The 19 Best Facts
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2021
- The thread has now received a further 900 replies, and includes many facts that I would have put in this list, including that astronauts on spacewalks often LOSE THEIR FINGERNAILS AND NO ONE KNOWS WHY and that sharks were around before Saturn's rings. And also that Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame.
This was fun.
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wow dolly parton really was working 9 to 5
What a way to make a living!
Ba dum chhhhh!!! 🥁
Barely getting by
Dolly Parton could be recognized as a saint
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John: I love you
Hank: FACTS
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That's a "I love you" from Hank too. A very cute and a very Hank one
Fun fact, Sharing cool facts that we ourselves find interesting is a form of love language, especially in people who tend to be more in their own head.
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What is this, Esther Day?
Out of focus Hank screaming “Why didn’t anybody tell me this?! Who was gonna tell me?!” Has incredible meme potential
Especially given that I'm pretty sure there is a Sci-show video about the very thing he's talking about
@@JaykobStevens @Jaykob Stevens Yes I looked it up because this ringed a bell for me too. It was hosted 6 years ago by Michael Aranda. And the sister channel SciShow Kids did a video on this too, 3 years ago lol
@@JaykobStevens well, Hank every scishow episode topic. If he had hosted it himself I would have been more concerned.
Oh that makes it even better!!! 😂
Nerdfighteria don't let me down
Hank: I have tOo MaNy eMoTiOnS, time for FUN FACTS
The rest of us: what a mood
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it is relatable content
i wish i was this productive when i’m bombarded with emotions
Mood kindred
This!
The feeling of superiority when you already knew a fact should be illegal
Especially when it was the last fact that Hank freaked out over
You have my respect and admiration for knowing it already
Yeah! I know something Hank Green didn't, and he's, like, the face of science UA-cam!
That's gotta feel good
But does it beat having your mind blown the first time?
@@rakshyakharel9398 I actually knew it because of an episode of House M.D. He once figured out a patient had neurological damage because his fingers did not have that reaction. I still can't believe that show taught me a fact, let alone a cool fact.
Hank singing about scrambled eggs in response to John's deeply emotional confession of appreciation is so on brand for Hank and the content I subscribed for
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and the underlying nostalgia of yesterday's melody just adds another layer of cute "i'm telling you i miss you without actually telling you i miss you"
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Sharks are older than Saturns Rings: i do not understand time.
WHAT.
...okay I looked it up, this is likely true but also SEEMS extremely untrue??
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WHAT????
Is the next shark fact gonna be that sharks are older than the big bang? How freaking old are sharks?
Mind. Blown. 🤯
Erm what 😂
My brain cannot accept this fact. SHARKS?
Responding to your emotions with fun facts is highly relatable.
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My brother said cute things to me, cannot process, gonna say fun things.
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I have learned I use them to shield myself
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True. I'd have done the same.
i’ve been wondering all week how Hank would respond to John’s earnestness. That’ll do, Hank, that’ll do.
It's like the perfect and most wholesome example of the contrast between sincerity and authenticity as philosophical concepts.
They are definitively NOT the same person.
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That’ll do is the name of one of my dad’s dogs. She would jump up on him and his way of stopping her was to say “That’ll do.”
Wasn't there a SciShow episode on that fact about pruny fingers??
Edit: Yup! May 12, 2015. "Why do we wrinkle when wet?"
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I WAS VERY WORRIED THAT I HOSTED THAT ONE BUT THANK GOD I DID NOT.
Who hosted that episode? Also, regardless of the host I thought Hank was kinda in charge at SciShow... so.
Dear Hank, no one told you about neurological responsive wrinkles because we thought you knew.
Sincerely, Watchers of SciShow
@@bwaychick20 Michael Aranda hosted that episode.
Also there’s a SciShow Kids episode talking about it too 🤣
I was going to comment about that. I swore I saw some educational video about that on UA-cam years ago...
Viggo breaking his foot is a good one, but the best fact by far is: Viggo not only bought two of the horses he rode during filming that he grew attached to; he ALSO bought a third horse as a gift for one of the stunt women because she'd grown very attached to that horse. Viggo is the ultimate horse girl and patron saint of horse girls.
That makes so much sense to anyone who watched Hidalgo. Go see Hidalgo. Very good horse movie and Viggo is the human protagonist.
“They will never know it was them!”
Oh, I’ll know. I’ll know.
EXACTLY WHAT I CAME DOWN HERE TO WRITE
You can always assume that your poop is the biggest poop and no one can prove otherwise unless they for some reason decided to measure the size of their poop and officially record it
Lmao!! Best comment! 😅
I guarantee whoever has to clean/unclog that toilet will know, too.
TMI AF but yeah I knew when I won.
John : I LOVE YOU
Hank : umm...I am not great at emotion rn, could I interest in you FACTS!!!?
Nice Introvert response.
That chandler reference hshshah
“It’s like they wrote the Weird Al version of their own song first” describes like 30% of Beatles songs.
Bonus fun fact - George Harrison’s filler line when he was writing “Something” was “attracts me like a cauliflower” instead of “attracts me like no other lover.”
Amazing ❤️
Oh no! I am going to be haunted by these alternate lyrics for the rest of my life.
I’m crying
Beautiful
Part of me wonders if that is part of why they were so great- as in they paid attention to the melody and syllables first and filled it in later
Thank you for this hank
My partner heard you freak out about the very best wrinkly fingers fact, and he thought everyone knew this. And now he's like "if I knew no one knew this I'd be telling everyone! That's an important one!"
My biology teacher freshman year told us a WRONG explanation of why fingers get wrinkly. I feel so lied to
I also knew this one and remember being furious as a child when a friend insisted that we had to stop swimming because wrinkly fingers meant our time was up.
I agree. It's very vital that everyone knows the truth about wrinkly fingers.
I didn’t know this, please tell your partner to tell people because people don’t know this!
Same!
The evolution of Hank Humps the Town in response to TFIOS to this
s c r a m b l e d e g g s
I hate (and love) that you're right
@@tmntallthewaydw That's a great screen name
For anyone who needs more context on the “Viggo broke his foot” fact because they aren’t as big LOTR fans as Hank: while filming the Lord of the Rings movies, Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn kicked the orc head on the ground (1:31) and ended up breaking his toe in that moment and drops to his knees and screams both as his reaction in the story and his actual reaction to the pain in his foot. And everyone didn’t immediately realize that anything bad had happened because he was acting to the story very well.
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I personally prefer the "Viggo broke his tooth in a swordfight and went to the dentist in costume, after the crew talked him out of gluing it back on himself" fact
As fascinating as the other facts are, the alternate lyrics for Yesterday will now remain burrowed in my brain forever.
They are gonna haunt me for the rest of my life.
I had to Google to confirm because it seemed so unbelievable
Oh yeah..
He did them on Jimmy Fallon
me too but it's a good thing... i think
Fun fact: it’s possible to break your own rib by coughing really, really hard. This is a one-star experience, ask me how I know.
Ouch! I've definitely strained an intercostal muscle doing this, but an actual fracture, truly that should be a zero-star experience.
Can I un-learn this please
@@zRhid if it’s any comfort, it’s extremely rare, I’m just unlucky
How do you know?
@@bob3ironfist I know this because I’ve done it TWICE. First my lowest right rib, then my lowest left.
Hank randomly saying 19 facts in response to John's emotional video is such a sibling thing to do.
Basically just went, "that's was pretty gay John"
You said "sibling", and now I have to go cry again, even after last week.
@@MalloryCorben me
@@Kirealta no, no he didn't. What part of anything Vlogbrothers or Nerdfighteria makes you think Hank would say something homophobic?!
@@emilymartin5418 learn to take a joke you loser. Typical 14yr old American white girl.
Unhinged academia energy is so good
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My favorite hank moments are when he slides out of focus to scream at the sky
I need "why did nobody tell me this?!" as a gif immediately
The world needs it
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“The best facts... according to me” that made me laugh
Hank serenading me about scrambled eggs while I ate scrambled eggs is proof that today will be a good day
John: *tearful show of emotion, genuine video*
Hank: SCRAMBLED EGGGSSSSS
Here is my best fact: it's long been thought that cats domesticated themselves ("hey, these giant bipeds make nice, warm, safe structures filled with rodent-attracting grain!"), but more recently, evidence has suggested that dogs did, too! Wolves figured out that humans were really good at finding prey and would throw you scraps if you were nice to them, so the friendliest ones just kinda followed human clans around.
Related good fact: the reason that African, Asian, and European cattle look different is that three separate times in human history, a group of people looked at an aurochs and thought, "I bet that sharp-horned mountain of muscle could pull stuff for us."
I've always wondered why ppl said cats domesticated themselves when they basically did what dogs did at first
I wouldn’t mind if you sang every week
*laughs in Song Wednesday*
@@malaikarose2985 misses song Wednesday
I used to sing every two weeks...it was too much!
You could sing again, doesn't have to be new songs... Or as often.
@@vlogbrothers Hank, I was just thinking how nice it was to hear you play guitar and sing again. I've missed it. Bring it back when you can, please!
This may be a shot in the void but I just have to say it. I have grown up with hank and john. And I cannot thank you guys enough for what you have helped me through. You guys are a lighthouse in the darkness. It was your kindness and gentleness that helped me be a kinder person to the world and now a kinder person to myself. Your influence has helped this random stranger on the internet more than I can ever express in words and I just wish to say thank you
I also kind of grew up with them-- started watching in high school in 2009-- and they definitely helped shape my values and my image of the kind of adult I wanted to become. Sometimes I catch myself being judgemental and have to tell myself 'You are not imagining others complexly' and by god it works. So thank you from me as well!
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I had a long break, but Question Tuesday where John answered the question of what to do with your life is one of the best advices I've ever found
Honestly, when I was pregnant with my first, the fact that there were bones inside of me that weren't mine weirded me out, I'm not sure what past me would have thought if I'd realized there were more bones inside of me that weren't mine than were at that time...
I can't quite articulate why but the seemingly obvious fact that I was once the youngest person on earth is making my head spin.
I want to know how Katherine feels about you singing scrambled eggs to her
Everyone I've sang it to... responses widely vary.
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With hunger, I assume. Take that as you will.
I CANNOT BELIEVE THE THING ABOUT PRUNY FINGERS THAT IS SO COOL
Hank singing is my favorite thing
So true. Hank live with a band is my absolute favorite. But all Hank singing times are excellent.
I know you have a music career, but I’m always amazed when I hear you sing.
my favourite fact is that we're all alive at the same time. we are all here
That’s so beautiful
We're here because we're here...
Hank I'm honestly shocked you didn't know about the finger-wrinkling thing
Petition for Hank to join the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast for an episode! My favourite source of weird facts.
No Such Thing as An Anthropocene Reviewed.
Pleaseeee Hank do this that'd be so cool! I think they'd like him as well.
I now have a new podcast to listen to
BEST podcast
Yeeeeees, that would be epic!!!
As far as coping mechanisms for emotion overload go, I’d say this is quite a good one
Someone fix Hank up with the 'No Such Thing As A Fish' crew.
Absolutely!!!
He follows them on twitter! I am patiently waiting for hank to guest host on it.
The singing of scrambled eggs at the end killed me
I love how Hank’s response to the most moving and emotional John video in maybe forever is to make this beautifully joyful old-school Hank video
I often think about the unknowable facts, like there is an answer to the question "Who ate the most corn kernels today?" but we'll never know. Makes me feel more connected to everyone, knowing we are so close but also so distant.
I will challenge this assumption one day.
This has big Brotherhood 2.0 energy and I'm here for it
If we put bears on Antarctica, we might cause a continental shift
One fact I like a lot is that, in medieval times, when there was an unknown place, people would literally write "here be dragons" on their maps. Simply loving that logic!
That's so lovely! I might start using that to refer to unknown things 😂
And as proof that the inverse of an implication doesn't necessarily hold the same truth value: I have many dragons in my house, and yet Google knows my address anyway.
In Latin times they would write “hic sunt leones”, here there are lions
And, given that in one location giant lizards we would later refer to as komodo dragons existed, in one very specific circumstance they were actually right!
@@IceMetalPunk I was really hoping that would work. I guess I'm off to return a dragon....
Aquatic Ape hypothesis is one of those things in science that i know probably isn't true but every once in a while i get a new little piece of evidence for it and i stow it away in my heart and this is one of those times
Aquatic apes.. like big monkeys that swim? Oh hell no.
I'm the same. I mean I know there is no fossil evidence but the idea of some little family of proto humens splashing around the seaside just makes me happy.
@@Karishma_Unspecified Hey the man. I don’t know if this is helpful, but I think this video might help you, maybe not. It’s about a PhD drop out talking to a another guy, I think I found it helpful, and so might you.
Search up ‘HealthyGamerGG | How Failure can be liberating’ if my link below gets blocked
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@@ToriKo_ Thanks! I appreciate it :)
So you're releasing a whole 'Scrambled Eggs' cover right?
It's okay hank, we're all overwhemed by the last video that John posted :)
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That's true.
Did you know the theme for Jeopardy! had lyrics?
We're in trouble - trouble deep!
We're imperiled and endangered.
We're in trouble, yes indeed,
We are all in Jeopardy!
Me trying to remember the jeopardy theme tune- how do I not remember it!
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Doo doo doo do-do doo doo doooo
Doo doo doo doo DOO do-do-do-do-do
Doo doo doo do-do doo doo doooo
DOO do-do doo, doo, doo, doo ba-ba-bum
That's simultaneously adorable and unnerving. 😅
@@LowkeyGungnir thank you very helpful
one of my favorite facts is still that they made a version of monopoly to send to POW's with a hidden capartment to hide escape tools
Fun fact: Celinie Dions recording of My heart will go on was her first and only take.
20) This is world's most amazing channel.
Yours and John's voices make me happy. Thank you.
I just wanted to let everyone know that I had the largest poo today.
I love your work, Mr. Beat. This included XD
Ohh but the day is not over yet. I might still beat you.
I was unaware before today that Hank Green knew how to play guitar. I do not have a tall-enough mental pedestal for this man
He has multiple albums and also fronted a band. Listen to them. They are awesome. (Also the songs are basically all weird, it's excellent.)
Oh boy, you're in for a treat in the back catalogue of Vlogbrothers videos. May I recommend "The Universe is Weird"?
My fave is his quark song -he used to post a song each Wednesday
Well somebody is due for a trip through the archives of Song Wednesday videos. (My favorite song of his is one of the most serious: It All Makes Sense At the End.)
Oh, I love that feeling when you discover something you like and realise there's a lot of it out there, just waiting for you to dive in!
Responding to overwhelming emotion with fun facts is my love language
Need a sound bite of Hank saying “Listen, I don’t like it either.”
This is the kind of wholesome excited content I need at the moment
"jokes on you I just ate a bug" made me SCREAM
okay i need someone to explain the "trees is not a species" part cause WHAT THE FVCK
Calling trees a species would be like calling all animals with four limbs one species. We just don't think of it that way because all trees look pretty much the same to us.
@@TheRatsintheWalls this is so fascinating 😳
Well, they're definitely not a species, because there are lots of species of tree. But trees aren't all descended from one original species that figured out how to do tree stuff (which isn't true of, for example, mammals). Anything that looks like a tree is a tree. It's just a useful label for people to use, not an actual group of organisms.
The same is true for fish as well btw
Trees are not a taxonomic group but bunch of different plant species that have evolved independently
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how well Hank's singing voice has developed and seasoned over the years. That takes work, and most singers don't bother.
Yeah ... like, wow, I did NOT realize he was that good. Maybe he´s just getting better?
@CL yes, he has clearly put work into getting better. That's what I meant by developed.
My favorite fact is that King Haakon of Norway sent a gift to King Henry III in 1252. It was an addition to Henry III's animal menagerie, a collection his predecessors were famous for as well. Henry III was so find of it that he commissioned a gold muzzle and leash for it, and let it do its own hunting for food.
All this is to say that when we invent time travel and go back to thirteenth century England, we will see a polar bear fishing in the Thames.
THAT.
Is a fantastic fact.
Thank you!
John's video made me cry because I miss my brother so much. Yours made me laugh. Thanks to you both for the company.
“Oh I’ll watch this while eating breakfast” *cooks scrambled eggs and clicks on video”
Didn’t expect to get such a perfect and weird song snippet 😂
I love vids like this - and I ADORE the fact that this is Hank's reaction to John's super-emotional video. It's the emotional break we all needed.
I love how Hank was just like, uhhhhhhhh.... well, I can't follow that, so I'm just gonna do me :P
This video is so very Hank. We truly need both of them!
Hank, the best fact I ever learned was that you and John do so much for humanity
that's less interesting than all the facts listed in this video...
I find it hilariously ironic how there's a video on Sci Show explaining the finger wrinkles posted 6 years ago and nobody told Hank. 😂😂
He was credited the executive producer of that video 😂
@@sarahp6512 Hey, funding and starting the series in no way means you have any idea what your employees are writing or presenting at any given time 😂
I was wondering what your response would be to John's last video.
John: (crying) Thank you, Hank.
Hank: (singing) ♫ scrambled eggs and old sharks! ♫
This was a really great video but I would like 19 videos about those facts or at least one video about the bonus fact that astronauts lose their fingernails on spacewalks because WHAT. Do they also lose their hair? Has that only happened on spacewalks? That one really blew my mind.
Another fun fact about Yesterday. Paul McCartney dreamed that iconic tune, he woke up and asked everyone if they heard it before and nobody did so he wrote the song. He also dreamed that his mother (who died when he was younger) told him to “Let it Be” sooo he wrote that song bc of a dream too.
Grasshoppers have been around since before grass.
There were still some wooly mammoths left on isolated islands when the first Egyptian pyramid was built, but the mainland ones went extinct 10 thousand years ago.
Are Hank's emotions the sole reason we have so much enjoyable educational content on UA-cam? Maybe.
Hank sang "scrambled eggs" so beautifully :')
Yeah I was overwhelmed too Hank
Thank you for spreading awareness of the non-existence of trees
Is this and the fact that fish are a wildly bad taxonomic category my favourite facts? Yes, yes it is
Also, the fact that trees are made out of air is excellent
I'm now thinking about sentient grapes turning into raisins so they don't slip when they're in the pool like some weird, docile SCP
I hate how much I want a full version of Hank singing about scrambled eggs
After learning the wrinkly fingers fact a few years ago, every time I get prune-y now I run around telling my family about how I'm "grippy."
This fact is one of the best because it will make you smile, in 1866 Liechtenstein joined the Austro-Prussian war, they dispatched 80 soldiers to guard Brenner Pass, in the Austria-Italy border, when the war was over 81 soldiers came back to Liechtenstein because they made a friend.
Hank, I hate to tell you this. "Why do we wrinkle when wet" was on SciShow in 2015, and "Why do my fingers get wrinkly in the bath" was on SciShow Kids in 2017.
"Why didn't anyone tell me this?" Hank, YOU told ME!
I'm never going to get that 'new' Beatles song out of my head.
There's Something there for me about how humans all stare lovingly up at the moon every night and have written countless stories and songs and poems about it, not knowing that it might one day be the thing that destroys the earth. heck.
John: I love you.
Hank: Dolly Parton wrote "I will always love you"
Your upbeat energy and amazement at the world was exactly what I needed today :)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the Dolly Parton one is iffy. She said herself on Dolly Parton’s America that both songs come right after each other on the tape she used to record demos, and that it’s POSSIBLE they were written on the same day, but she’s not sure.
That scrambled egg song was so much more beautiful than it has any right to be. I loved it.
The wrinkled hands fact is amazing. But it was covered in a SciShow video called "Why Do We Wrinkle When Wet?" that was uploaded 6 years ago!! That fact definitely stuck in my brain!
I am very excited for this video. Hank you would follow a very emotional video with this. And it’s great and I love you for it
Oh man humanity is a mess of contradictions and paradoxes and I love it
The Scrambled Eggs was so sincere, it was the perfect response to John.
Very Happy to hear you singing again, even if only for a short blurb. Hope to hear from your musical side again soon.
Just thinking about it evolutionarily, how many times did a random mutation for "hey skin gets wrinkly in water" have to come up before it actually provided a benefit to someone in the form of not slipping over and sustaining a long term injury...
I mean, considering all life began in the water, there's been a LOT of animal-water contact throughout evolution, so... probably not as many times as you'd think :)
Literally the perfect response to Johns vid 😂
Thanks for that fun video Hank I think we all needed to hear that right now.
Another fun fact about “I will always love you” is that it charted in 4 separate decades. I don’t know for sure that it’s the only song to do so but I think so
This is an entirely relatable and valid feeling to overwhelm. Hank, thanks so much for sharing. I am finally reading AART for the first time (and TAR and YWGTTN. It's a good book week.) and all these books are so wonderful! Thank you for sending your work into the world!
~Robin
It's been too long since that guitar was brought out!
Kyle Hill: Is more information always good?
Hank Greene: HERE'S RANDOM INFORMATION!
Paul McCartney actually did an extended version of "Scrambled Eggs" with Jimmy Fallon. Good stuff.