french short story writer ghee demeppassant hated the eiffel tower holbein carpets are named in honor of hans holbein the younger who is known for painting king henry viii the word rubenesque comes from peter paul rubens who like to paint zaftig women zaf dig comes from the yiddish zaf dick which means juicy or succulent the same person designed st louis's gateway arch and the twa terminal at jfk airport double stuf oreos are only 1. 86 times as stuffed as classic oreos actress glenn jackson won two emmys two oscars and then became a member of the british house of commons to have and have not was made into a movie after howard hawks told ernest hemingway he could make a great film from hemingway's worst book the kalavala is the national epic of finland only one country's english language name can be typed on a single row of a standard qwerty keyboard drop its name in the comments if you can figure it out without googling hi i'm erin mccarthy and this is the list show for regular viewers you might have noticed we're doing something a little different today i would explain more but i think the title of the video is probably pretty self-explanatory we've got 190 facts to go so let's run that intro louis vuitton started out as a trunk maker st patrick wasn't born in ireland richard iii was the last english king to die in battle the world's largest island in a freshwater lake is manitoulin unlike huron michael collins who fought for irish independence was known as the big fellow barry goldwater lost the 1964 presidential election the pulmonary arteries are the only arteries in the human body that carry deoxynegated blood during the peasants revolt of 1381 revolutionary leader watt tyler made it all the way to a face-to-face meeting with king richard ii tyler was stabbed in the throat and died willem de kooning came to the united states as a stowaway aboard the ss shelly on average tall people perform better than short people on iq tests british doctor william stark looked into the effects of severely limiting one's diet by severely limiting his own diet he soon died of scurvy eliza acton a struggling poet wrote a cookbook in 1845 that introduced the custom of listing ingredients and their quantities in the mid-1800s ice from massachusetts wenham lake became a luxury good in england an ice producing lake in norway was subsequently renamed lake wenham germany's second largest city by population is hamburg its fifth largest city is frankfurt early 20th century pennsylvania germans considered it bad luck to take a bath or change your clothing between christmas and the new year time magazine once ran a headline proclaiming quote richard nixon asked a reporter to watch panda sex i'm really tempted to provide some context here but you know it's against the rules that we made up adding bubbles to your bath keeps the water warm for a longer amount of time almonds and peaches are in the same genus it was prophecy that england's henry iv would die in jerusalem in fact he died in the abbot of westminster's house in the so-called jerusalem chamber chet hanks went to northwestern university sharks have existed longer than trees on earth at least can't rule out ancient forests in a galaxy far far away a group of pugs is called a grumble in the english language four is the only number whose meaning is equivalent to the amount of letters in its name the red vineyard at arles is the only named van gogh painting known to have sold in his lifetime the serving justice in u. s supreme court history is william o douglas who sat on the bench for more than 36 years figuratively speaking after establishing himself as a media magnate william randolph hurst became a congressman representing new york's 11th district the french and indian war the american revolutionary war and the spanish-american war were each brought to a close by peace agreements known as the treaty of paris george dewey is the only american to receive the title admiral of the navy beethoven reportedly made sure that his morning coffee was always brewed from exactly 60 coffee beans jerry springer was born in london's highgate tube station during world war ii there are approximately 200 semi-feral cats roaming the grounds of disneyland a newborn blue whale can gain as much as 10 pounds an hour from nursing during andrew jackson's funeral in 1845 his pet parrot had to be removed because its swearing was disturbing attendees according to pba rules a bowling ball can have up to 11 holes the piece of metal on the end of a pencil that holds the eraser is called a feral giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any mammal for more than 50 years the banzi top was composed of billy gibbons and dusty hill known for their trademark long beards and their usually beardless drummer frank beard in 1810 the production of nails represented 0.
4 percent of the united states gross domestic product on average finns consume over 20 pounds of coffee per year more than five cups per day people in germany eat over 400 tons of meat from kebab shops every day theodore roosevelt's daughter alice had a pet snake named emily spinach the spots on holstein cows are like human fingerprints unique to each individual playing the violin for an hour burns about 170 calories when making shuttlecocks for badminton the most prized feathers are said to come from the left wings of geese olivia de havilland and joan fontaine are the only siblings to have won lead acting oscars scientists are working on potty training cows amelia earhart and eleanor roosevelt once left a white house event in full eaming dress to take a quick flight to baltimore dutch speed skater irene wust is the only athlete to have won an individual gold medal at five different olympic games mozart was a freemason the nazi party banned felix alton's bambi a life in the woods believing that the deer's story could be read as an allegory for the struggle of the jews in europe saguaro cactuses can grow to be more than 40 feet tall but it can take a decade for them to reach just one inch in height while imprisoned in the tower of london sir walter raleigh wrote the history of the world nicolas cage once spent 276 000 on a dinosaur skull then found out it had been stolen from mongolia and gave it back abraham lincoln is the only us president to have obtained a patent in 2013 while competing at wimbledon roger federer was told to change his shoes because their orange souls violated the all england club's dress code that distinctive smell we associate with rain is known as petrakore cowboys linebacker chuck howley is the only player from a losing team to be named super bowl mvp africa is the only continent with land in the northern hemisphere southern hemisphere eastern hemisphere and western hemisphere jazz legend louis armstrong sometimes signed personal letters red beans and ricely yours captain henry morgan the pirate that inspired the spiced rum brand's name was knighted in 1674 by english king charles ii percy bish shelley drowned off the coast of italy in 1822 after a visit with fellow poet lord byron byron was a literary celebrity who received piles of fan mail a phenomenon his wife dubbed by romania while growing up a young david fincher was neighbors with george lucas jupiter makes a full rotation on its axis in only 10 hours making it the fastest spinning planet in the solar system scotland's national animal is the unicorn martin luther king jr received a c in public speaking at crosser theological seminary in 1864 residents of leicester england became known as ballona ticks after their incensed response to a performance by aeronaut henry coxwell's in the 1980s pablo escobar's medellin cartel was spending up to 2500 a month on rubber bands yoda was partly modeled after a photo of albert einstein ann jarvis the creator of mother's day started a petition in the years after its adoption to put an end to the holiday when frederick bower the man who invented the pringles can passed away in 2008 some of his ashes were buried in one when i die i would also like to be buried in a pringles can the human nose is capable of detecting approximately one trillion cents queen victoria survived eight assassination attempts the space between your eyebrows is the glabella john quincy adams like to skinny dip in the potomac river the wife-carrying world championships take place each year in schonke yarvey finland the dot over a lowercase i is called a tittle as part of david hasselhoff's divorce settlement he retained ownership of the catchphrase don't hassle the hoff fish cough newborn elephants suck their trunks for comfort in 1349 king edward iii banned football in england on sunny days the eiffel tower leaned slightly towards the shade sean connery turned down the role of gandalf in the lord of the rings high schools in new zealand are allowed to keep up to a pound of uranium on their premises for educational purposes maya angelou was the first black woman in san francisco to be employed as a streetcar conductor barry manilow did not write his hit song i write the songs between 1912 and 1948 olympic medals were awarded for architecture literature music painting and sculpture lancaster pennsylvania was the capital of the united states for one day in 1777. actor bella lugosi was buried in full dracula costume cape and all rejected ideas for disney's seven dwarfs included chesty burpee hickey and awful there are more than 200 corpses frozen on mount everest newborn babies have nearly a hundred more bones than full-grown adults winston churchill called american prohibition an affront to the whole history of mankind flowers first appeared on earth about 130 million years ago the united states first dog park was established in 1979 in berkeley california ancient rome's laws of the 12 tables decreed that the punishment for composing or singing a song that slandered another person was death on average september is the worst month for the u. s stock market in 1806 a woman named mary bateman claimed that her chicken was laying eggs prophecying the end of the world it turned out that she was writing messages on lane eggs and then forcing them back up into the bird not as bad as the woman who gave birth to rabbits i'll just leave that out there for everybody to think about salvador dali claimed that he used the same pomade for his mustache as marcel proust gaius caesar supposedly ordered the future emperor vespasian to be covered in mud as punishment for his subpar job keeping the streets clean as magistrate when thomas more refused to acknowledge henry viii's annulment from catherine of aragon and the king's role as head of the church he was sentenced to be hanged drawn and quartered in a nice break for moore the sentence was commuted to decapitation anne boleyn was already pregnant with the future queen elizabeth the first during her coronation in 1533.
