Another cool fact about Zeus (who, sadly, has passed away since this video was made): He used to visit hospitals and similar facilities as a therapy dog. When my mother was nervously awaiting her first chemo treatment at a cancer center in Michigan (where Zeus was from), she actually got to meet him and he spent some time comforting her.
When I was a kid, we had Toto's grandaughter. We got her from the breeder with a stack of show ribbons and all the paperwork showing lineage and a b&w of Toto on set. Her name was Joleene and was retiring from breeding after a successful show career.
knowing that Ozzy Osbourne rescued his dog from an enemy makes me respect him a whole helluva lot more than I did before. Good for him! He knows that dogs rule!
You should mention that the dog whistle cannot be heard on the Sgt. Pepper CD (since CDs and MP3s are limited to the Hz) but can be heard off the vinyl.
#18 about the Malinois Shepherd is a picture of a German Shepherd. Malinois don't have the black saddle pattern on their backs and generally have much more black in the face.
The fact about beatles "day in the life" song, cannot be heard from CD, as CD cannot have high frequency audio.. and most youtube songs that are being uploaded are taken from the CD, so no point trying out that myth without vinyl
Well, I know dogs can be proud of their achievements. My dog once showed me she gave birth to the first puppy of her litter the day she had it. That look on her face was pure pride.
Zeus the Great Dane died in Sept of 2014 he was only 5. That's below average for a Great Dane it's usually 6 to 8 years. I can't imagine investing so much emotion on a dog that has such short lifespan. My last dog was 13 when she died I was devasted emotionally from her loss, I loved her so much.
I have a large, black, standard Poodle named Pammy as a guide dog. I'm glad you mentioned both poodles and guide dogs. She's very happy, very smart and very big.
Fun fact: In Welsh folklore the Corgi was thought to be the prefered steed of fairy warriors, due to the white, saddle shaped markings on their backs :)
Oh my god. I clicked on your 25 jobs that don't exist video, paused it to go throw something away and left my dogs in my room with the door closed. Once I came back this video was playing. Holy crap that's crazy!!!
Corgis are also great at herding the other dogs and trapping them on the couch. And herding sticks and twigs and collecting them on the deck. And herding toys and socks and keeping them under the bed......
The reason we have so many homeless dogs is not because of puppy mills, it is because of careless selfish people who think they want a dog until they realize that they actually have to take care of and be responsible for them.
I don't know about Boston Terriers, but Bulldogs definitely are always Caesarian deliveries in my experience. It begs the question of why they continue breeding for the massive head and tiny hips (as well as their ridiculously undersized airways).
My school actually still used E's in its grading system! F's need to be brought to the guidance department and approved before they can actually be given to a student because they're considered much harsher despite the fact that both of them constitute a failing grade.
Dogs can also be trained to detect high/low blood sugar, certain cancers, and can predict when an epileptic owner is about to have a seizure. They are so in-tune with our body scents and body language that is is no surprise that more and more people are getting and registering ESD (Emotional Support Dogs). They are fantastic for helping people with anxiety, PTSD, Aspergers and Autism.
I have a dog. I had two, but the older one passed away back in October. The thing about my chocolate lab(s, we're doing a bit past-tense here.) Is that the dipstick of a female we have now, is a genius, at faking being dumb. She barely knows any commands that I teach her and she is IMMENSELY lazy, but she loves food to the point she figured out how to open the folding closet doors, pull out the huge rubbermaid tub of food, knock the wooden rocking horse off teh top of it, (Our attempt at keeping the food from her.) And then OPENING the lid of the rubbermaid tub with her teeth! She's smart, sometimes. And I love her, sometimes, but I wonder what when wrong in her head. (Both her parents are trained professional search dogs!) And then there was our older lab, an amazingly genius male dog who most likely exceeded the common development in his brain, (I.e we truly believe he was smarter than a two year old. Like, he might have been more like a three or four year old.) You probably stopped reading this because I am being self absorbed and "bragging" about my dog(s), but I like to relive these memories. Anyway, this genius dog was smart enough you could be far away from my dad and the watering hose, and you could tell him, "Go get water from daddy," and he would literally look at you for a second, then meander up the hill to the other side of the house to my dad who had the watering hose, and he would do exactly what you said and get himself a drink of water. Other memories of him that I have, he was super protective, especially of me. I was a baby and he was still considered a puppy, but he protected me so many times. He also knew exactly what was his. He would, even when we moved to a place without a fence around it, and even with its large abundance of land, he never left the property. He knew what was his. And if you were to give him an old tennis shoe and play with it with him, you could take it away, go to another room, put it in a closet full of shoes, and he could go in and pull out the exact shoe you gave him. He wouldn't even think of taking any of the others. If you read all this, thank you. I appreciate it. I loved that big old dog and he is gone now. I'm left with my dipstick of a dog. I will always miss him, but I think maybe, I'll be okay. (PS: The first guide dog for the blind arrived from Switzerland in Nashville TN in 1927, the German Shepard's name was Buddy, and his handler was Morris Frank. They made the news and eventually started the first American dog training school in New Jersey some years later.)
I know exactly how you feel. My dog was a shep-mix. I swear he was smarter than some people I've known. He was not as big as a pure German Shepard but very strong for his size. He was also an escape artist. Fences, chains, collars, nothing seemed to keep him from escaping until we got boat anchor chain. Animal control couldn't catch him although they did follow him home once. He would also fetch ANYTHING you could throw. My brother to be funny once rolled a bowling ball to him. He got his teeth in the finger holes and brought it back. He even tried fetching snowballs. When my abusive father came for a visit this normally peaceful dog took an instant dislike to him and tried his best to attack him. (I admit I wanted to let him) This same dog played with children he didn't know and only licked them. (I called him a "Lick dog" sometimes) He loved peanut-butter and when you couldn't get anymore out of the jar we'd give it to him. He would hold it in his paws and stick his face in to lick it clean. I could go on for hours but I really miss him he was my truest friend.
Labs are like that some are really smart and can follow commands really well but can't even notice if you dangle a leash in front of them to go for a walk but others don't follow commands well and will always know a walking routine. Labs are like people they can do some stuff but can't do others like I am very good at literature but I can't do math to save my life.
The first few years I went to school we used E as a grade. It was E for excellent, S for superior, M for median, I for insufficient, and F for failure. The school changed to the standard A-F when I was a little older.
@@Vi.wo13 its for trying to sound formal. something that doesnt come up very often when talking about a dackel because of the goofy nature of this type of dog.
I suppose that's why the non-Anglosphere mostly uses numerical grades... Except France of course, where there's a grade 13, which, considering French grades are 1-20, is actually not bad at all, despite using the quintessential unlucky number.
As for the Seeing Eye dog fact, it's true that they learn to use the bathroom on command. My family raises dogs for the Seeing Eye based out of Morristown, New Jersey. We have to use the word 'park' to get them to use the bathroom.
Guilt is a social emotion universal to all highly social mammals, especially dogs. Dogs simply process that emotion differently, not because they don't "feel" it but because they're cognitive abilities are much less than humans.
On point 21, my wife has a guide dog (or seeing eye dog) - her second one - neither would toilet on demand. The same is true for most other users we know. It does work if you consider "on command" to mean "walk around in a circle for a half hour waiting for the dang dog to poop"
Moose was not the ONLY dog to play Eddie on the Frasier show. Moose's son, "Enzo the Dog" (yes that's his actual name), played Eddie in several shows in the latter seasons. Enzo the Dog, is easily recognized because his coat is shorter than Moose's is.
FYI: Only dogs trained at the Seeing Eye in Morristown NJ can be called seeing eye dogs. The proper term for any other dog trained for the blind is a guide dog.
I can't believe that this is the guy that wrote "The Fault in Our Stars". I still haven't seen the movie yet though. I'm a John Green fan from these videos.
We have an E grade at my school. You can get one for "Passing for reasons other than academic achievement". I'm not sure what that means and I've never heard of anyone getting one, but that's what it says in the Student Handbook.
To add a 42nd piece of trivia to this video: The background street at 6:42-6:46 is not in fact in San Francisco (where the story is placed). It is *Trinity Lane in Cambridge, United Kingdom* And it's probably the worst looking street in the entire Cambridge (they really should replace that tarmac..), even though it's in the very centre of this rather touristy town, known mainly for its architecture.
When talking about the episode with Fala, FDR said "I didn't resent it, my family didn't, but he did... when he found out his Scotch soul was furious. When Pushinka, the dog given to FDR, had puppies herself, they were nicknamed the pupniks.
A Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Sallie would stand and guard wounded soldiers in the battlefield during the American Civil War. Rottweilers used to march with Hannibal (277-183 BC). These were the facts I was hoping for.There are much more interesting tidbits about dogs in history than what was said in this video.
i remember wondering the same thing about the grade "E". then my grandma showed me one of her report cards from the 30's and it had the grade scale at the top with the letter E being there. I thought it was pretty cool
In my grade school near Chicago there were three letters used on report cards, E, S, and U, for Excellent, Satisfactory, and Un-. Teachers could add a + or - to each.
Your Belgian Malinois picture is actually a German Shepard... My Belgian is very offended that you could possibly mistake her for a German Shepard... Arf Arf... Belgians are typically smaller, lighter and more agile that German Shepards. The Belgian is more square in the body, and has less of a slope in the hind quarters. Oh, and their colors are usually the opposite of a German... Let me know if you need a video clip or picture.. Mine is very Photogenic.
My uncles dog is 270 pounds and over 7 feet in length. It's a St. Bernard. He had to get a custom made collar for its 36 inch neck as regular collar would only go up to 32. And it's very very mean to outsiders. He will attack anyone who isn't a part of my uncles immediate family.
Another cool fact about Zeus (who, sadly, has passed away since this video was made): He used to visit hospitals and similar facilities as a therapy dog. When my mother was nervously awaiting her first chemo treatment at a cancer center in Michigan (where Zeus was from), she actually got to meet him and he spent some time comforting her.
"Professionally vapid" what a great line!
When I was a kid, we had Toto's grandaughter. We got her from the breeder with a stack of show ribbons and all the paperwork showing lineage and a b&w of Toto on set. Her name was Joleene and was retiring from breeding after a successful show career.
knowing that Ozzy Osbourne rescued his dog from an enemy makes me respect him a whole helluva lot more than I did before. Good for him! He knows that dogs rule!
You should mention that the dog whistle cannot be heard on the Sgt. Pepper CD (since CDs and MP3s are limited to the Hz) but can be heard off the vinyl.
#18 about the Malinois Shepherd is a picture of a German Shepherd. Malinois don't have the black saddle pattern on their backs and generally have much more black in the face.
The fact about beatles "day in the life" song, cannot be heard from CD, as CD cannot have high frequency audio.. and most youtube songs that are being uploaded are taken from the CD, so no point trying out that myth without vinyl
Well, I know dogs can be proud of their achievements. My dog once showed me she gave birth to the first puppy of her litter the day she had it. That look on her face was pure pride.
Zeus the Great Dane died in Sept of 2014 he was only 5. That's below average for a Great Dane it's usually 6 to 8 years. I can't imagine investing so much emotion on a dog that has such short lifespan. My last dog was 13 when she died I was devasted emotionally from her loss, I loved her so much.
I have a large, black, standard Poodle named Pammy as a guide dog. I'm glad you mentioned both poodles and guide dogs. She's very happy, very smart and very big.
Fun fact: In Welsh folklore the Corgi was thought to be the prefered steed of fairy warriors, due to the white, saddle shaped markings on their backs :)
Oh my god. I clicked on your 25 jobs that don't exist video, paused it to go throw something away and left my dogs in my room with the door closed. Once I came back this video was playing. Holy crap that's crazy!!!
"Professionally vapid" lmao. Love it.
Corgis are also great at herding the other dogs and trapping them on the couch. And herding sticks and twigs and collecting them on the deck. And herding toys and socks and keeping them under the bed......
Mental Floss is an awesome series. I watch all of their weekly videos. Also John Green is a producer of the show. #DFTBA
I see a corgi owner... Lol. They're tough little beggars. You don't argue with them!
Do one for cats!
And do one for pigs so you can maybe get that Pork Chop Party fund finished.
Congratz on one million subs! love all the vids!
Greyfriars Bobby is a pretty great story I used to tell when I led tours in Edinburgh.
My dachshund loves badgering me when I'm trying to take a break from playing.>->
Moose from Fraiser also "wrote" a book called My Life as a Dog. It is one of my most prized possessions.
John green, you did bring your awesome
The reason we have so many homeless dogs is not because of puppy mills, it is because of careless selfish people who think they want a dog until they realize that they actually have to take care of and be responsible for them.
That also explains street gangs and homeless people.
Well the puppy mills don't help those idiots who think pets are easy to care for because puppy mills make it easy for them to get the dogs.
Bummer & Lazarus have also been immortalized in Christopher Moore's "Bloodsucking Fiends" and "A Dirty Job" as well as a few other books.
Love the use of "Friendbeasts."
I don't know about Boston Terriers, but Bulldogs definitely are always Caesarian deliveries in my experience. It begs the question of why they continue breeding for the massive head and tiny hips (as well as their ridiculously undersized airways).
For Their Looks. Vanity Rules The World!
My school actually still used E's in its grading system! F's need to be brought to the guidance department and approved before they can actually be given to a student because they're considered much harsher despite the fact that both of them constitute a failing grade.
That is not a Belgian Malinois pictured in the video, that is a German Shepherd Dog.
How do you dust all that shit behind you?
Lmao
Time for a Swiffer (tm) tie in. lol
Canned air! It's not just for computers any more.
Oh, man, you just made my brain hurt.
David McNick with a leaf blower at full speed.
I don't think I could ever live without a pet. I love my dogs.
Dogs can also be trained to detect high/low blood sugar, certain cancers, and can predict when an epileptic owner is about to have a seizure. They are so in-tune with our body scents and body language that is is no surprise that more and more people are getting and registering ESD (Emotional Support Dogs). They are fantastic for helping people with anxiety, PTSD, Aspergers and Autism.
My favourite mental floss so far!! :D
I have a dog. I had two, but the older one passed away back in October. The thing about my chocolate lab(s, we're doing a bit past-tense here.) Is that the dipstick of a female we have now, is a genius, at faking being dumb.
She barely knows any commands that I teach her and she is IMMENSELY lazy, but she loves food to the point she figured out how to open the folding closet doors, pull out the huge rubbermaid tub of food, knock the wooden rocking horse off teh top of it, (Our attempt at keeping the food from her.) And then OPENING the lid of the rubbermaid tub with her teeth! She's smart, sometimes. And I love her, sometimes, but I wonder what when wrong in her head. (Both her parents are trained professional search dogs!)
And then there was our older lab, an amazingly genius male dog who most likely exceeded the common development in his brain, (I.e we truly believe he was smarter than a two year old. Like, he might have been more like a three or four year old.) You probably stopped reading this because I am being self absorbed and "bragging" about my dog(s), but I like to relive these memories.
Anyway, this genius dog was smart enough you could be far away from my dad and the watering hose, and you could tell him, "Go get water from daddy," and he would literally look at you for a second, then meander up the hill to the other side of the house to my dad who had the watering hose, and he would do exactly what you said and get himself a drink of water.
Other memories of him that I have, he was super protective, especially of me. I was a baby and he was still considered a puppy, but he protected me so many times. He also knew exactly what was his. He would, even when we moved to a place without a fence around it, and even with its large abundance of land, he never left the property. He knew what was his. And if you were to give him an old tennis shoe and play with it with him, you could take it away, go to another room, put it in a closet full of shoes, and he could go in and pull out the exact shoe you gave him. He wouldn't even think of taking any of the others.
If you read all this, thank you. I appreciate it. I loved that big old dog and he is gone now. I'm left with my dipstick of a dog. I will always miss him, but I think maybe, I'll be okay.
(PS: The first guide dog for the blind arrived from Switzerland in Nashville TN in 1927, the German Shepard's name was Buddy, and his handler was Morris Frank. They made the news and eventually started the first American dog training school in New Jersey some years later.)
I do not care.
MikeSopespian
You must care you took the time out of your day to write your comment.
Aww those are nice stories, thanks for sharing
I know exactly how you feel. My dog was a shep-mix. I swear he was smarter than some people I've known. He was not as big as a pure German Shepard but very strong for his size. He was also an escape artist. Fences, chains, collars, nothing seemed to keep him from escaping until we got boat anchor chain. Animal control couldn't catch him although they did follow him home once. He would also fetch ANYTHING you could throw. My brother to be funny once rolled a bowling ball to him. He got his teeth in the finger holes and brought it back. He even tried fetching snowballs. When my abusive father came for a visit this normally peaceful dog took an instant dislike to him and tried his best to attack him. (I admit I wanted to let him) This same dog played with children he didn't know and only licked them. (I called him a "Lick dog" sometimes) He loved peanut-butter and when you couldn't get anymore out of the jar we'd give it to him. He would hold it in his paws and stick his face in to lick it clean. I could go on for hours but I really miss him he was my truest friend.
Labs are like that some are really smart and can follow commands really well but can't even notice if you dangle a leash in front of them to go for a walk but others don't follow commands well and will always know a walking routine. Labs are like people they can do some stuff but can't do others like I am very good at literature but I can't do math to save my life.
Great show ! Love your salon man. very cool. I learned many new facts and look forward to more shows.
Congrats on 1,000,000 subscribers!
The first few years I went to school we used E as a grade. It was E for excellent, S for superior, M for median, I for insufficient, and F for failure. The school changed to the standard A-F when I was a little older.
Btw for anyone who cares:
Dachshund in German is Dackel [dukl] or Teckel (old) [tackle]
well some people also use dachshund in german. but yes its way more common to call them Dackel.
@@94Newbie I do not know a single German person saying "Dachshund" to a Dackel.
@@Vi.wo13 its for trying to sound formal. something that doesnt come up very often when talking about a dackel because of the goofy nature of this type of dog.
YAAAY! John's Back! :D
So good :)
My grading scale is A through E. We don't use F because people think it means fail.
We're both from michigan. the only state to do so
kalzorath Michigan is really the only state?
But it does mean fail.
I suppose that's why the non-Anglosphere mostly uses numerical grades... Except France of course, where there's a grade 13, which, considering French grades are 1-20, is actually not bad at all, despite using the quintessential unlucky number.
hpfan459
I believe so yes, I had a friend in illinois and looked it up a while back
CONGRATS ON 1MIL SUUUUBS! 💥
Mount Holyoke isn't actually in Holyoke, MA; It is in South Hadley, MA.
That wasn't a Malinois...that was a German Shepherd Dog...
Almost a million subs! Still can't believe it isn't five million...
The Kardashians....professionally vapid? John, you're my hero.
Love the shout-out for Blue III!
As for the Seeing Eye dog fact, it's true that they learn to use the bathroom on command. My family raises dogs for the Seeing Eye based out of Morristown, New Jersey. We have to use the word 'park' to get them to use the bathroom.
I misread the title as "40 Facts about Drugs" lol
Same
So you can't read numbers or words?
Super Hans
Numbers *and* words ... ;-p
Steve Grundon I sure she reads quite fine, and dosnt nead assistence from you! :D
Maybe if you did fewer drugs, you'd be able to read more clearly! :)
most schools in maryland especially montgomery county use the a-e grading scale
love the ozzy story that was awesome
I just realized that he is the person that wrote The Fault in Our Stars!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The entire script for this episode was perfection but the cake goes to "we are also professionally vapid"
I have seen Zesus before. He lives in my college city and is a therapy dog for the children hospital
My question for John is why do we like books so much (at least most of us do.)
Love these videos!!!
So THAT'S where the mention of "Bummer and Lazarus" came from in DPC's Pyramid City! I WAS WONDERING!
The bat in that last last joke is laughing it's head off.
When you said "treat" my dog came over and stared at me. Lol
In the UK we have the E grade as well as letters A-F, we also have U which stands for 'Ungraded'
Why do sunburns peel/why are they itchy after being peeled
I wrote about Pushinka in every Cold War essay I wrote this year in A Level history. It was my awesome fact.
Guilt is a social emotion universal to all highly social mammals, especially dogs. Dogs simply process that emotion differently, not because they don't "feel" it but because they're cognitive abilities are much less than humans.
On point 21, my wife has a guide dog (or seeing eye dog) - her second one - neither would toilet on demand. The same is true for most other users we know. It does work if you consider "on command" to mean "walk around in a circle for a half hour waiting for the dang dog to poop"
My grading scale:
A: awful
B: bad
C: creative
D: delightful
E: excellent
Moose was not the ONLY dog to play Eddie on the Frasier show. Moose's son, "Enzo the Dog" (yes that's his actual name), played Eddie in several shows in the latter seasons. Enzo the Dog, is easily recognized because his coat is shorter than Moose's is.
The picture of fact 18 shows a German sheperd instead of a malinois sheperd.
I'd love to see a video for misconceptions about dogs.
FYI: Only dogs trained at the Seeing Eye in Morristown NJ can be called seeing eye dogs. The proper term for any other dog trained for the blind is a guide dog.
CONGRRATZ ON A MILLION SUBS!!!!
Garde E can be misunderstood as Excellent, but F can be thought as Fantastic :D
Thank you for explaining about poodles!!!
Mindblowing question: could we here on earth theoretically create a substance similar to naquadah from the Stargate series?
Laddie boy is a fantastic name for a dog.
Will there be any kind of special celebration when the Mental Floss channel reaches 1 million subscribers? It's getting very close!
Congrats for 1mil subs!
I can't believe that this is the guy that wrote "The Fault in Our Stars". I still haven't seen the movie yet though. I'm a John Green fan from these videos.
I never saw Wilson before!
I am so happy I stumpled on this channel by accident when I miss clicked looking for a different science channel
I saw him on the newspaper!
when was the first door bell used?
We have an E grade at my school. You can get one for "Passing for reasons other than academic achievement". I'm not sure what that means and I've never heard of anyone getting one, but that's what it says in the Student Handbook.
To add a 42nd piece of trivia to this video:
The background street at 6:42-6:46 is not in fact in San Francisco (where the story is placed). It is *Trinity Lane in Cambridge, United Kingdom*
And it's probably the worst looking street in the entire Cambridge (they really should replace that tarmac..), even though it's in the very centre of this rather touristy town, known mainly for its architecture.
When talking about the episode with Fala, FDR said "I didn't resent it, my family didn't, but he did... when he found out his Scotch soul was furious.
When Pushinka, the dog given to FDR, had puppies herself, they were nicknamed the pupniks.
Finally I was expecting GREAT DANE FROM THE BEGIN IF HE WOULD HAVE NOT SAID ANY FACTS ABOUT DANE I WOULD HAVE BEEN UPSET .
"Professionally vapid" is now my new favorite phrase.
A Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Sallie would stand and guard wounded soldiers in the battlefield during the American Civil War. Rottweilers used to march with Hannibal (277-183 BC). These were the facts I was hoping for.There are much more interesting tidbits about dogs in history than what was said in this video.
As a guide dog puppy raiser, I can confirm the on-command pooping fact.
i remember wondering the same thing about the grade "E". then my grandma showed me one of her report cards from the 30's and it had the grade scale at the top with the letter E being there. I thought it was pretty cool
In my grade school near Chicago there were three letters used on report cards, E, S, and U, for Excellent, Satisfactory, and Un-. Teachers could add a + or - to each.
That's a pretty common grading scale for elementary schools.
A bat joke with Ozzy, "Dirty pool, old man!"
We use A to E here in Australia but when I lived in New Zealand, the highest grade was E, which did indeed stand for "Excellence"
Why do we change grading scales for elementary school in the US and not use the A-B-C-D-F scale? (E for excellent a for advanced etc)
When was the first book mass published?
Gratz on 1m subs
Nothing about Wishbone?
My mom helped to take care of Millie's puppies, turns out they get their vets from the military =) She even made it into the book!
Your Belgian Malinois picture is actually a German Shepard... My Belgian is very offended that you could possibly mistake her for a German Shepard... Arf Arf...
Belgians are typically smaller, lighter and more agile that German Shepards. The Belgian is more square in the body, and has less of a slope in the hind quarters. Oh, and their colors are usually the opposite of a German... Let me know if you need a video clip or picture.. Mine is very Photogenic.
We used E also around the DC area.
That was not a picture of a Malinois. They do not have that saddle mark like German Shephards, they have a black face mask.
Funny they included a fact about small dogs having dreams when my Chihuahua is lying next to me, dreaming. :)
There's also that saying of, "Well you get an 'E' for effort."
My uncles dog is 270 pounds and over 7 feet in length. It's a St. Bernard. He had to get a custom made collar for its 36 inch neck as regular collar would only go up to 32. And it's very very mean to outsiders. He will attack anyone who isn't a part of my uncles immediate family.
I'd like to see 42 facts about kitties!