50 Facts You Probably Didn't Know

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  Před měsícem +38

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    • @PiskenDragen
      @PiskenDragen Před měsícem +6

      Yeah, that's as useful as snake oil ¬_¬

    • @gshaindrich
      @gshaindrich Před měsícem +3

      13:48 "the earth isn´t a perfect circle" ... of course it isn´t you flat earther! How about reading up what the difference between a circle and a SPHERE is!

    • @MaciejBogdanStepien
      @MaciejBogdanStepien Před měsícem +3

      For the next set, please make a note of human bioluminescence, smell of rain, and male microchimerism in the female human brain.

    • @emiliaweber4427
      @emiliaweber4427 Před měsícem +1

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    • @VIK_1903
      @VIK_1903 Před měsícem +4

      Loved this! But I've got two pieces of feedback...
      1) For such a long video, which such an enormous amount of facts and numbers, we sort of need visual information to keep track of it. Mainly the numbers. Sometimes we're seeing something important, but you're saying numbers and my monkey brain can't focus on both things at the same time after a while. And, of course, metric. Not united statesian freedom units.
      2) The video is quite bad. Not sure why (even Premium HD). Not sure if it's because the focus is on the back wall or something. But it feels like we're back in 2012 with a Canon 7D.
      Am I being harsh? Perhaps. Am I being unfair? Hardly.
      Did I actually love and appreciate this video and will watch the next ones if they have even LESS visual queues and worst camera quality? Absolutely!
      These are GREAT nonetheless.

  • @Varizen87
    @Varizen87 Před měsícem +342

    Gonna be honest, when he said Goosebumps are a bit out dated, I thought he was about to start roasting R.L. Stein.

  • @strikercwl
    @strikercwl Před měsícem +62

    The idea of a tongue scanner has me cracking up picturing business people, military personnel and government officials looking like teen girls on Instagram to get into secure areas.

    • @knaeckenrot3307
      @knaeckenrot3307 Před měsícem

      Sir, our new securitysystem contains a tongue scanner, a voicescanner, a fingerprintscanner and a shoescanner.
      To spare some time u can activate all of them by following my orders:
      Show your tong, stretch your hands palm downwards to the scanner, lift your right foot behind your back. Afterwards say "UWU" to activate the scan.

    • @rundata
      @rundata Před 22 dny +5

      Ahegao is the search term you are looking for 😅

  • @ianlaughlin85
    @ianlaughlin85 Před měsícem +100

    Fact : Simon has more youtube channels than anyone else alive. He also can't pronounce the word China. We love him anyway. Keep up the good work.

    • @MikeP2055
      @MikeP2055 Před měsícem +8

      Or "tortoise", apparently. 😂

    • @razzle1964
      @razzle1964 Před měsícem +3

      Or ‘Tanzania’ I noticed, the other day. Ole’ Whistler pronounced it, repeatedly, as one would normally say ‘Tasmania’.

    • @maxturgidson568
      @maxturgidson568 Před měsícem +6

      Yea he and his replacement on that other channel seem like they learned English from a book and never hear the words spoken

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra Před měsícem +3

      @@maxturgidson568 Have you seen the "Not the Nine O'Clock News" sketch with the court case? It's on CZcams.
      I was reminded of it when some of my pupils started saying "gorge" instead of "gauge", and I realised they had read the word and not realised its correct pronunciation.
      "An aleebee, your honour".
      Rowan Atkinson plays the judge.

    • @semaj_5022
      @semaj_5022 Před měsícem +11

      I don't hear where he messed up the pronunciation of China. It just sounds like a British dude saying "China" perfectly well.

  • @joshuamccarroll2188
    @joshuamccarroll2188 Před měsícem +109

    "repurpose as homes for mice " - you cannot just skip over such a statement - How ? Why ?

    • @quicksilver2634
      @quicksilver2634 Před měsícem +11

      Yes! Simon, do an episode about the mouse home balls

    • @fritz1990
      @fritz1990 Před měsícem +14

      Umm, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

    • @razzle1964
      @razzle1964 Před měsícem +6

      Why mice? Too small to house the Wombles of Wimbledon Common, I assume.

    • @thomasfholland
      @thomasfholland Před měsícem

      What’s a Wamble?

    • @razzle1964
      @razzle1964 Před měsícem +2

      @@thomasfholland A ‘womble’ is a creature that lives on Wimbledon Common. They live underground … overground, wombling free.

  • @adrianwarner8686
    @adrianwarner8686 Před měsícem +74

    You can always see your nose. Your brain just deletes it so you don't notice it all the time.

    • @TBJ1118
      @TBJ1118 Před měsícem +17

      ... unless you are Voldemort

    • @bonnecherie
      @bonnecherie Před měsícem +9

      @@TBJ1118Or have a large enough shnoz that your brain can't delete it.

    • @michaelo5665
      @michaelo5665 Před měsícem +7

      @@bonnecherie mines prominent enough that my brain tries its best but I always have a noticable wedge of altered vision.

    • @graemeking7336
      @graemeking7336 Před měsícem +6

      Then, how does you nose that?

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters Před měsícem +2

      ​@@michaelo5665 well, at least you have your own personal sun dial 🤷‍♂️ Silver lining

  • @ZechsMerquise195
    @ZechsMerquise195 Před měsícem +40

    Phantom pain is actually caused by axons of peripheral nerves (transmitter of the nerve) which regrows and tries to reconnect with its original end-organ. If that happens some functionality may be restored. If no good connection is made, like with an distal amputation or strong fibrosis, it can connect with nerves of the wrong muscles, the taste receptor on the wrong spot, or something else. And it will get the wrong signal, which results in phantom pain.
    And the trick with the mirrors absolutely works. Tried it with a patient during my recent internship. The lady was happy that now she could "scratch" that itch.
    PS. While complete nerves cannot be regrown, some parts, like the axon of peripheral nerves, can be.

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog Před měsícem +2

      Basically, its your nervous system being aware that normally there should be something there.

    • @ZechsMerquise195
      @ZechsMerquise195 Před měsícem +1

      @@Im-Not-a-DogYes and no. The nerve that has been severed reconnects to another nerve and get signals from that nerve. But that second nerve could be from something entirely unrelated. But because it comes through on the nerve from the amputated limb, it gets interpreted as originating from that nonexistent limb.

    • @grymaldus40k41
      @grymaldus40k41 Před měsícem +2

      Whats the trick with the mirrors?
      Im guessing its in the video but im only 10mins in lol.

    • @ZechsMerquise195
      @ZechsMerquise195 Před měsícem +4

      @@grymaldus40k41Mirror the still existing limb, and have the patient look at the reflection, while scratching the limb.; The patients mind interprets this as scratching the missing limb.

    • @angiebervinkle1575
      @angiebervinkle1575 Před měsícem

      I had a massive stroke and ur brain grows back I know I was completely paralyzed but only got a few months but today I can walk there are ways to fix it brain like

  • @kodiakjak1
    @kodiakjak1 Před měsícem +69

    The last ice age is still going on. ~11,000 years ago we entered the Holocene, an interglacial period within the Quaternary Ice Age.

    • @Alexanderthenotsobad
      @Alexanderthenotsobad Před měsícem +2

      I heard that as well from some renowned scientist. Possibly Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

    • @user-fp8bm4ci3r
      @user-fp8bm4ci3r Před měsícem +2

      😳🤯

    • @TheRilluma
      @TheRilluma Před měsícem +12

      its true. thats why climate change is not in our hands.. (every other planet is warming too and reason is unknown)

    • @michaelo5665
      @michaelo5665 Před měsícem +21

      ​@@TheRillumawow that's the biggest climate change denial I've seen in some time. Good job completely misunderstanding science.

    • @aproxamillionwasps474
      @aproxamillionwasps474 Před měsícem +10

      @@TheRilluma🤦🏼‍♀️ don’t talk like that around people you want to respect you

  • @marieonishenko
    @marieonishenko Před měsícem +5

    My Family makes these spiced small cookies for Christmas every year and we roll them out into slim logs to ferment with the spices over night. These cookies use a good amount of nutmeg and other spices. The cookies are the size of a Canadian 5 cent or 25 cent piece. One night our 90 lb guardian dog ate a cookie tray full of the rolled out raw cookie logs. Our dog probably ate the equivalent of 1 Tbsp of nutmeg. We, after checking with the vet that she would be okay, locked her a room when she started growling in a corner at nothing. We realized she was hallucinating, and as she was a guardian dog breed if she had mistaken one of us as a threat she could have caused major damage in an attack. She was fine the next day but it was a little freaky.

  • @andrewgoss1682
    @andrewgoss1682 Před měsícem +38

    Fun fact about the "you cant feel wetness" fact. If you've ever been fly fishing or used waders, you still feel like you're getting wet. You feel the pressure of the water and the coldness and it really does feel like you're wet.

    • @hospitalcakewalk
      @hospitalcakewalk Před měsícem +4

      that's temperature displacement. It's not 'wet.'

    • @andrewgoss1682
      @andrewgoss1682 Před měsícem +1

      @@hospitalcakewalk what

    • @hospitalcakewalk
      @hospitalcakewalk Před měsícem +3

      @andrewgoss1682 You cannot feel wet, you can feel the cold. The cold, for humans, is how we perceive 'wet.'

    • @andrewgoss1682
      @andrewgoss1682 Před měsícem +10

      @@hospitalcakewalk yeah that's what I said

    • @DavidSmith-vr1nb
      @DavidSmith-vr1nb Před měsícem +2

      ​@@hospitalcakewalk I am beginning to wonder if you read the original comment.

  • @jmd1980
    @jmd1980 Před měsícem +10

    Man if I found such a massive cave and knew no one else knew about it I'd be tempted to make that my home.

  • @larzlarz1140
    @larzlarz1140 Před měsícem +85

    Re Mongolia: “Meaning that its average population density is 2 million people per square mile.” Uhm. I think you’re off by a factor of one million.

    • @maxandmols9526
      @maxandmols9526 Před měsícem +4

      Yeeeeh someone gone fucked up their maths.

    • @weazelzinacan8866
      @weazelzinacan8866 Před měsícem +8

      That would mean 2 people per square metre... Not much personal space there...

    • @RogueTurban
      @RogueTurban Před měsícem +10

      fact boy needs to hire a fact checker

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters Před měsícem +21

      ​@@RogueTurban Unlike script writers, fact checkers rarely survive captivity, usually because the script writers eat them after the third, umm actually.

    • @anthonywarfield7348
      @anthonywarfield7348 Před měsícem +4

      This has more to do with an editing mistake than fact checking.

  • @ricaard6959
    @ricaard6959 Před měsícem +12

    The Nine-inch Banded Armadillo splitting its already fertilized egg is actually a great adaptation. It's basically increasing the odds of survival for their genes without sacrificing genetic diversity because since the egg is already fertilized its not clones in the sense that they're copies of the mother but copies of the genetically different offspring.
    In fact, it could be good for genetic diversity since the same genes could be exposed to varying environmental pressures and since we found that epigenetics is a thing, that could help the species adapt far better to drastic environmental changes.

    • @TheTewjr
      @TheTewjr Před měsícem +2

      I was going to ask where male armadillos come from until I realized Simon didn’t really mean, “clone.”

    • @you2tooyou2too
      @you2tooyou2too Před měsícem

      @@TheTewjr He did mean clones of one-another. Except for parthenogenesis, no child is a clone of either parent.

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 Před měsícem

      Scientifically, we technically have tw different kinds of clones.@@TheTewjr

  • @Nefville
    @Nefville Před měsícem +128

    50 random facts to annoy your family, friends and coworkers with? Cool.
    PS Queen Elizabeth II was a qualified mechanic.

    • @tinyb610
      @tinyb610 Před měsícem +18

      Not just any mechanic a diesel mechanic who rode a motorcycle

    • @rutgerb
      @rutgerb Před měsícem +10

      She is even a ship

    • @GeorgeSmileyOBE
      @GeorgeSmileyOBE Před měsícem +18

      @@tinyb610and a member of the diesel mechanic’s union. And paid dues. And carried the card.

    • @tinyb610
      @tinyb610 Před měsícem +5

      @@GeorgeSmileyOBE didn't know that, I learnt summit thanks

    • @jacquelynkemp2743
      @jacquelynkemp2743 Před měsícem +9

      She trained during WWII as a mechanic

  • @samuelgarrod8327
    @samuelgarrod8327 Před měsícem +49

    I came to read dumb comments and I have not been disappointed so far. Great work 👍

    • @DeltaNovum
      @DeltaNovum Před měsícem +1

      Why?

    • @samuelgarrod8327
      @samuelgarrod8327 Před měsícem +2

      @@DeltaNovum Because reading dumb comments is fun.

    • @samuelgarrod8327
      @samuelgarrod8327 Před měsícem +4

      @@RS-vy9qv Ok shrink, how many fingers am I holding up?

    • @fritz1990
      @fritz1990 Před měsícem +3

      Love asking supposed psychics, when they ask me my age and birthdate, I just say, you're the psychic, you figure it out.

    • @ethanirving1313
      @ethanirving1313 Před měsícem

      ​@@RS-vy9qv you brought the dumb comments directly to his front door. 😂🤣

  • @joecorsaro1381
    @joecorsaro1381 Před měsícem +56

    Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are so massive that they literally bend the crust underneath them. Mauna Loa is actually over 50,000 feet tall when considering this

    • @mattcromwell4308
      @mattcromwell4308 Před měsícem +2

      That's insane

    • @brooksrownd2275
      @brooksrownd2275 Před měsícem +9

      It's a bit apples and oranges though. The undersea portions of mountains are not subject to erosion the way mountains in the air are, and of course in addition to erosion nobody is crediting mountain chains like the Himalayas etc with the full extent of their upthrust from the sea floor. Resident of Mauna Loa posting from the summit of Mauna Kea, BTW ;)

    • @joecorsaro1381
      @joecorsaro1381 Před měsícem +2

      @@brooksrownd2275 very true! Just think it’s fascinating

    • @brooksrownd2275
      @brooksrownd2275 Před měsícem +4

      @@joecorsaro1381 sometimes when certain earthquakes slosh us around a bit it feels like living on a big pile of jello ;D

    • @fsinjin60
      @fsinjin60 Před měsícem

      ⁠@@brooksrownd2275the part of the sea mounts at sea level are subject to the most intense erosion that the large land mountains never experience.

  • @travisinthetrunk
    @travisinthetrunk Před měsícem +17

    Finally a random facts video with info I really didn’t know.

  • @alexlubbers1589
    @alexlubbers1589 Před měsícem +15

    Erebus isn't the only active volcano in Antarctica. Deception Island has had numerous eruptions, and has heated patches of beach that are warm enough to swim in.

    • @The_Blazement
      @The_Blazement Před měsícem +3

      that's just what the island wants us to believe, with a name like that I wouldn't trust it

  • @cindydawn4252
    @cindydawn4252 Před měsícem +6

    My grandpa was on the Lexington and he really did eat a boatload (no pun intended) of ice cream before being rescued

  • @paulcollyer801
    @paulcollyer801 Před měsícem +6

    Not the only example of someone surviving a free fall.
    A young girl, (11/12) fell in her seat from a plane that disintegrated over the Amazon. While cut up by branches, she survived and made it to habitation a few days later.

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 Před měsícem

      Or the Amazon just created a child to infiltrate humanity...

    • @debroofgreen
      @debroofgreen Před měsícem

      She probably survived because her seat created a spinning motion to help slow it down, and the canopy of the Amazon must've helped her break her fall.

    • @paulcollyer801
      @paulcollyer801 Před měsícem

      @@debroofgreen canopy would defo have done that, & likely the seat provided some protection therein.

  • @carguybikeguy
    @carguybikeguy Před měsícem +11

    31:08 Was. Sadly he passed a few years ago. But not before I shared track time with him at VIR & then met him again in Palo Alto. Took me to Chinese food! Great fellow. He is missed. Badass car too.

  • @paradox7358
    @paradox7358 Před měsícem +46

    Fun fact: There are about 8×10⁶⁷ possible combinations in a shuffled pack of cards, which is about the same as the approximate number of atoms in the Milky Way galaxy.
    I other words, every time you shuffle a pack of cards, it is almost certain that no other person in history has ever shuffled a pack of cards in the same order.

  • @ValkyrieofNOLA
    @ValkyrieofNOLA Před měsícem +6

    Random little known facts are always interesting to me! I live in New Orleans, and work in the service industry, so I am either working during or present for trivia contests at the countless bars and clubs in the city. I am actually well known for winning many of these contests… I cant remember where I put my keys or phone, but I can remember some random useless fact I learned in middle school…

    • @MikeP2055
      @MikeP2055 Před měsícem +1

      Same here! I absolutely CRUSH my friends and family when we watch Jeopardy, but know next to nothing about living life as a proper adult.

  • @RussetPotato
    @RussetPotato Před měsícem +4

    new rule for the casual criminalist "Don't lick your crimes."

  • @jsinope2786
    @jsinope2786 Před měsícem +39

    Largest organism? Im disappointed Simon missed the opportunity to deliver a dead pam yo’ mama joke.

  • @davidjams2596
    @davidjams2596 Před měsícem +5

    I love you Simon. You are special and you make the world a better place.

  • @atkelar
    @atkelar Před měsícem +6

    The "birthday death" thing can easily be attributed to record keeping errors. My dad died last year and the original death certificate I received showed his date of death to be some weeks in the future, which would have been his birthday. I did get an updated document eventually, but it shows that there is quite a bit of weirdness still going on; I mean not even modern digital document management software seems to check for "date of death must be in the past" aparently.

  • @the-chillian
    @the-chillian Před měsícem +29

    Nutmeg contains a hallucinogen?
    Well, That explains why Jon Townsend thinks he's living in the 18th century!

    • @Ksoism
      @Ksoism Před měsícem +1

      To anyone contemplating having a go on nutmeg, don't. Junkies don't use it because it sucks so bad, that should be a firm hint on its pleasantness. Old friend who used everything you can imagine said that he can't believe that anyone has taken it twice.

    • @fritz1990
      @fritz1990 Před měsícem +3

      The Townsend's will survive while the world crashes.

    • @neilo9265
      @neilo9265 Před měsícem

      Nutmeg is toxic its a fine balance between making you very sick and you tripping

    • @joshuabessire9169
      @joshuabessire9169 Před měsícem +1

      You say you want a revolution/yeah you know/we all want to change the king...

  • @skozer22
    @skozer22 Před měsícem +4

    Hey now.. I may be a smoker, a joker or even a midnight toker but I ain't no stinkin space cowboy.

  • @gollem148
    @gollem148 Před měsícem +5

    I like these types of videos where i can watch on my other monitor while grinding out on a game.
    I need more of these! :)

  • @Maver1ck911
    @Maver1ck911 Před měsícem +12

    Fact: Rotten Turtle is OGBB

  • @briangrogan2553
    @briangrogan2553 Před měsícem +4

    I guess for an american, it is easy to imagine the size of the Sahara because we understand the distance from LA to NYC.

  • @JRS3540
    @JRS3540 Před měsícem +3

    Your videos are always enlightening Simon, thank you and your writers for making them.

  • @Opus313
    @Opus313 Před měsícem +11

    Fact: There is always more you can learn about the world!

    • @andyyang3029
      @andyyang3029 Před měsícem +1

      Fact: There is always more you can learn about facts.

    • @you2tooyou2too
      @you2tooyou2too Před měsícem

      @@andyyang3029Hypothesis: No one knows more than a few percent (of what there is to know) about anything. All knowledge is fractal. We are all (repeatedly) sophomoric. The universe is (designed to be?) an enriched environment, for the benefit of our continued entertainment and development. 😀

  • @crittaable
    @crittaable Před měsícem +5

    Bonus fun fact: some of us found the mistake in editing 😂

  • @alexswanson7127
    @alexswanson7127 Před měsícem +3

    Possibly the worst financial decision in history was made by IBM in the early 1980s. At that time, the computer market was dominated by corporate multi-user systems but a few enthusiasts had started producing personal computers, very small and simple systems that could sit on a desk for use by one person. IBM decided that as a company which covered everything computery, they themselves should sell such systems if only for completeness. They developed a hardware design but couldn't be bothered to write an operating system for it, so they approached a small, obscure company called Microsoft and offered to buy one that they'd produced. Microsoft refused to sell and instead insisted on a per-machine licensing system. IBM executives didn't care, shrugged their shoulders, and agreed. The rest is history.

  • @the-chillian
    @the-chillian Před měsícem +13

    Fun fact, as brought up by the British panel show QI: There's no such thing as a fish.
    Sure, there are lots of animals we *call* fish, but they're what's known as a paraphyletic group. That means they only superficially resemble each other, but aren't very closely related. Some fish, especially the lobe-finned fish, are more closely related to us than to other animals we would also call fish.

    • @you2tooyou2too
      @you2tooyou2too Před měsícem +1

      Isn't that like saying there is no such thing as a quadruped?

    • @the-chillian
      @the-chillian Před měsícem +3

      @@you2tooyou2too No, because quadrupeds (Superclass Tetrapoda in cladistic terms) are not paraphyletic. They actually are all related -- and in fact are related to the lobe-finned fish (clade Sarcopterygii) from which they are all descended. In one view, tetrapods are just the dominant crown group of sarcopterygii.

    • @hildisvinimattson
      @hildisvinimattson Před měsícem +2

      In California, bees are legally fish. This was done to help conservation efforts. There was no legal way to make an insect a protected species, but a bee technically meets all the qualifications of a fish.

    • @the-chillian
      @the-chillian Před měsícem

      @hildisvinimattson "Fish" in that case is a label for a protected category, not biological description. The category comprises "a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian or part, spawn or ovum of any of those animals." Note that under this law, other aquatic animals clearly not fish such as mussels, crayfish, and frogs are covered here. The legislative intent was probably to make for a comprehensive description of anything you might find living in water, but they wrote it in such a way as to be more expansive when they simply said "invertebrate."

    • @hildisvinimattson
      @hildisvinimattson Před měsícem +1

      @@the-chillian You are clearly more knowledgeable than I on the subject.

  • @MichaelMarucci
    @MichaelMarucci Před měsícem +3

    "Welcome to Mongolia, we have 2 million people per square kilometer, in this square, and the other 1.4 million roam about yelling at eachtoher across valleys and fields."

  • @douglashank8480
    @douglashank8480 Před měsícem +7

    I like these longer ones!
    ...except that one last week that was 7.5 hours of replayed material, much of which I didn't want to rewatch.
    Keep up the good work!

    • @richfromtang
      @richfromtang Před měsícem

      I feel like the quality of these videos is going downhill the more of them they make ... So much repeated stuff.

    • @StephenMcGregor1986
      @StephenMcGregor1986 Před měsícem +1

      @@richfromtang He's admitted he's creatively bankrupt

  • @V3RYG00DS1R
    @V3RYG00DS1R Před měsícem +42

    So early I had to help put out snacks

    • @rutgerb
      @rutgerb Před měsícem +1

      Thx

    • @STRAKAZulu
      @STRAKAZulu Před měsícem +2

      Thanks.

    • @JennTN411
      @JennTN411 Před měsícem +1

      Scrolled for three and a half days for this comment to say thank you 😊

    • @RealGrooveRandom
      @RealGrooveRandom Před měsícem +4

      So late.. there were no snacks left..

  • @carlacook5181
    @carlacook5181 Před měsícem +1

    In 2021 I had a stroke and couldn’t figure out how to open my phone, I then remembered that it should recognize my voice but with the stroke I didn’t sound or look the same, I kept crying and begging my phone to call my sister, it finally did and she was luckily able to understand me yelling stroke and was able to send me help.

  • @Shipfixer
    @Shipfixer Před měsícem +3

    Simon never fails to amaze. Kind thanks for all you and your crew do.

  • @billbostabbins4262
    @billbostabbins4262 Před měsícem +420

    Fact: if you fart in an elevator you in fact did not fart in the elevator the other guy always did.

    • @big_dozg
      @big_dozg Před měsícem +35

      But if the only guy that was in the elevator is you, did you really fart?

    • @andyyang3029
      @andyyang3029 Před měsícem +37

      ​@@big_dozgif a man farts in an elevator and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

    • @Nefville
      @Nefville Před měsícem +25

      Well that is just wrong on many levels

    • @burbanpoison2494
      @burbanpoison2494 Před měsícem +17

      Cannot verify, as I have never farted in an elevator.

    • @mattcromwell4308
      @mattcromwell4308 Před měsícem +14

      ​@@andyyang3029if you elevator in a hear and there is no fart to man it, does it sound a make???

  • @acb9896
    @acb9896 Před 6 dny +2

    I love hearing about Chiner
    And space facts about Nasser.
    Especially the centrifyoogle stories...
    ...
    Please close the door behind you.

  • @ydenneki
    @ydenneki Před měsícem +3

    13:20 It is quite easy to understand the difference between an object's HEIGHT and how TALL it is. HEIGHT is the vertical distance above a SPECIFIED FIXED POINT (be that the floor, the ground, sea level, etc), while how TALL something is is the measurement from its lowest point to its highest point above that level. So how TALL an object (person, vehicle, building, etc) is DOES NOT CHANGE, while the HEIGHT of moveable objects may vary greatly, depending on their location at any given time and where you're measuring FROM (usually the ground or the floor). This is why Mt Everest is the HIGHEST point above SEA LEVEL, while being only 3849 meters TALL (Everest's base level is the Himalayan plateau at 5000m),

  • @michaelpipkin9942
    @michaelpipkin9942 Před měsícem +3

    "The Agony of Victory" is an anthem for you, the one that thinks there's no song for you. For us.

  • @andyyang3029
    @andyyang3029 Před měsícem +9

    Dear Simon and team: We love these long-form videos. Tons of information and absolutely perfect for listening to at work. Please continue making them!! 😁
    PS: the coolest fact was about the Tsar Bomba. Horrifying tbh.

  • @apathyguy8338
    @apathyguy8338 Před měsícem +12

    If we had had social media at the same time as smallpox Not only would the disease still exist Q Anon would be defending its right to Life.

    • @donaldwert7137
      @donaldwert7137 Před měsícem +1

      Saying eradicated it, then saying two countries still have stocks of it, means we haven't eradicated it, just put it in the hands of people who might say "Well, what have we here?" under the right circumstances.

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra Před měsícem +2

    I actually learned a few new facts. Not many, but a few. Which is surprising and good in my book

  • @russellfitzpatrick503
    @russellfitzpatrick503 Před měsícem +4

    Quite wonderful ... and mostly eye-opening. Thanks

  • @oxcart4172
    @oxcart4172 Před měsícem +3

    The pope cant be an organ donor? There are so many out there who wish that priests could keep them to themselves! 😂😂

    • @JB-bm1to
      @JB-bm1to Před měsícem

      Aye 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sunesnigel
    @sunesnigel Před měsícem

    Give this Simon man the Nobel prize. He knows so much, feel so much and is so much.

  • @tonysolino3131
    @tonysolino3131 Před měsícem +2

    I really enjoyed this one. Fast facts which I have to say were quite informative. Well done.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Před měsícem +5

    It was an interesting side project.. Thanks

  • @vexvoltage6456
    @vexvoltage6456 Před měsícem +3

    Epicprojects? Is business blaze spilling over?!

  • @zinkist
    @zinkist Před 19 dny

    These videos are the modern-day coffee-table Trivia Book, and I love it.

  • @kevinfoster1138
    @kevinfoster1138 Před měsícem +1

    Phantom limb is a fact! my sister due to medical malpractice has had the front of one of her feet cut off by a surgeon nick named the butcher sorry sore subject. anyways, she still feels pain from her missing toes and other sensations as if her toes were still there. She describes it as the weirdest thing she knows they aren't there but can still feel them.

  • @spddiesel
    @spddiesel Před měsícem +31

    25:28 Population of Mongolia: 3.4 million people.
    Population density of Mongolia: 2 million/square km?

    • @crakkbone8473
      @crakkbone8473 Před měsícem +1

      Shut up. 😅 jk sorry

    • @burningbarnavit
      @burningbarnavit Před měsícem +1

      My thoughts exactly lol.

    • @clancykelly5508
      @clancykelly5508 Před měsícem +2

      He DEF misspoke there.

    • @matthewlaws3557
      @matthewlaws3557 Před měsícem

      He just reads what's on the script in front of him. Don't get me wrong, he's great at what he does, but he's basically Ron Burgundy. There are little slips like that in a LOT of his videos.@@clancykelly5508

    • @carlroddam5285
      @carlroddam5285 Před měsícem +1

      No, not a mis-speak; a mathematical / factual / logical error, because he goes on to say that “if the entire human race wanted to live with that same average population density, as Mongolia, we would require 3.7 billion square km of land which would be about seven times the entire surface of the Earth including all the oceans.”

  • @ItsPizza.
    @ItsPizza. Před měsícem +13

    People in vet med call the Friday after Thanksgiving brown Friday, too. But because everyone's dogs have diarrhea from table scraps

    • @mattcromwell4308
      @mattcromwell4308 Před měsícem +1

      Lol!

    • @nontrashfire2
      @nontrashfire2 Před měsícem +1

      Plumbers also call it Brown Friday because people over eating and breaking their plumbing.

    • @ItsPizza.
      @ItsPizza. Před měsícem +1

      @nontrashfire2 that was the fact in the video :^)

    • @nontrashfire2
      @nontrashfire2 Před měsícem +1

      @@ItsPizza. so should I inform you that you're not actually pizza?

    • @ItsPizza.
      @ItsPizza. Před měsícem

      @@nontrashfire2 im not not the one repeating facts from the video in the comments

  • @shannonbreen3732
    @shannonbreen3732 Před měsícem +1

    I love videos like this. I’m a big fan of learning. Please make more of these videos. 🙏

  • @jomorken4853
    @jomorken4853 Před 24 dny

    I like the intro music as much as i like the one on DVD's "You wouldn't steal a hand bag, car quarry, airport... and so on"

  • @Alacernovum
    @Alacernovum Před měsícem +3

    Does a Sphynx cat get goosebumps when it's mad?

  • @elizabethebbighausen9341
    @elizabethebbighausen9341 Před měsícem +3

    Fact boi spewing facts?? Yes! 💯💜

  • @christopherwebb3517
    @christopherwebb3517 Před 13 hodinami

    Q: Why does your brain eat itself?
    A: Because you are what you eat.

  • @Dexthesaga
    @Dexthesaga Před 24 dny +1

    I am a connoisseur of random facts. That I forget.. until I remember them.😮😊

  • @dominicwaghorn6459
    @dominicwaghorn6459 Před měsícem +3

    This is adhd paradise

  • @elainebelzDetroit
    @elainebelzDetroit Před měsícem +3

    That one about the pope is so utterly ridiculous. I'm not saying you got anything wrong - just that I think it's, well, ridiculous. If it's even mostly about the whole "he might become a saint" thing, well, (1) that implies we can expect popes to be sainted, which is sus; (2) is having donated organs in the past an impediment to becoming a pope? What about donating blood?; (3) most organs wouldn't make good relics, anyway; and (4) the Church used to maintain a 50-year rule on sainting someone after they die. Do we really expect an organ donation recipient to be around 50 years later, or more? Although, one could argue that a recipient of an organ donation from a saint would make that person's original parts third-order relics.
    OK, turns out this is kinda fun in the same way philosophical discussions, with all their counterfactuals, tend to be.
    At any rate, you'd think if the pope were somehow known to be the best match for someone with a hard-to-match bone marrow, wouldn't it sort of disqualify him from sainthood if he hogged it all and let the person die? Unless, of course, he used that opportunity to get in one of his minimum of 2 miracles.

  • @eaphantom9214
    @eaphantom9214 Před měsícem +2

    17:30 😮 - Whoa!!! That is 1 MASSIVE cave!

  • @EdrickBluebeard
    @EdrickBluebeard Před měsícem +1

    That Forea device is what Magneto used to turn a senator into a jellyfish.

  • @TheAtmnmdws
    @TheAtmnmdws Před měsícem +5

    Was that closet always there?

    • @andyyang3029
      @andyyang3029 Před měsícem +3

      The writers are escaping the basement 😮

    • @samuelgarrod8327
      @samuelgarrod8327 Před měsícem

      @@andyyang3029 Good one, we all know it's AI.

  • @OrdinaryDude
    @OrdinaryDude Před měsícem +3

    I'm curious whether he left the closet door open on purpose...

  • @nbarnes6225
    @nbarnes6225 Před měsícem +2

    Nice socks, Whistle-boy. 😜

  • @rossinall4614
    @rossinall4614 Před měsícem +1

    at 51 minutes into this video (admittedly while drunk) just noticed Simon doesn't have shoes on....

  • @big_dozg
    @big_dozg Před měsícem +3

    51. Why are there three Ws?

  • @motorphina
    @motorphina Před měsícem +5

    What's crazy is the "your skin can't detect wetness " played at the exact second a raindrop fell on me and it not only tripped me out a bit feom the odd coincidence but because I immediately felt that it's true. I could feel the cold of it but not really the wet.....

    • @paigeharrison3909
      @paigeharrison3909 Před měsícem

      I noticed quite awhile ago that I frequently mistake my feet being cold for being wet and vice versa, so this makes some sense.

    • @mattnar3865
      @mattnar3865 Před měsícem +2

      I've noticed this after doing laundy, it can be tricky to tell if they're still damp or just cold from the wind

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 Před měsícem

      I dunno, You ever play with mud/oatmeal/batter? That feels wetter than an actual liquid.

  • @thetangieman3426
    @thetangieman3426 Před měsícem

    I love that you used a clip from House for the phantom limb pain reference. That's one of the bed episodes of all broadcast television, IMHO. The plot is well above American television level, and the interaction between House and the Canadian Vet Amputee is possibly the most intense and well acted television drama of the last 40 years.

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 Před měsícem +1

    Golden retrievers the world over dream of someday chewing a Wimbledon tennis ball. It's supposed to be an experience like no other.

  • @valtonen77
    @valtonen77 Před měsícem +7

    The earth getting green doesn't take onto consideration the fact there's lots of forests being replaced with single tree farms. Palms for palm oil etc.

  • @carschmn
    @carschmn Před měsícem +6

    15:36 fingerprints aren’t actually unique, at least not at the level that we typically examine them. Case in point, the guy whose fingerprint matched the Atlanta Olympics bombing. Apple figured 1 in 50,000 misidentification rate for touch ID, which is not particularly low.

    • @Prioxs
      @Prioxs Před měsícem +1

      Sweet good info homie, get a load of this big brain over here.

    • @mattcromwell4308
      @mattcromwell4308 Před měsícem +2

      I mean the same can probably be said for voice authentication as well, right? There's gotta be someone that has such a similar voice to you that they'd be able to trick a system. I guess that's why the tongue uniqueness would be important, but I'm not looking forward to licking my phone to unlock it 😂😂

    • @Prioxs
      @Prioxs Před měsícem +2

      @@mattcromwell4308 Well think about it, sure people who can mimic voices can be scary accurate however with a scanner it’d have to be perfect with the same pitch and tone, it’s very difficult if not impossible for most to perfectly mimic another’s voice, close sure, but to the extent that a machine meant for it I’d say that’s a pretty tough job plus it isn’t just strictly a voice scan, most times they’ll incorporate other ones to avoid the possibility of that happening, since as a retinal scan or a finger scan.

  • @meganking3762
    @meganking3762 Před 9 dny

    Thank you Simon. You're making my boring chore time much better. The kids and I researched the fish with invisible blood 😂 They loved it.

  • @callistamccracken3744
    @callistamccracken3744 Před měsícem

    As I'm aggressively attempting to consume all things Simon, is always a delight to find one that's under a day old.

  • @TrollyLoolly
    @TrollyLoolly Před měsícem +5

    It's weird because the lip identifier from Futurama that Zapp brannigan used specifically said no tongue 😂

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 Před měsícem

      Becaue he wasn't ctually Zapp the War hero and he actually replaced him!

  • @sirfer6969
    @sirfer6969 Před měsícem +7

    "Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth" ... then shows a Sperm whale....still, gotta love Simon as a presenter
    @30:25...if the tunnel is a vacuum, how is there a terminal velocity?

    • @SeraphRyan
      @SeraphRyan Před měsícem

      Yes/No - in the sense of air pressure.. no. But your "terminal" velocity will be reached when you reach the point (not necessarily the center due to differing mass densities in the layers of the mantle) where gravity is equal all the way around you, at which point you will be slowing down as you fall upwards.

    • @you2tooyou2too
      @you2tooyou2too Před měsícem +2

      @@SeraphRyanHe should have said 'maximum', since it is not the 'final' velocity, as it is in a para-jumper's free-fall (until he pulls the cord).

    • @Mithrandir39
      @Mithrandir39 Před měsícem

      He showed the Sperm whale twice! *LOL*
      \

  • @lukestockner4263
    @lukestockner4263 Před měsícem

    In 2014, a friend and I went on a road trip from Los Angeles to Aurora Colorado and while we were in Utah we took a 400 mile detour to get to Mount Pando and while up there we ran out of gas and we were running on fumes. We made it all the way down the mountain in pitch black darkness, just our headlights and we eventually made it to the bottom of the mountain and sure enough there was a gas station. We made it! I'll never forget it.

  • @eaphantom9214
    @eaphantom9214 Před měsícem +2

    Mauna Kea 🌋
    Yep i knew that 1
    Absolutely loving this long sideprojects podcast! 👏 👏 😊

  • @jcorkable
    @jcorkable Před měsícem +4

    Did Simon just pronounce tortoises as “turtoyzes” or was that a completely different word? Add it to the list of “weird British-ism or Simon not knowing words?”

  • @kavinaderrow3269
    @kavinaderrow3269 Před měsícem +3

    Fun fact: "The Star-Spangled Banner" is set to an old drinking song. Only in America.

  • @chrismiley1006
    @chrismiley1006 Před 26 dny

    You missed brumation, what reptiles do in the cold months. Unless they are pets, then they will brumate whenever they decided to. It is a period of little to mild activity when they can't bring their body temperature up enough to digest food. They basically just hang out in mud holes until February-ish, coming out on the warmer days.

  • @kylarstern7627
    @kylarstern7627 Před měsícem +2

    I'm almost certain that there is an Australian Taxi cab, probably a Ford Falcon if I had to guess, with twice as many miles on it then that Volvo. Easy.

  • @lexzbuddy
    @lexzbuddy Před měsícem +5

    The ice age has not ended, we are in an interglacial period.

  • @chrislong3938
    @chrislong3938 Před měsícem +3

    8:49 - used for pilgrimages, to sell on the internet, or install in Russian battleships...
    16:00 - Fun Fact - There is a set of triplets in the US (I think) where two of the sisters have identical fingerprints!
    - On a side note... ! once sliced one of my thumbs open and required stitches to heal it and since it healed, there is absolutely no scarring and I can no longer remember which was the thumb I originally sliced! I then think that aside from the pain involved, it would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to erase a fingerprint from a finger permanently.

  • @leholen381
    @leholen381 Před měsícem

    When I was younger, I did notice the coin toss did tend to favor one side and utilized that to my advantage more than a few times.

  • @bigianh
    @bigianh Před měsícem

    There are a few people who have survived free fall without a parachute probably best known is Nicholas Alkemade who bailed out of his Lancaster bomber in WWII without a parachute (It had been rendered unserviceable by fire) and fell 33000ft in 1944. His fall was broken by pine trees and snow on the ground and his worst injury was a sprained leg

  • @Gabriela13442
    @Gabriela13442 Před měsícem +4

    *I love the grounded reality of this channel!!!*
    Retirement took a toll on my finances, but with my involvement in the digital market, $27,000 weekly returns has been life changing. AWESOME GOD❤️

    • @Gabriela13442
      @Gabriela13442 Před měsícem

      Only God knows how much grateful i am. After so much struggles I now own a new house and my family is happy once again everything is finally falling into place!!

    • @user......Hunter-pv9il
      @user......Hunter-pv9il Před měsícem

      Wow that's huge, how do you make that much monthly?

    • @user......Hunter-pv9il
      @user......Hunter-pv9il Před měsícem

      I'm 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??

    • @Gabriela13442
      @Gabriela13442 Před měsícem

      Thanks to my co-worker (Alex) who suggested Ms Maria Angelina Alexander.

    • @Gabriela13442
      @Gabriela13442 Před měsícem

      She's a licensed broker in the states 🇺🇸

  • @jg6022
    @jg6022 Před měsícem

    Fun fact...a person you are directly staring at in the face is simultaneously the closest and farthest person (in a straight line) to you on earth.

  • @kirillsukhomlin3036
    @kirillsukhomlin3036 Před měsícem

    As for the ferret used for cleaning, I have heard about a dachshund, actively used for LAN cables installation under the hanging ceiling panels.

  • @user-tm9qs7jo9j
    @user-tm9qs7jo9j Před měsícem +1

    Hibernation isnt sleep, and its actually quite dangerous. When animals hibernate they need to wake for the sole purpose of sleep, otherwise they might starv

  • @chesimons8862
    @chesimons8862 Před měsícem

    I think my favourite fact about computing power increases is that somehow, modern software still manages to make my experience frustratingly slow, buggy, and janky.
    I'd prefer fast and/or smooth over pretty when it comes to computing, but apparently, I'm not in the norm.

  • @shandon360
    @shandon360 Před měsícem

    That shortest flight thing would be so cool if I could chill on there indefinitely. The best part of flight is taking off

  • @caustichonu
    @caustichonu Před 6 dny +1

    I always tell people that Mauna Kea is the tallest, but Everest is the highest, and if I'm taller I demonstrate it by standing somewhere lower than them.