101 Facts About Anything & Everything IV

good evening some other factors and welcome to this week's edition of 101 facts my name is sam and welcome to this hodgepodge pick and mix bonanza of randomness to the power of infinity as we return once again with another anything and everything this time number four you asked for it well i assume anyway and we're bringing it regardless of whether or not you actually asked for it or not but which u.s president had the best excuse to avoid a graduation of all time why is vitsel souped to the most hilarious medical condition of all time and what's going on with this stock footage person are they okay is it an act or is it real are we all just really stock footage people what a thought to answer through this question is going to be answered so strap in for some mostly useless trivia with 101 facts about anything and everything part four number one in 1986 an it manager at barkley was asked to investigate someone who had used nine seconds of computer time without paying for it racking up a 75 cent bill the investigation took 10 months the person responsible as a hacker using the connection to steal us military secrets and sell them to the kgb that's right the hacker's 75 cent bill led to his downfall number two despite dating back to ancient egypt men wearing wedding rings used to be quite rare that is until world war ii troops fighting across the globe took to wearing them as a reminder of their wives back at home and the trend stuck number three millions and millions of people use the london underground tube system which makes it all the more bizarre that only three babies have ever been recorded as being born in the subterranean railway weirdest still is that you know one of them jerry springer yeah that jerry springer number four have you ever heard of now machia it may sound like a random word i just made up but it isn't it's the name of an ancient roman entertainment practice which saw actual naval battles with real boats in a big stadium no really the first one was for julius caesar number five when pope benedict xvi resigned in 2013 he made the announcement in latin only one reporter at the scene could actually understand what was going on and so giovanna chiri got a scoop ahead of the rest of the world all the other reporters had to wait for an official translation number six i obviously don't recommend doing this because it would take ages and bloody hurt but if you were to take all your blood capillaries your veins and your arteries and lay them out end to end then stretch to about 60 thousand miles long that means they'd circle the planet two and a half times number seven nathan's famous hot dogs a popular us fast food chain began live as a hot dog stand in new york back in 1916. to convince customers his cheap dogs were healthy nathan handwerker hired loads of people dressed in white coats to eat them the stunt worked because doctors in inverted commerce were seen eating them and so sales rocketed number eight tetris has its own psychological phenomenon named after it called the tetris effect which is when somebody spends so much time and energy performing an activity they begin to see it everywhere even when asleep confusingly there was then a tetris video game named after this called the tetris effect number nine scientists developed a vending machine for crows to see if they were smart enough to use it turns out they were the birds even remembered the shape and size of the car tokens used to operate it and started making their own number 10. author stephen king has a program called the dollar baby where he sells non-commercial rights to adapt one of his short stories for just one dollar students and would-be filmmakers can then create movies out of them if you fancy it check out stephenking.com baby number 11 jazz is the hardest word to guess in hangman according to mathematician john mcloone who ran 8 million simulations of the game jay z not the rapper q and v are less common in english words than jazz well it's mostly those isn't it number 12. ever noticed how some years there are loads of acorns in the next year hardly any the bumper years are called mast years but why do oak trees do this the lean years starve the animals to the acorns reducing their population that way in a mast year there are fewer animals and more chances of acorns turning into trees number 13. there was an early christian set called the adamites who were still around in the middle ages they aimed to recreate the garden of eden vibes on earth so they were nude since clothes have been adopted by the sinful they also rejected marriage and a pretty free attitude sleeping around hippies basically number 14. the first takeaway in space was pizza in 2001 pizza hut sent a slice of salami pizza to the international space station it had extra spices and salt as space reduces the effectiveness of taste buds unlike most takeaways pizza hut paid the bill and it was one million dollars for the stunt imagine getting paid to eat pizza dream number 15. sticking with space in 2002 and nasa intern stole 21 million dollars worth of moon rock why to uh have some adult fun on the moon the idea was to stuff the stolen rocks under his mattress and then commence the activity with his girlfriend when the intern also tried to sell said moon rocks well he ended up serving six years in prison number 16 the fbi suspected einstein was a soviet spy because of his support for civil rights pacifism and generally being a bit of a lefty they were even worried he might be building a death ray okay they had him under surveillance for 22 years listening into phone calls and going through his bins when he died in 1955 his file was 1 800 pages long number 17. einstein had a secret daughter with his first wife malevo marriage he never mentioned the child named liz earl to his family and biographers didn't know she existed until the 1980s and no one knows what happened to her number 18. gustav is a killer crocodile who lives at burundi and his torture killed up to 300 people he measures over 6 metres in length weighs a ton and is still on the loose he's been known to swipe children from the shore of lake tanganyika so watch out number 19. about 68 of the universe is dark energy and 27 is dark matter that means everything we can actually observe and measure your regular matter makes up just five percent essentially to put it down into a single terrifying sentence we know almost nothing about ninety-five percent of everything number twenty to help combat internet addiction south korea passed the law in 2011 that bans anyone from under the age of 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6am it's dubbed the cinderella law although parents can request that their children are exempt number 21 the canadian province of alberta has no rats in it and it's the largest inhabited area on earth that's free of rats since 1950 they've been officially designated as pests and everybody including the authorities is responsible for killing them and possession of a pet rat carries an up to five thousand dollar fine number 22 the word maverick used to describe someone who doesn't follow the rules and acts independently comes from a 19th century texas cattle rancher and a politician samuel a maverick also my nickname refused to brand his cattle as was the practice at the time and his surname then became synonymous with someone doing her own thing number 23 thomas edison taught his girlfriend mean a miller morse code so they could communicate in secret when spending time with others when it came to asking her the big question he did so using morse code and she accepted using the same method on a couple of nerds number 24 since 1996 when the modern version began the olympics have never been cancelled or postponed in peacetime until clovid came along and postponed tokyo 2020. the 1916 summer olympics in berlin were cancelled for fairly obvious reasons world war one while both the 1940 and 1944 summer and winter olympic games were cancelled because of world war ii number 25 flowers are changing color as plants adapt to climate change thinning ozone and increased temperatures have seen plants increase their uv pigmentation by about two percent a year between 1941 and 2017. we can't tell the difference but pollinating insects will perceive them as darker and it may be confusing them number 26 mexico abolished slavery in 1829 and enslaved peoples in the usa often sought refuge there between 5 000 and 10 000 according to estimates who were mostly from texas america tried to get mexico to sign a treaty where they would return escaped enslaved people mexico refused saying they were free as soon as they arrived in mexico number 27 during an interview in 2004 with professor stephen hawking a camera operator wanted to adjust the lighting in the room and pull the plug out of a socket this then set off a siren and hawking slumped forward it looked like they just unplugged a life support machine they later found out that the hawking was fine and he was joking the alarm was due to power being cut from his computer number 28 in 2019 microsoft shut down offices on fridays throughout august giving employees a four-day week the result productivity as measured by sales per employee jumped 40 percent compared to the previous year number 29. during the filming of fast and furious tokyo drift japanese authorities refused to give permits to film a scene it was filmed anyway but a fall guy was hired to stand in for the director this fall guy served a night in jail for filming without permits number 30 agar mohammed shah was the ruler of iran between 1789 and 1797. one day two of his servants started arguing and the shah sentenced them to death for being too loud only it was a holy day so he postponed the execution and sent them back to work that night the servants murdered him before their own planned execution beating the system number 31 on new year's eve 2019 inmates from two mexican drug cartels had a friendly game of soccer the match between the gulf and the zetas cartels ended in 16 deaths five injuries and a riot prison forces confiscated four guns 17 knives and 77 bags of marijuana and it took two hours to regain control of the prison number 32 aluminum or as they say over here correctly aluminium is super recyclable almost 75 percent of all aluminium ever produced by the usa is still in use today according to the aluminum association despite this though 700 million dollars worth is still thrown away in america annually number 33 by law polling stations in india can be no further than two kilometers away from voters even if they live alone in the middle of nowhere requiring in some cases the use of elephants and helicopters to reach people it requires 11 million government workers to ensure this massive operation takes place number 34. jock is a marmalade cat who resides at sharpswell the family home of winston churchill the churchill family requested there's always a marmalade cat with four white socks and a white bib living in the property after it opened to the public in 1966 the current jock is number seven number 35 dogs have evolved to make it easier for them to manipulate human emotions a small muscle around their eyes allows them to appear more infant-like the so-called puppy dog eyes which gets us humans to feel nurturing towards them number 36. the michelin man's real name is bebendum and he's white because rubber products used to be white before 1912 tires were grey white or a light beige but they became black when carbon was added to improve the strength and durability of tyres number 37 it would take 375 000 2x2 lego bricks stacked on top of each other to create a force strong enough to break the bottom brick a lego tower that big would stretch to 3.5 kilometers into the sky that's higher than mount olympus in greece number 38 raven and chimpanzee holds the wild record for the most successful chimp on wall street in 1999 after throwing darts at a list of 133 internet companies her monkey decks delivered a 213 percent gain making raven the 22nd most successful money manager in the whole of the usa number 39 research suggests that forests are only the fifth most efficient way of absorbing carbon to combat climate change it turns out sea grass is way better one hectare of seagrass is the equivalent to 10 to 40 hectares of dry land forest sadly sea grass is declining across the globe number 40 phantom vibration syndrome is the belief that your phone is vibrating in your pocket when actually it's not doing anything one study involving undergraduates reported that 90 of them suffer from this one theory state it's caused by anxiety specifically the anxiety of always being ready to take a call or answer a text number 41 scientists have discovered that honeybees could be an ally in the battle against breast cancer their venom can be used to destroy the cells of two types of aggressive breast cancer and in certain concentrations could be effective within an hour although the tests are still ongoing in japan curry is considered a western dish rather than an indian one weird right well that's because japan went through a long period of isolation until the mid-19th century when the british arrived they introduced japan to curry and the locals considered it a western dish as a result even though the brits had been exposed to it via colonial india number 43 before the internet what would gamers do if they were stuck on a game give up keep playing the same infuriating level sure but nintendo actually had a third way nintendo game counselors who man the power line which basically just means a phone and would give one-on-one guidance to gamers stuck on a bit of a level number 44 prairie dogs which aren't actually dogs but rodents native to north america have a highly complex language according to a study at northern arizona university they are capable of communicating the difference between a tall human wearing blue and a short human wearing yellow big deal so am i number 45 when danish missionary hans ageed arrived on greenland to spread the good word he found that the local inuit people had no concept of bread this went here to change the words of the lord's prayer to make it more relatable and so it included the line give us this day our daily seal number 46 11 people died during the construction of the golden gate bridge but the number could have been a lot higher than that when the bridge was being built further 19 men fell over from the side but were caught by a massive safety net suspended underneath those who fell and lived were said to have joined the halfway to hell club number 47 the original voice of shaggy and scooby-doo a guy called casey kasem was a vegetarian and quit the role in the 1990s after more than 25 years when he was asked to voice the character in a burger king commercial he rejoined the cast in 2002 and shaggy also became a vegetarian on the show number 48 the pentagon has too many bathrooms twice as many as it needs in fact this was because when it was being built america was still segregated so designers had to put in separate toilets for both black and white employees number 49 however before the pentagon opened president roosevelt prohibited segregation among federal workers so the extra bathrooms weren't needed when it opened it was the only non-segregated building in the state of virginia number fifty the first country to recognize the independence of the united states was morocco who opened its ports to the us in 1777 six years before the end of the american revolution the treaty of friendship between the two countries signed in 1786 is the longest unbroken relationship in the usa's diplomatic history number 51 okay so a poison dart frog might sound like it's poisonous to clues in the name but when raised in captivity they aren't poisonous at all it's thought that their toxicity comes from eating other animals in the wild like ants beetles and termites which absorb poisons from plants number 52 in 2004 a barber who cut first man on the moon neil armstrong's hair decided to sell the trimmings for three thousand dollars to a collector armstrong wasn't happy about this and threatened to sue unless the hair was returned or a donation equivalent to three thousand dollars was made to charity in the end a charitable donation settled the issue number 53 if you fancy moving to the antarctic settlement of villas estrellas there is one important stipulation you have to have your appendix removed even if you're healthy or just a kid the reason is the nearest hospital is over 600 miles away and doctors in villas les estrellas aren't specialists number 54 the great green wall is a huge project that aims to plant a wall of trees across the entire width of africa the idea is to grow an 8 000 kilometer long natural wonder across the sahel region and stop the expansion of the sahara desert while also improving food security drought and climate change number the simpsons episode where barton lisa writes an episode of [ __ ] and scratchy was inspired by real life events an episode of tiny toon adventures called buster and babsco hawaiian was written by three eighth graders who impressed exec producer steven spielberg number 56. in churchill manitoba over in canada it's customary for residents to not lock their cars the reason for this polar bears it's kind of agreed that it's better to risk your car security in exchange for being able to escape inside any nearby vehicle if a polar bear turns up number 57 a man who won the lottery in jamaica turned up to collect his 12.5 million jackpot wearing a scream mask the man hoped to hide his identity to stop people learning about his new wealth despite the fact his name was printed on the check number 58 traffic jams in china can be so bad that companies offer a service to help you cut through a wall of cars but how does that work you call the company and they send two people on a motorcycle which carves its way through the stationary cars one of them stays in your vehicle while you ride off into the sunset with the other one on the motorbike all for just 60 bucks number 59 the 1927 liberian presidential elections are considered to be the most rigged in history president charles d b king the incumbent won by a landslide 234 000 votes to 9 000. there was just one small problem only 15 000 people were eligible to vote so whoops number 16 sticking with dodgy election practices the term gerrymandering where electoral boundaries are redrawn to favor one party originate in massachusetts in 1812 the governor elbridge jerry changed the voting districts in the state the new voting map kind of looked like a salamander according to the boston gazette and so jerry plus salamander equals gerrymander number 61 houdini's chinese water torture cell sounds like it wouldn't get good reviews on airbnb but was actually one of his best magic escapes there was just one problem how to stop people copying it patenting it would mean revealing how it worked so instead houdini performed a one-man play to an audience of one and copyrighted it and in turn the trick without revealing how it worked number 62 in cuba government vehicles with passenger space available are required to stop and offer spare seats to hitchhikers just worth knowing number 63 estimates show that smoking can take 10 years off your lifespan but if you quit before 40 you basically get the full 10 years back quitting before 40 the earlier the better means you'll live as long as someone who never smoked at all nintendo 64. don cheadle was only given one hour by marvel to decide whether or not he wanted to play war machine in the mcu a commitment lasting for over a decade when he told his agent on the phone that he was at his kid's birthday party they said oh oh okay then take two hours number 65 scientists in china have discovered a way to grow human tooth enamel a mixture of phosphate calcium and trimethylamine all bund into an alcohol solution causes growth of enamel with the same structure as that found in a tooth number 66 if you remember eating brussels sprouts before the 1990s you might remember them being really bitter and not particularly tasty hey you still might not like them like i don't look but they have changed in the last 20 years a dutch scientist kicked off a search for older varieties that were sweeter and hey presto the modern tastier sprout was born number 67 nihao a hawaiian island is privately owned and was purchased for ten thousand dollars back in 1864. today it's known as the forbidden island as access to it is strictly controlled unless you're one of the 130 residents or the family of the owners number 68 india and sri lanka used to be connected by a land bridge as recently as 1480 when a cyclone destroyed set link today the remnant of that connection is adam's bridge a chain of shoals between the two countries number 69 the random nature of infinity in 1922 einstein yep him again gave a courier in tokyo a handwritten letter instead of a tip the notes read a quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest it was sold at auction in 2017 and was expected to fetch between five to eight thousand dollars it was sold for 1.56 million dollars exceeding the estimate by 31 000 number 70 in 1724 margaret dixon was hanged in edinburgh on the charge of killing her baby after the execution was carried out her family stopped off for the wake when they heard a knocking coming from inside the coffin maggie was still alive and went home she couldn't be tried and executed again she'd already been pronounced dead and so the sentence had been carried out she lived until 1765 with the nickname half hang it maggie number 71 walt disney once accidentally kidnapped richard nixon who was vice president of the usa at the time in 1959 disney and nixon hopped on a monorail at disney world and walt disney said let's go before the secret service agents had a chance to get on board the secret service then chased onto the monorail and couldn't get on nixon apparently was loving the whole thing number 72 it's possible to become intoxicated from drinking tea drinking four liters of oil grape per day over an extended period can cause blurred vision and muscle cramps in the stomach leg feet and hands reduction to one liter of el grey day apparently solves the problem number 73 in 1944 future u.s president dwight d eisenhower was unable to attend his son's graduation from the military academy at west point eisenhower said in a letter to his wife that he couldn't make it because he was a bit too busy with work work at the time was coordinating and leading the allied invasion of europe his son john graduated on june the 6th ied day number 74 people in the middle ages weren't as stupid as we think for a start they didn't believe the earth was flat until columbus landed up in the americas back in 1492. most educated people from around 300 bc knew that the earth wasn't flat number 75 the idea that it was columbus and his epic journey that inflated a flat earth into a globe in people's minds was invented in 1828 by an american author an american author named washington irving and his book the life and voyages of christopher columbus that was almost 350 years after columbus had set sail number 76 the point of land on earth that's furthest away from any open sea is the zunzarian basin which is in china at these coordinates on screen now at this point you're 1 645 miles away from cool refreshing seaside number 77 the further point from land for those of you with a boat is known as the oceanic pole of inaccessibility otherwise known as point nemo which is in the pacific ocean you'd have to travel over 1 670 miles to find inhabited land in fact as the international space station orbits 258 miles above earth the nearest person is probably in space number 78 in 1964 bell labs his homedale horn antenna in new jersey was picking up loads of interference and it was really annoying a pair of astronomers arno penzias and robert wilson tried everything to try and get rid of this buzzing sound including getting rid of some nesting pigeons but nothing worked why the buzzing was cosmic microwave background radiation an important part of the big bang theory of the universe number 79 in 2012 a woman in france received a phone bill for 11.7 quadrillion euros for reference one quadrillion is 1 000 trillions and the entire global economy is worth 71 trillion euro a year the phone company initially said that there was nothing they could do okay but they would take payment in installments they eventually admitted their mistake number 80 sometimes fruit isn't vegan let me explain some fruits like lemons for instance can have wax applied to them from shellac which in turn is made from insects the wax makes fruit look shiny and fresh but not strictly vegan friendly number 81 all beaches are public in mexico by law you see a beach you can access it property owners are not able to build permanent structures within 20 meters of the line of high tide and there are fines if businesses or individuals block the public from a beach law breakers face a 47 thousand dollar fine number 82 pumpkins would be likely extinct today if it wasn't for us humans around 10 000 years ago they were mostly eaten by large mammals you know like mammoths such mammals went extinct and there was nothing to eat and spread the seeds of pumpkins except us humans who cultivated and continued to eat them number 83 in 2011 it was reported that china had trained 10 000 pigeons to provide communication support for their armed forces they are a backup plan in case modern communication methods relying on tech are rendered useless in a conflict number 84 when two japanese pole vaulters suyu oe and shuhei nasida tied in second place at the 1936 olympics they decided to not compete to find a definitive silver and bronze medal somewhat unfairly oe ended up with the bronze but when they returned to japan the two competitors had the medals cut in half making a friendship medal of bronze and silva number 85 only one person in history has been into space and the lowest point of the ocean floor kathy sullivan was the first u.s woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984 and in 2020 became the first woman to visit the challenger deep 11 kilometers below the ocean's surface both achievements together are unique in human history number 86 marcel pinte is considered to be the youngest member of the french resistance during world war ii he acted as a courier hiding messages under his shirt and sneaking them past occupying nazi forces he sadly died at the age of six in 1944 when a resistance gun fired on him accidentally number 87 humans need the least sleep of all primate species for between six to nine hours at the opposite end the primates who need the most are night monkeys and grey mouse lemurs each clocking up between 15 and 17 hours a day number 88 however human sleep is of a higher quality we get 25 percent of sleep in rem whereas other primates seem to get 25 to 10 rem sleep the theory behind this is that humans sleep on the floor not trees and so they don't have to worry about predators this means we can sleep more deeply and need less of it number 89 european bison are democratic when deciding on which way to travel a bison will turn in the direction they prefer and other bison choose to back them any mom can start a vote and adult females tend to gain the most support from the herd number nine a tea the bear on the flag of california is actually a grizzly bear that used to live in the state unfortunately human settlement in what was once known as the bear states drove the californian grizzly to extinction and it went the way the dodo back in 1924. number 91 it's illegal under british law for britain's army to exist in peacetime without the approval of parliament this dates back to the 1688 bill of rights as a result the uk parliament has to pass the law every five years just to keep the army in existence number 92 wits all suit is a medical condition that gives people who develop it a constant need to make jokes one man who suffered from it would crack jokes almost constantly 24 hours a day even going as far as waking up his wife in the middle of the night to tell her his latest pun number 93 businesses have come up with a lot of clever cost cutting measures over the years famously in the 1980s american airlines removed one olive from every salad served in total that say between 40 and 100 000 a year at xerox employees were encouraged to water office plants rather than paying another company to do it the total saving there 200 000 a year according to abc news number 94. in 2014 ethiopian airlines flight 702 was hijacked by the co-pilot who wanted asylum in switzerland when the hijacked plane arrived in swiss airspace the swiss air force did not respond because the hijacker was flying at around 602 am two hours before the swiss air force started work luckily french and italian forces had to deal with the incident number 95 benito mussolini the infamous fascist dictator of italy got his start in politics thanks to the british secret service during world war one mi5 recruited mussolini then a journalist and paid him the princely sum of a hundred pounds a week to whip up pro-war sentiment in italy by the newspaper it's also thought mussolini used the money to forcibly persuade peace protest to well not protest number 96 japanese marketing firm piano inc received a complaint from a non-smoking number of staff saying that smoking breaks were causing problems and affecting productivity to compensate to non-smokers for their troubles the company gave extra time off a whopping six extra days off a year number 97 in world war ii italian doctors at the fattaboneta fratelli hospital told nazi soldiers that people were coming down with a disease known as syndrome k it was highly contagious and deadly but here's the twist syndrome k didn't exist it had been made up to identify and save jews it worked too the hospital saved over 20 lives this way number 98 in 2018 a 13 year old would be entrepreneur set up his own hot dog business in front of his house in minnesota his store wasn't popular with neighbours though who complained and of course the boy didn't have the license to serve food rather than shut him down though the inspectors brought the stall up to code and they even paid the fee to get him a permit number 99 kate winslet keeps orozca in the bathroom apparently this is so guest can pick it up and then you know pretend to do an acceptance speech in the mirror number 1 comps in america are synonymous with eating donuts but why it dates back to the 1950s when police working knights wanted a snack and hardly anywhere was open except donut shops these were often open late because they were prepping for the morning rush the association between cops and donuts have stuck ever since number 101 in 1836 anonymous letters started being sent to the bank of england's directors the letters claimed that the mysterious author had access to the bank's vault and that he had access to all the gold he wanted so he requested to meet the directors at an hour of their choosing inside the vault when they turned up a man popped out from the floor he was a sewage worker who discovered an old drain to the vault he hadn't taken any gold though and was rewarded 800 pounds which is about 125 000 today so that was 101 facts about anything and everything part 4. do you like these do you want us to do more of them let me know in the comments down below also be sure while you're down there to give this video a like because you know we could always do with that kind of thing and while you're there give us a sub thanks in the meantime though two videos on screen that really gonna wet that whistle of yours why 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