The web’s extremely popular teacher of obscure history, CGPGrey, has finally returned from his month long web hiatus. Now, he discusses the strange phenomenon that is countries inside of other countries.
Today, most of people don’t even think about the luxury we take for granted of popping a frozen pizza into the oven from the home freezer.
But of course, life wasn’t always so simple. For centuries, humans have been trying to preserve food for later, but, as Minute Earth rightfully points out, the most common methods, such as salting or smoking, aren’t always the most healthful.
It wasn’t until the the turn of the 20th century that American entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye–as in Birdseye frozen foods–discovered flash freezing techniques from the native Inuit people in Arctic Canada that frozen foods became so ubiquitous in our modern world.
It seems it was just yesterday the media and the world at large was obsessing over the stepping down of Pope Benedict and the installation of Pope Francis.
Even though the pope storm has calmed, history obsessed educator CGPGrey has stepped forward to offer some explanation of the Vatican City.
As usual, it’s much more complicated than it originally seems.
After garnering over two million views listing 50 common misconceptions, Mental Floss Video is continuing their nerdy collaboration projects with John Green.
This time, John lists 45 odd facts about US presidents. Why they didn’t plan to publish this video around President‘s Day is a mystery.
After the great success of their first History of Wooing Women melody, CDZA has returned to appease the other gender. Dylanc Moore traverses through time, starting in 1964, singing a medley of songs famous in pop culture for their power over men.
Apparently, something terrible happened to our ears after the mid 90′s. As Ipoop7colors says: “This is a nice example to see how music get’s worse over the years.”
