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hi I'm John Green Welcome to My Salon this is Mental Floss on YouTube and did you know that Russia classified beer as food rather than alcohol until 2013 and that's the first of many many many amazing facts I'm going to share with you today in this video brought to you by Geico 30 to 40% of couples sleep in separate beds also Hitler got daily caffeine injections what do those facts have to do with each other nothing 2000 Pope John Paul II was named an honorary member of the Harlem Globe truds in Poland there is a blind dog who uses a seeing eye Goose named buttons doctors working during World War I spread along two major Innovations blood banks and plastic surgery thanks World War I a human in space could survive for around 1 to 2 minutes without a space suit Dolly Parton's husband of almost 50 years has watched her perform exactly one time also Ernest Hemingway once stole a urinal from his favorite bar goats have rectangular pupils at Trenta at Starbucks is 916 ml the average adult stomach Can Only Hold around 900 mL and every second 10 tweets mention Starbucks these are the odds that a deck of cards has been shuffled the same way twice in 2008 Norway kned a penguin named sir Nils Ola rabbit show jumping was invented in Sweden it's just like horse show jumping but with rabbits also when you mix cornstarch and water it becomes a liquid that you can actually walk on China blocks Facebook but still has 95 million Facebook users it also blocks YouTube but hopefully some of those 95 million people are watching this maybe all of them then we'd be rich Mark speaking of China in 2010 they had a traffic jam that lasted for 10 days Mel Blanc who voiced Bugs Bunny once almost died in a car crash he awoke from his 14-day coma when his doctor asked Bugs Bunny how are you doing today the GPS coordinates mentioned in an episode of Breaking Bad actually led to where the show was filmed in Albuquerque the chemical composition position of Tears depends on whether they're emotional or reflex tears Andrew Jackson's pet parrot got kicked out of Jackson's funeral for cursing WD40 is named for the 40 attempts it took to come up with the formula and Michael Jackson wanted to create a Harry Potter Musical but JK Rowling turned him down great work Joe God and Jesus are the only Simpsons characters with 10 fingers rather than eight Steinbeck's puppy ate half of the original Of Mice and Men manuscript the song Every Breath You Take by the police is about stalking so is not really R Mantic when it's sunny thermal expansion makes the Eiffel Tower grow by up to 15 cm CA wrote the Rihanna song Diamonds in 14 minutes a blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen bug and a blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an elephant not an elephant's tongue the actual elephant the closest state in the US to Africa is Maine that is in Maine I mean insane Elizabeth Taylor allegedly wouldn't let anyone else on her movie sets wear the same shade lipstick as her according to Spotify the col that listens to the most relaxing music is the University of Colorado at Boulder that's a surprise the angriest Purdue University the largest distributor of toys in the world is McDonald's McDonald's is also of course the largest distributor of things that ended up on our wall of magic also you have around a 1 in 6002 million chance of finding boardwalk in McDonald's Monopoly so don't hold your breath Vegas may be known for its gambling but there is no Nevada state lottery in 2012 metal thieves dressed as a Dem I crew stole a 10-ton bridge in the Czech Republic the world's youngest marathon runner was a boy named budya Singh who ran 48 marathons by the time he was 4 years old that's more than I've run ever in 1932 there was a great emu war in Australia in which soldiers killed emu with machine guns the success of the Doritos Locos Tacos allowed Taco Bell to hire 15,000 new employees Shakespeare invented the name Jessica and the word q is the only English word that sounds the same when you remove four of its letters in 2008 over a million Robbie Williams CDs were shipped to China to be used for roads and street lights and speaking of Music the only beardless member of zezy top is named Frank beard also if you hit silly putty with a hammer it shatters and the Muppet Show pilot was titled sex and violence they never really delivered on that in 1993 almost half a million citizens of the Philippines thought they had won a million pesos in a Pepsi marketing contest thanks to an error at PepsiCo which sparked riots and bombings the first character on a lunchbox was Mickey Mouse in 1935 in 2014 Giants player Larry Donal lost fantasy football week four when he benched himself for another tight end then had a great game with 54 yards and three touchdowns the Twitter handles of police are stitched on their uniforms in hun near Granada in Spain and in the 335 yearlong war between the Netherlands in the Isles of silly there were no casualties and in 1989 Dion Sanders hit a home run in in Major League Baseball and scored a touchdown in the NFL in the same week Coca-Cola owns every domain variation of a.com from 2 H's up to 62 H's Disney World employees weren't allowed to have beards until 2012 when America ran out of young men without beards when Disneyland opened there was a lingerie shop on Main Street USA Ian Fleming called James Bond the dullest name I ever heard in 2010 a car fueled by coffee the carcino drove $200 10 miles in England Kim Jong ill wrote six operas in 2 years but Cia could have ridden way more than that champagne bottles have 90 lbs of pressure per square inch refried beans are actually only fried once and Elvis Presley was blonde strus means having to do with or resembling an ostrich Snoop Dog once produced a rap by Buzz Aldren called Rocket experience in 16th century France rats were summoned to court for eating a barley crop they didn't show up to their court date because you know they're rats the word dinner came from a French word meaning breakfast there are three times as many marijuana dispensaries in Denver Colorado than there are Starbucks and McDonald's combined in 2012 the top selling item at Walmart was a banana Charles Dickens started writing A Christmas Carol in October of 1843 he published it that December I am very jealous of that productivity the most commonly reported dream is about an Unfaithful spouse 90% of the world's ice mass is in Antarctica it cost more to make Disney's Tangled than James Cameron's Avatar Israel offered Albert Einstein the presidency of the nation in 1952 he declined in 2012 when a shooting team from Kazakhstan won a championship in Kuwait the events organizers accidentally played borat's parody of the kazak national anthem Pablo Picasso's full name is 23 words long the cat in The Godfather was not in the script it was a stray found by Marlin Brando in 2013 Joey Chestnut ate 141 hard-boiled eggs in 8 minutes Dr Seuss proposed to his wife from a ditch where he had just crashed his motorcycle there is a fungus in Oregon that takes up 2200 Acres the Hollywood Sign was built as an ad it was only supposed to be up for a year speaking of years people have spent 6 million of them playing World of Warcraft longer than humans took to evolve from the ancestor that we share with Apes Macio Gucci once spent $10,000 on a single pigeon spiders can still spin webs in zero gravity and the Barney costume is 70 lb and sometimes 120° inside which serves him right hens with red earlobes typically lay brown eggs and Pierce broen once worked as a fire eater in 1991 there was a seral called Urkle O's based on the Family Matters character and Teddy Roosevelt kept lobsters in his dorm room at Harvard all right we're getting to the end now 95% of the ocean is unexplored and 90% of volcanic activity happens in the ocean when people sing together their heart ratees sometimes sink Nicole Kidman has lepid do to phobia she is afraid of butterflies a man with a mustache typically touches it 760 times a day that cannot be hygienic Henry III had a polar bear which he kept chained to the Tower of London Leonardo da Vinci meanwhile would buy caged animals just to set them free a hummingbird egg is the size of a pea Pizza Hut has a perfume that smells like pizza oh the Pizza Hut it's a myth that elephants like to eat peanuts 12% of people only dream in black and white NASCAR does not require its drivers to have a driver's license and finally I returned to my salon to tell you that 2/3 of the people on earth have never seen snow thanks for watching this episode of metal floss on YouTube which was made with the help of all of these nice people and brought to you by our friends at Geico so thank you very much Geico as we say in my hometown don't forget to be [Music] awesome

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Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 22 2015