100 Amazing Facts - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep.225)

Amazing facts can come from all walks of life. The incredible facts in this episode of The List Show will amaze and astonish, like an old-timey circus, but with less risk of lion maiming.

The List Show is a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John busts through 100 facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND.

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[MrKgeigerjr]

I love these videos, and I am completely addicted to them. 

[Tranquilmind]

John you just broke the first and second rule of Fight Club

[SliverCAN]

"Canadians eat more donuts than any other country."

Well, yes.  Countries are hard to eat, especially compared to donuts.

[FreePalestine]

I just learned that this guy wrote The Fault in Our Stars!

[jasonhendrix]

"The milk yield of cows increases when they listen to relaxing music."

Anyone who ever played Ocarina of Time already knew this to be true.

[kilgirlietrout]

It's October 2020 and I can't imagine a day with no news on any level whatsoever

[DontMockMySmock]

It is generally thought that "Humpty Dumpty" was originally a *riddle*, that's why it doesn't mention that it's an egg - that's the answer to the riddle.  In any case, Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, " which featured Humpty Dumpty pictured as an egg, pretty much cemented the idea so hard that no one thinks of it as a riddle any more 'cause the answer is even more obvious.  As Humpty would say, "there's glory for you." 

[soundaholixx]

Wow, by the middle of this video i was wondering : Well damn, this guy sounds really like that cool dude from SciShow...

I had no idea.

[bigbro]

John Green has an amazing delivery and I quite enjoy his witty Mental Floss episodes.

[AndreaMGC]

Wow John... you're not even going to tell us what toppings that pizza had? Talk about leaving out crucial information. 

[joshgadget]

This seems like it's a list of facts they discovered while researching other videos and couldn't use them there.

[thesoulofdark]

Humpty dumpy was a cannon if my memory serves me

[cj-seejay-cj-seejay]

Why do you always say "Finally, I return to my salon to tell you..." when you've been in the sitting in the same room the whole episode?

[michaelmight]

WHOA YOU MENTION LOW CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID HEADACHES?! I have idiopathic intracranial hypertension and I'm really glad you even mentioned something obscure like that. It took me so long to get diagnosed because of how unknown it is, it took about the first 13-15 years of my life before getting multiple failing lumbar shunts and now I'm on my second brain shunt :P anyway it's nice to hear it talked about no matter how brief. Thanks :)

[Tomato]

11 minutes of action in an NFL game? they must have stitched two games together to get so high

[acetate]

That Bush Nixon fact was kind of amazing.

[voldlifilm]

At around 1:32 when John said "Except" I automatically assumed the next word had to do with mongols.

[faithhoos]

I'm from New Jersey and I agree with you! Who wants 75 New Jerseys!?!?

[themediaangel]

Here's my mind-blowing question: are there any creatures that have only one eye?

[dragonson]

After you say "Thank you again for watching." And before you say "And as they say in my hometown...." you should say "May your brain stay minty fresh."