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Never Order A Buttload At The Bar! Fact Show 2

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the digital age, there’s a goldmine of talk-worthy trivia and mind-blowing knowledge just a few clicks away. Few people have the luxury of full-time internet surfing, but that’s where we come in. Buckle up for another installment of incredible facts you never knew you needed.




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0:00.0

In the digital age, there's a gold mine of talk-worthy trivia and mind-blowing knowledge just a few clicks away.

0:07.6

Few people have the luxury of full-time internet surfing, but that's where I come in.

0:12.7

Buckle up for another installment of incredible facts you never knew you needed.

0:19.6

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening.

0:21.6

You're listening.

0:22.6

You're amazed.

0:27.6

There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones.

0:32.6

What's this?

0:33.6

Impostors pretending to be flamingos by penning themselves pink and standing on one leg?

0:38.3

Put the pitchforks down for now, because you'll know a fake flamingo when you see one.

0:44.3

You might even have one in your front yard, especially if you live in Florida.

0:48.3

I'm obviously talking about those garish plastic garden ornaments, which became a beloved staple of trash culture.

0:55.8

America's answer to the garden gnome was first designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone and mass produced by Union Products.

1:03.8

The Featherstone Flamingo came dangerously close to extinction in 2006 when Union products went out of business.

1:10.2

But faster-formed corporations purchased

1:12.6

the copyright molds to resume production. Nowadays, there are around 2 million walking, swelking

1:18.7

flamingos in the wild, but their kitschy plastic cousins outnumber them by the millions. I wonder

1:24.7

if a featherstone flamingo could go incognito in a real-life colony.

1:29.7

A dancing played killed dozens of people in 16th century France. It's July 1518. A woman named

1:37.9

Fra Trefé has started dancing in the streets of Strasbourg and Alsace France. Nobody knows why, but she dances constantly all day and night.

1:48.8

Within a week, 34 others have started dancing too.

1:52.7

There's no music, and things are getting pretty weird.

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