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up at dashlane.com/HAI. Happy Birthday to me! I’m now two years old. Not me, as in, Sam, the person doing the voiceover,
but me, as in, the sentient media conglomerate commonly referred to as Half as Interesting. Now, as a bit of behind the scenes, thing
have changed a lot in the last two years and in our office, our US office that is, we now
have a team of about 180 working on each of our weekly videos. There’s the topic creation team, the writing
team, the good joke writing team, bad joke writing team, animation team, audio editing
team, music team, body-double team, stunt-double team, barometric pressure forecasting team,
makeup team, pyrotechnics team, south-east Mongolian regional syndication team, passive-aggressive
commenting on Brightside copies of our videos team, and of course, the factchecking team. The dirty truth, though, is that they kinda
suck. It’s just Arnold and his 2nd generation
kindle. I honestly don’t know how he expects to
look anything up on that, but because of the things he didn’t catch, we get more content. This is episode two of our now annual mistakes
correction series because, let’s be honest, we’re not getting through a whole year without
making more. Alright lets pull up the first video with
a mista—ohhh that’s embarrassing. Yeah, so, in the Dashlane ad at the end of
last year’s mistake correction video, I said that this password was more secure than
this one which, counterintuitively, is false. There’s a whole xkcd on it if you want to
learn why but I’d rather learn why these islands are part of the UK? Good thing there’s a whole video on it but
be warned, if you use the subtitles, they say that the UK’s motivation for claiming
these was partially for killing Wales. Now, this, clearly, is the spelling of the
country Wales, not the intended nautical whales. Speaking of human-eating animals, do you remember
watching the HAI video about, “How Polar Bears Ruined Halloween in Northern Canada.” No? Oh, well, don’t worry, nobody else does
either. There’s no mistake in that video, the mistake
was making the video in the first place because it’s the least viewed HAI video of all time. What was not a mistake, though, was NASA’s
decision to not launch Big Bird into space… for a lot of reasons. One keen commenter pointed out that the Space
Shuttle Challenger didn’t technically, “explode,” as our video said. Basically, an o-ring seal on one of the rocket
boosters failed and so the escaped gasses burnt up the booster and created a cloud of
gas and fire that looked like an explosion. The space shuttle then broke up due to aerodynamic
forces as it fell back to earth. But now for some slightly more cheery news:
it turns out that the sun has not yet set on the British Empire as our video mistakingly
said. It turns out that there is always a piece
of British territory in daylight but there wouldn’t be if not for this—the tiny 50
person, south-Pacific, Pitcairn Island. Sounds like a pretty interesting place, yeah? If only there was a six-part, well-produced,
critically-acclaimed podcast about it by a very great and cool YouTuber… oh wait there
is, it’s by me, and it’s available at ExtremitiesPodcast.com. As good as that segue was this one will be,
um, it will, the segue, um… in the video about Centralia I talked about Centralia—the
town that’s been on fire since 1962. I referenced the Lehigh Valley Coal Company—the
very one nice enough to grace this town with free heating by leaving their coal mine on
fire for decades—but I show this building. It turns out though, that this building is
not, in fact, the Lehigh Valley Coal Company headquarters, as suggested, but rather the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Building. Don’t worry, you’re safe now. You no longer have to live in a world where
you think this is the Lehigh Valley Coal Company headquarters building like some pleb. It’s ok. Who’s not safe, though, is the HAI animation
department because, in the video about the super, completely, 100% real $100,000 bill,
the country of El Salvador is shown on the map but this isn’t even remotely close to
where El Salvador is. Like, 0% of El Salvador is here. At least in this video, 33.3% of the word
one is spelled correctly You see, at the end of the video I put a secret code in but it
turns out I misspelled the word, “one,” which is about as unsurprising as Germany
violating the terms of the treaty of versailles. Spelling is just hard… as evidenced in the
video about Ireland’s accidental two-day drug legalization where unconstitutional is
misspelled not once, but twice. You see the problem is that after effects
doesn’t have spell-check and then the animators copy and paste to save time and they’re
all Dutch and don’t know how to use Google and…oh, you don’t care? Well, guess what? I don’t care about all your comments about
how I mispronounced, “absentia,” in the video about the disappearing Australian Prime
Minister. Language is fluid, buddy. What’s also fluid is the Guinness World
Record’s definition of what China is because, on the page of the record we showed for the
video on the World's Fastest Elevator, they apparently thought that Shanghai was in Japan. They’ve since corrected the webpage though. I guess I really am an influencer. What I’m not, though, is a mathist, mathernator,
mathintist? That’s why I got wrong that 7-bit counters
can represent any number between zero and 127 rather than one and 127. If you represented how many American cruise
ships there are with a 7-bit counter, though, it would look like this because there’s
only one. In the video on that, I referenced the Jones
Act a few times as the reason for the laws the video is about while it was in fact the
Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886. Also, one of the normal restrictions these
laws have that I talked about is how the crew has to be 100% American on American-flagged
ships, but it turns out that the cruise ship talked about was granted a special exemption
to have only a majority of its crew as American. To be fair, that was probably our worst mistake
of the year. What there’s also only one of is UAE license
plates that look like this—which sold for $14.3 million and made for a great video. In it, the head animator for some reason put
some Japanese up. I really don’t know why. What’s worse, he got it wrong. It was supposed to say, “the first state,”
but instead it said, “the first state.” Oh, well, hmm, to be clear, this means state,
as in state of matter, where it should be state, as in state of Delaware. It’s a different character in Japanese. In the Quarter as Interesting episode, I was
in a state of denial that emu is pronounced emu instead of emu, and I still am. Language is fluid, remember? Kinda like a convection current which, as
it turns out, should look more like this rather than the way it was shown in the video about
Canada’s missing gravity. Now, we’re done. Those were all our mistakes from the last
year, probably, I don’t really know. Although, I wonder what happens if we make
a mistake in this video? Layer 1: Anyway, it doesn’t matter because
there’s more important things to focus on, like the fantastic deal that dashlane.com
is. *cross chatter* Technology has gone too far. I’m sorry. We were doing this AI scriptwriting experiment
and I think our evil competitors got into the back end. I knew I shouldn’t have made my password,
“haiaipassword.” It’s just, I always have such a hard time
remembering passwords that are any more complex… unless… what if there was one central place
where I could store all my passwords behind one, super-secure password that I, a mere
mortal, could remember. And then what if it filled super-secure passwords
in on my devices when I go to login to websites. And then, what if it also had plenty of other
included features like secure autofill for payment info, breach alerts when an account
is compromised, a VPN with country selection, and dark web monitoring to see if your data
is being bought and sold on the dark web. And then what if this was all for a ridiculously
low monthly price. And then what if it were called Dashlane and
you could get a 30-day free trial at https://www.dashlane.com/hai and then, if you like it, you could use the
coupon code, “HAI” to get 10% off when you upgrade to premium. That could be cool. And then, wait how am I supposed to end this?
Sam missed the error regarding the raising of the Bayonne Bridge. It wasn't paid for by the State of New Jersey, but the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a bi-state agency that owns the port.