A Solid 20 Minutes of Useless Information
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Fun fact:
Bruno Mars isn't a planet.
damn u right
i always thought it was
No? Damn it!!😂😂
oF cOuRsE hE's nOt, hE iS a PeRSoN
@@saddoge3630 r/woosh, Sorry pal Gotta do it Even though yours was a Joke too.😂😂😂
"Please don't make me do half an hour"
Ok, do a full hour.
2h
Take it or make it longer
Please do half an hour
Fuck it, 5 hours
24 hours? Titled A day of useless information
Fuck it, 10 hours
"the human body contains enough carbon to make 900 human pencils"
ticonderoga: ferb, i know what we're gonna do today
I actually thought that's not much, considering all of organic chemistry is made of carbon (and hydrogen but that's very light, and a bit of oxygen, and some other fluff in small quantities)
no god please no
I'm an artist in need of pencils
...
@@Watermelon-suika you know what to do
how much graphite? didn't think there was carbon in pencils anymore. or lead. i dunno nothin'...
This feels like school. Sitting around listening to the teacher teach us pointless things that we will never remember nor need in our lives.
F yeah duuude!!! I dont need to know nothing about some maths f**git
This is school but better
Yeah I had the same thought. The only thing I remembered was that the balls were made out of wood before plastic was invented cus its the only one that made me think a little about how it could be possible
I will remember all of these those
But I don’t have to stress about remembering any of this 😁
“This video is sponsored by Squarespace”
Ah yes, the first bit of useless information
😂😂😂😂
a comment about the video being sponsored by squarspace, with a joke about how it’s useless info, the first fact, and starts with “ah yes” for some reason
@@originaluseername
a reply to a comment about the video being sponsored by squarspace, with a joke about how it’s useless info, the first fact, and starts with “ah yes” for some reason
I'm your 1000 like c:
why is there 5 replies on a comment with 1500 likes after 3 weeks
"A Solid 20 Minutes of Useless Information"
Schools: pathetic
Lmao
ur not wrong
I CACKLED
School- “A Solid 12 Years of Useless Information”
@@cfnretro6448 yep
I use this series to fall asleep because since I know its not vital info, and it has no storyline, my brain can turn off. Plus, I ALWAYS forget what the facts are 😅
OMG YEEES SAMEEEEE
Sometimes, I'll put it on to fall asleep, then at one point wake up, then just skip to the last fact I remember and then go back to sleep.
Legit I found the first one and loved the way he speaks and I now sleep
You'd be surprised at how much you actually do retain.
Thank you! I do trivia with older blind people three times a week and I’d like to start out with an odd fact. I’m definitely going to use these so I have like 10 weeks worth :-). By the way, I’m also one of the old blind people. Although I’m the youngest at 61 I believe the oldest is in her late 80s early 90s and she still sharp as a tack and kicks are behind on any trivia involving science.
how can you type emoticons while blind I'm just curious since blind people typing is really mysterious
I love this
That’s awesome, I’m going blind from keratoconus, I really like just lying down and listening to stuff like this! I started with spooky stories years ago and now it’s a big hobby for me since I don’t have to have my contacts in. I’m just turning 35, but I think about how nice it would be to live in like a group home when I’m a senior. Living with similarly capable people instead of being alone would be the ideal situation for me 😊
@@hiddenguy67They probably knew how to type before they became blind and just learned to type through memory. That or, especially if they were born blind, they used speech to text and just said “colon, hyphen, end parentheses.”
@@-Juney- oh still cool though
“Please, PLEASE do not make me do half an hour”
Okay. 29 minutes and 59 seconds it is
More useless facts:
“Austin McConnell cannot escape the internet’s loopholes.”
Even better, an *HOUR* instead.
@carne de monstro Make it live stream non-stop then like one of those lofi hip hop streams
Yeah you gotta know you pretty much signed yourself up for this. I'd be willing to accept 29 minutes even.
Sounds good to me.
I actually spent 20 minutes learning nothing, but I feel smarter.
That's its
Like browsing social media
Same
@Dorothy Goodell laughs in Indian*
@@Adomas_B Not even remotely close to that vast wasteland of (usually hostile) lame ass quagmire of opinions called social media. At least this is real, even though it may not rock your world. I’d rather watch this all day, on a loop even, then 1/2 hour of any “reality” show ever made.
I have always had a near insatiable appetite for useless information. You never know, it may come in handy sometime. When I was around 6-7 I suffered from Rheumatic fever. My parents bought me the 8 volume Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia. I devoured it in 6 Months. Oh and I have Aspergers. Reading and the Radio kept me sane. This was well before we had TV and the internet had not even been dreamed of, except in SF. Keep it coming, mate.
I’ve been using these videos to help me sleep at night. They knock me out within five minutes 😂
"The Mitochondria is the power house of the cell"
I’m going to reference ChubbyEmu, he thought. Can’t be that bad for my health.
He proceeded to leave an entire comment on this channel when his kidneys shut down…
But it ISN’T!!!!
What is it?
𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧
A *mitochondrion* (/ˌmaɪtəˈkɒndrɪən/, plural *mitochondria* ) is a double membrane-bound organelle found in most eukaryotic organisms. Mitochondria generate most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), used as a source of chemical energy.
@@mailman1538 It is an organelle in the cell that is the "powerhouse" and produces ATP which powers the cell.
I love that 1.4 million of us clicked on this video and thought “Ah. Yes. This is what I was looking for”
I feel attacked.
@@crisacevedo7379 damn i don't
I dunno why but I really thought like that haha
I dunno why but I really thought like that haha
Yes!!!
A fun fact: when Germany invaded France in ww2, French resistance members cut the cable to the elevator in the Eiffel tower, making the nazis use the stairs.
As someone who was born in Smyrna, GA and lived there for 27 years I have never been more excited by a TH-cam video
“20 minutes of useless info”
1.4M ppl: humor me
make that 1.5
stfu
@@yusha1059 ey man stop being so salty just because this person can make a better joke than you lol
now make that 1.6M
1.7
"20 minutes of useless information"
Schools: I'm four parallel universes ahead of you
Lmao
Exactly
Make it a five
Bruh😅
Half stolen
i live in a small town in Wyoming where horses are legal to ride to school and work. i once heard a story of a man who, while riding his horse to work, a police officer stopped him and said "do you know how fast you were... riding?"🤣🐎🏇
As a school teacher myself I went into this wondering just how useless this all could be. I am now prepared for the most fringy of fringe questions at trivia night. Lol
Did you know the biggest cherry pie in the world came from Charlevoix, Michigan?
"20 minutes of useless information"
Schools: *write that down write that down!*
Charles The French reference
Schools have probably said:"Hold my mitochondria"
Not funny
@@marcgirard5485 just like you
@@marcgirard5485 it is hilarious and the truth 😂
I’ve learned so little! Thanks!
Mate, there's literally no way you watched the whole thing.
@@kveeder3224 he can still have watched some of it
Because you didn't watch it till the end
@@IlijaIlijic its imposible to watch the whole thing its 20 minutes and its been out for 5
@@kveeder3224 watched on 2x while on the surface of mercury, which rotates much faster than the earth
i realised one minute into the video that it wasn't just part of the intro anymore but it had actually started. i need this more than you know.
Bonus fact : *Every 60 seconds in africa a minute passes*
“Every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Africa”
Kids in Africa could've eaten those seconds.
@@dark_mode BRO 💀😭
THAT BURN COULDVE POPPED ENOUGH POPCORN TO DROWN THE WORLD
@@dark_mode nooooo🤣🤣🤣
“Ah yes the floor is made out of floor”
"HAH!! YOU CALL THAT USELESS? Let me tell you whats useless, hold me engineer degree"
Gender studies degrees: Am I a joke to you?
Engineering is literally STEM, which are the only truely useful degrees.
*nope*
you call that useless? hold my sch00l
Hold my art degree
"No Information is Useless" ~Some Smart Guy Somewhere in this World
11:32 The originals were made in Britain, so the correct name (just like with football) is the British one. American publishers thought Wally wouldn't work well with Americans and so changed it to Waldo (as if that's any better). The name changes all over the world, but I think we can all agree that the worst one is France, who call him Charlie - it isn't even alliterative, in English or French (Où est Charlie?)! The Germans call him Walter.
"A solid 20 Minutes of useless knowledge"
The schoolsystem: *Cute :)*
I like how you write *cute* in bold
LOL
Schools: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
“A solid 20 minutes of useless information.”
Schools: “Are you challenging me?”
Schools are 20 years of useless information, there is little challenge
Ok Jake Paul
"A solid 20 years of useless information"
LOL
Not all of it
Nothing more perfect for YT to recommend me at 3 AM in the morning.
I just spend the last four hours watching random videos. So a video on useless information is right up my alley. Thank you
Austin: “I need 23 more seconds left in the video”
*solves 125 - 13*
quick mafs
@@JamesKandler Slow mafs.
@@maxgoldstein6309 big mafs
@@ali_alami smal mafs
mafs
“A solid 20 minutes of useless information”
- 2.6M people - I think this might be useful in the future
That’s why I started watching it
It Is Dimbo
Illinois Avenue
Well I learned a lot so I'm not mad
2.6
Fun fact (for a future episode): television was originally designed to promote product sales. That explains why there are so many commercials! It's just fulfilling its Prime Directive.
Thank you! I really love this series, it may be useless to some folks, but you actually are doing a great service to those of us with limited means!!!
The 3rd word of the 3rd chapter of the 3rd Harry Potter is indeed “several”
Lmao I even checked
The 3rd letter of the 3rd word of the 3rd chapter of the 3rd book is “v”
@@lilactic7597 the third letter of Harry is "r" 🤯
The third letter in the third word of the third book title is "d"
@@Nai_101 the third letter of the third word every book title is d
School: “Are you challenging me?”
@@ynfsheep like everything else
@@fritzgerald5146 Even Redditors steal the content of other redditors, it's no surprise people would repost on other socials
Is your father's name is David?
Yeah I was gonna say, pfft, this video is lame, I went through 12 years of this stuff for 6 hours a day!
“20yrs of useless information"
Guy: here's 20 minutes of useless information
5.9 million people: yes
I was thinking this was 20 minutes I'll never get back, but in reality, I don't get any past minutes back, so you're off the hook!
“This video is sponsored by square space”
Me: *doesn’t that mean squarespace is also useless?*
Oh yeeaaah
Plausible!
I think he only dedicated 20 minutes to useless information and 1 minute and 55 seconds for square space
Checkmate
Understandable, have a nice day
Me at 3 am the night before the final exam: "interesting"
I see I have found my lost twin
Me: remembers I have an exam tomorrow 🙃.
You didn't need to hit me like that
I swear this is me right now 😭😭😭
For Fucking Real.
1:23 as a europian when i first visited america 🇺🇸 i saw that the road signs were different and now i feel smart to have noticed it, to this day its one of my favourite tiny things about the contrey. not usless info to me. This actually means a lot to me. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thankyou so much for telling me❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is the type of stuff ill randomly remeber and bring up in conversation
You should totally be the next CEO of the school system, you would be a natural.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
@@omato2288 yeah but I feel like they can still do that along with content that matters for each individuals future.
@@sushi_tech35 7th grade teachers teach things actually useful for the first time
@@man95ster yeah, beginning grades also teach important stuff like simple addition. I was talking more about high school. Guess I should have included that on my comment
Big yikes from me dawg
TH-cam: *_"Don't worry, they'll watch anything during quarantine"_*
Yep that’s pretty much it
I honestly clicked to read comments.
maybe try commenting something original
@@semedy9605 maybe try not to be an idiot for once
“I don’t know how I know that, but I do”
I ask myself that question every day
If only I could remember all this, I wanna become a walking encyclopedia.
I don't know what's more sad.. that I watched all of this or that I remember none of it
Sameeeee 🤣
Schools in nutshell :
I only remember that the 3rd word in the 3rd chapter of the 3rd hp book is several
@@wireboar7321 I also remember that..
Uhhh...
Nope sorry I forgot everything .-.
@@XY2Moroccoball I remember something about putting some kind of pill inside your car battery to jumpstart it when it's dead
I like how we all gave him permission to waste 20 minutes of our lives
Bro, that was the most productive 20 minutes of mine.
I want him to waste 3 hours of my life because this soothes my autism enough that I'm excited about watching 20mins of this.
I’ve got time to kill
idk why tbh this is quite useful 😅
we give the permission for school to waste 12-14 years of our lives
"Please, please do not make me do a half-hour..." and there, in the suggestions to your right is the "30 minutes of useless information"!
2:40 i wonder if another factor in lumberjack deaths is the remoteness of the work. There are a lot of injuries that are non-fatal if an ambulance can arrive within a few minutes and the victim can be on an operating table shortly afterwards, but if youre working way out in the woods, you could bleed put/succumb to shock/whatever before medical help arrives.
Microwaves also tend to hum the "F" note.
Wow so cool I’ve learn so little!
most things tend to hum at B because a nice round number is 1000hz which also happens to be around a B
were they respecting the food?
The humming comes from the high voltage transformer, and its either a 60 or 50Hz sine wave, depending on where you are.
Another piece of useless information is that, on average, a pig's erection can last up to 30 minutes while human erections only last up to 5 minutes.
Schools: “Are you kidding me? That’s insultingly low!”
He referenced people making this exact joke over and over again in the intro. Be more original!
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth no one really cares, just let the guy comment what he wants
Literally
@CodyTheMemeLord guess your right
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee3e3
Aw, sweet. Seeing your pleasantly paced yet relentless barrage of info thrills me! I'm also a repository of useless facts, like the term "sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia" (aka, the sniglet "frigicramp"). I write educational texts, and when I was assigned a 6th-grade ELA book, I used that premise in a lesson exercise. I also included the sneaky trick I use to break the response--because who'd benefit more from that knowledge than a kid? (And no, I don't stick my thumb on my upper palate, ~ick~)
This is kinda like school, except they make every useless subject unnecessarily long and ends up on a graded test 🔥
Fun fact: Contrary to the popular belief, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson is not a STONE.
Obviously, its a rock
What else would he be, a pebble?
He's also not an actor or a wrestler, *he's a real life person*
@@thatmadlad5381 IKR
Yeah but that's like, your opinion man
Austin: "Please do not make me do a half an hour."
Me: "No, I would never ask you to do that...
"Give me the full hour."
No, I would never ask for that...
Give us a full day
lmao
@@wetzombie2134 *24 hours of useless information*
Give us a full year- the whole f**king curriculum
The people have spoken
Reminds me of a book I keep in my bathroom in the 1980’s. It was called 10,001 useless facts.
The thing about the wet hay reminds me of a story my Grandfather told me. He was born in 1894. When he was a teenager he drove a hay wagon. When it started raining they had to get the wagon under cover fast so that it could not create methane which could burst into flames.
TItle: "20 minutes of useless information"
Me: This is school in a nutshell
True!!!!
*school system
7 hours of useless information
"six hours of useless information"
True
"you gotta bump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers."
- School
school doesn't teach you that stuff for the content, rather for the undertonal message
well yes but no schools would say that this is useful
We must also bump up the numbers of legos per person, it should be 100 at least!
I KNEW someone would say this
😂😂😂
This video proves if you wanna remember something, do read/listen over and over and over again.
Fun fact: the third word in the third chapter in the third book of Harry Potter actually isn’t several, but streets because the “first word” according to Austin McConnell is “Harry” but Harry is a name, not a word.
“This video is sponsored by Squarespace”
We’re off to a good start.
Underrated xD But i'd have just put "This video is sponsored by..." (to include them all) lol
Raid Shadow Legends, World of Tanks, NordVPN, Surfshark, Skillshare, Honey, Audible, Squarespace, Dollar Shave Club, and lest we forget the infamous "Myself". (if i missed any, please let me know)
@@DlcEnergy Manscaped, that one dragon pet game?
@@DlcEnergy crunchyroll
LMAO
@Lilith Pitts Ooh a compliment... wait.. Oh that's Brilliant. lol
Chinese fortune cookies, invented in America in a Japanese restaurant.
Damn Commies
Thank you Iron Man 3
iiiiiiiironic - a british actor
Plot twist: the restaurant is owned by an Alien *MR INTERGALACTIC*
@@pugasaurusrex8253 This is funnier than it has any right to be
I broke my collar bone really early on. I'm pretty sure it was before kindergarten. I was at my grandma's house and decided to climb the bookcase while she was turned around. It fell over on top of me. This is why all of the bookshelves she had while at that house were nailed to the wall.
5:48 As someone who lives in Kennewick, WA, this was accidentally useful knowledge.
"I'll take your entire stock"
-school
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School is just like this video, except instead of 20 minutes, it's 7 hours.
*15 years+university
@@ndog0639 Yeah-
Ew your school has 7 hours.
My school time is 8 hours
i have 5 h per day luckyly
The original Ferris Wheel was 256 ft tall and each car could hold 60 people. One couple was married in a car on horseback.
3:00 "most american car horns honk in the key of F"
*plays a G#*
but in all seriousness i think the F is there but it's faint so the G# is louder
*me trying to be smart:*
*people who are French have a high chance of speaking French.*
I just had my first daughter! It's a girl!!
@@Nathan-ni5ub I laughed way too hard at these two jokes XD
I need to get this to r/notinteresting
@Henri Rochefort yes
Don't mind him he's just trying to emulate the American school system.
Edit: I also stream stuff if anyone is interested
Elitedestroyer00 a lot of other school systems too ool
Underrated lmao
Bro this information is more useful than what school taught me
Not really. If this was anything like American schools... People would want to go school
Every school system*
The picture of Nicholas Cage on the text book is a still from the movie 'Raising Arizona' a wholesome family-friendly story about a couple who kidnaps a baby after finding out they were unable to have kids of their own.
Half of my brain is telling my body to stop watching but the other half is saying no watch it till the end so I've watched it till the end and I've learn so little thanks...
"This video is sponsored by squarespace"
*Well there's the first bit of useless information I guess.*
LMAO
underrated comment
300th like
@@elbenjas4003 yea this definitely deserves more likes
@@user-ff1fv6ub7c *coughs
WHO CARES
Austin: *Makes "20 minutes of useless information"*
School: *Hold my beer, gonna teach him a lesson*
A USELESS one
Hold my ruler
School is not useless
@@Junesfall shafter elementary there's not much you need to know, the only thing it does for me is the extra classes like art and choir, and ofc I need my highschool diploma to get into college.
@@Junesfall School doesn't teach how to pay taxes, first aid, how to invest, etc, goddamn, they don't even teach you how to study/investigate stuff
11:08 As a swed i can confirm that this is true. It was in the early 1940s and Swedens citizens had very bad teeth, therefore this was invented, altough its more like a guideline for kids, but sometimes also for adults too. And guess what? It worked.
This is not only in Sweden. Norway also has "Lørdagsgodis". When I was a kid we only godt candy on saturdays. As an adult, most people don't give a damn lol.
Knowing that Illinois Ave is the most common box to land on in Monopoly is very useful information.
Title:
“A solid 20 minutes of useless information”
4.5 million people: interesting
5.1
Now..
@@Overseer- 5.2
@@Overseer- now..
Very original comment
"Could I interest you in everything, all of the time?"
"A little bit of everything, all of the time?"
"Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime"
"a little bit of everything, all of the time"
“Welcome to the internet.”
@@owenweidert1384 have a look around, anything that brain of yours can think of can be found
in 2016 there was not a single baby named Nigel. When a man found out about this he through a party at bar to celebrate Nigelness. There were 433 men named Nigel who attended the event.
I dont mean to be dense this series makes total sense. Its a compilation of fun facts. I know everyone knows this but i like stating the obvious.
For some reason I don’t believe only 5% of the population has been on an airplane ✈️
Edit: just searched on Google and it’s actually 20%
This is still... a useless information
Why do you believe google
@@tahakaradavut8123 where do you think he got the info
Population of the US or the world? Cause people in 3rd world countries might just be less likely to fly in an airplane
@@lossnt557 asking everyone maybe
“20 minutes of useless information”
“This video is sponsored by square space”
Off to a solid start
*Still no idea what square space is.*
Im dying rn
I challenge you to do a "thirteen years of useless information" and hire people to tell people at different ages that stuff at certain buildings and make sure that more than half of the people you hired suck at telling that stuff and also make sure the the different ages people eventually get overwhelmed, stressed, and eventually depressed because of the thirteen years. Oh wait, that already exists.
I came here because of a meme that said
Schools: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.
“Insert overused joke of how school does it but longer”
"Funi joke gibe mi like"
@Chokito Crafter Agreed. People just toss around the term "overrated" or "overused" just to stand out from the crowd to seem intrinsically smarter.
@@patricksedler9697 phanni*
@@nerdomatic2489 Include the ones who say "stolen comment" too.
At this point is this still really a joke?
I'm gonna memorize all of these so i can bring them up in a conversation when things get awkward.
and watch them get more awkward
YES
@@jain4613 exactly. Check out our channel if you're into weird and random humor with a touch of dark.
I once had an awkward quiet moment with my friend's friend in a hot tub (my friend was still showering) and I thought it was a good idea to start talking about fetuses
HAHAHA MY SECRET
The very first fact is actually useful; I was having a conversation about planetary weather and I just referred to it as interplanetary meteorology, not knowing the actual term.
As a Swede I can confirm that on Saturdays we eat lördagsgodis, which basically translates to Saturday candy
I knew the "Dord" fact from a Vsauce video ;)
same
May someone timestamp it please?
@@joooanit0224 7:59
Same
@@commentstuff5623 thank you
Even though the title said “useless facts” this video was so appealing to click on.
You must have loved school
I zoned out for a little and though that he said the KKK was responsible for making 90% of the worlds zippers
@@UDX6T unlike school, this is interesting
The first two are actually pretty useful, first ones a good trivia fact that can come up on quizzes, the second one is just generally useful if you're dating or friends with someone who has the allergy
The whole “Do you wear wigs” interview makes a whooooole lot more sense now
"Human beings are 13.8% more likely to die on their birthday" is a strange piece of information to learn on my birthday.
Happy birthday! 😇
rip
He was never seen again.
Blink twice if you still alive
“Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous.”
― Laura Pedersen
I like the blank look of sadness he has when he’s done talking.
why do you like that...
@@ricosmoovetv
They probably think it’s funny
I want to like this comment…it’d be the 666th like…
@@fourearwolf3315 Exactly. Thank you for investing a brain cell to help this other guy understand
@@catlikemeew Oh shit 👀
I just discovered these videos today. I absolutely LOVE them. THANKS!!!
For the hail Bails one it is absolutely astonishing and fascinating seeing the combustion. I’ve seen the aftermath of it once and it was terrifying but beautiful. It was an entire barn filled to the brim that combusted and when I drove by it was like a glowing inferno. All I saw was flames filling the entire building. The police and fire trucks just stayed outside of it while they waited it out. There was no way to put out it out all they could do was let it burn out and just make sure it didn’t spread. But the flames were so dense and the way they filled the building to the top since the bails were up to the top was insane to me. No one was hurt expect their wallet who owned it. The building was totaled and all the bails gone obviously.