31 fun facts to unpoison your mind

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Fun fact: Back in 1802, there was a book titled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" written by american businessman Timothy Dexter, which he used to complain about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. However, the book was special in that it used zero punctuation and he pretty much spelled every word he could unconventionally. There were so many complaints that in the second edition, published in 1805, he added an extra page at the end with 11 lines of nothing but punctuation marks, which readers were instructed to insert wherever they felt they were necessary.

Loved the editor's explanation. Simple, to the point, giving this channel's vibes. Just perfect.

Fun fact: The roman emperor Caligula was widely considered to be mad, once forcing an entire legion to do nothing but collect seashells after a defeat, and is said to have made his favorite horse, Incitatus, a consul. It's also said he once had an entire section of the audience at an arena tossed in with the wild beasts during intermission because he was bored

fun fact: in norwegian, in certain dialects, a small and simple conversation can be had without the use of any consonants, only vowels. (a very situational one, but it is possible.)

One of my favorite fun facts: The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet.

Fun fact: The first guy to use anesthesia in surgery, Robert Liston, also once cut a persons leg off so fast that a spectator died of shock, the patient and an aide to Robert also both died of sepsis from the unclean saw. This lead to the only known surgery with a 300 percent death rate.

Fun fact: In 1997 a cat named Stubbs became the honorary mayor Talkeetna, an Alaskan town. The town didn't even have a real human mayor. He served as honorary mayor until 2017.

Fun Fact: It was common practice for Egyptian kings to schedule battles with their enemies, and if the other king couldn't make it that day, they would reschedule. 😁

Fun fact: the word "oxymoron" comes from 2 Greek words: Oxy (Oxus) - meaning sharp Moron (Mōros) - meaning slow, stupid, or dull So "oxymoron" means "sharp-dull" making it an oxymoron itself.

Fun fact: Kermit is implied to have caused 9/11. In a Muppets special in 2002, Kermit is shown the world if he didn’t exist, and the Twin Towers are still up. This implies that Kermit somehow caused it.

Fun fact: many people know that the word orange existed first as the fruit, and then the color was named after it. However, the word orange has existed in Europe since before orange fruits were brought to Europe from India. By etymological coincidence, a region in France came to be known as "the Principality of Orange" over 100 years before the first oranges were brought to Europe. The Prince of Orange married into the Dutch royal family, so the Dutch had an association with orange before it was even a color.

Fun Fact: Penicillin was only discovered because Alexander Fleming was too lazy to clean up after himself. "In 1928 Dr Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mould seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He soon identified that the mould produced a self-defence chemical that could kill bacteria. He named the substance penicillin."

Fun Fact: If you buy a bigger bed you get more bedroom but less bedroom

my absolute favorite fun fact: that arrangement of four spikes at the end of a stegosaurus's tail is called, scientifically, a thagomizer. It simply did not have a name until Gary Larson, creator of the Far Side comics, drew a panel in which a caveman lecturer is explaining dinosaur anatomy and says "Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons" and the scientific community just kinda ran with it (@katie.cali)

As a dev, the 11% of America that think HTML is a disease had me ROLLING on the floor 🤣

5:41 fun fact, the reason why he drew instead of painting was because his paintings were worth a lot more than the total check. So whenever he had a big family meal, he told everyone he would be paying but not a single penny would come out of his bank.

Fun fact: otters have a little pouch of skin under the arms, where they keep their favorite rock. It helps them open seashells, among other things, and we've got records of them getting upset when losing the Special Rock.

Daniel is actually rly smart and funny, it’s harder to tell from his sketches but honestly seems like a rly fun guy to hang out with

Fun fact: Lichens are a symbiotic union between a fungi and an algae, which basically fusion and make a new body to survive. It's shapes and color depends on the conditions they got united on. The fungi gives the algae water, the algae gives food to the fungi, and they usually make this symbiosis when conditions are hard for them to survive alone.