I feel like you’ve had a conversation or two about how smart and sophisticated human society would have been for nomads/natives prior to western contact… only to have the person your speaking with to immediately think you’re referencing some Graham Hancock ancient apocalypse conspiracy 😅
People who built the Pyramids. Pretty damn smart to do that with the limited technology/economy. Roman Empire. Lots of smart people kept that thing running. Even your most "primitive" of people. Have an excellent understanding of their own environment, have seasons, animals and plants memorized, they know the land of hundreds of square kilometers like you would in your own home. The brain found in people 100 to 200 thousand years ago is no different to the one in your own head. Humans are pretty smart.
In a way yes, but most of them also believed in a talking snake, which I suppose over half the population believes that nowadays too, so I guess nothing has really changed 🤔
I'm surprised this Lincoln factoid isn't a movie yet. If Lincoln can be a vampire killer in a fiction movie, how much better is a one loss 100 bout wrestler in real life? Or a young Plato writing and discussing his philosophy between bouts?
I met Rear Admiral (then Captain) Grace Hopper at a lecture in the early 1970's and was honored to be given by her a "nanosecond" an insulated wire 30 cm long. The distance an electrical signal travels in one nanosecond. I have it famed in my study and is one of my most prized possessions
sadly, the cable is to long. I know where the idea comes from 1/1 000 000 000 s for 1/1 000 000 000 the distance light travels in a second. But c is slightly below 300 000 km/s and the transfer in a cable is slower than c (which is light in a perfect vacuum) still a nice gesture.
25:54 I have Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Within 48 hours, I went from totally fine (just had the flu) to being on life support because I couldn't breathe on my own. It felt like my body was dying around me and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Spent a couple weeks in a medically-induced coma, another few in the ICU, another couple of months in a regular hospital room, and had to stay at my mom's for *another* three months because I still needed around-the-clock care. I was paralyzed for almost a year and it felt like I was trapped in a corpse. Just the weight of a sheet hurt so much that I wanted to scream, but I couldn't move at all or make any sounds. I kept hoping that I would just die and get it over with. It's been six years and I still have nerve damage, mobility issues, and nightmares about it relapsing or me just waking up still in the hospital like my recovery was just a dream. GBS is *terrifying* and *painful.*
Sounds terrifying. I have a chronic illness that keeps me in bed a lot and just being there without all the other issues you described is unbearable sometimes. Thank you for sharing.
It's absolutely mindblowing how effortlessly this guy pumps out quality content. Never seen him put out a bad video on any of the channels he has been on and he always looks so relaxed
Yeah, under the fence. We had two dig under our fence to get into our yard from our neighbors behind us and dug under the fence to get to our next door neighbors back yard. They stayed between our 3 houses 😊.
The 'war' was 3 people, with 1 vehicle, and 2 lewis guns, the fence actually went 6 inches under ground, the issue with the fence wasn't rabbits digging under it, it was them spreading faster then construction
Absolutely love this format. An hour long fire hose of fascinating random facts? Yes please. Well done with the script and research, @ThatWriterKevin !
Small point: several pirate crews did not share the spoils equally. The captain had 2 shares, as did the quartermaster. Mates and specialized crewmen such as coopers or carpenters had a share and a half.
@@h2oteen and many among pirate crews were deserters and escaped slaves. People who were in service against their will. so it's only natural that they do a more fair system of sharing.
I often find lists like this to be hit-or-miss, but this one was more hits than misses for me. Some of that is because I enjoy listening to Simon so much that even the facts I already knew were interesting to hear, but there were plenty that were new to me and I found the overall result to be engaging. My biggest complaint would be that with some of the facts, I felt like there was a lot more to be said but the narrative ended abruptly, leaving me wanting more. While frustrating, this isn't necessarily a bad thing!
I agree. Even though it's overall a good video as to be expected, it's the little things or addendums that might be missing. Such as the correct pronunciation of Ca-lee-GOO-lah. /jk
already an hour long vid bruh. lol But, if there were stories you wanna hear more about, say so in the comments, they listen and might do a whole episode on it, either here or maybe on another simon channel.
Oliver Sipple, 42:27 I was wondering which one when I read your comment. Definitely an editor fail. Also a sad commentary on how politicians won't let anyone stand in the way of their agendas and political policies & pressures can destroy lives.
"Derrr. Pistols aren't revolvers. Derr" Gun = gun. Pretty straightforward to anyone but the insufferably pedantic. As an American I'm shaking my head. 😂
@@a.nobodys.nobody No, it really isn't, since a lot of proposed "assault weapon bans" are written such that anything the has a mechanism that brings another cartridge to the chamber is an "assault weapon", all semi-autos would fall under it. Revolvers have individual chambers and would be treated differently. Details and accuracy matter.
@@GryphonBrokewing oh , i agree, but legislation and bans are a million miles and years away from Oliver Sipple and whatever stock image they used for 1 second in this instance.
First, love the length. Second, I like the format. Pretty sure Simon has talked about a bunch of these before but it’s good reinforcement and it’s fun to watch.
I'm part yuchi and since our tribe is not federally recognized and was blended into another tribe there's not many fact videos I've found talking about the yuchi. It was a nice surprise to hear Simons fact about the tribe. We are not from California though
And by “it’s important for people to get enough sleep”, you mean “it’s important for companies not to work there are people into exhaustion”. Pretty much every example of a spill from an oil derrick is due to overwork.
As a student of history, this was a great brush up on so many great topics. Thank you Simon and your team for a great episode as always. I so want a sequel
I really liked the ancient history parts of this video. The last one about the ancient museum was awesome and it really shows that while we’ve learned more about the world and improved our level of technology, we’re still the same people. The only changes are what we qualify as smart and stupid
42:50 Says the woman pulled out a revolver, then shows a pistol. But nobody's perfect. Simon's channels are high among the best on the platform, with the best writers and editors. Thanks for a great collection of interesting info!
I just discovered your discontinued podcast. Some of these, I remembered from the podcast, but I was happy to have them again. Love you Fact Boy and Daven's research.
Simon is really going to flip his lid when he finds out we still use pumice in dentistry. Like, every day. On most patients. You know the polishing part that happens at the end of a cleaning that makes your teeth nice and slick? Yup, pumice.
I am a 46 year Hoosier. Crane has something sinister you failed to mention. Yes they stored munitions, including the wonderful VX gas. It was banned for use in warfare when I was a boy in the late 80's. It was slated to be destroyed soon after....in Texas. All of it was shipped in Semi's and by rail. I fondly remember seeing rail cars full of liquefied VX speeding through my town. Such a stress free feeling that was😂
My last Navy active duty station was the Naval Historical Center in DC. I had the great fortune to meet and chat with Admiral Hopper about a year before she died. She said everyone always want to hear the bug story. She handed out 11" peices of wire saying, "Here's a nanosecond." Cheers....
Officially requesting more videos like this, randomly dispersed throughout Simon's channels, with apropos quick facts!!! (yes, Casual Criminalist included!)
History in general has always fascinated me. I never took it further than high school but for most even a college setting will be skewed by the fact that "the winners write the history". It's the same for ancient civilizations, was Caligula as perverse as we are lead to believe by the ones that killed him? What was Egypt truly like during the rule of the Pharaoh's?, What was the earliest city in Europe? So many questions with no real answers, just guesses. I love it because any little new thing can open worlds of new thought
And her alleged terms to the Chinese Emperor at the time were amnesty and a brothel for her to run, in exchange for her fleet. It’s also notable that she kept incredibly detailed ledgers of what they plundered, and how everyone was paid.
Bugs in computers? In the early 80s, I worked at area 51, assigned to the telemetry system computers that processed radar information on aircraft flying there at the time. One morning, when boarding our flight, we were advised that the site had been invaded by a massive swarm of locusts (grasshoppers) All the locusts were dead and on the ground and floors. We were sweeping them up with brooms. Then we fired up the Data General MV8000 computer for another day of work, but the 80G Winchester multi-platter disk drive started, it made one god-awful noise. Winchester drives use airflow to make the read/write head "fly" above the disk surfaces. Well, locusts had made their way up the exhaust ports of the air system, and destroyed the disk pack and the read/write heads. We had multiple bugs in our computer that day.
I believe that when they finally killed the tiger they found it had a broken fang and some other issues with the mouth which led it to killing and eating the first human. Easier prey than the elusive dwindling supply of the normal prey.
You could honestly do this same video format, but with each fact leading to an episode on one of your various channels. In case anyone wanted a “deeper” dive. Good content!
I breathed a sigh of relief when Simon finished talking about the origins of Mary Had A Little Lamb. I was expecting the lamb to be slaughtered or some other horrific thing but it was actually a wholesome story
🎯🎯🎯 this compilation! If I could get this without ads or having to pay to get this without ads… like a 2 hour compilation, I think I’d have the best nap of my adult life and a wake up with load of subliminal new trivia to boot!
Absolutely amazing that you can do these videos, while still uploading on your other channels and managing to keeping the same quality content. Different type of human
12:30 Another thing we miss about Vlad the Impaler is that his cruelty was directed at the nobles and foreign invaders. Most likely the peasants saw him as the one ruler who was actually on their side.
No, Vlad's cruelty was just as often directed at the Wallachian people as it was the Ottomans and other foreigners. He spent much of his adult life fighting for the Wallachian throne and it was his treatment of the locals that his reputation for cruelty and impaling began. It was only in the 19th century, with the rise of Romanian nationalism, that he was looked at as a romantic national hero and defender of Romania but moder scholars agree that had he ruled in the present day, his acts would be considered war crimes and genocide.
@@ifIOnlyHadABrian Historical evidence, archeological remains and contemporary reports are not subjective, they tell us what really happened in the past, oftentimes by the people that experienced the events first hand. Speculation is the absence of evidence but in the case of Vlad Dracul, we know that he treated his own subjects just as cruelly as he did his enemies because there are plenty of detailed accounts that still survive
I like this format. You keep things longer and give a better insight instead of just giving a 1 sentence fact and then leave with a picture that's usually vaguely related. I hope you do these every now and then but hour normal format is still *chefs kiss*
Fun fact: the base 12 and base 60 system work by counting each of the 12 joints in your fingers with your thumb. Then, you can use the fingers of your second hand to track how many 12s you’ve counted. With this system, you could comfortably count to 60 using just two hands. It’s honestly brilliant.
Actually, while you can count to 60 in this fashion, you can more than double that using finger segments. You count singly 1-12 on one hand, and the number of 12s counted on the other. Since there are twelve segments on each hand (not including the thumb which is used to mark which segment you are on) you can count twelve twelves (144) which is why there is a named unit of measure for 144 of something: a gross; the highest number easy to count on your fingers.
Great video,.Simon! I love the quality content you continue to put out across all of your channels. The new video format was highly entertaining and immensely engaging. Keep up the great work! Cheers!
8:32 fun fact, it's speculated that base 12/60 came about by counting knuckles. Discounting the thumb and provided you haven't lost one, you have 12 knuckles on one hand. If you use the other hand to count thru all twelve with each finger (thumb included) you get 60.
Fun fact about the emu war we learnt how fucking hard emus are those soldiers could shoot it how most out food on the table hunting rabbits but unlike rabbits emus can take multiple 303 rounds to the chest and keep running and even live the army realised it’s a lost battle and we breed them to be afraid of human now 50% will run from you and the rest will disembowel your ass
Absolutely love this video format, I'd love to see this turn into maybe a once a month 50 facts video....as always very informative, entertaining, well put together, and Simon as always well presented...keep up the great work y'all we all thank you for ur hard work and dedication to giving knowledge to the masses
There is a quote from an Australian General that says "If men could take as many bullets as those Emu's, there would be no conflict in the world that could stop us" as each Emu was able to take an average of 10-20 shots
The Emu War! I love that my forefathers were so freaking dumb and it is so much funnier than what we get here. Please do this again. It's a lot of fun.
Oliver Sipple's story got to me, the only thing worse then a society that demonises those who've done nothing wrong is when those supposedly fighting to *improve* their lot in life care more abut the fight then the actual people the're supposed be to fight for
They were not even remotely close to rival anything modern. Alan Turin first ever computer is light years more sophisticated than that thing. And modern computers are REALLY much more sophisticated than whatever Alan built in the 1940 ... Lets not be silly here.
Calling all OG's Sooooo.... Is this technically side blaze? Without the tangents (witch is a shame) its awesome! Edit: Either way thank you Simon we know you lost money doing this. understanding your "slightly capitalist heart......even though its a long video (source..you pointed out out) Cheers lad Thank youu still
I like it. It drives me nuts when people talk slow and drag things out with um and ahhh. Or read super chats. I want information directly to the point and in a timely manner.
Thought the same thing it’s history on crack I hate having to rewind five times to actually understand some things like do you know why they have periods and commas
I really liked this new format of video. The one major thing that I would like to see changed and done differently is pretty much just spending a bit more time on each topic even if that means cutting the amount of subjects in half. Quite a few tidbits of info made me want more on the topic but you're quickly onto the next one
“God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks-his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to him to substitute artificial metal forks for them when eating.” Probably my favorite quote.
Loved this vid and this format, listened to it throughout my day and it was the perfect thing to have on while doing chores. Don't have to pay a ton of attention as each fact is about a minute, but all of them were interesting and I hadn't heard of many.
