A MATTER OF FACTS | JT Music Fact Rap Challenge

So the awesome JT Music put out a challenge to make a rap out of interesting trivia... And that's the sort of thing I just can't resist! So here's my rebuttal. It was certainly a refreshing break from ink demons and cuddly death robots!

I tried my best to keep the facts as varied and interesting as possible, with a mix of weird things I've heard over the years, new ones I discovered for this track and a couple I researched and found out myself. (I spent a LOT of time counting Forts...)
So hopefully there's something interesting in here for all of you!

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[TheStupendium]

Lyrics here because they're too long for the description!

JT set a challenge. I’m here to answer it.
You want facts? Boy, well you asked for it
I'm gonna give ya' some trivia mastery
And put the facts on blast til' class dismissed
It's the truth, aint no party trick
I'm bringing facts to the web like Encarta did
So get your notebooks out, you can quote the track
It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of fact

Please have your pen and paper ready.
The facts will commence in 3. 2. 1.

Facts.

Black-thighed falconet, world's smallest bird of prey
Giraffe's neck may be long but only seven vertebrae
That's the same as you would find in anybody, you or me
But you try using yours to eat 75 pounds of leaves a day

The opposite of Deja vu is Jamais vu
When something familiar seems strangely new
A smilodon is what you’d really call a sabre-tooth
And they were nothing like tigers, to say the truth
Reindeer's eyes go through a range of hues
They're gold, but in winter change to blue
There are more hats in Team Fortress 2
Than there are real forts in the whole E.U.

'Fort Boyard' took 56 years to complete
So by the time that it was built, forts were obsolete
But since the 90s you will find it's been in use constantly
As the setting of a game show on TV.

That's the sound of a Honda for Indy's boulder dash
No one really knows the etymology of 'Balderdash'
Escobars had so much gold to stash
He spent thousands on rubber bands just to roll the cash
A group of Jellyfish is called a 'Smack'
A safety helmet was the purpose of the Bowler Hat
You don’t feel pain if you're a naked mole rat
39 is the record for the oldest cat

Buckel up, this one's a little morbid
In the 50s laugh tracks were recorded
So if a new show has a canned laugh audience
There's a good chance that the laughers are all dead

There's no letter B ‘til you get up to a billion
An ice-cream tester had a tongue insured for millions
Ninety-nine zeroes in a duotrigintillion
Ninety-nine sides is an enneacontakaienneagon

Annually we make seven billion zips
To dot an 'I' is a 'Tittle', on a die it's a 'Pip'
Tommy Cooper died live, in the middle of a quip
But my granddad once taught him how to build a ship

J is the only letter that is not in any elements
The White House got power when Harrison was president
But he never touched the switches, 'cus he was scared of them
Relevant, Thomas Edison killed an elephant

The way no electricity in Ethiopia
'Til 1896 when the Emperor
Ordered a brand new electric chair
And realised they couldn't plug it in anywhere

The world's first batteries may have been Roman
Three percent of all the world's cheese gets stolen
Figs use wasps to spread their pollen
But the wasps get trapped and the figs dissolve them

A strawberry is not a berry. In any way.
But a banana is and shares half of all our DNA.
The first fruit eaten on the moon was canned peaches
From canned peaches on to grand speeches
We will fight them on the beaches! Great speech, can’t be debated
Except the fact that Winston Churchill never really made it.
Sure, he wrote it and performed it to the government of course
But the recording that you've heard was made years after the war.

Dippy Dawg was his name, before he was Goofy
Scarecrows were once called 'Hobbidy-boobies'
Jordan and Bugs once advertised shoes, these-
-ads got so popular they went and made a movie

Green screen and blue screen make VFX a dream
But did you know that years ago they used a yellow screen?
Special sodium lamps on a plain white fill
Make a certain shade of yellow that’s invisible on film

'In Disney's Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins says backwards
is

But that's just the syllables reversed. Letter for letter, it's:


And if you think I'm saying that on the beat, you're mad...

And that's a fact.

There are more ways you can stack a deck of cards
Than the galaxy has stars
And each year we eat so much Nutella
That you could span the Great Wall of China with the jars. (8 times!)

Coca Cola sell so many drinks worldwide
That measuring their sales in profits won't suffice
So 'Share of Throat' is a scale they devised
For the percentage of humanity's hydration they provide.

Memetics is the study of shared ideas
And it’s where the word ‘Meme’ first appears
Johnny Cash was a radio engineer
And when Stalin died he was the first to hear

(It's a matter of fact)
That in the wild there are less flamingos
Than there are plastic ones on lawns
(It's a matter of fact)
The man who invented the tube for Pringles
Had his ashes buried in one.
(It's a matter of fact)
And every second 5000 statuses are updated
(It's a matter of fact)9
Every second 4000 new stars are created
(It's a matter of fact)
Every second takes hours when animated
(It's a matter of fact)
So I'm gonna stop now or I'll never ever make it.

If you set a challenge I am bound to react
JT, this has been my counter-attack
If you saw it through, have a pat on the back
It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts.

[ComedicLetter]

"3% of all the world's cheese gets stolen"


don't out my 3am shenanigans, please...

[Mauripsu]

Fun fact:

The same Ethiopian emperor used the unplugged electric chair as a throne and claimed he was so powerful that Western execution methods didn't affect him

[JTM]

This was dope dude! Thanks for responding to the challenge :)

[carpedm]

"There are more hats in TF2 than there are real fort in the E.U."
Yes, YESSSS

[ご飯かけ卵-qf]

Me: Nothing can beat Dan Bull's response.
Stupendium: Hold my beer.

[c_x_]

“And if you think I’m saying that one the beat, you’re mad, and that’s a fact.”
Years later and I still love that joke.

[lukaskrogvold]

For the board game rap, please make a song about trivial pursuit called «It's not a matter of facts, it's a trivial pursuit»

[livetwilightever]

This song is, musically, incredible and wildly catchy, and also it has sent me into a spiral of googling and confusion. A lot of the information in this song is just little-known facts, but an uncomfortable amount is widely-believed myths. And I can't know which is which until I look it up, and sometimes go through a few links before I find something trustworthy. And now I have all of these "facts" in my head just from memorizing (some of) the lyrics, but I have no idea whether any given fact is true, and I'm terrified that I might mindlessly repeat a myth from this song because I never fact-checked it and then I forgot where I heard it, and this is driving me crazy. Again, love the music, very catchy, it's been stuck in my head for days so fantastic job on that.

[HarryUK]

Absolutely fantastic! I don't envy how much research you had to

[rivo]

Is that fact about your grandfather teaching Tommy cooper how to build a ship? If so loved how you put a personal one in there

[vyacheslavsergeev]

I cant understand one thing: why stupendium doesnt already have more than 1 mill subs and why his videos do not earn mills of veiws and likes. It is just crazy how much effort is put in any of his videos, quality of after effects and lyrics is just overwhelming. Stupendium deserves a lot more than he gets now!

[PearangeProductions]

0:58

Oh god. I can recognize EVERY SINGLE ONE of those hats in the background.

Goddamn, I have a MAJOR TF2 addiction, and I didn’t even REALIZE it!

[yaboykeiran]

Friend: hey what’s that thing on that field over there?


Me: it’s a HOBBIDY-BOOBIE

[lightsideofsin]

He looks so pissed off that TF2 has lots of hats 😂

[chiefdadworth]

I have never been so amused while learning so many completely useless (yet intriguing!) facts in just 4 minutes.

[CubicalStudios]

Awesome work dude! (also im hyped for your Doki Doki song, it's gonna be sweet!)

[heronator]

You went and did it with Kingdom Hearts! on the beat! Officially mad!

[AAAAAA-]

"I've just hit 16k subscribers which is absolutely nuts"
And you're already at 500k now! Your channel is growing by a lot and very quickly, and you deserve it! Your stuff is awesome, man!

[captaincardboardbox]

Dude, this was awesome, you just earned your self a mOnIkA