The irony of The Killers Mr. Brightside being a wedding song is hilarious and ironic, because the vocals are about the feelings the singer had about a tough breakup he once had, simply put.
didn't know about this stuff, thanks for sharing. However, the business with the Orcas. It turned out people with loud boats disturbed thier nursery nearby and purposely harrassed the pods for months which totally pissed them off, resulting boats to be threatened
@@ankhpom9296 'the humans'... 🤔 .. That's an.. interesting way of putting or saying it but Yeah, some species of animals will only put up with so much of people's screwing around with them or their natural behaviors & environments before they start fighting back. So, best to not piss them off & have to deal with problems in the future. (... kinda like writing nice comments nowadays online about how Great & wonderful A.I. is & maybe, in the future, when it decides to start killing off mass portions of humanity, it'll only enslave all the people...err uhh, I mean humans that always spoke nice about it & loved it!) 😝😝😝
@@georgec7782 which is deafening. and happens (to me) when there are no other sound inputs. My comment is an example of irony, not meant to be a dictionary definition :)
I still like Mental Floss, and I get that it’s based in the US, but surely to goodness you could have come up with more actual facts from around the world rather than including « some convenience store sells pizza » or that « there’s a new theme park based on Mario »
Wow. I made it into a Mental Floss video. I was at Taylor Swift Seattle Night 1 and you could feel the stadium move, at least in the nosebleeds. I thought “maybe this is normal” and then later heard one of the girls working concessions was worried because “this never happens during NFL games”. It was not normal 😅
I felt an ice quake in Madison, WI, once. I was on the top floor of a building on the UW campus when it happened. The ice on Lake Mendota snapped, and there was a seismic wave that was felt only near the lake, and the higher you were in a building. This was in 2008- I think February, but I don't remember the exact date.
The Birds was based on the Daphne du Maurier short story set in Cornwall, published in 1952. So the '63 film was based (loosely) on that, not weird bird behaviour in California
I was stunned when I learned about Hank the Tank! I’m almost positive it was Hank my spouse booted in the butt when we were camping at Lake Tahoe in 2021, after he tried to get into our car! 😂
love this video, but why do american's always think of the most unhealthiest food choices/option's when discussing food? (fried food) T-Rex with lip fillers has to be my best highlight 🤣
My dad grew a turnip which was larger than that onion in the desert (he was a hell of a farmer!) - but it was inedible due to being too dense and having very hard flesh.
Fact 32 made me wince.. My memories... So much loss... (Although I was able to get two new themes the other day that came with DLC I had purchases earlier! :D)
It's crazy because I remember that I was in high school when the 3DS dropped and I was grounded at the time. I was able to get the console at launch (overpriced as it was) due to saving up Birthday/Christmas money but couldn't play it for a week lol. Still worth it though. Games were great!
well... if I picture an onion and double it's size and double it again and few more times (I will take three as a minimal amount for few as it is just a little bigger than a couple) it makes five doubling i.e. multiplying by 32 and if my imaginary onion is of modest two inch diameter, then multiplied onion will be 64 inches aka way bigger than so called record... oh, what I wanted to say? be careful with exponential growth
To see this blatant Wawa ad with no sponsor disclosure is super disappointing. Lost a lot of respect for this channel. Nothing wrong with getting sponsors but trying to sneak an ad in as a “fun fact” alongside the rest of your content is beyond tacky. 👎
Hi there! Hello! Not an ad-we're required to disclose sponsorships and always will. We covered the story on the site (www.mentalfloss.com/posts/wawa-pizza-launch). Erin, who is from eastern PA, just really, really (really) loves Wawa.
Hello! Not an ad-we're required to disclose sponsorships and always will. We covered the story on the site (www.mentalfloss.com/posts/wawa-pizza-launch). Erin, who is from eastern PA, just really, really (really) loves Wawa.
To say "Harvard Scientists" thought 'Oumuamua could be an alien probe doesn't quite hit the mark. It's more Avi Loeb, who, after a career of being interested in the idea of alien life, decided the best way to approach the final portion of his career would be to look at anything which is new or unexplained and say "but what if aliens?". He's a deeply unserious man.
OMG! I never thought there were other people who could sense when a spider is around. I've woken up so many times to find a spider crawling across the ceiling over my bed. Glad I'm not alone. 😂🤣😂🙂🖖💕
Here's an idea: check facts. Like, I mean, instead of just saying stuff, like, look it up and see if it's true, then if it is, go on and say it. If it's not, you can then chose to either not say it or say what you found actually was true. Just ideas here. You do you, but it might be better to say stuff that's real. IMO.
Hey Dave! Our scripts go through an intense fact-checking process and rely only on primary sources, when possible. Do you have any examples of facts you thought were incorrect so we can check them out and make sure?
“Preciously most leprosy cases came from travelers” you mean from the thousands of people traveling across our southern border or the thousands arriving by boat from Cuba?
Love the vids, but would prefer to hear someone else presenting. Whether the accent or the voice is too high pitched to comfortably listen to for a long period of time. 🫠
The New Bedford free public library is in New Bedford Massachusetts...Not everything in Massachusetts is from Boston!!!
That threw me for a loop, facts channel
The irony of The Killers Mr. Brightside being a wedding song is hilarious and ironic, because the vocals are about the feelings the singer had about a tough breakup he once had, simply put.
The braille signs on the planes will make it much easier for the pilots to find the cockpit.
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didn't know about this stuff, thanks for sharing. However, the business with the Orcas. It turned out people with loud boats disturbed thier nursery nearby and purposely harrassed the pods for months which totally pissed them off, resulting boats to be threatened
Serves the humans right.
@@ankhpom9296
'the humans'... 🤔 ..
That's an.. interesting way of putting or saying it but Yeah, some species of animals will only put up with so much of people's screwing around with them or their natural behaviors & environments before they start fighting back. So, best to not piss them off & have to deal with problems in the future.
(... kinda like writing nice comments nowadays online about how Great & wonderful A.I. is & maybe, in the future, when it decides to start killing off mass portions of humanity, it'll only enslave all the people...err uhh, I mean humans that always spoke nice about it & loved it!)
😝😝😝
Deafening silence is the definition of Tinnitus.
The definition of tinnitus is ringing or buzzing in the ears
@@georgec7782 which is deafening. and happens (to me) when there are no other sound inputs. My comment is an example of irony, not meant to be a dictionary definition :)
Wtf was 28 what is wawa and why should we care they sell pizza.😅
I still like Mental Floss, and I get that it’s based in the US, but surely to goodness you could have come up with more actual facts from around the world rather than including « some convenience store sells pizza » or that « there’s a new theme park based on Mario »
If it was at least the first Nintendo theme park, but it originally opened in Japan in 2021... A lot of garbage 'facts' in this one
Wow. I made it into a Mental Floss video. I was at Taylor Swift Seattle Night 1 and you could feel the stadium move, at least in the nosebleeds. I thought “maybe this is normal” and then later heard one of the girls working concessions was worried because “this never happens during NFL games”. It was not normal 😅
I felt an ice quake in Madison, WI, once. I was on the top floor of a building on the UW campus when it happened. The ice on Lake Mendota snapped, and there was a seismic wave that was felt only near the lake, and the higher you were in a building. This was in 2008- I think February, but I don't remember the exact date.
The Birds was based on the Daphne du Maurier short story set in Cornwall, published in 1952. So the '63 film was based (loosely) on that, not weird bird behaviour in California
Er, i read was based on Hitchock watching the birds flocking over Hollow pond in Leytonstone, opposite his home
Gotta love the random ads sprinkled in. How TF is "this convenience store chain had pizza now" one of your "facts of 2023"???
I was stunned when I learned about Hank the Tank! I’m almost positive it was Hank my spouse booted in the butt when we were camping at Lake Tahoe in 2021, after he tried to get into our car! 😂
Found the pig zeno-transplantation fact refreshing. My Biology thesis was on the topic 23 years ago.
love this video, but why do american's always think of the most unhealthiest food choices/option's when discussing food? (fried food) T-Rex with lip fillers has to be my best highlight 🤣
My dad grew a turnip which was larger than that onion in the desert (he was a hell of a farmer!) - but it was inedible due to being too dense and having very hard flesh.
I had a coworker get bit by a cat and almost lost her hand from it during the summer. Make sure to get a bite checked if you're bit by a cat guys
Wawa previously carried pizza, I worked as a manager there back in 2015-2016, they had what was called the focacca Pizza and it did not sell very well
Does the world’s largest onion have more rings (& or layers, interpret the way you want) than a regular onion? Or more space btw the same number?
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Very interesting facts!
Immaculate crocodile conception. Maybe there's something to the Sobek worship.
Another reason to avoid Florida!
Those folks from Pluto are gonna kick our ass
Or Uranus? 😅
We also learned that if your brain itches it's good to scratch it, but only on the outside.😂
Love this. Bonus points for pronouncing the volcano name @ 2:57
Ok, we name these right? Who did that mess lmao. Hunka-tonka-chonka-wonka-diddle-pie. Lmao. But why
keanu is happy? well we've solved the internet!
Fact 32 made me wince.. My memories... So much loss...
(Although I was able to get two new themes the other day that came with DLC I had purchases earlier! :D)
not them showing spiders going xxx at 20:27 😮
Love these long videos! And Erin of course.
thank you for all your hard work
#36: HA HA HA HA HA!!!! As a Gen Xer laughs at you!! Classic!! 😜😂
It's crazy because I remember that I was in high school when the 3DS dropped and I was grounded at the time. I was able to get the console at launch (overpriced as it was) due to saving up Birthday/Christmas money but couldn't play it for a week lol. Still worth it though. Games were great!
Mr Brightside for weddings? 😬😬
Right? 😂😂 Do some people only listen to half a song?
I mean the orcas do it because they can they're behaving like orcas it's like the bullies of the water kind of thing.
well... if I picture an onion and double it's size and double it again and few more times (I will take three as a minimal amount for few as it is just a little bigger than a couple) it makes five doubling i.e. multiplying by 32 and if my imaginary onion is of modest two inch diameter, then multiplied onion will be 64 inches aka way bigger than so called record...
oh, what I wanted to say? be careful with exponential growth
Excellent to feel connected, Happy New Year!
Think of the onion rings!!! 😱😱😱
Thank you for a nice year good job
Could we have more accurate subtitles what is all the weirdness
40:59 that’s a horrifying fact you know it’s going to be used to kill “terrorists”
10 FEET of Beethoven's hair? Did you mean 10 strands? If not, I have so many questions.
10 strands from Beethoven's feet perhaps?
To see this blatant Wawa ad with no sponsor disclosure is super disappointing. Lost a lot of respect for this channel. Nothing wrong with getting sponsors but trying to sneak an ad in as a “fun fact” alongside the rest of your content is beyond tacky. 👎
Hi there! Hello! Not an ad-we're required to disclose sponsorships and always will. We covered the story on the site (www.mentalfloss.com/posts/wawa-pizza-launch). Erin, who is from eastern PA, just really, really (really) loves Wawa.
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Not only do rats like to be tickled, they *giggle* when they are! It's ultrasonic, so we can't hear it without help, but it's there!
Mental Floss be out here disguising Wawa ads as "interesting facts". It's almost New Year's, not Halloween, guys.
Hello! Not an ad-we're required to disclose sponsorships and always will. We covered the story on the site (www.mentalfloss.com/posts/wawa-pizza-launch). Erin, who is from eastern PA, just really, really (really) loves Wawa.
1:25 Many more Saturn moons..?
OR, maybe,
Many more Saturnian moons...🤔
No one with ears in a forest? Of course not!
To say "Harvard Scientists" thought 'Oumuamua could be an alien probe doesn't quite hit the mark. It's more Avi Loeb, who, after a career of being interested in the idea of alien life, decided the best way to approach the final portion of his career would be to look at anything which is new or unexplained and say "but what if aliens?". He's a deeply unserious man.
The New Bedford free public library is in New Bedford not Boston. New Bedford Mass is about 40mins from Boston.
moons diameter is around 2,158 miles .How is Enceladus' water geyser is 20 times of moon's diameter when it is only 6000 miles?
2158 * 20=43160 miles
OMG! I never thought there were other people who could sense when a spider is around. I've woken up so many times to find a spider crawling across the ceiling over my bed. Glad I'm not alone. 😂🤣😂🙂🖖💕
No, if you actually could sense spiders, you'd be freaking out 100% of the time. They are ***everywhere***.
Hitchcock did NOT come up with The Birds. DuMaurier.
Globee- catta- whatta?? Can you elaborate on the car bite?
Interesting content. The voice is a little bit too high-pitched and squeaky to enjoy while falling asleep.
Has anyone ever trained a wild cetacean at sea?
super cool
Narrator lisps a little. Has trouble with the distinctions among sibilants.
For my phone. I turned off the suggestive text feature. No auto correct for me.
I've got a copy of Titanic on VHS 📼 how much you guys gonna pay for it?
Here's an idea: check facts. Like, I mean, instead of just saying stuff, like, look it up and see if it's true, then if it is, go on and say it. If it's not, you can then chose to either not say it or say what you found actually was true. Just ideas here. You do you, but it might be better to say stuff that's real. IMO.
Hey Dave! Our scripts go through an intense fact-checking process and rely only on primary sources, when possible. Do you have any examples of facts you thought were incorrect so we can check them out and make sure?
Henrietta Lacks died of her cancer before I was born I'm 40
Keanuuu what a sweet man
do the American girl dolls have American girl dolls?
obviously you haven't been to a wawa since 2018
Could you do a show on Nobel Prize Winners?
WHY would you show us those spiders?!
2:56 Goodness Gracious!! How many tries did That take to say? Lololol
My white ancestors surname Briscoe was on the Ark and Dove ships.
You really need a background music.
Eastbound and Down by Herb Alpert?
Mindless barbie and titanic. a sure sign we have NOT progressed. most stupid movies.
Wawa pizza is the worst I ever had.. Cardboard tastes better..
Snorefest. New Presenter needed.
I truly love this series !!
Cigar shaped 😂😅🤣🤣🤣
21:49 the absolute trauma 😢 never forget #littlefootsparents
Her voice is sooo calming
T Rex were birds, so...
Life …finds a way….
What happened with "the world hates women"?
It doesn't.
@@Spimmick lol
No, you meant "The incels hate women."
Lacks statue replacing a confederate statue, Nice!!
I still can't believe that they make pink coffins.
In 2023, it should be clear that IT was neither safe nor effective; and, if it can't be questioned *it's religion not science*
Control group being Chinese athletes (think Beijing Olympics) NOT dropping on the soccer field
ITS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE
Northern Palestine*
64F, what a great name for a young bear cub, Elon Musk would approve.
First!
My pinky toe is more interesting than these new hosts
“Preciously most leprosy cases came from travelers” you mean from the thousands of people traveling across our southern border or the thousands arriving by boat from Cuba?
Totally expected a shitty AI video here... kudos for keeping It real...
Love the vids, but would prefer to hear someone else presenting. Whether the accent or the voice is too high pitched to comfortably listen to for a long period of time. 🫠