Fact-shaped bits (not in the ledger)

501 statements are phrased as facts but made as a bit: 483 playful, 13 hypothetical, 3 satire, 2 joke. They are kept out of the ledger so that a joke statistic is never taught as fact. Playful ones often carry a real figure inside the joke; check the video before quoting them. Back to the overview.

2007 (42)

• 2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper — Mid-challenge, John says rebels control more than half of Nepal. (playful) (00:01:11)
  • more than half (share of the country) — territory controlled by rebels · in Nepal · as of 2007-01 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-01-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 16, 2007 — In mock entertainment news for TV-less Hank, John says Paula Abdul has a drug problem and calls Ivanka Trump 'improbably attractive'. (playful) (00:01:11)
• 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Mid-challenge, John says rebels control more than half of Nepal. (playful) (00:03:34)
  • more than half (share of the country) — territory controlled by rebels · in Nepal · as of 2007-01 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Correcting John's belief that their parents' house was the last US residence with dial-up, Hank says an entire Gulf Coast town in Florida has no broadband, and he is going there. (playful) (00:01:05)
• 2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John says his 94% fat-free popcorn is only two Weight Watchers points for the whole bag, the mint chocolate chip ice cream 13 points. (playful) (00:02:15)
  • 94% (percent) — fat-free share of the popcorn · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • two points (Weight Watchers points) — points value of the entire bag of popcorn · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • 13 points (Weight Watchers points) — points value of the mint chocolate chip ice cream · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Assuming an average age of 70 and about 400 people, Hank calculates half would be dead in 13 years (113,000 hours); 1,200 old-people hours give a 0.53% chance someone died within eyeshot. (playful) (00:02:44)
  • 13 years — time until half of the 70-year-olds at the event are dead · for about 400 people averaging age 70 · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • 113,000 hours — time until half of the 70-year-olds at the event are dead · for about 400 people averaging age 70 · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • 1,200 (old-people hours) — person-hours of observation at the event · for about 400 people at a 3-hour event · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • .53% (percent) — probability that someone at the event died within Hank's sight · for about 400 people averaging age 70, 3 hours · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-02-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 23, 2007: Books — John says bookshelves cost about $20, less than taking your wife to see Eddie Murphy's film Norbit. (playful) (00:00:28)
  • like $20 (USD) — price of a bookshelf · as of 2007-02 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-03-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 5, 2007: Hank's Punishment — John says, citing the Internet, that 100 full-sized Peeps will cost Hank approximately $19. (playful) (00:01:14)
  • approximately $19 (USD) — price of 100 full-sized Peeps · as of 2007-03-05 (implied: date said in the video) · source: the Internet · unchecked
• 2007-03-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide — Hank reads the label: four Peeps bunnies weigh 31 grams and contain 33 grams of carbohydrates, so there is 'more sugar than bunny'. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 31 grams — weight of four Peeps bunnies · as of 2007-03-06 (implied: date said in the video) · source: Peeps package label (as read by Hank) · unchecked
  • 33 grams — carbohydrates in four Peeps bunnies · as of 2007-03-06 (implied: date said in the video) · source: Peeps package label (as read by Hank) · doubtful
• 2007-03-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 9, 2007: Peeptastic! — John says 15 Peeps are only 10 Weight Watchers points. (playful) (00:00:36)
  • 10 points (Weight Watchers points) — Weight Watchers points value of 15 Peeps · as of 2007-03-09 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-03-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 9, 2007: Peeptastic! — John explains the competitive-eating 'wall of fat': an expanding stomach runs into subcutaneous fat, which thin eaters like Takeru Kobayashi, 'the greatest competitive eater in history', avoid. (playful) (00:01:43)
• 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — Hank explains Magic: collectible cards ranked common to rare, rules for playing them, and attack and defense ratings; very complicated, meaning nerdy. (playful) (00:01:54)
• 2007-04-11 · April 11th: EcoGeek Podcasting — Hank reports that Second Life residents saw floodwaters rise in virtual Tokyo, London and the Netherlands, caused by global-warming activists who, he jokes, lamely asked permission first. (playful) (00:00:10)
• 2007-04-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: Carbon Neutralizing Youtube — John says each video averages about 3 minutes 9 seconds (189 seconds), so people have spent 22,003,191 seconds watching Brotherhood 2.0. (playful) (00:00:45)
  • about 3 minutes and 9 seconds (minutes and seconds) — average length of a Brotherhood 2.0 video · as of 2007-04-20 · no source named · unchecked
  • 189 (seconds) — average length of a Brotherhood 2.0 video · as of 2007-04-20 · no source named · unchecked
  • 22,003,191 (seconds) — total time viewers spent watching Brotherhood 2.0 (views x average length) · as of 2007-04-20 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-04-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: Carbon Neutralizing Youtube — John says the average American produces about 23,000 pounds of carbon, so Brotherhood 2.0, which isn't even a person but an idea, emits about 1/23 of an average American. (playful) (00:02:33)
  • about 23,000 (pounds of carbon) — carbon produced per person · for average American · in United States · as of 2007 · no source named · unchecked
  • about 1 23rd (fraction) — Brotherhood 2.0's emissions relative to an average American · as of 2007-04-20 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-04-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: Carbon Neutralizing Youtube — Citing Dimensions Magazine, John says only 21 people in all of human history have weighed more than Brotherhood 2.0's carbon emissions. (playful) (00:02:33)
  • 21 (people) — people in human history who weighed more than about 942 pounds · for humans · as of 2007-04-20 (implied: date said in the video) · source: Dimensions Magazine · doubtful
• 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — A lyric claims Helen Hunt was best comedy actress 'four years in a row'. (playful) (00:01:56)
  • four years in a row (years (consecutive)) — best comedy actress wins · for Helen Hunt · as of 2007-04-25 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — Mr. Argyle: Mr. Argyle, the puppet playing John's editor, says first novels very rarely sell on a proposal; they almost always need the finished manuscript. (playful) (00:02:44)
• 2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John says he likes that Ranavalona was 'the First' and that there was never a Ranavalona II. (playful) (00:02:12)
• 2007-05-30 · May 30th: Ranavalona and Clean Coal — One clean coal ad shows a happy lump of coal with legs that runs, skips and jumps, with thought bubbles saying happy things. (playful) (00:03:08)
• 2007-06-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John guesses that maybe 18-20% of their viewers have ever seen an episode of Webster. (playful) — hedged: “maybe” (00:01:45)
  • 18-20% (percent) — share of Brotherhood 2.0 viewers who have seen an episode of Webster · for Brotherhood 2.0 viewers · as of 2007-06-08 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-07-05 · July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast — John says Indiana is one of the states where all fireworks are legal: not just bottle rockets, spinners and 'whippersnappers', but also 'bombs'. (playful) (00:00:10)
• 2007-07-05 · July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast — John says Indiana sells rockets and bombs to almost anyone over 18 who can convince a fireworks stand they aren't a terrorist. (playful) (00:00:55)
  • over the age of 18 (years) — minimum age to buy fireworks · for fireworks buyers · in Indiana · as of 2007 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-07-26 · July 26: The Price of Fame — Hank says the price of YouTube fame is comments: for every 100 views a video gets, there will be one comment. (playful) (00:01:21)
  • for every 100 views your video gets, there will be one comment (comments per 100 views) — comment-to-view ratio of YouTube videos · for YouTube videos · as of 2007-07 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — Hank sings that the United Nations says 11,000 people die of heat each year. (playful) (00:01:56)
  • 11,000 (people per year) — deaths from heat · for people (scope not stated) · as of 2007-08-01 (implied: date said in the video) · source: United Nations · unchecked
• 2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — John claims there are more murders on American TV in a week than actual murders in the Netherlands in a year, admitting he made the statistic up. (playful) — speculative: “I made that statistic up, but I bet it's true” (00:02:55)
  • more murders on American TV in a week — murders depicted on American television per week · for American TV · in United States · as of 2007 · source: made up by the speaker · doubtful
  • than there are actual murders in the Netherlands in a year — murders per year · for people in the Netherlands · in Netherlands · as of 2007 · source: made up by the speaker · doubtful
• 2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — John corrects the song's lyric: Scorpion's fatality was taking off his mask and breathing fire to reduce the victim to bones; ripping off the spine was Sub-Zero's. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2007-09-18 · September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker — John implies Britney Spears has $50 million, contrasting her with drug addicts who don't. (playful) — hedged: “I also think” (00:00:35)
  • $50 million (USD) — Britney Spears's wealth (implied) · as of 2007-09-18 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-09-18 · September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker — John says babies don't actually like any particular colour; mainly they put things in their mouths and poop. (playful) (00:01:34)
• 2007-09-20 · Sept. 20th: Wacky String — John notes there are more than 6 billion people in the world, so over 6 billion happy dances remain unrecorded. (playful) (00:01:49)
  • more than 6 (billion people) — world population · in the world · as of 2007-09-20 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-10-12 · October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 — John jokes that reposted spam makes up about 30% of all YouTube commenting. (playful) (00:02:02)
  • about 30% (percent) — share of YouTube's total commenting that is reposted spam · as of 2007-10-12 · no source named · doubtful
• 2007-10-15 · Oct 15th: Happy 16th Birthday B20 — Hank says Brotherhood 2.0 has a trickling income stream from Google ads of $30 a month, high for a 16-year-old. (playful) (00:01:12)
  • $30 (US dollars per month) — Brotherhood 2.0 Google ad income · as of 2007-10-15 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-10-16 · October 16th: John's Library Pwns — John bets that the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. (playful) — hedged: “I bet” (00:00:09)
  • more books (books read) — books read in the last year, average teenager vs average adult · for average teenager vs average adult · as of 2007 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-10-19 · October 19th: Missoula to Seattle — Hank says a Montana casino-bar-restaurant-gift shop (and more) displays over 10,000 silver dollars that people gave it, which he says only readers of Neil Gaiman's American Gods might understand. (playful) — hedged: “I don't know” (00:00:53)
  • over 10,000 (silver dollars) — number of silver dollars on the walls · in the casino in Montana · as of 2007-10 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-10-22 · October 22nd: The Anniversary of Young Earth Creationism — John says that in or around 1670 a monk, Dom Perignon, invented champagne, and is said to have called out 'Come quickly, I am tasting the stars' at his first sip. (playful) — hedged: “in or around” (00:02:01)
  • in or around the year 1670 — year champagne was invented by Dom Perignon · as of 2007-10-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2007-10-24 · October 24th: RANDOM NERDFIGHTING — John reports that Kiva.org recently had more people wanting to lend than listed developing-world entrepreneurs; there were more borrowers, just not yet on the site. (playful) (00:02:42)
• 2007-10-26 · OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER — John says the crown prince wanted to marry a woman from the wrong clan; when his parents opposed it, he took a machine gun and killed most of his family, then shot himself. (playful) (00:00:37)
  • two (aunts) — aunts killed by the crown prince · in Nepal · as of 2001 · no source named · unchecked
  • two (uncles) — uncles killed by the crown prince · in Nepal · as of 2001 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-11-07 · November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan — John recounts that Sharif fired army chief Musharraf while he was abroad and barred his plane from landing at Karachi; the army seized the airport and the plane landed with minutes of fuel left. (playful) (00:01:02)
  • like five minutes — fuel remaining when Musharraf's plane landed · in Karachi · as of 1999 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-11-07 · November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan — John says Sharif flew in from Saudi Arabia last month (October 2007) and was met at the airport by the army, who told him to go back to Saudi Arabia or consider dying in jail. (playful) (00:02:54)
• 2007-12-10 · Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) — John reports that the studio moguls walked away from the negotiating table last week (week of 3 December 2007). (playful) (00:02:40)
• 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — The song says people promoted 300 charities, such as levees.org, Toys for Tots and Autism Speaks. (playful) (00:01:50)
  • 300 (charities) — charities promoted in Project for Awesome videos · for Project for Awesome 2007 videos · in YouTube · as of 2007-12-17 · no source named · unchecked
• 2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — both: The song recalls the year on YouTube: 'the Buck' taking over, Chris Crocker crying, Tay Zonday singing, Lonelygirl dying and 'some guy' saying 'don't tase me bro'. (playful) (00:00:40)

2008 (21)

• 2008-01-08 · The Return of Question Tuesdays — John's most useless trivia: the political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau really liked mooning people. (playful) (00:03:32)
• 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank says a Mars colonist lives 40 light minutes away from everything they have known. (playful) (00:00:24)
  • 40 (light minutes) — distance from Earth to Mars · in Mars · as of 2008 · no source named · doubtful
• 2008-04-30 · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank says Vlogbrothers videos have been viewed 11 million times at 3.7 minutes each, 40.7 million minutes or 77.4 years: one human lifetime. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 11 million (views) — total views of Vlogbrothers videos on YouTube · as of 2008-05 · no source named · unchecked
  • 3.7 minutes — average length of a Vlogbrothers video · as of 2008-05-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 40.7 million minutes — total time spent watching Vlogbrothers videos · as of 2008-05 · no source named · unchecked
  • 678 thousand hours — total time spent watching Vlogbrothers videos · as of 2008-05-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 77.4 years — total time spent watching Vlogbrothers videos · as of 2008-05-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2008-04-30 · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank says pooping kills about 14,000 hypothetical people a year in America, and each Super Bowl eats up more than 150 lives. (playful) (00:02:09)
  • about 14,000 (hypothetical lifetimes per year) — time Americans spend pooping, in 77-year lifetimes · for Americans · in United States · as of 2008 · no source named · unchecked
  • more than 150 (lifetimes per year) — time spent watching the Super Bowl, in lifetimes · in United States · as of 2008 · no source named · unchecked
• 2008-06-01 · Tetris Day! — Hank thanks Russia for Tetris and notes the Tetris song is a folk melody and so not protected under US copyright. (playful) (00:03:13)
• 2008-06-02 · Tetris Day! — Hank thanks Russia for Tetris and notes the Tetris song is a folk melody and so not protected under US copyright. (playful) (00:02:57)
• 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — John jokes that 'anybody' excludes the 54% of Americans under 35 and anyone who is non-white, non-Christian, non-male or indicted, leaving old white people and Condoleezza Rice. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 54% (percent) — share of the US population under age 35 · for US population · in United States · as of 2008-06-04 · no source named · unchecked
• 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — On Jon Tester: seven fingers from a farming accident, the same six-dollar flat-top haircut in the same Montana place all his life, funny; but almost no political experience. (playful) (00:02:13)
  • seven (fingers) — number of fingers Jon Tester has · as of 2008-06-04 · no source named · unchecked
  • six dollar (US dollars) — price of Jon Tester's flat-top haircut · in Montana · as of 2008-06-04 · no source named · unchecked
• 2008-06-08 · Monkeys!!! (with pants) — Hank says he likes zoos for giraffes who love giraffes, but the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has no giraffes, which disappointed him. (playful) (00:01:29)
• 2008-06-19 · Memo to the Fourteenth Century (and to the Tobians) — In the memo John tells them the plague is spread by rats and is a tiny living thing inside the body, that the right amount of penicillium kills it, that washing with soap prevents spread, and that leeches don't work. (hypothetical) (00:02:18)
• 2008-06-19 · Memo to the Fourteenth Century (and to the Tobians) — He lists science for them: the earth is round, the sun is at the centre of the solar system, the speed of light is invariant, the moon is rock, not cheese; plus Schrödinger's cat. (hypothetical) (00:02:48)
• 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — Hank says he had assumed Times Square was a square, but it is in fact a triangle. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2008-08-12 · PEANUT BUTTER FACE (while discussing the Georgia-Russia War) — John says that in 1921 the USSR invaded (he says "invaded Russia") and Georgia became part of the USSR; he jokes that Georgian-born Stalin wanted it easier to kill about 500,000 Georgians later. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 1921 (year) — year of the Soviet invasion of Georgia · in Georgia · as of 2008-08-12 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2008-08-12 · PEANUT BUTTER FACE (while discussing the Georgia-Russia War) — Citing Ukraine a couple of years earlier, John says that when former Russian territories grow close to Western Europe, Russia can go "bonkers", even poisoning presidential candidates. (playful) (00:01:50)
• 2008-08-27 · Butte Montana — Hank sings that Butte, Montana, is home of the Berkeley Pit. (playful) (00:00:22)
• 2008-08-27 · Butte Montana — The song says the pit is filled with arsenic (one other word unclear). (playful) (00:00:22)
• 2008-08-29 · Sarah Palin: An Introduction — John notes Palin is literally a moose hunter. (playful) (00:00:45)
• 2008-08-29 · Sarah Palin: An Introduction — John says Palin's son Track has joined the Army and is going to Iraq, joking that the name is a political liability and the deployment an asset. (playful) (00:01:17)
• 2008-09-21 · The Pwning of Oprah — John reads YouTube's most-subscribed directors list: the Vlogbrothers have 41,818 subscribers and Oprah 41,365, so they have 'pwned' Oprah. (playful) (00:00:50)
  • 41 818 (subscribers) — YouTube channel subscribers · for Vlogbrothers channel · as of 2008-09-22 · source: YouTube most subscribed directors list · unchecked
  • 41 365 (subscribers) — YouTube channel subscribers · for Oprah's channel · as of 2008-09-22 · source: YouTube most subscribed directors list · unchecked
• 2008-10-11 · Question Friday — John says Joe Biden anagrams to 'I Need Job' and Sarah Palin to 'Las Pirana'. (playful) (00:01:43)
• 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — John says the last time these producers made a movie it won a bunch of Oscars. (playful) (00:01:21)

2009 (77)

• 2009-01-03 · Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED — John says male giraffes nudge females with their heads to make them urinate, then drink the urine to taste whether the females are ovulating. (playful) (00:00:36)
• 2009-01-06 · The Rock-Afire Explosion Controversy — Hank explains that the Rock-afire Explosion was an animatronic band, likely the premier new media of its decade, something never seen again except in YouTube clips. (playful) — hedged: “likely” (00:00:00)
• 2009-01-11 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! — Chad is a landlocked Central African nation with two traffic lights in the whole country, neither of which works. (playful) (00:00:02)
  • two (traffic lights) — number of traffic lights in the country · in Chad · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-01-11 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! — John reads from Wikipedia's Chad page that the French first 'penetrated' Chad in 1891, then plays the wording for laughs. (playful) (00:01:01)
  • 1891 (year) — year the French first entered Chad · in Chad · as of 2009-01-11 (implied: upload date) · source: Wikipedia · unchecked
• 2009-01-11 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! — John mocks the Transitional Federal Government: nine years old so hardly transitional, influence over a third of the country so hardly federal, unable to govern so hardly a government. (playful) (00:02:35)
  • nine years — age of the Transitional Federal Government · in Somalia · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
  • a third (fraction of the country) — extent of the Transitional Federal Government's influence · in Somalia · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-01-16 · Hank Green from the Detroit Auto Show — Hank says the Tesla Roadster is beyond his budget; the show displays both its Lotus-designed shell and its internals, which he likens to a powerful, expensive go-kart. (playful) (00:02:33)
• 2009-01-18 · PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Inaugurated: Some Historical Background — John teases that the Declaration of Independence almost didn't happen because someone got drunk at a bar, a story he may tell someday. (playful) (00:01:23)
• 2009-02-01 · Super Bowl Analysis from an Idiot — John raises in passing, while saying he won't discuss it, the moral dubiousness of paying men to play a sport he says statistically shortens their lives by 15 years. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 15 years — reduction in life expectancy of professional American football players · for men paid to play football (NFL players) · in United States · as of 2009-02-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-02-11 · A Song About an Anglerfish — The song says the male deep-sea anglerfish becomes a sperm-producing parasite that never leaves the female's side until she dies. (playful) (00:01:07)
• 2009-02-15 · Stimulus Plan Explained — John adds that Keynes's last words were "I wish I'd drunk more champagne." (playful) (video description)
• 2009-02-22 · Big Oil RIPS YOU OFF — via Unfair Mathematics — Even at the height of the 2008 oil bubble, a gallon of gasoline cost less than a gallon of Fierce Grape Gatorade, which John finds odd given the work of extracting and refining oil. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • less expensive than a gallon of fierce grape Gatorade — price of a gallon of gasoline compared with a gallon of Fierce Grape Gatorade · in United States · as of 2008 (height of the oil bubble) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-02-22 · Big Oil RIPS YOU OFF — via Unfair Mathematics — Traditional rounding (one to four down, five to nine up) rounds down four ninths of the time and up five ninths of the time, John says. (playful) (00:00:58)
  • four ninths (fraction of cases) — share of digits rounded down under round-half-up · as of 2009-02-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
  • five ninths (fraction of cases) — share of digits rounded up under round-half-up · as of 2009-02-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2009-02-22 · Big Oil RIPS YOU OFF — via Unfair Mathematics — Oil companies use the rounding that gets them an extra penny one twentieth of the time: 5% of American gasoline purchases are charged an extra penny. (playful) (00:01:27)
  • one twentieth of the time (fraction of purchases) — share of gasoline purchases charged an extra penny by rounding · for gasoline purchases · in United States · as of 2009-02-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
  • 5% (percent) — share of gasoline purchases charged an extra penny by rounding · for American gasoline purchases · in United States · as of 2009-02-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2009-02-22 · Big Oil RIPS YOU OFF — via Unfair Mathematics — John says a weekly buyer's yearly loss is not two and a half pennies but, per the oil companies, three, and in total millions of dollars every year. (playful) (00:01:27)
  • about two and a half pennies (US cents per year) — loss to a once-a-week gasoline buyer from rounding · for a buyer who fills up once a week · in United States · as of 2009-02-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • three pennies (US cents per year) — loss to a once-a-week gasoline buyer from rounding · for a buyer who fills up once a week · in United States · as of 2009-02-22 (implied: date said in the video) · source: the oil companies · doubtful
  • millions of dollars (US dollars per year) — total overcharge from rounding on gasoline purchases · in United States · as of 2009-02-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2009-02-24 · How to Make Guys Like You — John says all their videos except those with giraffe sex as the thumbnail are watched by nearly three times more women than men. (playful) (00:00:34)
  • nearly three times more women than men (ratio) — share of women vs men among viewers · for viewers of vlogbrothers videos (excluding giraffe-sex-thumbnail videos) · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — John says Descartes believed in never getting up before noon. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — John says Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — John says Descartes realized his attraction came from a cross-eyed girl he played with as a child. (playful) (00:00:38)
• 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — John says that once Descartes connected the childhood memory to his desire, the desire went away; he took this as showing the mind controls the body, a linchpin of his defense of free will. (playful) (00:01:07)
• 2009-03-03 · Eating Man Meat — Hank reports that PETA's president has rewritten her will, asking that her body's meat be used as meat, her hide for purses, her legs for umbrella stands and an eye sent to the EPA. (playful) — hedged: “apparently” (00:00:00)
• 2009-03-03 · Eating Man Meat — Hank says a meatless corn dog has 67% less fat than a real one, so he can eat about three. (playful) (00:01:16)
  • 67% less (percent) — fat content of a meatless corn dog relative to a meat corn dog · as of 2009-03-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-03-25 · Squirrel Attack! — Hank says squirrels communicate with little noises and also with tail movements, which play the role of facial expressions and are very important. (playful) (00:00:33)
• 2009-03-25 · Squirrel Attack! — Hank jokingly claims squirrels have names made of a vocal component and a tail movement. (joke) (00:00:48)
• 2009-04-01 · A Few Of My Favorite Things — Showing taxidermy of a sharp-shinned hawk killing a starling, Hank says starlings are an invasive species. (playful) (00:01:42)
• 2009-04-05 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — John notes two differences from himself: North Korea is run by 'a crazy dude', Kim Jong-il, and has nuclear weapons. (playful) (00:01:37)
• 2009-04-05 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — John reports North Korea launched a long-range missile into the ocean; though the launch failed, the international community, even China, is really mad. (playful) (00:01:41)
• 2009-04-26 · Peanut Butter Face Discusses Sri Lanka — John says the Tamil Tigers, who invented contemporary suicide bombings and the suicide vest, are Hindus and some Christians, and not very religious. (playful) (00:00:54)
• 2009-05-08 · Star Trek: The Movie, Review — Hank notes the new film, called Star Trek or Star Trek 11, continues a long-lived franchise; there have been eleven films. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 11 (films) — number of Star Trek feature films · for Star Trek films · as of 2009-05 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-05-20 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song — The song calls ulcerative colitis road rash on the colon: bleeding, pain, unknown cause, no cure and a raised cancer risk, though colon cancer is curable if watched. (playful) (00:00:34)
• 2009-05-20 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song — In the song the doctor says the only cure is removing the whole colon and installing 'a little spout'; Hank says he would rather take costly pills. (playful) (00:01:33)
• 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — Hank reports finding many Carl's Jr. ads on YouTube, some by his favorite YouTubers, all on the theme of how you eat the chain's portobello mushroom burger. (playful) (00:00:29)
• 2009-06-14 · Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results — John says moderates who try to run for president are routinely barred (comically 'like 37,000'), which has often led to low turnout. (playful) — hedged: “like” (00:00:41)
  • like 37,000 (moderate candidates) — moderates barred from running for president per election · in Iran · as of 2009-06-14 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants) — John says the foundation chooses books with people in the camps, based on what they need and want (after joking it picks the best in-your-pants jokes). (playful) (00:02:24)
• 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — Truth or Fail candidate fact one (one of the two is false): the whale shark is the biggest fish that has ever existed. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:02:55)
• 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — Truth or Fail candidate fact two: tiger sharks eat almost anything, including humans; one was found with chickens, still in their coop, in its stomach. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:02:55)
• 2009-08-11 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — Rejecting an iPod for every subscriber, John says most probably already have one and it would cost about $10 million. (playful) — hedged: “probably” (00:01:01)
  • like 10 million dollars (US dollars) — cost of buying an iPod for each vlogbrothers subscriber · as of 2009-08-11 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-08-18 · So Jokes: Video EP — The Helen Hunt song says she was best comedy actress four years in a row. (playful) (00:04:33)
  • four years in a row (consecutive years) — best comedy actress awards won by Helen Hunt · for Helen Hunt · as of 2009-08-19 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-27 · TV For Chickens — John says the chickens love the show: it makes them less anxious, less likely to peck at themselves and much less likely to kill other chickens. (playful) (00:01:09)
• 2009-09-27 · TV For Chickens — John says chickens killing other chickens is apparently a huge problem on chicken farms. (playful) — hedged: “Apparently” (00:01:38)
• 2009-09-27 · TV For Chickens — John says if everyone stopped eating eggs and chickens, chickens would go extinct: their natural defenses have been bred out, and they exist only because they are delicious. (playful) (00:02:08)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) — Hank says there are a lot of hands removed in Star Wars: characters with only two hands have their hands chopped off three times. (playful) (00:00:20)
  • two (hands) — hands per character · for characters in the Star Wars universe · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • three times (hand removals) — hand removals suffered by a two-handed character · for characters in the Star Wars universe · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) — Hank says Attack of the Clones, a much better movie, opens with Obi-Wan Kenobi cutting off the hand of a jerk with a gun in a bar, and later Count Dooku cuts off Anakin Skywalker's hand. (playful) (00:01:07)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) — Hank says Revenge of the Sith, a very good movie, is the peak of hand removal: Count Dooku loses both hands, and four-handed General Grievous loses only two. (playful) (00:01:30)
  • both (hands) — hands Count Dooku loses · for Count Dooku (Revenge of the Sith) · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • four (hands) — hands General Grievous has · for General Grievous · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • two (hands) — hands General Grievous loses · for General Grievous · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) — Hank says Anakin Skywalker cuts off Mace Windu's arm, having chopped off three hands in that one movie while losing only one himself. (playful) (00:01:58)
  • three (hands) — hands Anakin Skywalker chops off · for Anakin Skywalker (Revenge of the Sith) · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • one (hand) — hands Anakin Skywalker has had cut off · for Anakin Skywalker · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) — Hank says that when Anakin turns evil, Obi-Wan Kenobi cuts off both his legs and one of his hands, leaving Anakin with one hand, a robotic one. (playful) (00:02:09)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) — Hank says in The Empire Strikes Back Luke cuts off the arm of the giant snow beast that captured him, then Luke loses his own hand, one of the most memorable scenes in film history. (playful) (00:02:32)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) — Hank says Return of the Jedi has one hand removal: Luke cuts off Darth Vader's third hand, then sees its wires and feels his own bionic hand. (playful) (00:03:00)
  • one (hand removal) — hand removals in the film · for Return of the Jedi · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • third (hand) — ordinal of Darth Vader's lost hand · for Darth Vader · as of 2009-10-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says a lot of hands are removed in Star Wars: some characters with only two hands have their hands chopped off three times. (playful) (00:00:20)
  • two (hands) — hands per character · for characters in the Star Wars universe · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • three times (hand removals) — hand removals suffered by a two-handed character · for characters in the Star Wars universe · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says Attack of the Clones, a much better movie, opens with Obi-Wan Kenobi cutting off the hand of a jerk with a gun in a bar, and later Count Dooku cuts off Anakin Skywalker's hand. (playful) (00:01:05)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says Revenge of the Sith, a very good movie, is the peak of Star Wars hand removal: it opens with Count Dooku losing both hands shortly before he is killed. (playful) (00:01:30)
  • both (hands) — hands Count Dooku loses · for Count Dooku (Revenge of the Sith) · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says General Grievous has four hands but loses only two of them in Revenge of the Sith, which always made Hank angry. (playful) (00:01:45)
  • four (hands) — hands General Grievous has · for General Grievous · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • two (hands) — hands General Grievous loses · for General Grievous · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says Anakin Skywalker cuts off Mace Windu's arm, so in Revenge of the Sith Anakin has chopped off three hands while losing only one himself. (playful) (00:01:58)
  • three (hands) — hands Anakin Skywalker chops off · for Anakin Skywalker (Revenge of the Sith) · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • one (hand) — hands Anakin Skywalker has had cut off · for Anakin Skywalker · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says that when Anakin Skywalker turns evil, Obi-Wan Kenobi cuts off both his legs and one of his hands, leaving Anakin with one hand, a robotic one. (playful) (00:02:09)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says that in The Empire Strikes Back the giant snow beast captures Luke Skywalker and hangs him upside down in a cave, and Luke chops its arm off. (playful) (00:02:33)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says Luke Skywalker losing his hand in The Empire Strikes Back is one of the most memorable scenes in science fiction; Luke gets a bionic hand like his father's. (playful) (00:02:44)
• 2009-09-30 · 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) — Hank says Return of the Jedi has only one hand removal: Luke Skywalker cuts off Darth Vader's third hand, sees its wires and feels his own bionic hand. (playful) (00:02:58)
  • one (hand removal) — hand removals in the film · for Return of the Jedi · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • third (hand) — ordinal of Darth Vader's lost hand · for Darth Vader · as of 2009-09-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-10-02 · Truth or Fail: DRUGS! — Round one, option one: when an organization tested hundreds of thousands of random US one-dollar bills, four out of five had traces of cocaine (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:25)
  • hundreds of thousands (bills) — one-dollar bills tested · for random one-dollar bills · in United States · as of 2009-10-02 (implied: date said in the video) · source: an organization · unchecked
  • four out of every five (share of bills) — share of tested one-dollar bills with cocaine traces · for random one-dollar bills · in United States · as of 2009-10-02 (implied: date said in the video) · source: an organization · unchecked
• 2009-10-02 · Truth or Fail: DRUGS! — Round one, option two: Kinder eggs are illegal in America because the government fears people will smuggle drugs inside them (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:25)
• 2009-10-18 · The Balloon Boy Hoax — John recounts the story as first told: a six-year-old supposedly climbed into the family's flying-saucer balloon, which flew for hours before being pulled down with no child inside. (playful) (00:01:05)
  • six-year-old (years of age) — age of the boy said to be in the balloon · in Colorado · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-10-24 · Truth or Fail: HOAXES! — Hank recaps the Balloon Boy story: the dad pretended his son was in the balloon while the boy was in the attic, wanting a big story to land a reality TV show. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2009-10-24 · Truth or Fail: HOAXES! — Round one, option one: Poe not only convinced the world a man had flown a gas balloon over the Atlantic, but was a serial hoaxer who tried to fool the news media at least six times (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:37)
  • at least six times (hoaxes attempted) — number of attempts to fool the news media · for Edgar Allan Poe, during his life · as of 2009-10-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-10-24 · Truth or Fail: HOAXES! — Round one, option two: at the Statue of Liberty's 25th anniversary a little girl claimed to have lost her monkey there, and it was closed two days before she admitted making it up (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:37)
  • 25th (anniversary) — anniversary of the opening of the Statue of Liberty when the claimed hoax happened · in Statue of Liberty · as of 2009-10-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • two days — closure of the Statue of Liberty to search for the monkey · in Statue of Liberty · as of 2009-10-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-10-30 · Truth or Fail: Halloween! — Option one: the mask Michael Myers wore in the film Halloween was a William Shatner mask painted white (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:00)
• 2009-10-30 · Truth or Fail: Halloween! — Option two: magician Harry Houdini died on Halloween 1926 as a result of being punched in the stomach by a college student (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:00)
  • Halloween day of 1926 (date) — date of death of Harry Houdini · for Harry Houdini · as of 2009-10-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-11-01 · NaNoWriMo!!! — In a comic dialogue with himself, John says that contrary to popular legend On the Road was not written in a month but in seven years. (playful) (00:00:30)
  • seven years — time taken to write On the Road · as of 2009-11-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-11-08 · H1N1 Vaccine Fears — John says the doctor credited with curing her, Dr. Rashid Buttar, believes in urine injection therapy (filtered urine reinjected to boost immunity), which doesn't work. (playful) (00:01:49)
• 2009-11-08 · H1N1 Vaccine Fears — John says Buttar also cons late-stage cancer patients out of their money with promises of miracle cures that never come. (playful) (00:01:49)
• 2009-11-12 · On a Plane - On the Ground — Hank relays a news item he watched in the airport: it is apparently okay for quadriplegics to own guns. (playful) — hedged: “Apparently” (00:00:28)
• 2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For — Hank complains that too many TV characters are named Hank, claiming three current main characters (in Californication, a show called Hank, and a concierge doctor) plus Hanks on Bones and House. (playful) (00:01:11)
  • three (main characters) — TV main characters named Hank · in US television · as of 2009-11 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For — Hank says John has 1 million Twitter followers and he has 10,000; he is really happy with his 10,000, which seems ridiculous to him. (playful) (00:02:17)
  • 1 million (followers) — Twitter followers of John Green · as of 2009-11 · no source named · unchecked
  • 10,000 (followers) — Twitter followers of Hank Green · as of 2009-11 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — John says many families' only real schooling is madrasas, where pupils read the Quran but apparently skip its condemnation of killing women and children; Saudi oil money ('used to be our money') funds them. (playful) (00:00:42)
• 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — John says Benazir Bhutto, controversial but politically talented, was assassinated in late 2007, blaming the Pakistani Taliban, who he says keep killing talented politicians. (playful) (00:02:04)
  • late 2007 (date) — assassination of Benazir Bhutto · in Pakistan · as of 2009-12-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — John reports a Nerdfighter's calculation that the extra two seconds of Hank's punished video, watched about 55,000 times, cost Nerdfighteria 26 hours; 'we want our 26 hours back'. (playful) (00:03:03)
  • two seconds — extra length of Hank's punished video · as of 2009-12 · source: a mathematically inclined Nerdfighter · unchecked
  • like 55 000 times (views) — views of Hank's punished video · as of 2009-12 · source: a mathematically inclined Nerdfighter · unchecked
  • 26 hours — total viewer time spent on the extra two seconds · for Nerdfighteria · as of 2009-12 · source: a mathematically inclined Nerdfighter · doubtful
• 2009-12-06 · LOSERS!!!! — John claims MIT's team had nerdy friends in Michigan put up a fake balloon with a fake DARPA representative to trick Nerdfighteria, which worked. (playful) (00:00:59)
  • MIT called some nerdy friends of theirs in Michigan and they conspired to put up a fake balloon with a fake DARPA representative — who planted the fake balloon in the DARPA Network Challenge · in Michigan · as of 2009-12-05 · no source named · doubtful
• 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says #P4A trended above the movie Avatar for most of the P4A; Avatar cost $250 million to make, the P4A zero dollars. (playful) (00:00:27)
  • 250 million dollars (US dollars) — production cost of the film Avatar · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
  • zero dollars (US dollars) — cost of the Project for Awesome · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-12-30 · The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song) — The song says a Georgia flood left thousands homeless and seven dead, while the news was about Kanye West and Taylor Swift. (playful) (00:00:27)
  • thousands (people) — people left homeless by the flood · in Georgia (US state) · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
  • seven (deaths) — deaths in the flood · in Georgia (US state) · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
• 2009-12-30 · The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song) — The song says swine flu, killing 4,000 people, got more attention than it needed, while ordinary flu kills 60,000 a year unheeded; people like something to freak out about. (playful) (00:00:48)
  • 4,000 (deaths) — deaths from swine flu · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
  • 60,000 (deaths per year) — deaths from ordinary (seasonal) flu · as of year in and year out · no source named · unchecked

2010 (84)

• 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — Celebrating Alabama's college football national championship last night, John says the state may be 48th in education but is first in college football. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 48th (rank) — state ranking in education · for US states · in Alabama · as of 2010-01 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-01-11 · Ecosystem Services 101 with Hank — Hank says the steep downhill skiing he avoids killed a Kennedy and Sonny Bono in 1997, the year he turned 17. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 1997 (year) — year a Kennedy and Sonny Bono died skiing · as of 1997 · no source named · doubtful
• 2010-01-11 · Ecosystem Services 101 with Hank — Hank says the valuation included a category for beauty, which he is enjoying today and has spent money on, from his boots to the gas to drive out. (playful) (00:02:47)
• 2010-01-13 · Froghoppin' with Gatsby — John says 'froofy' is not a word; Hank probably meant froufrou, a French word for frilly ornamentation, which more fine arts classes would have taught him. (playful) — hedged: “I think you might have meant” (00:00:00)
• 2010-01-15 · Introduction to Chemistry with Hank — Making or breaking bonds drastically changes properties: sodium explodes in water and chlorine gas is deadly, but bonded ionically they are delicious on food. (playful) (00:02:26)
• 2010-01-25 · Name My Dog! — The first round offers two dog 'facts', one a lie: Chewbacca's vocalizations were based on an Alaskan Malamute's, or all dogs are ambidextrous; the answer is not given here. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:03:17)
• 2010-01-29 · An Extremely Brief History of Superbowl Commercials — Hank says the first high-profile Super Bowl ad aired in 1973: Farrah Fawcett spreading Noxzema on quarterback Joe Namath's face, setting a bar for racy ads later outdone by GoDaddy. (playful) (00:00:36)
  • 1973 (year) — year of the first high-profile Super Bowl ad · as of 2010-01-29 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-01-29 · An Extremely Brief History of Superbowl Commercials — Hank says Apple's 1985 ad showing IBM users as lemmings walking to their deaths flopped and was instrumental in getting Steve Jobs fired. (playful) (00:01:17)
  • 1985 (year) — year of Apple's 'Lemmings' Super Bowl ad · as of 2010-01-29 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-01-29 · An Extremely Brief History of Superbowl Commercials — Hank says a 1997 ad showed the late Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner. (playful) (00:01:17)
  • 1997 (year) — year of the Fred Astaire Dirt Devil Super Bowl ad · as of 2010-01-29 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-02-06 · Truth or Fail: SUPERBOWL — Round one, option one: 5'6" Darren Sproles is the smallest player in the NFL today (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:44)
  • 5'6 (feet and inches) — height · for Darren Sproles; claimed smallest current NFL player · as of 2010-02-06 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-02-06 · Truth or Fail: SUPERBOWL — Round one, option two: William 'the Refrigerator' Perry was the largest NFL player of all time (one option is false). (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:00:44)
• 2010-02-08 · Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money — Hank contrasts Dove's campaign that real women are beautiful with Axe body spray's pitch of using women for sex; both brands are owned by Unilever. (playful) (00:01:33)
• 2010-02-08 · Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money — Hank says media companies, owning around 10,000 properties, are worse: Time Warner owned both the UK softcore magazine Nuts and Hanna-Barbera; MTV runs channels for young children and horny men. (playful) (00:01:54)
  • 10,000 (properties) — number of properties owned by a media company · for media companies · as of 2010-02-08 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2010-02-17 · WRONG WRONG WRONG — John, phoning in, says Amanda Bynes did write the tweets and apparently deleted them afterwards. (playful) — hedged: “I guess” (00:02:44)
• 2010-03-08 · GIGANTIC CHICKEN EGG!! — Hank's third point: dogs normally pick out important items and mark them, and the Nintendo was an important item that would not slip past Red. (playful) (00:00:52)
• 2010-03-10 · New Tour! New Book! (Remember Books?) Your Q's A'ed! — Asked how a raven is like a writing desk, John says Lewis Carroll intended the riddle to have no answer, then offers that Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both. (playful) (00:01:36)
• 2010-03-12 · Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires — Hank says Air Canada delayed a flight because passengers refused to board during the game, and shows a graph of Edmonton's water use during the final (people holding their pee). (playful) (00:01:57)
• 2010-03-17 · Side-Boob is Not my Ultimate Concern — Truth or Fail candidate facts: one four-leaf clover per 100 three-leaf clovers; by legend St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity to pagan Irish. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:03:16)
  • one ... for every 100 (ratio) — four-leaf clovers per three-leaf clovers · for clovers · as of 2010-03-17 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2010-03-24 · Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES — John says the threatened bombardier beetle turns around and sprays boiling hot acid out of its butt. (playful) (00:00:08)
• 2010-03-24 · Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES — John says cuttlefish light up in blue, green, orange and yellow, swim over to prey as if inviting it to a party, and eat it. (playful) (00:01:13)
• 2010-04-09 · Why is the Sky Blue and Other Questions Answered — With dark comic delivery, Hank says hamburgers come from calves taken from their mothers young, raised in confined animal feeding operations, then killed and ground up. (playful) (00:02:03)
• 2010-04-16 · The Patron Saint of Youtube — John says the patron saint against hemorrhoids (name heard as 'St. Theocra') is also patron of cab drivers, who get hemorrhoids from sitting and driving. (playful) (00:00:32)
• 2010-04-16 · The Patron Saint of Youtube — John notes possible candidates: St. Clare, established in screens, or Isidore of Seville, who died in 636 yet is patron saint of computer nerds. (playful) (00:02:00)
  • 636 (year) — year of death · for Isidore of Seville · as of 2010-04-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-04-30 · The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes — John says Greece is in his hug bucket, but he doesn't want to give it 150 billion euro, and therein lies the problem. (playful) (00:00:04)
  • 150 billion euro — size of the money sought for Greece (bailout) · in Greece · as of 2010-04 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — John says that, because Hank likes oxygen, Nerdfighteria planted more than 10,000 plants and trees for him on six continents to raise the world's oxygenation. (playful) (00:00:36)
  • more than 10,000 (plants and trees) — plants and trees planted by Nerdfighters for Hank's 30th birthday · for Nerdfighteria · as of 2010-05-05 · no source named · unchecked
  • six (continents) — continents on which Nerdfighters planted for Hank's 30th birthday · for Nerdfighteria · as of 2010-05-05 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-05-07 · How to Live Forever — Path four: Hank says Elizabeth Bathory thought bathing in the blood of virgins restores youth; he doesn't know if it works but will steer clear. (playful) (00:01:27)
• 2010-05-28 · How To Do Everything — John says getting pregnant is hard for a lot of people, but 90% of couples conceive within their first year of trying. (playful) (00:01:27)
  • 90% (percent) — share of couples who conceive within their first year of trying · for couples trying to conceive · as of 2010-05 · source: John (no source named) · unchecked
• 2010-06-02 · The Case of the Poopy Nintendo — John reports that a miniature dachshund's anus is on average three to five inches above the ground. (playful) — hedged: “seems to be” (00:01:19)
  • between three and five inches — average height of a miniature dachshund's anus above the ground · for miniature dachshunds measured by several dozen nerdfighters · as of 2010-06 · source: Twitter replies from nerdfighters · unchecked
• 2010-06-02 · The Case of the Poopy Nintendo — John says, citing the internet, that dogs poop at an angle of about 50 degrees. (playful) (00:01:48)
  • about 50 degrees — angle at which a dog poops · for dogs · as of 2010-06 · source: the internet · unchecked
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — Hank, voicing Viacom, sets out its two demands of YouTube: compensation for views of illegally uploaded videos, and manual approval of every video put on the site. (playful) (00:00:37)
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — In the sketch Viacom wants one billion dollars; YouTube counters with $2 per thousand views on illegally uploaded content, which it says is more than anyone else gets. (playful) (00:01:04)
  • one billion dollars (USD) — compensation Viacom demands from YouTube (as voiced by Hank) · as of 2010-06 · source: Viacom, voiced by Hank · unchecked
  • two dollars per thousand views (USD per 1,000 views) — compensation rate YouTube offers on illegally uploaded content (as voiced by Hank) · as of 2010-06 · source: YouTube, voiced by Hank · unchecked
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — Hank, voicing YouTube, says the vast majority of YouTube clips are uploaded legitimately by their owners, from a guy in his living room to big media companies like Viacom. (playful) (00:01:23)
  • the vast majority (share of clips) — clips on YouTube uploaded legitimately by their owners · for clips on YouTube · as of 2010-06 · source: YouTube, voiced by Hank · unchecked
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — When Viacom recalls YouTube as all Daily Show and Family Guy clips, YouTube answers that was 2007; since then its content identification system has all but eradicated illegal uploads. (playful) (00:01:34)
  • all but eradicated — illegally uploaded videos remaining on YouTube after its content identification system · for videos on YouTube · as of 2010-06 · source: YouTube, voiced by Hank · unchecked
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — Hank, voicing Viacom, reads an email from YouTube co-founder Steve Chen: removing potential copyright infringements would cut traffic and virality to maybe 20%; YouTube calls it out of context. (playful) — hedged: “maybe” (00:01:59)
  • maybe 20% (percent of current level) — YouTube site traffic and virality if potential copyright infringements were removed · as of 2010-06-04 (implied: upload date) · source: email by YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, read by Hank as Viacom · unchecked
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — Hank, voicing YouTube, says Viacom has repeatedly put its own clips on YouTube while disguising that it uploaded them, so YouTube cannot know which videos Viacom wants online. (playful) (00:02:15)
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — YouTube (Hank) asks why, if YouTube is so dirty, Viacom unsuccessfully tried to buy it; Viacom says that is irrelevant to its lawsuit. (playful) (00:02:35)
• 2010-06-04 · YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained — Hank, voicing YouTube, says Viacom-owned Spike.com routinely monetizes independent creators' videos with 30-second pre-rolls without the owners' permission. (playful) (00:02:45)
  • 30 second — length of the pre-roll ads Spike.com runs on independent creators' videos · in Spike.com · as of 2010-06 · source: YouTube, voiced by Hank · unchecked
• 2010-06-07 · Viacom PWNED on Piracy — The video has over 18,000 views on Spike.com; by Viacom's 'insane' formula Viacom owes Coulton $13,823, by real math $37. (playful) (00:02:27)
  • more than 18,000 (views) — views of Jonathan Coulton's Flickr video on Spike.com · in Spike.com · as of 2010-06 · source: Spike.com view count, per John · unchecked
  • $13,823 (USD) — amount Viacom would owe Coulton by the formula Viacom used against YouTube · as of 2010-06 · source: John's calculation · unchecked
  • $37 (USD) — amount Viacom owes Coulton by 'real math' (ad value of the views) · as of 2010-06 · source: John's calculation · unchecked
• 2010-07-24 · Grammar School with Snooki — John notes that Snooki calls groups of men 'packs of gorillas', though a group of gorillas is called a troop. (playful) (00:01:41)
• 2010-08-02 · I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 — John says French fries are not actually French but Belgian, and are very bad for you. (playful) (00:00:58)
• 2010-08-18 · Demon Four Year Old Interviewed — Demon Four Year Old: The Demon Four-Year-Old opens with the fact that a human brain weighs three pounds. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • three pounds — weight of a human brain · for humans · as of 2010-08-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-08-18 · Demon Four Year Old Interviewed — After signing off, Hank says a pig's orgasm lasts over 30 minutes and wonders who measured it. (playful) (00:03:16)
  • over 30 minutes — duration of a pig's orgasm · for pigs · as of 2010-08-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-08-22 · Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! — From Obama's public schedule: during evening prayers on April 8, 2010 he dined with Dmitry Medvedev, and during noon prayers on April 5, 2010 he hosted the White House Easter Egg Hunt; no one saw him pray. (playful) (00:00:48)
  • April 8th 2010 (date) — date Obama dined with Dmitry Medvedev during evening prayers · as of 2010-04-08 · no source named · unchecked
  • April 5th 2010 (date) — date Obama hosted the White House Easter Egg Hunt during noon prayers · as of 2010-04-05 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-08-22 · Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! — Per Obama's public tax returns, he and Michelle gave on average less than 1% of their income to charity in 2000-2005, so he was not performing zakat. (playful) (00:01:27)
  • less than 1% (percent of income) — share of the Obamas' income given to charity (average) · for Barack and Michelle Obama · as of 2000-2005 · source: Obama's tax returns · unchecked
• 2010-08-30 · Thoughts from Places: The Centennial Valley — Hank says Monida, a town on the Montana–Idaho border, has a population of two. (playful) (00:00:29)
  • two (people) — population · for residents of Monida · in Monida, Montana · as of 2010 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-09-02 · Fitness for Nerds — John tells viewers born after 1985 that the up-up-down-down button sequence is called the Konami code. (playful) (00:07:41)
  • 1985 (year) — birth year after which viewers may not know the Konami code (comic aside) · for viewers · as of 2010 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-09-03 · ANOTHER Oil Rig Explosion?! REALLY?! — Hank says corporations are used to risk: Microsoft's new phone flopped and probably lost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, a normal part of business. (playful) — hedged: “probably” (00:01:56)
  • tens or hundreds of millions of dollars (USD) — Microsoft's loss on developing its new phone · as of 2010 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-09-17 · Positive Prank Calls!! — After a red-paint joke, Hank's script says laughing burns 20% more calories than resting, so people should laugh as often as possible. (playful) (video description)
  • 20% (percent) — extra calories burned while laughing compared with resting · for people · as of 2010-09-17 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-09-20 · Life Is Like Pizza — John says Brazilians eat more pizza than anyone in the world, with more than 6000 pizzerias, enough to eat at a different one every day for 18 years. (playful) (00:00:20)
  • more pizza than anyone in the whole world — pizza consumption rank by country · in Brazil · as of 2010 · no source named · unchecked
  • More than 6000 (pizzerias) — number of pizzerias · in Brazil · as of 2010 · no source named · unchecked
  • 18 years — years needed to eat at a different pizzeria each day · in Brazil · as of 2010 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-10-01 · Supernote and Charlie's Birthday — Hank explains that a SuperNote's length depends on lung capacity and on the ability to hold your breath, since you cannot inhale while exhaling and the body wants to keep inhaling. (playful) (00:01:39)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says giraffes are extremely promiscuous and rarely mate with the same partner twice. (playful) (00:00:47)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says giraffe mating involves flehmen: males smack females' bottoms with their faces to make them urinate, then drink the urine to tell whether they are ovulating. (playful) (00:01:53)
• 2010-10-19 · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says courtship is mostly the male trying to mount and the female running away; coitus lasts up to several seconds and pregnancy lasts 400 days. (playful) (00:02:24)
  • several seconds — duration of giraffe coitus · for giraffes · as of 2010-10-18 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 400 (days) — length of giraffe pregnancy · for giraffes · as of 2010-10-18 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — Voicing the popular belief, John says Sigmund Freud referenced lemmings' mass suicide in a lot of his work. (satire) (00:00:29)
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says the 1958 Academy Award-winning Disney documentary White Wilderness shows lemmings committing mass suicide and is mostly famous for staging it. (playful) (00:00:29)
  • 1958 (year) — release year of the documentary White Wilderness · as of 2010-11-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says lemmings are not suicidal; the belief that they jump off cliffs en masse when overpopulated is false, though running lemmings sometimes run over cliffs. (playful) (00:00:29)
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says Rousseau, whose philosophy deeply influenced the French Revolution, liked being spanked by girls so much he sometimes dropped his drawers in public hoping they'd smack him. (playful) (00:02:46)
• 2010-11-03 · Phineas Gage: A Song — Hank sings that Phineas Gage was 25 in 1848, working on the railroad, when he forgot the tamping sand and the tamping rod destroyed his left frontal lobe. (playful) (00:00:10)
  • 25 (years) — age of Phineas Gage at his accident · for Phineas Gage · as of 1848 · no source named · unchecked
  • 1848 (year) — year of Phineas Gage's accident · for Phineas Gage · as of 2010-11-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-03 · Phineas Gage: A Song — Hank sings that the doctor doubted the rod had passed through Gage's head, since he'd surely be dead, until a coughing fit brought brain matter out. (playful) (00:00:51)
• 2010-11-03 · Phineas Gage: A Song — Hank sings that the doctor told the family to prepare for death; Gage spent months in bed, yet within months walked downstairs as if losing a quarter of his brain hadn't harmed him. (playful) (00:01:32)
  • a quarter (fraction of brain) — share of Phineas Gage's brain lost in the accident · for Phineas Gage · as of 1848 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-03 · Phineas Gage: A Song — Hank sings that Gage was 37 when he went back to his home and family as his death neared, and that, as is common after severe head trauma, seizures killed him. (playful) (00:02:54)
  • 37 (years) — age of Phineas Gage when he returned home before his death · for Phineas Gage · as of 2010-11-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — John says that while France was broke, King Louis XVI was not, and he and Marie Antoinette lived comfortably in the palace of Versailles, which would annoy a starving peasant. (playful) (00:01:05)
• 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — John says the Third Estate paid all the taxes, produced the wealth and fought the wars, while the clergy paid no taxes; he jokes the nobility spent its days competing over costumes. (playful) (00:01:59)
• 2010-11-08 · Probability 101 — In his first made-up word problem (1-in-5 terrorist risk per cigarette, 40% piranha risk per premarital sex), Hank computes survival as 80% times 60%, 48%. (hypothetical) (00:05:39)
  • 48% (percent) — chance of surviving word problem 1 · for hypothetical word problem · as of 2010-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-08 · Probability 101 — In the poison-dart problem (6 Tylenol, 4 Imodium AD, 4 antidote pills, three picks), Hank gets a 33% chance of no antidote, so 67% survival. (hypothetical) (00:06:28)
  • 33% (percent) — chance of picking no antidote pill in three draws · for hypothetical word problem · as of 2010-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 67% (percent) — chance of surviving word problem 2 · for hypothetical word problem · as of 2010-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-08 · Probability 101 — In the terrorist-velociraptor problem (one bullet, four trigger pulls, 30% chance a hit stops it), Hank gets 32% for no shot, 68% for firing and 20% survival. (hypothetical) (00:07:38)
  • 32% (percent) — chance of not firing the bullet in four pulls · for hypothetical word problem · as of 2010-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
  • 68% (percent) — chance of firing the bullet in four pulls · for hypothetical word problem · as of 2010-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
  • 20% (percent) — chance of surviving word problem 3 · for hypothetical word problem · as of 2010-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-10 · Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II — John says the king and the National Assembly then agreed to invade Austria, to plunder its wealth and food and to spread revolution, and Prussia joined Austria in a war against France. (playful) (00:04:10)
• 2010-11-10 · Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II — John says the monarchy had executed commoners and nobles by different methods, but Enlightenment thinking held that capital punishment should be egalitarian and rationalist, the same humane death for all: the guillotine. (playful) (00:05:02)
• 2010-11-11 · REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III — John says the sans-culottes and Jacobins answered the famine with bread price controls, worse even than war with Austria; it failed miserably, and eventually the army was sent to take grain from the countryside. (playful) (00:00:25)
• 2010-11-11 · REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III — John says that amid famine, bankruptcy and many wars the Committee replaced the 'irrational and religion-y' calendar, renaming the months and making days of 10 hours and hours of 100 minutes. (playful) (00:02:28)
  • ten (hours per day) — length of the day under the revolutionary calendar · in France · as of 2010-11-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • one hundred (minutes per hour) — length of the hour under the revolutionary calendar · in France · as of 2010-11-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-11 · REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III — John says that after the Committee collapsed France passed a new constitution and from 1795 to 1799 was run by directors who stole elections and bungled the economy but did not behead 16,000 people. (playful) (00:02:57)
  • four years — duration of rule by the Directory · in France · as of 1795 to 1799 · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-15 · Hey! You! Fix the Budget! — After joking that Europe has it all figured out, John says the deficit projections for most developed economies look much like America's. (playful) (00:02:56)
• 2010-11-22 · Thoughts from Places: On a Horse — Hank says horses changed how people worked, travelled and fought wars: a rider could kind of be a ten-foot-tall, four-footed being that runs fifty miles per hour and carries thousands of pounds. (playful) — hedged: “kind of” (00:02:50)
  • ten foot tall (feet) — height of a mounted rider · for horse and rider · as of 2010-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • fifty miles per hour (mph) — running speed of a horse · for horses · as of 2010-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • thousands of pounds — load a horse can carry · for horses · as of 2010-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-11-29 · Giant Tortoise Coitus — John says a male tortoise's attractiveness is decided mostly by neck length, and the longest-necked male generally gets the most desirable mating situations. (playful) (00:01:04)
• 2010-11-29 · Giant Tortoise Coitus — John says the male tortoise courts by walking up to the female and bobbing his head like crazy. (playful) (00:01:21)
• 2010-12-01 · Makin' Babies: A Song — The song says male giraffes have more sex with each other than with females. (playful) (00:00:31)
• 2010-12-01 · Makin' Babies: A Song — The song says dolphin sex lasts twenty seconds at most. (playful) (00:00:58)
  • twenty seconds at the most — maximum duration of dolphin copulation · for dolphins · as of 2010-12-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-12-01 · Makin' Babies: A Song — The song says barnacles' 'junk' is fifty times bigger than their body size. (playful) (00:01:05)
  • fifty times bigger than their body size (times body size) — barnacle penis length relative to body size · for barnacles · as of 2010-12-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-12-01 · Makin' Babies: A Song — The song says the male anglerfish 'gets completely screwed' and the flatworm uses a sword-like penis to stab in its sperm. (playful) (00:01:10)
• 2010-12-03 · Giant Squids OF LOVE — John says giant squid have an eye a foot wide. (playful) (00:02:21)
  • a foot freakin' wide — eye diameter · for giant squid · as of 2010-12-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank says Google now tries to guess what you want to know before you finish typing, apparently because people are too lazy to move their fingers more than necessary. (playful) (00:00:04)
• 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank reports that after 'is Facebook down', the second most common Google question starting with 'is' is 'is Lady Gaga a man?', and answers for everyone: no. (playful) (00:00:39)
  • second most common (rank) — Google autocomplete rank of 'is Lady Gaga a man' among queries starting with 'is' · for Google queries starting with 'is' · as of 2010-12 · source: Google autocomplete · unchecked
• 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank notes a recurring autocomplete trend of asking whether people are gay: Daniel Tosh, Justin Bieber and Nate Berkus, whom Hank does not even know. (playful) (00:00:51)
• 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank reports 'is g…' autocompletes (Google making us stupid, God real, gonorrhea curable) and that fewer people ask whether Google is gaining a monopoly than whether it is gay. (playful) (00:02:32)
  • fewer people are asking (relative frequency) — Google autocomplete frequency of 'is Google gaining a monopoly' vs 'is Google gay' · for Google queries starting with 'is Google ga' · as of 2010-12 · source: Google autocomplete · unchecked
  • than are asking whether Google is gay (relative frequency) — Google autocomplete frequency of 'is Google gay' vs 'is Google gaining a monopoly' · for Google queries starting with 'is Google ga' · as of 2010-12 · source: Google autocomplete · unchecked

2011 (24)

• 2011-01-12 · Top Six Conjoined Twin Pairs in History — For the last 500 years, continuing today, Biddenden's poor get food every Easter thanks to the twins, including Biddenden cakes printed with conjoined twins, which John calls massively disgusting. (playful) (00:00:32)
  • five hundred (years) — duration of the Biddenden Easter dole · in Biddenden · as of 2011 · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-01-14 · Top 5 Actual Conspiracies — Hank says the plot apparently didn't seem a bad idea then: right-wingers called Roosevelt's government jobs and help for the poor communist, and fascist dictatorships, working in Italy and Germany, looked like a quick fix. (playful) — hedged: “apparently” (00:02:27)
  • 30's (decade) — period when fascist dictatorships were, Hank says, all the rage · as of 2011-01-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-01-19 · YOU ARE WRONG! — Hank Sock: Hank Sock says there are good reasons we don't drink pig's milk, having to do with pigs' reproductive system and the practice of breeding pigs for meat rather than dairy. (playful) (00:01:42)
• 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — Guessing that partial viewing and other Nerdfighter activity average out to 3.5 minutes per view, John gets 427 million minutes, which at 525,600 minutes a year (from Rent) is more than 812 years. (playful) — hedged: “take a wild guess” (00:00:52)
  • 427 million (minutes) — estimated total time spent on vlogbrothers videos · for vlogbrothers viewers · in YouTube · as of 2011-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • 525,600 (minutes) — minutes in a year · as of 2011-02-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Rent · verified
  • more than 812 (years) — estimated total time spent on vlogbrothers videos · for vlogbrothers viewers · in YouTube · as of 2011-02 · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — John says about 7,116,667 hours of viewing, at an average 120 watts per hour for a computer browsing the internet, comes to about 854,000 kilowatts. (playful) (00:01:30)
  • about 7,116,667 (hours) — estimated total time spent on vlogbrothers videos · for vlogbrothers viewers · in YouTube · as of 2011-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • 120 (watts per hour) — average power used by a computer browsing the internet · for computers · as of 2011-02 · no source named · doubtful
  • 854,000.04 (kilowatts) — estimated energy used watching vlogbrothers videos · for vlogbrothers viewers · in YouTube · as of 2011-02 · no source named · speaker error
• 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — At about 1.35 pounds of carbon per kilowatt in the US, John calculates Nerdfighteria is responsible for 1,152,900 pounds of carbon. (playful) (00:01:56)
  • about 1.35 (pounds of carbon per kilowatt) — carbon emitted per unit of electricity generated · for electricity generation · in United States · as of 2011-02 · no source named · doubtful
  • 1,152,900 (pounds of carbon) — estimated carbon emissions from watching vlogbrothers videos · for Nerdfighteria · in YouTube · as of 2011-02 · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — John says that in four years Nerdfighteria has emitted more carbon than the average Swede will in a lifetime, though it is not a person but an idea. (playful) (00:02:00)
  • in four years — period of Nerdfighteria emissions · for Nerdfighteria · as of 2011-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • more carbon emissions than the average Swede will in his or her lifetime (comparison) — lifetime carbon emissions of an average Swede · for Swedes · in Sweden · as of 2011-02 · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-02-28 · Harry Baals & Dick Trickle: The Funniest Names in History — Among unfortunate Dicks John also names Dick Sweat, the former congressman, and Dick Army. (playful) (00:00:44)
• 2011-03-07 · Why is Haiti Poor? — Hank relays his travel doctor's 'good news' that Haiti's malaria is the killer strain, because that is the kind the medication always works against. (playful) — hedged: “apparently” (00:00:34)
• 2011-03-30 · The Ice Cream Changes — Hank says it was sweetened up for the 2000s for 'our little friends', as in Justin Bieber's Baby. (playful) (00:02:34)
  • the 2000s (decade) — use of the progression in popular songs · as of 2000s · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John says the library story Nerdfighters uncovered involves fireproof dungeons, crucified skeletons and a supposedly blind architect, like National Treasure but real. (playful) (00:00:30)
• 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John says Nicolas Cage has a son named Kal-El, Superman's birth name, called Kal-El Coppola Cage because Cage is cousins with Sofia Coppola. (playful) (00:00:42)
• 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John notes Sofia Coppola filmed The Virgin Suicides, a book by Jeffrey Eugenides. (playful) (00:00:50)
• 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John says Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew. (playful) (00:00:58)
• 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John says Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in both chemistry and physics, and her daughter Irene also won one, making Curie the only Nobel winner who is mother of a Nobel winner; then asks 'Or is it?' (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:01:14)
• 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John says Marie Curie had a sister named Bronislawa. (playful) (00:01:26)
• 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — Hank jokes that because of Hitler pink became an effeminate colour, the entire world switched, and that is why pink ribbons are for boobies. (joke) (00:00:54)
• 2011-06-13 · Google Is Alive! — Having skipped brushing his teeth, Hank says about a hundred billion living organisms are in his mouth. (playful) (00:03:23)
  • approximately a hundred billion (organisms) — living organisms in Hank's unbrushed mouth · as of 2011-06 · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-06-15 · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — John corrects Hank's Star Trek facts: the Next Generation's sentient android (Data) can reproduce, as any true fan knows, because he had a daughter. (playful) (00:00:02)
• 2011-08-29 · A Letter to the Aliens — Hank tells the aliens that a standing human is roughly 3.77 x 10^10 times the average radius of a hydrogen atom, assuming hydrogen atoms are the same size where they are. (playful) — hedged: “which we think they probably should be” (00:00:14)
  • 3.77 times 10 to the 10th (times the average radius of a hydrogen atom) — standing height of a human · for humans · as of 2011-08-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2011-10-10 · Animal Mating and Librarian Talking — First purported fact (one of two in the game): the desert grassland whiptail lizard is an all-female species that self-fertilizes its eggs, so each offspring is a clone. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:01:05)
• 2011-10-10 · Animal Mating and Librarian Talking — Second purported fact (one of two in the game): male red-sided garter snakes are so rare that females must mate with any male they meet, usually a father or brother. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:01:05)
• 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Truth or Fail option one: PNC Wealth Management yearly prices the gifts in The Twelve Days of Christmas, and this year (2011) the seven swans a-swimming were the most expensive at $6,300. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:02:18)
  • $6,300 (USD) — cost of the seven swans a-swimming, the most expensive item in The Twelve Days of Christmas · as of 2011 · source: PNC Wealth Management · unchecked
• 2011-12-26 · Project for Awesome and Truth or Fail — Truth or Fail option two: The Twelve Days of Christmas, written in 1909, is still under copyright after repeated extensions and cannot be performed on the show. (playful) — explicitly uncertain (00:02:18)
  • 1909 (year) — year The Twelve Days of Christmas was written (as claimed in a Truth or Fail option) · as of 2011-12-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

2012 (29)

• 2012-02-17 · World's Smallest Animals — Hank shows a dime for non-Americans: the smallest US coin, though worth more than pennies and nickels; the smallest snake is shown on a quarter. (playful) (00:01:02)
• 2012-02-24 · CUTE-OCALYPSE! — Hank, in mock alarm, claims cuteness is literally a drug, with endorphins like opium, and that viewers become desensitized while craving ever cuter things. (satire) (00:00:29)
• 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John marvels that Amsterdam's Spui contains more English-language bookstores than his entire hometown of one million people. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • one million (people) — population · for John's hometown · in Indianapolis (described as "my entire hometown") · as of 2012 · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John sarcastically notes the US keeps its pennies although they also don't facilitate commerce and cost 2.1 cents to make. (playful) (00:00:10)
  • 2.1 cents (US cents) — cost to make one penny · for US penny · in United States · as of 2012 · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-04-10 · A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Children's TV — Mocking the Octonauts' male-voiced anglerfish, John says it must be female, since a male anglerfish would be just a sperm-producing parasite on the female's side. (playful) (00:02:55)
• 2012-04-13 · This is How You Load a Dishwasher - A Song — Hank says the Sun's diameter is more than 400 times the Moon's and it is 400 times farther from Earth, so both look about the same size, which is just a coincidence. (playful) (00:01:37)
  • more than 400 times (times (ratio)) — diameter of the Sun relative to the Moon's · as of 2012-04-14 · no source named · unchecked
  • 400 times (times (ratio)) — distance of the Sun from Earth relative to the Moon's · in Earth · as of 2012-04-14 · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-04-17 · Thoughts on Romance and Sex in an Airport — John says llama sex lasts about two hours because male llamas experience 'dribble ejaculation'. (playful) (00:02:46)
  • like two hours — duration of llama copulation · for llamas · as of 2012-04-17 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — John says astronaut John Young once got the farts on the moon and swore about it, the first F-bomb on the moon; NASA told Commander Young he had a live mic, and Young asked how long it had been on. (playful) (00:01:50)
• 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John says the PMBSS holds the whole telescope together and is made largely of a graphite composite tubing that is very strong but very light; the piece weighs about as much as a paperclip. (playful) (00:01:43)
• 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John jokes that cable companies charge about 80 dollars a month for the privilege of watching content funded mainly by advertising. (playful) (00:00:37)
  • 80 bucks a month (USD per month) — cable TV subscription price · for cable subscribers · as of 2012 · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-07-17 · Hitler and Sex! — John says syphilis was a big problem among Nazi troops in occupied France and Hitler's solution was to send small, foldable blow-up sex dolls to the army; the idea was abandoned. (playful) (00:00:18)
• 2012-07-17 · Hitler and Sex! — John shares a favorite word, 'monorchid', a person with one testicle, and lists prominent monorchids: Mao Zedong, Lance Armstrong, Hermann Göring and the drummer from Green Day. (playful) (00:01:45)
• 2012-08-21 · Is College Worth It? — In John's example, $100,000 of college including $60,000 in loans costs about $80,000 in loan repayments with interest, a total of $120,000. (hypothetical) (00:00:37)
  • a hundred thousand dollars (USD) — college spending in the example · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • sixty thousand (USD) — student loans in the example · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • about eighty thousand (USD) — total loan repayment with interest in the example · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • one hundred and twenty thousand dollars (USD) — total college cost in the example · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-08-21 · Is College Worth It? — Adding the opportunity cost of studying instead of working and adjusting for inflation, John ballparks the example's college cost at about $140,000. (hypothetical) (00:01:08)
  • like $140,000 (USD) — total college cost incl. opportunity cost in the example · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-08-21 · Is College Worth It? — John calculates that over 50-ish working years college pays off if it adds $175,000 in earnings, about $1.75 an hour: e.g. $13 an hour on average instead of $11.25. (hypothetical) (00:01:23)
  • 50ish years — length of working career · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • $175,000 (USD) — extra lifetime earnings needed for college to be worth it · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • About $1.75 (USD per hour) — extra hourly earnings needed for college to be worth it · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • $13 an hour (USD per hour) — average career wage with a degree in the example · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • $11.25 (USD per hour) — average career wage without a degree in the example · as of 2012-08-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-08-27 · Six Reasons Neil Armstrong was a BADASS — After the LLRV crash Armstrong gave a short press conference and went back to work, telling people surprised to see him that he had paperwork to do. (playful) (00:02:23)
• 2012-08-27 · Six Reasons Neil Armstrong was a BADASS — Armstrong threatened to sue his barber of 20 years for selling his hair to a celebrity hair collector; unable to get it back, the barber gave the $3,000 to charity. (playful) (00:02:38)
  • 20 years — how long the barber had cut Armstrong's hair · for Neil Armstrong · as of 2012-08-27 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • $3000 (USD) — money from the sale of Armstrong's hair donated to charity · as of 2012-08-27 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — John says Looking for Alaska's original cover had only smoke; bookstore chains objected to cigarette smoke, Penguin confirmed it was, and so a candle was added. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2012-09-04 · The Five Worst Places to Vomit — Puke in ductwork circulates its smell through the whole home, is very hard to clean, and sometimes ducts must be replaced at a cost of hundreds of dollars. (playful) (00:01:08)
  • hundreds of dollars (USD) — cost of replacing vomit-soiled air ducts · as of 2012-09-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-09-07 · Can You Really Light a Fart? — Hank claims every adult cow outweighs every adult human by at least a thousand pounds, then concedes that miniature cows exist. (playful) (00:01:20)
  • a thousand pounds — minimum weight difference between an adult cow and an adult human · for adult cows vs adult humans · in the world · as of 2012 · no source named · doubtful
• 2012-09-07 · Can You Really Light a Fart? — Hank says you will not get a free iPad by taking an online survey. (playful) (00:02:49)
• 2012-10-02 · What To Do With Your Life — John says 95% of romantic stories end with partners committing to each other. (playful) (00:00:40)
  • 95% (percent) — share of romantic stories that end with partners committing to each other · for romantic stories · as of 2012-10-02 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
• 2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — Destin Sandlin: Destin shows Hank a spring that is stretched and wadded up and then, once heated, recovers its shape ('It's alive!'). (playful) (00:02:14)
• 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — John says printing money to close the deficit would lead to inflation, because currency is in effect pegged to goods and services: doubling the money would double prices. (playful) (00:04:37)
• 2012-10-26 · Apples! CGP Grey Style — Hank says apples feature heavily in Greek myths, especially about beauty and sexuality, and throwing an apple at a young lady was a way of saying you fancied her. (playful) (00:01:20)
• 2012-10-26 · Apples! CGP Grey Style — Hank says Chapman planted seeds rather than grafts, producing terrible-tasting apples nobody minded, since apples were mashed and fermented into hard cider, water being distrusted for dysentery. (playful) (00:02:32)
• 2012-11-09 · The Stadium of Representatives: The End of B20 Week :-( — Hank says the founders split between equal representation per state and representation by population, and compromised: a Senate equal for every state and a House apportioned by population. (playful) (00:00:29)
• 2012-11-23 · Black Friday: An Accident of History — Until the 1860s states held Thanksgiving on different days, until Lincoln declared a national day; after the Civil War reunion it became the national holiday, the fourth Thursday in November. (playful) (00:00:33)
  • 1860's (decade) — period until which US states celebrated Thanksgiving on different days · for US states · in United States · as of 2012-11-23 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • fourth Thursday in November (date) — date of the national Thanksgiving holiday · in United States · as of 2012-11-23 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2012-12-28 · Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! — Hank says the donuts they had contain, according to the USDA, 45% of his daily allowed saturated fat. (playful) (00:01:19)
  • 45% (percent of daily allowed saturated fat) — saturated fat in a donut as a share of the daily allowance · in United States · as of 2012-12-28 (implied: upload date) · source: USDA (as said) · unchecked

2013 (25)

• 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John reports that on New Year's Eve the US Senate reached a compromise to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts, mainly by postponing the hard decisions a few months. (playful) (00:00:03)
• 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John jokes he is happy a post office is now named after Revolutionary War general Nathaniel Woodhull, who said 'God save us all' instead of 'God save the Queen' and was killed. (playful) (00:00:45)
• 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John explains that the first US government under the Articles of Confederation could do almost nothing, so the Constitution replaced it with a Congress that could do a little. (playful) (00:01:06)
• 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John says House seats are allotted by population: Montana has one representative and Indiana about nine. (playful) — hedged: “like, nine” (00:01:28)
  • one (representatives) — number of US House seats · in Montana · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
  • like, nine (representatives) — number of US House seats · in Indiana · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
• 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank says the male deep-sea anglerfish, born without a digestive system, smells out a female and bites her; their circulatory systems fuse and he becomes a sperm-producing appendage. (playful) (02:39:17)
• 2013-02-05 · Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) — John jokes, from a sign, that you can urinate in public in England for only 500 pounds. (playful) (00:02:26)
  • 500 pounds (GBP) — fine for urinating in public · in England · as of 2013-02-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2013-03-22 · How Much is a Human Life Worth? — Hank says, playfully, that selling his organs on the black market, everything from his eyeballs to his forearms, would bring in about $500,000. (playful) (00:00:44)
  • $500,000 (US dollars) — black-market value of one person's organs · for humans · as of 2013 · source: Gizmodo · unchecked
• 2013-04-05 · North Korea: Explained — Hank says North Korea is not really communist: it calls itself a democracy, but ballots have one candidate and a write-in can make you an enemy of the state. (playful) (00:02:07)
• 2013-04-05 · North Korea: Explained — Hank says most North Koreans know nothing of the outside world; it is the only place on Earth where you can't buy a Coke. (playful) (00:03:02)
• 2013-04-23 · DOCTOR GREEN — John attributes to Samuel Johnson 'hell is paved with good intentions', 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel', a mock cucumber recipe and 'what is written without effort is in general read without pleasure'. (playful) (00:01:55)
• 2013-05-14 · Puppies, Pegasi, and TFiOS Casting: It's Question Tuesday — John says studies consistently show that the better people think they are at multitasking, the worse they actually are (then claims he is great at it). (playful) (00:01:37)
• 2013-05-17 · GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! — Hank's 'useless trivia' double says Djibouti contains Africa's lowest point: the shores of Lake Assal, more than 500 feet below sea level. (playful) (00:01:02)
  • more than 500 feet (feet below sea level) — elevation of the shores of Lake Assal · in Djibouti · as of 2013-05-17 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2013-05-17 · GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! — Trivia Hank says volleyball was invented in the 1890s as a safer alternative to basketball. (playful) (00:01:15)
  • in the 1890s (decade) — time volleyball was invented · as of 2013-05-17 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2013-05-17 · GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! — Trivia Hank says the first picture uploaded to the internet showed an all-female comedy group based at CERN in Switzerland. (playful) (00:01:38)
• 2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John says Ai is primarily famous on Tumblr for flicking off important buildings. (playful) (00:01:21)
• 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — John says he has probably said 'Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday' many times and only now learns Tuesday is named not for 'the second day' but for Tiw, the Proto-Germanic war god. (playful) (00:00:02)
• 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank says newborns want to be swaddled, warm and to hear whooshing noises, and that a baby's cry is designed to tap directly into the parents' sympathy. (playful) (00:01:13)
• 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank advises Alice to sleep about two and a half hours at a time so her parents approach but never quite reach REM sleep, joking that they will start hallucinating. (playful) (00:01:40)
  • two and a half hours — typical length of a newborn sleep stretch · for human newborns · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
• 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank says that because newborns are so underdeveloped their nervous system is poor and complex sensing is concentrated in one area (he gestures), so babies put things in their mouths to learn what they are. (playful) (00:01:55)
• 2013-08-02 · 17 Air Travel Tips — Past airport security is, Hank says, the only place where charging five dollars for a bottle of water is acceptable. (playful) — hedged: “apparently” (00:02:55)
  • five dollars (USD) — price of a bottle of water past airport security · in airports (US) · as of 2013-08-02 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2013-09-13 · Syria in Five Minutes — Hank says Obama wants to enforce his red line even without UN support, Americans balk at another war, so the president has let Congress decide whether to attack. (playful) (00:03:31)
• 2013-09-13 · Syria in Five Minutes — Hank says Assad and Russia need each other, which is why John Kerry's offhand remark that Assad could avoid attack by handing over his chemical weapons was taken up by Russia - an accidental act of diplomacy. (playful) (00:03:52)
• 2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — John retells, mock-heroically, the autobiography's most famous moment: kicked out of his apprenticeship, Franklin reaches Philadelphia with one copper shilling, buys three loaves and gives two away. (playful) (00:01:27)
• 2013-12-10 · Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: Slobber Carrots and Gross Barbecue — John reads that the first ingredient of Valu Time Luncheon Loaf is mechanically separated chicken and pork and the last is smoke flavoring. (playful) (00:01:37)
• 2013-12-27 · The Kidney That Was In 3 People - And Other Amazing Science Things — Hank says a drug that reverses graying hair causes diarrhea, nausea and occasionally death, but treats leukemia and costs about $90,000 a year, so hair dye it is. (playful) (00:02:18)
  • $90,000 a year (USD per year) — cost of a leukemia drug that reverses graying hair · as of 2013 · source: Hank · unchecked

2014 (25)

• 2014-01-03 · The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!! — In a mock news bulletin Hank reports that the Golden Gate Bridge did not collapse today: 110,000 vehicles crossed its 8,000 feet, after more than 76 years of weather and vibration. (playful) (00:00:03)
  • 110,000 (vehicles) — vehicles crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in a day · in Golden Gate Bridge · as of 2014-01-03 · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 8,000 feet — length crossed over the Golden Gate Bridge · in Golden Gate Bridge · as of 2014-01-03 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank · unchecked
  • more than 76 years — age of the Golden Gate Bridge · in Golden Gate Bridge · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
• 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — John says it is currently colder in Indianapolis than on most of Mars. (playful) (00:00:01)
• 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — John says US President Millard Fillmore was born on this day in 1800 and that the last thing he ate was one spoonful of warm soup. (playful) (00:01:16)
  • 1800 (year) — birth year of Millard Fillmore (born on January 7, the day of the video) · as of 2014-01-07 (implied: upload date) · source: John · unchecked
• 2014-01-10 · Global Warming and the Polar Vortex — Hank says it is nice in Montana, where it gets to about -20 once every year, so he doesn't know what everyone is complaining about. (playful) (00:00:02)
  • -20 (degrees (scale unstated)) — yearly low temperature · in Montana · as of 2014-01-10 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank · unchecked
• 2014-02-14 · Happy Third Chocolate Day! — Hank says an Olympic athlete, burning about 8,000 calories a day, could probably eat McDonald's advertised 880-calorie frappe; the rest of us couldn't. (playful) — hedged: “probably” (00:02:45)
  • 8000 (calories per day) — daily energy expenditure of an Olympic athlete · for Olympic athletes · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 880 (calories) — calories in McDonald's chocolate-covered strawberry frappe · in United States · as of 2014 · source: McDonald's advertisement (as voiced by Hank) · unchecked
• 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says military leader François Bozizé took power by waiting until the president was out of town and then quickly seizing the government. (playful) (00:01:53)
• 2014-05-02 · Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes — As the cable company, Hank says Netflix accounts for over 30% of US bandwidth use and asks why all customers should pay for the upgrades it needs. (satire) (00:01:12)
  • over 30% (percent) — Netflix's share of US internet bandwidth use · in United States · as of 2014-05-02 (implied: date said in the video) · source: cable-company character · unchecked
• 2014-05-23 · My Freakish Talent — Hank presents talking as a remarkable skill, a lifetime's work needing intricate muscle control, that only one of every 8.7 million species on Earth can do. (playful) (00:00:12)
  • 8.7 million (species) — number of species on Earth · in Earth · as of 2014-05-23 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2014-05-23 · My Freakish Talent — There is a word for words that mean their own opposite, and even a word for when there isn't a word for a thing, so unusual a situation that most people don't know the word exists. (playful) (00:01:28)
• 2014-05-23 · My Freakish Talent — The hard part, Hank says: autological's antonym heterological cannot consistently be said to describe itself or not; luckily there is a word for that too. (playful) (00:02:21)
• 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — In his song Hank lists meningitis symptoms: pounding head, stiff neck, sensitivity to sound, rising cranial pressure, falling blood pressure, a brain starved of oxygen — but you will rebound. (playful) (00:02:52)
• 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says crows and ravens are different species: crows come in annoying groups, ravens alone or in pairs and are huge. (playful) (00:00:19)
• 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Answering 'you and me', Hank says humans are biologically very similar to each other. (playful) (00:01:50)
• 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains 'too' means excessively or also, and 'to' is for all other uses unless you mean 'two'. (playful) (00:02:42)
• 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank ends the alphabet by saying green and yellow zucchini differ in color, and a zucchini is a squash. (playful) (00:03:21)
• 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says that for China's National Day this week (week of 29 September 2014) 10,000 doves were released in Tiananmen Square, each cavity-searched for explosives. (playful) (00:02:33)
  • ten thousand (doves) — doves released in Tiananmen Square on China's National Day · for doves · in Tiananmen Square, Beijing · as of 2014-10-01 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
• 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John jokes that a 99% chance of being repaid makes a Kiva loan like a savings account at negative 1% interest - about what banks offer. (playful) (00:01:14)
  • 99% (percent) — chance a Kiva loan is repaid · for Kiva lenders · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • negative 1% (percent) — equivalent interest rate of lending on Kiva · for Kiva lenders · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
• 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John reports that last week (week of 6 October 2014) the real AFC Wimbledon beat the real Milton Keynes, with the ball coming to Akinfenwa, as the crowd chanted 'who were you when you were us'; he jokes DFTBA on the shorts brings success. (playful) (00:02:26)
• 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: John comes from a Hebrew name meaning 'God is gracious' and was the most popular name in England for about a thousand years, until it declined around the time he was born. (playful) (00:02:22)
  • a thousand years — time John was the most popular name · for given names · in England · as of 2014-11-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: historians disagree about whether there are other Johns in the Bible, an argument he steers clear of. (playful) (00:02:46)
• 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: stars don't actually twinkle; their brightness is constant and our atmosphere makes them look like they twinkle, so 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' is a lie told to children. (playful) (00:00:29)
• 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: at 45 mph a hare would need only 13% of its five-year lifespan to beat Jonathan's lifetime distance, so even in that hypothetical the hare wins. (playful) (00:01:20)
  • five year — lifespan of a hare · for hares · as of 2014-11-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 13% (percent) — share of a hare's lifespan needed at 45 mph to exceed Jonathan's lifetime distance (hypothetical) · as of 2014-11-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2014-12-02 · What You Eat Of Those You Love — John jokingly calls norovirus's 'superpower' its ability to keep a person on or near a toilet for about 12 to 24 hours. (playful) (00:00:10)
  • 12 to 24 hours — duration a norovirus patient stays on or near a toilet · for people with norovirus · as of 2014-12-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John shows a map of New York made by the General Drafting Company for Esso, explaining for younger viewers it is like a static Google Maps on a big sheet of paper. (playful) (00:00:14)
• 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank says we landed a probe on a comet and Curiosity confirmed it is roving on an ancient Martian lakebed. (playful) (00:01:17)

2015 (19)

• 2015-01-20 · REUNION MINIGOLF — Asked about koalas, Hank says they poop in their sleep; John asks whether that is true. (playful) (00:02:27)
• 2015-03-20 · A Sacrifice of Individuality and the Internets — Hank lists animal collective nouns: a school of fish, gaggle of geese, pod of whales, herd of cows, business of ferrets, murder of crows, crash of rhinoceros and romp of otters. (playful) (00:00:15)
• 2015-04-07 · John Reviews Kids Movies — John says most people have some Neanderthal DNA, so humans and Neanderthals really did mate about 60,000 years ago; it is a historical reality. (playful) (00:01:22)
  • 60 thousand years ago — time of human-Neanderthal interbreeding · for humans and Neanderthals · as of 2015-04-07 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2015-04-28 · Is the Paper Towns Movie Like the Book? Thoughts on Adaptations — John says there is no SeaWorld in the movie, its book scenes moved elsewhere; he quips that no one was anxious to pay SeaWorld for the chance to give it good publicity. (playful) (00:02:42)
• 2015-04-28 · Is the Paper Towns Movie Like the Book? Thoughts on Adaptations — The movie has significantly less textual analysis of Walt Whitman than the book, though there is still some. (playful) (00:02:51)
• 2015-08-11 · 454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns — John says Kennedy, being Catholic, could not have become president under the old system, but voters liked him more than the Democratic establishment did, so he became the nominee and president. (playful) (00:01:54)
• 2015-08-18 · The Cold War of Nerdfighteria — John explains that 'pileous' means of or relating to hair, saying the hair anxiety is bringing out his vocabulary. (playful) (00:02:11)
• 2015-08-18 · The Cold War of Nerdfighteria — John says early Census responses imply an 85 percent unemployment rate in Nerdfighteria, and he can't tell whether that is selection bias. (playful) — hedged: “I can't tell if” (00:03:24)
  • 85 percent — unemployment rate among Nerdfighteria Census respondents · for 2015 Nerdfighteria Census respondents so far · as of 2015-08 · source: 2015 Nerdfighteria Census responses · unchecked
• 2015-08-28 · ALL of Wikipedia in One QR Code? — Multiplying by 8 squares per byte, taking the square root and assuming 2 mm blocks, Hank gets a QR code 27 km on a side holding all of Wikipedia. (hypothetical) (00:00:49)
  • about 2 millimeters (mm) — assumed size of one QR block · as of 2015-08-28 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 27 kilometers (km) — side length of a QR code holding English Wikipedia text · as of 2015-08-28 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2015-08-28 · ALL of Wikipedia in One QR Code? — A camera with a 90-degree field of view would have to be 13.5 km away to capture the whole code. (hypothetical) (00:01:28)
  • 90 degree — camera field of view assumed · as of 2015-08-28 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 13.5 kilometers (km) — distance needed to frame a 27 km QR code with a 90-degree lens · as of 2015-08-28 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2015-08-28 · ALL of Wikipedia in One QR Code? — James Webb lacks a sensor to capture it all at once, so a new sensor with like 10,000 times the resolution of today's best military spy cameras would be needed; Hank is confident it can be built in time. (playful) — hedged: “like” (00:03:06)
  • like 10,000 times — pixel resolution needed relative to the best current military spy cameras · as of 2015-08-28 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2015-09-11 · Yellowstone: The Terror of Change — Hank shows New Blue Spring, now dormant and white, and Constant Geyser, named because it never stopped spurting, until it did. (playful) (00:02:09)
• 2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — John says most people who served as Governor of Illinois between 1961 and 2013 were later imprisoned for corruption: 'not a couple, not some, most'. (playful) (00:00:51)
  • most (share of governors) — Illinois governors who served 1961-2013 later imprisoned for corruption · for people who served as Governor of Illinois · in Illinois · as of 1961-2013 · no source named · doubtful
• 2015-10-23 · Benghazi: Explained — Hank says the man who was probably going to become Speaker of the House no longer will, because that was dumb. (playful) (00:05:36)
• 2015-11-03 · Monkey Hangers — John recounts the legend, probably just a story: a French warship sank off Hartlepool; locals took the only survivor, a monkey in French uniform, for a spy, tried it on the beach and hanged it. (playful) — hedged: “probably” (00:01:14)
• 2015-11-18 · SUIT UP! A Very Fancy Reunion Video (Pizzamas Day 8) — John says humans have eliminated something like 40% of species in the last 500 years. (playful) — hedged: “Like” (00:02:36)
  • 40% (percent) — share of species eliminated by humans · for species · in the world · as of last 500 years (resolved: 1515–2015, from the upload date 2015-11-18) · no source named · doubtful
• 2015-11-24 · Crime and Outrage — John says pennies cost two cents apiece to make and, overstating, that they are never used to buy goods or services. (playful) (00:01:22)
  • two cents a piece (US cents per coin) — cost to make one US penny · in United States · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
• 2015-12-04 · The Explain The 2008 Financial Crisis CHALLENGE! (and 7 other challenges) — For the "Grow a Bunch of Hair" Challenge Hank says each of his 150,000 hair follicles grows about 0.44 mm a day, about 0.29 inches a second in total, or 220 feet a day if on one hair. (playful) (00:01:05)
  • 150,000 (hair follicles) — number of hair follicles on Hank's head · for Hank · as of 2015-12-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • .44 millimeters (millimeters per day) — hair growth per follicle · for Hank · as of 2015-12-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 0.29 inches (inches per second) — total hair growth across all follicles · for Hank · as of 2015-12-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
  • 220 feet (feet per day) — total daily hair growth if concentrated on one hair · for Hank · as of 2015-12-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — John says Kiva loans can be as small as $25 to an entrepreneur of your choice, with a 99% chance of repayment, playfully likening it to a savings account at -1% interest. (playful) (00:00:25)
  • $25 (US dollars) — minimum Kiva loan · as of 2015-12 · no source named · unchecked
  • 99% (percent) — Kiva loan repayment rate · as of 2015-12 · no source named · unchecked

2016 (20)

• 2016-01-05 · Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands — John's description corrects the video: Oregon's capital is Salem. (playful) (video description)
• 2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — Citing Hank's video from over five years earlier, John says the first six Star Wars films contain at least thirteen severed hands, Anakin Skywalker losing one three separate times. (playful) (00:00:32)
  • thirteen (hands) — severed hands in the first six Star Wars films · as of 2016-01-12 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank Green's earlier video · unchecked
  • three separate times — times Anakin Skywalker has a hand cut off in the Star Wars films · as of 2016-01-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — John notes that Anakin Skywalker also cuts off three hands over the films, calling Star Wars justice 'a hand for a hand': cutting off a hand risks losing your own. (playful) (00:00:59)
  • three hands — hands Anakin Skywalker cuts off over the Star Wars films · as of 2016-01-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — By John's count Obi-Wan Kenobi removes nine limbs from people while keeping all four of his own. (playful) (00:01:12)
  • nine separate limbs — limbs Obi-Wan Kenobi removes from people in the Star Wars films · as of 2016-01-12 (implied: upload date) · source: John's own count · unchecked
• 2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — With mock outrage, John notes that despite plenty of swordplay, no hand is severed in The Force Awakens. (playful) (00:01:27)
• 2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — John picked Raisin Bran as between healthy and delicious, noting it has more calories, sugar and sodium than Lucky Charms. (playful) (00:00:43)
• 2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank says that after troubled decades, hard work and China's appetite for iron ore and beef ('hamburgers', said playfully) put Brazil's economy on track, making it a developing-world success story until recently. (playful) (00:01:32)
• 2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — Answering how he would get away with murder, John says 40% of murders in Indianapolis go unsolved, so apparently it is not that difficult. (playful) (00:01:28)
  • 40% (percent) — share of murders that go unsolved · for murders · in Indianapolis · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank says both would keep the current corporate tax rate while closing loopholes such as offices in tax havens; their plans differ, but he won't get into corporate taxes. (playful) (00:05:12)
• 2016-05-27 · Reaction Video: THE THING! — The description says seeing The Thing costs a dollar per person (seventy-five cents for kids), and calls looking it up on Wikipedia cheating. (playful) (video description)
  • a dollar (US dollars) — admission price · for adults · in The Thing · as of 2016-05 · no source named · unchecked
  • seventy five cents (US dollars) — admission price · for kids · in The Thing · as of 2016-05 · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-05-31 · The Most Amazing Day — John says Speedway, Indiana is like the Vatican: surrounded by Indianapolis but not Indianapolis. (playful) (00:00:30)
• 2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank says he did the math: people have spent over 50 lifetimes watching Vlogbrothers videos; he jokes the brothers are eating up lifetimes and hopes it is worth it. (playful) (00:03:40)
  • over 50 (lifetimes) — total time people have spent watching Vlogbrothers videos · for Vlogbrothers viewers · as of 2016-08-26 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank · unchecked
• 2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig says the term 'pizza' first appeared in a Latin text around the 10th century in southern Italy. (playful) (00:01:00)
  • 10th century — date of the first written use of the word 'pizza' · in southern Italy · as of 2016-11-14 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig says the Latin text was found in Gaeta, Italy, and stated that a person of a certain property was to give the bishop of Gaeta 12 pizzas every day. (playful) (00:01:11)
  • 12 (pizzas per day) — pizzas owed to the bishop of Gaeta under the Latin text · in Gaeta · as of 2016-11-14 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig says basic pizza is bread, sauce and cheese, and the bread is made of flour, water and baker's yeast, a living single-celled fungus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (playful) (00:01:38)
• 2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Calling the Pizza John moustache crucial, Craig says the oldest portrait of a moustache is an Iranian horseman from 300 BC (first saying AD, then correcting himself). (playful) (00:02:11)
  • 300 (year BC (said "AD", corrected to "BC")) — date of the oldest known portrait of a moustache · for Iranian horseman · as of 2016-11-14 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum — John says he is not thrilled by the notion that half the cells inside your body are not, strictly speaking, yours. (playful) (00:02:55)
  • half — share of cells in the human body that are not human · for human body · as of 2016-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — John says giraffe intercourse lasts under two seconds and is followed by over a year of pregnancy, usually producing one calf often six feet tall and over 150 pounds at birth. (playful) (00:01:07)
  • less than two seconds — duration of giraffe intercourse · for giraffes · as of 2016-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • more than a year — duration of giraffe pregnancy · for female giraffes · as of 2016-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • six feet tall — height of a newborn giraffe calf · for giraffe calves · as of 2016-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • over 150 pounds — weight of a newborn giraffe calf · for giraffe calves · as of 2016-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John notes the Indy 500 is technically just 800 left turns, half of them out of sight because the track is so huge. (playful) (00:00:34)
  • 800 (left turns) — number of left turns in the Indianapolis 500 race · for Indianapolis 500 · in Indianapolis · as of 2016-12-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — Answering those who ask how he can be excited about England's 82nd best football team, John says AFC Wimbledon are now actually the 55th best. (playful) (00:01:13)
  • 82nd (rank) — rank of AFC Wimbledon among English football teams · for English football teams · in England · as of 2016-12-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 55th (rank) — rank of AFC Wimbledon among English football teams · for English football teams · in England · as of 2016-12 · no source named · unchecked

2017 (18)

• 2017-01-06 · Too Excited about Pears! (Question Tuesday with Hank) — Hank reports the Online Etymology Dictionary says the C in 'scent' was added in the 17th century, joking that people just felt like it. (playful) (00:02:59)
  • 17th century — when the c was added to the spelling of 'scent' · as of 2017-01-06 (implied: upload date) · source: Online Etymology Dictionary · unchecked
• 2017-01-13 · Top 10 Best Dogs Ever — Hank notes canaries are named after the Canary Islands, which are named after the Latin word for dog, and so jokingly counts Tweety Bird as a dog. (playful) (00:02:49)
• 2017-02-21 · Does Human Life Have Real Meaning? — John says the White River seems natural and pristine precisely because it is a heavily polluted open sewer, which makes it a metaphorically resonant river. (playful) (00:02:23)
• 2017-03-17 · Trump's Budget Explained — Hank says one small block holds the entire NEA, NEH, Institute of Museum and Library Services and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and under Trump's budget they would no longer exist. (playful) (00:03:52)
  • one block (billion USD) — combined budget of NEA, NEH, IMLS and CPB · in United States · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
• 2017-04-04 · Why I Won't Run for Office — John tells Hank that the governor of Indiana is at that moment attending a public meeting of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. (playful) (00:02:31)
• 2017-04-11 · Making the World's Largest Ball of Paint — John jokes it can't be a coincidence that so many world's largest balls are in the US: popcorn in Iowa, stamps in Nebraska, competing twine balls from Kansas to Minnesota. (playful) (00:00:07)
• 2017-04-21 · The Adpocalypse: What it Means — Hank says Google's valuation dropped by about $750 million in a day. (playful) — hedged: “like” (00:02:04)
  • $750 million (USD) — one-day drop in Google's valuation · for Google · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
• 2017-04-25 · Pokemon, Reviewed by a Dad Who Knows Nothing about Pokemon — John notes that the last 500 years have seen a huge decrease in biodiversity on Earth. (playful) (00:00:34)
  • the last 500 years — period of large decline in biodiversity · in Earth · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
• 2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy — In a tangent John calculates that, with 2.5 hours of exercise a week from age 16, about one extra year goes to exercising and 1.5 to sleeping, leaving basically two. (playful) — hedged: “basically” (00:01:00)
  • about one (years) — extra years spent exercising · for people exercising 2.5 hours a week from age 16 · as of 2017-05-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 1.5 years — extra years spent sleeping · for people exercising 2.5 hours a week from age 16 · as of 2017-05-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • two extra years — net extra waking years from exercise · for people exercising 2.5 hours a week from age 16 · as of 2017-05-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2017-06-16 · When Will You Die? — Hank says a past life expectancy of 35 doesn't mean people died around 35: deaths of children and babies pulled the average down, and 80-year-olds in the Middle Ages were no mythical creatures. (playful) (video description)
  • 35 (years) — life expectancy often quoted for some past period · for humans · as of 2017-06-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2017-06-23 · Reviewing Musicals from their Wikipedia Pages — Reading the Banjo Eyes page, Hank notes the title refers not to Cantor's character but to a talking racehorse played in costume by the vaudeville team Morton and Mayo. (playful) (00:01:11)
• 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — Amazon might be onto something: for about a year after The Fault in Our Stars came out, unsigned copies were much rarer than signed ones. (playful) — hedged: “like” (00:00:43)
  • a year — period in which unsigned copies were rarer than signed ones · for The Fault in Our Stars · as of 2017-07-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2017-10-06 · The World's Largest Fruits — Hank's favourite transformation: a spindly grass seed was useful enough to be bred again and again until it became corn. (playful) — hedged: “apparently” (00:00:33)
• 2017-11-09 · The New Zealand Five Cent Coin — John adds, as a tangent, that some countries still mint coins worth one fifth of a nickel. (playful) (00:00:52)
  • one-fifth of one nickel — value of the smallest coin some countries still mint · as of 2017-11-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Dr. Lawrence Turtleman: Tigers and lions, and wolves and foxes, are visibly related, and a lion and a wolf are more related to each other than to a sheep. (playful) — hedged: “kind of” (00:00:32)
• 2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Dr. Lawrence Turtleman: The hoatzin is a really weird South American bird, as its looks show. (playful) (00:01:45)
• 2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Dr. Lawrence Turtleman: Because humans enjoy ginkgos, they have been planted all over the world from their original home in Asia, welcomed into the Anthropocene. (playful) (00:03:04)
• 2017-12-22 · Christmas Questions Answered (With Katherine and Hank) — Americans don't observe Boxing Day: they call it the day after Christmas and go back to work. (playful) (00:03:09)

2018 (21)

• 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — To stay in the third tier AFC Wimbledon must finish 20th or above; the win lifted them to 18th. (playful) (00:00:09)
  • 20th — lowest league finish that avoids relegation to the fourth tier · for AFC Wimbledon · in England · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 18th — league position after the win over Oxford United · for AFC Wimbledon · in England · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John breaks the news, from October, that the US men's national team did not qualify for the World Cup. (playful) (00:00:48)
• 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John cites 'the Oscar-nominated feature film Boss Baby', whose title character says either you run the day or the day runs you. (playful) (00:02:04)
• 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — John adds that Peru is big, as is Somalia: bonus maps, not among the seven. (playful) (00:00:49)
• 2018-05-29 · How to Cook Eight Peas — While 'educating' the peas, John notes that the team playing in Milton Keynes was relegated out of the third tier, so AFC Wimbledon won't have to play them. (playful) (00:01:37)
• 2018-05-29 · How to Cook Eight Peas — John says that, unlike asparagus or kale, peas are quite starchy and must be boiled a little longer; an undercooked pea is not good. (playful) (00:02:09)
• 2018-06-05 · WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY — John calls the third edition a deeply flawed book: published 35 years ago, it contains almost no poems from the last 40 years; but it is his, or at least Chip's. (playful) (00:00:16)
  • 35 years ago — time since publication of the third edition · for The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd edition · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-06-05 · WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY — John says the anthology is a 3.2-pound book, not something one would take on vacation and leave there. (playful) (00:01:44)
  • 3.2 pound — weight of John's copy of the anthology · for The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd edition · as of 2018-06-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Denmark invented Lego, which makes them fun to root for. (playful) (00:00:49)
• 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Egypt's goalkeeper is 45, which John calls an inspiration to old people like himself. (playful) (00:00:59)
  • 45 (years) — age of Egypt's goalkeeper · for Egypt men's national team · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Panama qualified for their first World Cup ever; John is 'totally over' them beating the US in qualifying, and asks how the US lost to Trinidad. (playful) (00:02:20)
  • first World Cup ever — World Cup appearances · for Panama men's national team · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — South Korea's coach is only four years older than Egypt's goalkeeper. (playful) (00:03:14)
  • four years older — age difference between South Korea's coach and Egypt's goalkeeper · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Uruguay's striker Luis Suárez has bitten opponents on three occasions, yet in more than 99% of his competitive games he hasn't bitten anyone. (playful) — hedged: “probably” (00:03:35)
  • three separate occasions — times Luis Suárez has bitten opponents · for Luis Suárez · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • more than 99% — share of competitive games without biting anyone · for Luis Suárez · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-07-27 · Why Environmentalists Hate Captain Planet — Hank marvels that Jeff Goldblum voiced a greedy, big-nosed, rat-looking villain poisoning the water supply. (playful) (00:00:56)
• 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — Asked by his four-year-old kid whether you can eat light, John says in a roundabout way you literally can't eat anything else. (playful) (00:02:02)
• 2018-09-28 · REUNION!!! Mountain Goats Aren't Goats — After one brother is called a mountain goat fan, not a billy goat fan, Hank says he doesn't think mountain goats are actually goats; the reply is 'Shut your mouth'. (playful) — hedged: “I don't think” (00:00:42)
• 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — Hank says a historical preservation society has declared the whole of Vermont an endangered place. (playful) (00:00:44)
• 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — Hank notes that all three vote-by-mail states have legalized marijuana, maybe coincidentally. (playful) — hedged: “maybe coincidentally” (00:01:43)
• 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — Plants are made of air, which doesn't seem right but is true, so Hank's shirt, made of plants, is made of air. (playful) (00:03:14)
• 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — John says linear television has eight minutes of ads for every 22 minutes of content, so Vlogbrothers on TV would have three 30-second commercials per video. (playful) (00:02:05)
  • eight minutes — advertising time per 22 minutes of content · for linear television · as of 2018-11-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — both: Discussing a comment, the brothers note that James Potter died at 21 and was never middle-aged in the Harry Potter books. (playful) (00:01:34)
  • 21 years old — age at death · for James Potter (Harry Potter character) · as of 2018-11-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

2019 (12)

• 2019-01-18 · Should You Burn Dirty Fuel? — Hank notes that John, off Twitter, probably doesn't know the President of the United States invited a football team to the White House to eat McDonald's. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2019-02-01 · We Have Destroyed Copyright Law — Hank's hypothetical: if The Daily Show claims a clip containing public-domain NASA footage, everyone else using that footage gets claimed, since Content ID can't tell the parts apart. (hypothetical) (00:04:44)
• 2019-02-05 · Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images — John says faked photos have long spread disinformation and changed history: Mussolini hid that he needed a horse trainer to look like Napoleon. (playful) (00:01:27)
• 2019-03-08 · Does "The Press" Hate YouTube? — Hank says Montana makes national news only when a state senator wanted to legalize drunk driving or someone wanted to sell the state to Canada. (playful) (00:01:11)
• 2019-03-22 · How to Get a Colonoscopy — Hank says the gut is about 30 feet long and the prep takes about an hour to pass through, which is only 0.0056 miles per hour. (playful) (00:05:37)
  • about 30 feet — length of the human digestive tract · for humans · as of 2019-03-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • about an hour — transit time of colonoscopy prep through the body · for colonoscopy patients · as of 2019-03-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 0.0056 miles per hour (mph) — speed of prep transit through the body · for colonoscopy patients · as of 2019-03-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
• 2019-07-09 · Life Hacks My Wife Taught Me — John thanks Josephine Cochrane, inventor of the automatic dishwasher, which has saved millions of work hours at the small cost of ruined cutting boards and unsterilized sponges. (playful) (00:01:56)
  • millions (human work hours) — work hours saved by the automatic dishwasher · for humans · as of 2019-07-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2019-08-02 · The Cutest Octopus — A male Dumbo octopus hands a female a package of sperm, and she waits until she is in a good situation to care for eggs before fertilizing them. (playful) (00:02:35)
• 2019-10-04 · In Defense of Bad Flags — Since the TED talk an alternative flag has arisen among a certain kind of Milwaukeean, the kind who watches TED Talks. (playful) (00:00:58)
• 2019-10-29 · The Truth about None Pizza with Left Beef — Hank says that in October 2007 a man used Domino's new online ordering, chose no cheese, no sauce and normal beef on the left, and Domino's cooked a crust with beef balls. (playful) (00:00:22)
  • October 2007 — date of the none pizza with left beef order · for Domino's online order · as of 2007 · no source named · unchecked
• 2019-11-19 · Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit — John says even with a trademark he could still say 'rise and shine' to his children every morning, but couldn't start a cosmetics line by that name. (playful) (00:01:16)
• 2019-11-19 · Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit — John says Jenner's lawyers presumably knew this, as they are also seeking to trademark the spelling with three i's in 'rise' and five vowels in 'shine'. (playful) — hedged: “presumably” (00:01:32)
  • three (letters) — letter i's in 'rise' in the second trademark application · as of 2019-11-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • five (letters) — vowels in 'shine' in the second trademark application · as of 2019-11-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2019-12-13 · Is This the Cutest Animal Noise? — Hank says both are called porcupines because the name means 'spine pig' (pork plus spine): they are thorn pigs. (playful) (00:02:36)

2020 (11)

• 2020-01-24 · Horses are Very Weird — Hank says hands are feet you don't walk on (to an evolutionary physiologist, feet you type with); bats fly with feet and birds' feet became nubbins on their arms. (playful) (00:02:40)
• 2020-01-24 · Horses are Very Weird — Hank says the horse hoof is just a big toenail, so galloping stallions are all walking on one finger. (playful) (00:03:40)
• 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — The description says SodaStream is a 107-year-old company. (playful) (video description)
  • ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN YEARS — age of the SodaStream company · as of 2020 · no source named · unchecked
• 2020-03-06 · I Did Not Get Leprosy! — Hank says threatened armadillos jump high in the air, which scares predators but not cars, which is why many end up dead by the road. (playful) (00:03:12)
• 2020-03-27 · Take a Break with Some Feather Stars — Hank says crinoids spend almost all their time sitting in one spot but almost all their viral-video time in their mesmerizing swimming locomotion. (playful) (00:01:40)
• 2020-04-17 · The Rarest Fish in the World is an Anglerfish! — Hank says land animals are stuck to the ground; flying adds a third dimension, and water is a denser fluid that its animals fly through. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2020-04-17 · The Rarest Fish in the World is an Anglerfish! — Hank says the top-performing human can get about eight feet off the ground unassisted, only to come right back down. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • eight feet — maximum unassisted human jump height · for top-performing humans · as of 2020-04-17 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2020-04-17 · The Rarest Fish in the World is an Anglerfish! — Hank says each time a clutch of red handfish eggs hatches, the world population of red handfish literally doubles. (playful) (00:01:02)
• 2020-06-26 · You Might as Well Swim! — In a comment Hank adds that the animals aren't Portuguese: the ship they were named after was. (playful) (creator comment)
• 2020-09-18 · They Say it Gets Colder — Hank says higher up it gets cold enough for steam to condense into water droplets: 40 to 60 kilometres above Venus's surface, temperatures and pressures are like Florida. (playful) (00:00:58)
  • 40 to 60 kilometers (km) — altitude of the temperate cloud layer · in Venus · as of 2020-09-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2020-10-23 · 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW — Reason six: get-out-the-vote callers receive a daily list of who has already voted, so voting stops the calls. (playful) (00:01:27)

2021 (5)

• 2021-01-01 · In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are — The timeline predicted electric cars for 1995; the GM EV1 came out in 1996, which Hank brags about. (playful) (00:01:51)
  • 1996 (year) — release year of the GM EV1 · as of 2021-01-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2021-03-05 · How Much Hope is OK? — Hank notes that the Perseverance rover, which 'persevered' through it all, landed safely and spectacularly on Mars. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2021-05-21 · The 19 Best Facts — Unless the person is pregnant: then most of the bones in the body are in the uterus, because babies have more bones than adults. (playful) (00:01:38)
• 2021-10-19 · Cat Names: The Authoritative Guide — John says Mark Twain, never great at titles, called his cats names like Satan, Beelzebub and Pestilence; Hank should not call his cat Pestilence. (playful) (00:02:33)
• 2021-12-03 · John and Hank at the Cemetery — John calls Crown Hill America's greatest cemetery, with the most vice presidents per square mile anywhere in the US. (playful) (00:00:00)

2022 (9)

• 2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — Asked why metal shocks you in Vegas, Hank says there is no water in the air, John riffs on it and asks whether you get shocked more when the air is drier, as in winter, and Hank confirms. (playful) (00:02:27)
• 2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — John explains that in the UK a butty is a sandwich: a chip butty contains nothing but bread and french fries, and any kind of butter sandwich is a butty. (playful) (00:03:21)
• 2022-04-26 · An Amazing Day — John notes the Chuck E. Cheese mascot is a mouse whose full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese. (playful) (00:01:43)
• 2022-07-19 · Why Do Things Exist? — Breaking off to feed his chickens, John says leftover coffee grounds can be used as garden fertilizer or as a kind of litter for a chicken coop. (playful) (00:01:56)
• 2022-07-22 · What are These Boys Doing?? — Every bag delivers two dozen delicious cups of coffee, Hank adds. (playful) (00:03:35)
  • two dozen (cups) — cups of coffee per Awesome Coffee Club bag · as of 2022 · no source named · unchecked
• 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank notes that early photosynthesizers' oxygen once killed almost everything, so life changing the atmosphere to its own harm is not new. (playful) (00:00:29)
• 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Your house has an exhaust pipe: gas furnaces, water heaters and stoves emit carbon dioxide and can only be cleaned up by switching to electric appliances. (playful) (00:08:18)
• 2022-08-26 · I Searched for 'Science Side of Twitter' and Answered As Many Questions as I Could — Hank says taking a massive dump burns not zero calories: the anus is almost always contracting and relaxes then, but he thinks other muscle contractions (and any anxiety) more than outweigh that. (playful) — hedged: “I think” (00:00:58)
• 2022-09-26 · PIZZAMAS IS UPON US — Showing a Pizza John neoclassical bust, John notes that a real Greek or Roman bust would have been painted, so buyers may paint theirs. (playful) (00:02:50)

2023 (16)

• 2023-01-10 · Introducing: The Format — John says most people in history had no idea what happened inside the body; a few hundred years ago a doctor published a paper unsure where a swallowed pin would come out. (playful) (00:01:10)
  • a few hundred years ago — time since a doctor's paper on swallowed pins · as of 2023-01-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2023-02-28 · Empathy and its Limits — John says the sycamore tree he is filming is older than the moving image, so he is filming something that predates the idea of filming. (playful) (00:00:29)
• 2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Hank says the law passed as part of a much larger bill when Mark Zuckerberg was 11, and when he was 12 the Supreme Court struck down almost all of it except one section. (playful) (00:00:40)
  • 11 years old — Mark Zuckerberg's age when the Communications Decency Act was passed · for Mark Zuckerberg · in United States · as of 2023-03-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 12 years old — Mark Zuckerberg's age when the Supreme Court declared most of the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional · for Mark Zuckerberg · in United States · as of 2023-03-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — Taking an average hardcover at $30 and paperback at $20, John says hardcovers cost somewhat more to print but not $10 more, so they are more profitable per unit. (hypothetical) (00:00:44)
  • $30 (USD) — assumed average price · for hardcover books · as of 2023-03-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • $20 (USD) — assumed average price · for paperback books · as of 2023-03-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2023-03-17 · This is a Video!! — Asked about how niche escalators are, Hank says Missoula recently lost its only escalator, in the Herberger's, but got another at the new airport. (playful) (00:01:22)
  • only (escalator) — number of escalators · in Missoula, Montana · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
• 2023-03-24 · The Two Reasons Why Humans Have Such Bad Backs — Hank explains that vertebrates' bone-protected spinal column stays flexible through many vertebrae separated by intervertebral discs: a firm but squishy ring containing a gel. (playful) (00:00:15)
• 2023-03-31 · The Coming AI Invasion — Hank says someone brought mongooses to Hawaii to eat the rats; they did not control the rats well but ate many native species that had never met a mammalian carnivore. (playful) (00:00:35)
• 2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — Hank says Hodgkin's was first thought to be a form of tuberculosis when discovered in the early 1900s, joking to John that everything is tuberculosis. (playful) (00:11:14)
  • early 1900s — date Hodgkin lymphoma was first discovered · for Hodgkin lymphoma · as of 2023-05-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
• 2023-09-28 · What the Heck is the UN? — Hank says that in 1945, after a long war everyone hated, countries got together to form the United Nations so it would never happen again. (playful) (00:00:29)
  • 1945 — year the United Nations was founded · as of 2023-09-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2023-10-04 · A Messy and Unhinged Introduction to Geoengineering — Hank's example: marine cloud brightening might take water that would have rained over land, so crops fail and people lose income and food. (hypothetical) — hedged: “maybe” (00:07:21)
• 2023-12-12 · POTATO! — Addressing Potato, John says dogs can get tuberculosis, but it is quite rare. (playful) (00:02:32)
• 2023-12-15 · Cat...I Farted. — Hank reads Phil Fish on Mastodon: life is extra surreal for French speakers because, in French, ChatGPT sounds exactly like "cat, I farted", so TV news keeps asking with a straight face whether it will steal your job, how schools are dealing with it, and about a lawyer caught using it. (playful) (00:01:29)
• 2023-12-15 · Cat...I Farted. — Hank says his own research found that Pepsi's slogan 'brings you back to life' was rendered in China as bringing your ancestors back from the grave. (playful) (00:02:28)
• 2023-12-15 · Cat...I Farted. — Hank says Sega is a word for a sexual act in Italian. (playful) (00:02:57)
• 2023-12-15 · Cat...I Farted. — Hank says English is not exempt: Nintendo went ahead with the Wii anyway and pulled it off. (playful) (00:03:37)
• 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Hank says humans have eliminated about 40% of species in the last 500 years, more in 400 years than in the previous million. (playful) (01:15:10)
  • 40% — share of species eliminated by humans · for species · as of 2023-12-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful

2024 (19)

• 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John recalls 2007: George W. Bush was president, AFC Wimbledon played in the seventh tier of English football, and neither Instagram nor the iPhone existed. (playful) (00:00:12)
  • seventh (tier) — AFC Wimbledon's level in the English football pyramid · in England · as of 2007 · no source named · unchecked
• 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — John adds that Pliny noted silphium, unlike most medicinal herbs, didn't make you fart. (playful) (00:02:15)
• 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica has 1.46 pets, most likely dogs, with cats not far behind. (playful) (00:02:55)
  • 1.46 pets — pets per household · for US households · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Joking that it is widely thought abnormal, John says Jessica does sneeze: Americans report a median of four sneezes a day. (playful) (00:03:24)
  • four times per day (sneezes) — daily sneezes (median, self-reported) · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2024-03-01 · Flyana Boss Asks Hank Anything — Hank describes Episcopalianism as a kind of Christianity, like Catholicism but a little more chill. (playful) (00:05:40)
• 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John jokes Wimbledon have not been good since returning to professional football: no professional team in England has lost more games in the last five years. (playful) (00:01:08)
  • no professional team in England has lost more games — rank by games lost over the last five years · for AFC Wimbledon among English professional teams · in England · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
• 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — The cobra's chemotherapy drug is one humans also get, though humans don't usually take it inside a rat. (playful) (00:02:28)
• 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says most total eclipses pass only over ocean while this one passes over land, then corrects himself that it also crosses some ocean. (playful) (00:02:31)
• 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down — Hank says the US taxes any gift over $17,000 (in 2023, when the film is set), so Davis's money given to Aza and then to Daisy is two taxable events, double-taxing Daisy's money. (playful) (00:01:13)
  • $17,000 (USD) — gift value above which a gift is taxed · for gifts · in United States · as of 2023 · no source named · doubtful
• 2024-05-20 · Hang on tight, spider monkey, it's the P4A 2024 MEME REVIEW!! — A meme fact sheet says Jarrod and possums can eat up to 5,000 ticks a year, play dead up to four hours, and are not very susceptible to rabies, likely due to their cooler body temperatures. (playful) (00:10:15)
  • 5,000 (ticks) — ticks eaten per year (maximum) · for opossums · as of 2024-05-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • four hours — time playing dead (maximum) · for opossums · as of 2024-05-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Hank says the area they are visiting is where Christmas trees come from, which sounds facetious but is true. (playful) (00:01:56)
• 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says NASCAR driver Dick Trickle, his real name, smoked cigarettes live on television during NASCAR races. (playful) (00:02:26)
• 2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank jokes that Lauren Boebert got intimate at a touring production of Beetlejuice and was thrown out for vaping, and everyone forgot, so his own past should be fine. (playful) (00:00:29)
• 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says one recent coconut victim died when an earthquake made the tree over his house drop many coconuts through his roof. (playful) (00:00:37)
• 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse jokes that Gianforte has body-slammed a reporter and flies a private jet, neither of which he has done yet; Hank offers to be body-slammed for publicity. (playful) (00:46:48)
• 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — After showing Danaher's statement, Hank says more than a year has passed and Danaher has not done the audit, joking that annual things happen every year. (playful) (00:03:55)
  • more than a year — time since Danaher's pledge without the audit · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Newman's Own, Good Store's 'rivals', has donated hundreds of millions of dollars, so Good Store has a ways to go. (playful) — hedged: “like” (00:37:28)
  • hundreds of millions of dollars (USD) — money donated by Newman's Own · as of 2024-10-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says the lights former Maryland governor Larry Hogan saw and tweeted turned out, a little embarrassingly, to be stars. (playful) (00:06:49)
• 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — On Amazon the signed edition of Everything Is Tuberculosis currently costs $7 less than the unsigned one, so, John jokes, his signature is technically worth negative $7. (playful) (00:03:05)
  • $7 (USD) — price difference between the signed and unsigned editions of Everything Is Tuberculosis · for Amazon · as of 2024-12 · no source named · unchecked

2025 (14)

• 2025-01-03 · My 2025 Bingo Card — Asked the airspeed of an unladen swallow in 2025, Hank says there is no single answer: there are hundreds of swallow species and many millions of swallows, all flying at different speeds. (playful) (00:00:20)
  • hundreds (species) — number of species of swallow · as of 2025-01-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • many millions (birds) — number of individual swallows · as of 2025-01-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — In the mock opening topic, John says the tuatara is the oldest extant reptile species in the world, with a temporal range going back 250 million years. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 250 million (years) — temporal range of the tuatara · for tuatara · as of 2025-02-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles — Hank says a disease with a non-human reservoir can return even after eradication from every person, as when someone picks up a prairie dog and gets bubonic plague, which happens. (playful) (00:00:00)
• 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — Joking that inventing Dr Pepper was not his only job, John says Alderton was also a pharmacist dispensing medicines, many used, ineffectively, to treat consumption. (playful) (00:00:58)
• 2025-05-02 · I Found the Dumbest Time Zone — Hank blames England: the Royal Society proposed two whole-hour zones for India, but the colonial government found that too complicated and went halfway between them. (playful) (00:02:35)
  • two (time) — proposed whole-hour time zones · in India · as of 2025-05-02 (implied: upload date) · source: Royal Society · unchecked
• 2025-05-02 · I Found the Dumbest Time Zone — Hank says Spain belongs in England's time zone but uses Germany's, because Franco put it there to curry favour with Hitler, so Spaniards eat lunch and dinner late. (playful) (00:03:04)
• 2025-06-06 · The Secret Inside my MIT Commencement Speech — As a thank-you bone fact, Hank says the average human skeleton contains more than 25,000 calories. (playful) (00:04:12)
  • more than 25,000 (calories) — energy content of the average human skeleton · for humans · as of 2025-06-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2025-06-06 · The Secret Inside my MIT Commencement Speech — Hank says most of a person's bones, more than 50%, are in the hands and feet. (playful) (00:04:20)
  • more than 50% (percent) — share of the body's bones in the hands and feet · for humans · as of 2025-06-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2025-06-06 · The Secret Inside my MIT Commencement Speech — Hank says bones are oxygen-dense: freeing a skeleton's oxygen atoms would make enough breathable air for more than 24 hours. (playful) (00:04:28)
  • more than 24 hours — breathable air from the oxygen atoms in a human skeleton · for humans · as of 2025-06-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — Asked which fish most resembles its name, Hank names the boxfish: it looks like a box. (playful) (00:01:06)
• 2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — If all vertebrates are fish, the largest fish on Earth is by far the blue whale, not the elephant first suggested. (playful) (00:05:35)
• 2025-07-18 · OK, but What Are The Other 403 Errors? — Hank says Twitter somewhat famously had a custom error 420 for users sending too many requests, a cannabis-joke way of telling them to chill. (playful) (00:03:48)
  • 420 — Twitter custom error code for too many requests · as of 2025-07-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says they started making YouTube videos before the iPhone existed, when MrBeast was eight, five presidents ago. (playful) (00:01:27)
  • eight (years) — age of MrBeast when Vlogbrothers began · for MrBeast · as of 2025-09-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • five presidents ago — US presidents since Vlogbrothers began · in United States · as of 2025-09-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says, as Hank always reminds him, he is just 30 trillion cells trying to maintain homeostasis, which is hard work, so things will go wrong all the time. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 30 trillion (cells) — cells making up a human body · for humans · as of 2025-11-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

2026 (10)

• 2026-03-20 · I'm Sick Because of the Social Structures of Early Hominins — Hank says nobody is sure why chickenpox is called that; it has nothing to do with chickens. (playful) (00:06:16)
• 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says that because Mendeleev survived he grew up to invent the periodic table, though invent may not be the right word. (playful) (00:01:56)
• 2026-04-03 · I Had a Hallucination This Week — Hank says that given 13.7 billion years, hydrogen atoms sometimes become houses, jokes and solid rocket boosters, so the universe made every joke. (playful) (00:01:49)
  • 13.7 billion years — time for hydrogen atoms to become houses and jokes (age of the universe) · for the universe · as of 2026-04-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — Hank says the price of a cow is historically high: even a feeder cow now costs upward of $2,500, though less than an average used car. (playful) (00:01:22)
  • $2,500 (USD) — price of a feeder cow · as of 2026 · no source named · unchecked
• 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — Hank says feeding a cow costs about $75 a week on average, perhaps cheaper than a weekly gas bill, before you even reach the hard part. (playful) (00:01:51)
  • 75 bucks (USD) — weekly cost of feeding a cow · as of 2026 · no source named · unchecked
• 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — Hank says cows walk two to three miles per hour, so a cow commute would be slower than walking. (playful) (00:03:57)
  • two to three (mph) — walking speed of a cow · as of 2026-05-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
• 2026-06-19 · You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower — Hank notes Napoleon is buried nearby and died, remarkably, of cancer, when you'd expect a different death. (playful) (00:05:07)
• 2026-06-23 · A Very French Reunion — John says Scotland fans, playing in Miami, went to a Florida Marlins game, some 30,000 shirtless men in kilts erupting at a routine catch. (playful) — hedged: “like” (00:05:19)
  • 30,000 (people) — Scotland fans at a Florida Marlins game · for shirtless men in kilts · in Miami · as of 2026-06-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
• 2026-08-21 · Not (Just) Dunking on Jeff Bezos — Hank notes there were about 800 million people on Earth when Mozart was born, so by Bezos's math a trillion people would give 1,250 Mozarts and today's 8 billion should already give 10. (playful) (00:01:56)
  • 800 million (people) — world population · in Earth · as of 1756 · no source named · unchecked
  • 8 billion (people) — world population · in Earth · as of 2026 · no source named · unchecked
• 2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank says eradication was proven in 1980, 46 years ago, joking that he knows because that is the year he was born. (playful) (00:00:00)
  • 1980 — year a disease was first eradicated · for humans · in the world · as of 2026-08-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked