50 Facts You Probably Didn't Know 

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Fact: Rotten Turtle is OGBB

So early I had to help put out snacks

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! :)

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…

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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),

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

"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."

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

Was that closet always there?

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.

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

It was an interesting side project.. Thanks

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

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

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

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

Epicprojects? Is business blaze spilling over?!

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

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.

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

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.....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wondering why that door has been left open. Keep trying to spot Danny and the gang...

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.

This is adhd paradise

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.

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

51. Why are there three Ws?

Fact boi spewing facts?? Yes! 💯💜

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

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"

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.

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

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

Epic Sideprojects?

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.

"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?

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

I’m happy that I’m so early to one of his videos for once

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.

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?”

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

20:14 -- Is that person wearing a contact lens? In any event, our blind spot is a strong argument against creationism, or intelligent design. This flaw is not just present in us, but in all vertebrate life, and it's not an intelligent design at all. It's stupid. It exists because the optic nerve doesn't connect to the back of the retina, which is where you'd think and where any intelligent designer would put it, but to the front. That's why there are no light receptors there. It's nerve instead. And it's not as if better eyes are impossible. Cephalopods (squid, octopus, etc) have eyes as complex as ours, complete with iris, lens, retina, and everything else -- EXCEPT that their optic nerve connects at the _back_ of the retina. They therefore have no blind spot. These differences are entirely due to different eyes developing along different evolutionary pathways, most likely from different original structures, and are the opposite of what you'd expect from an intelligent designer.

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

*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❤️

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.

This armadillo just casually defying the entire laws of genetics huh

Bears do torpor not hibernation . More than a few pilgrims have wandered too near a bear cubs mom's den. Predictable outcomes.

Isn't Moore's Law out of date, now?

Am I doing the thumb thing wrong, or is there a secret camera here so the side-project team can play a prank on me?

15:45 we also have highly unique blood vessel patterns. It has been demonstrated as an identifying feature in a CSA case. The defendant was acquitted because the jury thought the victim should have protested.

Fact - a man with one leg cannot beat me in an ass kicking contest.

I will go to bed a little less stupid tonight, thanks!

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

Fact 43 has the title card for fact 42

I think I read somewhere that Australia has population density of 1 per 4km if you spread 27 million across a land area the size of continental USA