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Many Truths, 1 Lie!

2011-04-01 · John · watch on YouTube · History & curiosities · curiosity idea

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For April Fool's Day John presents eight short parts (trivia about Ivan the Terrible's library, celebrities, Marie Curie and falls, plus news about a child of the brothers and his Warner Chilcott stock) and says one of them is a lie for viewers to guess.

What is said

00:00:00 — April Fool's Day: eight parts, one of them a lie; guess it or John wins his own arbitrary contest

  • ★★★ John says it is April Fool's Day and one of the video's eight parts is a lie; viewers either guess it or he wins an arbitrary contest of his own creation. (playful) — 00:00:07

00:00:22 — Part 1: Nerdfighters' research on Ivan the Terrible's library makes them the internet's largest resource on it

  • ★★ John says Nerdfighters have researched Ivan the Terrible's library so thoroughly that they are now the internet's largest resource on it, uncovering a crazy story. (playful) — 00:00:22 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ 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

00:00:42 — Parts 2-3: Nicolas Cage's son Kal-El, Sofia Coppola and The Virgin Suicides; Michael J. Fox's middle name

  • ★★ John says Nicolas Cage has a son named Kal-El, Superman's birth name, called a private person because Cage is cousins with Sofia Coppola. (playful) — 00:00:42
  • ★ John notes Sofia Coppola filmed The Virgin Suicides, a book by Jeffrey Eugenides, whose facial hair may or may not be a joke. (playful) — 00:00:50
  • ★★ John says Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew. (playful) — 00:00:58

00:01:03 — Part 4: a child of the brothers's first multiple-word sentence, 'Hi, cat'

  • ★★ John says a child of the brothers spoke his first multiple-word sentence this week: after an exchange of 'hi's, he looked John in the eyes and said 'Hi, cat!' (playful) — 00:01:03

00:01:14 — Part 5: Marie Curie, her Nobel-winning daughter Irene and her sister Bronislawa; a dollar for a song

  • ★★ 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) — 00:01:14
  • ★ John says Marie Curie had a sister named Bronislawa. (playful) — 00:01:26
  • ★★ John offers to pay Hank one American dollar if he writes a song about Marie Curie's sister called 'It's Hard Out There for a Bronislawa'. (playful) — 00:01:31

00:01:39 — Part 6: John sells his Warner Chilcott stock for a $26 profit and asks for worldsuck ideas

  • ★★★ John recalls buying Warner Chilcott stock after the company 'Warner Chilcotted' Hank and others with ulcerative colitis; he sold it today for a $26 profit and can't recall feeling worse about making $26. (playful) — 00:01:39
  • ★★ John wants to use the $26 to decrease worldsuck, preferably in a way that hurts Warner Chilcott, and asks Nerdfighters for ideas in comments. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:50 · world suck, Nerdfighteria

00:02:00 — Part 7: unintentional falls and John's 'rational' fear of heights

  • ★★ John says unintentional falls are the most common cause of non-fatal emergency room visits for ages 25-34 and heights the most common cause of falls, so his fear of heights is rational. (playful) — 00:02:00

00:02:21 — Part 8: Hank's Google image search result; guess the lie in comments; 'Hank, you're a tomato'; sign-off

  • ★★ John says this is seven truths and one lie and asks Nerdfighters to leave their guess in comments. (playful) — 00:02:28 · Nerdfighteria

00:02:36 — P.S.: pointer to Hank's Ice Cream Chords video (a private person and Slipknot)

  • ★★ In a P.S., John urges Nerdfighters who haven't seen Hank's Ice Cream Chords video to watch it to learn what a private person and Slipknot have in common. — 00:02:36 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • John likens Nerdfighters' Ivan the Terrible library research to the film National Treasure. — 00:00:34 > «It’s like National Treasure only it’s real and the role of Nicholas Cage is played by nerds.»
  • After naming Marie Curie's sister Bronislawa, John riffs on a rap song title. — 00:01:26 > «It’s hard out there for a Bronislawa.»
  • Defending his fear of heights with ER statistics on unintentional falls, John draws a sweeping conclusion. — 00:02:08 > «heights are the greatest non-fatal problem facing members of our generation!»

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