A MATTER OF FACTS | JT Music Fact Rap Challenge 

Lyrics here because they're too long for the description! JT set a challenge. I’m here to answer it. You want facts? Boy, well you asked for it I'm gonna give ya' some trivia mastery And put the facts on blast til' class dismissed It's the truth, aint no party trick I'm bringing facts to the web like Encarta did So get your notebooks out, you can quote the track It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of fact Please have your pen and paper ready. The facts will commence in 3. 2. 1. Facts. Black-thighed falconet, world's smallest bird of prey Giraffe's neck may be long but only seven vertebrae That's the same as you would find in anybody, you or me But you try using yours to eat 75 pounds of leaves a day The opposite of Deja vu is Jamais vu When something familiar seems strangely new A smilodon is what you’d really call a sabre-tooth And they were nothing like tigers, to say the truth Reindeer's eyes go through a range of hues They're gold, but in winter change to blue There are more hats in Team Fortress 2 Than there are real forts in the whole E.U. 'Fort Boyard' took 56 years to complete So by the time that it was built, forts were obsolete But since the 90s you will find it's been in use constantly As the setting of a game show on TV. That's the sound of a Honda for Indy's boulder dash No one really knows the etymology of 'Balderdash' Escobars had so much gold to stash He spent thousands on rubber bands just to roll the cash A group of Jellyfish is called a 'Smack' A safety helmet was the purpose of the Bowler Hat You don’t feel pain if you're a naked mole rat 39 is the record for the oldest cat Buckel up, this one's a little morbid In the 50s laugh tracks were recorded So if a new show has a canned laugh audience There's a good chance that the laughers are all dead There's no letter B ‘til you get up to a billion An ice-cream tester had a tongue insured for millions Ninety-nine zeroes in a duotrigintillion Ninety-nine sides is an enneacontakaienneagon Annually we make seven billion zips To dot an 'I' is a 'Tittle', on a die it's a 'Pip' Tommy Cooper died live, in the middle of a quip But my granddad once taught him how to build a ship J is the only letter that is not in any elements The White House got power when Harrison was president But he never touched the switches, 'cus he was scared of them Relevant, Thomas Edison killed an elephant The way no electricity in Ethiopia 'Til 1896 when the Emperor Ordered a brand new electric chair And realised they couldn't plug it in anywhere The world's first batteries may have been Roman Three percent of all the world's cheese gets stolen Figs use wasps to spread their pollen But the wasps get trapped and the figs dissolve them A strawberry is not a berry. In any way. But a banana is and shares half of all our DNA. The first fruit eaten on the moon was canned peaches From canned peaches on to grand speeches We will fight them on the beaches! Great speech, can’t be debated Except the fact that Winston Churchill never really made it. Sure, he wrote it and performed it to the government of course But the recording that you've heard was made years after the war. Dippy Dawg was his name, before he was Goofy Scarecrows were once called 'Hobbidy-boobies' Jordan and Bugs once advertised shoes, these- -ads got so popular they went and made a movie Green screen and blue screen make VFX a dream But did you know that years ago they used a yellow screen? Special sodium lamps on a plain white fill Make a certain shade of yellow that’s invisible on film 'In Disney's Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins says Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards is Dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus. But that's just the syllables reversed. Letter for letter, it's: Suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus. And if you think I'm saying that on the beat, you're mad... And that's a fact. There are more ways you can stack a deck of cards Than the galaxy has stars And each year we eat so much Nutella That you could span the Great Wall of China with the jars. (8 times!) Coca Cola sell so many drinks worldwide That measuring their sales in profits won't suffice So 'Share of Throat' is a scale they devised For the percentage of humanity's hydration they provide. Memetics is the study of shared ideas And it’s where the word ‘Meme’ first appears Johnny Cash was a radio engineer And when Stalin died he was the first to hear (It's a matter of fact) That in the wild there are less flamingos Than there are plastic ones on lawns (It's a matter of fact) The man who invented the tube for Pringles Had his ashes buried in one. (It's a matter of fact) And every second 5000 statuses are updated (It's a matter of fact)9 Every second 4000 new stars are created (It's a matter of fact) Every second takes hours when animated (It's a matter of fact) So I'm gonna stop now or I'll never ever make it. If you set a challenge I am bound to react JT, this has been my counter-attack If you saw it through, have a pat on the back It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts.

Fun fact: The same Ethiopian emperor used the unplugged electric chair as a throne and claimed he was so powerful that Western execution methods didn't affect him

"3% of all the world's cheese gets stolen" don't out my 3am shenanigans, please...

This was dope dude! Thanks for responding to the challenge :)

"There are more hats in TF2 than there are real fort in the E.U." Yes, YESSSS

Me: Nothing can beat Dan Bull's response. Stupendium: Hold my beer.

“And if you think I’m saying that one the beat, you’re mad, and that’s a fact.” Years later and I still love that joke.

the other day, my class went to the zoo, and we had a sort of quiz-competition thing we had to do. one of the questions was how many neck vertebrae a giraffe has, and i immediately knew the answer. everyone thought it was at least 20, and i kept on saying it was only 7, and eventually lucas, another member of my group, said that if i ask a zookeeper, and it actually IS 7, he has to get me a drink. now he owes me a drink. EDIT: i still haven't gotten my drink.

He looks so pissed off that TF2 has lots of hats 😂

I feel like my IQ has increased

Absolutely fantastic! I don't envy how much research you had to do......

Friend: hey what’s that thing on that field over there? Me: it’s a HOBBIDY-BOOBIE

This song is, musically, incredible and wildly catchy, and also it has sent me into a spiral of googling and confusion. A lot of the information in this song is just little-known facts, but an uncomfortable amount is widely-believed myths. And I can't know which is which until I look it up, and sometimes go through a few links before I find something trustworthy. And now I have all of these "facts" in my head just from memorizing (some of) the lyrics, but I have no idea whether any given fact is true, and I'm terrified that I might mindlessly repeat a myth from this song because I never fact-checked it and then I forgot where I heard it, and this is driving me crazy. Again, love the music, very catchy, it's been stuck in my head for days so fantastic job on that.

For the board game rap, please make a song about trivial pursuit called «It's not a matter of facts, it's a trivial pursuit»

I cant understand one thing: why stupendium doesnt already have more than 1 mill subs and why his videos do not earn mills of veiws and likes. It is just crazy how much effort is put in any of his videos, quality of after effects and lyrics is just overwhelming. Stupendium deserves a lot more than he gets now!

0:58 Oh god. I can recognize EVERY SINGLE ONE of those hats in the background. Goddamn, I have a MAJOR TF2 addiction, and I didn’t even REALIZE it!

You went and did it with Kingdom Hearts! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious on the beat! Officially mad!

Is that fact about your grandfather teaching Tommy cooper how to build a ship? If so loved how you put a personal one in there

0:58 Oh i fucking love this fact from the bottom of my european heart.

Awesome work dude! (also im hyped for your Doki Doki song, it's gonna be sweet!)

"3% of all the world's cheese gets stolen dovahkiin: runs away

The first word he sang was “well” which begins with W meaning that he got a win with this song 👌

"You can quote the track" -stupendium 2018

I have never been so amused while learning so many completely useless (yet intriguing!) facts in just 4 minutes.

"I've just hit 16k subscribers which is absolutely nuts" And you're already at 500k now! Your channel is growing by a lot and very quickly, and you deserve it! Your stuff is awesome, man!

Of the fact raps I've heard, yours is the best. Even better than Dan Bull's.

Dude, this was awesome, you just earned your self a mOnIkA

YES, YOU ADDED A TF2 REFRENCE, also this awesome lol!

3:03 The fact there are two clips of them making the same mouth movements, yet different physical actions, means they had to say that twice and not screw it up. Which is something you just have to respect.

Back here after the TF2 song just to enjoy the reference a bit more

The Johnny Cash Stalin thing was kinda mind-blowing. I'm a historian and had never heard that tidbit before!

This is WAY better than school!

"I just hit 16k subscribers!" Clocking in at 300 now! Rooting for you!

Dude your songs never cease to amaze me. And that's a fact ;)

I love watching his earlier videos and see where he came from. Also it's amazing to think that he had 16k subscribers and talks about the board game challenge, and then he has 20k

This takes the so called challenge and destroys it. To smithereens. Absolutely one of a kind perfect.

The only educational rap that I’m not afraid to jam to.

I cant beleive you only had 16k when you made this you were so underappreciated for so long dude.

This man really out here cramming a full American education into a few minutes, and what's more - it's arguably better. Good on ya, mate!

Your raps are seriously the best!

Keep up the amazing work. For a person who writes their songs and animates their videos your quality is through the roof. Best of luck in your future endeavors. I will be there.

I love that one of the facts was that he needed to stop making it longer or else it would take forever to render the animation!😂

"From canned peaches on to grand speeches _We will fight them on the beaches!_ " Amazing line

I love how they take their competitive energies and challenge eachother playfully instead of dishing out disstracks like some other people..Amazing relationship everyone in this community has with another.

Decided to give it a listen because this is the rap that made me fall in love with the channel. Incredible to see how far the channel got.

Wow I think my brain exploded

"3% of the world's cheese gets stolen." Dragonborn: *Heavy breathing*

Honestly I want one of these where he’s just bragging the whole time about how manu facts he knows without naming any. And at the end it’s like “ok we’re out of time” and he’s like “no wait I was just getting started!”

The game raps are already phenomenal, but this was just mind-blowing.

you're a word master

Dude PLEASE do songs for Pony Island and Spooky's House of Jumpscares. They're phenomenal games that deserve way more recognition then they get. I love your songs, and I can't wait for the DDLC song.

To be honest, Stupendium looks good in a bowler hat! He should wear them more often!

MY HEAD IS FULL OF STUPENDIUM WISDOM best shit i've ever heard before Btw i subbed

Alright, so I'm a HUGE JT and Dan fan. But I gotta admit, you did it best and are now gonna be my "I'm bored, time for music" Chanel

I come back to this song every so often just to re-memorize the lyrics, having over 3 minutes of facts set to music memorized is one heck of a party trick I'm sure.

The lyric transitions into each new fact/bit of trivia was so fucking smooth and seamless, and this was just a damn good rap overall. As always a fantastic video!

Alternative Title: Musical Stroke of Intelligence

I can just imagine your search history.

Woah dude, congrats on 16k subs! I hope you soon get 63 thousand subs and counting! Wait a minute...

Dude i sang this song in school during talent show and the teacher AND the students were in aw and i have you to thank! plus learning this song can take up to a week depending on how good your memory is, how fast you can rap, and how much you bother to listen to it

You are definitly a rap monster ! Greetings from France (and Fort Boyard xD)

this is the best thing I've seen in 11 years best fourth of July ever

Here’s a fact: while I’ve always admired this one, I’m finally purchasing it on iTunes so I can have your Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious pronunciations on demand. That’s an insane party trick well worth a dollar to have on demand. (And then I realized I should do it to support content creators but sadly my initial motivation was indeed “I CAN OWN A CLIP OF HIM SAYING THAT.”)

The funny thing about RU-vid is, I learn more from its videos than I have in any lesson I've ever sat through in school.

I feel bad about the Pringles guy Did he really want that?

Just monika? This makes me the next rap will be about doki doki or something.

Honestly, this taught me more than any of my online classes have.

"The facts will commense in 3--" Me: pauses video Also Me: "And then the facts never commensed."

YES! I WAS WAITING FOR THIS!

It’s surreal to watch the outro of this celebrating 16k when this channel is over a million subs by now.

i still come back to this rap its just so majestic in its own way

Me after listening to this song: Oh yeah, This is big brain time.

just found out tomorrow's this channel's birthday :D early congrats on 2 years for this channel

The talent of penmanship, flow, beat the stupendium is on a different level

This song taught me more stuff than a year of school did

1:50 "But my grandad once taught him how to build a ship" what?

That was awesome man, liked it better than JT's rap :D

“There are more hats in team fortress 2 than there are original thoughts IN THE WHOLE EU”

This video is how I discovered the channel so every now and then come back to give it a listen

you can see how much more effort stupendium put in this than JT music

Dude this is amazing, I love this song, catchy and I learned something new!!!

Rediscovered this Rap after years. It was as magical as I remembered. You brought a smile to my face when I needed it most Thank You

this is my yearly thank you for finally getting me to remember the name of that obscure TV show was Fort Boyard. You're still a legend mate.

how can you make random facts sound so good?

This is one of my favourite raps of yours

I was watching all of the facts raps and it struck me how different they were. Like how these different artists were able to take the ‘assignment’ completely different places. Which is really cool. And then after listening to them I felt like making a chorus of my own and I wanna share it :) “I’m not a fax machine, no I’m a *facts* machine, spitting facts to make up for what I lack, you see I didn’t think that I would have to say this twice, but I’ll be nice, so listen up lest I should have to say it thrice The whole point of this song is so that you can sing along to these facts because the list is very long”

I love tf2. When i heard there are more hats than forts in the whole E.U. i was firstly shocked BUT i was very happy because you researched and know this game :D

I desperately need to know the story about how your Granddad taught Tommy Cooper how to build a ship

You win easy. This is a masterpiece, 10 out of ten as usual

it's been about 1 and a half years and stupendium went from 16K to now at the end of 2019 for 309K!!!!!!

Im really glad you made this, its how i found you and seriously more people need to know about you, you are an amazing singer and great with animation

This is amazing rap

If his final fact is true, Stupendium spent over 274 hours on this song, thank you for your work on this, we appreciate it. Edit: this week and a half of time is entirely animating, this does not include finding facts, making lyrics and singing them twice or more.

I never would have thought to rhyme "flamingos" with "pringles", where can I get a fraction of this man's lyrical genius?

Did you know that during the stock market crash of 1929 local cheese businesses were so out of money that the government had to buy it all, they had so much cheese that they had to put it all in multiple caves in America and they handed out the cheese in the caves to poor and homeless people but there are still multiple cheese caves to this day

Is it just me, or is this fact rap the best one out of any of the ones made in response to the challenge?

0:44 people playing literally every single battle royale game

Your rhyming is so magnifisent a wide smile is drawn on May face whenever O hear you.

You know someone's talented when they can make a catchy rap as well as inform you at the same time! Another awesome video mate. :)

it's insane that just a year ago you were so exited about 16k subs when now, you have more than 10 times that... you've elevated since then, huh? anyway, congrats on 200k in advance! i know you'll get there =)