50 Facts You Probably Didn't Want to Know 

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Sometimes when Simon wakes up, he finds he recorded 5 videos and started 2 new channels while sleepwalking.

Thanks for pointing out that strokes can happen to literally anyone. I had my first TIA (mini-stroke) at 21 out of nowhere, and was initially misdiagnosed. Later, I was correctly diagnosed- with a brain tumor. Luckily, I've since had it surgically removed and have made an almost- full recovery.

0:20 - N°1 - Dangerous painkillers 1:25 - N°2 - The fig/wasp lifecycle 2:45 - Mid roll ads 4:15 - N°3 - Cheese addiction 5:10 - N°4 - Chlorinated water is odorless 6:25 - N°5 - Eyelash mites 7:30 - N°6 - You're never too old to die 8:25 - N°7 - You're never too young to die 9:10 - N°8 - We're running out of antibiotics 10:25 - N°9 - Have your pet spayed or neutered 11:30 - N°10 - What a way to go 12:30 - N°11 - Is that a banana in your pocket ? 13:05 - N°12 - Cannibalistic medicine 14:15 - N°13 - It wasn't just bones 15:20 - N°14 - Beaver glands 16:30 - N°15 - Skeleton are fun 17:40 - N°16 - Lake superior never gives up her dead 19:00 - N°17 - Zombie woodpeckers 20:10 - N°18 - Spiders are getting bigger 21:05 - N°19 - Tooth in eye surgery 22:20 - N°20 - A toothy grin 23:25 - N°21 - Keep your ducks entertained 24:15 - N°22 - A disappointing evolutionary trait 25:00 - N°23 - Happy deathday 26:00 - N°24 - Don't forget to buckle up 26:50 - N°25 - No anesthesia needed 27:50 - N°26 - Terryfing genetics 28:35 - N°27 - Koala STD's 29:40 - N°28 - Koala's eat poop 30:50 - N°29 - Uncanny valley 32:10 - N°30 - Broken arrows 32:55 - N°31 - Courageous brain parasites 34:10 - N°32 - Sad rescue dogs 35:00 - N°33 - Ground current 36:25 - N°34 - Cadaver orgasms 37:15 - N°35 - Body farms 38:15 - N°36 - Suffer like i did 39:25 - N°37 - Hypothermia research 40:35 - N°38 - How about a little tongue ? 41:45 - N°39 - The blue fugates 42:50 - N°40 - Dying for a bathroom break 43:45 - N°41 - Webcam gate 45:10 - N°42 - Elephants & you 46:00 - N°43 - Gender reveal massacre 47:00 - N°44 - Just bring a thermos 47:50 - N°45 - Based on a true story 48:45 - N°46 - Mass produced crochet 49:55 - N°47 - Locked in syndrome 51:10 - N°48 - Enter sandman 52:25 - N°49 - Misinformation is nearly impossible to avoid 53:35 - N°50 - The most dangerous animal in the world

Another fun fact about constipation: My mum is a nurse and I have asked what some of the grossest things she's encountered were, and here's one of her favorites. A young man was in a motorcycle accident and couldn't/wouldn't poop because of the pain. He got so badly blocked up that he began vomiting poop which can be extremely dangerous, so Mum had to glove up and get her hand up there to literally pull the poo out of him. On the day she first told me this, I realised I could never, ever be a nurse. Same when she described the smell of necrosis.

There are probably fewer insect parts inside a fig than in the flour bread is baked from. And these wasps, when alive, are smaller than aphids. Cultivated figs are self fertile, so do not need wasps. And all flowering structures are called inflorescences, the fruit of the fig is called a synconium.

Simon doing his best to change the official pronunciation of acetaminophen.

The marsupial is called anti-kine-us. There one of the first animals in Australia to learn how to eat the introduced cane toad. They tip them over and rip up the bellies, avoiding the poison ducts. They're also the size of a mouse. Basically a very tiny bloodthirsty roo and super cute to boot.

"It turns out baby ducks are psychotic little quackholes." - Simon 2024

#8 at my school a basketball player got tired, and laid down on the bench. He died from a brain hemorrhage right there. No warning, just gone.

I have willed my body to the body farm at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, I have met Dr. Bass several times, he is a fascinating man, thank you for including this in your show, I must tell you that I listen to a few of your channels, being confined to a nursing home, I need the stimulus that I get from you. Thank you so much, have a good weekend.

The eye tooth thing goes crazy. Medical science is incredible like how did they figure out this was a viable option?

Birds don’t vomit into their chicks’ mouths; they regurgitate from the crop, where the food becomes a sort of porridge. On the other hand, mother wolves and presumably other predators genuinely gorge themselves on meat from a kill or found carrion, returning to the den to vomit the meat for their offspring.

Spiders getting larger? We're gunna have to call the helldivers soon

Any chance you guys could do a Sideprojects on precious metals? Silver, platinum, palladium, gold, rhodium, iridium and osmium? Not on value like some crypto-bro channel, but on the history, uses, desirability, rarity and what makes them unique and special? I have a fascination with the elements and this would be right up my alley. Maybe someone else might be interested too, who knows lol

I have seen a male duck pick up ducklings and fling them several feet because they are in his way. That was a learning experience.

About smelling toast ... people don't realize how far cooking smells can travel. I live out in the countryside and was puzzled why I could often smell bacon and other foods cooking during the hours before dawn. It turned out that when a breeze was blowing in the right direction, the smells of breakfast foods being cooked by an early rising neighbor a quarter of a mile down the road were detectable to me. Only a few molecules are necessary.

Thank you so much for pointing out the fact about "alleged" slave labor in mass produced crochet. As someone who has been crocheting for over 10 years now. I am appalled when I see any kind of crochet wearable for under $150 and even that is pushing it. I'm also really over people complaining about my prices. Sorry, I don't work for slave wages.

I hope you all enjoy and also I'm sorry

Number 25 is terrifying! Open Heart surgery on a baby with no anesthesia! What were the nurses and surgeons thinking?

Having worked in an office setting for many years, learning about the sponge situation was an eye opener. I washed my mug daily, but there were times when I got sick and couldn't understand why. Now I have an inkling. Did someone else on the evening shift use my mug, wash it in contaminated water with a contaminated sponge? It does raise a frightening question.

We had an elderly couple that ran the best bakery in the county. After her husband passed the wife began having these weird reactions that continued to get worse. She had to go through testing and things, turns out she had devoloped a sudden and agressive allery to the flour. She sold the bakery and retired. I dont think she minded much sonce it wasnt the same without her husband. Still miss their donuts ♡

As someone that suffers from a version of temporary 'Locked in Syndrome" (ie Periodic Paralysis) it was in fact horrifying the first few times. Now after over 25 years of attacks, it's just damn annoying. My heart does go out to those are locked in, I wouldn't wish it on my own worst enemy.

As far as the whole sleep eating thing, I have personally experienced this twice that I know of, and both times I ate... undesirable... things. The first time I didn't wake up while I was sleep eating, but I discovered what I ate in the morning. I woke up with a very bad taste in my mouth, and looking around, I noticed that my cat's nearby food bowl was entirely empty. In fact, it was a spotlessly empty bowl without even the tiniest crumb. I also had the vague memory of mindlessly eating something crunchy. I sleep ate my cat's dry food until the bowl was empty. The second time I woke up while sleep eating because what I sleep ate was very offensive. In my sleep, I grabbed the ashtray off of the table next to me and dumped it in my mouth, instantly waking me up and prompting me to spit out all of the cigarette butts all over my bed and run to the bathroom to wash my mouth out, gagging all the way

I'd like to have Simon do commentary on street fights. There is nothing better than hearing Simon call someone a "bellend".

The layers of that latex allergy joke was *chefs kiss* excellent.

Omg i get it... If you put cheese and cocaine side by side, I will go for the cheese every time.

The chlorinated water bit is something I learned in middle school. I was already a bit of a germaphobe and then finding out that the smell indicated the presence of urine and other contaminants was a serious source of anxiety for me. I wouldn’t get anywhere near a pool or hot tub that smelled like chlorine.

That rescue dog one bought tears to my eyes...

I had a stroke when I was 35 when I had a massive hemorrhagic stroke... died twice. I'm better now

If you shudder at the thought of wasp contaminated figs, stay away from lobster, described by some as "the biggest bug I ever ate".

Figs are the most metal food. They literally dissolve the biggest flying jerks, Wasps, and make a delicious snack.

I've seen so many videos of things they claim that you don't already know but it always ends up being stuff you already know. This video, actually has quite a few facts I didn't know and I love that!

My husband loves telling people where "natural" vanilla and raspberry flavors come from.

my father developed an allergy to shell fish at the age of 50, and after visiting a hibachi restaurant, came home and blew up like a balloon.

In the Blue people section, the man that looks like purple santa became that way on purpose by consuming vast quantities of colloidal silver.

“And I am never eating figs again” 😂 I appreciated you personalizing it for a moment.

The fact about how Koalas feed their young is a fact I could have done without. Wow what a description. Not so hungry anymore lol

I really like these longer (~50 items) collections that you've been producing lately. I'm looking forward to more!

Body farms! I have a shirt from one in Tennessee.. my wife is a medical interpreter and she traveled there a couple of times to assist foreign delegations in learning about rhe forensic science techniques they've developed there. It's fascinating stuff.

I just want to give those search and rescue dogs hugs.

48:50 Talks about crocheting, shows knitting. ETA: 49:08 There’s the crocheting!!

Holy shit figs are so metal

#32 seems like I heard a similar story after a large earthquake: they also buried volunteers under the rubble so the dogs could find someone alive.

I love the quacking in the duck entry to bleep out the cursing. Such a delightful call back to Brain Blaze

You added extra letters to acetaminophen and also took some out at the same time.

this should be a Brain Blaze - AM I RIGHT PETER!!??

50:00 is my phobia. Ever since I first listened to One by Metallica and learned the meaning of the song. Several years ago I was quite sick (ended up being a staph infection) I couldn't feel warm. I would stand in a shower at maximum heat and would still feel cool. Then I remembered that getting too hot can cause brain damage and I thought of locked-in syndrome and told my wife to call the ambos.

I don't normally sleepwalk, but once as a teen, I had a vivid dream of using a weedeater for a while (I worked in landscaping). The next morning, I woke up to find my pillow missing. Down a hall, down a short flight of stairs with a landing and a 90° turn, through the kitchen, and past 2 more corners, I found it on the couch by the front door 😅

I had a dream last night that Simon and I were hanging out in a parking lot talking about constellations when Sir Patrick Stewart showed up and got into a fistfight with a tweaker and beat the crap out of him right in front of us. It was epic!

So the bit about figs. Sure, you may eat wasp bits, but did you know that the USDA actually as allowable levels of animal bits, including bug parts and rat droppings, that are acceptable in all processed foods. So that can of green beans or chili can actually have roach parts or rat poop in it. I'd rather eat a wasp.

"The scent of chlorinated water is an unmistakeable sign that summer has finally arrived" As a Greek this is one of the saddest things I have ever heard

The fact about people dying from bacteria becoming drug resistant is very much true. In 2011, my mom died from sepsis because she had been given so many antibiotics over the course of 10 months. It wasn’t anything the doctors did wrong, it was due to bacteria being nasty little buggers who are really really good at adapting in order to survive. My mom had been battling a blood disorder and her body began suffering from bought of sepsis (infection of the blood) due to how life threatening sepsis is, when a patient is discovered to be septic the hospital has no choice but to very quickly administer every antibiotic they have at the hospital as quickly as possible. They do this because there is no time to figure out what antibiotic will be best to fight the infection because sepsis will kill you much faster than doctors can figure out what infection you have. So they basically throw everything but the kitchen sink at it and pray one of them is the right one to save the person. The longer you are septic the more permanent damage your organs will have. Because my mother was experiencing frequent battles with sepsis (approximately 1 every 5-6 weeks) her body was being bombarded with massive amounts of antibiotics (which can be just as hard on the body as the actual infection) as well as drug resistant bacteria. Eventually the bacteria worked faster than the doctors could find effective antibiotics and the damage caused from previous infections and the blood infection killed her. If she had not had so many infections that required such massive amounts of antibiotics that may or may not be effective for the latest infection she may have been able to fight off later infections. By giving her massive amounts of antibiotics that couldn’t fight the latest infection it would allow the bacteria to built up tolerance to other antibiotics. It was basically like giving someone the cheat codes for a whole bunch of video games and not all of them are the one you are correctly playing. The cheat codes for other games can be stored away for future use making it far easier to defeat future games when they are needed. It sucks, until we find new ways to very quickly identify the bacteria that is causing the infection and the correct antibiotic that it is not resistant to, we will have to continue using the “kitchen sink” method. Bacteria are lot more deadly than people realize.

Remember if you’re named after one of your parents the other has said your name in bed

Fun fact: the suspected Anthrax poisoner around the time of 9/11 committed not-alive-anymore by taking the entire contents of a bottle of Tylenol before the FBI were able to apprehend him

I love how you pronounce Acetaminophen. I had no idea that Fig trees are carnivorous. I ❤ all of your channels. I hope that someone at Disney considers giving you a cameo in a Star Wars movie or series.

That "The Most Dangerous Animal In The World" really made me smile. Though, I believe it would probably not in my lifetime 'til the description will come into fruition.

I could eat a wasp, but figs….gross

making simon try to pronounce acetaminophen when europe uses paracetamol as the generic name 😔

Many years ago, A close friend, who was still living at home at that time, and his family went through a period of food being eaten out of their kitchen. We tried various locks and other devices to try a thwart the would-be food bandit, including staking out the kitchen, on at least 5 occasions. But nothing happened on those nights. This was also before the internet and the availability of cheap surveillance cameras. Eventually, the company I worked for replaced their camera systems and I obtained, legally I might add, their old system. Just the old school low res cameras and a video recorder. So we set it up and within a week caught the thief, and yes it was my buddy. It was always around 3am, he would just get up out of bed, walk down to the kitchen, open the fridge and make himself a sandwich out of whatever was there. Then just go back to bed. He did it for about 6 months after which it just stopped.

The problem with the current state of pain relief in the U.S. right now is because of the opioid crisis combined with doctors worried about people with chronic pain being opioid seekers, there is no real alternative but to take too much acetaminophen, or even a handful cocktail of OTC painkillers to function enough to work. Pain management isn't always an answer.

YO- so heads up, Tylenol/acetaminophen can harm your liver even if you are taking a normal therapeutic dosage, it can harm your liver if you are taking below a normal dosage, too, if you have any other health issues... I cannot take Tylenol generally because it affects my liver so badly.

A Broken Arrow is also a code phrase notably used during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang to indicate an American combat unit was in danger of being overrun

Having worked as a makeup and special makeup effects artist in the entertainment industry plus whatever lifetime exposure I had playing with balloons as a kid and birth control later, I developed a latex allergy. The big deal about a latex allergy is that 30% to 50% of people who develop a latex allergy will subsequently develop some or many food allergies. Specifically to fruits, vegetables and nuts. Many other plants in the botanical Kingdom actually contain either the same molecule that I'm allergic to in latex or a reasonable facsimile thereof that my body still will react to allergicly. So plants started making me very sick and giving me reaction so I'm a strict carnivore now. Never felt better.

Extra fact about body farms: According to Casual Geographic with a video as evidence; body farms are also how we learned that deer will chew on human bones.

The blue may you showed in the montage was not blue because of a genetic condition. He became blue from drinking water with colloidal silver (home-made) - which he did for his health.

There were no venomous or dangerous spiders in Ireland UNTIL the Noble False Widow Spider arrived from the Canary Islands or Madeira in the late 1990's.

Koalas are also famous for their incredibly smooth brains. They're ridiculously stupid animals; so much so that if you put them in a room with a plate of eucalyptus, they won't recognize that it's the same food they eat off the trees and will starve to death. Not only that, but they also *regularly* mistake their arms for branches and fall out of their trees. Now, this would normally be a problem, but koalas have developed an extraordinarily thick skull to help keep them alive in such cases. Frankly speaking, they should not have survived as long as they have, according to all logic. It's one of the great mysteries how they have managed to not go extinct from their laundry list of evolutionary shortfalls.

Dog's mirror their primary human. Seeing their humans depresses over not finding like folk passed to the rescue dogs.

I have never been happier that my company buys disposable coffee cups. 🤮

"When you poop in your dreams you poop for real" - Peter Griffin

The dogs getting depressed at not finding living friends has made me depressed.

I love the Metallica One reference (Locked-in Syndrome) which segues into Enter Sandman, absolutely brilliant!

I had surgery on my throat as a neonate in 1957. I've suffered irrational fear and anxiety along with other emotional difficulties all my life and I've wondered if my surgery was an influence.

I'm sure ice cream manufacturers use much more expensive castorium instead of real vanilla because they don't want too much profit.

Chicken vs. Beef: I recently learned that if your goal is to prevent animal suffering, then your best ROI is to stop eating chicken. Factory farmed chicken life is hellish and short often resulting in a hellish death. Cows on the other hand live relatively uneventful lives, standing around eating most of the day. Modern dairy cows lives are darn near relaxing, never having to raise babies, never having to worry about predators, and eating and getting milked at will.

You should do more of these types of videos. My favourite fish guy is Alexander Williamson (Fishstory) who was struck by lightning but actually survived however, it really fucked up his body badly.

Also, if you don't spay/neuter your dogs and cats, it puts them at a much higher risk for testicular or mammory cancer. A female's risk of cancer goes up with every heat cycle. Also, rats are prone to mammory tumors as well. 10:23

0:32 Aceta-what now? Lmao you forgot the first N. "Acetaminophen"

I used to sleepwalk quite a bit as an adult. I was staying at my mom's place and apparently ate five pieces of string cheese and tucked the rest of the package under my pillow. I also once dreamed the house was on fire and sleep-ran down the stairs and out the front door before waking up and feeling incredibly lucky I was uninjured.

Missed out the fact that since elephants is so inefficient at digesting its food that its poop still has a lot of nutrients in them. Nom noms take two!

I clicked on this specifically because I like the disturbing facts. It's my favorite way to f with people.

Thanks for that Simon. Now I want to pluck out my eyelashes! You just had to say ‘arachnids’ didn’t you?!?!

Yes! Crochet supposedly cannot be made by machines, because the hook catches on the yarn if not pulled through the stitches just right. That's not including the twisting motions you have to do, and sometimes wiggling the hook to get it in or out of the stitches!

On locked in syndrome, Morse code could be a thing. I heard a guy on ham radio talk about his daughter. She was in a wheelchair and nonvocal. She *could* move her hands. They had set her up with a pair of levers, one hand for dots, the other for dashes. Being able to "talk" was life-changing.

20 had a stroke , 22 now, was in a coma and I still remembered Simon very well , I typed in business blaze when I was given a phone… I was like “ok” rolled with it , rolled something else and continued my fandom , recovered like a tank btw

The horse manure in the medieval production of medicine was for heating. The fermentation of manure provided a means for gentle continuous heating of materials.

I have a relative with a lifelong phobia to the sound of metal clanking together due to undergoing massive surgery in the early 80s with no anesthesia. This can include tools, silverware, or metallic percussion instruments like the triangle. She was only a few months old, yet she has "impressions" of what happened to her, most vividly the sound of the surgical tools clanking on a metal tray. It was so traumatic, her tiny brain apparently couldn't let it go, and that became her very first memory.

I spent 3 days in ICU in 2008 for an accidentally Tylenol overdose. Thankfully I made a full recovery but I've been a lot more careful since then.

There are only a few figs that require fig wasps to be pollinated, none of the figs you buy in the store are pollinated with a fig wasp.

He covered Ferrets in spay your pets, but dogs also get a condition called pyometera which is also fatal unless spayed, but they typically aren't at risk til 8+ years. What the fact does not contain is telling people for over a decade to spay their dog, and then they come back with a pyo crying to save them and that $200 spay turned into a $2000 surgery and they yell at you about the cost. Even though you spent over a decade warning them (the difference in cost included).

"Gloves are not the only latex products that people use, and it's quite possible that the reason you were born is that someone who came before you developed a latex allergy. " Best line.

You didn’t have to tell us the eyelash bugs are spider cousins, Kevin!!! 😳😭🫣

I was always told that acetaminophen and paracetamol are the same drug, but just different labeled, depending on the region it is in.

The term "Broken Arrow" has a second meaning in a combat zone, it is a declaration from a Unit that it is about to be overrun, a Commander issuing this radio call is given immediate priority for fire support and air support.

The bone medicine thing is wild because very recently some folks got in trouble digging up bodies to get high on the bones

Then why do pool stores have that chlorine smell?

Why did france run out of painkillers ? Cause paris ate em all

If a tiny insect part is the worst thing I have to worry about ingesting with my food, I’ll count myself lucky.

43:50 The student was caught on camera eating Tic Tac candy, and the assistant principal thought that he was taking pills.