26 Fun Facts From The Fix (and Friends) | Mentopolis — Transcript

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1. 0:00- So I have a job.
2. 0:03It's a weird job, I get,
3. 0:04I get in strange situations in my job.
4. 0:06I get exposed to things.
5. 0:10I'm often there when the Big Guy's
6. 0:13up to something ridiculous.
7. 0:16Like, for example, did you know that
8. 0:18for every snake on Earth there is one snake dick.
9. 0:22And at first it might think,
10. 0:24well, yeah, that makes sense, but,
11. 0:26but actually, you know, only half of snakes have dicks.
12. 0:31And that means,
13. 0:33that every snake that has a dick has two dicks.
14. 0:36And that's a true fact about our world.
15. 0:39That's the kind of information I run across
16. 0:42as I'm doing my job.
17. 0:43And that job is to eliminate distraction.
18. 0:48And you seem like distractions.
19. 0:54(soft music)
20. 1:00You know, the tails on a swallowtail butterfly
21. 1:03don't serve any aerodynamic purpose.
22. 1:05(players laughing)
23. 1:06- I feel very threatened all of a sudden
24. 1:08(players laughing)
25. 1:11- They're there because birds need something to grab onto
26. 1:16when they're trying to kill a butterfly.
27. 1:18And they're designed to capture the attention of a bird.
28. 1:23And that bird will grab onto that tail and it will break off
29. 1:27and the butterfly will be free.
30. 1:30That is how I imagine my work sometimes.
31. 1:33Something things have to go.
32. 1:36I do not think that you are the tail
33. 1:40of a swallowtail butterfly.
34. 1:43I think you might be the butterfly.
35. 1:46- I only, I only caught half of that.
36. 1:49(players laughing)
37. 1:51Justin looks and says,
38. 1:52I'll tell you anything you want to know.
39. 1:54(players laughing)
40. 1:57- All right, so, eyes can't be itchy.
41. 2:01The membranes around the eyes
42. 2:03are innervated with itch receptors and pain neurons,
43. 2:06whereas the eyes themselves only have pain neurons
44. 2:09because of course, evolution is strongly incentivized
45. 2:12to prevent you from scratching your cornea
46. 2:15with your fingernail.
47. 2:15So your eyes are never actually itchy.
48. 2:18People say my eyes are itchy, but they're not.
49. 2:20They're not actually itchy,
50. 2:21it's just the membranes around your eyes.
51. 2:24Did that make you feel better?
52. 2:26- What do you do with 'em once you grab 'em?
53. 2:27- I say in his ear, I say,
54. 2:28hi, I don't know if we've met before, but I'm the Fix.
55. 2:31Did you know that more than half of the bones in your body
56. 2:36are in your hands and feet?
57. 2:37- Oh no. - That's the most
58. 2:39threatening thing I've ever heard.
59. 2:41- And legitimately, your fun facts are fucking nightmares.
60. 2:44(players laughing)
61. 2:45- Imagine if someone said that to you with like...
62. 2:48- As he's holding you.
63. 2:51- You see the guy just goes, "Fucking kill me, man.
64. 2:54Fucking just kill me, man, fucking kill me, dude."
65. 2:57- Well, why are you trying to hurt us?
66. 2:59- I suck, man, kill me. (players laughing)
67. 3:02I'm bad.
68. 3:03- I need you to answer the question.
69. 3:05- I don't know, dude.
70. 3:07- Remind him of the fact again.
71. 3:10- Whenever somebody says,
72. 3:11"I'm gonna break every bone in your body",
73. 3:13I think, that's ridiculous.
74. 3:15It'd be way too much work.
75. 3:16But I could break half the bones in your body.
76. 3:20- No, no man, no way. (bones snapping)
77. 3:21He's just snapping his own fingers.
78. 3:23(players laughing)
79. 3:24- Did you know...
80. 3:26- My heart starts beating faster .
81. 3:28(players laughing)
82. 3:31- The urethra contains taste receptors.
83. 3:34- Ew, ugh. - Taste bud like structures.
84. 3:37- Bro, slow down, what?
85. 3:38- I'm gonna tell you, eagles,
86. 3:42when they grip onto something,
87. 3:45they actually have to flex a muscle to ungrip.
88. 3:49So a eagle can hold onto something so hard
89. 3:51that even after it dies, it never let's go.
90. 3:55But you are not an eagle,
91. 3:58you need to let go of whatever this is.
92. 4:01Mr. Bishop, you're looking lovely today.
93. 4:03Did you know that most of the pyramids
94. 4:06on Earth are in Sudan?
95. 4:09- [Player] Huh?
96. 4:11- You like my facts, right?
97. 4:12- See, he looks at you and says,
98. 4:15how does that help us, Fix?
99. 4:16- Anyway, I killed the kid.
100. 4:18(players laughing)
101. 4:19If you don't mind me saying this, pelicans...
102. 4:24(players laughing)
103. 4:28have three stomachs, and one of them's just for bones.
104. 4:33You know, it's really easy to detect an acid,
105. 4:39but it's not easy to detect the presence of oxygen
106. 4:43or carbon dioxide.
107. 4:45But when carbon dioxide meets water,
108. 4:48like it does in our blood, it creates carbonic acid.
109. 4:52And that means that our bodies
110. 4:55can detect the presence of carbon dioxide,
111. 4:57but not the presence or absence of oxygen.
112. 5:01(bell dings)
113. 5:02So as we live through our lives,
114. 5:07if we are deprived of oxygen,
115. 5:10we have no idea that that is happening
116. 5:13as long as we are breathing out carbon dioxide.
117. 5:18But if we are not breathing in oxygen,
118. 5:21we just go to sleep and we die.
119. 5:25But if we allow the CO2 to build up, we panic.
120. 5:32We flail, we break,
121. 5:37until finally we die.
122. 5:39And I look at, I look at this guy and I say,
123. 5:41Did you know that people can have constipation so bad
124. 5:50that it will back up and impact their vagus nerve?
125. 5:53And as they are finally eliminating that impacted stool,
126. 5:59it can have an effect on the nervous system so great
127. 6:04that they forget who they are.
128. 6:06It's called constipation related amnesia.
129. 6:09A woman in Tokyo forgot who she was for eight hours.
130. 6:14- Shit yourself stupid. (players laughing)
131. 6:20- My job is that is hyper fixation.
132. 6:23And so sometimes when the big guy gets really obsessed
133. 6:26with stupid stuff, I'm around.
134. 6:28I find out things like that, isn't that neat?
135. 6:30Can you take a deep breath for me?
136. 6:32(Brennan squelches)
137. 6:34- And he just in front of you and he goes,
138. 6:37I think you wanted me to shit?
139. 6:39I don't know, you're so frightening.
140. 6:41I still took a shit, everyone shit!
141. 6:43everyone who works for me shit now!"
142. 6:45- Everyone take a deep breath, I said, take a deep breath.
143. 6:48- "We gotta do it now, you gotta do now.
144. 6:49He runs over and you see he hits a big button
145. 6:52and everywhere, all over Mentopolis,
146. 6:55everyone driving with the cops, everyone else,
147. 6:57you see claxons going all over.
148. 6:59There are very few emergency systems
149. 7:02that the city has put in place
150. 7:05(players laughing)
151. 7:06that are basically like air raid sirens.
152. 7:09- Where is this going?
153. 7:11- (imitating sirens) And you just hear,
154. 7:13We are shitting, we are shitting.
155. 7:16We are shitting, the big guy is shitting,
156. 7:18we are taking a shit.
157. 7:19- I do not wanna be on the sidewalk underneath the lines.
158. 7:22- Do you wanna know facts about your bones?
159. 7:26- Okay. (players laughing)
160. 7:29- You catch up with me whenever you want.
161. 7:30- I just tell her so much about bones.
162. 7:33Bones are actually living.
163. 7:35And do you know that the reason
164. 7:36we produce blood inside of our bones
165. 7:39is because it's one of the places
166. 7:40that's safest from UV radiation?
167. 7:44Just fun facts.
168. 7:46They're not scary.
169. 7:47(players laughing)
170. 7:49- Um, that's fascinating.
171. 7:52Did you know...
172. 7:53(players laughing)
173. 7:57Did you know that there are some species of birds
174. 8:00that have a secondary pouch in their esophagus
175. 8:05or in their digestive tract where they actually contain,
176. 8:09refered to as a craw, that has stones or other hard material
177. 8:15to help break up food matter
178. 8:17before it passes into the rest of their digestive tract.
179. 8:21- There are also some birds that can produce
180. 8:23a kind of nutritious substance that they'll,
181. 8:26instead of regurgitating the their own food,
182. 8:28they will produce a kind of milk.
183. 8:31It's almost like lactation, but it evolved separately.
184. 8:34Gives it a case of convergent evolution.
185. 8:36Pigeons do it.
186. 8:37- See, did you know that pigeons?
187. 8:40(players laughing)
188. 8:41- Let's go, let's go, let's go, come on.
189. 8:43- I feel like I'm watching chess.
190. 8:45(players laughing)
191. 8:47- You quickly realize you have all the time in the world.
192. 8:50(players laughing)
193. 8:53Did you know that woodpeckers have a tongue bone
194. 8:58called a hyoid bone that wraps around their brain
195. 9:02because the pounding into the tree can, of course,
196. 9:09you know, that needs to protect their brain
197. 9:11from the impact of that powerful feeling of,
198. 9:18you know, smashing into the wood of the tree to,
199. 9:22you know, devour their common meal items,
200. 9:24which of course are grubs and larval insects.
201. 9:29- I didn't know, I didn't know.
202. 9:30- Can I do a snoop check to see how horny the Fix is?
203. 9:33(players laughing)
204. 9:36- And I say nervously, there are some salamanders
205. 9:39that feed their babies their own skin.
206. 9:41Uh, I gotta go. (players laughing)
207. 9:45Can I flick 'em on the forehead a couple of times and say,
208. 9:48You know, you can't hum while you're blocking your nose.
209. 9:51You know, you can't hum while you're blocking your nose.
210. 9:54Give it a try.
211. 9:57(muffled humming)
212. 10:00Where are the key holes?
213. 10:04- Mr. Fix! - Roddy!
214. 10:06- He gives you a big hug and he says,
215. 10:08did you know that the black mamba has been observed
216. 10:13at top speeds of 12 and a half miles per hour
217. 10:17at its fastest slither?
218. 10:19And that at that speed it would almost certainly catch
219. 10:24even some of the fastest humans on the planet.
220. 10:27- I did not know that.
221. 10:30- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - I love new facts.
222. 10:32- Even faster people would probably not have the stamina
223. 10:35because the resting or average speed
224. 10:38is seven and a half miles per hour,
225. 10:39which is faster than the human average of six.
226. 10:42And that's for healthy adults.
227. 10:45- You know so much stuff.
228. 10:48- I made a drawing of a reticulated python,
229. 10:51which is actually the longest,
230. 10:54did you know it's the longest snake in the world?
231. 10:55It's not the biggest, the biggest is the Anaconda,
232. 10:58but the longest is the reticulated python.
233. 11:00- You know what the longest animal in the world is?
234. 11:02- No, what is it?
235. 11:03- It's the bootlace worm.
236. 11:05- Is that a reptile? - It's a worm.
237. 11:08- It's not a reptile, but it's still a cool fact.
238. 11:10- But that's close, that's the cool fact,
239. 11:11that's pretty close.
240. 11:13(players laughing)
241. 11:15- Clearly not interested. (players laughing)
242. 11:18- Honestly, interacting with kids,
243. 11:20whenever you interact with kids,
244. 11:21there needs to be one moment where you're like,
245. 11:22and here's something too.
246. 11:23And the kid just glazes over and is like, whatever.
247. 11:26- I'm sorry, wait, wait.
248. 11:28Sorry that's not a reptile.
249. 11:30- Lemme make, I actually wanna make sure,
250. 11:32I believe the reticulated python
251. 11:33is the longest snake in the world.
252. 11:36- Boy, if you get this wrong.
253. 11:38- I don't have that one in my head.
254. 11:38- Get in the comments! (players laughing)
255. 11:41- Yeah, reticulated python, okay, we're good, we're good.
256. 11:43- Did you know that there are some reptiles
257. 11:46that have a light sensing organ on the top of their head
258. 11:49so they can sense shadows
259. 11:52that might be coming from something that's coming for them.
260. 11:55It's like a third eye.
261. 11:57- As you say that you watch as that appears
262. 12:04on Ronnie's head and he goes,
263. 12:06(gasps) there's a shadow downstairs.
264. 12:11- Oh my God.
265. 12:12- That gave me fucking goosebumps.
266. 12:13- Ronnie, you're terrifying. (players laughing)
267. 12:16- And I'd like you to know
268. 12:18that there's little creatures in the sea
269. 12:20that make little lights,
270. 12:23and they're quite pretty little lights.
271. 12:25You can ask officers Juan de Veve,
272. 12:27he'll tell you he likes them.
273. 12:29- (chuckles) And its C'est Magnifique.
274. 12:31(players laughing)
275. 12:32- And it's a little strange
276. 12:34that those little critters would make those lights,
277. 12:36'cause why would they?
278. 12:37They only make 'em when they get disturbed,
279. 12:39and you think that that would cause attention
280. 12:42from little fishes that want to eat 'em.
281. 12:44But here's what happens.
282. 12:46Those little fishes, when they suck 'em up,
283. 12:48they glow so bright, and now that little fish is glowing.
284. 12:54There's a little target on its back.
285. 12:56See, that little fish ain't the only fish in the sea.
286. 13:00- Shit.
287. 13:01- Go ahead and make a menacing,
288. 13:05make any kind of check you want.
289. 13:07Make whatever check you wanna make.
290. 13:08(players laughing)
291. 13:10Oh my god.
292. 13:11I rolled a one, oh no, I got plus two.
293. 13:14- You got plus two. - So that's three.
294. 13:16- So he's gonna make his sturdy check here, you got a three.
295. 13:20- How about, Well, I mean look,
296. 13:22I don't wanna actually him. - Okay.
297. 13:24- I just, after I said that I punch him.
298. 13:26- [Brennan] Oh, you punched him.
299. 13:27- Which is the same check for me, so I still rolled a one.
300. 13:30- So, he's gonna roll his sturdy.
301. 13:33He rolled a three.
302. 13:34Unbelievable. (players laughing)
303. 13:36- Oh my god.
304. 13:39- He rolled a three.
305. 13:41- Just flick him in the forehead.
306. 13:42- And then, yeah, he already has sustained a heavy injury.
307. 13:45So, Fix, you go cock back.
308. 13:48He goes, wow, that's really interesting.
309. 13:51(blows thudding) (Brennan groaning)
310. 13:56- I've stepped back. (players laughing)
311. 13:59- I heard that you might be thinking of a name change.
312. 14:01Did you know that the North Pole is actually a south pole?
313. 14:05Because when you look at a compass, it points north.
314. 14:08But the North Pole of the compass is what's pointing north
315. 14:11and north poles point to the south poles.
316. 14:14So when we go to the North Pole,
317. 14:15it's actually the South Pole.
318. 14:16I think maybe you also
319. 14:19aren't exactly what you've been calling yourself.
320. 14:21- It's not enough for this. - Everybody get their pens out
321. 14:25- Write that down. - The South Pole.
322. 14:27- It's very nice to see you again.
323. 14:29Did you know that diners and the history of diners
324. 14:32actually originate from dining cars on trains?
325. 14:36And the very first diners were actually
326. 14:38dining cars of trains that had been taken out of service
327. 14:41and were used stationarily as restaurants
328. 14:44'cause they were cheap and affordable.
329. 14:47- Fix just looks at her.
330. 14:51He can't think of any facts.
331. 14:53(players laughing)
332. 14:58Like ostriches have a penis that doesn't have,
333. 15:01it's not like a true hole,
334. 15:02like it's not like a full flesh tube with a hole through it.
335. 15:05It's got like a channel that you can,
336. 15:07that like actually has a split.
337. 15:10So it's just like a fold and it's like this
338. 15:13where there's not actually a full close
339. 15:16and the semen runs down that.
340. 15:20If you're curious. - Thank you.
341. 15:24- I've never had a Chili Cheese Frito before.
342. 15:25That was my first one.
343. 15:28I like it.
344. 15:29- Would it be like if human babies ate hair?
345. 15:31- It'd be like if human babies ate skin.
346. 15:34Hair's really not an easy thing to digest.
347. 15:37- That's true. - Keratin, yeah.
348. 15:39Just like chewing on fingernails.
349. 15:41- Although, breast milk is just a variation of blood.
350. 15:46Like it's actually, it is essentially blood,
351. 15:50but it doesn't have any heme in it and other stuff.
352. 15:53But it's like the same processes.
353. 15:54- That's like the pathway through which it evolved.
354. 15:58'Cause everything's based on some preexisting structure.
355. 16:01So it's just like you're just bleeding the good stuff
356. 16:04outta your nipples. - Basically, yeah.
357. 16:08Wild. Wild.
358. 16:11Having a baby- - Not these nipples.
359. 16:12- Has given me like a, oh, here's some
360. 16:15other new weird shit to learn about.
361. 16:18- Yeah. - Yeah.
362. 16:19- But, the original evolution, like pre,
363. 16:23there's pre nipple lactation,
364. 16:24so platypus lactate, but they don't have nipples
365. 16:27and they just sweat it out.
366. 16:29Just like comes out of a patch in their skin,
367. 16:31they just sweat milk.
368. 16:33And their baby's like.
369. 16:35- So do the babies like lick their skin?
370. 16:36- [Hank] Lick it up, yeah, they lick the skin.
371. 16:38- Australia is- - It's not really Australia.
372. 16:42- Now, this is Australia's fault.
373. 16:44- In Australia that is just
374. 16:47beyond the comprehension of mortal man.
375. 16:50(players laughing) - Yeah, it's really weird.