I actually work at the Boyers, Pa location, in the exact department you mentioned; OPM. Imagine my surprise that anyone would be talking about this middle of nowhere place on TH-cam! It really is a very unique place though. The old quarry is MASSIVE; my agency only takes up a small portion of all the other companies and departments that rent out spaces there. Thank you for you and your team's hard work, and for surprising me today!
@@2sexyfomyshirt It's down there in major part to prevent a catastrophic fire, which is why it shares the mine with numerous other can't-lose archives. If one does start, all they have to do is close the doors and starve it of oxygen, and there's a fire company on call inside the mine. The military archives were in a building that was exceptional for how little fire protection it had, including no sprinklers.
There's a former salt mine in Poland that houses a cathedral, concert venue and sculptures. All carved from the black salt, including the chandeliers in the cathedral. Its a stunning place to visit, and they encourage you to lick the walls!
I toured it for 3 hours on my 54th birthday. You can rent the chapel for weddings and have your reception there too. Related 3 yrs later I toured Mammoth Cave for 3 hours on my 57th birthday
Simon, you warm my heart :) . Greetings from Romania! Salina Turda is really quite fun to go to. Considering that a proper treatment normally consists of at least 5 days of 1-2 hour long visits into the mine to have effect, it was a nice idea to keep people (especially kids) entertained while being down there.
1:31 -- discovered again?! Does that mean he went missing the second time? What the hell happened, did they leave him behind a couch at the church? Could it be he wasn't really dead, just very antisocial?
Nice beard my favorite TH-cam channel dude, much love from Southern California. Listen to you when I have to clean house. What's cool is I don't remember cleaning, just your awesome stuff. Keep it up man. By the way I'm 42 years young, love all your channels!
The most fascinating part of this video is the little bit of schmutz on Simon's mustache, just below his right nostril. Once I saw it, I couldn't keep my eyes off it. The US Federal Government, specifically the Social Security Administration, uses an old mine outside of Kansas City, Missouri to archive inactive case folders dating back decades. SSA once intended to keep such folders in the "cave files" in perpetuity. They would even survive a nuclear attack on Kansas City. However, despite the immense capacity within the caves (I'm retired from SSA and I've been there), space is not unlimited. Today, SSA periodically destroys deactivated case folders once they are deemed to be dormant (no claim activity of any kind for at least 5 years; no surviving claimants or eligible dependents). New claims have been recorded and maintained electronically-only for a number of years now. I'm surprised OPM still keeps paper copies of even electronic retirement claim files. It makes no sense. Fun fact: the entrance of SSA's cave repository was used in a crucial scene of the 1980s film "War Games" starring Matthew Broderick, standing in as the secret location of NORAD.
Omg I'm not the only one... Once you see it... Its mesmerizing lololol Sorry Simon love you and all your content! Especially Business Blaze, it's still that to us OGBB'rs
Mega-Cavern outside Louisville, Kentucky is an indoor mountain bike park built in the remains of a mine. This part of Kentucky is also home to Mammoth Cave.
Still haven't made it to the mega cavern. It's a 10 minute drive. Lol it looks crazy cool though and could make for an interesting video in its own right. I've been hoping to see Simon do Mammoth Cave on his Geographics channel
Wow Missouri, Bonne Terre, #1 on this list. After reading the title on this list I immediately thought of the Bonne Terre lead mine that was converted to a diving resort. My thoughts were it will never make this list of Awesome around the world mines. I grew up around the mine mentioned, and for it to rank #1 is pretty freaking awesome.
I watch Finders Beepers History Seekers where Matt and Andy visited the salt mine on their recent trip to Romania. It looked an awesome place with lots of fun and interactive things to do. I especially liked the boats on the river. A great concept for a theme park.
For some reason most movies are stored in salt mines around the world. Anyone who loves horror knows the movie event horizon whose original copy was destroyed in a mine in Transylvania
Cave diving is super dangerous. In South Africa we have lots of old mines, especially In Johannesburg. One day a group of professional divers wanted to investigate an underground lake that had like shrimp creatures in it. The one dude got lost under water, but found his way into a tunnel. He was found death 2 weeks later with the words "tell my wife I love her" written in his own blood. He was recently married about a week before he died.
I have a few friends that work out of that iron mountain. Security clearance stuff, and the OPM. They also store valuables and national treasures in there.
Can you do a video on the safest place to live to avoid natural disasters on one of your channels? Ive always been curious on if there’s somewhere that isn’t susceptible to volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc
3:09 just came back and we are talking about the bestest boy ? No mention of the Butte community trying to rehouse him? Multiple attempts were made to adopt him, but he kept going back to the Pit. Only then was his shack constructed.
Nice to hear my state get some love. #1 too. That's awesome. Bonne Terre is somewhat hard to pronounce it guess. I almost didn't know he was talking about it till he said Missouri. All kinds of cool mines, caves and caverns in Missouri.
I totally agree seeing it could include the history of St Joe Lead Co , then turning into the diving experience where many divers,, including the famous Jaque Cousteau have explored.
The Timmons Ontario water isnt really 'old'. Its as old as the last glass of water you drank or you swam in, in the ocean. The difference is it was cut off from the earths water circulatory system, it didnt rain down from the sky, run through rivers, end up in the ocean and evaporate back to the sky and make clouds, it got stuck in a cave. No surprise it was 3x's as salty as the ocean, it would have very slowly evaporated and seeped through the rock, leaving the salt. The lesson? That molecules in that glass of water you just drank was probably billions of years old.
"Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm... shadow and flame."
I,,I cant stop staring at the glitter on his beard. Is it glitter? Or cookie dust? hmm I'm 86% glitter wait I'm going with cookie crumbs. I need a Simon video on top 10 things about beards. Its a rouge whisker catching the light? damn he just said something about a massive anacondas. I gotta rewind. Damn that mystery in his beard!
A lead mine housing an in-use underground lake seems questionable. It must have been determined to be safe, but you wouldn't think so, given what was mined there?
I would suspect that a glass of water out of my kitchen tap is approx 4.5 billion years old unless there is a secret supply line coming from another planet that I don't know about.
I don't know who told you that Vitriol is Copper Sulphate, but it is in fact an old name for Sulphuric Acid. Bit of a difference, and dangerous to confuse the two!
Hello from Wisconsin! I'm barely 43 years young and to answer a question no one has asked, my conclusion to Simon's main audience is our age or a tad older. I'm sure all ages enjoy certain subjects or perhaps his skills as an orator, but I'm guessing Gen X-ers like me are most abundant. Now that I'm really thinking about it, maybe more baby boomers (no clue specific ages) watch his content the most.. I would enjoy seeing the data on what age groups enjoy which channels... Does anyone know of that info being available to the public? Oh, I can do the work myself! I'm going to Google my question. Sorry for the interruption, pls resume perusing the comment section.
In Louisville, Ky. USA there is a zip line in a cavern which was carved out secretly during World War II for storage. It's the world's only undertground zip line and it is heavily advertised to toruists. Technically, a cavern used to store chemicals and equipment isn't a mine, so I guess it's OK that Simon didn't include it - on this video. So how 'bout, "The most bizzare things found in underground storage caverns." The Louisville zip line would have to be No. 1.
It’s there throughout the entire video! At first Inthought it was just a stray hair. Literally the first thing I saw, and couldn’t stop my gaze from going back to it xD
But I worry about pollution in the deep lake cave from the jetskis! That doesn't seem to go with diving. Enclosed spaces. Now, if they could tie it all in along with the extreme bike riding cave!! : )))
Just when you thought mines couldn't be more ingrained in the human condition... The #1 best selling video game of all time is Minecraft.... just saying....
I love listening to Simon pronounce places but I would like to point out that it’s not pronounced “Bon Terra”. The second part of the name is pronounced like “tear” as if one would tear a piece of paper.
That's just because Americans love to pronounce things their own way. To the rest of the world it would be as Simon said it. In this case just ask a French speaking person.
I actually work at the Boyers, Pa location, in the exact department you mentioned; OPM. Imagine my surprise that anyone would be talking about this middle of nowhere place on TH-cam! It really is a very unique place though. The old quarry is MASSIVE; my agency only takes up a small portion of all the other companies and departments that rent out spaces there. Thank you for you and your team's hard work, and for surprising me today!
cool.
This is sooooo cool!! I retired from the federal government so it's nice to know a Simon fan is taking care of me!! 😀💙
There's Hope for us yet!
The fire that destroyed the military archives didn't teach anyone anything, huh?
@@2sexyfomyshirt It's down there in major part to prevent a catastrophic fire, which is why it shares the mine with numerous other can't-lose archives. If one does start, all they have to do is close the doors and starve it of oxygen, and there's a fire company on call inside the mine. The military archives were in a building that was exceptional for how little fire protection it had, including no sprinklers.
There's a former salt mine in Poland that houses a cathedral, concert venue and sculptures. All carved from the black salt, including the chandeliers in the cathedral. Its a stunning place to visit, and they encourage you to lick the walls!
Lick the walls? We could make a movie and call it "Charlie and the Covid factory".
Wieliczka mine 👍
@@foomanchoo5409 LOL
I toured it for 3 hours on my 54th birthday. You can rent the chapel for weddings and have your reception there too. Related 3 yrs later I toured Mammoth Cave for 3 hours on my 57th birthday
Yeah that lil boogie drove me crazy too!!! LoL
Simon, you warm my heart :) . Greetings from Romania! Salina Turda is really quite fun to go to. Considering that a proper treatment normally consists of at least 5 days of 1-2 hour long visits into the mine to have effect, it was a nice idea to keep people (especially kids) entertained while being down there.
1:31 -- discovered again?! Does that mean he went missing the second time? What the hell happened, did they leave him behind a couch at the church? Could it be he wasn't really dead, just very antisocial?
I'm from Timmins Ontario and I'm so happy to see this on the list :):):)
Nice beard my favorite TH-cam channel dude, much love from Southern California. Listen to you when I have to clean house. What's cool is I don't remember cleaning, just your awesome stuff. Keep it up man. By the way I'm 42 years young, love all your channels!
Absolutely love all your videos Simon!!!!
The most fascinating part of this video is the little bit of schmutz on Simon's mustache, just below his right nostril. Once I saw it, I couldn't keep my eyes off it.
The US Federal Government, specifically the Social Security Administration, uses an old mine outside of Kansas City, Missouri to archive inactive case folders dating back decades. SSA once intended to keep such folders in the "cave files" in perpetuity. They would even survive a nuclear attack on Kansas City. However, despite the immense capacity within the caves (I'm retired from SSA and I've been there), space is not unlimited. Today, SSA periodically destroys deactivated case folders once they are deemed to be dormant (no claim activity of any kind for at least 5 years; no surviving claimants or eligible dependents). New claims have been recorded and maintained electronically-only for a number of years now. I'm surprised OPM still keeps paper copies of even electronic retirement claim files. It makes no sense.
Fun fact: the entrance of SSA's cave repository was used in a crucial scene of the 1980s film "War Games" starring Matthew Broderick, standing in as the secret location of NORAD.
Omg I'm not the only one... Once you see it... Its mesmerizing lololol
Sorry Simon love you and all your content! Especially Business Blaze, it's still that to us OGBB'rs
Confirmed. The boogie has stole the show. He's going to start a new channel based on that premise. It'll do well I'm sure.
This is not the only Simon video lately in which this unidentified philtrum object appears. There was one a few days ago also. Publicity stunt? LOL
I can't concentrate....lol
The same nasal discharge appeared in another video and then disappeared after the sponsor.
I love the new 1.18 Caves & Cliffs update.
"These cars were showing their age, but they had all clearly been parked there on purpose". Thanks for clearing that up.
Mega-Cavern outside Louisville, Kentucky is an indoor mountain bike park built in the remains of a mine. This part of Kentucky is also home to Mammoth Cave.
Still haven't made it to the mega cavern. It's a 10 minute drive. Lol it looks crazy cool though and could make for an interesting video in its own right. I've been hoping to see Simon do Mammoth Cave on his Geographics channel
Keep up the Great work fact boy
I grew up right next to Bonne Terre mine and I've hiked through it a few times. Its absolutely beautiful.
Wow Missouri, Bonne Terre, #1 on this list. After reading the title on this list I immediately thought of the Bonne Terre lead mine that was converted to a diving resort.
My thoughts were it will never make this list of Awesome around the world mines. I grew up around the mine mentioned, and for it to rank #1 is pretty freaking awesome.
Simon is the Thanos of TH-cam, he has all the channels
Just noticed Simon has something in his moustache.
Soon to be on the list; Rubber ducks in the Cerro Gordo mines... :P
Couldn't stop looking at what ever was in his moustaches
I can’t stop looking at that white thing on your mustache 😫
Definitely an eye catcher. I'd do the video over. It's a magnet. I can't stop looking at it.
I watch Finders Beepers History Seekers where Matt and Andy visited the salt mine on their recent trip to Romania. It looked an awesome place with lots of fun and interactive things to do. I especially liked the boats on the river. A great concept for a theme park.
Just in time for my lunch break Simon, you always have the best timing!
Me too!!! What are you eating, I have a ham sandwich
@@choombby9842 I'm a college student so it was leftover pizza, definitely made better by a little bit of fact boy.
I’m in Australia and I’m enjoying my morning poop while i watch this 😌
Mustache hitch hiker
Love you Simon!!
Dammit Simon! I can't stop combing my moustache.
Cool **** thank you Simon
Missouri has a massive number of underground rivers. No surprise the mine flooded right away.
Me: Falling asleep to the soothing tale of mummified corpses.
Also Me: Can’t fall asleep after learning about Titaniboa. 😆😱
For some reason most movies are stored in salt mines around the world. Anyone who loves horror knows the movie event horizon whose original copy was destroyed in a mine in Transylvania
I met The Auditor when I was a kid growing up in Butte, my home town!
I can't stop looking at that one shiny hair on his mustache, right below his right nostril. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you can't unsee it.
Cave diving is super dangerous. In South Africa we have lots of old mines, especially In Johannesburg. One day a group of professional divers wanted to investigate an underground lake that had like shrimp creatures in it. The one dude got lost under water, but found his way into a tunnel. He was found death 2 weeks later with the words "tell my wife I love her" written in his own blood. He was recently married about a week before he died.
1:53 I never heard GitHub pronounced that way before.
Usually I hear it pronounced Git Hub, with a thick American accent.
I have a few friends that work out of that iron mountain. Security clearance stuff, and the OPM. They also store valuables and national treasures in there.
Simon, you've got a little...thing....right...no, the other side....you know what? Never mind....
Can you do a video on the safest place to live to avoid natural disasters on one of your channels? Ive always been curious on if there’s somewhere that isn’t susceptible to volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc
Easy.. south west wales in the UK. None Of the above mentioned and rarely even snows. Nature is not wildin there it’s just safe. Safe and boring
North West England... We just get rain
Well, since serial killers aren't a natural disaster, how about Wisconsin, USA? Other than people killing people, its pretty safe.
PHILADELPHIA
Central Australia.
Gimli: and the called it a mine, A MINE!
Well, we know where Simon will be mountain biking next then!
In Colombia there is also a Cathedral inside a Salt Mine. Called the Zipaquira Salt Cathedral.
"Guthub"???
Sometimes I swear ... Simon doesnt actually listen to what he says.
That was really interesting.
3:09 just came back and we are talking about the bestest boy ?
No mention of the Butte community trying to rehouse him? Multiple attempts were made to adopt him, but he kept going back to the Pit. Only then was his shack constructed.
Nice to hear my state get some love. #1 too. That's awesome. Bonne Terre is somewhat hard to pronounce it guess. I almost didn't know he was talking about it till he said Missouri. All kinds of cool mines, caves and caverns in Missouri.
I live in Bonne Terre Missouri
if anyone remembers a clean shaven Simon Whistler, you are the real ogs
You should do a Geographics on the Bonne Terre Mine/Lake
I totally agree seeing it could include the history of St Joe Lead Co , then turning into the diving experience where many divers,, including the famous Jaque Cousteau have explored.
Ohhh found one of your channel I wasn't subscribed too yet...haha!
Bizarre inhabitants, indeed!
The Timmons Ontario water isnt really 'old'.
Its as old as the last glass of water you drank or you swam in, in the ocean.
The difference is it was cut off from the earths water circulatory system,
it didnt rain down from the sky, run through rivers, end up in the ocean and evaporate back to the sky and make clouds, it got stuck in a cave.
No surprise it was 3x's as salty as the ocean, it would have very slowly evaporated and seeped through the rock, leaving the salt.
The lesson? That molecules in that glass of water you just drank was probably billions of years old.
we all made of starstuff and billions and billions of fvcks
molecules? not so much
atoms, yes
There's also a disc golf course in a mine in colorado
Ha Timmins my home town...was wondering if you would mention that pool of water they found
I almost had a tantalum mine, but it was just out of reach.
"Moria. You fear to go into those mines. The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm... shadow and flame."
I,,I cant stop staring at the glitter on his beard. Is it glitter? Or cookie dust? hmm I'm 86% glitter wait I'm going with cookie crumbs. I need a Simon video on top 10 things about beards. Its a rouge whisker catching the light? damn he just said something about a massive anacondas. I gotta rewind. Damn that mystery in his beard!
Omg I thought it was just me lol
Oh, thank you. I came to the comments just to make sure I wasn't nuts.
I just love the typo at 'gut hub'... 🤣
So that's where my paperwork is! 😀
A lead mine housing an in-use underground lake seems questionable. It must have been determined to be safe, but you wouldn't think so, given what was mined there?
Titanaboa
I’ve finally seen what nightmare fuel would be personified
only 21 tera bytes?
thats not alot simon...i dont think they will use an entire mine for that.
more like 2100 tera bytes.
*Lipfluff* _gets past the censors..._
I would suspect that a glass of water out of my kitchen tap is approx 4.5 billion years old unless there is a secret supply line coming from another planet that I don't know about.
That water has probably been in a million animal's colon. Gross.
And yet Mr. Hoffa still evades us.
Fascinating
I don't know who told you that Vitriol is Copper Sulphate, but it is in fact an old name for Sulphuric Acid. Bit of a difference, and dangerous to confuse the two!
Count me out of diving in that cave. Nope nope nope!
We need a top 10s on "how it's made" episodes
Woo - I''ve raced the black hole enduro :)
BOOGER BLAZE
That toxic mutt sounds like something from Stalker or Fallout ☺️
Hello from Wisconsin! I'm barely 43 years young and to answer a question no one has asked, my conclusion to Simon's main audience is our age or a tad older. I'm sure all ages enjoy certain subjects or perhaps his skills as an orator, but I'm guessing Gen X-ers like me are most abundant.
Now that I'm really thinking about it, maybe more baby boomers (no clue specific ages) watch his content the most..
I would enjoy seeing the data on what age groups enjoy which channels... Does anyone know of that info being available to the public? Oh, I can do the work myself! I'm going to Google my question. Sorry for the interruption, pls resume perusing the comment section.
Remarkably well written for a Wisconsin cat. Gave me... paws. I'll show myself out.
In Louisville, Ky. USA there is a zip line in a cavern which was carved out secretly during World War II for storage. It's the world's only undertground zip line and it is heavily advertised to toruists. Technically, a cavern used to store chemicals and equipment isn't a mine, so I guess it's OK that Simon didn't include it - on this video. So how 'bout, "The most bizzare things found in underground storage caverns." The Louisville zip line would have to be No. 1.
Does the Data Archive also have a way for future generations to read/access all that information?
One word - crazy 🤪
Can you or have you done top ten most shocking freedom of information act releases?
I just visited #1 with my family last summer.
You got something in your beard.
No Amber Room. Damn. It's out there somewhere.
Is this the same Ian Fortey from Cracked?
Yes it is
@@JeffKelly03 ah neat,I enjoyed the articles back in the day! Hope he's doing well
They say Twitter is in deepest darkest mines. Which one, they don't know?
There is a television program on the theme park in a Romanian salt mine.
Hey simon the audio is really quiet on this vid
What's on Simon's mustache?
“Gothub”? 🤣
You got something in your Beard at 5:50 (mustache)
It’s there throughout the entire video!
At first Inthought it was just a stray hair.
Literally the first thing I saw, and couldn’t stop my gaze from going back to it xD
Imagine there is war & someone mines the mines.....mineception?!
Something we would call a Greater demon.
But I worry about pollution in the deep lake cave from the jetskis! That doesn't seem to go with diving. Enclosed spaces.
Now, if they could tie it all in along with the extreme bike riding cave!! : )))
You found the Balrog
OI!! WHISTLA!!
There's a mine where they're storing data, it is there that they decided to save Windows Vista for future generation.
Since the 1.18 update where are the Azaleas
Just when you thought mines couldn't be more ingrained in the human condition... The #1 best selling video game of all time is Minecraft.... just saying....
What is that caught in your mustache!?!?
I love listening to Simon pronounce places but I would like to point out that it’s not pronounced “Bon Terra”. The second part of the name is pronounced like “tear” as if one would tear a piece of paper.
That's just because Americans love to pronounce things their own way. To the rest of the world it would be as Simon said it. In this case just ask a French speaking person.
Why are they allowed to steal anything that comes to me
Bro what's in the stash?
Not one mention of the Mines of Moria!?
Ps. The Khewra salt mine in Pakistan has a subterranean mosque….
Did you call GitHub "GutHub"?
So how did the WWII mine with cars stashed by the Germans get a 1950's car in there as well?
Not too often Montana gets mentioned, I doubt there will be another Montanan that reads this.
What about an idahoan? Us western states have to stick together.
Am I the best not one who sees the booger or in his moustache.