves the splash back issue

  • @CakeInvasion11
    @CakeInvasion11 11 днів тому +1

    Montreal's underground city

  • @adpink3069
    @adpink3069 11 днів тому

    ❤25

  • @alwaysflushinpublic
    @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +1

    As all 8 yr olds in Georgia know, Gen Sherman burned a big boy path from a corner, through Atlanta, down to Savannah. As all 12 yr olds know he found lovely cocktails to cool his brow, and women willing to convince him why he should spare the town. What no one knows is that Gen Sherman's direct descendent was born, raised and still lives...in Atlanta. OK, so he knows, his wife know, his sister knows....and that's about it.🙀😹😼And his cats Abe, Lincoln, Carter (who has liver complaints) and Tallulah Bankhead who was confused about gender for a while but they finally figured themself out.🐊🐊

  • @manueltapia1859
    @manueltapia1859 11 днів тому

    Mike thanks for this video, with the happy meal toys I saw in another video was the idea of a guatemalan couple, don't know is true 🤔
    To be more exact tha fan palm Washingtonia filifera is native from Sonora, México my hometown state 🎉❤

  • @paulsarnik8506
    @paulsarnik8506 12 днів тому +1

    9:51 Only thing wrong is Apizza wasn't invented in Italy 🇺🇲🤓😎✌🏼

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +1

      True. And the morons selling NYC hotdogs and NY Pizza, down on Peachtree St, Atlanta is a freaking liar.

  • @sarahsmith4205
    @sarahsmith4205 11 днів тому

    Even when there are stop signs people still dont pay attention to them

  • @chandellefelts981
    @chandellefelts981 11 днів тому

    10:04 bless you

  • @smileyhugar2657
    @smileyhugar2657 12 днів тому +2

    my town is noted for the worlds worse train derailment

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +1

      The one in Ohio?

    • @martingriff101
      @martingriff101 11 днів тому +1

      @@alwaysflushinpublic The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the deadliest recorded train disaster in history, claiming the lives of at least 1,700 people.

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 7 днів тому

      @@martingriff101 TY. Learn a little every day!

  • @tdyerwestfield
    @tdyerwestfield 12 днів тому +1

    What's the founding of Red Bull got to do with well known cities exactly?

  • @donnatheroux841
    @donnatheroux841 12 днів тому +1

    👍👍👍👍🔥❤️

  • @jeff37801mf
    @jeff37801mf 11 днів тому

    Carleton Place Ontario, birthplace of the man credited with shooting down the Red Baron in WW1, also residence to writers of the Harty Boys series of books.

  • @BrimHawk
    @BrimHawk 11 днів тому

    I've been watching since before Juan. I forget the name of the guy that did the narration off screen.

    • @list25
      @list25  11 днів тому +1

      Our original narrator was David

  • @blackplatypus6755
    @blackplatypus6755 2 дні тому

    Number two explains a lot about the current state of Australian police force's !

  • @CybeleCotter
    @CybeleCotter 9 днів тому

    Old Sacramento is far better than newer Sacramento, which sucks (says former resident.)

  • @peggysuedavis3395
    @peggysuedavis3395 12 днів тому

    Manatees! That's My city's claim to fame.

    • @alwaysflushinpublic
      @alwaysflushinpublic 11 днів тому +2

      They are from there, they came from there, or is it a sports team? Better manatees than hippos I would think.

  • @darraghcorr2520
    @darraghcorr2520 12 днів тому +3

    1:36 If only Paris Did have stop signs, Princess Diana would still be with us.

    • @jujubean54ify
      @jujubean54ify 8 днів тому

      Sadly. But more importantly, her driver was drunk and no one in the car was wearing a seat belt.

  • @markp9621
    @markp9621 11 днів тому

    N07 Did you miss your stop in Tokyo? or was the crush the reason you lost weight. 😅

  • @CybeleCotter
    @CybeleCotter 9 днів тому

    Naples has the best pizza in the world, according to Matteo Lane.

  • @WHAMaTRON
    @WHAMaTRON 12 днів тому

    I’m new here, be nice 👌

  • @arizonarangerbutupsidedown5775
    @arizonarangerbutupsidedown5775 11 днів тому +1

    Next video: 25 interesting facts about diq & bawls in your mouth

  • @andrewbrown4302
    @andrewbrown4302 11 днів тому

    Where on earth is mellben? Do you mean mellbourne 😂

    • @list25
      @list25  11 днів тому +1

      Australians pronounce it Melbin. Next time you run into one ask them if they're from "Mel-born", and see what they say.

  • @jackgibsxxx0750
    @jackgibsxxx0750 12 днів тому

    #7.... I was just thinking about Surgent York and the "Pusher" last night.