Hi I just want to say to Mental Floss, everyone that works there including the people who work on this channel: Thank you for retaining your integrity and principles and seeming adherence to the accuracy of your claims, down to the wording you use to indicate sourcing. Its very impressive and refreshing to see, as it contrasts to the contemporary trend of info media orgs foregoing diligence as a result of laze or in purpose of clicks. Thank you for being so ethical, from my perspective.
Thank you for the kind words! This is actually something I think we can still improve upon-sometimes it's difficult to know how to source something that is relatively "common [historical] knowledge," so to speak, or how to present info where historians (who are better-informed than us) disagree. Our excellent fact-checker often helps with this process, but it's something I'd love to bring even more transparency to moving forward (perhaps with more on-screen citations). In any case, glad to hear our (current) best efforts are appreciated!
My favorite historical coincidence as concisely as possible: --In mythology, Saturn overthrows his father, fears the same being done, and begins swallowing his children. His wife takes umbrage to this, and when Zeus is born substitutes a stone in swaddling clothing for him and lets Saturn swallow the stone. (Remember this. Zeus = Stone). Later, Zeus and his wife, Hera, are arguing over her infidelity (which you'd think would be the other way around) and their son, Vulcan, sides with Hera. In anger, Zeus flings Vulcan from the heavens, and he lands with both feet on the ground, permanently maimed. --In Astronomy, the ancient Greeks named one of the spots in the sky that moves differently from the rest of the stars after Saturn. Later, Galileo is looking through his newly invented telescope and turns toward the spot he knows to be Saturn. At this newfound resolution, he's surprised to see three spots instead of one -- a large central mass and two smaller masses on either side of it. We would later know that those two smaller masses were Saturn's rings, which tilt relative to us as the planet rotates. So each night, Galileo saw the central mass remain constant, but the two masses at the sides got smaller and smaller until they vanished. He reportedly exclaimed, "What, does Saturn swallow his children!?" --Later in astronomy, scientists were convinced by a perturbation of Mercury's orbit that there must be another planet between Mercury and the sun, and they even went so far as to name the planet Vulcan. For decades, astronomers searched for the planet in vain, until Albert Einstein's theory of relativity disproved the need for another mass to explain the perturbations. When viewed as a mass, each gravitational field would have its own secondary, smaller gravitational field, which would have its own even smaller tertiary field, etc. ad infinitum. So the name of the man who would fling the astronomical Vulcan from the heavens was Einstein, whose name in his native German means, "a stone."
NOTE: I think credit for putting all of this together in one place goes to Isaac Asimov in one of his non-fiction books I picked up in a library one day.
Here's an odd coincidence. During the British assault on French held St Lucia, Captain Edward Packenham received a neck injury from a bullet, which forced him to carry his head at a peculiar angle for several years - until, while engaging the enemy on Martinique, he was hit on the other side of his neck by another bullet, with the result that his head was restored to a more conventional position.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two important founding fathers, died on the very same day. JULY 4th, 1826. On July 4, 1826, at the age of 90, Adams lay on his deathbed while the country celebrated Independence Day. His last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still survives." He was mistaken: Jefferson had died five hours earlier at Monticello at the age of 83.
As a former architect, I'm intrigued by the claim that air conditioning enabled high-rise construction. I see no reason why it'd be hotter on the 100th floor than at the ground. In general, air gets cooler as elevation increases (until about 6 miles up). For sure, the wind would be stronger, so you might need some sort of louver to control ventilation (if you merely opened a window, air flow through the building would be too fast). In fact, many high-rises were built before air conditioning, but they generally had shapes we would find strange, like E or X, to keep the wings narrow for cross-ventilation. What air-conditioning enabled was large distances between exterior walls -- whether in a high-rise or any other building. Naturally-ventilated buildings needed a certain area of operable window for each square foot of floor, limiting the distance between exterior walls. It also enabled buildings with no operable windows (again, whether high-rise or any other kind). And it enabled the population boom in the South and Southwest -- without it, Houston and Phoenix would still be towns, not cities. But if I had to be in Phoenix with no air conditioning, I think I'd be BETTER off on the 100th floor, with an operable window, than at the ground -- just as it's cooler at the top of the mountain near Palm Springs than it is on the desert floor.
@@rparl It's true that heat generated by activity will rise. During summer, activity does generate some heat (human metabolism, taking a shower, running the washer or dishwasher). But most of the heat that apartment below you generated was probably from having the heat on during winter. During summer, the heat won't be on -- there won't be nearly as much heat TO rise. During summer (I think) the outside air temperature will have more influence than heat coming up from below. And it definitely does get colder at altitude. That's why clouds form. Moist air rises until the air gets cool enough to condense out the moisture. A 100 story building would be IN the clouds some of the time. Its outside air would be below dew point. I may be wrong, but I don't think they should have simply stated what they did as fact without proof. By the way, I think what they were thinking of is that most modern high-rises have no operable windows and long distances between exterior walls. Yes, that kind of construction would be stifling in hot weather -- at ANY height. It's not the height, it's the lack of ventilation. A tall building built for natural ventilation might be MORE comfortable than a short one. That's my story and I'm sticking with it until refuted. One other thing -- remember transoms? It used to be routine for doors between offices or apartments and interior corridors to have a transom window over the door. There's even a saying in the publishing industry, "over the transom," for an unsolicited manuscript, implying it had been tossed over a locked office door through the transom window. Those windows were there to provide cross-ventilation through an entire building, in one side, through the transoms both sides of the hall, out the other side. We used to plan for that. We don't, anymore. THAT'S what air conditioning changed.
Unless I missed seeing a comment from someone else, I am surprised that it was not mentioned that VELCRO is a combination of the French words “velour” (velvet) and “crochet” (hook) -- “hooked velvet”
I knew where that Lysol story was going and I was wondering how she was going to handle presenting it. Kudos to her but I assume she took a wigg-out break after that one.
@@nicolechafetz3904 Sadly they were probably told to “trust the science” back then.. much like the talcum powder incident.. I’m sure 20 years from now we’ll all find out our shampoos were cancerous lol 😂
The 22nd of November 1963 saw the deaths of 3 famous men. Aldoux Huxley, author of 'Brave new world', C. S. Lewis, author of the narnia series, and most famously John F. Kennedy.
Not historical (because it just recently happened) but a SUPER bizarre coincidence - two separate semi-trucks hauling onions crashed on the same stretch of highway in Colorado six weeks apart from one another! So within less than a month, two instances of huge quantities of onions were spilt in the same area of land and section of the Animas river?!?!?! Super weird right?!?!?
Ok, I've got a real one this time: Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham, was proximate to all three Presidential assassinations that occurred in his lifetime. First was his dad, obviously; while he wasn't at Ford's Theater, he was in DC at the time and was able to get to his father's bedside pretty quickly. Second was James Garfield, who was shot in a train station. Robert was his Secretary of War and was on his way to join Garfield to wherever he was going. He had just spotted Garfield on the platform when his assassin attacked. Third was William McKinley; McKinley had invited Robert to join him at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and Robert was just outside the building where McKinley was shot when it happened. Supposedly he turned down any invitations from Presidents from that point on to avoid jinxing them, though he did go to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, where there were two Presidents present (the sitting President Harding and the former President/then Chief Justice Taft) but no assassination. Really I think it had more to do with the fact that he was out of politics at that point and he was just less motivated to schmooze with Presidents.
Earlier today, I saw a video about how Bob Kane hogged all the credit for creating Batman. Seems the same kind of thing happened with saccharin. I *knew* he wasn't the only one...
In 1976, computer scientist and UFOlogist Jacques Vallee, upon whom the character of LaCombe is based in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," was in Los Angeles. He was there conducting research on an L.A.-based UFO-centered religious sect called the "Order of Melchizedek." When leaving the city, he hailed a taxi from curbside on Sunset Blvd. to take him to the airport. One pulled over and picked him up, dropping him at the airport after a short ride, during which Vallee never discussed his research. When Vallee asked for a receipt at his destination, the driver's name was listed as "M. Melchizedek." Thinking perhaps there were many people with that name in Los Angeles, Vallee checked the L.A. phone book, and found that there was only one -- his taxi driver.
I've known about velcro and it's invention since the early 60's. And imagine the stifling heat in summer in most of the south and southwest with out air conditioners! Been there, done that and can't exist without them, lol.
Wait... I don’t...understand! Southerners need to rip off their clothes because it gets so hot 🥵 and the Velcro helps them get their clothes off faster?
If one is to believe Star Trek, in particular an episode from ENT, it was a Vulcan living as an undercover Human that patented Velcro for money so a kid could go to college....😁😉🖖
Historic coincidences: Anne Frank and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year. This BLEW MY MIND when I heard it since...you know 🤷🏾♀️...Anne is eternally a child.
Ah yes, the 19th century scientists' urge to taste potentially injurious chemicals "just 'cuz'" is hilarious to me :D How many things would we not have because of that??
@@tophers3756 uh yeah, I know, I saw the video. He didn’t know it was safe when he ate with unwashed hands then went around tasting random chemicals! I wouldn’t have done that!
There's currently a move to switch from the term "feminine hygine" to "period/menstrual products" to push back at the taboo and stigma of menstruation as well as to be more inclusive.
What taboo? Periods are gross, it's like trying take the taboo out of poop, it's there for a reason. Feminine hygiene is not a product, it refers to keeping the vagina and vulva clean, which are things biological females are born with (no matter how much one wants to be man). And douches and other supposed vaginal washes aren't period products either.
Disregard the haters, Lala. They are the reason our country is falling apart in the first place and the reason that the term change is sought: so that uite, patriarchal @$$holes will stop thinking that uite is right.
@@ATHIP12 My nephew is Kenosha shooting victim, Jake Blake so a fair amount of racism AND feminism. I grew up in a segregated NORTHERN town. My (Black) father, Rev. Blake, was a friend of Rev. MLK Jr. and invited King to our home town to protest the segregation because the city council did not want their uite children (who are likely you-toned) going to school with kids who were me-toned. My father, Rev. Eddis, and King marched until it broke the town and the bigot councilmen finally capitulated. When their friend, MLK Junior, was gunned down, the two men sat up all night in my father’s church office. They were both respected holy men in the community and they hoped to calm any retribution of youth violence. I hope this answers your questions about the mythological nature of racism in America. The attached video was made by Rev. Eddis. My father first appears at 6:07. P.S.: Why not try to work on becoming a better person. You seem like you’re utterly part of the problem. th-cam.com/video/2Ouz-bbVvRA/w-d-xo.html
The mouse saccharine study is pretty much debunked, at least as far as it applying to people. The mice were megadosed with saccharine for an extended period. Plus the type of mouse used is known for developing cancer.
Yeah, we debated whether to say "probably" overblown or just plain overblown/false-in hindsight, it may well be that we erred on the side of caution, when a more forceful framing would've been more accurate.
Some crazy Coincidences, Arthur Pym of Nantucket, Futility and the Titanic, Lincoln and JFK, The Curse of Tamerlane, First and Last deaths of the hoover dam construction were father and son. Flight 666 flew into Hel on Friday the 13th. The Jim Twins. Coincidences that are very crazy
We debated whether barcodes were "items," per se, but since they are found all throughout one's house (books, groceries, cleaning products, etc.) we decided it was fair game. ymmv, though!
Possibly awkward question, but what are the chances of this and other Mental Floss shows using more inclusive language re: things like menstrual products?
100%. That's actually something we should have already been doing throughout the site/channel (for example, in our video about "100 facts we learned in 2021," we referred to "period products" and "hygiene products"). I'm assuming you're alluding to the phrase "feminine hygiene product" as a description for Kotex, and I think in this case it was an oversight on our part. Sometimes old linguistic habits die hard, but we always strive to use the most accurate language possible, so we will be more aware of this moving forward.
This historical coincidence lives rent-free in my head: King Umberto I of Italy once ate at a restaurant, only to find out that the owner, also named Umberto, looked exactly like him. They chatted and discovered quite a few other things they had in common-they were born on the same day in Turin, both married women named Margherita, had married on the same day, and the restaurant had opened the day of Umberto's coronation. The next day, King Umberto was shot and killed by an assassin, not long after being informed that the restauranteur had been shot and killed.
I fear this one may be apocryphal. We stumbled on it in research and loved it, but couldn't find any evidence or contemporary sources backing it up. If you happen to have any legit-seeming sources, would love to see them! (And sorry to rain on your parata!)
Ha, I suppose that's more of a philosophical question, but I guess what we're trying to drive at is "poetically satisfying coincidences" or "coincidences which appear, at first blush, to have been somehow orchestrated by fate" or something along those lines. It's admittedly a bit nebulous, but I think there's some fun stuff to discuss.
It sounds normal and natural to those of us who are. I empathize with your situation, but one is not going to start speaking in a way that feels unnatural to them for a rare audience member. And maybe the speed thing works.
Please site your source material for when early Native Americans were drilling for oil and would therefore have access to something that as you stated is "a byproduct of oil drillong".
Hi I just want to say to Mental Floss, everyone that works there including the people who work on this channel: Thank you for retaining your integrity and principles and seeming adherence to the accuracy of your claims, down to the wording you use to indicate sourcing. Its very impressive and refreshing to see, as it contrasts to the contemporary trend of info media orgs foregoing diligence as a result of laze or in purpose of clicks. Thank you for being so ethical, from my perspective.
Bravo! AGREED!
Thank you for the kind words! This is actually something I think we can still improve upon-sometimes it's difficult to know how to source something that is relatively "common [historical] knowledge," so to speak, or how to present info where historians (who are better-informed than us) disagree. Our excellent fact-checker often helps with this process, but it's something I'd love to bring even more transparency to moving forward (perhaps with more on-screen citations). In any case, glad to hear our (current) best efforts are appreciated!
@@MentalFloss On-screen citations would be so helpful! 👏
My favorite historical coincidence as concisely as possible:
--In mythology, Saturn overthrows his father, fears the same being done, and begins swallowing his children. His wife takes umbrage to this, and when Zeus is born substitutes a stone in swaddling clothing for him and lets Saturn swallow the stone. (Remember this. Zeus = Stone).
Later, Zeus and his wife, Hera, are arguing over her infidelity (which you'd think would be the other way around) and their son, Vulcan, sides with Hera. In anger, Zeus flings Vulcan from the heavens, and he lands with both feet on the ground, permanently maimed.
--In Astronomy, the ancient Greeks named one of the spots in the sky that moves differently from the rest of the stars after Saturn.
Later, Galileo is looking through his newly invented telescope and turns toward the spot he knows to be Saturn. At this newfound resolution, he's surprised to see three spots instead of one -- a large central mass and two smaller masses on either side of it. We would later know that those two smaller masses were Saturn's rings, which tilt relative to us as the planet rotates. So each night, Galileo saw the central mass remain constant, but the two masses at the sides got smaller and smaller until they vanished. He reportedly exclaimed, "What, does Saturn swallow his children!?"
--Later in astronomy, scientists were convinced by a perturbation of Mercury's orbit that there must be another planet between Mercury and the sun, and they even went so far as to name the planet Vulcan. For decades, astronomers searched for the planet in vain, until Albert Einstein's theory of relativity disproved the need for another mass to explain the perturbations. When viewed as a mass, each gravitational field would have its own secondary, smaller gravitational field, which would have its own even smaller tertiary field, etc. ad infinitum.
So the name of the man who would fling the astronomical Vulcan from the heavens was Einstein, whose name in his native German means, "a stone."
NOTE: I think credit for putting all of this together in one place goes to Isaac Asimov in one of his non-fiction books I picked up in a library one day.
Dude chill bruh u wasted a whole day of ur life for a comment? Huh
@@technobladeneverdies5318 This is the wrong channel to be trying to shame someone for enthusiasm. We're nerds here. Enjoy it or move along.
Albert Einstein was born on "Pi Day" 3.14, or March 14, 1879 (Fun historical coincidence for fans of math)
Ha, nice!
And Sadly, Stephen Hawking died on Pi Day. The circle of life.
PI Day is also the same day of the week as 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, and 12/12
Here's an odd coincidence. During the British assault on French held St Lucia, Captain Edward Packenham received a neck injury from a bullet, which forced him to carry his head at a peculiar angle for several years - until, while engaging the enemy on Martinique, he was hit on the other side of his neck by another bullet, with the result that his head was restored to a more conventional position.
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getting it shot in the neck twice in the 1800s and no only living through it, amazing.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two important founding fathers, died on the very same day. JULY 4th, 1826.
On July 4, 1826, at the age of 90, Adams lay on his deathbed while the country celebrated Independence Day. His last words were, "Thomas Jefferson still survives." He was mistaken: Jefferson had died five hours earlier at Monticello at the age of 83.
What did they found/find?
@@Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed , They founded the United States of America. Found as in foundation, not the past tense of find. But you were probably kidding.
As a former architect, I'm intrigued by the claim that air conditioning enabled high-rise construction. I see no reason why it'd be hotter on the 100th floor than at the ground. In general, air gets cooler as elevation increases (until about 6 miles up). For sure, the wind would be stronger, so you might need some sort of louver to control ventilation (if you merely opened a window, air flow through the building would be too fast). In fact, many high-rises were built before air conditioning, but they generally had shapes we would find strange, like E or X, to keep the wings narrow for cross-ventilation. What air-conditioning enabled was large distances between exterior walls -- whether in a high-rise or any other building. Naturally-ventilated buildings needed a certain area of operable window for each square foot of floor, limiting the distance between exterior walls. It also enabled buildings with no operable windows (again, whether high-rise or any other kind). And it enabled the population boom in the South and Southwest -- without it, Houston and Phoenix would still be towns, not cities. But if I had to be in Phoenix with no air conditioning, I think I'd be BETTER off on the 100th floor, with an operable window, than at the ground -- just as it's cooler at the top of the mountain near Palm Springs than it is on the desert floor.
Heat also rises. When I lived on the second floor of the apartment building, the one below provided some heat.
@@rparl It's true that heat generated by activity will rise. During summer, activity does generate some heat (human metabolism, taking a shower, running the washer or dishwasher). But most of the heat that apartment below you generated was probably from having the heat on during winter. During summer, the heat won't be on -- there won't be nearly as much heat TO rise. During summer (I think) the outside air temperature will have more influence than heat coming up from below. And it definitely does get colder at altitude. That's why clouds form. Moist air rises until the air gets cool enough to condense out the moisture. A 100 story building would be IN the clouds some of the time. Its outside air would be below dew point. I may be wrong, but I don't think they should have simply stated what they did as fact without proof. By the way, I think what they were thinking of is that most modern high-rises have no operable windows and long distances between exterior walls. Yes, that kind of construction would be stifling in hot weather -- at ANY height. It's not the height, it's the lack of ventilation. A tall building built for natural ventilation might be MORE comfortable than a short one. That's my story and I'm sticking with it until refuted. One other thing -- remember transoms? It used to be routine for doors between offices or apartments and interior corridors to have a transom window over the door. There's even a saying in the publishing industry, "over the transom," for an unsolicited manuscript, implying it had been tossed over a locked office door through the transom window. Those windows were there to provide cross-ventilation through an entire building, in one side, through the transoms both sides of the hall, out the other side. We used to plan for that. We don't, anymore. THAT'S what air conditioning changed.
Unless I missed seeing a comment from someone else, I am surprised that it was not mentioned that VELCRO is a combination of the French words “velour” (velvet) and “crochet” (hook) -- “hooked velvet”
The AC one reminds me of my previous job where we joked the AC on the Navy fleet was for the computers, not the sailors
Houston wouldn't be what it is without the AC
I knew where that Lysol story was going and I was wondering how she was going to handle presenting it. Kudos to her but I assume she took a wigg-out break after that one.
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Honestly, I’ve told every woman I ran into since I watched it! Women used to throw Lysol up their hoo-HAHS!!!!
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Ugh, yes. We actually took out a few shocked asides to keep the section as straightforward as possible, but it's pretty horrific stuff.
I visibly winced hearing the uses Lysol advertised. Insanity.
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Sadly they were probably told to “trust the science” back then.. much like the talcum powder incident.. I’m sure 20 years from now we’ll all find out our shampoos were cancerous lol 😂
So you burn your hoohaa with Lysol and still end up pregnant. Double ouch.
The 22nd of November 1963 saw the deaths of 3 famous men. Aldoux Huxley, author of 'Brave new world', C. S. Lewis, author of the narnia series, and most famously John F. Kennedy.
04:55 The name for copying designs from nature is biomimicry, as is the case with velcro.
Oo I don't think we stumbled on that term while writing the script-wish we had!
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John Wilkes Booth's brother Edwin saved Abraham Lincoln's son's life.
Not historical (because it just recently happened) but a SUPER bizarre coincidence - two separate semi-trucks hauling onions crashed on the same stretch of highway in Colorado six weeks apart from one another! So within less than a month, two instances of huge quantities of onions were spilt in the same area of land and section of the Animas river?!?!?! Super weird right?!?!?
The words island (a German compound) and isle (from the Latin via French) aren't etymology linked.
Not even if you go back to Proto-Indo-European ?
Super cute in this vid
Ok, I've got a real one this time: Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham, was proximate to all three Presidential assassinations that occurred in his lifetime.
First was his dad, obviously; while he wasn't at Ford's Theater, he was in DC at the time and was able to get to his father's bedside pretty quickly.
Second was James Garfield, who was shot in a train station. Robert was his Secretary of War and was on his way to join Garfield to wherever he was going. He had just spotted Garfield on the platform when his assassin attacked.
Third was William McKinley; McKinley had invited Robert to join him at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and Robert was just outside the building where McKinley was shot when it happened.
Supposedly he turned down any invitations from Presidents from that point on to avoid jinxing them, though he did go to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, where there were two Presidents present (the sitting President Harding and the former President/then Chief Justice Taft) but no assassination. Really I think it had more to do with the fact that he was out of politics at that point and he was just less motivated to schmooze with Presidents.
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The subtitles still have a crack about nobody under 65 calling Kleenex "Kleenex" anymore. Yeah, swing and miss, dude. Pass me a cotton swab will ya?
Earlier today, I saw a video about how Bob Kane hogged all the credit for creating Batman. Seems the same kind of thing happened with saccharin. I *knew* he wasn't the only one...
ComicTropes?
@@johnjohnson8575 As it happens, yes.
Bob + Kane = Bane? is this why he's a villain? lol
In 1976, computer scientist and UFOlogist Jacques Vallee, upon whom the character of LaCombe is based in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," was in Los Angeles. He was there conducting research on an L.A.-based UFO-centered religious sect called the "Order of Melchizedek." When leaving the city, he hailed a taxi from curbside on Sunset Blvd. to take him to the airport. One pulled over and picked him up, dropping him at the airport after a short ride, during which Vallee never discussed his research. When Vallee asked for a receipt at his destination, the driver's name was listed as "M. Melchizedek." Thinking perhaps there were many people with that name in Los Angeles, Vallee checked the L.A. phone book, and found that there was only one -- his taxi driver.
What do people think it means?
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Napoleon and Hilter failed because of their invasion of Russia. Hilter admired Napoleon (and thankfully) didn't learn from his mistakes
I don’t know about the health risks of saccharine, but the health risks of tasting random chemicals in a laboratory are pretty high…
I've known about velcro and it's invention since the early 60's. And imagine the stifling heat in summer in most of the south and southwest with out air conditioners! Been there, done that and can't exist without them, lol.
Wait... I don’t...understand!
Southerners need to rip off their clothes because it gets so hot 🥵 and the Velcro helps them get their clothes off faster?
If one is to believe Star Trek, in particular an episode from ENT, it was a Vulcan living as an undercover Human that patented Velcro for money so a kid could go to college....😁😉🖖
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Historic coincidences: Anne Frank and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.
This BLEW MY MIND when I heard it since...you know 🤷🏾♀️...Anne is eternally a child.
@@ATHIP12 THANKS.
Same year. I will correct my post.
Ah yes, the 19th century scientists' urge to taste potentially injurious chemicals "just 'cuz'" is hilarious to me :D How many things would we not have because of that??
Saccharine in safe
@@tophers3756 uh yeah, I know, I saw the video. He didn’t know it was safe when he ate with unwashed hands then went around tasting random chemicals! I wouldn’t have done that!
There's currently a move to switch from the term "feminine hygine" to "period/menstrual products" to push back at the taboo and stigma of menstruation as well as to be more inclusive.
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What taboo? Periods are gross, it's like trying take the taboo out of poop, it's there for a reason. Feminine hygiene is not a product, it refers to keeping the vagina and vulva clean, which are things biological females are born with (no matter how much one wants to be man). And douches and other supposed vaginal washes aren't period products either.
Disregard the haters, Lala.
They are the reason our country is falling apart in the first place and the reason that the term change is sought: so that uite, patriarchal @$$holes will stop thinking that uite is right.
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My nephew is Kenosha shooting victim, Jake Blake so a fair amount of racism AND feminism.
I grew up in a segregated NORTHERN town. My (Black) father, Rev. Blake, was a friend of Rev. MLK Jr. and invited King to our home town to protest the segregation because the city council did not want their uite children (who are likely you-toned) going to school with kids who were me-toned.
My father, Rev. Eddis, and King marched until it broke the town and the bigot councilmen finally capitulated.
When their friend, MLK Junior, was gunned down, the two men sat up all night in my father’s church office.
They were both respected holy men in the community and they hoped to calm any retribution of youth violence.
I hope this answers your questions about the mythological nature of racism in America.
The attached video was made by Rev. Eddis. My father first appears at 6:07.
P.S.: Why not try to work on becoming a better person. You seem like you’re utterly part of the problem.
th-cam.com/video/2Ouz-bbVvRA/w-d-xo.html
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Mental Floss, is this the kind of respectful comment on race that you encourage in your community standards?
Who invented "inventing", who discovered "discovering"? And why is being "the first" so important in our culture?
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Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were roommates in college.
Oh, good...I needed to Floss ...
Lysol got me pregnant. Deadbeat Lysol
The mouse saccharine study is pretty much debunked, at least as far as it applying to people. The mice were megadosed with saccharine for an extended period. Plus the type of mouse used is known for developing cancer.
Yeah, we debated whether to say "probably" overblown or just plain overblown/false-in hindsight, it may well be that we erred on the side of caution, when a more forceful framing would've been more accurate.
The first and last British casualties of WWI are coincidentally buried just across from each other.
The first and last cavalry engagements between the British and German forces in WW1 were in the same village in Belgium.
Cheeseborough is pronounced cheese-burrow. OK?
Some crazy Coincidences, Arthur Pym of Nantucket, Futility and the Titanic, Lincoln and JFK, The Curse of Tamerlane, First and Last deaths of the hoover dam construction were father and son. Flight 666 flew into Hel on Friday the 13th. The Jim Twins. Coincidences that are very crazy
A barcode is a household item? I cook with fresh barcodes.
We debated whether barcodes were "items," per se, but since they are found all throughout one's house (books, groceries, cleaning products, etc.) we decided it was fair game. ymmv, though!
Hey Erin, it’s actually called a “P” trap.
Vaseline was originally called "rod wax"? OMG
Which chemicals should I taste?
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Yeah if you want off brand velcro you have to say "hook and loop fasteners" wtf
*Goes into store* "I'd like some hook and loop shoes, please."
@@MentalFloss Thanks, I'm star struck! 🤩
Ancient Crete had flush toilets as early as 300 bce
Possibly awkward question, but what are the chances of this and other Mental Floss shows using more inclusive language re: things like menstrual products?
100%. That's actually something we should have already been doing throughout the site/channel (for example, in our video about "100 facts we learned in 2021," we referred to "period products" and "hygiene products"). I'm assuming you're alluding to the phrase "feminine hygiene product" as a description for Kotex, and I think in this case it was an oversight on our part. Sometimes old linguistic habits die hard, but we always strive to use the most accurate language possible, so we will be more aware of this moving forward.
I had a dentist who sprayed his tools with Lysol. The tools he put in my mouth.
Omg
@@augustcannon I KNOW. I CAN STILL TASTE IT IN MY IMAGINATION
Did you know that dentistry is one of the least regulated practices?
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Anybody remember that time Trump talked about people injecting bleach! Haha.. goods times... Anyways happy 2022!
This historical coincidence lives rent-free in my head: King Umberto I of Italy once ate at a restaurant, only to find out that the owner, also named Umberto, looked exactly like him. They chatted and discovered quite a few other things they had in common-they were born on the same day in Turin, both married women named Margherita, had married on the same day, and the restaurant had opened the day of Umberto's coronation. The next day, King Umberto was shot and killed by an assassin, not long after being informed that the restauranteur had been shot and killed.
I fear this one may be apocryphal. We stumbled on it in research and loved it, but couldn't find any evidence or contemporary sources backing it up. If you happen to have any legit-seeming sources, would love to see them! (And sorry to rain on your parata!)
@@MentalFloss Well, that's really not very surprising. Maybe now the story will get evicted from my brain 😆
@@erraticonteuse Haha or it's cemented there forever, with the additional info that it's not true.
@@MentalFloss Probably stuck there with Velcro!
Isn't most of history build on coincidences, which all led to where and how we are today?
Ha, I suppose that's more of a philosophical question, but I guess what we're trying to drive at is "poetically satisfying coincidences" or "coincidences which appear, at first blush, to have been somehow orchestrated by fate" or something along those lines. It's admittedly a bit nebulous, but I think there's some fun stuff to discuss.
Oh I know what it is you were looking for, I just wanted to sound sophisticated~!
@@Apophis324 Haha mission accomplished!
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😨😨Barcodes the the Devil's Mark! (Rev 13:17)😨😨
TIL: native Americans had oil drilling wells
Why do you speak so fast? Some viewers are not English native speakers.
You can adjust the playback speed. It works for me when I watch videos in my second language.
It sounds normal and natural to those of us who are. I empathize with your situation, but one is not going to start speaking in a way that feels unnatural to them for a rare audience member. And maybe the speed thing works.
Please site your source material for when early Native Americans were drilling for oil and would therefore have access to something that as you stated is "a byproduct of oil drillong".
What exactly is a "lubrieant" quality? Perhaps you meant "lubricative"?
You know like over half the audience are adult right? You don't HAVE to condescend to smokers.
It's the 2020s, we know.
Could do without the attitude.
Do one on Fluoride..a Mile long train of "Highly Toxic Petroleum waste" turned into an "Essential Drug" nearly over night.