100 Weird Facts
Did you know that rats... can't vomit? Or that there's roughly 500 million pounds of hair across the world? Or how about Michael J. Fox's middle name REALLY stands for? Those are just three of 100 WEIRD facts about the world we're going to be sharing today. No theme, just strange facts that will make you go "Huh..." Let's get weird, shall we?
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3 hours on their phone every day? Not me. That'd take away time when I'm looking at my tablet or computer screen.
@alto0417
11 ай бұрын
😅😅
@RockBandVlds
10 ай бұрын
Goteeeeeem
@tomnisen3358
2 ай бұрын
Bad for your eyes
23:18 Well, then, my distant cousin needs to learn how to drive...😀
Hey there is a series of books you might like called Uncle John's ultimate bathroom reader
Pirates wore an eye-patch just in case somebody shut out the lights for a sneak attack. There I was always acclimated to the dark.
@justayoutuber1906
27 күн бұрын
that is fake
22:50 - I can absolutely guarantee that I have no descendants at all from the 9th century - plenty of ancestors,of course.
The most normal fact I know: water in a cup does not get wetter if you add more water.
The most normal fact I know. Everything that is alive now will die at some point in the future.
22:52 #80: Pedantic correction. Going back in time, we have ancestors. Going forward in time, we have descendants. So that fact should be "You have millions of ancestors, only going back a few thousand years." Unless you're Philip J. Fry, then you've got a whole other situation going on. :D
@tesmith47
4 ай бұрын
😅😅😅😅😅 😮😮😮😮😮😮
No 88. An Australian told me this joke: There are 18 million sheep in New Zealand, 3 million think that they are human. The best Kiwi answer for this was by the Prime Minister of NZ when the opposition complained about the large number of people emigrating to Australia. The PM said that it is a good thing because it increases the average IQ of both countries.
Normal fact: Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day. 😹
23:07 Imagine trying to tell a stranger how you're both distantly related, in an effort to stave off an argument.🤪🥴🙃
You want our normal facts? Ok, I'll go with a classic that is both highly unoriginal and very entertaining: "The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called 'aglets'. Their true purpose is sinister ."
@littlepixy2
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, but can you spell aglet?
The best fact I know is both pistol makers Samual Colt and Gaston Glock share my birthday, 19th July.
The most normal fact I know.... Basketball Coach Phil Jackson won the NBA Championship on June 12th TWICE, once in 1991 and the other time in 2002, with two different teams!
Rocky mountain barking spiders got me so good!
Love this channel keep up the great work
Peanuts aren't nuts but legumes. Not sure if that's the most normal fact or just the most boring one.
@dehydratedwater9806
11 ай бұрын
And cashews are the seed of a fruit.
I saw Punxsy Phil in a third grade field trip. He was behind glass in the library. The building is also the police station and a fire station.
The plant discussed in #82 is Linum usitatissimum (common flax, linseed) but pictured is Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax). They are unrelated except by name although Phormium can be used to make fibres as well.
@jasonfarley623
5 ай бұрын
Nerd
I totally recommend The Mütter Museum to any macabre tourists (or locals) in Philly. As a bonus for artists and medical students, the majority of the collection is only available to you! This private part of the collection dwarfs the public portion, and contains the "weirdest", most controversial and most interesting parts of the collection! Though, I'm pretty sure you have to organize seeing it ahead of time...
1 in 2,000 human babies are born with a protruding tooth.
@Ramey2369
9 ай бұрын
I was one of them.
Some weird facts which aren’t super weird just mostly generally unknown - although basketball originated in Canada, Canada only has one NBA team. Canada also only has one MLB team, but is hope to the worlds oldest baseball grounds, in London Ontario.
The shorthand for the all the possible combonations of the deck of cards can be written as 52! . Also called 52 shriek .
The longest flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
That animal you were trying to pass off as Punxsutawney Phil ! Is in fact a prairie dog !
Here’s a fact about Lucy she was sent to wrong address for the audition for GWTW, I watched several movies with her in them some scary,funny ,serious but she was a actress and very good one at that ❤
23:16 Family Trees are interesting. I did it once and traced the leniage all the way back to 1300s. I must say, it is quite diversity, the ancestory is all over the place and so far, it looks like it started out in Normandy and spread outwards to many countries....and yes, some famous ones too. This sort of thing has reminded me to get involved in this again, since there has been a few family civil wars as well. Mostly due to political circumstances....like the Scotland and England wars sort of thing. Yeah....you never know who is on that tree of yours.
Thank you for making the video!
Bangs like that should be called, "Front Mullets."
Wait, with #62 (17:42), that means the two executive producers of this channel have the same name 🤯 (Yes, I know that Hank's real name is "William.")
That is crazy about cricket being so popular at one time! I have never played or even seen a game before and I have played a lot of sports!. A duel between Voltaire and Rosseau, wow!
how many people are like me and want to point out how many of these were already on mental floss 😁
22:52 (Fact 84): You meant ancestors, not descendants! Descendants are your great-(...)-grandchildren; ancestors are your great-(...)-grandparents.
For my most common fact: fire is hot
Most people have an IQ between 80 and 110, the people with IQ of around 80 are friendlier, people with average IQ of 180 are not empathic, and most can't relate to "normal" feelings.
Re: The birthday effect and some people maybe "holding on" -- that's something observed in newspaper obits. January and february see a huge spike in obits, as all the old men and ladies who didn't want to ruin the holidays start letting go. One time we had so many obits that we had less than a page of open space inside an 8-page paper -- and that was including the obit department trying to put obits on the front page! We called and chewed them out, they called and chewed someone else out, and it got authorized to add a half-sheet, making it a 10-page paper.
As often as possible I mention that Alaska is both the eastern most AND westwrn most state. It's pne of my favorite US facts
My husband and I had the same g-g-g-g-grandparents at least if not more shared lineage.
You want weird and bizarre facts? My boss, an operation manager, works wedding receptions and yet has never been married before. I mean, I don't know if she's specifically a wedding reception planner or organizer, but she does have the skills to set the tables, accommodate the guests and married couple, and decorate the room. She knows her wedding receptions, but never had _her_ wedding reception (not to suggest there ever was a proposal). Is that irony?
Factor 8??? Thats strange, because myself and other family members have the Factor V Leiden disease, which is also a clotting issue.
@ivettegutierreztorres3211
2 ай бұрын
There are a lot of different factors y the clotting processes, it"s quite complex
Lynches roommate was the lead singer of.the. J.Giels band ,that's singer of that song " centerfold, &. Love stinks"
love the content!
I did a DNA test just to find relatives so I could start a family tree and find the inbreds. I found them on a farm in Groningen, Netherlands in the 1600's 😅
Fact: a right angle is 90° (“Normal” like in physics GET IT?!)
The Pusha T reference is the TOPPEST of tiers
The longest possible walk between two points isn't a more-or-less direct line from Cape Town to Northeast Russia... it's any two points where you do an awful lot of circling before reaching the other point. What you're on about is the _shortest_ possible walk between the two furthest points connected by land.
Most normal...? Most of your house dust is dead skin
Because of a mark on one of my fingernails, I verified that my nails, on average, grow 3/8 of an inch per m9nth.
12:53 - "Pasta fazool, I am a fool!"
Normal Fact: Common sense, and common curtsy are no longer common.
Considering that 99-1 pennies is almost 100 of them, doesn't seem too hard to get to 200's
Fact 20 and 1/2... $1.19 is the most change you can have in your pocket and not be able to break a dollar bill.... 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies
@ivettegutierreztorres3211
2 ай бұрын
I loved this fact
Horses can't vomit either. That's why they colic and it can be dangerous and deadly.
Awesomeness
14:14 I think I mentioned this in the comments of another video. The worst part is that Rousseau wrote a very influential book about raising children. Well, raising sons, he didn't see the point of educating girls. 😡 Voltaire has his own issues, but he gleefully built a palace of books with his girlfriend, one of the top mathematical geniuses of the day, Émilie du Châtelet.
Wow - not a single one of these is one I would share.
The number of people, NOT amount of people.
Hank and John are essentially the same name?! 😮
Plants produce oxygen.
My ratio of phone time to sex is even wider than you assume. 😢
Marsh grass?
While this video provided MANY lesser known facts.. I came out with "Rabbit Season! Duck Season!".
The Planet Earth comprises atoms. Atoms compose Planet Earth.
a cup of rubbing alcohol + 1 cup of water does NOT make 2 cups of fluid
I used to watch this show on Yahoo, sponsored by Toyota (and others).
yay for oysters.
We all share a common ancestor...um...yeah...no duh?
Oh his name Peter Wolfe.
Isn’t factor8 given to hemophiliacs? Ancestors are antecedents not descendants.
Fun Fact: If You Fuck Around The More You Find Out.
Newf. N. Land. Not New Finland.
The most normal fact? All toasters toast toast. Naturally.
@bethanybody2201
11 ай бұрын
Toasters toast bread or bread related food, and broken toasters don’t toast. 😊 But you were probably trolling. 😅
@Apophis324
11 ай бұрын
@@bethanybody2201 Nooo, I wasn't trolling! I was just reciting part of a famous quote by a certain Italian plumber in a less liked title on a non-Nintendo console! (Mario in Hotel Mario)
@bethanybody2201
11 ай бұрын
@@Apophis324 Oh, sorry, I was kidding about the trolling.☺️ I guess I lose my geek card, at least temporarily.😉 😁Mario is awesome😁
@Apophis324
11 ай бұрын
@@bethanybody2201 Nah, I do not have the authority to take someone's geek card away! :P
Fact 50: Pusha T's claims were validated, just not acknowledged by the scorned Aubrey.
@erincurrie1560
11 ай бұрын
yup lol
So weird!
#84 should be "antecedents" because they came before. Descendants come after you. Progenitor would also be accurate. But Ancestor should be the best option.
Hi Niki!
Don’t you mean ancestors, not descendants?
new-fin-land
Factor VIII
Can show fake ducks, but blur out guns and blood…….right
@TitularHeroine
11 ай бұрын
ducks
Did she mention we are ALL. AFRICAN?
Cool video but your speech rate is sooo fast. 😂❤
it is _extremely_ prescient, that rodents can't vomit (dang... ...maybe there _was_ a god. . . . .)
@ivettegutierreztorres3211
2 ай бұрын
And don't salivate
@RexGanymede
2 ай бұрын
@@ivettegutierreztorres3211 if rodents could salivate.. ..well, i feel assured, humanity probably would have died out long ago from just that one simple, seemingly-small aspect this definitely bolsters the pro _intelligent design_ argument, in my eyes, ivette
Whyd this go from fun facts to mfs dying so fast
Several mammals can't vomit.
8 unvigintillion
Fact 77: 120 days of sex... I assume it isn't all at once...
Water is wet
@TitularHeroine
11 ай бұрын
Water *makes things* wet
Don't call him "Monet?"(#49)
@bethanybody2201
11 ай бұрын
Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, easily confused.
The most normal fact I know: mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
This sentence is false.
@TitularHeroine
11 ай бұрын
This sentance contains three erors.
A freshly opened skall smells like a bag of Fredo's
If a law mandates "teaching creationism" then I would love to see teachers teaching the creation myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and as many African, Polynesian, and Native American tribes as possible. Everything *except* the Abrahamic traditions!
First!
It's pronounced to rhyme with 'understand' - NewfinLAND. Sand, canned, bland, grand, hand... All these rhyme with Newfoundland. Land, not lind. Land land land land land land land land land land land land land land land land. LAND. Didn't bother watching the rest of the video, too frustrated.
Fact 101. There are no aliens. We are alone in the universe.
@zodarian6705
8 ай бұрын
Prove it
BORING
Why are you slabbering wide load, close caption, nobody wants to hear your voice!
Why does the menopause channel never pop up on my feed anymore
So... That haircut is temporary, right? Or do we need 50 ways hairstyle has evolved the last year?
@TitularHeroine
11 ай бұрын
I rather like it
@marcofikkers
11 ай бұрын
@@TitularHeroine sure you do
@TitularHeroine
11 ай бұрын
@@marcofikkers okay!