31 fun facts to unpoison your mind 

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Fun fact: Back in 1802, there was a book titled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" written by american businessman Timothy Dexter, which he used to complain about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. However, the book was special in that it used zero punctuation and he pretty much spelled every word he could unconventionally. There were so many complaints that in the second edition, published in 1805, he added an extra page at the end with 11 lines of nothing but punctuation marks, which readers were instructed to insert wherever they felt they were necessary.

Loved the editor's explanation. Simple, to the point, giving this channel's vibes. Just perfect.

Fun fact: The roman emperor Caligula was widely considered to be mad, once forcing an entire legion to do nothing but collect seashells after a defeat, and is said to have made his favorite horse, Incitatus, a consul. It's also said he once had an entire section of the audience at an arena tossed in with the wild beasts during intermission because he was bored

fun fact: in norwegian, in certain dialects, a small and simple conversation can be had without the use of any consonants, only vowels. (a very situational one, but it is possible.)

Fun fact: Kermit is implied to have caused 9/11. In a Muppets special in 2002, Kermit is shown the world if he didn’t exist, and the Twin Towers are still up. This implies that Kermit somehow caused it.

Fun fact: The first guy to use anesthesia in surgery, Robert Liston, also once cut a persons leg off so fast that a spectator died of shock, the patient and an aide to Robert also both died of sepsis from the unclean saw. This lead to the only known surgery with a 300 percent death rate.

Fun fact: In 1997 a cat named Stubbs became the honorary mayor Talkeetna, an Alaskan town. The town didn't even have a real human mayor. He served as honorary mayor until 2017.

Fun Fact: It was common practice for Egyptian kings to schedule battles with their enemies, and if the other king couldn't make it that day, they would reschedule. 😁

Fun fact: the word "oxymoron" comes from 2 Greek words: Oxy (Oxus) - meaning sharp Moron (Mōros) - meaning slow, stupid, or dull So "oxymoron" means "sharp-dull" making it an oxymoron itself.

One of my favorite fun facts: The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet.

One of my favorites is that it's illegal to suspiciously carry a Salmon in the UK. It's part of the Salmon Act of 1986, and aimed at discouraging poaching, and it sort of just stuck around. This goes alongside some of my other favorite dumb laws like in some places, wearing clown costumes. Not sure where that came from. (s_tselnik)

Fun fact: many people know that the word orange existed first as the fruit, and then the color was named after it. However, the word orange has existed in Europe since before orange fruits were brought to Europe from India. By etymological coincidence, a region in France came to be known as "the Principality of Orange" over 100 years before the first oranges were brought to Europe. The Prince of Orange married into the Dutch royal family, so the Dutch had an association with orange before it was even a color.

Fun Fact: If you buy a bigger bed you get more bedroom but less bedroom

Fun Fact: Penicillin was only discovered because Alexander Fleming was too lazy to clean up after himself. "In 1928 Dr Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mould seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He soon identified that the mould produced a self-defence chemical that could kill bacteria. He named the substance penicillin."

As a dev, the 11% of America that think HTML is a disease had me ROLLING on the floor 🤣

Fun fact: otters have a little pouch of skin under the arms, where they keep their favorite rock. It helps them open seashells, among other things, and we've got records of them getting upset when losing the Special Rock.

my absolute favorite fun fact: that arrangement of four spikes at the end of a stegosaurus's tail is called, scientifically, a thagomizer. It simply did not have a name until Gary Larson, creator of the Far Side comics, drew a panel in which a caveman lecturer is explaining dinosaur anatomy and says "Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons" and the scientific community just kinda ran with it (@katie.cali)

5:41 fun fact, the reason why he drew instead of painting was because his paintings were worth a lot more than the total check. So whenever he had a big family meal, he told everyone he would be paying but not a single penny would come out of his bank.

this is a great example of how most generally-intelligent people can get trivia right just based off of common-sense reasoning rather than memorization

FunFact: Once you had your first hiccup, you never truly stop hiccuping again, the intervals between the hiccups simply get longer

Fun fact: Ninjas didn’t actually wear black, in the night they usually wore grey or navy as it blended in better with the sky or walls (black would have a more distinct silhouette), or they wore regular civilian clothing during the day to blend in with a crowd. The reason why ninjas are said to wear black comes from the theatre, when the “stage crew” would wear black (they weren’t members of the cast but they might have held/moved props or scenery) and so people were used to just sort of mentally cropping them out. One playwright used this to their advantage and had one of the stage crew murder a character, and because they were made to be ignored, it seemed as thought they appeared out of thin air - like a ninja. I always like facts about misconceptions :)

Daniel is actually rly smart and funny, it’s harder to tell from his sketches but honestly seems like a rly fun guy to hang out with

Fun fact: Lichens are a symbiotic union between a fungi and an algae, which basically fusion and make a new body to survive. It's shapes and color depends on the conditions they got united on. The fungi gives the algae water, the algae gives food to the fungi, and they usually make this symbiosis when conditions are hard for them to survive alone.

Editor should win an award. He really had to travel all that way for a single slip of paper.

The fact that Daniel grew up in Florida answers all the questions I ever had about his content 😆

Fun fact: Charles Darwin kinda hated barnacles, like, really despise them, this was all because they have biological traits that are quite similar to other species of animals, so they were really hard to classify. So Darwin, as a gentleman he was, took a 8 year long side quest to research them. So he tried to studied em and classify em and they just did no give a damn bout this bearded man's investigations. So he once claimed the quote I hold more dear to my heart: "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship." -Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, my man.

Fun fact about Dali: After his death he was buried with his mustache pointing to ten past ten. Around 30 years later, when his body was exhumed for study, it was still in the same position.

Fun fact: If you're a sheep farmer and want to protect your sheep from wolves and such, you can just stick a llama in the field. The sheep assume the llama is just a big sheep, the llama assumes the sheep are all small llamas and that it is now the alpha llama. The llama will now patrol the field and if a predator comes in the sheep will naturally hide behind the llama, and the llama is big enough and brave enough to scare off the predator. Much cheaper than constantly checking your fencing and less effort than watching the sheep all day. (@reubsbarry)

Here's one: When a horse was being prepped for surgery in 2012, they tried to oxygenate it by putting it in a pressure chamber filled with oxygen. They had forgotten to remove its horseshoes, however, so when it panicked and kicked the metal walls, it created a spark and EXPLODED THE CHAMBER.

Fun Fact: Spiders do not have muscles, but walk around on a hydraulic system. As many will joke, they are essentially walking around on 8 boners. Their legs curl when they die for this exact reason.

Fun fact: there is something called the Russian dog head experiment, and it was when Russian scientists reanimated a decapitated dog head successfully and it responded to the external stimuli even though it was just a head. It remained animated for several hours (I think don’t exactly know, you can fact check it)

This man should be a professor. Professor Thrasher is such a nice villain name.

1:22 Fun fact: While Winnie the Pooh from the story is now public domain (which is why the Blood and Honey movie next year is in the clear), the red shirt he is usually depicted in is a Disney invention and *not* public domain. Furthermore, that red shirt is a trademark, not a copyright, so it will never be public domain so long as Disney keeps renewing the trademark. Oh, whoops, I forgot this was supposed to be fun. A group of pugs is called a grumble.

I think one of my favorite odd facts is that rhino's can jump, but they just basically don't do that ever 😂

Liking just for the editors face when he learned the truth. Truly reflected how we would all feel learning this

1:30 this proves that being a hero and a troll aren’t mutually exclusive, and I love it.

Fun Fact: A samurai could have theoretically sent a telegram to Abraham Lincoln at some point between the invention of the telegraph in 1844 and Lincoln’s death in 1865, as samurai weren’t abolished in Japan until 1876. I don’t have an Instagram I just wanted to share.

fun fact: there was a town in Alaska that had a cat as mayor for like 20 years also, the state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon also, also, before alarm clocks were invented, there was a legitimate job where you went from client to client tapping on their window or door to wake them up

7:30 heh.. predicted it-

I read a book about the rubber ducky spill! It was a lot of fun to read. It's called "Moby-Duck".

Fun fact! It would be theoretically possible for a Cowboy, Samurai, Victorian thief, and an old French pirate to meet up because they all existed in the same timeframe and would have been alive to meet each other

One of my favorites: Renoir (painter) had a really bad arthritis by the end of his life. To stay warm, he’d keep cats on his lap. As a result, one of the indicators of an authentic Renoir is cat hair trapped in the paint. @BarbaraBlush

7:30 bro really predicted that 💀

Daniel clapping / dancing every time he gets them right is so sweet to me

Okay, I don't know if anyone mentioned it before (I don't want to go through all the comments), about the Charlie Chaplin one. The issue was that when he entered the contest, he was walking as he usually does. Meaning: at the normal human pace. The other contestants however, where imitating the accelerated speed from the movies. He lost the contest for being most like him... by acting exactly as he does. 😂 Personally, I always find it amusing 🙂

Fun Fact: All reptiles are cold-blooded, but the reason they sit in the sun is not only to warm their bodies but also because the vast majority of their predators have infrared vision, so it also doubles as a form of camouflage.

Uhhhh d- daniel. Daniel, stop predicting the future. DANIEL

Hey, headsup: the editor was wrong about the winnie the pooh question. The wikipedia page that lists the highest grossing media franchises was primarily edited by a user whose sourcing quality was substandard at best and outright deceptive at worst. We're still cleaning up after him. Anyway, the value quoted in the article for pokemon's net worth was only valid as of 2019. By 2021, pokemon's value had risen to over 100 billion dollars.

Fun fact: the obrina olivewing butterfly is the only known animal to actually produce a true blue pigment. Other blue in nature is a trick of light.

This is my favorite fact Fun fact: if you were to take all the veins, arteries, and capillaries in your body and place them end to end, you would die. They would also wrap around the earth 3 times but that's less fun.

3:24 damn, no wonder babies are scary…you can just feel them judging you… JK 😂😂😂

Why did... why has NO ONE commented about 4:45??? Like what? There seems to be no acknowledgement, anywhere, from the comments, from Daniel, from the other people in the room, or from the editor, of the words "what's crazy is he brought back a MASSIVE toblerone" ?????

Fun fact the story about carrots being good for your eyesight was started in WW2 by the allies to try and hide the fact that they had invented radar from the Germans. It was very successful at least temporarily and the axis powers shipped hundreds of tons of carrots out to the front lines for their soldiers.

2:04 WHAT 😂 YOUR EDITOR HAVING A LIL SIDE QUEST IS AMAZING SO FUNNY

“Let’s see if I can keep it under a thou-ey. Under a thou-thou.” I love it.

Fun Fact: There exists a species of Newt that uses its ribs as a weapon in self defense. When threatened, it breaks its own ribs, stabs them through its own skin (not through already existing openings.) and uses these newly formed bloody rib swords to stab whatever is trying to eat it.

This is the best thing ever. I'm so glad I'm subscribed to this channel.

"oh, my turn" (make that 4 times my neighbors will hate me HAHAAAA. seriously, closing the window now 😂)

Fun fact: water guns were invented on accident. Man named Lonnie Johnsons was an inventor/engineer and in 1982 while performing an experiment with water and piping he accidentally squirted water on himself. Instead of being mad he was intrigued by what he had made and it later became known as the first ever water gun.

I can't wait for Daniel to make a full movie. It will be hit for sure.

dawg hit the croc with the mean nose break, left-hook, uppercut at 1:48

Fun Fact: Frosty the Snowman is a retelling of an ancient Germanic folk tale about the Lady of Winter’s children, who roamed the forests and villages to spread her glory and permanently freeze men and women in the glorious snow, making a snowman army for her winter rule.

Fun fact: the color orange was named after the fruit. when the orange was first discovered, it’s color was considered as a type of red, so at one point in time, it was perfectly valid to ask, “What color is an orange?”

The flippin toblerone joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m dyingggg

Fun Fact: the word helicopter doesnt actually originate from the two words "Heli" and "Copter" But rather "Helix" (meaning spiral) and "Pteron" (meaning wing)

Fun fact: Adolphe Sax, the inventor and maker of the saxophone, had so many close calls with death some believe divine intervention was at play so that the saxophone could be invented. As a child, he fell from 3 stories up, hit his head on a stone, and was believed to be dead, but miraculously survived. At 3, he drank a bowl full of acid (acidic water, not pure acid, but essentially same effect) thinking it was milk. As a young child he swallowed a pin, and somehow didn't die from internal bleeding. He almost died from a gunpowder explosion, but survived with serious burns. He fell into a hot cast iron pan, burning his sides. In more than one instance, he somehow survived accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from furniture that was recently varnished in a closed room, while sleeping. While young he was struck in the head by a stone and nearly drowned in a nearby river after being either unconscious or delirious Because of these incidents, his mother swore that he wouldn't live because of his bad luck, and he was known by neighbors as "little Sax, the ghost" (hunter.mauer)

0:52 Daniel casually laughing at the death of the Pringles inventor is the most Daniel moment i've ever seen.

OMG I ACTUALLY WON A GIFT CARD, JUST PLACED MY ORDER WITH IT!!!!!! I got a really cute pair of cat ears that I've been wanting for cosplay reasons, and I'm so excited to finally have a reason to buy them XD, tysm for this😭❤

Winnie the pooh actually isn't the highest grossing media franchise of all time its only number 3 so Daniel was correct, the highest is pokemon followed by hello kitty

Fun Fact: Formula one cars have cooling systems for the wheels during races in above forty degree temperatures. This is because if the rubber gets too hot, the rubber becomes sticky and tacky. Then the tires grip onto the track too much almost like a glue making it harder to move. Formula one drivers often describe it feeling like a flat tire, yet when they go to check its perfectly pumped up. This was discovered in early 2007 and since then they have designed the wheels so air can pass through them to cool it down. They have also made cooling blankets; giant blanket like things filled with ice that they wrap around the tires for four hours before racing.

Fun fact: On december 31, 2016, 1 second was added to global time. Similar to a leap year, this accounts for the fraction of time lost.

lmao the face shift at 3:24 "babies will linger on faces they think are more symmetrical and attractive."

i am relying on this video to cure my depression

I saw someone else write a guillotine fact, which inspired me to write this one. When the guillotine was still being used as a method of execution, they would have to replace the baskets that the heads would fall in after each use. This was because the severed heads would chew through the baskets, making them unusable. The heads would also continue to blink after being disconnected from the body.

Fun fact: Ramin Karimloo played many roles in Phantom of the Opera. He played Raoul in one version, Phantom during the 25th Anniversary version, and he even played Christine’s dad in the 2004 film.

I got an ad at 5:57 and it was perfectly timed with the scream lol

Just the fact that you’re a Florida man, but not generally unhinged like *gestures to Moist Crit1kal, Arin Hanson and a thousand “Florida Man” newsreports* has re-poisoned my mind.

3:55 for anyone wondering why race horses have such weird names, its because when you register them for their breed they are they need a unique name so they dont get confused with another horse Often times horses have crazy long registered names but in actuality the name the horse responds to is smth like "Jeff" or "Lily" Or simply just one of the words in their name, like if a horse was named "A Summer Night" then theyd most likely go by "Summer" or "Night" So yea most of us dont actually call out "PIZZA PARTY FRIDAY, COME HERE PIZZA PARTY FRIDAY!" On a regular basis

Fun fact: when the guillotine was first introduced, onlookers were disappointed by the lack of blood and general mess, calling it less showy and interesting. The last (legal, I imagine) use of the guillotine was the same year star wars was released!

the editor seeking ancient, secret knowledge bit was great :D

Fun Fact: in 1986 in Cleveland, Ohio, a "harmless" fundraising event Balloonfest attempted to break the world record for most balloons released at once by releasing almost 1.5 million balloons which then enveloped the entire city and the surrounding area, including Lake Erie nearby...there were 2 casualties.

Fun fact: In Japanese, there is no "L" sound, and thus Luigi from Super Mario Bros. Is called Ruiji, the Japanese word for similar. Even more interesting is that Waluigi is called Waruiji, with waru being the japanese word for evil, thus he is "evil similar"

Fun fact: one of the creators of mortal kombat has the guinness world record for voicing a videogame character for the longest amount of time, this being scorpion with his famous "come over here"

Daniel: I knew learning random trivia facts would benefit me some day.

I have to commend Daniel's acting skills; he was so convincing playing the editor that it even looks like he was played by someone else.

Fun Fact: Pringles man's children bought the pringles can from a pharmacy on their way to his funeral, even having a small discussion as to what flavor (eventually deciding Original was the only appropriate way to go).

Won a gift card and put it towards an R2D2 toaster as my toaster is old and boring lol Thank you Santa Dan!! Hope you are having a great holiday/end of the year!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i cackled so loud on the mantis invasion... (that's now 3 times in a row on your vids. neighbors are prob like WTF?? note to self: don't have windows open when watching the Thrash.)

Fun fact: Elephants aren’t actually afraid of mice. Mice are so small, so the elephants can’t see them coming. It’s like being jumpscared. Another fun fact: Elephants release Dopamine when they see humans, which is the same thing humans release when they see puppies. That means elephants think we are cute as puppies 😊

Fun fact: in the lord of the rings extended edition during bilbo's birthday scenes, the cake prop they used caught fire during the scene, the actors didn't stop and it made the final cut. You can see people panicking in the background because of a fire. Another fun fact, one of the landscape scenes in lord of the rings is actually just a picture of a painting. Last lord of the rings fun fact: the hobbits are actually a tribe of people in New Zealand that the director thought fit the hobbits the best, so he hired them

Love the ‘Adam Neely “tweet”’. Hahahhaha!!!

The editing in this is hilarious

Fun fact: In Greek Mythology the godess Athena had an epithet (nickname) that was Parthenos. This nickname translates to: The Virgin. Athena was literally called a virgin every time that prayed to her. (@yhollanders)

Fun Fact: Spiral staircases in medieval castles run clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs, they would not be able to use their right hand, which was holding the sword, because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no trouble, except left-handed people could never become knights because they were assumed to be descendants of the devil. (darkriver26)

i read the thumbnail as "ants dont have drugs"

Fun fact: In 1949, the Agricultural Act was passed which said that the government would pay farmers for their produce. Well, dairy farmers had a sort of a problem, they're produce couldn't be stored for long, or else it would go bad. So they turned it into cheese. There was so much of this cheese they didn't know what to do with it, and they started storing them in vaults. There are many cheese vaults across America. And it makes sense when you hear about: Cheesy fries, stuffed crust pizza, big mac with cheese. The government is trying to get rid of it all with programs like, "Got Milk?". In 1981 I believe, they handed out free government cheese.

Fun fact: There's a seemingly innocent thing that happened during the cold war, when Germany was divided into its two parts, that barely any people know about. One of the nowadays most beloved children's TV figures, the Sandmännchen (Translation: Sandman) was a figure coined and used for cold war propaganda. Not only did both sides of Germany have their own Sandmännchen, basically copying whatever the other did, but the most famed incident was when the eastern Sandmännchen (so the part of the Sowjet Union) had an episode where it landed on the moon as the first person ever, 11 days before the first person ever (American) landed on the moon.

*Fun Fact:* The mariachi & horn instrumentals that are in the Johnny Cash song _Ring of Fire_ are there because they came to him in a dream.

Potoooooooo's name happened when a stablehand was writing his name on a feed bin, and misunderstood it. The horse's owner found that amusing, and so kept the name. The Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through like a full quarantine process, not just customs. - Five (potential) fun facts, one of which is false: 1. The term "portmanteau," meaning a single word that is a combination of two words, was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass. 2. Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Trotsky, and Freud all lived in Vienna simultaneously. 3. Bananas don't actually emit an exceptional amount of radiation. 4. Justin Bailey was intended to be a character in the NES Metroid, aiding Samus, however they were scrapped due to hardware limitations. 5. An actual corpse, mistaken for a wax figure, was used in an amusement park's haunted house as a prop of a hanged man. They found this out when the arm broke off.