A Solid 30 Minutes of Useless Information 

Shakespeare:*talks to a woman* Woman:*rolls her eyes* Shakespeare: this must be what women do when they think someone is hot

*"a solid 30 minutes of useless information"* Schools: Those are rookie numbers

The amount of this I actually absorb and end up telling other people is startling.

I've been falling asleep to these, keep my brain engaged enough to not wander off to bad thoughts but also not intently focused

Teacher - “Now remember everyone there will be a test on this later”

I feel like I’ve learned so much but at the same time I’ve learned nothing

Potato and bacon are not coconut. I waited a lifetime for such truly information

a man once tried to mail a 40 ton building across utah because of tax rates in 1917 and was made illegal to mail any type of building across any where

Now do "A solid 12 years of useless information" and now you made school free for every student watching

I love how this whole thing is delivered with a tone of moderated aggression.

You forgot to mention my favourite bit! The Beatles' LOTR movie was turned down by Tolkein himself, due to having lived three doors down from them in 1964. He described the sounds of them practising as "indescribable", which I'm sure is a very evocative term for a writer of his calibre.

As someone who loves being a fountain of useless knowledge, I vibe with this!

"Charlie Chaplin once entered a look alike contest of himself, and lost." Not only that, but he lost SPECTACULARLY. There was about 40 competitors, and he came 27TH. Lmao

“The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire” I r o n y

how the heck can a backwards marathon world record be faster than the normal marathon world record?

So the cost of gas in 2009 sent me down a little rabbit hole on gas prices vs oil prices. I get that there are other expenses beyond the cost of crude, but why is the cost of gas in 2023 around double what it was in 2009, while the WTI index is within a few dollars? It's corporate greed. That's it.

Austin you can't just keep one-upping yourself like this 2029: A solid day of useless information

I love how he started this series out of spite and is now spiteful that its popular

You questioned the popularity of these videos. Your narration is engaging and enthusiastic. The video is interesting and keeps the pace very well while not being busy or difficult to track. These really are a delight to watch. They're the "comic strips" of art, really. It's fun and easily accessible entertainment that is very well done. And you should know that the popularity of these have brought you to the attention of people like me, who rarely use RU-vid for anything but listening to music.

I assure you that eye-rolling had a "negative connotation" WELL before the 1980's! I was born in 1958, and, as early as kindergarten, an eye-roll toward either Mom or Dad would earn me a slap. They would say, "Don't you roll your eyes at me, young man!" It took a lot of discipline to curtail my eye-rolling activities! I'm sure any senior watching this video would absolutely concur with me. Facts that you get out of a book somewhere can't hold a candle to actual experience!

"Honey does not spoil." This is useful.

I’m on vacation so this is as productive as it gets

Tomatoes are fruits, and yet 1:31 "Tomatoes are the official "vegetable" of New Jersey. I just CAN'T be the only one to have caught that.

My roommate was fixated on hand washing his dishes, saying it saves water. I nearly lost my mind because there was still food stuck to pans and shit too he just sucked at hand washing.

Austin: “30 minutes of useless information.” Schools: *that’s insultingly low.*

At least It doesn’t last 5 hours and I’m not forced to remember it because there’s gonna be a test about it.

6:35 ‘potatoes and bacon share a commonality in that neither of them is a coconut’ best fact of the video hands down

I rewatch all these videos when I’m sick, currently can’t eat solid food so this is a very mind numbing way to disassociate. Thank you very much sir.

"asthma causes kids to miss 10 million school days every year" me who knows there's only 365 days in a year:

When he gets to 8 hours, he should just name the video “school”

I was surprised by the sales of CDs and vinyls fact not because vinyls are more popular again but because I didn’t realise that CDs were already available in the 80s

Sir this is hands down my favorite video on RU-vid. You knocked it out of the park.

I just wasted 30 minutes of my day hearing things I’m gonna never remember and I’m proud

AustinMcConnell: "a solid 30 minutes of useless information" Schools: ".. Pathetic"

6:43 to 7:49 sounds exactly like a piece of dialogue I would hear in a dream that somehow carries the entire plot, causing me to wake up in a cold sweat, and vaguely remember while stressing over trying to figure out what it meant.

OMG this is freaking Brilliant. I can't remember 1 of your statements but this kept my attention untill it was finished. Great stuff.

"Every 60 seconds in africa a minute passes" It's a fact

“A solid 30 minutes of extreme trivia questions you will need to know at game night” Fixed your title

Sunday. Severe bachake. I so needed this. Thank you.

Tomatoes being anyone’s state vegetable while being a fruit has to be the best under cover agent moment since golden eye

“Rabbits not being able to vomit” that is an extremely important thing to know for bunny owners!

"I dont know how to play our taxes but I know that rabbits dont vomit"

I usually scroll past this series on my home page, however now i'm tipsy with nowhere to go in a hotel room what perfect timing for this!

how am I just now finding this??!!?? I LOVE IT!!❤

"Fire hydrant original patent destroyed by fire" "You have become the very thing you swore to destroy"

"30 minutes of useless information." Schools: You gotta bump those numbers up, those are rookie numbere.

I just find your smooth deadpan delivery relaxing. Better than ASMR for resting. Sadly no tingles.

This is far and away one of the best videos on the platform

His FBI agent must be so confused with his search history

Of course the letters T H E would be the most used in the Nancy Drew series

I never realized how much I hated useless information until I watched this. Your deadpan yet “disappointed in humanity” type of narration is exactly the vibe that fits a video like this.

"There's so many productive things you could be doing." Bro I did that all day, I just want to not think.

6:35 "Potatoes and bacon serve a commonality in that neither of them is a coconut" GENIUS who could've thought

"there are so many productive things you could be doing right now" Bitch im learning

wow. this video has really enlightened me. before, i never knew that bacon and potatoes were not coconuts, but now i do.

“It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.” by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Did you do it?" "Yes." "What did it cost?" "30 Minutes."

"Honey does not spoil" - That's actually some useful info.

I think my favorite part was the drone going around in circles as Austin said all 40 names, the footage almost felt like what you see in a "Continue?" screen of Soul Calibur or Tekken.

I'm programming a simple flash cards game, I ran out of questions to ask but I think this will help me lot!

"The average person consumes 3 bottles of ketchup a year" *Worriedly looks at my second bottle for this month*

"There are so many productive things you could be doing right now!" I'm pooping, this *is* productive

“The horse raced past the barn fell” is something I cannot wrap my mind around

"Rabbits cannot vomit" Me, who owns a rabbit: *not so useless now*

"Potatoes and bacon share a commonality in that neither of them is a coconut" I can't man...

"Most people lose about 30% of their taste buds while flying in an airplane" So THAT'S the deal with airline food...

Just found this. What a hoot! Great to listen to while doing puzzles.

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I WAS KIDNAPPED AND THE GUY WOULD ONLY LET ME GO IF I KNEW THE TEMPERATURE OF Springfield, MO, USA, on 2/1/11 TUE (5:55am)

"A solid 30 minutes of useless information." Schools: "That's insultingly low."

“I should get out of here before they call the cops” Who walks into their garden to see a random person saying common names whilst a drone is spinning around them

More of these, please!!!

The most likely scenario with the camera you mentioned is probably a lot less foggy if you look at it like this. What I think probably happened, is that they did a limited release market test somewhere that was fairly quiet and far away from large cities, and the test went poorly, hence the scrapped idea. If the statistics you see don't match what you would expect in a small sample size, sometimes companies jump the gun.

"i would show you a video, but i don't want to watch it" *thank God*

Austin: "There are so many productive things you could be doing right now." Me: "Useless fact number 1."

This video was the exact length it took for me to do a mind numbingly boring computer training course. Having it on in the background made it not an awful experience.

26:36 "The old man the boat." = "The [elderly people] [operate] the boat." "The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." = "The [group of buildings on the same lot] houses soldiers [of both Married and Single statuses] and their families." "The horse raced past the barn fell." = "The horse [that was] raced past the barn [subsequently] fell" or "The horse [ran] past the [unholy] barn." I _think_ I'm getting the hang of these Garden Path sentences. Thanks, Austin! 😁

*This video is 31 minutes and 50 seconds.* So 1 minute and 50 seconds of it can possibly be the meaning of life. And we didn’t even know it.

Imagine if all colors were named after fruits. “My favorite color is banana”

Thanks for giving me the last 20 questions of my Quizbowl game for school.

"Tony Toni Toe-NAY" made me laugh harder than it should have. 😂

“There’s so many productive things you could be doing” well it’s my lunch break and I’m eating soup

Sequel Idea: 30 minutes of productive things you _could_ be doing right now.

Why can't I stop watching this! I'm on my fourth video! This is the most useless information EVER! I love it lol! Nice work, I'm subscribing lol

So funny the Mona Lisa / DaVinci fact about him being left handed popped up…I just watched something about him & it showed him painting left handed and I wondered at the time if he really was a lefty or if it was just an oversight. Because I am a sucker for “useless” factoids, I usually jot down a reminder to myself, but forgot to do so! You are doing a great service to bring a plethora of “useless information” to the masses! It helps keep my old brain functioning at least somewhat and honestly I can talk to just about anyone with (what seems like) some degree of intelligence because I know a few key facts about a whole bunch of things!😂😂 Then again it also gives you a quick glance at a topic of interest you might have never heard or realized an interest before! Very helpful for trivia games, as well! Here’s a few some people may not know: 1. In USA highways, all ODD # Hwys go North & South (Interstate 45 North) & all EVEN # Hwys go East & West (Interstate 10 East) (Obviously, if it’s a loop, it’s a circle, so that doesn’t apply). 2. If you’re not sure which side of your car to pull closer to pump gas, look at your gas gauge…it will have a picture of a gas ⛽️ tank (sorta like that or it may show the nozzle with a drip) on whichever side of the car your gas tank is on. Big help if you have husband and kids cars getting mixed up in the driveway! 3.lawnmowers (unless they changed something) use the tortoise 🐢 (turtle) & hare 🐇 (rabbit) to stand for slow & fast

“bubble wrap was originally invented as a wallpaper” me, with ADHD: *country roads, take me home, to the place where i belooong... bubble wrap house*

this is like having a conversation with my grandpa

I’m hoping that the more I watch these, the more that will get stuck in my head

you should make another 30 minute long video of useless information, this is very enjoyable!

"The longest piece of literature ever written is a fan fiction taking place in the Super Smash Bros universe, over 4 million words long."

"you will spend 2 weeks of your life tying your shoes" me, who wears crocs: you fool

This was FANTASTIC!

Wow that fact about shuffling cards is amazing

I like how the fire hydrant’s patent was destroyed in a fire.

"Potatoes and Bacon both share a commonality in that neither of them is a coconut" Thanks for the clarification

Useless Information Is ALL Phantom Knows!!! THIS Was The BEST RU-vid video Yet!💖🥰🎉🥳

I have no idea what I was expecting but this is better that whatever my expectations for a video with this title would ever be There is interesting facts and useless facts that are arranged in a way that i stay engaged the whole video

As a histopathologist, the fact that my field of work being the number one piece of useless information hit me in the feels 😭 😭

_"911, what is your emergency?"_ - _"Yes, hello. There's a man, standing in a field... reading off popular baby names from the 50ies, while a drone circles him! COME QUICK!"_

Need more that didn’t feel like 30min that was time travel. For real

I did not know I needed this today 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼