Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
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April 11th, 1954 being named "The Most Boring Day in History" actually makes it less boring
That’s true. And it’s boring..
But we didn't know this for decades. It makes today more interesting for you because you learned about it, but this has no bearing on the people actually expiriencing the day.
reminds me of the proof that every number is interesting: If there are uninteresting numbers, take the smallest one. The fact that this number is the smallest uninteresting number makes it interesting, so you have a contradiction and so uninteresting numbers cannot exist.
@@integralboi2900 _This is the most uninteresting number ever_
Me: "ok"
Still uninteresting.
The title of being the most boring thing, as it generates some percieved interestingness, creates the paradox that if it exists, than it must not exist, as long as out of all the competing candidates, it is won by a small margin, which is less than the interestingness created with the announcement of that title, and I end my sentence.
Ironically, the fact that it's the most boring day actually makes it interesting, thus the 2nd most statistically boring day is the _true_ most boring day
But then the fact that it's the true most boring day will make it interesting...
Hol up
So does it mean no day is boring
Lololololololololol
@@bhavikgoyal6843 Yes! And every number is interesting. See if you can figure out why!
Getting recommended this exactly 70 years after that date is kinda funny
I missed it by a day, it happened yesterday. :(
Goated youtube algorithm moment.
Missed 5 days
me too
missed it by 9 days :(
You know you’re doing something right when you can say stuff like “you would need to give birth to like 50 Joseph Gordon Levitt’s to reach one Cuban Missile Crisis” and nobody bats an eye
Like he said, it’s just plain math.
r/brandnewsentence
Insane that I was at that exact moment when I read the comment
@BelieveandrepentotheLORD that son of course being Joseph Gordon Levitt
People who were bored at that time: "Nice"
LMAO
@homie got everything wrong no
Bruh
People who died at that time:
People who took a breath on April 11th 1945, at 02:38:19 PM: *inhale*
Interesting because April 18, 1930, the BBC reported "there is no news today" which means April must be quite boring
Well, except for 4/20
This report made this date somewhat interesting
Now for the news from the BBC newsroom!
"There's no news to report today, so uh... how's the weather outside? Rainy!"
@@sgtleobella :|
April is boring until you read what happened in 1945.
The whole day of April 11 of 1954 is still much more entertaining than my whole life.
Then you may have the most boring life. Which makes your life more interesting!
Boo hoo
@@svarogwolfthat’s not how it works
@@dabbingraccoons6416more interesting, not more entertaining/enjoyable
nawhh dont say that
today, is April 11th, 2022
UA-cam recomended this to me today.
Coincidence? i think not...
Haha same here
Welp, one of the worst days happened 2 days later because of disney
with me it is april 11 2024😂😂
@@Holy.Deinocheirus ayoooo wassup, i forgot that this comment existed. thanks for reminding me bro!
@@Holy.Deinocheirus me too😂
Growing up in a boring town the 90s and comparing how the world is today, I now understand why the saying "May you live in interesting times" is actually a curse.
Personally id rather have a period of my life be volatile and unstable. A life with peaks and valleys!
This, along side "May you experience all that ____ has to offer".
I remember seeing Groundhog Day (movie) in the cinema in 1993 and thinking it was dystopian. How naive I was.🙄
@@SofaMuncher I like peaks... But these last several years have felt like being on a roller coaster drop that I'm absolutely certain should have ended by a while ago, but looking around I see fire, brimstone, and red men with forks, and I still can't see the bottom.
I used to have the #iamverysmart opinion that "may you live in interesting times" really is a blessing, not a curse... After the last few years, I firmly disagree with past-me. Interesting times are awful.
Of course, 1954 was a lot worse than 2022 in most ways, even if this one day in April was pretty chill.
"things happen everyday no matter how hungover you are"
Such inspirational wisdom
Damn, look at all those bots...
wait
Too true. Watching this while hungover.
@@UNKNOWN-ov7md Yeah, all two...
Loool
2:40
"that makes me so angry that I'm gonna eat a yeast based waffle"
*proceeds to show a waffle that has absolutely no connection to Belgium at all*
I was born this day but I wouldn't consider myself boring as I work in a bookstore and sometimes I get to keep novels as they come in the new ones are especially good I like crime thrillers they are quite thrilling to me I enjoy my life and have a pet cat named Aaron it has a black coat and a long tail he eats meat quite often but sometimes biscuits.
I like the video thankyou for your opinions they are quite similar to mine.
I agree, you're not at all boring! In fact, you made my day. Thank you, kind stranger
Really?
@@eetuthereindeer6671 The actual origin of "Really" is unknown, it was first used in the 15th Century in the Eucharist, referring to the actual presence of Christ, and that definition holds today.
@@nnaheim. thats cool, thanks
This is so wholesome, idk why but this comment made my day
Thank you for sharing with us a little bit of your life, happy late birthday, and I hope you’re still well. Give Aaron a nice pat for me
2:25
"Local man eats 23 peanuts"
I'm actually interested in that
I can eat 23 peanuts
@@ShihammeDarc oh yeah I can eat 24
pft *amateurs* I can eat 37 that’s way more therefore I am superior 😏
@@Isabel-sr8ep not as much as me, i can eat 40
i can eat 527,918 peanuts
2:01 Just finding a berry wasn't really a big deal. Finding a non poisonous one is where it's at.
only if you're a baby
@@Ptaku93 "All berries are edible, it's just that some of them you can only eat once" - Elon Musk, probably
The news at the time had headlines like "GRUB FINDS BERRY, LIVES TO TELL THE TALE!"
Finding poisonous ones still qualify as interesting, just for different people...
@@vonskyme9133 My thought exactly. It's Interesting in the sense that 2020, 2021 and now 2022 seem to be "interesting times". Could use some boredom.
0:25 "The US celebrated National Meatball Day," sounds about right.
When you're living in covid realm and April 11, 1954 sounds like one helluva day to you
Ikr.
As a belgian i must say, having a government is actually pretty crazy to us
Even more amazing is that it has somehow been less dysfunctional than Sweden's government these past few months.
@@E4439Qv5 All the times when Belgium don't have a government, their government is less dysfunctional than a large number of other countries governments.
@@Tjalve70 how in the hell
@@rams6702 Which part was difficult to understand?
@@Tjalve70 yes
"boring, but in an interesting way" is probably the most accurate description of this channel
do you know what is the most not boring days? 9 and 12 aug 1945. which there was a global warming anomaly that make japan's average temperature jumps to 4000 celcius:)
@@iannathan9 Only 6 days before that it actually went up to 100,000,000°C!
@@iannathan9 Fact.
Global warming is going to kill us all.
@@iannathan9 that's so weird! I wonder what happened...
@@sergdraws i searched everywhere, i find no explanation for this
I can't believe that Sam just dropped an absolutely fire insult on that Belgian politician and moved on like it was nothing
Got recommended this on April 11, 2022. I guess happy anniversary to the world's most boring day.
same lol
same on 2024 but 1 day late
im like 10 days late
As a Belgian, I'm proud to see that we are the most important of the most un-important day ever (not like we have any chance to appear in the most important day anyway;))! :)
Belgium's history in a nutshell hahahah
Also funny that we actually managed to elect someone that day. So relatively (for belgians) that was pretty damn eventful!
Belgium kinda has a near monopoly on being on the wrong end of headlines involving a certain eastern neighbor and the opening moves of its army... at least if one has an overly (western) Euro-centric view.
@@RadioactiveSherbet Yeah. Damn Netherlands.
Y'all are famous for being the Nazi road into France
So I saw another person on here say April 18th 1930 had the BBC say “There is no news”. I did a bit of basic research, I couldn’t exactly access some newspapers because it required money, the most important things on that day, as far as I can tell are:
Births: Jean Guillou, Clive Revill and Angus Lennie, minor musicians and actors.
Deaths:literally no one significant
Events: The BBC said there was no news, a hurricane happened in the Phillipines killing over a hundred and a fire in a random Romanian village occurred.
News: I found a little bit on some murders, some political claims and then I think Sydney and New York might of made a breakthrough with something to do with radios?
This was really just a ten minute look up that made me curious, this might have been the most boring day, or at least a very boring day.
Funny thing is that today the hurricane in the Philippines on an otherwise slow news day would dominate the headlines but because at the time the Philippines was just a far away, insignificant colony not even part of the British Empire to the few Brits who were even aware of its existence it didn’t even make the news when there was virtually no other news. Although maybe the speed of news at the time could’ve also affected it. This was two years before the BBC World Service. Maybe it might have been presented differently when the World Service was broadcasting
@@Sam-vy8ye Indeed
U forgot a thing man...
If no news at 18th, meaning u need research a day before
I believe there was also the beginning of the Chittagong rebellion in India, but by the time it occurred it was too late in the day for it to be in the news in Europe.
The guy who voiced Palpatine in the original version of Empire Strikes Back was born and it’s considered boring?
You honestly have one of the best channels on YT. I love your sarcasm and informal way to pass knowledge
Honestly even on the most boring day, a decent number of notable events happened. Shows how big and busy the planet is I guess.
My uncle was born exactly 9 months after that date. January 11, 1955…
I guess I know what my grandparents were doing that day. 🤪
Something interesting I suppose?😂😂👍👍
They were so bored what else would they do?
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"stuff"
“This man was elected Prime Minister, who went on to enact some modest labor laws and have a Wikipedia page that’s shorter than the Wikipedia page for lint.”
dang, you really did him like that?
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@@gmodiscool14 Your attitude 💩🥶🥶
@@gmodiscool14 what's wrong with it
@@lgbtqpuppy712 they treat abuse and depression like an ✨aesthetic✨ and it’s really not
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The sad thing is, that day was the day someone was born, who is now in their 70s. Or the day that someone’s loved one died. Or when a wedding happened to two people now in their 90s celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary. To them, that was their most important day, but we don’t even know it.
Imagine if you died on that day and everyone called it the most boring day ever years later
that day couldn't even be half as interesting
this is gold
You win the internet for the rest of the week
waiting for this to blow up
16th as interesting
*ba dum tss*
I almost choked myself laughing at "I really had to scrape the bottom of the corpse-barrel" I don't know why, but that sentenced cracked me up so bad..
I imagined Sam looking through a graveyard and being like "nope, wrong death day!"
Corpse Barrel are cool, but I like their first record more than their newer stuff.
It does conjure up an image. 😂
the fact that youtube recommends me this on 10th april lol
3:10 how is this day not important
You might have to have 50 Joseph Gordon-Levitts born in a single day to equal one Cuban Missile Crisis.
Well, that's one sentence I never thought I'd hear...
It's always fun to witness the birth of a new sentence.
I just love the "That's just plain math" line after, like, obviously that's how many JGLs equal a Cuban missile crisis. Did you not learn that in elementary school?
@@mitchelldurward8863 Anything, but the metric system for us Americans.
@@nicklinik4454 Yeah, I only learned the metric system in middle school. Then again, I went to a private school.
Don’t forget the mountain goats.
Actually, the most boring day in history was June 4, 1989. Absolutely nothing happened on that day! Glory to the CCP!
I do not know what happened that day as I was born in 2006 and jave never stepped foot in Asia so I cannot verify
That was so boring, I agree!
@@F0UR3V3R NOTHING HAPPENED STOP ASKING QUESTIONS
@@atropa.belladonna Yknow who else nothing happened stop asking questions? MY MOM!
There was some *tank traffic* but that was about it..
With how these times are,a "most eventful day" video would probably become outdated the next day.
i love how this accidentally created a paradox
I'm sick of living through major historical events
as a guy who loves history, i love it
Me too Dora, me too
you are not living through em you are just watching tv
@@absentchronicler9063
Every event is history in the future
"May you live in interesting times" was actually an insult in China.
you could argue september 3rd or august 15 1945 is a pretty boring day, since its the first day in nearly 6 years that the majority of the world wasn't at war with itself and everybody who could was hungover
I think the fact there was finally peace makes it more interesting
The fact that the war had ended meant people would get happy and drunk at once, plus it's pretty refreshing to finaly get back to the day by day activities, which means people were the opposite of bored.
@@-Filip And probably hella busy rebuilding all that was destroyed or just finding material that wasn't in use in destroyed or ready for any eventual battle military gear.
Funny how April 11, 1954 happened to actually be in one of the wildest decades in American history. Not sure where the stereotype of the 50s here being a mostly stagnant, snooze of a decade came from, but it is DEAD WRONG (started off with the Korean War, then the nuclear buildups, Stalin died, amongst all this the civil rights movement was well underway, then the Space Age took off with Sputnik and Explorer 1, St. Lawrence Seaway was built and opened, then the Interstate System was born). Sometimes I wonder how non-computerized newspapers kept up with all the simultaneous stories.
But the war was so vast and so much happened, that lots of stuff was happening just constantly for yrs. Think about how much the world changed over the course of the war.
Before the war we had no jets, computers, atomic bombs atomic energy, reliable missiles, etc.
After the war, we had a new world order.
I got recommended this on the 70th anniversary. I would have forgotten had it not.
Imagine dying and some guy describes your death as “scraping the bottom of the barrel” 😂😂
3:38 My grandpa was born on that day, how dare you! he is a very interesting person. Selling truck bed covers and driving a bus for many years.
- truck accessory salesman
- bus driver
- adoring but biased grandson
- actually sounds pretty boring
@@johnladuke6475 he also makes a mean apple pie
@@benjaminphelps561 wow! Apple pie
@@benjaminphelps561 apple pie!
@@benjaminphelps561 wow!
It was my mum's 21st birthday that day and back then 21st birthdays meant something. Granted, that's not really adding to the interest quotient for anyone other than her - not even me, I wasn't born then - but she might just take exception to the fact it was a boring day.
Happy birthday to your mum 🎂me and her share the date (but in different years)
Your mum got old enough to drink (in the US) on the most boring day in history...
Unless there is something else exciting about turning 21 besides being able to drink, I think you're missing something big relative to this topic about 1954... the drinking age was not yet 21. So it was still your mother's birthday, but likely not the most exciting birthday.
Well it wasn’t the drinking age I was talking about to be honest. My mum is British and I don’t even know what the legal drinking age was back then. No, your 21st birthday was when you ‘came of age’, in other words became an adult and gained legal independence from your parents. It changed to 18 in 1969 but 21 retains a historic significance even to this day.
4/11 is also my birthday, and it is even more interesting to me because that same number is also my height!
Nah, I literally love the fact you added Bono in this video😭😭 you're awesome
props to this guy for putting the sponsor at the end and not interrupting the video 🔥🔥
I exploded with overly loud laughter at the point where Acker's Wikipedia page was described as shorter than the Wikipedia page for lint.
Well done, HAI-guy!
And everyone else at the prison library stared at me like I was the weirdo.
It made me snort LOL!
lint moment
@@jeff6413 LOL!!!!!!!!
wait wtf it actually is
"24 years later and I'm an alcoholic"
The story of my life
@homie got everything wrong no
It’s worse if you know that Sam is actually 24 years old
@@MrATimm he was born drinking
Okay, alcoholic.
Get yourself sorted out
That was the smoothest Sponsor Transition I've seen in a while
Someone who was born on April 11 1954 must be very angry
What’s cool about this video is those random people that were birthed and died on this date are now basically immortalized in history thanks to this video. Who knows when the last time anyone every thought of or spoke the name Paul Specht
But this is one of the most boring UA-cam channels, so it kind of evens out
@@pauldzim That's why the channel is only Half as Interesting ;)
Interestingly enough, on the Wikipedia entry for April 1954 April 11th is the day with the most entries. So it'd seem that it was actually more interesting than the rest of the month.
If you look at the date the page was last edited it says March 10th, the same day this video was posted, which means that all the stuff there was most likely just added in response to this video lol.
@@spark1400 Last edit for "April 11" was made by a guy on Feb 2nd-4th this year. Before that there were only 4 entries (Belgian election, cycling race, hurling championship, most boring day), after that guy's edits there were 18 entries for the day.
@@spark1400 lol
"I don't know about you, but I hate when things happened." Felt. Felt so hard.
Interesting fact: this day can cease to be the most boring day in history if one of the quarter-million-or-so born then, still living and not yet aware of himself, suddenly does something that will forever be recorded in history.
Finally, something I learned from Austin McConnell's x minutes of useless facts series finally appears somewhere else
i binged all of those recently it’s kinda like this channel
The fact, that a day, on which a Paris-Roubaix (one of the most exciting and chaotic race of the entire UCI season) took place could still be considered to be the least eventful just sends the point home about how many things happen every day.
Exactly! P-R je one of the tops of the season.
Having a worlds most boring day actually creates a paradox, where it being the most boring day makes it interesting, so the second most boring day is actually the most boring, etc
“50 x famous man = 1 cuban missile crisis, it’s just basic math”
It’s actually 47.25 Joseph Gordon Levits to a Cuban missile crisis, but for rounding 50 is close enough
Only if you factor in how unusual it is for one person to be born 50 times on the same day. If not, it's closer to like 12 971,03 Gordon Levits to match the Cuban Missile crisis.
@@The360MlgNoscoper Is that metric or imperial though?
@@rosspenny3069 Metric
No, you have to factor for inflation, since the Cuban Missile Crisis was in 1962 and Joseph Gordon-Levitt was born in 1981.
I constantly asked simon whistler to make a video on this topic and got a lot of feedback in the comment section but they never did. Glad my boys at HAI finally tackled it.
@Newcious Don't klick on it, it's a video about farting Minecraft.....
You should have sent him some cocaine
Try getting locked in his basement and writing for him
Anyone else get this recommended on April 11th?
I love UA-cams algorithm recommending this on April 11th.
now imagine the premise of the movie Groundhog Day, but on April 11th, 1954
Imagine someone intentionally groundhogging himself on that date, as a refuge from an increasingly chaotic world. Maybe the Madness of the 21st century is slowly creeping backward through time, corrupting the years in reverse, and this guy, probably a former Timewatch agent discovers this when stuff starts happening during his time loop, and he has to come out of retirement to put the timeline right again.
@@jasonlescalleet5611
Okay, so do you know Netflix's head of development or what?
That my life
@@jasonlescalleet5611 So, Miss Peregrine's house of Peculiar Children
0:08 that is got to be the most creative way to justify heavy drinking
Clearly you haven't been to college yet
Today is April 11th, 2022 and this ofc was recommended to me
And this video shows up on Apr11
I was literally in the middle of a Wendover/HAI binge, talk about timing.
That shit always happens to me when a channel that I’m binging uploads a new video in the middle of my binge i love that
i am always in the middle of a Wendover/HAI binge
based profile picture
@@slug8039 what flag is it
@@comradekenobi6908 bi pride flag
Let's be honest, a Belgian election can only make the day less interesting.
Can't believe that almost everyone would prefer chaos, over boredom(peace).
It being labeled as the most boring day, makes it less boring, therefore making another day the most boring day of all boringness days in history.
When I asked my mother about this day, she says she doesn't remember it, except that she and her family almost certainly would have gone to church, since it was Palm Sunday.
To be fair I can't remember what I did last Tuesday, wouldn't expect someone to remember a day that happened more than half a century ago.
@@kjrom Same here. Especially now that I'm noticing that each year that passes by, time seems to move faster.
But Sam, we're not asking which day had the most impactful events, we want to know which day was the most full of events. That's what eventFUL should mean
I actually feel like this since last week. It just feels surreal.
4:15 oh Sam, our definitions of terrifying websites totally match
I lost it at “who has a shorter Wikipedia page than Lint”
2:53 brutal
Lol
Like how this was recommend to me after never seeing a video from this channel on April 11
4:55 Americans will use anything but the metric system:
I'm betting that the most eventful day in the 21st century took place during that one week in March 2020 when people finally understood "oh, COVID is actually a thing". So much stuff happened as a direct consequence of that so quickly
Are you forgetting about 9/11??
@@zerotwoisreal No, actually. While all of New York shut down, all of aviation over North America shut down, a bunch of the stock markets shut down, and of course the specific stories of what happened on those 4 planes and what happened within the World Trade complex beyond just the two towers, there were few direct actions being taken around the country. People went through their day for the most part - dazed and horrified and distracted, sure, but still living their lives.
That week in March, everything changed. Governments everywhere were enacting all these policies quickly. Businesses were shutting down and holding emergency meetings and trying to figure out what their strategy was. My wife was starting a new job during that week and had her start date postponed because the IT department suddenly had a backlog of things they needed to get done. At every level of life and in every city, everything changed in a way that 9/11 didn't. 9/11 was impactful, but I strongly disagree that 9/11 was anywhere close to as impactful as COVID
@@forgottenfamily there was no one day or even week in March 2020 where people enacted a ton of stuff about it
This is about days and no no day about COVID was eventful on its own
and these past few days (and upcoming ones) are full of early covid anniversaries. 9 days ago was the 2 year anniverary of the first covid case in New York, a week ago was the anniversary of the case in NC (my state), yesterday was the anniversary of stocks plummeting, tomorrow is the anniversary of several major events being cancelled and covid being declared a pandemic,…you get the idea
@@zerotwoisreal Covid has had a much greater impact on the planet than 9/11 did
I actually fell asleep during this video… I think that speaks volumes of just how boring that day was-
Same here
You’re able to sleep in under 6 minutes?
@@i_garfed_on_the_carpet Actually, less time than that. I’ve been doing this sleep experiment on myself where I’ll count in my head until I’m out, and without fail, I’m always asleep before I hit 150. So it only takes me about two and a half minutes to fall asleep so long as I’m relaxed/tired/bored enough
@@BlindStarLily just make sure your not sleep deprived sometimes when it's super easy to sleep it's really because your not getting enough
or you could have the perfect sleep schedule either one
@@kellynolen498 Thank you for the concern, stranger
German who lives in Melbourne here. I nearly fell off my bed at 0:37 when your background footage was Spencer and Bourke St/Southern Cross Station. Very random.
Ironically 68th Anniversary, April 11.
Also this kind of feels like that feeling when you log into a social media account and you have no notifications. It's both annoying and relaxing at the same time.
Appreciate the use of stock footage from Spencer St, Melbourne, Australia when asking "what was the most boring day"
"You would need to give birth to, like, fifty Joseph Gordon Levitts to reach one Cuban Missile Crisis. That's just plain math."
Sam Denby, 2022
I just got this in my recommendation today, April 11, 2022 🤣
wait that’s so funny my dads birthday is literally the day before! on the 10th, same year. guess the world got very boring once he was born hahaha
why isn´t this published on April 11th? missed opportunity (angry smiley)
Hello
On this day a ten year old might have had the time of his life, you never know.
since a 10 year old had a good day on april 11 1954 that means everyone had a great time meaning that it was a good day!
Over here in Belgium, every day feels like the most boring day of all time...
Our (belgian) elections are indeed boring
5:00 "That's just plane math"
No Sam say it with me, rockets are not planes.
Rocketw ar3 planes
of course this got recommended to me today
I forgot the gold of these videos.
"Shorter than the Wikipedia article for lint"
Well, now I know what my life goal is.
Guys lets agree that on 6/9-2022 (DD/MM-YYYY) we’ll all do nothing all day to be as bored as possible
Back on April 11, 2022 to mark 68 years since the most boring day ever. Not even 69 years after. That boring. Guess I'll be back next year lol
The fact that april 11 is my birthday just makes the weirder
Great to see the All Ireland Final get a mention.
My dad, who is born April 11,1954:
Same day different year how do my parents and family celebrate it by yelling at each other amazing
I guess you're right. I also never heard my parents, grandparents or other people I have known and lived then about that day.