Hey everybody, it’s Gary Vaynerchuk and you’re watching Episode 100 of 50 Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind with my main man, Matt Santoro. – On January 9, 1493, famous Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, was sailing near the Dominican Republic when he spotted what he claimed were three mermaids in the water. – He described these mythical creatures as being not half as beautiful as they are painted. – The creatures turned out to actually be manatees. – I find manatees rather attractive. – According to a study at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, meditating for about half an hour for eight weeks significantly reduces the feeling of loneliness in adults and makes them feel a lot happier. – Oh (laughs), though you can’t see a single one of them, there are between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds on your tongue that contain sensory cells that renew themselves every seven days. Excuse me for a second. – Before he was the amazing Academy Award winning actor he’s famous for being today, the legendary Christopher Walken, well he worked as a circus owner’s apprentice. During shows he acted as the lion tamer performing alongside a lioness named Sheba. Sorry, but Christopher Walken, that’s awful. – On July 5, 1996 Dolly, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell through nuclear transfer, entered the world at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland. She was a domestic female sheep and named after the country music icon, Dolly Parton. And so was Dolly Parton clone, the clone that I made. Ain’t that right, Dolly Parton clone? I don’t have any time for this because I’ve been working from 9 to 5 (singing), what a way to make a living. – The original name of the video game character, Mario, from the Super Mario Bros. franchise was Mr. Video. He was actually later renamed as Mario after the landlord of Nintendo’s first warehouse, Mario Segale. Mario Segale, meanwhile, earned himself the nickname of Mr. Video. They did themselves and old swapsies. And that’s not a theory, that is a fact. – By late 2014, the music video for Psy’s Gangnam Style accumulated so many views it actually broke YouTube’s counter. It became the first video to surpass 2,147,483,647 views and that forced YouTube to upgrade from a 32-bit integer system to a 64-bit one. – Research has shown that 40 percent of all twins have invented their own language and they can even understand each other when using it. Yeah, it’s called an autonomous language. It develops and forms due to both siblings learning to speak at the same time. You know what I’m saying? – What’s going on people? It’s your main man Daym Drops and I’m bringing you an extra crispy fun fact, baby. Now, you’re probably thinking, Daym, how did a popsicle come to be? Well back in 1905 in San Francisco we had an 11-year-old by the name of Frank Epperson. One given evening, Frank forgot his cup of powdered soda, water, and a stirring stick inside the cup. He left it out there overnight only to find a tasty frozen treat in the morning. – To help them capture the realism of flying creatures or soaring through the clouds, the animators behind How To Train Your Dragon had to attend flight school. – Released in 2013, Eminem’s Rap God holds the Guinness World Record for the most words in a single song. During its six minute and four second run time, the rapper spits out 1,560 words. That’s an average of 4.3 words per second. Boom pay. – What up, y’all? It’s your boy MIMS, AKA Mr. This Is Why I’m Hot and I’m not sure if you know this fact, but This is Why I’m Hot contains samples from Mob Deep’s Shook Ones, Part 2, Kanye West’s Jesus Walks, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang, and E-40’s Tell Me When To Go and that’s a fun fact for you guys, your boy MIMS. MIMS! – The Guinness World Record for the most consecutive personal video blogs posted on YouTube is over 3,057 and counting on September 14, 2017. It was achieved by the CTFxC. Believe it or not, it’s actually me. The officially amazing, see. – Canola’s a word that’s short for Canadian oil. It was created by the Canadian Oil Industry in 1978. Canola oil was originally called the rapeseed oil but due to the negative connotations that it received, the organization decided to rename it. – Clouds are literally floating around in the sky, right. They look nice and light and fluffy but in fact the water in a medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs around 500,000 kilograms. We’re talking 500 SUVs, four blue whales floating around in the sky. Blue whales, this is a bonus fact for you, very heavy. – Despite selling over 1.6 billion singles in the United States, 600 million albums worldwide, and winning 8 Grammy awards, not one member of the Beatles could read or write sheet music. (plays guitar chord) Now that’s a sweet fact. – The genre of music known as hip hop is so-named after Keith Wiggins, an MC in the group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Keith used to scat and chant hip hop at his friend while pretending to march, mocking his friend’s choice to enlist in the military. The group then became known as hip hoppers. – Despite having the nickname Deadly Nightshade, due to being quite lethal even in small quantities, Belladonna plants were used as ingredients in drops to make women’s eyes larger in ancient Rome. Today the dangerous plant is still used by doctors to dilate patients’ eyes. – There’s a term that’s been coined for when a pet dog’s paws smell oddly of corn chips. That term is Frito feet and it’s caused by a bacteria the canine picked up giving off a yeasty odor. Okay, back in the garbage you go. – While trying to create crystalline structures like those in Earth’s lower mantle, German scientist Dan Frost, discovered how to form diamonds out of substances high in carbon. He has literally made a diamond out of peanut butter. – What is up, everybody? The award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter, Shawn Mendes, got his start performing covers of famous songs on the social media platform Vine in 2013. Today, according to Time Magazine, he’s considered one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Love you, Shawn. – Every individual cable hold in India’s massive Bandra-Worli Sea Link, an eight-lane traffic bridge, can support over 900 tons of weight and, if put together, it could wrap around the whole circumference of the Earth. – Karate belts, or obi, rank from white to black. Oh, they’re both black, never mind (laughs) and each rank is darker than the previous one and that’s because in the 1940s it was way cheaper to simply just dye the belt than to go out and buy a new one. And you couldn’t dye it lighter so they got darker. – The very first Apple computer logo was unveiled in 1976 and it was designed by Ronald Wayne, who is considered by many people to be the third co-founder of the company. The logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting under a tree just as an apple is about to hit him in the head. – A scientific study conducted in 2008 revealed that owning a cat or a kitten can actually reduce a human being’s risk of a heart attack or stroke by over 33 percent. – Many tech companies choose the country of New Zealand as their test market for many new products. The Kiwi nation has a diverse group of people, most of whom speak English, and should the technology be a failure, the islands are isolated enough so it won’t have as much of a negative impact on the bread. – Despite being called a number sign, a pound symbol, or most recently the hashtag symbol, was originally called an octothrop. The name was given by technicians in a lab that created Bell telephones in the 1960s. – The original concept for Woody in Disney’s Toy Story wasn’t going to have him be a cowboy at all. In fact, they were gonna have him be a ventriloquist dummy who was really cruel to the other toys, going as far as purposely pushing Buzz Lightyear out of a window. The studio realized, for some reason, people don’t want to watch a movie about a character so cruel and they changed him to a cowboy. Thankfully because ventriloquist dummies make me want to die. – In an effort to persuade Robin Williams to agree to voice the role of the genie in Disney’s Aladdin, the filmmakers actually produced animated clips of the character saying lines from the comedian’s standup performances. Obviously, it worked. – Though it’s considered a mythical creature, the unicorn is the official national animal of Scotland. It was used in an earlier version of William the First’s Scottish Code of Arms and since then evolved into the respected symbol the country sees it as today. – The ninth brightest star visible in Earth’s sky is Beetlejuice, a red supergiant in the constellation Orion that’s nearing the end of its life. But it’s so far away that it could have already gone supernova hundreds of years ago and we wouldn’t know it yet. And just to add a little bit of context to this fact, Beetlejuice is very large. It’s 860 million miles across or 1.4 billion kilometers. That’s 2,000 times the diameter of our own sun. And the reason that it might have gone supernova and we just don’t know it is that it takes one year for light to travel one light year. And since Beetlejuice is around 642 light years away, it would take 642 years for that light to reach us. So when you look at the night sky, what you are seeing, no matter how far away that celestial body is, is an object that is in the past not in the present. – The reason the letter X is used in airport codes, such as LAX in Los Angeles and PHX in Phoenix is because when three-letter identifiers became standard over the previously used two-letter system, the airport simply added it so they didn’t need to change much. – Did you know that cashews come from a fruit? You did, I told you that? Well, another fact would be though they are both fictional places, Batman’s Gotham City is geographically in the State of New Jersey while Superman’s home metropolis is in Delaware. But cashews really come from a fruit. You can actually get a juice. They sell it in a can in some places. You can drink it. It’s weird. – According to a study published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology in 2016, when it comes to facial hair on men more women prefer them to have 5 to 10 days of growth over being clean-shaven. – When jump scares in horror movies startle us our bodies react by going into flight or fight mode. – This is due to connections our brains make between the fake events on the screen and the real events we’ve actually experienced or even just been told about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry. Oh, my God, these facts. – Did you know taking a warm bath before bed is scientifically proven to help you sleep better. Melatonin, the hormone that induces sleep is released when our bodies cool before rest. So heating yourself up before bed will speed up the cooling process and you’ll feel tired quicker. That’s why I take baths all the time. (yells excitedly) – Did you know that in the 1990s the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson, wanted to play Spiderman so badly that he discussed purchasing Marvel Comics with Stan Lee, although no deal obviously was made. Oh, that would have been interesting to see Michael Jackson as Spiderman. That would have made Infinity War a whole lot different. Mr. Stark, shom-mona (in Michael Jackson, Bad voice). I don’t feel so good, hee, hee, hee (in Michael Jackson voice). – It is a myth that blind people see nothing at all. In fact, studies actually show that only about 10 to 15 percent of blind people see nothing at all. The rest, like myself, have a bit of remaining vision. – Although they started off selling hotdogs from a cart in the 1930s, today fast food giant McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day. You know how much bread all those hamburgers require? An abundance (laughs). – Wow, crazy fact. – Wow. – Crazy fact. There’s only two countries on Earth that have a flag that don’t share colors with the one belonging to the United States. – Mauritania and Jamaica? – Um-hmm. – All others have red, white, or blue or all three of them. – That’s crazy, that’s crazy. – New York got seven. (laughs) – On June 17, 2007 an art collective known for pulling off elaborate pranks hacked into a Czech TV weather report and replaced the image with a live nuclear blast complete with mushroom cloud, giving the illusion that there was an actual nuclear bomb going off right there at that moment live. – As an inventor, Thomas Edison made a thousand unsuccessful attempts at creating the light bulb. When a reporter asked him how does it feel to fail 1,000 times, Edison replied, the light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps. – Studies have actually proven that opposites actually do attract. – A couple can have too much in common and if that’s true, they’re more likely not to last long together. – Having different opinions, while still respecting your partners is healthier in relationships than always agreeing on everything. – Facts. – Facts. – Yeah. – About 80 percent of Americans have siblings. Younger siblings tend to be more extroverted than older siblings and the siblings tend to resemble each other in looks and intelligence but are quite different in personality. – The first version of the insanely popular video game Minecraft was created in just six days by creator Markus Notch Persson. He initially called it cave game and to date it’s sold over 144 million copies. – Did you know that the largest guitar in the world is over 13 meters long, it’s 4.9 meters wide and weighs nearly 1,023 kilograms? The strings in it are super, super thick but because it’s so long, the same pitch is maintained as if it were a regular-sized guitar. – The reason you sometimes feel chills while listening to music is because your brain is releasing dopamine, a chemical that motivates you and makes you feel good while you anticipate the peak moment in that song. – The first housewarming parties were literally held to warm houses. All of the guests would bring over pieces of wood and they would light fires in every fireplace in the new home. It was believed that empty houses would attract spirits and ghosts so when people would move in, they would warm the house to send the spirits away. – Will Smith was offered the lead role in the movie, the Matrix, to play the character Neo, but he turned it down to do Wild, Wild West. – You ever pass by a nice little fuzzy squirrel and thought he was a cute little thing? You’d just go up and pet him if you had the chance, wouldn’t ya? Well this might make you feel a little differently about those fuzzy little freaks because squirrels have been known, when in need of food, to each mice, snakes, and even birds. Kind of ruins your perception of those cute, cuddly little acorn-eating little friends of the forest, doesn’t it? I’d still pet one. (record scratches) Pretty good too, I’m a good one, good petter. – What, you didn’t think I’d be in the video? I’m not gonna miss out on the 5,000 facts party, you turkeys! Well, this has certainly been a journey. You know, I recorded the first 50 Amazing Facts video four and a half years ago and I had no idea that it would end up being my most popular series. And actually, that same week I hit 100,000 subscribers, which absolutely blew my mind at the time and now I’m at 6.1 million subscribers and it still just absolutely amazes me how far we’ve come together and how much my life has changed, all because of you guys. And that being said, I just want to say, I’m grateful. I’m grateful to all of the people who wanted to be a part of this video. All of their info is in the description below. And most importantly, I want to say that I’m grateful to all of you because I would not be where I am without you. I don’t really want to give like a big speech or anything like that but I knew that there was gonna be a lot of eyeballs on this video and I wanted to let you guys know how I really feel. So that being said, 5,000 facts! I hope you guys enjoyed this and I will see you next time. (video game effect) And that’s it and I just wanted to thank you guys once again because I reached 100,000 subscribers this week and it’s a huge milestone for me and I just wanted you guys to know that I really appreciate it. So keep on rockin’ in the free world and do, doodle loop do, do, do.