500 Facts - mental_floss List Show Ep. 524
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2017
- A list of 500 fun facts, from a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John tells you some of his favorite facts from the past few years of The List Show.
Enjoy your holidays and we'll see you next year!
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I'm not sure why Auto-play showed me this in the summer of 2023, but it made me realize how much I miss the Salon and John Green doing the lists.
Its 2023, Its been fives. I used to watch this with my mom. Warm memories. Seems so long ago.
Does anyone else use this video to go to sleep? I've just found something so satisfying about John Greens voice. I can't be the only one.
would be without the swishing sound fx
Nothing has soothed stress for me more both pre and post-covid era than old episodes of Mental Floss featuring John Green. You mean more than you'll ever know to so many ppl. Thank you John.
I miss these old Mental Floss episodes. :)
44 minutes of mental floss... Is it christmas?
Leophred I mean, next week
Fulano de Tal 5 days and counting down
5 days till Christmas
yes
R/woosh
I had no intention to watch the whole thing, but it happened.
fugithegreat - Same here! 😄
I’m on 166
Little did john know he would completely forget about eyeballs popping out from sneezing only to be replaced with “sneezing is never normal, i never sneeze” 😂
This video was like eating peanuts.... I just couldn't stop.
Thanks John.
I am an elephant, I do not eat peanuts. Darn, broke another keyboard. That is trice this week. mmm three times.
That's a story I used in my book 😂😂
Exactly))
I voted for the purple m&m thru the 1-800 number back in the late 90s.
Purple would have been cool.
9:25 Further to fact# 104...So were the composers of "O Holy Night" and "I am dreaming of a white Christmas" Adolph Adam and Irving Berlin...Happy Holidays!...
So, I LOVE stuff like this, I love facts, random, relevant, irrelevant, fun, weird, all I know is, I'm going to put this on repeat while I sleep for a week and try to become a super-genius.
I watch these videos as I fall asleep almost every night and this was the best thing to see in my sub box! I'm excited for more videos in the new year!
The Boston Bridge also has a pedestrian bridge, so one could say A plane could fly over a car that is driving over a train that is traveling over a person who is walking above a very small boat.
The Bob Ross fact, I cried.
I've just found the ENTIRE reason as to why UA-cam is amazing!!!
BEST CHANNEL EVER................Thank you so very much to the awesome team that put these videos together. It must take an enormous amount of research and 'fact checking.
Well done xxxx
The key given on the 21st birthday is also practiced in the UK and Ireland!
Dogs can distinguish blues from yellows, but cannot tell red from green. Most mammals are red-green color blind, but those who cannot see other colors are very rare. It is believed that the earliest mammals were nocturnal burrowing rodent-like creatures who had little use of color vision and developed a defect causing them to loose the red/green sensing eye pigments that almost all other vertebrates had since before fish became amphibians. Primates later evolved a different red-green receptor, which does not work quite as well as the one shared by birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
Yet I have read that the only colour hedgehogs can see is yellow.
Has anyone video tape the reaction of a dog getting those special glasses that let you see color?
“Making him the richest president ever.....to win the popular vote.”
You couldn’t help yourself with that one could you?
lol i said. too early . when he said it.
Blown away by so many facts in less than 45 minutes. So much fact- and background-checking to do...
“ Just the facts, ma’am “. - Sergeant Joe Friday
Was never said in ANY iteration of Dragnet.
Thank you John. It's 5am on Xmas morning, I'm holding my sick baby and I'm EVEN sicker. This got me through a difficult morning.
How are you and the baby
Watched an amazing doc on Bob Ross and they said that “all” paintings by Bob Ross are kept at their headquarters in storage-and this old ladies house (she discovered him) and he never wanted his stuff sold. So yeah, finding one of those 13 stolen paintings...man, that’d be awesome. Just an FYI😁
Bonus fact for the piggy bank. My 9th great grandfather was one of the first 23 founders of Norwich CT. He was fined in 1658, because a fence on his property failed, and his pigs ruined part of his neighbor's crops. That fence was eventually destroyed, and where it stood is now the Founder's Cemetery.
Anyone have a guess of how many times John Green has mentioned "My chest of books divide amongst my friends" on the internet? I'm confident it's over 10.
Anyone else count out the quarters for the Porkchop Party Fund, frame by frame? I'm counting either $3.75 or $4.00, there were two frames were I wasn't sure if it was 2 or 3 quarters.
I recently discovered your channel and I have a strong feeling to BINGE WATCH EVERYTHING. Thank you for this!
Hello and welcome.
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
Just love the blue flame.
It's not mint in toothpaste that makes oj taste bad (mint and citrus are actually great together) it's the sodium laureth sulfate in most toothpaste that block the sweet receptors on your tongue.
...and maybe, here n there, Floride...not lol...
Oohh that would've been the perfect mental floss fact
So that’s why it tastes like poison instead of a modified mojito - thanks! 👍
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. It didn't feel almost 45 minutes.
I know I was like what?! Already?!
hah! NERD! Oh wait... I did too...
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
Funny fact/story:When Pope John Paul was shot my uncles (Paul & John) were in grade 8 and the kindergarteners misunderstood and thought my uncles were shot. Allegedly the kids were devastated.
Wow, well done! 500 Facts in record time!
White Chocolate does not contain chocolate liquor, but the authentic stuff does contain cocoa butter from the same plant. It is still appropriate to consider it chocolate if it contains either of those ingredients. Real white chocolate is more of a pale yellow rather than white.
And in some places, it's illegal to label your product as "white chocolate" if it doesn't contain cocoa butter. So, beware of "white melts", "white chips" and and "white confection" (or in Australia, "white choc"). If it doesn't say chocolate prominently, check the ingredients!
You haven't lived until you have had an Insomnia White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut cookie with milk on U of I campus at 2:58AM
How many ears does Captain Kirk have?
He has 3: a left ear, a right ear, and a final front ear!
Emily Guo Okay, Hank! 😂
Booking
Except it's howany ears does Spock have not kirk but what ever
@Emily Guo Alright, where's Hank?! :)
🤣 Good one
If " stick to it" could save the day, we would alll be okey dokey. thanks to this guy.
Love this man's job, kudos to him for all his knowledge for us
agreed! it's a shame he doesn't do stuff on this channel anymore! he really was the highlight of it!! the girl erin does a good job too (not as good as john but she's still good) and justin.. well... he's boring af to listen to.
So if the return rate of stolen art is 2-6% it can only be imagined just how many pieces we’ve never seen.
Alex T a lot of the papyri that are in collections today were found in carbage piles. The ancient Egyptians threw them away and due to the dry climate they never decomposed.
But the local farmers used parts of these piles as fertilizer since antiquity. Just imagine how little of a pile that was piled up before 300 AD was left in the 19th century.
Think of all the art that got stolen but was left with a perfect forgery, they say there is a percentage of art that is fakes but the forger was so good they don’t know if it’s the real one or not
The tradition that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was an apple comes from a visual pun commonly found in religious art in the Latin speaking western Roman Catholic Church. In Latin, the word for 'apple' and the word for 'evil' are both spelled "malum," although one word has a long 'a' and the other a short 'a'.
In the Greek speaking Eastern Orthodox Church, this pun made no sense so the fruit was usually shown as a fig or pomegranate.
It's fun looking at the wall behind you.
YOU ARE AMAZING. Thank you!!
27:37 mentions Green Eggs and *Ham*... Should that warrant an addition to the Pork Chop Party Fund? (I'm rusty on the rules.)
This video makes me so happy. Thank you for making my bad day so much better yet again John Green.
I subscribe to many facts UA-cam channels any channels that give a list of topics and information. I want to let you know that John Green by far is the most entertaining host of all that I have watched. Can't get enough of him
John Green... I think you are my fav. Soooo much info.
"to win the popular vote." I love it.
Totally!
Lmfao I was thinking the same thing. Plus he didn't say Washington had that money before he was elected
and yet, Mr. Trump is still YOUR president!
JumpToSafety i don’t think that’s what he meant lmao
31:09 that accident helped scientists map ocean currents accurately for the first time
34:11 Stuff You Missed in History Class has an episode in their podcast archives about The Great Molasses Flood. The really tragic thing about the accident was that it happened in Boston’s North End neighborhood, which is Boston’s Little Italy, and a lot of Italian immigrants were impacted.
It was actually far more tragic than John's peppy delivery would suggest. 21 people died and well more than 100 were injured.
Fun fact: there is a John Green buried in Copp's Hill Burying Ground very near the site of the molasses disaster.
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
Awsome, vids like this are nice to listen to when working alone
Awesome! I think I only knew about 25 of these. Always fun to learn more stuff....says the former librarian who, like all librarians (it's in the blood) loves trivia. Thank you, Team Mental Floss!
Why not do 50 facts on pigs or something to really get that party started
Thoughts And feels that would be fantastic
ua-cam.com/video/GZfbvDZmQVs/v-deo.html
Notice the $20 John drops in at the end of that vid. Didn't see it fall out. Something is fishy 😑😂
Yes! I've been waiting my whole life for this and i didn't even know it
My ex-husband used to annoy the hell out of me, when he would start humming the Grange Hil themed tune which for any Americans reading this, was probably THE BEST AND most popular children's programme in the late 70's oh my God, The Thrill of rushing home to catch the next episode after school! thank the Gods for satellite/video recordersLOL!
You guys are awesome!
FACT 501: The Mental Floss staff has yet to have a pork chop party.😔
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Unbelievable 😔😔
But.. What?
You guys ever see the show QI in America? It's great for lovers of obscure facts. Actually, it's just great, period.
Buffoon1980 Except for the fact that recently they found out many of their "facts" were wrong in the earlier series and they had to refund Alan hundreds of points because he was right.
Indeed. But you're not suggesting that detracts from the greatness of the show, are you? The main point of that segment was that human knowledge is always growing and improving, and inevitably sometimes shown to be inaccurate, which I think is a good pro-science message.
And as I recall, Alan was not awarded points based on specific wrong facts, but rather on the basis of a general rule that a certain percentage of facts will be shown to be wrong after a while. Of course, there have been specific cases where QI has admitted to being wrong (or at least slightly misleading), for instance Dara O'briain and the triple point of water.
Never seen the show, but I listen to the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. They're usually good about correcting themselves, but I have noted inaccuracies from time to time.
Enjoyed this very much.
A much needed video! Learned so much! Thank you! :)
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
Blowing into an NES cartridge definitely helped it.
Pretty sure at least 5% of these are wrong.
Which is the problem with these lists, more attention is made on creating a distraction than being accurate. Or in this case, more interest was made in presenting the funny than accuracy of the facts.
I love that a lot of these facts have been on the British panel show QI. I watch it on Britbox on Amazon.
Very interesting wish I had have found you a few years back great job neat to know all the little facts thank you
Jesus Christ John & Co.! You've outdone yourself this time! Great job!
I was watching this as if it was just a video, then after going "how long have I been watching this?" I realized it was 45 minutes 😂😂
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
SUPER INTERESTING !
If I could have all these memorized I would sooo cool at parties.
probably learning english would soooo cool at parties.
26:11 (fact number 284) And how! When Scottsdale Community College was being established, they decided to spend more money on the lighting of the athletic fields than the construction of the entire library. But they had not yet decided on the colors or mascot, leaving them up to a student vote. The students chose pink and white and the Fighting Artichoke in protest. And this in the 1970s! The mascot has remained, but the colors were changed to green and gold. The students were clearly Nerdfighters before you coined the term, John.
There needs to be a video dedicated to facts about pigs. For the porkchop party
Blowing into games definitely worked every time for me😂
This is great!
How can you just say the quicksand fact so casually??! My childhood nightmares were just put to rest
Erin what time
Little did John know, Henry would grow up to be a drug lord, making his first word very relevant indeed.
When Henry grows up, Mary Jane will probably become fully legal, so he'll probably be a millionaire by selling pot and getting high all the time.
For some reason this comment reminds me of the Community episode when the random Japanese student who prank texts the Dean is disheartened when the Dean still believes the kid is Jeff, which somehow leads to a life of crime as a yakuza boss.
You made me chortle! Have a nice day!
I prefer to think that he'll bring back hot air ballooning as a viable way to travel the world again. Or be the record breaker high flying turnip rider.
This was AMAZING!
The trinkets in the background...I love how you correlate them
Fact 501: This video is awesome!
Speaking of Captain Crunch: He’s actually a Commander. If you count his stripes on his uniform, it’s that of a Commander’s.
Joey Steffanelli - Commander Crunch! Lol!
O.O The Mandela Effect
Fascinating.
@John Barber - Ya learn something new everyday!
Sure, he's an 0-5, but he's also clearly the ranking officer on the vessel he's on, and therefore a Captain by naval custom.
Koala heat sink. One of my favorite google searches ever.
Awesome job !
John, I might be the guy to track down that Bob Ross original. I'm engaged to his assistant' s grand daughter who actually married his brother.
We love Bob Ross, thanks PBS the best channel ever
"I would love to coin a word".... John I think Dooblidoo counts as a word at this stage
Loved it!
The crescendo at the end though 😂😂
Fact #501: John Green has been dumped 53 times.
28:42 - Well duh, Santa is obviously based on Peter Kropotkin. I mean the resemblance is uncanny.
Shut up, everyone knows Santa was based on Marx.
Blasphemy, that frightful hobgoblin is more of a Grinch than a Santa.
“Richest president ever…to win the popular vote.”
I see you 🙂
oh my god I love the "and I stole that joke in this book of mine" bit
How long did this take to film?
Cristian Flores 19 minutes.
I live in Oklahoma so I looked that Watermelon state vegetable thing... They said it’s part of the cucumber family.
🙄 Oklahoma why are you like this?
Well, botanically speaking, anything that comes from the ovum of a plant is a fruit. The term vegetable doesn't have a biotanical meaning, it is more of a cultural thing. The two are not mutually exclusive. Something can be both a fruit and a vegetable. In "nix vs hedden" the Supreme Court of the USA defines the tomato as a vegetable for the purpose of customs and import duties.
Hi fellow okie
LOL loved this
Bonus fact: The creator of the once-ubiquitous plastic lawn flamingo was Don Featherstone.
He passed away in 2015, having helped paint lawns across America pretty in pink.
Against all odds, facts continue to be learned! Check out 100 interesting things we learned in 2020 here: ua-cam.com/video/s-hiLx_qNHQ/v-deo.html
I posted an answer to your Bob Ross painting question.
38:11 I'm sorry, but I would have to combat you on this one. It worked 99.9% of the time. The .1% it still worked, you just had to blow it a 2nd time.
OM Effing G! I tried to stop watching that video at least 50 times and just couldn’t do it! 501
"2/3 of people on Earth have never seen snow"
It sometimes snows in April for me
What!? 2 out of 3 people have never seen snow?
I didn't see snow till I was a teenager living in southern California. And then I dad got a speeding ticket bringing it home in the trunk of his car so it wouldn't melt before I saw it.
Also, "Hello Clarice" was in The Silence of the Lambs!
Proud American Mom and Vader did say "I am your father"
Why aren't you on here anymore, you are by far the best presenter. Good luck.
I go to the University of Texas at Austin and actually saw an albino squirrel on my way to my statistics exam last Wednesday!! I had no idea that was thought to be good luck. Thank you, crash course statistics and albino squirrel. I got an A.
Wow, fast and informative 👍
Gallagher had to sue his brother for false advertising and impersonation. His brother was going around selling shows as if he were the actually famous Gallagher. So that fact is a bit sadder than presented.
Funny to see Trogdor here. The only thing I could think about when the Galagher Too fact came up was Dangeresque Too. :D
Gallagher's cousin ripped him off too, but he used a half-stick of dynamite in the watermelon. He only did one show ; )
Crayola means literally nothing in French lol it's just a brand
I think you got me on more than a dozen that I was misconceived on. Thanks for that, it was fun to watch...
The Jungle Book vultures are awesome!
George Washington was the richest president ever... to win the popular vote!
That one got me right off the bat. Nice.
Hillary would have been the richest if you count all the hidden money
had the BIG LIAR won that is