Super nerd John Green continues to churn out terribly insightful, yet not-so-helpful knowledge in his popular list videos for Mental Floss. In the latest episode, John goes over 38 Common Spelling and Grammar Errors, such as the impossible difference between ‘lay’ and ‘lie’.
Mental Floss and John Green continue their popular list series. The series all started last month with 50 Common Misconceptions, which has collected over 2.3 million views.
In the newest episode of the weekly show, John sorts through 56 Famous Acronyms And Initialisms we all, no doubt, have heard of, and even use on a daily basis, but may not know the origins of.
There’s no question that lists are extremely popular online. Yahoo originally got their foot in the door peddling their lists. Now, it seems they have been dethroned for list-obsessed BuzzFeed. On YouTube, countless variations of ’5 reasons we XYZ’ have become extremely popular.
For her list video, math focused stop motion animator and doodler Vihart stayed true to her mathematical roots, going full meta by explaining 5 Reasons We Like 5 Reasons Videos.
Mind blown.
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.
John Green of the YouTube famous VlogBrothers has teamed up with Mental Floss Video to bring this video covering 50 Common Misconceptions.
He covers commonly known ‘facts’ that are actually completely wrong, such as the ‘fact’ that the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th, that Vikings had horns on their helmets, and 48 other interesting, yet incorrect, tidbits.
