I had 2 that blew my mind. The fact that there is so little gold in the world (duh, that's why it's so expensive, but it's hard to visualize it) and that Siberian tigers are HUUUUUUGE.
@@gsausse8_019 I mean you got a point. But also if we fuck up now, there would be no intelligent life at all left in the universe to rely on and the universe would be all empty. The purpose of anything existing would disappear. The universe would forever be dead and that is terrifying.
My own: NASA has launched two satellites that are exactly opposite sides of the Earth, and they use them to measure distance and gravitational anomalies. Because it appears the satellites are "chasing" each other, they have nicknamed them "Tom" and "Jerry".
@@TheBluePhoenix008 To quote Scientific American: "The crack of a whip comes from a loop traveling along the whip, gaining speed until it reaches the speed of sound and creates a sonic boom," Goriely says. He notes that even though some parts of the whip travel at greater speeds, "it is the loop itself that generates the sonic boom."
2:42 "If you took all the veins and arteries and capillaries in your body, all the blood vessels, and you laid them out end to end, *you would die* " That killed me 😂
"If you took all the veins and arteries and capillaries, all your blood vessels, and you laid them down end-to-end, you would die." Gee thanks Tom, I could not have known that without you.
so the secret is to NOT lay them down end to end... then you could live without a circulatory system... cool fact -- laying down your circulatory system end to end will kill you... the removal of same is not a death sentence though... lol.
@@julier.1902 apparently if every 8 billion people were to hold hands with 1 meter apart in a huge circle, that circle would reach even farther that the orbit of the moon
My favourite is the “if you have two legs you already have more legs than the average human” Im a double amputee and I say this to folks all the time. It’s so funny to see their faces trying to work it out 😂
Yes, cuz math. Guessing on the numbers, but about 99% have 2 legs, and 1% have less than 2 legs, so on average.... When Elizabeth Warren was claiming Native American ancestry, but only had a small percentage, some pundits were saying that Americans on average had something like 1 or 2% native American ancestry in them. Technically true, but actually about 80% have absolutely zero, 19% have mixed amount, and maybe 1% are full or almost full blooded native Americans.
So excited I got see you that's so cool! I have to be 💯 you are very attractive to look at. You did great job with specing out your character's charisma skill
@@redrobbie7977 most humans have two legs but some have 1 or none. So the average human has something like 1.9999 legs. That means you have more legs than the average human
My fav science fact : 'You literally buy your body parts from the grocery store, as the foof you eat, atoms of that food replace a portion of your body cells.'
@@jackyjess7273 because most people have two legs, but some people were either born with only one leg, some without any, and some lost their legs during their life, therefore the average legs per person must be around 1,9 something, wich makes having two legs more than average.
My biology-learned friend told me this ages ago, but it's basically not limited to platypuses. If I remember correctly, milk glands are just sweat glands that just add a few proteins. The similarity between the liquid produce also accounts for the "cheesy" smell of sweaty feet.
There is nothing "...useless about this facts,..." These are fun facts, ...entertaining facts, ...educational and very interesting to know. Thank you for the great video.
@@astropig_3212 the volcano lightning one may or may not be useful to a very small handful of people, altho im not even sure if someone has died to lightning from a volcanic ash cloud before
Some of these are certainly more useful than others. If more people knew that more of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants in the ocean than from trees, that could affect things, for instance.
There is a book named “The value of useless knowledge.” The topics being studied by researchers at the time of that book (decades ago) were expected to perhaps be useful in more than 100 years. It turned out a that several of the topics generated industries within 10-20 years.
@@Gazmus uhm, it's 2021 as I type this, and you asked if the useless knowledge book that DEMONSTRATED to actually, in effect, be useful, within 10-20 years after printing was from 2017? The only thing worse than my grammar is either 1. Your poorly phrased request for clarity or 2. Poor math skills. Even an ahole such as myself can see this.
*Sees Tom Scott* Me: "Oh cool, he's like the guy I watch the most among these people" Also Tom Scott: *"If you take all the blood vessels out of your body, you die"* No shit, sherlock-
"A million second is about 2 weeks, but a billion seconds is around 32 years..." LOVE that this is the first fact presented! And it's the comparison I always go to when I try to make people realize that politicians promising to spend BILLIONS should NEVER be a trivial thing!
@@oldsguy354 That's good to know as well. I got mildly curious: 100,000 seconds is about 28 hours (so not that much over 1 day). So, when it comes to people's income: 6 figures is on the scale of a few days, millionaires is on the scale of weeks, but with billionaires it doesn't take that much before need to switch to using centuries to measure it. This is part of why the notion that "no one needs that much money" exists when we start talking about some of the richest people out there. So with a few billion dollars, you could spend a dollar every single second you exists (counting while asleep of course) and you wouldn't run out out of money before you died. Meanwhile, my max manual income on record is around 14hrs and my current income is like 6hrs.
Yeah the difference between a million and a billion is insane especially when you start thinking about it in terms of money. There's really no reason any human being should be a billionaire.
I use that fact to point out if someone like Bill Gates, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos wanted to count their money at a dollar per second they would have to have started counting almost 5,000 years ago, centuries before the first pyramids were built. 33 years X 150 (billion) = 4,950 years. Oldest pyramids 2,650 BC + 2,020 = 4,670 years
C2-C1=[2pi*(r+n)]-[2pi*r} = 2pi*r + 2pi*n - 2pi*r = 2pi*n, (n=1 meter, C2-C1= about 6 meters) It doesn't matter if you circle the milky way galaxy with a rope and then put another rope one meter farther out, it only adds about 6 meters to the length of the rope required. It completely astounds me. I wonder if I can make any money with this.
The Mercury one was pretty cool. Thinking about how one side gets super hot and one super cold because no atmosphere and it takes so long to turn around.
No penguin in Chinese does not mean business goose, it roughly translates to “goose that looks into the distance/anticipating while tiptoeing” being given this name when scientists who first saw them noticed them doing just that. It just so happens that one of the words that can be translated into “business” uses that same character, perhaps also due to the notion of eagerly anticipating/looking into the distance. I enjoyed the video, but if you’re going to use your platform to reach a large amount of people and talk about another culture, you should probably fact-check with sources from said culture. Thank you
I heard another interesting fact about penguins is that 'penguin' is the only welsh word in the English dictionary. 'Penn' means bird, and 'gwynn' means 'white'.
@@jamesedmonds7519 I think most flat earthers don't believe in space or the planets as actual celestial bodies. Most of them think space is a projection.
12:55 The 'trigeminal' sensation is why mint was the only thing i could correctly identify when tested for anosmia (inability to smell). My exact words were "That's mint because it's cold." The other options were strawberry, tobacco, cinnamon, and orange.
Really gives a sense of scale,. Along with if you took out all the space between the atoms of every human, the human race would only be as big as a sugar cube
Wait really? That many trees? But like Benjamin said I also thought there are more stars than sand So that mean there are more trees than sand... I bet mrbeast did that
@@mohammedfouzan9115 more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way. theres more stars in the universe than grains of sand. Theres also more stars in the universe than trees on earth.
@@bumbo222 No, that’s not how averages work. For tings like humans you cannot use a mean to calculate an average, because no human have .9 of a leg. Basically you have to use the mode, which is a much better method of average in this case. Meaning that the average human has 2 legs, which is correct.
My favorite fact is that the lowest note in the universe known to man is a B flat 57 octaves below middle C. It comes from the black hole at the center of the Perseus cluster and the peaks of the wave are around 1 million years apart.
You shouldve added a fact about how quickly humans forget things because when you asked which one was my favourite, i realised i couldn't remember a single one
This is also due to the fact that they are talking so bloody fast and don't leave even a second to think over what they said between the facts. Basically these were pretty remarkable facts, but listening without being able to memorise them is a waste of time. smh ... Give me a book each time...
“You can fit all the planets in the our solar system between the earth and moon.” That’s pretty crazy but the sun is still 3 times larger than that gap.
Baby's = something appertaining to a baby. Babies = more than one baby. Please take a basic grammar class before further posting comments on the internet.
Yes but they have gold nanoparticles, which are very, very hard to isolate out of a substance. You'd have better luck collecting the iridium and platinum from car exhaust dust on the side of the freeway. 😉 (no really, catalytic converters in gas powered cars use rare metals to catalyze reactions with reactive nitrogen gasses from combustion, and some portion of that catalyst is lost as dust on the side of the road. You can actually collect the dust and get iridium from it, but you don't get a lot and you'll need to use a kiln.)
The Chinese for penguin 企鵝 actually means standing goose, it just happens that the character for standing is also been used in the phrase that means business
the darkness blind spot one is interesting because i always debated whether a light in my room exists at night because i can see it in the side of my view but not when looking directly at it
@@shreya...007 Some people have one or no legs due to amputation or birth defects. 7 billion people, most have 2 legs but not all, so there is less than 14 billion legs. So, on average, less than 2 legs per person.
The shoelaces experiencing 7g of force was my favorite one. Its nice to know why they keep coming untied, it also speaks to the power of the double knot!
@@watchusaiyankakaren This is true, and it would be interesting to do a study on how many people know this. I'm guessing close to 50% of people tie their shoes wrong.
ruclips.net/video/QSbeIb4riK0/видео.html This video beautifully explains the problem with ‘granny knots’. If your shoelaces come undone on their own with any regularity, this is truly one simple trick that will change your life!
9:58 that has actually happened in space once and it almost messed up one whole mission. If I remember right it was something about door getting stuck. Dont mark my words
@@gruhl6122 it doesn’t make any sense. If you calculate the circumference of the rope for something with a foot more radius than it’s got to be proportionality longer. Like calculate the diameter of the earth with its actual radius I’m feet, and then radius +1, it’s got to be a whole lot more than 6 feet difference
@@samuelkabakoff5217 exactly, except I think you meant circumference instead of diameter. And one inch more of radius equals about 6.28 inches of circumference, i.e., 2Xpi more inches.
I know I'm late, but my useless fact is the term used when something falls into a black hole. It's called "spaghettification", because if you are to fall in feet first, your feet would fall faster than your head. This results in you getting stretched out into one long line of atoms... ...like a spaghetti noodle. Scientists sure are wonderfully creative.
I literally found myself shouting "WHAT? THAT'S SO COOL!!" at how Olympus Mons curves with the curvature of the planet. Easily my favorite one from this video
i'm still doubting one of the last ones: you can't tickle yourself I can assure you, I can tickle myself. Most people can. Try rubbing the tip of your tongue on your pallet, most people are ticklish there.
@@bananaeclipse3324 Can't tell about the "and stuff" part because that could kinda include a lot, but I can certainly tickle myself so much that I move involuntarily.
I say “and stuff” to mean “you know what I mean”. I’m just not in the mood to perfectly explain everything that goes into it. Here is the definition: lightly touch or prod (a person or a part of the body) in a way that causes itching and often laughter. I’m too lazy to explain why that only mean to someone else.
I have an open mind and I'm not disputing what you say as a person but I question from where a couple of those "facts" come and their methods of finding them,this was an entertaining presentation and I thank you!
There are DEFINITELY some questionable facts in here, no denying that. Nothing intentional, but looking back I question some of them myself for sure. Thanks for watching and liking it though!
@@jyh8791 Of course it makes sense...if it was planted in 815 it would be over 1000 years old. If the mistake was 100yrs instead of 1000yrs then the rose would be over 200 years old.
@@jyh8791 how? The only way the Rose would be 1000 years old is it would have to be from before 1021. Why would he have said 1815 that’s only 200 years
The phobia. Business goose. And I just tickled the underside of my arm. Okay, I didn't bust out laughing, but it felt like tickling even if I didn't giggle.
Slight variations arise in the tale of the establishment of the diocese by King Louis the Pious at Hildesheim in 815 but the rose bush is a common theme in all versions.
Favorite science facts: "If you took all your blood vessels in your body and laid them out end-to-end, you would die" 2:44 "If you have 2 legs, that means you have more legs than the average human" 9:37
My favorite is the time traveling German rose at 14:06. It was planted in 1815 but it is over 1000 years old. Must be a relativity time dilation thing.
I am so ticklish, I can not only tickle myself - even threatening myself that I might do so makes my burst in a laughter. ...its a joyful life that I live! ☺️
Several people have made this comment, but I wonder: IS it really the same kind of tickle that makes you giggle and spasm involuntarily, or dors it just feel "tickly"? Id be willing to bet that no one can make themselves laugh from tickling themselves. Am I wrong?
@@itsROMPERS... I think you hit the nail on the head. It's sematics. I think most people can agree that they can feel a tickly feeling when you brush your skin softly. But that's not what the video is talking about. And I do think that physiologically it isn't the same thing. We just happens to use the general word "tickle" to describe both things.
Well, at least shave them. There are approximately 140,000,000 births per year world-wide, times the amount of hair on a babies head in kg (averaged) = 0.0000003685438006 kg, convert from kg to g to produce 51596.1 g of hair on all babies, times the amount of gold in a babies head of hair = 0.1 g, you get something like = 5159.61 grams per year. With current gold prices, if only shaving heads, you could make about $281,225.30, so I think grinding babies might be the next big business enterprise :)
When you get to the spider part, jump to 3:41 to skip it. Also, after Milky Way Galaxy (in the Tautology section), there are ants, jump to 4:23 to skip it. After octopus brain, jump to 9:03 to skip maggots. After metal in a vacuum (Cold Welding), jump to 10:15 to skip bees.
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What was your favourite fact? Let me know 👇👇👇
That you still exist and seem to be doing well
Tom Scott's hehehe
I had 2 that blew my mind. The fact that there is so little gold in the world (duh, that's why it's so expensive, but it's hard to visualize it) and that Siberian tigers are HUUUUUUGE.
all the planets between earth and moon what !!
I don't know, but I feel like there's a whole subset of people on the Internet who've been just waiting breathlessly for 2:22 🤣
My personal favourite: We're either alone on the universe, or we're not. Both are equally amazing and terrifying
How is being alone terrifying? We would be safe from the Great Filter. (Look up the Fermi Paradox if you don't know what I'm talking about)
@@gsausse8_019 I mean you got a point. But also if we fuck up now, there would be no intelligent life at all left in the universe to rely on and the universe would be all empty. The purpose of anything existing would disappear. The universe would forever be dead and that is terrifying.
Damn.
@@allefalconhalsaren2640 *fear intensifies*
That’s like saying every 60 seconds passed on earth a minute passes in Africa
Repeating yourself
My own: NASA has launched two satellites that are exactly opposite sides of the Earth, and they use them to measure distance and gravitational anomalies. Because it appears the satellites are "chasing" each other, they have nicknamed them "Tom" and "Jerry".
I love this
O h my god
so cute😔
Imagine the debate settled because of this name
imagine not knowing nasa uses pools that have full sized replicas of the iss, piano wired harnesses and chroma key screens
I burst out laughing at Tom Scott's fact. That man is a treasure.
Ikr I love him
😂😂
Same, I love his videos!
Time stamp?
@@goatsandstuff4319 2:42
One of my favorite pieces of trivia: The first manmade object to break the sound barrier was the tip of a whip.
Racist dog whistle
Explain
@@TheBluePhoenix008 To quote Scientific American:
"The crack of a whip comes from a loop traveling along the whip, gaining speed until it reaches the speed of sound and creates a sonic boom," Goriely says. He notes that even though some parts of the whip travel at greater speeds, "it is the loop itself that generates the sonic boom."
@@asterix7842 whao
And it was in Point Comfort, Virginia, near Jamestown in August 1619.
2:42 "If you took all the veins and arteries and capillaries in your body, all the blood vessels, and you laid them out end to end, *you would die* "
That killed me 😂
Lmao same
We are here to mourn the loss of our friends Brawler Enoch and Benjamin Badrakh.
@@BrawlerEnoch also how many trophies you got
Me too
So you actually got your arteries and veins stretched out....glad you sacrificed for science, mate.
You will be remembered.
"If you took all the veins and arteries and capillaries, all your blood vessels, and you laid them down end-to-end, you would die."
Gee thanks Tom, I could not have known that without you.
Sadly there are people that would probably argue that they arent needed to circulate blood.
so the secret is to NOT lay them down end to end... then you could live without a circulatory system... cool fact -- laying down your circulatory system end to end will kill you... the removal of same is not a death sentence though... lol.
At least they’d stretch three times round the earth
@@MattWeber Well, there certainly are people who argues that the natural pH value of our bodies must be 0
This is why I no longer watch the insufferable Tom Scott!
"If you were to put all your arteries and veins on the floor in one big line.....
You would die.."
God i love tom scott
Those cheeky Toms!
If everyone on earth held hands around the equator, a lot of them would drown. :)
@@julier.1902 apparently if every 8 billion people were to hold hands with 1 meter apart in a huge circle, that circle would reach even farther that the orbit of the moon
goddamit you spoiled the joke! still funny tho
@@sepsysmurf6982 Ah, sorry, didnt think about that
My favourite is the “if you have two legs you already have more legs than the average human” Im a double amputee and I say this to folks all the time. It’s so funny to see their faces trying to work it out 😂
Yes, cuz math. Guessing on the numbers, but about 99% have 2 legs, and 1% have less than 2 legs, so on average....
When Elizabeth Warren was claiming Native American ancestry, but only had a small percentage, some pundits were saying that Americans on average had something like 1 or 2% native American ancestry in them. Technically true, but actually about 80% have absolutely zero, 19% have mixed amount, and maybe 1% are full or almost full blooded native Americans.
that makes sense because since people have 1 or even 0 legs, it brings down the average from 2 to 1 point something
It took me a good while to get it LMFAO
@@MacNerfer are you agreeing? 😐
what about my honorary third leg
Platypuses produce both milk and eggs, making them a portable source of omeletes
They can also make their own custard....
They also produce venom which makes them good for assassinating people who love omelettes
@@abinayafuun6839 my *favorite* hobby
If that katana is made out of aluminum I believe I have a similar one pretty cool photo
Omletes don't have milk
This was so fun to be a part of! Happy new year y'all
Thanks for being a part of it mate! Unofficial official face reveal too, all in a day’s work 👍
Lookin cute TierZoo 👀👀
You choose to play as a human player! I thought you are an alien.
So excited I got see you that's so cool! I have to be 💯 you are very attractive to look at. You did great job with specing out your character's charisma skill
@@JasonBerger631 IKR?!
"If you have 2 legs, you have more legs than the average human"
People with 1 or no legs : *whyareweherejusttosuffer*
I don’t get it
@@benjamindraws9676 imma just assume that most dead people are missing a leg or two
@@redrobbie7977 most humans have two legs but some have 1 or none. So the average human has something like 1.9999 legs. That means you have more legs than the average human
@@bartoszjaroszynski4711 oh, that makes sense now
@@bartoszjaroszynski4711 but no. Of legs cant be in decimal
Right?
My fav science fact : 'You literally buy your body parts from the grocery store, as the foof you eat, atoms of that food replace a portion of your body cells.'
No
love how the timestamps started nicely and then just died away
Lmao
😂😂😂
what
How does one use a timestamp? Or is that a useless science fact?
Didn’t realise I’d be appearing alongside this many legends! And I wish I could reach Tom Scott’s level of wisdom. Loved it
Well they also didn't know they'd be appearing alongside someone as legendary as yourself! ;)
I never thought I was part Shakespeare butt I guess I have to become a writer now.
saw this comment while you appeared on screen with that fabulous mustache
@@thehighground265 "part Shakespeare butt" will now be how I describe myself in all future introductions.
“If you have two legs, you have more legs than the average human” i love that fact
If you have one heart then you have less hearts than average human.
I dont get it
@@jackyjess7273 because most people have two legs, but some people were either born with only one leg, some without any, and some lost their legs during their life, therefore the average legs per person must be around 1,9 something, wich makes having two legs more than average.
Look up mean, mode and median averages. This fact only works with one of them
@@akseldamberg6135 but what about those who were born with more than 2 legs due to genetic mutations??
"the worlds oldest living rose is over one thousand years old planted in Germany in 1815"
..... Look I suck at math but...
He misspoke, I looked it up, it was planted in *815*.
Yeah this stumped me too
@@sparkleglitch13 Was a little late to the party and just deleted my comment containing the same question!
Damn, Tom Scott cracked me up. That was so unexpected.
Love that man lmao
Sadly he died from vape smokes
@@TheNamesArif ruclips.net/video/CsCS5BOjdgk/видео.html
The description shows the original video the clip is from
@@TheNamesArif I actually spent 3 minutes looking up whether Tom Scott was dead or not becuz of this
@@monochromedevdle5697 He just posted a video, so I’m pretty sure he’s alive 😮💨
Probably my personal favorite example of a tautology is “The La Brea Tar Pits”, or “The The Tar Tar Pits”
Oh dude! That would have been such a good addition! Fancy getting involved in the next video?
Tom Carroll - Let‘s do it!
My favourite is Pendleton Hill, translating to Hill Hill Hill Hill
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
Mine is the nation Timor-Leste, meaning East East ^^
That platypus fact will now live in our brains rent free, forever.
Sabrina will be glad haha!
That was one of the only facts I actually knew, only because it was a joke in Phineas and Ferb.
Seeing as platypus can produce both milk and eggs, they are technically portable omelette makers.
They are also venomous.... you're welcome
My biology-learned friend told me this ages ago, but it's basically not limited to platypuses. If I remember correctly, milk glands are just sweat glands that just add a few proteins. The similarity between the liquid produce also accounts for the "cheesy" smell of sweaty feet.
There is nothing "...useless about this facts,..." These are fun facts, ...entertaining facts, ...educational and very interesting to know. Thank you for the great video.
well they arent usefull, so
@@astropig_3212 the volcano lightning one may or may not be useful to a very small handful of people, altho im not even sure if someone has died to lightning from a volcanic ash cloud before
Some of these are certainly more useful than others. If more people knew that more of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants in the ocean than from trees, that could affect things, for instance.
"the world's oldest living Rose is over 1,000 years old , planted in Germany in 1815" Are we living on the 2800's?
Maybe it has been transplanted
I wondered about that, too. According to Laidback Gardener, that was supposed to be 815.
yes we are living in the 2800's, it turned 2821 a few weeks ago, are you stupid?
I made it 69 nice
Yup, 815, not 1815. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-year_Rose
In simple terms Tom Scott said: People die when they are killed
That's pretty on brand for him
Well actually dying is a side effect of getting killed, which affects 100% of its victims
@@toutafarel9436 why just why
Claim your "shirou said that" ticket
@@adamhakimimuhamadfaizal8054 um what?
when they call the only type of facts you know “useless”: 👁👄👁
😂😂
Thats why they gave you a shoutout
Jk
I don’t consider these useless, they’re great facts to know! I knew about 30% of these; definitely appreciate you sharing them 😀
POV: You're trying to remember some facts for you to tell your imaginary friends.
POV: You’re trying to think of a witty RUclips comment but fail
What is POV
Same
@@omega-man1736 Point Of View
@@cevastiandeguzman1039 thanks
There is a book named “The value of useless knowledge.” The topics being studied by researchers at the time of that book (decades ago) were expected to perhaps be useful in more than 100 years. It turned out a that several of the topics generated industries within 10-20 years.
and thus i present to you: SS = sperm storage!
Did you mean “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge” published in the 1930s?
@@theastuteangler Or the one on Amazon from 2017? Let us know John!
@@Gazmus uhm, it's 2021 as I type this, and you asked if the useless knowledge book that DEMONSTRATED to actually, in effect, be useful, within 10-20 years after printing was from 2017? The only thing worse than my grammar is either 1. Your poorly phrased request for clarity or 2. Poor math skills. Even an ahole such as myself can see this.
@@theastuteangler I think that is what he meant. it was an essay in Harpers rather than a book though.
*Sees Tom Scott*
Me: "Oh cool, he's like the guy I watch the most among these people"
Also Tom Scott: *"If you take all the blood vessels out of your body, you die"*
No shit, sherlock-
useless? yes
scinece? yes
fact? yes
it counts
@@zjanez2868 “fact?” Yes and no. The end to end part is where he got the saying wrong. He SHOULD have said “...they would stretch around the world”.
@@samiam619 hence the text on the screen at the same time.
@@zjanez2868 what no, it’s not useless, I was about to do that, don’t ask on who or why...
@@laurencefraser right but it is true, if you do take all of your blood vessels out of your body, you WILL die, so it is, by definition, a fact
My favorite had to be the australia vs moon thing. I never thought about it, it makes sense in numbers, but doesn't fit in my brain. Cool fact.
"A million second is about 2 weeks, but a billion seconds is around 32 years..."
LOVE that this is the first fact presented! And it's the comparison I always go to when I try to make people realize that politicians promising to spend BILLIONS should NEVER be a trivial thing!
Be sure and add that a trillion seconds is 30,000 years. That really puts a 3.5 trillion dollar add-on spending/borrowing proposal in perspective.
@@oldsguy354 That's good to know as well.
I got mildly curious: 100,000 seconds is about 28 hours (so not that much over 1 day). So, when it comes to people's income: 6 figures is on the scale of a few days, millionaires is on the scale of weeks, but with billionaires it doesn't take that much before need to switch to using centuries to measure it. This is part of why the notion that "no one needs that much money" exists when we start talking about some of the richest people out there.
So with a few billion dollars, you could spend a dollar every single second you exists (counting while asleep of course) and you wouldn't run out out of money before you died.
Meanwhile, my max manual income on record is around 14hrs and my current income is like 6hrs.
Yeah the difference between a million and a billion is insane especially when you start thinking about it in terms of money. There's really no reason any human being should be a billionaire.
I use that fact to point out if someone like Bill Gates, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos wanted to count their money at a dollar per second they would have to have started counting almost 5,000 years ago, centuries before the first pyramids were built.
33 years X 150 (billion) = 4,950 years.
Oldest pyramids 2,650 BC + 2,020 = 4,670 years
@serge levesque That is exactly what I thought!
I knew the fact Tom Scott was abt to speak, but he caught me off guard and had to explain to mom why my drink was all over my homework project.
lel
1:14 Mark Rober: If you had a rope that stretched round the equator of the earth.
Post-production animator: I'll just show that top to bottom.
As he is assuming the earth is completely spherical it really doesn't matter hence idk lol
C2-C1=[2pi*(r+n)]-[2pi*r}
= 2pi*r + 2pi*n - 2pi*r = 2pi*n, (n=1 meter, C2-C1= about 6 meters)
It doesn't matter if you circle the milky way galaxy with a rope and then put another rope one meter farther out, it only adds about 6 meters to the length of the rope required.
It completely astounds me. I wonder if I can make any money with this.
@@alyoshakaramazov8469 business mindset 😳😳😳😳 wow Jeffrey bezos billionaire mindset susssss
The Mercury one was pretty cool. Thinking about how one side gets super hot and one super cold because no atmosphere and it takes so long to turn around.
Don't forget, there are more airplanes in the sea than submarines in the sky. Let that _sink in_ ...
Hold my blimp
It will be perfect if you add 'let that sink in'
@@bajonk9024 done
Concerned *hmmmmmm*
PUN CITY!!!!
Weird listening to Tom Scott without knowing the place he is in or him introducing us to the place
i am at
@@MandrakeGuy ...your mom's house
@@cooperbennett3043 my dads house actually ez
School: I like this man’s idea let’s just make the time seven hours
I normally just learn about three new facts on a school day.
But every once in a while, make them get up and hit each other with basketballs.
So true
nah
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No penguin in Chinese does not mean business goose, it roughly translates to “goose that looks into the distance/anticipating while tiptoeing” being given this name when scientists who first saw them noticed them doing just that. It just so happens that one of the words that can be translated into “business” uses that same character, perhaps also due to the notion of eagerly anticipating/looking into the distance.
I enjoyed the video, but if you’re going to use your platform to reach a large amount of people and talk about another culture, you should probably fact-check with sources from said culture. Thank you
I heard another interesting fact about penguins is that 'penguin' is the only welsh word in the English dictionary. 'Penn' means bird, and 'gwynn' means 'white'.
For some reason I was fully expecting Tom to say "You will die" in his fact
same-
Which Tom tho, the British one?
@@dolphinman9253 tom scott, yes the british one
I thought Tom Scott could do better than that old joke.
Gmackematix no it's exactly what tom Scott would say
The fact the you can't see the peak of Olympus Mons from its base because it is past the horizon blew my mind.
Imagine how flat Earthers feel about it.
Assuming that they believe all planets are flat of course.
@@jamesedmonds7519
They think Earth is special and the only flat planet
Also remember that the entire surface area of Mars is less than the surface area of the Pacific Ocean.
This comment really upset me.
@@jamesedmonds7519 I think most flat earthers don't believe in space or the planets as actual celestial bodies. Most of them think space is a projection.
"It is impossible to tickle yourself"
Either that was a trap that I walked straight into or I just debunked a hypothesis.
Great video regardless!
Yeah, i can tickle myself too on my toes.
@@MykahCroom same
Ive heard you can tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue. I get a very mild tickle when i try.
@@jeffmarquis4612 i get that! i can also tickle the palms of my hands
@@jeffmarquis4612 oh I hate that 😵
12:55 The 'trigeminal' sensation is why mint was the only thing i could correctly identify when tested for anosmia (inability to smell). My exact words were "That's mint because it's cold." The other options were strawberry, tobacco, cinnamon, and orange.
“A spec of dust is in the middle size between earth and an atom”. THAT made my eyes go O_O
same, that is heckin incredible
This means that humans are roughly the middle size between the Earth and an atom o_o.
@@bumbo222 that math doesnt check out
Really gives a sense of scale,. Along with if you took out all the space between the atoms of every human, the human race would only be as big as a sugar cube
@@peterstrong772 Tasty! I can put the entire human race in my lemonade!
Thanks Tom Scott, very cool. I didn't know that I would die without blood vessels.
And that's a thing you might not know!
"If you have two legs, that means that you have more legs than the average human."
Finally, something I'm above average in.
*above average
Inability to tickle yourself is FALSE. The roof of my mouth is VERY ticklish using only my tongue (especially since I started using dentures)
Fact : There are more trees than stars in the Milky Way
Humans: Not on my watch
Haha! That’s depressingly funny 😂
there is less sand on the planet earth than there are stars.
Wait really? That many trees?
But like Benjamin said
I also thought there are more stars than sand
So that mean there are more trees than sand...
I bet mrbeast did that
@@mohammedfouzan9115 more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way. theres more stars in the universe than grains of sand. Theres also more stars in the universe than trees on earth.
@@nekro1977 what
First you said more trees then stars then at the end you said more stars than trees, I think it should be more stars than trees
Did you know there are over nine facts in this video?
Great to be in such illustrious company, thanks for having me on dude!
You know what....YOU’RE RIGHT! Thanks for getting involved mate :)
14:02 - oldest rose is 1000+ years old, planted in 1815... Time really does go fast!
Lol how does that work.
I think it was a mistake
yea he actually meant 815* not 1815 ... o.O
He's already living in 2800s😂
10:52 Well, it fits. They're birds that look as if they were wearing a suit, at least some of them.
"If you have 2 legs, you have more legs than the average human"
Mind=Blown
So in a way they are saying I am not the average human because I have two legs and the average has 1.999999999999 legs.
@@bumbo222 No, that’s not how averages work. For tings like humans you cannot use a mean to calculate an average, because no human have .9 of a leg. Basically you have to use the mode, which is a much better method of average in this case. Meaning that the average human has 2 legs, which is correct.
@@user-uq1fq6gs3i some ppl miss a toe. isnt that .9 of a leg? ;)
It took me a whole ten seconds to realize what they meant by that
@@catlover7015 what? Is it the comment above where 1.999 percent because of amputees??
That "And you lay them out, end to end, you would die" line was really unexpected and Tom's smug face at the end makes it much better~ 🤣
A mathematician I'd recently met and I were discussing the birthday "paradox", only to find out we have the same birthday!
Just like the simulations.
Hey, when is your birthday? Maybe we share the same one!
@@bumbo222 April 14 here haha. Any famous person/s with the same date?
That's a bitchslap of irony if you were sceptic about it.
@@deecee6780 Haha, my birthday is March 14! Aka pi day. What is the coincidence we share the same day but in different months?!
That Siberian Tiger is half the length of a London bus was definitely my favorite!
I can't not say Tom Scott's was my favorite.
So, say it!
@@buffalojones341 Tom Scott was my favorite
@@reinout1489 good job! 😁😁😁
so you can?
Idk I can't agree with you, mark Rober is the cooliest
My favorite fact is that the lowest note in the universe known to man is a B flat 57 octaves below middle C. It comes from the black hole at the center of the Perseus cluster and the peaks of the wave are around 1 million years apart.
Wow, that's some cool fact. Thanks for sharing!
Ugh, tuning to that would take FOREVER
@@originalpmac Gold tier response.
Crazy to see myself on a video with you all. Don't give up on your dreams kids!
I'm stoked to be in a video with you finally chap!
And I love that you had the spoon mic... OG spoon mic ❤️
what dream? they died a long time ago
2:17 **Screenshot**
You shouldve added a fact about how quickly humans forget things because when you asked which one was my favourite, i realised i couldn't remember a single one
Short-term memory is like 20 seconds
This is also due to the fact that they are talking so bloody fast and don't leave even a second to think over what they said between the facts. Basically these were pretty remarkable facts, but listening without being able to memorise them is a waste of time. smh
... Give me a book each time...
@@mquietsch6736 Yeah I agree, English is not my first language and I'm stoned with a certain vaccine. This video hit really hard.
Schools: "Are you kidding me? That's insultingly low."
nice ksp pfp
here's your 69th like
"It is impossible to tickle yourself."
WRONG. I cannot scratch the bottom of my own feet - it tickles too much.
Also people can tickle the roof of their mouth with their tongue 😛
yes i was thinking the same thing, that statement is absolute bs. i hate when it itches on my sole :(
@@MarcusHawksley I came here to say both of these things.
@Not Applicable Not according to the number of commenters who've weighed in on the subject
😂
Here’s my favourite one: “there are more hydrogen atoms in a teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the world”
“You can fit all the planets in the our solar system between the earth and moon.”
That’s pretty crazy but the sun is still 3 times larger than that gap.
...wait, that's it? damn, i kinda assumed it was bigger honestly
@@jacksonsmith2955 do you realize how far moon is from earth.
@@skysight1553 I just always assume that the sun is way bigger than I think it is.
Baby’s: have gold in their hair.
Me: going to an orphanage...
Baby's = something appertaining to a baby.
Babies = more than one baby.
Please take a basic grammar class before further posting comments on the internet.
@@gunslingingbird74 I’m sorry ;-;
Yes but they have gold nanoparticles, which are very, very hard to isolate out of a substance.
You'd have better luck collecting the iridium and platinum from car exhaust dust on the side of the freeway. 😉
(no really, catalytic converters in gas powered cars use rare metals to catalyze reactions with reactive nitrogen gasses from combustion, and some portion of that catalyst is lost as dust on the side of the road. You can actually collect the dust and get iridium from it, but you don't get a lot and you'll need to use a kiln.)
These orphans are getting OBLITERATED.
If you get the reference, you should subscribe to Technoblade
Orphans: Why do I hear Pigstep?
Mark Rober: **makes video of 15 minute of useless science facts**
School: Are you challenging me?
I love how tom scott, whenever he's not filming videos, is ALWAYS at the same pub with his friends
Especially considering he just gets a pint of water.
it *is* a cool superpower
"The world's oldest rose is over 1000 years old, planted in 1815."
That maths isn't correct... Did you mean 815? 🤔😳
I was a bit confused at that part too.I looked it up and it’s actually 815, not 1815
No it's actually 2815, we've all just been lying to you.
You're in your own Truman show where you think it's still 2021.
@@AndrewThibeault Wake up, the accident was not your fault
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The Chinese for penguin 企鵝 actually means standing goose, it just happens that the character for standing is also been used in the phrase that means business
I misheard him and thought he said pangolin, which made it even more abstract for me.
Yeah, but business goose sounds funnier so I'd believe that.
the darkness blind spot one is interesting because i always debated whether a light in my room exists at night because i can see it in the side of my view but not when looking directly at it
Ah, oh god... A tomato has 7000 more genes than a human...
I was like... where the f does it store all those jeans O_o
In the seam
In your mom
The quality on this channel never ceases to surprise me
The quality of your channel name has just surprised me. Nicely done!
@@TommoCarroll Haha! Thanks
My favorite was "If you have two legs, you have more legs than the average human" 😂
I still don't get it.....
Please don't roast me I'm not stupid
@@shreya...007 Some people have one or no legs due to amputation or birth defects.
7 billion people, most have 2 legs but not all, so there is less than 14 billion legs. So, on average, less than 2 legs per person.
@@anzacxlag2606 Thanks.
I came to the comments for this.
I was like, "There is no way that's correct".
Thank you for explaining it
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Every time I hear about the distances in cosmos, I can't believe it. Hard to imagine.
Such as the closest galaxy to our own is 2 million+ light years away!?! 😮
My new year's resolution in the late 70s was that i wouldn't make any more new year's resolutions. So far, so good.
I like how you got tired of timestamps after 6 minutes
I think he doesn't consider those other youtubers to be that relevant for the view count.
It's because there's no more other youtubers
It's because there's no more other youtubers
Edit: apart from the beginning of More facts timestamp
The shoelaces experiencing 7g of force was my favorite one. Its nice to know why they keep coming untied, it also speaks to the power of the double knot!
bro just levitate everywhere, problem solved
@@watchusaiyankakaren This is true, and it would be interesting to do a study on how many people know this. I'm guessing close to 50% of people tie their shoes wrong.
ruclips.net/video/QSbeIb4riK0/видео.html This video beautifully explains the problem with ‘granny knots’. If your shoelaces come undone on their own with any regularity, this is truly one simple trick that will change your life!
9:58 that has actually happened in space once and it almost messed up one whole mission.
If I remember right it was something about door getting stuck. Dont mark my words
14:52 A new paper has shown that the Elephant Nose Fish uses complex language to communicate - the first fish to have been shown to do so!
This sounds super cool. Any chance we could get a link?
So it doesn't just look weird after all 😸
This video: solid 15 minutes of useless science facts
School : those are rookie numbers
Lol
That rope fact actually blows my mind, so interesting
My favorite, too. ✌️
I was sure this was wrong until I worked out the math myself. Crazy.
@@gruhl6122 it doesn’t make any sense. If you calculate the circumference of the rope for something with a foot more radius than it’s got to be proportionality longer. Like calculate the diameter of the earth with its actual radius I’m feet, and then radius +1, it’s got to be a whole lot more than 6 feet difference
@@gruhl6122 nm I just thought it through. So one foot of radius always equals about 6 feet of diameter
@@samuelkabakoff5217 exactly, except I think you meant circumference instead of diameter. And one inch more of radius equals about 6.28 inches of circumference, i.e., 2Xpi more inches.
I know I'm late, but my useless fact is the term used when something falls into a black hole. It's called "spaghettification", because if you are to fall in feet first, your feet would fall faster than your head. This results in you getting stretched out into one long line of atoms...
...like a spaghetti noodle.
Scientists sure are wonderfully creative.
“It is impossible to tickle yourself”
Me:
Tickles the roof of my mouth.
The roof of my mouth wont stop tingling now
I vaguely remember someone has tried to make a self tickle machine (built in signal delay).
POV: you just tried ticking the roof of your mouth
Actually 4-10% of ppl can tickle themselves and it linked to traits of schitzophrenia. Source Smithsonian magazine.
@@ditzfough After realising
*oh shit*
I literally found myself shouting "WHAT? THAT'S SO COOL!!" at how Olympus Mons curves with the curvature of the planet. Easily my favorite one from this video
Haha that’s amazing!
the corollary of this fact is that if you stood on the top of Olympus Mons the surrounding plain would be below the horizon
Some of these facts are actually pretty cool to know.. Anything that leaves me more intelligent than before is definitely not useless. Good work!!
Knowledge and intelligence r 2 completely different things
i'm still doubting one of the last ones: you can't tickle yourself
I can assure you, I can tickle myself. Most people can. Try rubbing the tip of your tongue on your pallet, most people are ticklish there.
A true tickle, the one where you can’t help to start moving and stuff, you can’t do to yourself.
@@bananaeclipse3324 Can't tell about the "and stuff" part because that could kinda include a lot, but I can certainly tickle myself so much that I move involuntarily.
I say “and stuff” to mean “you know what I mean”. I’m just not in the mood to perfectly explain everything that goes into it.
Here is the definition: lightly touch or prod (a person or a part of the body) in a way that causes itching and often laughter.
I’m too lazy to explain why that only mean to someone else.
I have an open mind and I'm not disputing what you say as a person but I question from where a couple of those "facts" come and their methods of finding them,this was an entertaining presentation and I thank you!
There are DEFINITELY some questionable facts in here, no denying that. Nothing intentional, but looking back I question some of them myself for sure. Thanks for watching and liking it though!
@@TommoCarroll thanks Tom!
2:43 LOL
I literally laughed so hard
9:30
"Don't worry, we'll be dead long before that."
Yeah not very comforting.
Fr this made me scared of death
14:02“Oldest living rose is over 1000 years old planted IN 1815”
Yeah i caught that too. Maybe he meant 815?
@@bobbyberry your logik makes no sense
@@jyh8791 He's kinda confused, but he got the spirit 😂🤣😂
@@jyh8791 Of course it makes sense...if it was planted in 815 it would be over 1000 years old. If the mistake was 100yrs instead of 1000yrs then the rose would be over 200 years old.
@@jyh8791 how? The only way the Rose would be 1000 years old is it would have to be from before 1021. Why would he have said 1815 that’s only 200 years
The phobia. Business goose. And I just tickled the underside of my arm. Okay, I didn't bust out laughing, but it felt like tickling even if I didn't giggle.
I am concerned.... I already knew about half of the facts before watching this video.
Glad to know I'm not the only one. Nothing's really useless if you enjoy it.
14:03 oldest living rose is over 1000 years old planted in Germany in 1815. So we are in 2815 🧐
i tought of that to. dont get it. They know alot of science but suck at math.
It could have also been a slip of the tongue. It's presence has been documented in Germany since 815.
Slight variations arise in the tale of the establishment of the diocese by King Louis the Pious at Hildesheim in 815 but the rose bush is a common theme in all versions.
@@kalin83 I’m sure they just accidentally misspoke
He meant to say 815.
Thank you, Tom Scott, for the best laugh I've had quite in a long time.
Favorite science facts:
"If you took all your blood vessels in your body and laid them out end-to-end, you would die" 2:44
"If you have 2 legs, that means you have more legs than the average human" 9:37
My favorite is the time traveling German rose at 14:06. It was planted in 1815 but it is over 1000 years old. Must be a relativity time dilation thing.
He meant to say the year 815.
Thank god, I was beginning to wonder whether there's something wrong with my maths center
actually I noticed it too
I actually didnt hear the -teen until you pointed it out, I thought he said it right. My brain is fixing math for me without me noticing.
Never mind I missread your comment 💀😅
"I'm now in Alaska where are you?"
"Oh I'm on Hawaii, I'm waiting for it to drift there"
Won't be long, those two islands are already so close to each other.
I've seen plenty of US maps.
Still quicker than flying there by Ryanair (if the few that route).
@@eternaldarkness3139 Why is Alaska cold if it's right next to Hawaii?
@@bryan.d0616 I blame flat Earther's...
I am so ticklish, I can not only tickle myself - even threatening myself that I might do so makes my burst in a laughter.
...its a joyful life that I live! ☺️
15:13 - Wrong! I can tickle myself. And I can confirm: It tickles.
So you're the only one in this world😂
@@vinayakk2745 No, apparently it happens with schizofrenia, but i too can tickle myself
@@sebastiansandoval4861 oh yeah I remember
Several people have made this comment, but I wonder: IS it really the same kind of tickle that makes you giggle and spasm involuntarily, or dors it just feel "tickly"?
Id be willing to bet that no one can make themselves laugh from tickling themselves. Am I wrong?
@@itsROMPERS... I think you hit the nail on the head. It's sematics. I think most people can agree that they can feel a tickly feeling when you brush your skin softly. But that's not what the video is talking about. And I do think that physiologically it isn't the same thing. We just happens to use the general word "tickle" to describe both things.
Tom carroll: 20 minutes of useless information.
School : look what he needs to mimic a fraction of our power.
15*
8:00 so what you’re saying is that we should grind up babies and extract their gold
Well, at least shave them. There are approximately 140,000,000 births per year world-wide, times the amount of hair on a babies head in kg (averaged) = 0.0000003685438006 kg, convert from kg to g to produce 51596.1 g of hair on all babies, times the amount of gold in a babies head of hair = 0.1 g, you get something like = 5159.61 grams per year. With current gold prices, if only shaving heads, you could make about $281,225.30, so I think grinding babies might be the next big business enterprise :)
When you get to the spider part, jump to 3:41 to skip it.
Also, after Milky Way Galaxy (in the Tautology section), there are ants, jump to 4:23 to skip it.
After octopus brain, jump to 9:03 to skip maggots.
After metal in a vacuum (Cold Welding), jump to 10:15 to skip bees.
I love business goose, it is the purest explanation of what a penguin is
Sorry to break it to you, but it actually means standing goose, it just happens that the character meaning stand can also be used in phrase business