7 mins in, number 34... Sage Werbok aka The Great Nippulini is my swordsmith. He made my sword swallowing swords... which I use to break the world record for Most Swords Swallowed While Turning Cartwheels... 3 swords. Was also featured in the RipleysBelieveItOrNot book Eye Popping Oddities for this stunt!

@V.Hansen.

Жыл бұрын

That sounds too outlandish to be made up. Incredible

@TitularHeroine

Жыл бұрын

Frikkin rad

@Dawg2005

Жыл бұрын

First of all, congrats. Second of all, WAT.

The most surprising thing I learned from this video is that there is a Society of Professional Obituary Writers.

I once rescued a friend who had fallen if a cliff but was holding onto a small crack. He was too far down for me to reach him and I had nothing to lower him down other than my prosthetic leg. He held onto the foot as I held onto the strap. The strap broke but it held long enough for my friend to reach safety. The prosthetist who fixed it thought the story of how it broke was so epic, he fixed it for free. The word EPIC is the same as ERIC but with a missing leg. My name *IS* Eric, and I am missing a leg. It's not often that being an amputee has come in handy, but it has happened, and more than once.

@joanhoffman3702

Жыл бұрын

More than once? How many friends have you had fall over cliffs? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Still, your fake leg came in hand-y. 😁

@erictaylor5462

Жыл бұрын

@@joanhoffman3702 Being an amputee has come in handy more than once. There was only one cliff rescue. Another time I stepped in a nail booby trap in a playground. Put a huge nail through my fake foot. But that is another story.

The term working the graveyard shift came from those people who were afraid they’d be buried alive. The graveyard shift listened for the ringing of bells indicating someone needed to dug up. And yes, people were buried alive. Being in a coma was one way to be buried too soon

@jacobadams2670

Жыл бұрын

Yea. Being buried alive was a genuine enough concern. George Washington was so concerned about it that he deemed his body should rest for a few days before burial. We still send living people to the morgue today.

@awlig

Жыл бұрын

Just happened again recently, lady woke up in a morgue

@MentalFloss

Жыл бұрын

It's possible that's true, but we didn't see anything in the historical record to support it when we wrote this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y6iVmrynkam8c9I.html It also seems odd that you would call any particular shift at a graveyard "the graveyard shift," since they're all, by definition, "graveyard shifts."

I beat the 1% odd, I successfully reached 59 a month ago. It was a near thing, my left kidney did not make it. It's likely it would have brought me with it in the past.

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto

Жыл бұрын

@SlyPearTree happy belated birthday to you, dear 🍐🌳. I'm kinda right behind you.. I will be 52 this May.

@geekdivaherself

Жыл бұрын

@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 53 in June!

13:08. Australia needs the info on fighting against ostriches in case they gave to fight a second emu war.

I still love a good cemetery picnic! I especially like to go to older cemeteries where I feel like they don’t get a lot of living relatives or ancestors who visit. I clean off the gravestones and the sites around them, bring flowers, speak to them, and let them enjoy a nice day with some friends. It’s lovely.

@MeganBecnel

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto

Жыл бұрын

@@MeganBecnel& @Sage Williams both of you are kind & thoughtful. Wish I could do that, ambulatory abilities are minimal rn.. but I loved visiting _really_ old cemeteries & reading the headstones.. pondering what their lives may have been like, or try to imagine what they may have looked like. It's humbling, in a way.

@MentalFloss

Жыл бұрын

Aw, that's very sweet. I spent a lot of time in a cemetery in Spring 2020, for the space (back when it felt like we knew nothing about a certain novel virus), but I mostly just appreciated the trees and cool grave markers. (I do believe food is banned in most U.S. cemeteries, nowadays).

@pumkin41297

Жыл бұрын

@@MentalFloss I never knew food was banned! No one ever said anything to me, but maybe that’s because they also saw me cleaning the gravesites as well. That’s so sad. Death culture in America is so odd.

@MeganBecnel

Жыл бұрын

@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto I hear that. There's a lovely historic one nearest me that has gorgeous live oaks. Those oaks have root systems that necessarily go above ground and in some areas pose a real motility challenge.

Certainly gives "le royal with cheese" a new meaning

The word "Judo", a martial art consisting of mostly throws, chokeholds, jointlocks, and immobilization techniques is actually two words. "Ju" meaning gentle, and "do" meaning way or method.

I think it's WAY more WTF that you can fit all the other planets in the solar system between the Earth and the Moon.

I love Al Roker's poopy pants quote

Talking about a morbid WTF fact: bone dust smells just like ranch dressing. (And no, I don't eat ranch dressing anymore.)

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto

Жыл бұрын

@Velata I'm not sure I want to know _how_ you know that fact. I've read that space smells like burnt steak.. talk about wtf (and I've never been a big fan of ranch, have always been more of a bleu cheese kinda gal.. my 2nd & 3rd is French & Russian.. also salsa dressing, and avocado dressing.. now I'm hungry for salad).

Nothing beats: Lobsters pee from their eyes

The safety coffin story is where the term “dead ringer” comes from and people employed to keep watch over the bells is where the term “graveyard shift” comes from.

The most amazing fact about Bluetooth is that it was invented in Emmen, The Netherlands. Part of my family is from that place and another part of my family moved to that place. So I’m familiar with the town. It’s really the last place you expect an invention like Bluetooth coming from.

@reineh3477

7 ай бұрын

It was invented in Lund, Sweden by Ericsson Mobile.

@jannetteberends8730

7 ай бұрын

@@reineh3477 Wikipedia: Jacobus "Jaap" Cornelis Haartsen is a Dutch electrical engineer, researcher, inventor and entrepreneur best known for being credited as the inventor of Bluetooth.

@reineh3477

7 ай бұрын

@@jannetteberends8730 You forget that it was initiated in 1989 by Nils Rydbeck, CTO at Ericsson Mobile in Lund, Sweden. And Jaap didn't work alone, there were also Tord Wingren and Sven Mattisson (both Swedes). Project leader was Örjan Johansson (also a Swede). Read English Wikipedia and you will see that it all started in Sweden.

11:00 I think this is just a case of the body shutting down the pain receptors to allow the person to escape.. In an emergency your body can to some pretty amazing things.

Ok, who has been trying to drown Sloths ?

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

evil slothologists, I bet...

@bobbob465

Жыл бұрын

Sloth's what? His Tshirt? His share of One-eye'd Willy's treasure? His guide to correct grammar?

@marvintpandroid2213

Жыл бұрын

@@bobbob465 Isnt aoticorrect fin, Jist az fin az yu r @ partie's

I already knew #90 thanks to Puppet History.

Morphine and whiskey for resuscitation ... I'm sure that went well.

“Hung up his nipples” is the weirdest phrase I’ve heard all day! Lol

11:08 correction: In 1976 I lived 2 rooms down in McConaughey Hall at UConn from Ken Meyers who invented Smartfood popcorn.

Fun list, thanks!

This seems to be the third time in this week, from three independent sources, that I heard about the story of Adolf Frederick and 14 sweet rolls (which I have never heard of before in my life). Who can explain this phenomenon?

@taylorboulton177

Жыл бұрын

Ita called the frequency illusion or Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

2 wrongs don’t make a right but 3 rights make a left.

WTF ... my right foot is a Morton's toe ... my left, I don't know, as my second toe is "hammered" under and hurts like an SOB.

I suspect that the negative effects of not having friends mostly impacts extrovert types who for whatever reason can't make friends or find themselves isolated. Hormones would obviously have a big impact too. As a woman who is a total aroace, I am most definitely negatively impacted by people trying to be my friend. I never get lonely and solitude is a total joy.

You had me at Russian space porn

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

Well, if two cosmonauts want to try that dangerous activity, they have to strap their bodies together because the typical movement which people make while having a good time will push those from each other. Simple physics, action-reaction. Nice pseudonym, by the way...interesting oxymoron.

@CraftAero

Жыл бұрын

@@ozymandiasultor9480 Even under 9.8m/s² we tend to "strap" our bodies together. Especially on a water-bed, come to think of it. I'm gonna say, not a problem... would do !

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

@@CraftAero In the ISS or any body that is in orbit they don't feel gravity, they are in constant fall, that is the problem, nothing is holding them together, like for example people on the surface of Earth who are in bed. When I said strap, I mean they have to use some belts, or similar.

@CraftAero

Жыл бұрын

@@ozymandiasultor9480 I get your point. I'm just sayin' 4 arms and 4 legs could get the job done. I'm up for the challenge if given a sponsor.

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

@@CraftAero Oh... English is not my first language, but I understand what are you saying now... A sponsor for the "experiment"? Well... I don't have the money for such an interesting experiment, but we always can ask Elon Musk and some beautiful model, for science, of course... What are people ready to indure for the sake of science...

$70 million in 1956 dollars (when Pringles started development; they didn't hit shelves for another 12 years) comes out to about $770 million in today's dollars, not $12 billion! I even used the CPI Inflation Calculator and didn't get anywhere near $12 billion.

Imagine people on a beach in a pose for sunning perineum....That would be surreal...

@gryphonshire

Жыл бұрын

Have you never been to a nude beach?

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

@@gryphonshire I have been, but I never saw the scene I describe, all in one position...

Fun fact: When a hippo is born the animal has to eat or drink if you wish the polluted water in which there is a high concentration of his mother's manure... In that way, they are taking some microorganisms that they need in their stomach, and maybe some other things...

16:38 Hmmm. Now I'm rethinking that one particular scene in Pulp Fiction...lol

Always learning on Mental Floss' YT. Uh, space make up?

good one,

The Great Pyramid was the tallest building in the world for more than 4000 years.

I have Morton's Toe, as, reportedly, did HARRY A LONGABAUGH, "The Sundance Kid" (1867-1908)

37: Do a whole video about things that the name incorrectly describes, please.

I feel like watching this video is like playing the game 2 truths and a lie.

@brandonkennedy4160

8 ай бұрын

I’m curious, why is that?

Roald Dahl wrote the script for a James Bond film.

@pgm3

Жыл бұрын

And Ian Fleming wrote a famous children's tale, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", about a car (not one with machine guns, in that particular case).

Never mind the Ostrich, look out for the Cassowary. AKA The Ancient Murder Bird.

5:48 ". . . done dirt cheap!" Or am I the only one who went there, after the "manly deeds. . ." part of that motto?

At 1:48 ...This is where we got the term "Saved by the Bell"...

5:50 Yes! My favorite fact about the state I live in!

but who did he leave his best bed to?

@TonyHammitt

Жыл бұрын

Gwyneth Paltrow, of course

How long, thick and sharp are the swords. I'm going to try it.

In regards to #67, isn't "fully developed veal" just...beef? I'm a vegetarian, I'm sorry if that's a stupid question.

Darwin, Australia, is closer to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, than it is to Canberra, the capital of Australia.

It's not uncommon for many different species of bird to form sexual attractions to humans. There is even documented evidence of a humming bird performing courtship behaviors for humans. Emu, Ostrich, and Cassowary though are extreme examples. They very often will engage in sexual courtship behaviors with humans when in regular contact. More often than not it is because the human caretakers either isolate the birds during peak hormone events in their mating cycles or the human caretakers engage in what appears to be 'play' behavior but wasn't. Female birds of many different pet species cannot be handled incorrectly or it causes rapid egg development for example. In fact, not only birds but thousands of other animal species will very comfortably form permanent bonds with humans as if they were a mated pair. It's been documented in everything from birds and insects the reptiles and lions. We're all animals trying to figure out what this life thing is.

All my friends are smokers. Guess I'm doomed either way

Number 3 isn't so much a WTF as a bad conversion 😂

100 tampons for a ONE WEEK FLIGHT??? 😂😂😂

Who is Morton and why is my toe named after him? ;-p

It's late, I don't know why I thought I would be able to keep up being this tired. Will have to watch again tomorrow.

Fact 101... You have the coolest hair bangs in the world. Peace on earth.

really brushed over that fact about a sloth being able to hold its breath for 40 minutes... I need to know why. Don't sloths spend their entire life in the tree canopy except to poop for some reason?

Y'all just had to bring up my favorite medical term ever. The condition it describes is almost always Really Bad but... "fistula" sounds like the name of a boxing vampire. "Innnn the RED corner, the Baron Wilhelm von Fistula! Weighing in at 157 pounds, this wiry gent will knock your socks off and leave you white as a sheet!" Got to find humor in it somehow; I got a 20mm (US dime-sized) oro-antral fistula from dental extractions and am dealing with the buccal-flap closure's aftermath a few days past.

i have that "morton's toe". my second one is the longest

Being buried alive was a genuine enough concern. George Washington was so concerned about it that he deemed his body should rest for a few days before burial. We still send living people to the morgue today.

I would die if I didn't know that factoid about Charleston Chews.

@MentalFloss

Жыл бұрын

This is the reason we do what we do.

And Maryland, as you kindly showed, has one of the most distinctive state flags out there. Love it or hate it, you darned sure won't forget the Calvert & Crossland! This most wonderful visual trainwreck of a flag combines the heraldry of the aforementioned families, ancestors of the Lord Baltimore, Cecil Calvert, founder of Maryland Colony -- who never actually ever set foot in Maryland itself. It was also a compromise to appease pro-Union and pro-Confederacy Marylanders; the black-and-gold of the Calverts for the former, and the red-and-white of the Crosslands for the latter, as they were used during the U.S. Civil War.

Ecuador just had a lady pounding on the inside of her coffin at her funeral.

Nitroglycerin was added to nitrocellulose based gunpowder to SLOW combustion. Look it up.

Motown founder and music Mogal Berry Gordy and former President Jimmy Carter are Cousins

Approximately 8.6% of statistics are made up on the spot... or 42.3%, depends on who you ask.

@TitularHeroine

Жыл бұрын

And a recent study shows that three out of four people make up seventy-five percent of the population.

Amother fun fact . . . biannual means twice a year, biennial means every second year.

Michael Jordan was in space jam. Which it is a sci-fi movie.

Perenium tanning... 'taint a good feelin...😅

I love John Green he's better narrator his voice is more easier to listen to and it's more soothing

😂 8:26

In a town 20 minutes south of me there's a sign the just says SIDEWALK ENDS!!!! I FOUND IT YOU GUYS!!! I FOUND WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS!!! This is so cool!! 😜😜

I was saved by a safety coffin.⚰️

Only 400,000 Earths will line up between the Sun and Pluto? That sounds wrong. You don't mean 400 million?

I'm never going to look at my fingernails the same again.

Lol, 70 million is absolutelly not 12 billion, adjusted for inflation.

What happened to the original host?

Ticko Brah

Is le royale related to battle royale?

@ozymandiasultor9480

Жыл бұрын

le royale is related to royale pain in the arse.

Fun fact: You can read some fun facts in the comment section..

Til I have Morton’s toe

Its strange that people are more willing to talk about murders than anything of a sexual nature. Most people have sex ,most do not commit murder.

@gryphonshire

Жыл бұрын

And it's strange that the media blurs out images of nude people, yet often shows dead bodies.

@htopherollem649

Жыл бұрын

@@gryphonshire it's probably because they are jealous and know that they look disgusting and or they feel like they have the right to tell others how to live (usually under the self delusion that they are "conservative and righteous)

⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟

Huh?

The t in christened is not pronounced.

Disappointed to see #17 included in this list. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a lot of unique beliefs about Jackson County, Missouri. Perhaps if the Mental Floss team had researched further to understand the context better, they wouldn't have included a religious belief here.

The greatest basketball player of all time *LeBron James* is 6'9"

New narrator

@stevevernon1978

Жыл бұрын

been missing for a while? Hank's last one of these was in 2017

The Scold’s bridal was actually pretty smart.

I miss John Green, no offense to the new host.

@stevevernon1978

Жыл бұрын

John's been gone a while... like 5 years

@ssemo

Жыл бұрын

She’s fantastic. Plus John still does videos all the time.

"Greatest basketball player of all time' - thought this was a fact video, dislike unsubscribe

Interesting I guess, but they're all useless.

Do you ever see an upload on your sub feed, click to watch and end up thinking "When did i even sub to this channel?"