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Broccoli originally came from a plant that looks like this:

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A large percentage of the Scots language version of Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who doesn't speak Scots and who used an online translator. Much of what he wrote was gibberish.
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In 1905, the Dawson City Nuggets of the Yukon Territory challenged the Ottawa Senators for the Stanley Cup. To play against their foes, the hockey players from Dawson City embarked on an arduous three week journey via dogsled, train, and steamship. When they finally arrived in Ottawa, they were roundly defeated by scores of 9–2 and 23–2.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger only had 17 lines of dialog in his most famous role: "The Terminator".
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Isaac Newton was one of the greatest geniuses of all time. He also lost nearly his entire life savings in an investment scam known as the "South Sea Bubble". It is widely believed that he died a virgin.
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FlyingG
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Level 68
Sep 15, 2020
From 1325 to 1337, the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena fought a war with 2,000 casualties over a bucket.
FlyingG
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Level 68
Sep 15, 2020
Source was a Real Life Lore video.
spongecake
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Level 72
Sep 16, 2020
This video was sponsored by Curiosity Stream.
FlyingG
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2020
Actually, it was sponsored by Skillshare
KiloNova
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Level 61
Aug 10, 2023
ACTUALLY, it was sponsored by Brilliant.
DanishBoy432
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Level 24
May 22, 2025
ACTUALLY!!!!, it was sponsored by raid shadow legends.
svelte
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Level 50
Sep 20, 2020
No, it was sponsored by Dashlane.
FlyingG
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Level 68
Sep 21, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3H_AYVDTk

Here is the source video.

NV1
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Level 55
Mar 19, 2021
No it was sponsored by Cheddar.
gewehr6628
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Level 47
May 20, 2021
really good oversimplified video on it too
OvenBobat
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Level 65
Apr 25, 2025
That's my preferred source
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Sep 20, 2021
No, it was sponsored by Honey.
AntiMatter8192
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Level 78
Sep 30, 2021
Pretty sure it was Audible
langleypark
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Level 48
Mar 12, 2022
I thought it was squarespace
Litleotime
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Level 51
Mar 16, 2022
Are we sure it wasn't Nord VPN?
ooftownroad
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Level 70
May 19, 2022
Its Grammarly
flop
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Level 25
Sep 10, 2022
no, it's expressvpn
unregistered
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Level 50
Jan 7, 2023
It’s ovoiusly 100%notfakecompanythatasksforsponsers
JonesBones
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Level 42
Mar 21, 2023
that definitely sounds like a video RLL would make
GoldenEagleQuiz
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Level 41
Oct 25, 2025
Why is everybody ACTUALLY-ing and claiming one thing or another to have sponsered a video??
MrNugget
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Level 16
Sep 16, 2020
Emperor Norton
TheLocalMilkMan
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Level 43
Sep 16, 2020
It is a common belief in South Korea that if you sleep with an electric fan on, you'll die
HinesBrothers
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Level 78
Sep 21, 2020
Done already
Nathaniel
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Level 77
Nov 4, 2020
I'm alive
ItzIngenious
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Level 66
May 29, 2021
Same here. I think........
Fianchetto
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Level 78
Feb 17, 2023
Well, you obviously didn't do it in South Korea.
Geographystar
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Level 68
Sep 16, 2020
If Manhattan Island was as densely populated as Alaska, it would only have 30 people on it.
Geographystar
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Sep 16, 2020

These are the populations of some more places if they were only as densely populated as Alaska,

Rhode Island: 1,576

Washington DC: 89

New Jersey: 6,715

Texas: 349,176

Singapore: 362

Hong Kong: 555

Switzerland: 20,722

England: 65,450

Scotland: 39,105

Wales: 10,408

Northern Ireland: 7,093

Canada: 5,011,500

Antarctica: 7,127,900

Russia 8,582,600

So, yeah, Alaska is very empty!

ChineseChen
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Level 70
Sep 16, 2020
The only one that actually has an increase is Antarctica.
Geographystar
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2020
It would still only have the population of Arizona, so not that much, but if there ever are cities on Antarctica, I would guess it would have about that many people.
smoceany
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Level 51
Jun 15, 2021
alaska: (population of alaska)
mroc137
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Level 57
Sep 22, 2020
On the other hand, if Alaska was as densely populated as Manhattan, it would have 39.7 billion people.
wiifly
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Level 65
Oct 20, 2020
If the world were as densely populated as Macau(The most densely populated 'country' in the world) there would be 3 trillion people, and very little living space
sacheth9
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Level 65
Nov 24, 2020
Oh dear...
Magarara
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Level 53
Dec 9, 2020
Macau is not a country. My guess,, Singapore or Monaco is the most densely populated country

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Si2
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Level 66
Nov 22, 2024
Yup, Monaco and Singapore rank 1-2. Monaco has about 1/150th the population, but over double the density.
AntiMatter8192
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Level 78
Sep 30, 2021
That's why it's in quotation marks. It has a similar status to Hong Kong.
JWatson24
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Level 71
Sep 17, 2020
I love the Scots Wikipedia pages! :)
NV1
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Level 55
Sep 17, 2020
It costed 2 cents to make a Penny in 2019.
JWatson24
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Level 71
Jul 30, 2021
The penny is stupid. We should get rid of it.
SirPhilippines
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Level 73
Sep 20, 2021
CGP Grey approves
sumguy
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Level 87
Feb 20, 2022
Alternatively, we could do what other countries have done and knock a decimal place or two off the currency to make a penny worth something again. Inflation will never end, so the options are to keep removing smaller denominations and replacing them with larger ones, or adjust the value of your currency and swap old script for new at a fixed rate.

Old $100 bills are worth, and can be traded for new $1 bills; old dimes can we swapped for new pennies. The old script gradually leaves circulation, as with the Euro conversion. Now a car costs $200, a house costs $5000, and your salary is $500 per year. A penny becomes money again. You've adjusted for a century worth of inflation.

MrFatFat
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Jun 18, 2025
This is really happening.
NV1
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Level 55
Sep 17, 2020
The U.S. mint lost $72,000,000 for the 7.3 billion pennies made that year.
MrFatFat
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Level 45
Jun 18, 2025
Now they're going away...
NV1
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Level 55
Sep 17, 2020
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/perspectives/eliminating-penny-coin-shortage/index.html
Regtheledge1000
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Level 28
Sep 17, 2020
Oh dear, none of my ones made it 😥
FlyingG
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Level 68
Sep 21, 2020
That is because you need to add a source/citation to every fact.
Geographystar
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2020
Did you know that Colorado's lowest point is taller than Pennsylvania's and Arkansas's tallest point. (Just to be clear, it is taller than each individually, not combined.)
JustBeYourSelf
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Level 20
Sep 18, 2020
In WWI, newfoundland had about 1000 deaths. It was a dominion of the UK, but it was more close to canada.
CambodianQuizzer
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Level 77
Sep 20, 2020
Texas is bigger than every country in Europe except Russia.

California's population is even higher than the population of Canada.

FlyingG
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Level 68
Sep 21, 2020
And of course both are part of the amazing US. For some reason, Californians see us as competition.
Xenobiologista
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Level 59
Dec 2, 2020
Meanwhile my state, Iowa, goes completely unknown by much of the outside world. I mean, we sculpt entire scenes of farming out of butter at our state fair! How could you not visit?
spongecake
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Level 72
Sep 22, 2020
Interesting fact #482 Boba Fett had only 5 lines in the entire Star Wars original trilogy.
angrobper14
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Sep 23, 2020
About 480, the South Sea Bubble wasn't the scam, but the result of the scam.

The company was named "South Sea Company", and their collapse brought an economic bubble that ruined several investors (Newton included), which was dubbed as "South Sea Bubble" (much like the US housing bubble was dubbed by some as the "NINJA Loan Bubble").

It would've been weird (and still today it would be) to invest in something directly named as a "bubble" (unless you're Spongebob).

Xenobiologista
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Level 59
Dec 2, 2020
I saw the extra history series of that! Good Youtube channel!
NV1
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Level 55
Oct 12, 2020
It costed 2 cents to make a Penny in 2019.
NV1
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Level 55
Oct 12, 2020
The U.S. mint lost $72,000,000 for the 7.3 billion pennies made that year.
NV1
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Level 55
Oct 12, 2020
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/perspectives/eliminating-penny-coin-shortage/index.html
Malbaby
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Level 70
May 16, 2021
476: ....... Broccoli tastes like that looks.
Historyman0
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Level 38
May 19, 2021
the reason that issac newton died like that is because he was the king of introvertedness
HutHutVikes
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Level 65
May 26, 2021
I always thought broccoli was a direct descendant of dirt. After all, that is how it tastes.
ItzIngenious
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Level 66
May 29, 2021
Stop badmouthing broccoli!
ItzIngenious
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Level 66
Oct 31, 2022
A year later, broccoli tastes horrible to me
thread
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Jan 16, 2023
character arc
unregistered
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Level 50
May 29, 2023
Why were you eating dirt in the first place
QuizzerBros
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Level 69
Mar 21, 2022
#476: nice view!
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 92
Oct 6, 2022
#477 is a great statement on all of Wikipedia. Any article starts out with contradictions in the sidebar. Sentences continually follow another with "yeah but" by another editor saying the exact opposite as fact. There is a reason it is not allowed as a source for any college work. Use Wikipedia as a starting point, but never ever quote it if you don't want to be proven wrong.
C45
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Level 21
Apr 24, 2024
that american teenager is my hero in life
Pontiac
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Level 62
Jan 31, 2025
476 - that plant is called the Mustard Plant
HyalineSkies
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Level 48
Aug 26, 2025
The plant in fact 476 is a type of wild mustard plant. Several other vegetables have also been cultivated from this plant, like cabbage, kale, brussel sprouts, and cauliflower. I learned this from Campbell Biology :P
Pontiac
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Level 62
Oct 31, 2025
Wow, 477 just shows us that you don't need to know what to write to write it down
HubertThePhoenix
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Level 62
Mar 10, 2026
I can’t see the image for broccoli.
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