I heard "One of my brother's alma maters" as "One of my brothers' alma maters" and thought there was a third Green brother who's never been shown to the world. I also felt sad that Hank and John weren't including him. Poor guy.
I love that you talked about Oberlin's art rental program. I rent art every semester (I go to Oberlin) and it's one of my favorite things in the whole world. They've been doing it FOREVER.
John Harvards Statue is known as "the statue of three lies" because of the inscription. It reads "John Harvard, Founder, 1638". The statue is not of John Harvard. John Harvard is not the founder of Harvard University. And Harvard was not founded in 1638.
So happy for the shoutout to the University of Kansas. Thanks John and Mental Floss team! (And to be fair, it's mostly only the geologists that are excited about our limestone.)
Minor correction: The modern usage of campus may have been invented in the 1770's but not the word itself. It is taken from the Latin for 'Field'. For example, the Campus Martius (The Field of Mars) was used as pasture and the training ground for soldiers of the Legions. My Pantheon still stands there to this day.
Another correction: Georgetown's cheer doesn't have unknown origins. The cheer came from a time where the students would watch athletic games while sitting on a stone wall, these would be the rocks. During that time period the students were required to take Latin and Greek and therefore decided to make the cheer in Latin and Greek. Also if someone asks you what is a hoya, just say yes.
Every finals week, Benedictine University (where I graduated from) has two Golden Retrievers walked around the school for students to pet. It's not necessarily a puppy room, but it sure made my finals mildly less stressful.
Bedford Indiana, my home town, is also damn proud of its limestone. I think there is a rivalry between Bedford and a town in Nebraska for limestone capital of the world..
You should make a "48 Worst Movies Ever Made." To hear you speak of the hardest of the bad films is a delight to the senses, and therefore good for the soul.
I believe the original mascot for Georgetown was Stonewalls, after Stonewall Jackson, so the students started chanting Hoya Saxa (what rocks) as in what rocks we have in our stone walls (I guess in the 19th century people bragged about the size of the rocks in their walls ). Eventually, people began to call them the Georgetown Hoyas. Any other stories?
Because according to Space Ghost, Blip is a "smelly eater of filth" This being according to SG C2C: Lawsuit On another note, hasn't he pointed at a Space Ghost figure on one of those shelves in another episode?
As a resident of Athens, Ohio ( where Ohio University is located) the haunted Wilson Hall room is very infamous around here, and is a very elaborate story.
The phone company (back in the day when there was THE phone company, which was AT&T and its regional monopolies) used to have a service where it provided unassigned telephone numbers to the film industry. Eventually, through number assignment, these numbers became valid after the fact, which could be a problem for the new number's user. After discontinuing this service, the 555 prefix was used because in most regional phone companies even today, it doesn't matter what digits you place after the "555" prefix, you will get directory assistance.
hey... you have.... umm... Superman? so i guess your state is the only one that could foster someone that unbearably nice... then again Lex Luthor grew up into metropolis... which is also in Kansas.
I literally grew up in Kansas because most of my relatives live in Kansas and my parents to wanted be closer to them. If you don't have relatives in Kansas you don't have a reason to move there, thanks to Brownback we don't even have the best roads anymore.
I just wanted to let you know two things. One, don't forget that the beginning and ending of "The Wizard of Oz" takes place in Kansas. If you read the book, you will also understand why the Judy Garland version starts off and ends in monochrome and it has absolutely nothing to do with the expense of color film in 1939. Seconds, to understand the 555 exchange you would have to understand the way that phone exchanges used to work. The first two numbers of the exchange were also the first two letters of a word whose letters were also one of the three letters associated with that number. For example the letters associated with 5 are JKL. 55 would be KL in the word Klondike. So, originally, when phone numbers were given in the early 20th Century, the person would say Klondike 5-XXXX instead of 555-XXXX. My hometown uses 26X as their exchange and the word associated with 26 was Amherst, because 2 has ABC and 6 has MNO. I know this is a bit wordy but it should explain why the numbers 555 are the exchanges used in movies, TV and music.
And then near the end, A PUPPY ROOM. TO RELIEVE STRESS. I just can't. EVERY SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE ONE OF THOSE. High schools, too! Man, if I had puppies around when I was going through high school, I'm absolutely sure things would have gone so much better for me. And I went to an online school. So I'm imagining the pressure of the work I already had, PLUS all the social BS that goes on in high school... and puppies (or kittens, if you prefer) sound like the perfect remedy. God damn it, it's times like these when I get really upset that my family can't have a pet. I often forget what a great comfort having one around can be.
I am a SUNY Albany graduate & now graduate student, and I can tell you a little more about that event. Prior to the cancellation of the annual "fountain day," (a day which marks the first day in spring when the campus fountains are turned back on after the winter) there was a huge alcohol-induced riot among the off campus students living in the area nicknamed "the Student Ghetto" on St. Patrick's Day. This happen right in front of the Coffee Shop my older Brother Owns & manages called the Hudson River Coffeehouse. My brother survived with only some bagels stolen, but other people had cars smashed & overturned. Several people ended up arrested I believe. The event became known as "the Kegs & Eggs" riot. Because of the concern caused by this event, the university decided to cancel fountain day, which is also a popular time for students to party & drink. However many people considered this unfair to all those students (the vast majority) who had nothing to do with Kegs & Eggs and are relatively responsible. This is the context of the protest. UAlbany has a bad reputation of being a party school, and indeed such alcohol abuses are an ongoing concern here. By the way: that is not a picture of any of the fountains here at SUNY Albany. Our fountains are in a 60's streamline style matching the rest of the Edward Durell Stone's architecture.
*DEEP BREATH* Thank god it's John... Nothing puts a cloud over my day like going to watch a new Mental Floss and then discovering that John Green is not hosting.
I go to Illinois State University and during finals, our library has masseuses and dogs come in for a couple of hours a day. And there's a like, 10 minute rave downstairs on one of the nights.
I'll add one from my alma mater from which I am a few months away from graduation. The first home computer flight simulator was created by Bruce Artwick, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. That's probably why the first market versions always start the plane at Champaign's own Willard Airport.
the "555" phone code predates the 1960's. Early t.v. and radio used Klondike-5 as the fictional prefix in operator assisted dialing days. Those exchange codes are why there are letters on phone buttons. Klondike-5, would be "555". We old people remember when there wasn't a "q" or "z" on any buttons back in the days before texting.
The monkey came from Space Ghost in the 1960's. His name is Blip. The Original cartoon ran in 1966 then SGCC, where Space Ghost is a talk show host, ran in 1994.
I would definitely share most of these facts on an admission tour! But technically this video has 33 facts about 32 colleges, since you gave University of Pennsylvania 2 facts.
Here at the University of Guelph, we too have a puppy-room, used for the same purpose. We also have a Guide Dog Training program, from which you can sign out dogs / puppies. If you are diagnosed with clinical depression or anxiety you can reserve a dog (else I think it's first-come-first-serve).
A question! If the Hubble telescope was aimed at the Earth, what could it resolve from its current orbit? For example, could it read a newspaper headline, or ants on the ground?
It maybe a question from 6 years ago but here goes...no...in a room put a newspaper on one wall, move to the other side of the room and try and read it....now walk towards the newspaper right up so your eyeball is as close as possible....it will be out of focus...just like the Hubble telescope would be
Couple of things that are also interesting: 1) Columbia University also provides puppy rooms during finals, as well as some other colleges in the country 2) The Empire State Building also lights up in the Columbia University colors during their commencement
UC Sunnydale was mostly filmed on the UCLA campus. Buffy walks up Bruin Walk, and the first seen of that sequence is right in front of the Ackerman student union.
555-xxxx is the generic number you dial to contact directory assistance. And it works with any 4 digits after the 555. So dialing 555-9087 will get you to the same place as dialing 555-3861.
Iowa State University, without which there would be no computers. The first digital computer was developed at ISU, it was the ABC computer, named after it's inventors.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities has a program called PAWS, which stand for Petting Away Worry and Stress, where once a week they have therapy animals including dogs, cats, a bunny, and Woodstock the Therapy Chicken available for students to hang out with.
GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!! In addition to the squirrel club, we've got a nerdfighter club! Also they do actually talk about the squirrel club on the admissions tour.
There is a dorm room and tree dedicated to J.D. Salinger at my school, Ursinus College, in southern PA. The room is the one he stayed in while he spent time here and the tree is where he also spent a lot of his time here. I believe that he was working on Franny and Zooey during that time.
Yeah I thought that fact was kind of a cop out, because a ton of schools have been having puppy rooms during exams. Maybe that school was the first to have them?
***** I'm so tired of Brock jokes. I shouldn't have to feel inferior for going to one university versus another one. I have learned so much from my four years so far and I feel inclined to defend my school. I don't think it makes any difference where you learn. It's the student that makes the difference.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk has also been used as a battle cry by Kansas soldiers. When the basketball team is way ahead at the end of a game, the crowd starts to slowly chant Rock Chalk Jayhawk KU which is way classier than "warm up the bus".
If you ever do this particular series again, here's a college that you could talk about. Back in 2000, Morrisville State College earned the title of most wired 2 year college from Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/5864921/suny-morrisville-no-1-again-most-wired-2-year-colleges
I'm really sad these cool facts about my school weren't on there: -UNR has a 24 karat gold water fountain! You haven't tasted water til it comes out of a 24 karat gold fountain. UNR is also home to the National Judicial College. Yay judges!
at Caltech, they play Ride of the Valcries at 4 or 5 am at top volume all during finals week, and if you play it any other time in the year, someone will through you in the pond.
Penn is an ivy. Cornell is SUNY Ithaca. Penn has a song called "drink a highball", which has the lyrics "drink a highball and be jolly/here's a toast to dear old penn". After the third quarter of football games, Highballs were once toasted. Now, thousands of pieces of toast end up on the field. We have a toast zamboni since the cleanup used to cause delay of game penalties.
Noting about UK Uni's? Not that York has 14 ducks per 1/4 acre or that a student at Cambridge once had a pet bear, or that Uni of Edinburgh has the oldest student newspaper. Or that Bristol, was initially funded in large by chocolate companies, the frys and the Wills, not to menton that Warwick made a car from potatoes that runs on chocolate that can do 125 mph. Or that 72% of Durham graduates end up marrying another durham graduate. The list goes on
Tonks Moriarty Yes, but you wouldn't say Darrrrrlek (unless you're a pirate), It's a pretty subtle 'r', and it's more important to get the 'a' right. I think...
Emerson College (my college) had our communication school renamed the ron burgundy school of communication for one day in honor of the release of anchorman 2
Another thing about the BU Bridge (I went to school there) which you can't see in the picture, there is a bicycle bridge underneath there too, so Mental Floss - don't forget the bikes!
Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX is home to the World Famous Cowboy Band, which has played in forty states, eight capitals of the world, ten foreign countries, and as far north as ten miles from the Artic Circle. They've also played a six presidential inaugurations.
hacks.mit.edu/ Check that out. I did some some research in high school because I was accepted to MIT but decided on a different major and a different school.
I had heard that the three numbers after the area code used to be the territory code or something like that, which is why you hear the same few over and over from people in your town, and that 555 was the territory code for the Klondike where hardly anybody lived
The paintings on the walls. The one on the right was not a Picasso. It was a portrait of Picasso by another Spanish painter Juan Gris. I am not a fan of Gris.
Your annotations mention that we know what a Dalek is, but I've never heard of it. Wikipedia says it's a race of mutants in a British TV show from the 1963-1989. Why would everyone know what that is?
anyone who is a Dr. Who fan would know what a dalak is. Sometimes nerdfighters assume things that makes them look like as...ahem. A dalak was one of the first antagonists of the show Dr. Who. They were pretty nasty baddies - i think they're cute. You should go find a video of them sometime :D
Lawrence University hosts the Great Midwest Trivia Contest, which runs 50 hours the last weekend of January. It is also considered the longest-running, since the opening question is always the last one of the previous year.
Appalachian State University's mascot is a mountain man named "Yosef". It is because there is a little "Yosef in yosef", the Appalachian pronunciation of "yourself". The mascot was created one year when there was an empty space in the yearbook's senior section so someone drew a mountain man and gave him the name "Daniel Boone Yosef".
It's a well known fact that Hoosiers can't talk French good, which is why my high school was the only one with a French teacher in the whole of Dubois (pronounced "do boys", of course) County
Some colleges do. UC is kind of extra found of odd admissions. Every year, the students submit ideas for the "Uncommon App", which is the universities essay prompt. Past prompts have included "What would you do with a foot of cheese?", "Don't talk about reverse psychology", and "Where IS Waldo?"
Speaking of college hockey, the University of Alabama in Huntsville has fielded an ice hockey team since 1979. UAH is the southernmost NCAA Division I hockey team in the country, and despite being in Alabama, the school does not have a football team. (And speaking of throwing fish, one of the fraternities always throws a catfish on the ice for the first goal, but only for the home opener.)
Matthews Arena is also the original home of the Boston Bruins. Our campus also sits on the original home of the Boston Red Sox. There is a Cy Young statue right where home plat used to be. I walk by it every day.
MrDerpking Advertising? Spamming? Your first question to him of "why" wasn't genuine. That's not the response that you wanted. You're calling him out, he made a joke in a statement of which he is completely free to do, and I'm calling you out. I'm sorry, I just "don't really care about you".
Hey John! thanks for the bit on Notre Dame band. I am a member and although you were right in saying we are the oldest university marching band (in continuous existence) we were founded in 1846 not 1843.
Welcome back John. Never leave us again.....
Wow. So much love for John. It would make my 2014 if he responded to me :D
Rhyinn
He's probably not going to reply to you.
TheRatSquid =(
So unnecessarily proud that Binghamton's history is bizzarre enough to kick off a Mental Floss list video!
I heard "One of my brother's alma maters" as "One of my brothers' alma maters" and thought there was a third Green brother who's never been shown to the world. I also felt sad that Hank and John weren't including him. Poor guy.
I love that you talked about Oberlin's art rental program. I rent art every semester (I go to Oberlin) and it's one of my favorite things in the whole world. They've been doing it FOREVER.
so lucky!
John Harvards Statue is known as "the statue of three lies" because of the inscription. It reads "John Harvard, Founder, 1638". The statue is not of John Harvard. John Harvard is not the founder of Harvard University. And Harvard was not founded in 1638.
So happy for the shoutout to the University of Kansas. Thanks John and Mental Floss team! (And to be fair, it's mostly only the geologists that are excited about our limestone.)
Minor correction: The modern usage of campus may have been invented in the 1770's but not the word itself. It is taken from the Latin for 'Field'. For example, the Campus Martius (The Field of Mars) was used as pasture and the training ground for soldiers of the Legions. My Pantheon still stands there to this day.
Another correction: Georgetown's cheer doesn't have unknown origins. The cheer came from a time where the students would watch athletic games while sitting on a stone wall, these would be the rocks. During that time period the students were required to take Latin and Greek and therefore decided to make the cheer in Latin and Greek. Also if someone asks you what is a hoya, just say yes.
Every finals week, Benedictine University (where I graduated from) has two Golden Retrievers walked around the school for students to pet. It's not necessarily a puppy room, but it sure made my finals mildly less stressful.
Bedford Indiana, my home town, is also damn proud of its limestone. I think there is a rivalry between Bedford and a town in Nebraska for limestone capital of the world..
Bedford should win.
You should make a "48 Worst Movies Ever Made."
To hear you speak of the hardest of the bad films is a delight to the senses, and therefore good for the soul.
I believe the original mascot for Georgetown was Stonewalls, after Stonewall Jackson, so the students started chanting Hoya Saxa (what rocks) as in what rocks we have in our stone walls (I guess in the 19th century people bragged about the size of the rocks in their walls ). Eventually, people began to call them the Georgetown Hoyas. Any other stories?
The monkey is Blip, from Space Ghost.
How could you not know that?
Poor forgotten Blip.
Because according to Space Ghost, Blip is a "smelly eater of filth"
This being according to SG C2C: Lawsuit
On another note, hasn't he pointed at a Space Ghost figure on one of those shelves in another episode?
As a resident of Athens, Ohio ( where Ohio University is located) the haunted Wilson Hall room is very infamous around here, and is a very elaborate story.
The phone company (back in the day when there was THE phone company, which was AT&T and its regional monopolies) used to have a service where it provided unassigned telephone numbers to the film industry. Eventually, through number assignment, these numbers became valid after the fact, which could be a problem for the new number's user. After discontinuing this service, the 555 prefix was used because in most regional phone companies even today, it doesn't matter what digits you place after the "555" prefix, you will get directory assistance.
That haunted thing with the witchcraft girl is actually kind of scary at 3am O.O
as a kansan, i know for a fact that there is nothing to be proud of here. meredith, there is no need to research.
hey... you have.... umm... Superman?
so i guess your state is the only one that could foster someone that unbearably nice... then again Lex Luthor grew up into metropolis... which is also in Kansas.
Well, we've got BBQ and uh....more BBQ.
I really need to get the hell out of Kansas.
I literally grew up in Kansas because most of my relatives live in Kansas and my parents to wanted be closer to them. If you don't have relatives in Kansas you don't have a reason to move there, thanks to Brownback we don't even have the best roads anymore.
I just wanted to let you know two things. One, don't forget that the beginning and ending of "The Wizard of Oz" takes place in Kansas. If you read the book, you will also understand why the Judy Garland version starts off and ends in monochrome and it has absolutely nothing to do with the expense of color film in 1939. Seconds, to understand the 555 exchange you would have to understand the way that phone exchanges used to work. The first two numbers of the exchange were also the first two letters of a word whose letters were also one of the three letters associated with that number. For example the letters associated with 5 are JKL. 55 would be KL in the word Klondike. So, originally, when phone numbers were given in the early 20th Century, the person would say Klondike 5-XXXX instead of 555-XXXX. My hometown uses 26X as their exchange and the word associated with 26 was Amherst, because 2 has ABC and 6 has MNO. I know this is a bit wordy but it should explain why the numbers 555 are the exchanges used in movies, TV and music.
Only one fact in and I'm already grinning ear to ear. Salamander ramps?! That's FREAKING AWESOME! :D
And then near the end, A PUPPY ROOM. TO RELIEVE STRESS. I just can't. EVERY SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE ONE OF THOSE. High schools, too! Man, if I had puppies around when I was going through high school, I'm absolutely sure things would have gone so much better for me. And I went to an online school. So I'm imagining the pressure of the work I already had, PLUS all the social BS that goes on in high school... and puppies (or kittens, if you prefer) sound like the perfect remedy. God damn it, it's times like these when I get really upset that my family can't have a pet. I often forget what a great comfort having one around can be.
I am a SUNY Albany graduate & now graduate student, and I can tell you a little more about that event. Prior to the cancellation of the annual "fountain day," (a day which marks the first day in spring when the campus fountains are turned back on after the winter) there was a huge alcohol-induced riot among the off campus students living in the area nicknamed "the Student Ghetto" on St. Patrick's Day. This happen right in front of the Coffee Shop my older Brother Owns & manages called the Hudson River Coffeehouse. My brother survived with only some bagels stolen, but other people had cars smashed & overturned. Several people ended up arrested I believe. The event became known as "the Kegs & Eggs" riot. Because of the concern caused by this event, the university decided to cancel fountain day, which is also a popular time for students to party & drink. However many people considered this unfair to all those students (the vast majority) who had nothing to do with Kegs & Eggs and are relatively responsible. This is the context of the protest. UAlbany has a bad reputation of being a party school, and indeed such alcohol abuses are an ongoing concern here. By the way: that is not a picture of any of the fountains here at SUNY Albany. Our fountains are in a 60's streamline style matching the rest of the Edward Durell Stone's architecture.
*DEEP BREATH* Thank god it's John... Nothing puts a cloud over my day like going to watch a new Mental Floss and then discovering that John Green is not hosting.
I go to Illinois State University and during finals, our library has masseuses and dogs come in for a couple of hours a day. And there's a like, 10 minute rave downstairs on one of the nights.
the veterinary community calls University of Pennsylvania veterinarians 'Pennwe" because many start conversations with 'at Penn we….'
I'll add one from my alma mater from which I am a few months away from graduation. The first home computer flight simulator was created by Bruce Artwick, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. That's probably why the first market versions always start the plane at Champaign's own Willard Airport.
DONT EVER LEAVE AGAIN
the "555" phone code predates the 1960's. Early t.v. and radio used Klondike-5 as the fictional prefix in operator assisted dialing days. Those exchange codes are why there are letters on phone buttons. Klondike-5, would be "555". We old people remember when there wasn't a "q" or "z" on any buttons back in the days before texting.
The monkey came from Space Ghost in the 1960's. His name is Blip.
The Original cartoon ran in 1966 then SGCC, where Space Ghost is a talk show host, ran in 1994.
Wow, I never knew the character was that old. Was the 60's Space Ghost as snarky as the 90's Space Ghost?
That I'm not sure. I've never had the pleasure of watching the original run of Space Ghost.
I would definitely share most of these facts on an admission tour!
But technically this video has 33 facts about 32 colleges, since you gave University of Pennsylvania 2 facts.
He forgot to say College used to be an ok option but now they just want $100,000 to pay for a chair, a book, and a teacher.
My school is a lot less than that but it is still the same price as buying a decent new car every year.
Here at the University of Guelph, we too have a puppy-room, used for the same purpose. We also have a Guide Dog Training program, from which you can sign out dogs / puppies. If you are diagnosed with clinical depression or anxiety you can reserve a dog (else I think it's first-come-first-serve).
did you know that when the captions are on every time you say mental floss it comes out as menopause
I hear him actually saying it. I think he's doing it on purpose. Seriously.
555 as a prefix actually predates 7-digit dialing and was originally referred to as the KLondike-5 exchange in certain TV shows and movies.
The Fault in Our Stars poster in backround,with no text.
gotta love the UNH reference. It will never get old seeing the fish flying out onto the ice after their first goal
A question!
If the Hubble telescope was aimed at the Earth, what could it resolve from its current orbit? For example, could it read a newspaper headline, or ants on the ground?
I have always wondered if that could be a way to keep getting valuable information from it.
It maybe a question from 6 years ago but here goes...no...in a room put a newspaper on one wall, move to the other side of the room and try and read it....now walk towards the newspaper right up so your eyeball is as close as possible....it will be out of focus...just like the Hubble telescope would be
@@paulfleming1612 good point.
Audible is taking over youtube!
Rice University isn't the only University that has a puppy room! Liberty University has one as well!
Couple of things that are also interesting:
1) Columbia University also provides puppy rooms during finals, as well as some other colleges in the country
2) The Empire State Building also lights up in the Columbia University colors during their commencement
THANKS FOR THE TERRIFYING ROOM 428 IMAGE I DIDNT NEED TO SLEEP ANYWAY
Proud to be a part of Jerk Magazine at Syracuse! Woot!
My school does the puppy stress relief too!
WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU GO TO? I NEED TO KNOW THIS STUFF
Mine does as well! It's wonderful!
UC Sunnydale was mostly filmed on the UCLA campus. Buffy walks up Bruin Walk, and the first seen of that sequence is right in front of the Ackerman student union.
Is it ironic that the sponsorship message from Audible was less audible?
555-xxxx is the generic number you dial to contact directory assistance. And it works with any 4 digits after the 555. So dialing 555-9087 will get you to the same place as dialing 555-3861.
Iowa State University, without which there would be no computers. The first digital computer was developed at ISU, it was the ABC computer, named after it's inventors.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities has a program called PAWS, which stand for Petting Away Worry and Stress, where once a week they have therapy animals including dogs, cats, a bunny, and Woodstock the Therapy Chicken available for students to hang out with.
GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!! In addition to the squirrel club, we've got a nerdfighter club!
Also they do actually talk about the squirrel club on the admissions tour.
There is a dorm room and tree dedicated to J.D. Salinger at my school, Ursinus College, in southern PA. The room is the one he stayed in while he spent time here and the tree is where he also spent a lot of his time here. I believe that he was working on Franny and Zooey during that time.
My school (Brock University in Ontario, Canada) has a puppy room as well :) !
So does mine! (Arizona State University- at least the honors college does).
Yeah I thought that fact was kind of a cop out, because a ton of schools have been having puppy rooms during exams. Maybe that school was the first to have them?
Same for University of Rochester.
I wish I had gone to the puppy room at Brock before I graduated. It was only a recent addition.
***** I'm so tired of Brock jokes. I shouldn't have to feel inferior for going to one university versus another one. I have learned so much from my four years so far and I feel inclined to defend my school. I don't think it makes any difference where you learn. It's the student that makes the difference.
Mount Holyoke College also has a locked dorm room that is believed to be haunted and we have bunnies during spring finals to relieve stress!
The ghost girl scared the living day lights out of me
Rock Chalk Jayhawk has also been used as a battle cry by Kansas soldiers. When the basketball team is way ahead at the end of a game, the crowd starts to slowly chant Rock Chalk Jayhawk KU which is way classier than "warm up the bus".
I'm a Rice student. Our puppy room also has kittens. :)
If you ever do this particular series again, here's a college that you could talk about. Back in 2000, Morrisville State College earned the title of most wired 2 year college from Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/5864921/suny-morrisville-no-1-again-most-wired-2-year-colleges
I'm really sad these cool facts about my school weren't on there:
-UNR has a 24 karat gold water fountain! You haven't tasted water til it comes out of a 24 karat gold fountain.
UNR is also home to the National Judicial College. Yay judges!
And SDSMT has one of the first friction stir welders in the United states, just about every school has at least one claim to fame.
at Caltech, they play Ride of the Valcries at 4 or 5 am at top volume all during finals week, and if you play it any other time in the year, someone will through you in the pond.
My sister went to Penn, and when we went to a game I threw a piece of toast and it hit someone.
Your icon :D Also, the toast thing is hilarious.
Penn is an ivy. Cornell is SUNY Ithaca.
Penn has a song called "drink a highball", which has the lyrics "drink a highball and be jolly/here's a toast to dear old penn". After the third quarter of football games, Highballs were once toasted. Now, thousands of pieces of toast end up on the field. We have a toast zamboni since the cleanup used to cause delay of game penalties.
Noting about UK Uni's? Not that York has 14 ducks per 1/4 acre or that a student at Cambridge once had a pet bear, or that Uni of Edinburgh has the oldest student newspaper. Or that Bristol, was initially funded in large by chocolate companies, the frys and the Wills, not to menton that Warwick made a car from potatoes that runs on chocolate that can do 125 mph. Or that 72% of Durham graduates end up marrying another durham graduate.
The list goes on
My school in Queens, NY had a puppy room too! It was the greatest.
Dr. Who is not an acceptable abbreviation of Doctor Who.
Also, that was not exactly how Dalek is pronounced.
Wafflical I completely agree. Dalek is pronounced as if it has an 'r' in it. Dar-lek
Tonks Moriarty Yes, but you wouldn't say Darrrrrlek (unless you're a pirate), It's a pretty subtle 'r', and it's more important to get the 'a' right. I think...
Wafflical It's like the 'a' in father.
Tonks Moriarty
It's like 'doll' but it's not
Emerson College (my college) had our communication school renamed the ron burgundy school of communication for one day in honor of the release of anchorman 2
What people from Kansas have to be proud of?? They friggin raised Superman. Geez John.. you just lost some serious nerd cred..
The University of Maryland also brings puppies during finals for their annual "Puppy Palooza"
It's not 33 facts about 33 colleges; #5 and #6 are from the same college.
Another thing about the BU Bridge (I went to school there) which you can't see in the picture, there is a bicycle bridge underneath there too, so Mental Floss - don't forget the bikes!
Why wouldn't us Kansans be proud of our limestone? it rocks! (that's a bad pun)
I'm just happy you mentioned my college
Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX is home to the World Famous Cowboy Band, which has played in forty states, eight capitals of the world, ten foreign countries, and as far north as ten miles from the Artic Circle. They've also played a six presidential inaugurations.
MIT put a Dalek on the roof of a building? COOL! (Yes, I did intentionally use the word cool to reference the show.)
FANTASTIC!
look up MIT hacks
The also reassembled a police car on top of the dome and made the dome look like R2-D2
hacks.mit.edu/
Check that out. I did some some research in high school because I was accepted to MIT but decided on a different major and a different school.
I had heard that the three numbers after the area code used to be the territory code or something like that, which is why you hear the same few over and over from people in your town, and that 555 was the territory code for the Klondike where hardly anybody lived
Fact three is incorrect. The Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon also has this distinction.
But that isn't tied to a university.
Patrick Zysk They said the only place in the US, not the only university bridge.
Hah love the joke about UPenn, so true. Great video! It'd be awesome if you made a sequel!
The paintings on the walls. The one on the right was not a Picasso. It was a portrait of Picasso by another Spanish painter Juan Gris. I am not a fan of Gris.
CUNY Queens also has a puppy room during finals, as well as massages and a biannual event called "Midnight Breakfast."
Your annotations mention that we know what a Dalek is, but I've never heard of it. Wikipedia says it's a race of mutants in a British TV show from the 1963-1989. Why would everyone know what that is?
It is a reference to the show Doctor Who :)
anyone who is a Dr. Who fan would know what a dalak is. Sometimes nerdfighters assume things that makes them look like as...ahem.
A dalak was one of the first antagonists of the show Dr. Who. They were pretty nasty baddies - i think they're cute. You should go find a video of them sometime :D
Who are you
This is my favorite comment in the history of youtube.
Regina Nelson Yes I know, but I had never heard of that show and was wondering why so many got the reference to an old show.
Lawrence University hosts the Great Midwest Trivia Contest, which runs 50 hours the last weekend of January. It is also considered the longest-running, since the opening question is always the last one of the previous year.
The "strange superhero monkey" is Blip, the pet monkey of Space Ghost.
NERD CRED!
4:04 The monkey is Blip from the Space Ghost cartoon.
I don't see the answer in the immediate comments so ill post it.
thats Blip from Space Ghost =D
similar to Gleek but completely dif.
Wesley Whaley Almost replied till i seen you beat me to it.
Appalachian State University's mascot is a mountain man named "Yosef". It is because there is a little "Yosef in yosef", the Appalachian pronunciation of "yourself". The mascot was created one year when there was an empty space in the yearbook's senior section so someone drew a mountain man and gave him the name "Daniel Boone Yosef".
OMG every time i hear americans call it 'noter dame' i'm like wtf.. we have a Notre Dame here, except it is pronounced 'Notra Darm"
Mispronouncing stuff is our thing.
It's a well known fact that Hoosiers can't talk French good, which is why my high school was the only one with a French teacher in the whole of Dubois (pronounced "do boys", of course) County
lol, I'm from Australia :P
The yell of all the yells, the yell that takes the day is the HOYA, HOYA SAXA of the dear old blue and gray!
Are you the guy from crash course...
Wake Forest is like five miles from my house and I had no idea about the camp out. That is seriously the cutest thing I've ever heard of.
DUDE THERE'S A JUMPSCARE WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE HAUNTED DORM ROOM
SERIOUSLY JOHN GIVE US A WARNING NEXT TIME
***** i bet your feet aren't really ugly
I go to Syracuse, and somehow they always manage to make lists like this (weird mascots, fun facts, snowiest universities, etc.)
Colleges actually like clever admissions like that? Prepare yourself, Harvard..
Some colleges do. UC is kind of extra found of odd admissions. Every year, the students submit ideas for the "Uncommon App", which is the universities essay prompt. Past prompts have included "What would you do with a foot of cheese?", "Don't talk about reverse psychology", and "Where IS Waldo?"
Speaking of college hockey, the University of Alabama in Huntsville has fielded an ice hockey team since 1979. UAH is the southernmost NCAA Division I hockey team in the country, and despite being in Alabama, the school does not have a football team. (And speaking of throwing fish, one of the fraternities always throws a catfish on the ice for the first goal, but only for the home opener.)
Ooo you SOOO dissed Kansas
I know! Such a great band doesn't deserve that kind of treatment.
On the other hand, everything is dust in the wind, so it doesn't matter. Carry on my wayward son.
The only thing Kansas has going for it is that the name is less idiot than Arkansas, source lived most of my life in Kansas.
ETSU has a puppy room, breakfast buffet bar, and 20~ massage therapist in the library during finals week.
Fun Fact: One of the most over-used and lamest, pointless phrases used on the net is "Fun Fact".
Bring in the death penalty for anyone who uses it.
My school (the University of Windsor) also has a puppy room around the time of finals. Its awesome!
What does Kansas have to be proud of?
Basketball was invented here. You're welcome.
Thats not true, Basketball was invented in Springfield, MA (hence the location of the Basketball Hall of Fame.)
Lol. You are entirely correct. I was simply misinformed. So about that limestone...
Yes, and it was invented by a Canadian. We didn't understand it because it wasn't played on ice, so he took it to Springfield.
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Matthews Arena is also the original home of the Boston Bruins. Our campus also sits on the original home of the Boston Red Sox. There is a Cy Young statue right where home plat used to be. I walk by it every day.
I MAKE BETTER VIDEOS. NO NOT REALLY.
BUT I DO MAKE THEM.
OKAY THEN
MrDerpking Advertising? Spamming? Your first question to him of "why" wasn't genuine. That's not the response that you wanted. You're calling him out, he made a joke in a statement of which he is completely free to do, and I'm calling you out. I'm sorry, I just "don't really care about you".
Yeah definitely, every comment helps him "advertise" more. lol
MrDerpking I apologize, I realize now he is commenting the same thing on other videos. I was wrong to call you out.
MrDerpking its hard to get your chanel out there on the new youtube :/
John Green was once introduced and serenaded by a marching band before he gave his speech. I know this.... myself and 250ish other people were there.
American colleges are weird...
The Steal Bridge in Portland can also have a plane flying over a car driving over a train over a boat.
Hey John! thanks for the bit on Notre Dame band. I am a member and although you were right in saying we are the oldest university marching band (in continuous existence) we were founded in 1846 not 1843.
The University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta also has a puppy room during finals, it's pretty amazing.