When was the first YouTube video posted?
23 April 2005
Approximately how many videos are on YouTube by April 2025?
14.8 billion videos
What is murmuration?
A phenomenon where hundreds or thousands of birds fly in co-ordinated patterns, particularly starlings
What was Jesus's real name?
Yeshua. There's no "J" sound or letter in Hebrew or Aramaic. Jesus is an English adaptation of a German transliteration of a Latin transliteration of a Greek
What is the opposite of Autism?
Williams Syndrome, a rare condition affecting about 7500 people worldwide. They treat strangers as their new best friend. Affectionate, empathetic, talkative.
Name either of the two who first summited Everest?
Edmond Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzig Norgay (Nepal) in 1953.
What is the national animal of Scotland?
A unicorn.
What is an individual strand of Saghetti called?
Spaghetto.
When was soap invented?
Around 2800 BC by the Babylonians.
When was the Battle of Waterloo?
18 June 1815.
What was the name of the global ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangea?
Panthalassa.
What is Donal Duck's middle name?
Fauntleroy.
How many new asteroids did the Vera C Rubin Observatory detect within the first 10 hours of operation?
More than 2100 new asteroids. VCRO has the world's largest digital camera.
What is the most widely used substance on the planet after water?
Concrete.
Who introduced capital letters and spaces to make literacy and writing easier in Europe?
Charlemagne, around 800 AD. Before that ITWASLIKETHIS.
Who was the first known person to make a watch?
Peter Henlein, a German craftsman, around 1519. It ran for about 40 hours.
