Geography & culture facts to ruin your day

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In India, there is a language called Kannada, and it has more speakers than there are people in Canada

My Mom viewed the Old Man on the Mountain just weeks before it's collapse. Then she viewed some famous rock formation in Oregon and shortly after that it collapsed. We kept her away from Mt Rushmore.

This is more maddening (if you live where I do, near Seattle) than depressing, but when the northern part of the Oregon Territory applied for statehood the settlers wanted to name it Columbia, after its biggest river. Congress refused, fearing to do so would cause confusion with the District of Columbia. So they named it Washington, and nobody's ever been confused since.

Flag trivia: Liechtenstein and Haiti had identical flags before 1936, they only discovered this during the olympics. After the event, both countries added emblems to their flags.

To be fair to the Hungarian anthem, "Freedom does not bloom from the blood of the dead" was pretty spot on.

Fun fact regarding the Hungarian national anthem is that is a real hymn, addressed to God, sung like a prayer. Most of the modern day anthems are patriotic military marches.

Australia lost a prime minister. He was named Harold Holt. He went for a swim one day and disappeared. We named a swim centre after him... It's also slang in some parts to say "I'm gonna do a Harold holt" if youre leaving a meeting or something

"The word for dog was the same in both languages" oh joy, finally a wholesome fact! "..but the native language is now extinct." oh..

Kazakhstan has Balkhash lake, which is interesting by the fact that one half of the lake is freshwater, and the other is saltwater Kazakhstan has a perfect pentagram near the town of Lisakovsk and it's right behind a creek called Көтібоқ, translated as Shitty Ass We also have mountain which name is literally translated as Big Shitlord (Үлкен Боқтыбай) Also there's a town whose name is translated as Girls' Boobs (Қыземшек)

Gaddafi's obsession with Condoleezza Rice was the weirdest one to me.

the War Thunder ad is the most depressing part of this video

There's an interesting Abenaki legend about the former face that the mountain formed: A human named Nis Kizos was born during an eclipse. He became a good leader and provider for his community. Nis Kizos was successful enough to attend Kchi Mahadan, a great gathering of other communities to trade. Tarlo, an Iroquois, returned with him. They fell in love. Tarlo had to return to her birth village because its people had been struck by a sickness. Nis Kizos promised he would live at the top of the mountain. By day he would look out for her, and at night he would light a fire to guide her back. With winter fast approaching, the elders sent Nis Kizos's brother Gezosa to bring him back. He was unsuccessful because Nis Kizos maintained his promise. Tarlo died in her birth village of sickness. After the winter, Gezosa went back up the mountain to bring the news of Tarlo and retrieve Nis Kizos. He found no signs of the existence of Nis Kizos and was stricken with sadness. On his way back down the mountain he looked back and found Nis Kizos had become part of the mountain as a stone face to look after the land. So when the face fell in 2003, you could say he finally was re-united with Tarlo. A memorial was built at the base in 2020 where a series of steel profiler rods were sculpted and when someone sights along the edge of one of the rods, the face is recreated.

I totally get the Paris sindrome. I had dreams of being in Paris for years before going there. I was completely disappointed with the city. Great video as usual.

I am such a fan of random facts like this. Thank you!

Incidentally, one of the points and stripes on the Malaysian flag still represented Singapore for about a decade after its expulsion. At that point Kuala Lumpur became a federal state and became #14.

"No I don't want to be independent😭😭😭" becomes insanely rich

Gaddafi's crush on Condoleezza Rice is oddly wholesome.

“Mentions the laughter epidemic” Yeah I know I went to the academy, Sam already told me

The dude who lost the spontaneous general election he called for is a legend