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Misconceptions about Congress
The Senate and House of Representatives are important parts of the government, and are also incredibly confusing. How do bills get passed when they get vetoed? Do all Congress members live in Washington DC? And how many Senate offices have secret beds in them??
Today on Misconceptions, we're covering the wide world of Congress. Hopefully, host Justin Dodd can help break down some of the more confusing parts of our government.
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Today on Misconceptions, we're covering the wide world of Congress. Hopefully, host Justin Dodd can help break down some of the more confusing parts of our government.
Website: www.mentalfloss.com
Twitter: mental_floss
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1 Funny Town Name From Each State
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America is full of some strange, ridiculous, hilarious town names. Ranging from a town called Two Egg, to the Porcupine Islands, we're covering 50 of the funniest town names in the country. What's your favorite? Website: www.mentalfloss.com Twitter: mental_floss Facebook: mentalflossmagazine Discord: discord.io/mentalfloss
Misconceptions About Journalism
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Is print media dead? Is all media biased? Are journalists rolling in dough?? Today on Misconceptions, we're covering the wide world of journalism. The world of media has changed so much in just a few decades, so it makes sense that we're all a little unclear on the current state of it all. Join host Justin Dodd (@juddtoday) as we debunk some common misconceptions about journalism. Website: www....
10 Incredible Animal Movie Stars
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How Air Bud come to be the world's most famous basketball playing canine? What ever happened to Keiko the whale from Free Willy? And who's the hardest working bear in Hollywood? Today we're covering some of the most notable animal movie stars from history. Website: www.mentalfloss.com Twitter: mental_floss Facebook: mentalflossmagazine Discord: discord.io/mentalfloss
11 Facts That Could Save Your Life
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A quick fire starter, how to survive a kangaroo attack, and the secret of your dog's magnetic butt. Today, we're going to be sharing 11 interesting facts that could, in a pinch, save your behind. Website: www.mentalfloss.com Twitter: mental_floss Facebook: mentalflossmagazine Discord: discord.io/mentalfloss
Misconceptions About Funerals
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With so much emotion surrounding funerals, it’s easy to see why people simply avoid thinking about them and continue to believe in certain misunderstandings about the process. What have we gotten wrong? Website: www.mentalfloss.com Twitter: mental_floss Facebook: mentalflossmagazine Discord: discord.io/mentalfloss
Misconceptions About Sex
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Blue balls, STIs, and popping your cherry. We're covering all of the topics you've always wondered about but were too embarrassed to ask in our latest episode of misconceptions. Website: www.mentalfloss.com Twitter: mental_floss Facebook: mentalflossmagazine Discord: discord.io/mentalfloss
8 Animals People Didn't Think Were Real
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Misconceptions About College
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Pop culture has shaped the way a lot of us think about college and higher education. If movies and University courses will be so demanding that you’ll constantly be pulling all-nighters, pounding coffee and energy drinks in order to stay awake to cram for your next big test, right? On this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd breaks down these higher-level myths. If your professor is 15 ...
Fascinating Facts About All 95 Best Picture Oscar Winners
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Best Picture at the Academy Awards, the highest honor a film can achieve (well, at least in America). From 1927's Wings to 2022's Everything Everywhere All at Once, we are giving you one fun fact about every Best Picture Oscar winner. Which film was the first to win all five of the major Oscar awards? And which was the only movie to have an X rating? And which film crew accidentally ate PCP-lac...
Geographical Extremes That Will Change Your Perspective
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Geographical Extremes That Will Change Your Perspective
38 Terrific Slang Terms From The Last Century
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38 Terrific Slang Terms From The Last Century
100 Interesting Facts We Learned in 2023
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100 Interesting Facts We Learned in 2023
Holiday Fireplace Facts | 1 Hour Relaxing Yule Log w/ Jazz Music and 100 Facts
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Holiday Fireplace Facts | 1 Hour Relaxing Yule Log w/ Jazz Music and 100 Facts
9 of the Oldest Jokes and Brainteasers from History
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9 of the Oldest Jokes and Brainteasers from History
Misconceptions About Popular Songs & Lyrics
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Misconceptions About Popular Songs & Lyrics
1 Haunted Place to Visit in Each State
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1 Haunted Place to Visit in Each State
20 Surprising (and Horrifying) Facts About Pregnancy
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20 Surprising (and Horrifying) Facts About Pregnancy
Misconceptions About the Great Depression
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Misconceptions About the Great Depression
10 Mysterious Places That No Longer Exist
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10 Mysterious Places That No Longer Exist
Misconceptions About 50 Different Jobs
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Misconceptions About 50 Different Jobs
8 Things That Are Older Than You Think
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8 Things That Are Older Than You Think
Pho king of noodle soups
I was already in my thirties in the 1990s. For me, it was a whirlwind of Anarchists, neo-Pagans, the BDSM community, ad polyamory. It was good for me.l. However, the rise of tech did not make it any better. In fact, the hassle of dealing with it made it worse. And that is one things has has not changed. Basic cell phones made things better eventually, but that was about it.
Who wants to eat watermelon cut in half using a dirty, disgusting quarter or two? I think it might be safer to lick the sidewalk.
Baggs, Wyoming. Roachdale, Indiana Pahrump, Nevada Tightwad, Missouri
I've always loved Bill, Wyoming. Bill was the fire chief, police chief, school principal, post master, Mayor, everything. He owned the general store/post office. Bill was in the middle of nowhere with land all around, yet he had a parking meter in front of his store. The bumper stickers he sold said " I been to Bill Wyoming ". And no, I didn't make any mistakes in the grammar.
Poca, WV home of the “Dots”
Big Ugly, West Virginia
Not all sharks are huge. Some are small about the size of a catfish or even smaller.
Imagine whitnessing the first restaurants 🧐
I thought that 'chess' derived from Persian 'Shah dresh' (Shah's dread - xadrez in Portuguese, ajedrez in Spanish).
Having watched this in entirety, I am happy to announce I have nothing to do with any of it, nor do I seek such a distinction. If anything, I wish to be commended for being unnoted.
My great grandma was named Elva, Swedish for eleven. Milly Bobby Brown would’ve loved that name, but kids back when great granny went to school weren’t very nice, you know: "Where’s 12 and 13?" My mum’s name was originally Eva Cecilia but she has now changed it to Elva Cecilia because according to her, Eva is an angry-old-lady-name.
One reason there may not be that many X-ers is because unlike boomers, there was only a 15 year span between 1965-1980 whereas boomers was an 18 year span between 1946-1964.
This is not the town's name but a community name...my mother grew up in Horsepasture. It is part of Martinsville, Virginia in Henry County.
Badonkadonk
Very interesting, thank you!
One more time with this format and I'm gone.
Post many more of these and you'll be losing a LOT of subscribers. I thought this was one of those AI spam channels for a second.
I also thought that. Kinda hovered over unsub for a second.
Garbage 😂
I've been to Hell...Michigan.
Don’t use AI to create your content and then pop in to show your face and not like an idiot. There are individuals that have the drive to work hard to make worthy content and then there’s you. Just don’t make you CZcams videos. I’m sure your energies can be better split elsewhere if this is your best effort.
….and they were all lame.
They would've been at least mediocre if the video didn't look like it was made by someone out of touch.
High effort content!
Uh, you need to cook bacon.
Let's check military
"promosm" 😑
Haribo still got sum of the best gummy bears!
Slinky was originally from the military.
My largest problem with 'slang' is the adaption of a perfectly good word to mean something else. Like the word 'gay'. When I was young (a rather long time past) 'gay' meant 'cheerful and carefree'. Now it signifies something else. Along with that, slang tends to have a short use life. No one I know uses the term 'tubular' anymore. (Except as a descriptive turn for a particular shape.) On the other hand, 'cool' seems to keep the meaning of 'quite appropriate' or 'very useful' and has for a number of decades. I am told it derived from the slang 'hot' meaning much the same. But 'hot is still around in a more specific meaning.
Their, there and they're
Lol, the last short was about a flat earther. How ironic
Moona Lua? You mean "MANNA-LOWA"???
Toe-na-pa
Is Hot Coffee, Mississippi a holy pilgrimage for Grand Theft Auto fans nowadays?
Like George Lucas, I never saw the last three.
I’ve heard that extreme northern Illinois should be a part of Wisconsin.
Handsome guy
Why is the background asexual
Sorry, I’m a gen x, born in 1970 and there was definitely a thing called gen x long before 1992 when that book was written.
There's also Truth of Consequences, New Mexico. Also I know it's Canada , but there's Dildo, Newfoundland.
13:22 Alicia Bridges sees what you did there!
Two egg Fla. slow gun Az. Cool Ca.
There's also a Climax in Michigan. You can go from Intercourse to Climax in about 10 hours but it's a straight shot
Maybe she could talk a little faster, then I wouldn't be able to follow her at all. Very obnoxious voice! Sorry!
Us younger Gen X did not have a teen coming of age movie. Singles was a huge disappointment.
Keep your coffee maker lid lifted slightly up after use to dry it out.
It should just be societies since it’s no longer a secret lol
Boomers and Millennials will never know how badass we really were. We had the best bands, the best scene, the best parties. We had mosh pits We had independent childhoods that made us grow up fast. You had a problem, you handled it. Got in a fight with someone one day and you were friends the next day. We delt with life on our own. We weren't allowed to sit in the house in the summer. Fought our own battles and were tough. We lived through fear of AIDS in our teens and 20s and nuclear war as kids. The generations before and after us will never understand how badass our generation is. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
9 facts about gen Z Fact 1, they abuse every new word they learn to the point where they sound like a broken parrot. Fact 2, they're creepily obsessed with everybody else's water intake. Fact 3, they self-diagnose themselves with mental disorders for attention online. Fact 4, literally everything to them is a trauma. Fact 5 they're annoying. Fact 6, they dress weird intentionally wearing clashing colors and giving themselves weird hair to stand out when they don't have anything going for them. Fact 7, they spend all day everyday looking for something to be offended over and if they can't find something they then adopt other people's outrage or yell at others to be outraged. Fact 8, they're forever children who behave entitled, look at the world only through their own gaze, and think everything in the world should stop to accommodate their ever-fleeting obsessive momentary passions (AKA whatever's trending that they're taking part in). Fact 9, tik tok is their only life.
Scraper-Moecherville Illinois