Nothing has soothed stress for me more both pre and post-covid era than old episodes of Mental Floss featuring John Green. You mean more than you'll ever know to so many ppl. Thank you John.
I watch these videos as I fall asleep almost every night and this was the best thing to see in my sub box! I'm excited for more videos in the new year!
I subscribe to many facts RUclips channels any channels that give a list of topics and information. I want to let you know that John Green by far is the most entertaining host of all that I have watched. Can't get enough of him
The Boston Bridge also has a pedestrian bridge, so one could say A plane could fly over a car that is driving over a train that is traveling over a person who is walking above a very small boat.
I've just found the ENTIRE reason as to why RUclips is amazing!!! BEST CHANNEL EVER................Thank you so very much to the awesome team that put these videos together. It must take an enormous amount of research and 'fact checking. Well done xxxx
It's not mint in toothpaste that makes oj taste bad (mint and citrus are actually great together) it's the sodium laureth sulfate in most toothpaste that block the sweet receptors on your tongue.
Little did john know he would completely forget about eyeballs popping out from sneezing only to be replaced with “sneezing is never normal, i never sneeze” 😂
So, I LOVE stuff like this, I love facts, random, relevant, irrelevant, fun, weird, all I know is, I'm going to put this on repeat while I sleep for a week and try to become a super-genius.
Dogs can distinguish blues from yellows, but cannot tell red from green. Most mammals are red-green color blind, but those who cannot see other colors are very rare. It is believed that the earliest mammals were nocturnal burrowing rodent-like creatures who had little use of color vision and developed a defect causing them to loose the red/green sensing eye pigments that almost all other vertebrates had since before fish became amphibians. Primates later evolved a different red-green receptor, which does not work quite as well as the one shared by birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
9:25 Further to fact# 104...So were the composers of "O Holy Night" and "I am dreaming of a white Christmas" Adolph Adam and Irving Berlin...Happy Holidays!...
White Chocolate does not contain chocolate liquor, but the authentic stuff does contain cocoa butter from the same plant. It is still appropriate to consider it chocolate if it contains either of those ingredients. Real white chocolate is more of a pale yellow rather than white.
And in some places, it's illegal to label your product as "white chocolate" if it doesn't contain cocoa butter. So, beware of "white melts", "white chips" and and "white confection" (or in Australia, "white choc"). If it doesn't say chocolate prominently, check the ingredients!
Funny fact/story:When Pope John Paul was shot my uncles (Paul & John) were in grade 8 and the kindergarteners misunderstood and thought my uncles were shot. Allegedly the kids were devastated.
Anyone have a guess of how many times John Green has mentioned "My chest of books divide amongst my friends" on the internet? I'm confident it's over 10.
31:09 that accident helped scientists map ocean currents accurately for the first time 34:11 Stuff You Missed in History Class has an episode in their podcast archives about The Great Molasses Flood. The really tragic thing about the accident was that it happened in Boston’s North End neighborhood, which is Boston’s Little Italy, and a lot of Italian immigrants were impacted.
It was actually far more tragic than John's peppy delivery would suggest. 21 people died and well more than 100 were injured. Fun fact: there is a John Green buried in Copp's Hill Burying Ground very near the site of the molasses disaster.
Anyone else count out the quarters for the Porkchop Party Fund, frame by frame? I'm counting either $3.75 or $4.00, there were two frames were I wasn't sure if it was 2 or 3 quarters.
Alex T a lot of the papyri that are in collections today were found in carbage piles. The ancient Egyptians threw them away and due to the dry climate they never decomposed. But the local farmers used parts of these piles as fertilizer since antiquity. Just imagine how little of a pile that was piled up before 300 AD was left in the 19th century.
Think of all the art that got stolen but was left with a perfect forgery, they say there is a percentage of art that is fakes but the forger was so good they don’t know if it’s the real one or not
My ex-husband used to annoy the hell out of me, when he would start humming the Grange Hil themed tune which for any Americans reading this, was probably THE BEST AND most popular children's programme in the late 70's oh my God, The Thrill of rushing home to catch the next episode after school! thank the Gods for satellite/video recordersLOL!
The tradition that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was an apple comes from a visual pun commonly found in religious art in the Latin speaking western Roman Catholic Church. In Latin, the word for 'apple' and the word for 'evil' are both spelled "malum," although one word has a long 'a' and the other a short 'a'. In the Greek speaking Eastern Orthodox Church, this pun made no sense so the fruit was usually shown as a fig or pomegranate.
Buffoon1980 Except for the fact that recently they found out many of their "facts" were wrong in the earlier series and they had to refund Alan hundreds of points because he was right.
Indeed. But you're not suggesting that detracts from the greatness of the show, are you? The main point of that segment was that human knowledge is always growing and improving, and inevitably sometimes shown to be inaccurate, which I think is a good pro-science message. And as I recall, Alan was not awarded points based on specific wrong facts, but rather on the basis of a general rule that a certain percentage of facts will be shown to be wrong after a while. Of course, there have been specific cases where QI has admitted to being wrong (or at least slightly misleading), for instance Dara O'briain and the triple point of water.
Never seen the show, but I listen to the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. They're usually good about correcting themselves, but I have noted inaccuracies from time to time.
Watched an amazing doc on Bob Ross and they said that “all” paintings by Bob Ross are kept at their headquarters in storage-and this old ladies house (she discovered him) and he never wanted his stuff sold. So yeah, finding one of those 13 stolen paintings...man, that’d be awesome. Just an FYI😁
26:11 (fact number 284) And how! When Scottsdale Community College was being established, they decided to spend more money on the lighting of the athletic fields than the construction of the entire library. But they had not yet decided on the colors or mascot, leaving them up to a student vote. The students chose pink and white and the Fighting Artichoke in protest. And this in the 1970s! The mascot has remained, but the colors were changed to green and gold. The students were clearly Nerdfighters before you coined the term, John.
Bonus fact for the piggy bank. My 9th great grandfather was one of the first 23 founders of Norwich CT. He was fined in 1658, because a fence on his property failed, and his pigs ruined part of his neighbor's crops. That fence was eventually destroyed, and where it stood is now the Founder's Cemetery.
Awesome! I think I only knew about 25 of these. Always fun to learn more stuff....says the former librarian who, like all librarians (it's in the blood) loves trivia. Thank you, Team Mental Floss!
Pretty sure at least 5% of these are wrong. Which is the problem with these lists, more attention is made on creating a distraction than being accurate. Or in this case, more interest was made in presenting the funny than accuracy of the facts.
Bonus fact: The creator of the once-ubiquitous plastic lawn flamingo was Don Featherstone. He passed away in 2015, having helped paint lawns across America pretty in pink.
this is all free form fact regurgitation disorder, he just does this all day and someone finally got the camera out to document the disorder. Get well soon friend!!
I go to the University of Texas at Austin and actually saw an albino squirrel on my way to my statistics exam last Wednesday!! I had no idea that was thought to be good luck. Thank you, crash course statistics and albino squirrel. I got an A.
Well, botanically speaking, anything that comes from the ovum of a plant is a fruit. The term vegetable doesn't have a biotanical meaning, it is more of a cultural thing. The two are not mutually exclusive. Something can be both a fruit and a vegetable. In "nix vs hedden" the Supreme Court of the USA defines the tomato as a vegetable for the purpose of customs and import duties.
Gallagher had to sue his brother for false advertising and impersonation. His brother was going around selling shows as if he were the actually famous Gallagher. So that fact is a bit sadder than presented.
Who was richest president to win the electoral collage vote. but not the popular? I couldn't help but notice that for some reason this video only pointed out the Popular Vote when referring to Washington. ... god don't let it actually be Trump.
I assume so. That figure for Washington was adjusted right? Who else lost the popular vote? TBH I'm not that well versed in American politics - I'm not American myself.
It’s not much of a custom now. But in England, it was once traditional to give a key for someone’s 18th and 21st birthday. These days, a gift like a wine glass with the number on it, is given. First time viewer..... great channel!! 👌👌👌
I'm not sure why Auto-play showed me this in the summer of 2023, but it made me realize how much I miss the Salon and John Green doing the lists.
Its 2023, Its been fives. I used to watch this with my mom. Warm memories. Seems so long ago.
Does anyone else use this video to go to sleep? I've just found something so satisfying about John Greens voice. I can't be the only one.
would be without the swishing sound fx
I miss these old Mental Floss episodes. :)
Nothing has soothed stress for me more both pre and post-covid era than old episodes of Mental Floss featuring John Green. You mean more than you'll ever know to so many ppl. Thank you John.
I had no intention to watch the whole thing, but it happened.
fugithegreat - Same here! 😄
I’m on 166
I watch these videos as I fall asleep almost every night and this was the best thing to see in my sub box! I'm excited for more videos in the new year!
I like to come back here from time to time. The facts, fun and the length of the videos have gotten me through some tough times. Thank you mentalfloss
44 minutes of mental floss... Is it christmas?
Leophred I mean, next week
Fulano de Tal 5 days and counting down
5 days till Christmas
yes
R/woosh
I subscribe to many facts RUclips channels any channels that give a list of topics and information. I want to let you know that John Green by far is the most entertaining host of all that I have watched. Can't get enough of him
The Boston Bridge also has a pedestrian bridge, so one could say A plane could fly over a car that is driving over a train that is traveling over a person who is walking above a very small boat.
I've just found the ENTIRE reason as to why RUclips is amazing!!!
BEST CHANNEL EVER................Thank you so very much to the awesome team that put these videos together. It must take an enormous amount of research and 'fact checking.
Well done xxxx
This video was like eating peanuts.... I just couldn't stop.
Thanks John.
I am an elephant, I do not eat peanuts. Darn, broke another keyboard. That is trice this week. mmm three times.
That's a story I used in my book 😂😂
Exactly))
Blown away by so many facts in less than 45 minutes. So much fact- and background-checking to do...
It's not mint in toothpaste that makes oj taste bad (mint and citrus are actually great together) it's the sodium laureth sulfate in most toothpaste that block the sweet receptors on your tongue.
...and maybe, here n there, Floride...not lol...
Oohh that would've been the perfect mental floss fact
So that’s why it tastes like poison instead of a modified mojito - thanks! 👍
Little did john know he would completely forget about eyeballs popping out from sneezing only to be replaced with “sneezing is never normal, i never sneeze” 😂
So, I LOVE stuff like this, I love facts, random, relevant, irrelevant, fun, weird, all I know is, I'm going to put this on repeat while I sleep for a week and try to become a super-genius.
Dogs can distinguish blues from yellows, but cannot tell red from green. Most mammals are red-green color blind, but those who cannot see other colors are very rare. It is believed that the earliest mammals were nocturnal burrowing rodent-like creatures who had little use of color vision and developed a defect causing them to loose the red/green sensing eye pigments that almost all other vertebrates had since before fish became amphibians. Primates later evolved a different red-green receptor, which does not work quite as well as the one shared by birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
Yet I have read that the only colour hedgehogs can see is yellow.
Has anyone video tape the reaction of a dog getting those special glasses that let you see color?
9:25 Further to fact# 104...So were the composers of "O Holy Night" and "I am dreaming of a white Christmas" Adolph Adam and Irving Berlin...Happy Holidays!...
How many ears does Captain Kirk have?
He has 3: a left ear, a right ear, and a final front ear!
Emily Guo Okay, Hank! 😂
Booking
Except it's howany ears does Spock have not kirk but what ever
@Emily Guo Alright, where's Hank?! :)
🤣 Good one
If " stick to it" could save the day, we would alll be okey dokey. thanks to this guy.
White Chocolate does not contain chocolate liquor, but the authentic stuff does contain cocoa butter from the same plant. It is still appropriate to consider it chocolate if it contains either of those ingredients. Real white chocolate is more of a pale yellow rather than white.
And in some places, it's illegal to label your product as "white chocolate" if it doesn't contain cocoa butter. So, beware of "white melts", "white chips" and and "white confection" (or in Australia, "white choc"). If it doesn't say chocolate prominently, check the ingredients!
You haven't lived until you have had an Insomnia White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut cookie with milk on U of I campus at 2:58AM
Funny fact/story:When Pope John Paul was shot my uncles (Paul & John) were in grade 8 and the kindergarteners misunderstood and thought my uncles were shot. Allegedly the kids were devastated.
Thank you John. It's 5am on Xmas morning, I'm holding my sick baby and I'm EVEN sicker. This got me through a difficult morning.
How are you and the baby
I love that a lot of these facts have been on the British panel show QI. I watch it on Britbox on Amazon.
I can't believe I watched the whole thing. It didn't feel almost 45 minutes.
I know I was like what?! Already?!
hah! NERD! Oh wait... I did too...
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
Wow, well done! 500 Facts in record time!
Why not do 50 facts on pigs or something to really get that party started
Thoughts And feels that would be fantastic
ruclips.net/video/GZfbvDZmQVs/видео.html
Notice the $20 John drops in at the end of that vid. Didn't see it fall out. Something is fishy 😑😂
Love this man's job, kudos to him for all his knowledge for us
Anyone have a guess of how many times John Green has mentioned "My chest of books divide amongst my friends" on the internet? I'm confident it's over 10.
I recently discovered your channel and I have a strong feeling to BINGE WATCH EVERYTHING. Thank you for this!
Hello and welcome.
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
This video makes me so happy. Thank you for making my bad day so much better yet again John Green.
“Making him the richest president ever.....to win the popular vote.”
You couldn’t help yourself with that one could you?
lol i said. too early . when he said it.
27:37 mentions Green Eggs and *Ham*... Should that warrant an addition to the Pork Chop Party Fund? (I'm rusty on the rules.)
John Green... I think you are my fav. Soooo much info.
The key given on the 21st birthday is also practiced in the UK and Ireland!
It's fun looking at the wall behind you.
31:09 that accident helped scientists map ocean currents accurately for the first time
34:11 Stuff You Missed in History Class has an episode in their podcast archives about The Great Molasses Flood. The really tragic thing about the accident was that it happened in Boston’s North End neighborhood, which is Boston’s Little Italy, and a lot of Italian immigrants were impacted.
It was actually far more tragic than John's peppy delivery would suggest. 21 people died and well more than 100 were injured.
Fun fact: there is a John Green buried in Copp's Hill Burying Ground very near the site of the molasses disaster.
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
Awsome, vids like this are nice to listen to when working alone
Anyone else count out the quarters for the Porkchop Party Fund, frame by frame? I'm counting either $3.75 or $4.00, there were two frames were I wasn't sure if it was 2 or 3 quarters.
YOU ARE AMAZING. Thank you!!
So if the return rate of stolen art is 2-6% it can only be imagined just how many pieces we’ve never seen.
Alex T a lot of the papyri that are in collections today were found in carbage piles. The ancient Egyptians threw them away and due to the dry climate they never decomposed.
But the local farmers used parts of these piles as fertilizer since antiquity. Just imagine how little of a pile that was piled up before 300 AD was left in the 19th century.
Think of all the art that got stolen but was left with a perfect forgery, they say there is a percentage of art that is fakes but the forger was so good they don’t know if it’s the real one or not
My ex-husband used to annoy the hell out of me, when he would start humming the Grange Hil themed tune which for any Americans reading this, was probably THE BEST AND most popular children's programme in the late 70's oh my God, The Thrill of rushing home to catch the next episode after school! thank the Gods for satellite/video recordersLOL!
“ Just the facts, ma’am “. - Sergeant Joe Friday
Was never said in ANY iteration of Dragnet.
as a musician full legnth songs are always in my head
The tradition that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was an apple comes from a visual pun commonly found in religious art in the Latin speaking western Roman Catholic Church. In Latin, the word for 'apple' and the word for 'evil' are both spelled "malum," although one word has a long 'a' and the other a short 'a'.
In the Greek speaking Eastern Orthodox Church, this pun made no sense so the fruit was usually shown as a fig or pomegranate.
this video is 6 months old but is #! trending in america
You guys ever see the show QI in America? It's great for lovers of obscure facts. Actually, it's just great, period.
Buffoon1980 Except for the fact that recently they found out many of their "facts" were wrong in the earlier series and they had to refund Alan hundreds of points because he was right.
Indeed. But you're not suggesting that detracts from the greatness of the show, are you? The main point of that segment was that human knowledge is always growing and improving, and inevitably sometimes shown to be inaccurate, which I think is a good pro-science message.
And as I recall, Alan was not awarded points based on specific wrong facts, but rather on the basis of a general rule that a certain percentage of facts will be shown to be wrong after a while. Of course, there have been specific cases where QI has admitted to being wrong (or at least slightly misleading), for instance Dara O'briain and the triple point of water.
Never seen the show, but I listen to the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. They're usually good about correcting themselves, but I have noted inaccuracies from time to time.
Just love the blue flame.
Yes! I've been waiting my whole life for this and i didn't even know it
The Bob Ross fact, I cried.
FACT 501: The Mental Floss staff has yet to have a pork chop party.😔
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Unbelievable 😔😔
But.. What?
“Richest president ever…to win the popular vote.”
I see you 🙂
Watched an amazing doc on Bob Ross and they said that “all” paintings by Bob Ross are kept at their headquarters in storage-and this old ladies house (she discovered him) and he never wanted his stuff sold. So yeah, finding one of those 13 stolen paintings...man, that’d be awesome. Just an FYI😁
This just popped up in my feed, 4 years later, but blowing into old game cartridges DOES work and you can’t convince me otherwise
I voted for the purple m&m thru the 1-800 number back in the late 90s.
Purple would have been cool.
Jesus Christ John & Co.! You've outdone yourself this time! Great job!
Great Video and interesting facts 👍
26:11 (fact number 284) And how! When Scottsdale Community College was being established, they decided to spend more money on the lighting of the athletic fields than the construction of the entire library. But they had not yet decided on the colors or mascot, leaving them up to a student vote. The students chose pink and white and the Fighting Artichoke in protest. And this in the 1970s! The mascot has remained, but the colors were changed to green and gold. The students were clearly Nerdfighters before you coined the term, John.
If I could have all these memorized I would sooo cool at parties.
probably learning english would soooo cool at parties.
Fact 501: This video is awesome!
The trinkets in the background...I love how you correlate them
Against all odds, facts continue to be learned! Check out 100 interesting things we learned in 2020 here: ruclips.net/video/s-hiLx_qNHQ/видео.html
I posted an answer to your Bob Ross painting question.
Bonus fact for the piggy bank. My 9th great grandfather was one of the first 23 founders of Norwich CT. He was fined in 1658, because a fence on his property failed, and his pigs ruined part of his neighbor's crops. That fence was eventually destroyed, and where it stood is now the Founder's Cemetery.
How long did this take to film?
Cristian Flores 19 minutes.
I always enjoy John's presentations. Sadly, cannot say the same for the others.
Awesome! I think I only knew about 25 of these. Always fun to learn more stuff....says the former librarian who, like all librarians (it's in the blood) loves trivia. Thank you, Team Mental Floss!
Saw a facts video so I clicked it turns out this is the guy that helps me learn in history class
Speaking of Captain Crunch: He’s actually a Commander. If you count his stripes on his uniform, it’s that of a Commander’s.
Joey Steffanelli - Commander Crunch! Lol!
O.O The Mandela Effect
Fascinating.
@John Barber - Ya learn something new everyday!
Sure, he's an 0-5, but he's also clearly the ranking officer on the vessel he's on, and therefore a Captain by naval custom.
If I listened to these types of crunch videos all day.. I would take over the world, I mean go on Jeapardy.
Blowing into an NES cartridge definitely helped it.
Pretty sure at least 5% of these are wrong.
Which is the problem with these lists, more attention is made on creating a distraction than being accurate. Or in this case, more interest was made in presenting the funny than accuracy of the facts.
Blowing into games definitely worked every time for me😂
I was watching this as if it was just a video, then after going "how long have I been watching this?" I realized it was 45 minutes 😂😂
Hello, how are you, hope you are all well Edan care 😇👍
Bonus fact: The creator of the once-ubiquitous plastic lawn flamingo was Don Featherstone.
He passed away in 2015, having helped paint lawns across America pretty in pink.
38:11 I'm sorry, but I would have to combat you on this one. It worked 99.9% of the time. The .1% it still worked, you just had to blow it a 2nd time.
Enjoyed this very much.
There needs to be a video dedicated to facts about pigs. For the porkchop party
You guys are awesome!
John, I might be the guy to track down that Bob Ross original. I'm engaged to his assistant' s grand daughter who actually married his brother.
We love Bob Ross, thanks PBS the best channel ever
#353 *Peers at tablet next to her computer, with live footage of Iceland's new Geldingadalir volcano, and nods sagely* Best show of 2021 so far.
Fact #501: John Green has been dumped 53 times.
Damn. I just watched the whole episode. So cool.
How can you just say the quicksand fact so casually??! My childhood nightmares were just put to rest
Erin what time
OM Effing G! I tried to stop watching that video at least 50 times and just couldn’t do it! 501
28:42 - Well duh, Santa is obviously based on Peter Kropotkin. I mean the resemblance is uncanny.
Shut up, everyone knows Santa was based on Marx.
Blasphemy, that frightful hobgoblin is more of a Grinch than a Santa.
Bravo my friend, this is one of few videos I watch on normal speed. keep up the good work sport!
and still have to stop like, wait what lol
"I would love to coin a word".... John I think Dooblidoo counts as a word at this stage
SUPER INTERESTING !
this is all free form fact regurgitation disorder, he just does this all day and someone finally got the camera out to document the disorder.
Get well soon friend!!
I go to the University of Texas at Austin and actually saw an albino squirrel on my way to my statistics exam last Wednesday!! I had no idea that was thought to be good luck. Thank you, crash course statistics and albino squirrel. I got an A.
I live in Oklahoma so I looked that Watermelon state vegetable thing... They said it’s part of the cucumber family.
🙄 Oklahoma why are you like this?
Well, botanically speaking, anything that comes from the ovum of a plant is a fruit. The term vegetable doesn't have a biotanical meaning, it is more of a cultural thing. The two are not mutually exclusive. Something can be both a fruit and a vegetable. In "nix vs hedden" the Supreme Court of the USA defines the tomato as a vegetable for the purpose of customs and import duties.
Hi fellow okie
You're brilliant.
Gallagher had to sue his brother for false advertising and impersonation. His brother was going around selling shows as if he were the actually famous Gallagher. So that fact is a bit sadder than presented.
Funny to see Trogdor here. The only thing I could think about when the Galagher Too fact came up was Dangeresque Too. :D
Gallagher's cousin ripped him off too, but he used a half-stick of dynamite in the watermelon. He only did one show ; )
Wow, fast and informative 👍
Why aren't you on here anymore, you are by far the best presenter. Good luck.
*cries* I MISS THIS SHOW!!!
Also, "Hello Clarice" was in The Silence of the Lambs!
Proud American Mom and Vader did say "I am your father"
11:59 very few things in a video can actually make me “LOL” but I let out an audible laugh that surely woke up my family at 3 am
Who was richest president to win the electoral collage vote. but not the popular? I couldn't help but notice that for some reason this video only pointed out the Popular Vote when referring to Washington. ... god don't let it actually be Trump.
After a quick google, looks like it is Trump, by a long way.
sgt pep...ugh, even with inflation?
I assume so. That figure for Washington was adjusted right? Who else lost the popular vote? TBH I'm not that well versed in American politics - I'm not American myself.
sgt pep several including George W Bush, and all republicans. No wonder they won't let votes let the system be abolished.
fartzinwind Trump
It’s not much of a custom now. But in England, it was once traditional to give a key for someone’s 18th and 21st birthday.
These days, a gift like a wine glass with the number on it, is given.
First time viewer..... great channel!! 👌👌👌