101 Facts About... Anything & Everything

greetings mother factors my name is Sam and today I'm going to be talking all about well a whole bunch of different things because today's topic is randomized baby yes over 100 facts about all manner of different things ranging from high speed car chases and mythological squirrels all the way to anti incest apps and vengeful Finnish pizzas basically it's the 101 facts equivalent to a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get well I'm su look at that little menu that comes with them that's not the point okay stop your sass but which aftershave are big cats obsessed with why did Vikings feed their wounded warriors onion soup and what's the best way to get red wine stains out of a man-sized Wonder Woman costume that's King for a friend who's also called Sam anyway 203 those questions gonna be answered so sit back make yourself comfortable and let the randomness wash over you like a larva as we explore 101 facts about anything and everything I guess number one back in feudal Japan wealthy Lords deliberately built their homes with squeaky floors known as Nightingale floors in order to make it more difficult for ninjas to walk in and you know kill them the way I stopped ninjas from killing me is by living in the 21st century and it seems to do the trick number two honey is the only food product that never goes bad honey that was buried with the Pharaohs and ancient Egypt is still pretty safe to eat number three in the eighteen thirties ketchup was sold as medicine who knows what for I mean presumably it was a cure for not having gloriously tomato eat chips the SS had ships not fries America and France number for a second is called a second simply because it's the second division of the hour by 60 the first division being a minute this begs the question of why minutes aren't called firsts but hey I don't make the time rules I just follow them number five the US state of Wyoming only has two sets of escalators I'll admit it I've genuinely thought this was the Internet's having me on but apparently it's true the state is so rural and flat and with such an abundance of open space that buildings tend to be built out rather than up and any buildings that do have more than one storey are serviced by stairs and lifts number six Antarctica is actually the largest in the world not the Sahara and no I'm not having a stroke this is because deserts are actually areas with very little moisture and everything in Antarctica is frozen solid so there is no moisture there number seven there's enough sperm in one single man to impregnate every woman on earth oh yeah that's right ladies oh that sounded way less gross on my head number eight you may think the famous hashtag that all the kids are using these days is apparently called a pound sign well there's actually an even older term for it apparently the hashtag scientific name is the upto throat also known as the octet roach number nine you know the brand of rum named Captain Morgan my god my phrase which of course you do you stinking drunk well there actually was a real-life Captain Morgan he was a welsh pirate who later became the Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica hi made something of himself that's nice number ten the vatican bank is the only bank in the world that enables ATM users to carry out transactions in latin it also allows you to get an account summary chiseled in a slab of marble okay that one isn't robucket but machen number eleven it's a bird it's a plane it's a snowflake yes the largest ever recorded snowflake fella in Keogh Montana in 1887 measuring 15 inches wide which is in fact larger than some birds but most planes are hopefully larger than 15 inches number 12 in 1386 a pig in France now known as the sow of the lace was dressed in human clothing tried in court and publicly executed by hanging oh come on guys that seems a little extreme what did the little piggy do well it killed a child by eating its face yeah they'll make one a hanger pig number 13 the scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is gorilla gorilla gorilla this fact is of particular significance to me because well my full name is Sam Sam Sam thought I was the only one number 14 in 2012 a British man became so fed up with cold coolers bothering him that he changed his name to Tim purr purr purr purr purr purr purr purr purr purr purr the price his logic is that potential callers would see his name on whatever list he's on and think nass of that number 15 the average person will produce enough saliva over the course of their lifetime to fill two full-sized swimming pools let's hope would have a piece of information that fact replacing your brain wasn't very important number 16 there are five temples in the Japanese city of Kyoto that have ceilings covered in bloody footprints the ceilings are made by the floor port of a castle where a group of samurai warriors killed themselves rather than be killed or captured by enemy forces that are quickly closing in most of the bloodstains appeared to be fairly amorphous marks but you will found the occasional bloody footprint of you look hard enough you live sickos number 17 the planet of Saturn is so low in density that it could float in water assuming you can find a big enough fuckit to hold it in hypothetically in reality if you did have a bucket big enough in which to dunk the entire funk of saturn its huge atmosphere participate and its rocky core would likely sink yes that's right shockingly Saturn cannot exist as it does now while immersed entirely in water number 18 Larry Page and Sergey Brin once offered to sell Google to the web company excite for less than $1,000,000 in 1999 but the morons overt excite turned them down Google is now worth several hundred billion dollars silly excite verse to get more excited for things like this number 19 there's not a house located in the US Canada border where the stage is in one country and about half the audience is in the other but that customs there is an absolute nightmare number 20 for every human scoring around on earth there are roughly 1.6 million ants numbering somewhere around 100 trillion ants isn't that cool and a gross but cool number 21 speaking of ants by the way and what is possibly one of the strangest experiments ever conducted a group of German scientists once attached individual pig hairs to the legs of an actor stilts in order to see whether or not they could find their home by Counting their steps the answer is still thin in fact overshoot their nest by roughly 50% as a result proving that tiny animals use some form of internal pedometer to find their way home number 22 more than 1 million coins are thrown into Rome's trevi fountain every year the money is ruggedly corrected and used to fund a supermarket for the poor and needy number 23 when Britain changed the packaging's with standard paracetamol from bottles to blister packets deaths from intentional overdoses fell by whopping 43% this is presumably because anyone who wanted to off themselves would have to laborious Li push each pill out of the packet one at a time rather than simply pouring them all out onto a single counter and it's all thanks to the miracle of profound human laziness which saves lives number 24 in Norse mythology there's a squirrel named Ratatosk err who exists solely to carry insulting messages back and forth between a great eagle and a dragon at opposite ends of the mythical world tree known as Yggdrasil ratatoskr is a nosy surfing at sea and stirring the pot number 25 for a period in 1913 Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Leon Trotsky Joseph brats Tito and Sigmund Freud all lived within 2 square miles of each other in the Austrian capital of Vienna but it was non-stop parties there number 26 looking around the animal kingdom it can sometimes feel like humans don't really have any special abilities like a lots of animals have we can't fly we're not venomous on some Diggler we can't run particularly fast where's our cool animal superpower well apart from being super intelligent for the most part humanity is gifted with the power of endurance over a long enough distance no animal can outrun a well-trained human we use this to our advantage where we would just chase animals for hours and hours on end until they simply died of exhaustion number 27 in 2008 then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sparked controversy when he complained about Finnish cuisine saying he had to endure it and made snide remarks about marinated reindeer a delicacy enjoyed in some areas of Finland in response a Finnish pizza restaurant called Kotter Pizza created the pizza Berlusconi a delectable pizza topped with tomato cheese chanterelle red onion and of course reindeer with air creation the Finns enter the Americas Plate international Pizza contest and came in first place pushing the italian-american squad into second before what's the Finnish fat-burn number 28 in October 1994 Forrest Gump pulp fiction the Shawshank Redemption Jurassic Park and the Lion King were all in theaters at the same time number 29 according to experts tigers jaguars and leopards absolutely love the scent of carbon clones of for men in fact they are so enamored with the fragrance that wildlife photographers often use it to lure big cats out into the open to catch a good photo of them number 30 when Harrison Ford starred in a new hope the first installment of the iconic original Star Wars trilogy he was played the not exactly princely sum of $10,000 however Harrison's paper is role in the force awakens the first installment of his Star Wars sequel trilogy was very princely indeed 20 million dollars number 31 in 2013 a Norway based developer named Peter Swarovski created a phone app called send me to heaven ostensibly a sports game which it involves during one's mobile phone as high in the air as you can Swarovski said he literally made it with the hopes of destroying as many smartphones as possible which is probably why Apple promptly banned it from the App Store number 32 the spot which you may have assumed rice doesn't actually need to grow while submerged in water but since it can survive being cultivated in this way rice is grown underwater to control weeds and other pests which means more delicious rice number 33 in order to measure gravitational anomalies nASA has two satellites chasing each other around the earth tracking the distance between themselves these satellites are nicknamed Tom and Jerry number 34 between the late 80s and early 90s I was born but enough about that former Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka repeatedly and deliberately broke his own pole vault world record by slim amounts so he could cash in on the $100,000 world record bonus every time over the span of two years he broke his own world record fourteen times number 35 when Viking warriors were wounded in battle they were given strong onion soup to eat this wasn't because the Vikings worshiped the onion as an all-powerful all healing elixir but simply to test whether a soldier was done for or not if an oniony sense could be detected coming from the wounds a few minutes after eating the concoction this indicated that the stomach had been perforated and death was pretty much inevitable allowing them to save their medicine for those who actually had a chance of surviving number 36 one of the 13 articles in the 1781 us articles of confederation which function as a constitution of the original 13 american states before it was replaced by the United States Constitution stated that if Canada wanted to be emitted to the United States it would be accepted automatically to be at that time Canada basically judgment Quebec but still number 37 dolphins have been observed deliberately pricking themselves a pufferfish in order to get high and have also been seen literally passing the puffers around to each other what's dolphin before 20 blaze it I imagine it's the u.s. state of Wisconsin has the same number of bars as California a despite him the population that's 85 percent smaller this equates the one bar for every 1862 wins calm tonight's compared to one for 11962 Californians go home Wisconsin you're making a scene number 39 actor Martin Sheen is well known for its illustrious career particularly his leading role in the critically acclaimed film Apocalypse Now he is less well known though for having been arrested 66 times mainly for protesting and other forms of civil disobedience number 40 when Adam Savage the co-host of the popular science show Mythbusters was asked about the worst behind-the-scenes disaster the show's ever experienced he explained that at one point that were once investigating a myth surrounding an easily available material which was supposedly highly explosive in certain circumstances what they found was so explosive that they decided to destroy all the footage and agreed never to talk about what they had learned he described the incident as absolutely terrifying not 41 in 1998 Venus and Serena Williams issued a challenge to any male tennis player ranked below 200 in the world stating their belief that they could easily beat such a man a German player the name of a cast and brush ranked 203 at the time properly beats both of them after playing a round of golf or knocking back a couple of shandies granted the Williams sisters were 16 and 17 at the time so hopefully they learned a lesson about a little something called hubris Roe mooning over life the British soap opera Coronation Street first aired in 1960 and is still running making it the longest-running soap opera in television history the show is heard over 9000 300 episodes and is still going strong number 43 due to the comparatively tiny number of people who called the dramatic Frankie island of Iceland their home amorous Icelanders have a special app to detect whether or not the person they are interested in is a relative number 44 the decision to ground every single plane in the US on September the 11th was made by one person a guy by the name of Ben Sliney who is one of the Federal Aviation Administration's national operations managers the 11th of September 2001 also happened to be his very first day in that position number 45 over the course of its 10 seasons the castor friends earned over 88 million dollars each I want to be happy for them that I chip for that I just hate them I tell you I hate the entire friends cast back I'm just kidding except maybe Ross number 46 you may remember the iconic scene in the Shawshank Redemption when Andy a tree drags himself through 500 yards of human effluent for freedom well in reality the journey wasn't all that unpleasant for Tim Robbins as he was actually crawling through chocolate syrup apparently the tunnel where was filmed still smells like chopped up to this day number 47 Phyllis Smith to portray the character Phyllis on the American adaptation of The Office didn't actually audition for the part she was originally just working as a casting associate on the show but the director was so enamored by her demeanor he offered her a role playing the character with the same name number 48 the average person has less than two legs if you're sitting there thinking no they don't you fact-based moron yes they do allow me to explain since most people have two legs but far more people only have one leg or no legs than people who have actually more than two legs the number of legs that the average person has is actually less than - only slightly though like one point nine nine nine nine nine or something number 49 Popeye has four nephews their names are Popeye pip i peopie and unfortunately poop i I'm sorry poop I that's gonna be I mean gonna be bullied anyway because Popeyes your uncle but number 50 when Sasha Baron Cohen released Borat in 2006 and lots of people of Kazakhstan we're not happy about how it betrayed them all this backwards ancestors morons and in fact the country's foreign ministry threatened to sue however in the years after the film was released Kazakhstan experienced an explosion in tourism my god that census was going badly the Borat effective so profound that in 2012 Kazakhstan's foreign minister thanks Sacha Baron Cohen our to the country saw tenfold increase in issued visas number 51 the reason why Sesame Street's Count von count is a vampire who needs to count things is because it was traditional belief in European folklore that vampires were obsessive compulsives who were obsessed with details and counting things and you know eating pale women number 52 there was once a German architect named Hermann saw a girl who devoted his entire life to promoting the idea that the Mediterranean Sea should be dammed and drained creating vast amounts of farmable land that would also unite Europe and Africa into one supercontinent called Atlanta as he already may have noticed his plans were never realized and the Mediterranean remains a vast body of water only a lunatic would imagine eliminating number 53 the vast vast majority of Europeans and much of the rest of the world enjoy the sweet tangy flavor of blackcurrant usually in the form of a drink however it may surprise our American and non-american viewers alike to know that most Americans have never tasted blackcurrant and it was banned in the US in the 1900 because of the plants role in spreading disease among white pines which was an important industry for the American Republic as it was growing number 54 your iPhone or whatever smartphone you use has more computational power than NASA used to conduct the moon landing that's amazing considering I mainly use my iPhone just send women pictures of my cat my cat ha ladies love cats number 55 Tarkio has the most millionaires in the world whereas London has the most millionaires and New York has the most billionaires number 56 in 1946 the u.s. tried to buy Greenland from Denmark for 100 million dollars as part a plan to build a missile defense system on the island in the event of an attack Denmark however refused to sell number 57 you may want to sit down with his nest pack from the fact is cos too sad one approximately 93 percent of all humans who have ever lived are now dead number 58 speaking of every single human ever every single human ever spent approximately half an hour as a single cell yep that's right even your good pal Sam Sam Sam number 59 if you were to remove all the empty space from within the atoms that constitute everybody on the planet the entire global human population could be compressed down into a mass roughly the size of an apple number 60 speaking of shrinking huge things down into tiny little proportions as an device it's a gigantic burning over flames that is our son raised a son who scaled down to the size of a white blood cell the Milky Way ie our galaxy would be the size of the continental United States all sure if you shrunk the Sun down to the size of a tiny white blood cell you destroyed the solar system and would all die so baby don't do that k number 61 all mirrors are actually ever so slightly green due to the fact they reflect slightly more green lights than any other color this can be seen when looking into one of two mirrors that have been placed on opposite sides of each other as the everlasting reflections get more and more green as they move away from you number 62 if you were thinking the last time you watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade my my don't those lovely Hugo Boss design Martina forms that grille it's because they are most of the uniforms worn by the actors playing Nazis in the book burning scene our authentic World War two uniforms and yes they were designed by a Hugo Boss to practice with the price of one their bargain number 63 earth is the only known planet in the entire universe where fire can burn because no other planet has enough oxygen in its atmosphere Nintendo 64 the second ruler of the Morocco Alois dynasty known as ismael eben sharif is known to have sired 867 children which is why be considered to be the highest verifiable number of offspring produced by one man in human history number 65 for a period in 2010 the fastest supercomputer used by the US Defense Department was 1760 PlayStation 3 consoles hooked up to one another so next time your grandma complains you you're playing too many video games say it saving the world Nana number 66 when Microsoft launched its own line of phones the company held a mock funeral to mark the death of the iPhone in retrospect that property was have turned over confidence what do you think Siri that was really quite silly Sam yeah number 67 if you did hypothetically fold a sheet of paper in half as many times as you wanted by the one hundred and third fold it would be as thick with two seats as the entire universe exponential growth sub number 68 Whataburger and what - a - burger are the names of two American burger company restaurants which opened independently of each other in 1950 and were completely unaware of each other's existence until years later the 1970s number 16:9 the high-energy music called dance known as the can-can became popular in the 1840s and was widely considered scandalous at the time it was the twerking of its day you may think this is simply because of prudish social norms at the time but in actual fact many women of that time will pantalettes a form of loose underwear which featured an open crotch as a result the can-can trademark high kicks could will be extremely revealing indeed number 70 you know how in movies you always see bad asses setting up explosions by flicking a lit cigarette into a puddle gasoline well shockingly movies are lying to you it is impossible to ignite spilt fuel by dropping a lit cigarette on it in fact one group of researchers tried to replicate this move 2,000 times and ended up with a failure rate of 100 percent number 71 the Mafia crime drama The Sopranos was so accurate that when the show aired on Sundays the FBI listening to the mobsters the following Monday by wiretaps heard them discussing the show and couldn't believe how accurate it was in fact some who suspected the show's producers had a mole on the inside number 72 the rock-and-roll legend Oh Presley was known to have symbols from several different religions on chains around his neck when asked about it he explained he did so simply because he didn't want to miss out on heaven due to a technicality crazy right just crazy enough to work number 73 when a person turned 100 in Japan they sent a special silver cup from the prime minister to mark the achievements unfortunately so many people turn 100 in Japan nowadays that the government has started to issue silver-plated cups instead to ask everyone is it number 74 the Japanese electronics company Samsung originally sold just noodles it wasn't until 1970 that they moved into the electronics market and in my expert opinion it was probably for the best number 75 despite their seemingly primitive appearance matters were actually invented after the cigarette lighter number 76 almost a quarter of all photocopier faults throughout the world are caused by people sitting on them in an attempt to photocopy there are a lot of these facts in this video hard to believe but this one yeah not so much number 77 like all other planets in our solar system Uranus is constantly pure wetting as it makes its way around the Sun oh into the Vantage orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees less of a pirouette some more like rolling on the floor to protect your flaming clothes number 78 roughly a quarter of all the bones in your body are in your feet it's just like my grandma to say feet have more bones in them than you think spade words thanks Nana number 79 mantis shrimp can snap its claws so fast that it boils the water around it and even create a flash of light kind of like an anime fight scene only real and with shrimp number 80 Allura see the state sport of the American state of Maryland is jousting what that's really still happen if so get me tickets number 81 in order to know whether it's a good time to mate male giraffes employ a rather impolite method of foreplay a male who is hot under its numerous collars will continuously headbutt a female in the plant until she urinates and which point the male then tastes the pee which allows him to tell whether or not she's ovulating kinky giraffes number 82 more photos were taken in the last two minutes and the entirety of the 19th century however roughly the same proportion would dick pics I assume number 83 humanity sent people to walk on the moon before someone had the bright idea to put wheels on suitcases which appeared in the 1970s number 84 old william shakespeare all Billy shakes as I call him invented a great number of things one of those things was the name Jessica which was invented by Shakespeare specifically for a 16th century play The Merchant of Venice number 85 the original name of assessment that eventually grew to become the city of Los Angeles el pelota de nestra Senora la reina de los ángeles de pasión cooler which translates as the town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels or pussy and cooler number 86 the pop punk band blink-182 named their production company poopoo but Inc to facilitate the simple pleasure of getting to hear their accountants managers and attorneys say it completely seriously during meetings and over the phone number 87 a proper term for a person who is a particular love of beards is a Pagano file that doesn't have any negative connotations does it number 88 the French equivalent of English phrases like the cat's pajamas or the bees these is Liberty Jesus on Colette Divi Lewis which means the baby Jesus in velvet shorts though it's usually used to describe good wine there's so much I have so many questions about that I'm just gonna move on but let me just try it out first actually Jennifer Lawrence to err pity Jesus and cooler TV news number 89 in 2005 Facebook hired 4vt artist David Cho to work his artistic magic in the new company office and cover the base in cool trendy potent millennial murals Cho agree to be paid in facebook shares rather than customary money which paid off big-time in 2012 when Facebook went public giving it shares a value of roughly 200 million dollars number 90 before filming Harry Potter in the prison of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuaron challenged the plucky trio of Daniel Radcliffe Rupert Grint and Emma Watson to write an essay about their characters studios Watson wrote 16 page three tires on Hermione Granger whereas Radcliffe produced a single page rent however have got to turn this in oh that is so wrong be fair grinned was a bit older than Watson Radcliffe I was studying for a CCC's at the time so maybe cut him some slack her pea sandwiches number 91 in 1988 Cosmopolitan magazine in all its sexual wisdom ran an article saying it was impossible for women to contract HIV from having sex with a man because the virus could not be transmitted via the missionary position for the sake of any in all doubt this is absolutely 100% false wrap it up kids wrap it the eff are number 92 rebel Wilson decided to pursue a career in acting after she contracted malaria and experienced vivid hallucinations in which he thought she was a famous actress winning an Academy Award number 93 bright sauce energy even par solar plant and the Mojave Desert generates so much heat that burns flying overhead are instantly incinerated in mid-flight due to the plume of smoke the birds producers they fall to the ground workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant referred to them as streamers which is for morbid but hey at least lunch everyday sort of right number 94 by the way before I say this this is potentially my favorite fact in 101 packs history in China the 1999 film six cents was known simply as he's a ghost that's right the title was a spoiler a spoiler that's the biggest thing in the whole film the biggest plot twist ever and it's in the title Oh China what are we going to do with you number 95 in 2013 the original Star Wars film was dumped into Navajo making it the very first film to have been dumped into a Native American language about time guys number 96 humans are the only mammals with breasts that are permanently enlarged good to know I'm sure that fact will come in useful at some point in my life not that I have a disinterest in let's move on number 97 the jungles of Guam have around 40 times the amount of spiders as the neighboring islands due to a lack of forest birds which seals guam's fate as a place I shall never ever visit number 90 Gate in 1897 the world's first LGBTQ rights organization was formed known as a scientific humanitarian committee the group gathered signatures for a petition to repeal the law that criminalized male homosexuality one of the signatures was Albert Einstein number 99 the legendary daredevil Evel Knievel was fired from his first job at a mining company after he attempted to pop a wheelie in a bulldozer which wouldn't have been so bad and maybe kind of cool had he not crashed into powerlines and knocked out the electricity supply of an entire town there's a rare form of brain damage known as 101 facts I'm just kidding there's a rare form of brain damage known as visual and a sob nausea or an tompa bin Ski syndrome in which a person is provably blind as a result of damage to the brains occipital lobe but the individual is entirely convinced that they are still capable of seeing number 100 [Music] almost one in every five people attempted to escape the police in LA during high speed car chases actually managed to do so there you go there's some hashtag or octave throat inspiration for any of you criminal mother factors out there although hopefully there's not many of you and if you are you're on my side but just be nice people anyway felt 101 random fact about anything and everything did you learn anything new today I hope so and did you enjoy this new ish sort of style video let me know in the comments below and if you want to see another bond on pets video about anything let me know what you want to see in the meantime though watch these videos on screen now and I will see you next time goodbye [Music]

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Length: 29min 2sec (1742 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 20 2018