500 Facts - mental_floss List Show Ep. 524

A list of 500 fun facts, from a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John tells you some of his favorite facts from the past few years of The List Show.

Enjoy your holidays and we'll see you next year!

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[aarenfiedler]

I'm not sure why Auto-play showed me this in the summer of 2023, but it made me realize how much I miss the Salon and John Green doing the lists.

[kathleensevo]

Does anyone else use this video to go to sleep? I've just found something so satisfying about John Greens voice. I can't be the only one.

[Kifford]

Its 2023, Its been fives. I used to watch this with my mom. Warm memories. Seems so long ago.

[vylet]

Nothing has soothed stress for me more both pre and post-covid era than old episodes of Mental Floss featuring John Green. You mean more than you'll ever know to so many ppl. Thank you John.

[bmgbarrett]

I miss these old Mental Floss episodes. :)

[sneakmore]

Little did john know he would completely forget about eyeballs popping out from sneezing only to be replaced with “sneezing is never normal, i never sneeze” 😂

[fartzinwind]

The Boston Bridge also has a pedestrian bridge, so one could say A plane could fly over a car that is driving over a train that is traveling over a person who is walking above a very small boat.

[fugithegreat]

I had no intention to watch the whole thing, but it happened.

[givemebackmypurse.]

I voted for the purple m&m thru the 1-800 number back in the late 90s.

[alexanderkarayannis]

9:25 Further to fact# 104...So were the composers of "O Holy Night" and "I am dreaming of a white Christmas" Adolph Adam and Irving Berlin...Happy Holidays!...

[magister]

Dogs can distinguish blues from yellows, but cannot tell red from green. Most mammals are red-green color blind, but those who cannot see other colors are very rare. It is believed that the earliest mammals were nocturnal burrowing rodent-like creatures who had little use of color vision and developed a defect causing them to loose the red/green sensing eye pigments that almost all other vertebrates had since before fish became amphibians. Primates later evolved a different red-green receptor, which does not work quite as well as the one shared by birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

[CrimsonDeathBed]

So, I LOVE stuff like this, I love facts, random, relevant, irrelevant, fun, weird, all I know is, I'm going to put this on repeat while I sleep for a week and try to become a super-genius.

[meganni]

The key given on the 21st birthday is also practiced in the UK and Ireland!

[ThestuffthatSaralikes]

Watched an amazing doc on Bob Ross and they said that “all” paintings by Bob Ross are kept at their headquarters in storage-and this old ladies house (she discovered him) and he never wanted his stuff sold. So yeah, finding one of those 13 stolen paintings...man, that’d be awesome. Just an FYI😁

[magister]

White Chocolate does not contain chocolate liquor, but the authentic stuff does contain cocoa butter from the same plant. It is still appropriate to consider it chocolate if it contains either of those ingredients. Real white chocolate is more of a pale yellow rather than white.

[unclecreepy]

“Making him the richest president win the popular vote.”


You couldn’t help yourself with that one could you?

[FirstmateRouge]

I watch these videos as I fall asleep almost every night and this was the best thing to see in my sub box! I'm excited for more videos in the new year!

[lindareed]

Blown away by so many facts in less than 45 minutes. So much fact- and background-checking to do...

[MsPandaDoodle]

It's not mint in toothpaste that makes oj taste bad (mint and citrus are actually great together) it's the sodium laureth sulfate in most toothpaste that block the sweet receptors on your tongue.

[robinsmith]

I love that a lot of these facts have been on the British panel show QI. I watch it on Britbox on Amazon.