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Glad to see this comment! I just found this channel, a couple weeks ago! And was wondering if you were still on as I'm seeing most that were posted 4-5 yrs ago! Love it!! Love it that you talk fast and move along.... can't listen to the ones who fool around with their personal inane ' comments ', or I should say ' opinions'!! 👍
i know Im asking randomly but does anyone know a trick to log back into an instagram account?? I was dumb forgot my account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me.
It is generally thought that "Humpty Dumpty" was originally a *riddle*, that's why it doesn't mention that it's an egg - that's the answer to the riddle. In any case, Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," which featured Humpty Dumpty pictured as an egg, pretty much cemented the idea so hard that no one thinks of it as a riddle any more 'cause the answer is even more obvious. As Humpty would say, "there's glory for you."
This may be my favorite Mental Floss video yet. The editing was unintentionally hilarious, too - you could definitely tell which scenes were cut when John started laughing, which just made me laugh.
IM ADDICTED TO MENTAL FLOSS!!!! thank you mental floss for filling my head with random facts that I can spout out to my family and they can look at me like I am weirder than they thought I was!! haha
First time poster, long time listener.....ok, actually I just started watching mental floss because a friend just told me about it. He won trivial pursuit when last we played and I'm not sure why he would arm an opponent with such arsenal as this program, but hey I'll take it. Anywho, first thing that comes to mind is "WOAH" this is a lot of facts, more facts then have been thrown at me since earning a worthless degree in 2009 (in 2015 I still find my brain wanting to learn and grow, your program fortunately is far cheaper and more entertaining than traditional education in the US). I dare say, it is a fine collection of factoids and if I may be so bold I would like to suggest an entree on Memory Athleticism. It will expose your viewers to brainy tips that will aid in the retention of this large assembly of facts of which you so abundantly share. Memory Athleticism is new to me, but thanks to very little effort on my part I am able to remember many things such as lengthy poetry like 'Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie' or lists of interests like the 25 top endangered animals on the planet or the states and capitals which I had since forgot from my elementary years (major shocker there). As someone who failed to thrive in the 'drill-as-many-facts-in-your-head-for-the-test-as-possible-until-we-cram-more-abstract-facts-for-the-next-test' type of educating in traditional schooling, I am glad that I finally stumbled on a simple and effective way to retain information as a young adult so I no longer have to waste my brain any further with this 'in one ear out the other' level of absorption (hows that for a run on sentence). With memory training I now feel confident in building a vast library of thoughts and facts in my mind which I previously thought to have a far smaller capacity. Thank you, and good day.
After you say "Thank you again for watching." And before you say "And as they say in my hometown...." you should say "May your brain stay minty fresh."
WHOA YOU MENTION LOW CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID HEADACHES?! I have idiopathic intracranial hypertension and I'm really glad you even mentioned something obscure like that. It took me so long to get diagnosed because of how unknown it is, it took about the first 13-15 years of my life before getting multiple failing lumbar shunts and now I'm on my second brain shunt :P anyway it's nice to hear it talked about no matter how brief. Thanks :)
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon, at least according to a book I read once about the origins of nursery rhymes and fairy stories. I can't remember what it was called, I borrowed it from the library, but it was very interesting. Ring a ring a roses was about the black death and little miss muffet was about the daughter of a doctor who was well known at the time for reasons I can't remember.
***** Good explanation. I would never have counted those temporary designations though... and a 3-letter symbol for an element is just right out! Side note - the shortest list of element symbols that contains all the letters (except Q & J of course), is: Ar, Bk, Cu, Dy, Fm, Ho, Lv, P, Sg, Ti, W, Xe, Zn
Do you think it was a mail order thing though or like a membership to a porn site? Cause if it is a first "physical thing" I would think pizza could be right.
Why did Czech census get picked on? There are 30x as many Jedi in the UK. There also more in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
I'd say it's because compared to those big countries, ČR has "only" 10 million inhabitants, therefore the total percentage of Jedis would be 1,5%. (In UK it was about 0,8%, Australia 0,37%, Canada 0,68% and NZ also around 1,5%)
That gmail fact triggered my nostalgia and flashbacks just were jumping around my mind. My elementary school got us to make those old Garfield mail accounts. But it was kinda moot because very few people had internet capable computers back then.
You clearly haven't been to the much nicer places of NJ. I am going to assume you live in a large/major city in NJ rather than a rural or suburban area. They are wonderful places. Fun fact about NJ: It is the most densest state in the U.S., meaning that it has the most population per square mile. So, if the entire U.S. was as dense as NJ, the population would rise from 300 mil, to 4 bil (as of 2012) people.
It depends where and how you live. New Jersey is known for its notoriously high cost of living. However, New Jersey is not a joke, as many people make it out to be. Ignorance runs rampant.
I used to live in Trenton, and, basing the whole state off of the worse neighborhoods there, I can see why people think it is so bad. Now that I live in Bordentown, I can tell you that there is little to no crime in the city, and any crime in the city is something you can go to prison for about 4 years AT MOST, even though we are about 10 mins or so from Trenton.
Mighty_Devil _1 No I actually live in bergen county. It's very expensive, ridiculously so. I live in a rich racist town and it pisses me off. There are people that complain that their parents didn't get them limos for their birthdays.
So you're telling me Einstein the same guy how said "any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl - is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves" never learned to drive himself?
Even before cell phones existed, Amateur Radio operators in many areas have been able to make phone calls on their hand held radios. Unfortunately, since Hams are also banned from conducting any kind of business on the air, ordering a pizza with one is illegal.
Here's a couple of pieces of trivia if you do a "facts about currency" show: 1. Australian silver coins are actually mostly copper. The exact mix is 75% copper and 25% nickel 2. If you got rid of the US 1 and 5 cent coins, you could still make all multiples of 5 cents other than 5 or 15 with the remaining coins.
Dean Dazzle Because myspace isn't really a thing anymore. He meant that it was a thing, but 15 year olds were too young to remember it. Of course your friends don't have an account now; nobody does.
Sakura11101 To be fair, 22 might be just outside the range of when Myspace was still relevant to people using social media. Given that it peaked from '05 to '08, you would have to have been among the youngest users to have been using Myspace. someone 13-16 in the 07'-'08 range might have jumped straight to Facebook instead. But it's definitely outside the range for for a 15yr old. Myspace started a decline in '08-'09 and began to bottom out in '11, when the rebranded themselves as a social media for music (which seems to have salvaged the company, but made them no longer a relevant social media page for the average person).
Actually - Niels Bohr did not have beer piped into his house... The Carlsberg Brewery owned a house, they awarded to people (scientists, artists, authors, ect.) as a free place to live, until death... The beer pipe was already installed.. :) Niels Bohr lived there for 30 years. :)
Perhaps I should restate. The Mental Floss channel is actually pretty good at staying apolitical in most of it's videos and I appreciate that. I'll add that the occasional jab at Fox or the right is unnecessary but not intolerable, I'm pretty far from right wing anyway. That being said, it doesn't take much looking around to determine that the folks that run it are pretty left leaning. That's okay, I just don't want to watch political videos from them.
because that way he can keep the attention of people who are used to browsing through the internet at a very fast pace. I am one of those people and I really appreciate the fast pace that John maintains. Although those last ones were a little too fast even for me
Because he has a lot of information to go over in a set amount of time. They try to keep there videos under 15min I believe. And in Vlogbrothers unless educational they keep their videos under 4min.
purplepurrs I vaguely remember a couple people having them in 7th and 8th grade, but around 8th and 9th grade is when everyone switched to facebook, and that happens to also be around the time I got interested in social media.
Funny thing is that other major news sources are just as bad if not worse, only difference being a liberal bias. I forgot which station blamed Ebola on the NRA... lol.
jank1995 www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/14/religious-people-less-intelligent-atheists_n_3750096.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LynnHarveyNyborg-Atheism-IQ.svg "A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity": psr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/02/1088868313497266.full AND even economics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_economy.png If you say Wikipedia is not a reliable source, just see the references at the bottom.
Although a little long, this was a really enjoyable edition of Mental Floss. I knew a couple of the facts already, but most really were at least momentarily jaw-dropping (don't know if I'd go as far as saying "mind-blowing"). Thanks, John. Keep up the great work!
About the yawning thing with humans and animals, a little while ago my one cat yawned which caused me to yawn which caused my other cat to yawn after seeing me yawn. It was a beautiful experience.
#26 not only that, but the prisoners complained about torture because they didn't like eating the insect like creatures and believed they were being force fed them....lobsters weren't stored well in cans back then due to no coating in the can, so they turned out black in the cans and supposedly tasted horrible because of it. lobsters were also so plentiful that they'd wash up on the beaches in the thousands after storms, local people even gathered them and used them for fertilizer in their gardens due to their high copper and phosphate content.....
Hi Mental Floss. I just want to clarify a fact posted on you're page. I am a huge Charlie Chaplin fan and the "fact of Charlie Chaplin entering a Charlie Chaplin Lookalike contest and losing isn't actually true - I came across a page in which someone actually mailed The Charlie Chaplin Society, which is run by his family, to ask if this story is true - the response was ... The only real reference I have ever seen to this story is in English newspaper clippings from 1918, when Mary Pickford was in London at an Anglo Saxon Club dinner, and told a story to Lord Desborough who repeated it to the press that Charles Chaplin entered a Chaplin walk contest at a fair in the US and came in 20th.This anecdote told by Lord Desborough, whoever he may have been, was quite widely reported in the British press at the time.There are no other references to such a competition in any other press clipping albums that I have seen so I can only assume that this is the source of that rumour, urban myth, whatever it is. So please Mental Floss - do a Charlie Chaplin Facts or Misconceptions show please :)
That "Coke in education day" one reminds me of when I was in school, everyone had a turn to bring a snack for the class, and the options for what we were allowed to bring were, "fruit, or Dunkin' Donuts (tm) Munchkins (tm)."
If you enjoyed this video but thought, "Hmm, I wish there were roughly 400 more facts," today is your lucky day! John shares 500 Fun Facts in this episode: ruclips.net/video/E7-Kht9Xnzc/видео.html
At 7:16 it should be 200 billion, not 200 thousand!
Glad to see this comment! I just found this channel, a couple weeks ago! And was wondering if you were still on as I'm seeing most that were posted 4-5 yrs ago! Love it!! Love it that you talk fast and move along.... can't listen to the ones who fool around with their personal inane ' comments ', or I should say ' opinions'!! 👍
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon.
i know Im asking randomly but does anyone know a trick to log back into an instagram account??
I was dumb forgot my account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me.
@Leon Moises instablaster ;)
I love these videos, and I am completely addicted to them.
I love that magazine.
I didn't even know they had a magazine.
Karl Geiger Jr The magazine actually came first.
Shut up Meg. Sorry I can't help myself. That doesn't surprise me, Meg Ashley. I've only known about Mental Floss for a couple of years. :)
I used to pick the mag up in airports when I was traveling.
"Canadians eat more donuts than any other country."
Well, yes. Countries are hard to eat, especially compared to donuts.
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I looked it up and after exhaustive research, this is the correct answer.
Wow that’s a lame joke
Unoriginal, but still amusing.
John you just broke the first and second rule of Fight Club
John Green has an amazing delivery and I quite enjoy his witty Mental Floss episodes.
Finally, an episode for everyone.
Even for RT fans like us.(yes, I recognize the Michael RTAA image)
I just learned that this guy wrote The Fault in Our Stars!
"The milk yield of cows increases when they listen to relaxing music."
Anyone who ever played Ocarina of Time already knew this to be true.
That was good lol
axyaxy
Wow, by the middle of this video i was wondering : Well damn, this guy sounds really like that cool dude from SciShow...
I had no idea.
It is generally thought that "Humpty Dumpty" was originally a *riddle*, that's why it doesn't mention that it's an egg - that's the answer to the riddle. In any case, Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," which featured Humpty Dumpty pictured as an egg, pretty much cemented the idea so hard that no one thinks of it as a riddle any more 'cause the answer is even more obvious. As Humpty would say, "there's glory for you."
actually I believe there's historical evidence to humpty is a cannon
ProfAwesomeO as I've said in a comment above, there is more evidence that he wasn't that cannon. In summary, the timeline doesn't match up.
I was reading where Humpty Dumpty referred to a type of alcohol and a reference to drunks being clumsy.
I thought it was about a king (I forget his name) who happened to be a hunchback. I think Jon Solo has something on that.
Wow John... you're not even going to tell us what toppings that pizza had? Talk about leaving out crucial information.
It's October 2020 and I can't imagine a day with no news on any level whatsoever
7:21 So you found Alaska?
lol
No the premise of the book is finding A GIRL named Alaska
Far Superior I know, I read it. Just a joke :P
Well fuck
@@black-op345gaming5 r/woooosh
This may be my favorite Mental Floss video yet. The editing was unintentionally hilarious, too - you could definitely tell which scenes were cut when John started laughing, which just made me laugh.
John, this 100 random facts video beats out any of the videos with a common theme. Do more of these, please.
I love these videos, but what would be really cool (maybe best placed on the mentalfloss website?) would be some sources for these facts.
This seems like it's a list of facts they discovered while researching other videos and couldn't use them there.
Love you John Green and Mentalfloss!
Welp. time to watch fight club again.
Right?
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IM ADDICTED TO MENTAL FLOSS!!!! thank you mental floss for filling my head with random facts that I can spout out to my family and they can look at me like I am weirder than they thought I was!! haha
Why is fact 24 a picture of Einstein?
Yeah, I have no idea why/how that happened. Or how I didn't catch that...sorry! -mark
turn on annotations
Mental Floss You had one job mark....
Fluffles The Baby Cheetah huehuehue
thanks lol
Nice little "fault in our stars clouds" in the back...
Really, it's a nice touch!
Why do you always say "Finally, I return to my salon to tell you..." when you've been in the sitting in the same room the whole episode?
Google "catchphrases". It'll do you a lot of good.
Loved that Neil Armstrong fact!!
Humpty dumpy was a cannon if my memory serves me
HUMPY DUMPY COULD BE A BANANA DOU
First time poster, long time listener.....ok, actually I just started watching mental floss because a friend just told me about it. He won trivial pursuit when last we played and I'm not sure why he would arm an opponent with such arsenal as this program, but hey I'll take it. Anywho, first thing that comes to mind is "WOAH" this is a lot of facts, more facts then have been thrown at me since earning a worthless degree in 2009 (in 2015 I still find my brain wanting to learn and grow, your program fortunately is far cheaper and more entertaining than traditional education in the US). I dare say, it is a fine collection of factoids and if I may be so bold I would like to suggest an entree on Memory Athleticism. It will expose your viewers to brainy tips that will aid in the retention of this large assembly of facts of which you so abundantly share. Memory Athleticism is new to me, but thanks to very little effort on my part I am able to remember many things such as lengthy poetry like 'Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie' or lists of interests like the 25 top endangered animals on the planet or the states and capitals which I had since forgot from my elementary years (major shocker there). As someone who failed to thrive in the 'drill-as-many-facts-in-your-head-for-the-test-as-possible-until-we-cram-more-abstract-facts-for-the-next-test' type of educating in traditional schooling, I am glad that I finally stumbled on a simple and effective way to retain information as a young adult so I no longer have to waste my brain any further with this 'in one ear out the other' level of absorption (hows that for a run on sentence). With memory training I now feel confident in building a vast library of thoughts and facts in my mind which I previously thought to have a far smaller capacity. Thank you, and good day.
At around 1:32 when John said "Except" I automatically assumed the next word had to do with mongols.
I'm from New Jersey and I agree with you! Who wants 75 New Jerseys!?!?
Why did you guys show Einstein when talking about how actor John Cazale's entire filmography consisted of Best Picture nominees/winners?
Turn annotations on.
Damn. When I saw the baby at 7:41 yawning, I yawned. Contagious indeed, Mr. Green. Contagious indeed.
11 minutes of action in an NFL game? they must have stitched two games together to get so high
Bro your URL is insane
Glorious as always.
After you say "Thank you again for watching." And before you say "And as they say in my hometown...." you should say "May your brain stay minty fresh."
WHOA YOU MENTION LOW CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID HEADACHES?! I have idiopathic intracranial hypertension and I'm really glad you even mentioned something obscure like that. It took me so long to get diagnosed because of how unknown it is, it took about the first 13-15 years of my life before getting multiple failing lumbar shunts and now I'm on my second brain shunt :P anyway it's nice to hear it talked about no matter how brief. Thanks :)
Here's my mind-blowing question: are there any creatures that have only one eye?
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon, at least according to a book I read once about the origins of nursery rhymes and fairy stories. I can't remember what it was called, I borrowed it from the library, but it was very interesting. Ring a ring a roses was about the black death and little miss muffet was about the daughter of a doctor who was well known at the time for reasons I can't remember.
There's a problem around 3:30
Thanks Mental Floss.
The app displayed a red gem on a blank screen.
There were also words that said " I am rich"
love the decoration around the numbers as they count up. lol
I may be wrong but doesn't Q not appear on the periodic table either?
***** Good explanation. I would never have counted those temporary designations though... and a 3-letter symbol for an element is just right out!
Side note - the shortest list of element symbols that contains all the letters (except Q & J of course), is: Ar, Bk, Cu, Dy, Fm, Ho, Lv, P, Sg, Ti, W, Xe, Zn
I think he meant that J has yet to appear.
Please do more of these kind...
As a fan of QI, I knew a rather large number of these :P
DodderingOldMan
Me too. Especially the O.M.G. fact.
You seem even more energetic than usual!
I have no proof of this, but there's no way the first thing purchased on the Internet wasn't porn.
Do you think it was a mail order thing though or like a membership to a porn site? Cause if it is a first "physical thing" I would think pizza could be right.
The first planned purchaee was actually weed between two different colleges. Technically, however, it was not ourchased online
I like all your stuff on the wall. I have OCD and I enjoy seeing all that stuff so nicely organized and neat
Do another one of these sometime! I really enjoyed it!
Hell yeah, Croatia did a thing!
Why did Czech census get picked on? There are 30x as many Jedi in the UK. There also more in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
IM A JEDI
I'd say it's because compared to those big countries, ČR has "only" 10 million inhabitants, therefore the total percentage of Jedis would be 1,5%. (In UK it was about 0,8%, Australia 0,37%, Canada 0,68% and NZ also around 1,5%)
That gmail fact triggered my nostalgia and flashbacks just were jumping around my mind. My elementary school got us to make those old Garfield mail accounts. But it was kinda moot because very few people had internet capable computers back then.
At 39, did anyone else think he was making a... "different" joke relating to "cheating" and "blowing?"No? Just me? Okay...
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+DJ Julian Holland I don't think mental_floss is the best page to run that racket
That Bush Nixon fact was kind of amazing.
No one wants 75 new jerseys. New Jersey is horrible (I say this as a person currently living in New Jersey)
You clearly haven't been to the much nicer places of NJ. I am going to assume you live in a large/major city in NJ rather than a rural or suburban area. They are wonderful places.
Fun fact about NJ: It is the most densest state in the U.S., meaning that it has the most population per square mile. So, if the entire U.S. was as dense as NJ, the population would rise from 300 mil, to 4 bil (as of 2012) people.
It depends where and how you live. New Jersey is known for its notoriously high cost of living.
However, New Jersey is not a joke, as many people make it out to be. Ignorance runs rampant.
I used to live in Trenton, and, basing the whole state off of the worse neighborhoods there, I can see why people think it is so bad. Now that I live in Bordentown, I can tell you that there is little to no crime in the city, and any crime in the city is something you can go to prison for about 4 years AT MOST, even though we are about 10 mins or so from Trenton.
Mighty_Devil _1 No I actually live in bergen county. It's very expensive, ridiculously so. I live in a rich racist town and it pisses me off. There are people that complain that their parents didn't get them limos for their birthdays.
i like new jerseys.. cause i had an old one..
Good to see John Green back doing these! Loved some of the facts!
@ Number 56: SO YOU COULD HAVE 75 OF ME
Well done. That was incredible! 👏
Can you imagine scoring 8 grand for putting up a useless app?
pretty sure they lost half of it from people complaining not realizing it wasn't a joke
Awesome facts, the Fight Club is mind blowing. Such a great and ridiculous film.
-Sage
So you're telling me Einstein the same guy how said "any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl - is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves" never learned to drive himself?
That quote being on Einsteinian origin is actually debated
The Smartest Chimp He was too busy kissing girls
Even before cell phones existed, Amateur Radio operators in many areas have been able to make phone calls on their hand held radios. Unfortunately, since Hams are also banned from conducting any kind of business on the air, ordering a pizza with one is illegal.
The whalers had a beautiful logo. Rip #NeverForget
Here's a couple of pieces of trivia if you do a "facts about currency" show:
1. Australian silver coins are actually mostly copper. The exact mix is 75% copper and 25% nickel
2. If you got rid of the US 1 and 5 cent coins, you could still make all multiples of 5 cents other than 5 or 15 with the remaining coins.
15? I'm 22 and no one I know has a MySpace account?
Also, "no one I know" must be the most incidentally synonym-loaded phrase, ever.
Dean Dazzle Because myspace isn't really a thing anymore. He meant that it was a thing, but 15 year olds were too young to remember it. Of course your friends don't have an account now; nobody does.
Dean Dazzle There are no synonyms in that phrase.
Sakura11101
To be fair, 22 might be just outside the range of when Myspace was still relevant to people using social media. Given that it peaked from '05 to '08, you would have to have been among the youngest users to have been using Myspace. someone 13-16 in the 07'-'08 range might have jumped straight to Facebook instead.
But it's definitely outside the range for for a 15yr old. Myspace started a decline in '08-'09 and began to bottom out in '11, when the rebranded themselves as a social media for music (which seems to have salvaged the company, but made them no longer a relevant social media page for the average person).
Twosocks42 Eh, my 17 year old brother had one. He was 9, granted, but I get your point.
Actually - Niels Bohr did not have beer piped into his house... The Carlsberg Brewery owned a house, they awarded to people (scientists, artists, authors, ect.) as a free place to live, until death... The beer pipe was already installed.. :)
Niels Bohr lived there for 30 years. :)
What is up on the slam on Fox News that was uncalled for
Nope, Fox News is awful
You at like you didn't know that Mental Floss is very left leaning.
kilrain I wouldn't say *very* per se, but definitely not right leaning at all.
Perhaps I should restate. The Mental Floss channel is actually pretty good at staying apolitical in most of it's videos and I appreciate that. I'll add that the occasional jab at Fox or the right is unnecessary but not intolerable, I'm pretty far from right wing anyway. That being said, it doesn't take much looking around to determine that the folks that run it are pretty left leaning. That's okay, I just don't want to watch political videos from them.
Fox, MSNBC and CNN don't get slammed nearly enough
I just read an Abundance of Katherines and I was thinking of thks channel every time Collin talked!
WHY ARE YOU TALKING SO FAST??!
*shrug* that's how he talks
because that way he can keep the attention of people who are used to browsing through the internet at a very fast pace.
I am one of those people and I really appreciate the fast pace that John maintains. Although those last ones were a little too fast even for me
darude - sandstorm
Because he has a lot of information to go over in a set amount of time. They try to keep there videos under 15min I believe. And in Vlogbrothers unless educational they keep their videos under 4min.
Because he is AWESOME and AckAck's reason too :P He should make a video in one take.
Love it! Great video!
I am 15. I used to have Myspace. Don't judge me okay? I'm not that current
What's a MySpace
That's weird, because I'm 21, and I consider MySpace "before my time"
Richie Lomas
What? I'm 22 and back in school you just weren't cool if you didn't have one... I wasn't cool.
purplepurrs I vaguely remember a couple people having them in 7th and 8th grade, but around 8th and 9th grade is when everyone switched to facebook, and that happens to also be around the time I got interested in social media.
When I was 10, I'm not saying Facebook wasn't available, it was just more adult based at the time.
Humpty Dumpty is a cannon... or a boy from Unwind if you want to read it because SERIOUSLY AMAZING SERIES AND THAT TWIST AT THE END!!!
Fox bashing. That's original.
Honestly though, it never gets old.
always funny...
Funny thing is that other major news sources are just as bad if not worse, only difference being a liberal bias. I forgot which station blamed Ebola on the NRA... lol.
bigge1495
until you remember and provide evidence, I'm calling BS
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-nra-making-the-ebola-crisis-worse
OH MY GOSH!!! The Beatles as the vulchers would have been the funniest thing ever.
Watch Dumbo. (I'm 99% certain it's that film.) They're in it. Not the Beatles, but a quartet of (almost) Liverpudlian vultures!
Let's have another Bible shortage, during that period we would all be more intelligent.
can you show a correlation between being religious and how smart someone is tho?
jank1995 www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/14/religious-people-less-intelligent-atheists_n_3750096.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LynnHarveyNyborg-Atheism-IQ.svg
"A meta-analysis of 63 studies showed a significant negative association between intelligence and religiosity": psr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/02/1088868313497266.full
AND even economics:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_economy.png
If you say Wikipedia is not a reliable source, just see the references at the bottom.
Dont forget euphoric too
I sympathise with you but unfortunately I dont think so. People would seek out the remaining ones, and they would be preached to larger crowds.
I thought fedoras were just for sexist pigs and basement dwellers, why are atheists being lumped in with this should-be-dieing meme?
I just found this app, I'm so happy. This us one of the best I seen. Thank you John.!!
Best one yet
Although a little long, this was a really enjoyable edition of Mental Floss. I knew a couple of the facts already, but most really were at least momentarily jaw-dropping (don't know if I'd go as far as saying "mind-blowing"). Thanks, John. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for answering!!!!!!
John Green wrote 'The fault in our stars'
About the yawning thing with humans and animals, a little while ago my one cat yawned which caused me to yawn which caused my other cat to yawn after seeing me yawn. It was a beautiful experience.
That tri force.... you have all my love sir.
#26 not only that, but the prisoners complained about torture because they didn't like eating the insect like creatures and believed they were being force fed them....lobsters weren't stored well in cans back then due to no coating in the can, so they turned out black in the cans and supposedly tasted horrible because of it. lobsters were also so plentiful that they'd wash up on the beaches in the thousands after storms, local people even gathered them and used them for fertilizer in their gardens due to their high copper and phosphate content.....
Hi Mental Floss. I just want to clarify a fact posted on you're page. I am a huge Charlie Chaplin fan and the "fact of Charlie Chaplin entering a Charlie Chaplin Lookalike contest and losing isn't actually true - I came across a page in which someone actually mailed The Charlie Chaplin Society, which is run by his family, to ask if this story is true - the response was
... The only real reference I have ever seen to this story is in English newspaper clippings from 1918, when Mary Pickford was in London at an Anglo Saxon Club dinner, and told a story to Lord Desborough who repeated it to the press that Charles Chaplin entered a Chaplin walk contest at a fair in the US and came in 20th.This anecdote told by Lord Desborough, whoever he may have been, was quite widely reported in the British press at the time.There are no other references to such a competition in any other press clipping albums that I have seen so I can only assume that this is the source of that rumour, urban myth, whatever it is.
So please Mental Floss - do a Charlie Chaplin Facts or Misconceptions show please :)
humpty dumpty was a canon my friend, love the channel
This was awesome.
Tom was the coolest friend I knew
John is the only Mental Floss host that I like. The others annoy me
Czech republic! WE rock!
That "Coke in education day" one reminds me of when I was in school, everyone had a turn to bring a snack for the class, and the options for what we were allowed to bring were, "fruit, or Dunkin' Donuts (tm) Munchkins (tm)."
A huge number of these I had already learned on QI.
YEAH! QI is good.
Don't judge me.
Woo new Mental Floss!
Can I say that this is awesome... By the way, when was the word 'AWESOME' used for the first time?
ok, this is spectacular.. I started to yawn just a second BEFORE the yawn is contagious part came on the video... now that IS spectacular.
Honestly, fact 59 is making me want to yawn! I'm actually having to actively fight the impulse to yawn!!!
I love the hockey slam on hartford
Regarding Fact #24: John Cazale who died tragically young, was also the great love of Meryl Streep's life.
From what I have researched and read on my own, it is thought that Humpty-Dumpty was the name for a grand cannon that fell during battle.
#14 at 2:06 , don`t you touch EVERY item you buy? (just wondering if the statistics on this one considered that)
Was really hoping the fact about the coffee pot and the camera was actually a scientific experiment to prove if a watched pot never boils
"Something That Happened" does work for the "in your pants" rule.
mind blowing question: what is John Green's hat size?