Your mention of the "whistling language" was most welcome. Over the years, I have told my students about it. Although the project would probably exceed even your noble efforts to tell people about fascinating things, I might suggest that you one day offer a "10 Facts" (or 20 or 30) on languages. Many wonderful languages are dying or have already died in just my lifetime, and some of them carried unique ways of communicating the human experience that are worth sharing. Aside from that sad aspect of languages, all manner of other arcane but interesting facts could be recounted for your audience of intellectually curious viewers (like the languages that have no known, related languages nearby; or like the ancient languages that carried ways of expressing state of being in action, which makes modern translations rather distorted). Anyway, your videos are highly enjoyable for this old professor. May you live a long life and produce many, many more of these gems on KZfaq.

Please continue to do this series perpetually. You are a real hit. I'm 60 years old and am still learning from people like you.

The cricket song was utterly amazing and incredibly beautiful.

I think the whistling language is really interesting, and it's really good to see you upload an in depth video every once in while :) Keep it up.

My favorite random fact is the blind dog one although they all were interesting. Great video Dale :)

Charon is pronounced karon. In Mythology he was the boatman who ferried people across the River Styx.

Oh i see In the canary islands they speak r2d2

Hey Dale! I lucked into your channel an hour ago and have say, no exaggeration, it was the best thing that happened to me in 2019.I I've watched 3, so far, and finally saw a fact I already knew. And I am considered a 'renaissance man'. Bravo! I've been inspired, educated, amazed, incredulous and impressed. I can't say more without babbling, so THANKS!

Woah! I really liked this video! Each fact topped the previous fact! Though, I really liked the cricket fact, though. The harmony just sounded so nice.

Hey! The cricket thing was pretty crazy. I really would love to see the specific methodology he used to document that noise, because it was beautiful. Good to see longer videos, again! Talk to you soon.

Dude, total respect for responding to every comment. It really means a lot :)

There's an album made from cutting a slice of different tree trunks and then playing them on a record player. I think the album is called "Years". If you scroll down on my channel far enough, you should be able to find it quickly.

The crickets one was the most fascinating!

The coma segment is the scary one. You said waking up from a 40 year coma would be terrifying, I think being conscious during that time is worse. I had a girlfriend a long time ago and she was in a diabetic coma for a few months when she was a teen. She mentioned she was conscious the entire time. Couldn't move, body paralyzed, went through her normal awake and sleep cycles. Imagine that for 42 years!

My favorites were the facts about Pluto, and the Cricket Chirping Orchestra!! Amazing as always!! :)

woah, loved the video, and also really like the fact that you say almost nobody knows instead of facts you don't know like some people

I found these facts fascinating. Thank you what looks like a massive amount of research, including links. Thanks for the upload. I’m a 65 year old woman who uses the web on an iPad as a window to the world. With a medical condition, I can no longer physically travel the world. My KZfaq and streaming each month amounts to about 250 gig per month. I’m a subscribed to your channel.

Wow! The noise the crickets make when slowed down, I can understand why it's called 'God's orchestra'. It's really one of the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard. \in our busy ever rushing here and there lives it makes me wonder how much more of natures gifts we miss. It's such a shame we are turning our beautiful planet into a huge never ending concrete jungle. There will come a time I think but hope I'm wrong when all we have to teach children about how our beautiful planet used to look like will be to show them video clips and photos of nature. It makes it sound like an awful thing with no green places left, but just think about how our ever growing population, the amount of 'green belt' that's being stripped away to build more and more housing.

U're right the one about the crickets is so ridiculously cool, I really wanna record some live ones when I get the chance someday. I hope you make more of these, I've just found myself being very fond of this mini-series!

The like to dislike ratio shows the quality of work you do. I hope you put out more videos like this!

God, the cricket one was so cool. Also, awesome job on the video! the only one that I knew was the subfact that humans turn blue when they consume silver.

+Jaiden Boucher That was not Hello Kitty, with was her pet cat. It just looks a lot like her.

This cricket info just may be the most phenomenal thing I've ever heard in my life. I now listen to it every night as I go to sleep.

Dale, these videos are really interesting. Please keep them coming. One suggestion -- how about a longer pause between facts or even announcing the number. Thanks for the facts.

I can't get over the crickets!! That's so incredible. I always wonder what animals can understand music and if they enjoy the same harmonies as us. Different cultures have different harmonies and even different octaves which makes me wonder, does our music sounds like gibberish to my dog or does she like it? Just fascinating.

Being a linguist, I'm obligated, if not programmed to like the El Silbo one the most. As soon as you started talking about the variety of language sounds, I had a hunch you were going to go for that one! Also, Dale, check to see what's going on at 2:41. There seems to be a skip. Loved this video, too!

My favourite is the shortest tree (the forest XD) followed by the crickets.

I found the whistle interesting, because in my old neighborhood we used to whistle and we use it as a code.

The cricket orchestra is the most baffling & exceedingly interesting. It takes the cake!

wow that cricket stuff is beyond incredible

Um... did anyone point out that the graphics you were using when talking about the crickets were drawings of grasshoppers?

my favorite was finding out about the first web page ever created. little did he know that 20 years later almost everybody would be able to make that :P

The cricket things is oddly beautiful. The girl in the coma was just depressing she lived most of her life asleep she never truly got to live past 16 that just bums me out and what's worse is her mom had to watch as her daughter's life was wasting away. But the thing about hyenas being more related closely to cats then dogs and walruses being a relative to dogs was kind of funny

My favorite fact was El Sibo, and even though i already knew about it, it's still quite intresting.

the crickets fact absolutely blew my mind!!!

I personally found the Cricket Orchestra fact to be the most interesting. Just to add to the Hello Kitty fact, her real name is Kitty White.

I really like the whistle language fact, I never considered a language like that. It's nice to see the longer videos as well. Keep it up =)

The world is lost, I don't understand how people keeps watching pewdiepie channel's when such a channel like this exists, this is totally awesome.

Love facts we don't know. Please pause a moment longer between items. Sometimes they are confusing because they seem to run together.

I liked you're talk on hyena anatomy and astronomy most. If you do more stuff along the lines of biology and astronomy, you will keep me most interested.

That coma story really reminded me of this npr story I heard today. www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/09/376084137/trapped-in-his-body-for-12-years-a-man-breaks-free It's really touching and interesting. Also the cricket orchestra was pretty cool, it really gave me a new perspective on something I found almost unbearably annoying. However, the most interesting fact was definitely Ell Silbo. That'd be really cool to know, though knowing others who could also speak it or would be willing to learn would be tough.

Very interesting! The Crickets were actually Buddy Holly's backup band in the Mid 1950's!

Also the willow and the blind dogs fact where great

Wow to the hello kitty. Loved the music crickets make, very beautiful.

Thank you Dale loved the facts, but The most interesting for me was el silvo which is spanish for the. Whistle. Wendys i maride My ecuatorean husband 25 yrs ago I found it funny ho w in his household everyone had whistle names. I commented to my father and he said that it was widely used in Puerto Rico were I am from. Furthermore, I was talking to a Cuban friend of mine and she recalled how her father and grandfather used it too. My father does genealogy and our descendants are from the island of Tenerife the same archipelago were La Gomera is located.

awesome vid dale! im very excited for new horizons this year. and im glad you covered Berners-Lee because whenever i mention him in a conversation with people...no one seems to know who he is. which is weird...considering he was one of the most influential people of our time. ps- i'm digging the beard

Crazy! I didnt think I would find another great channel out there that would interest & surprise me. Thanks again for the knowledge you share. Refreshing to see the younger generation making a name & teaching the masses that which we did not know. A true thirst for knowledge one which everyone should aspire to find & know! Thank you again1.

That cricket song would make a great soundtrack for a horror movie!

The crickets were fascinating. Keep it up, Dale!

I am an ICU nurse and I see a lot of patients who are in comas and we work pretty hard to keep them alive. Hard to imagine a girl staying in one for 42 years without heavy reliance on medical equipment or trained personnel!

I heard about #3 on Pawn stars, someone brought in a silver teething toy. Rick went on to explain that due to Silver being a soft metal and having antimicrobial properties it was ideal for an infants teething aid.

The cricket orchestra is not a simple slowed down recording of crickets chirping but a human composition created from slowed down cricket chirps. (Try speeding up the recording.) It is like the dogs you sometimes hear on the radio barking Jingle Bells.

You have gotten yourself a new subscriber, part seven popped up in my suggested feed, and I watched part seven, and six, all the way down to this one. I intend to go all the way down to part one. My favorite in this one is a tie between the crickets in the guide dogs. I am mostly blind with a small window vision in the left eye, though I don’t have a guide dog yet. I would like to have one some day. I thought that was incredibly awesome how that just kind of ended up happening

The crickets, I'll get mad at them no more. The sound was beautiful, thank you so very much.

I'm Spanish but I had never heard about "El silbo" until now PD: I laughed so hard when he said "La Gomera"😹😹

The cricket's music is awesome, it's almost spiritual, fantastic. Myself being a musician, I'm shocked, thanks for letting me me know. It's a shame your videos aren't subtitled in spanish so my friends and family could understand, I should put subtitles in Spanish for your videos, so they can XD.

I don't see how anybody can give this with understanding everything was so totally interesting. thank you very much for doing this series it was mind blowing. :-)

Insanely good series

In fact number 3 about metals there is a reason door knobs are usually brass or silver or a combination that makes up nickel. They all have this anti-bacterial properties on their own so that if someone uses the door knob disinfected immediately just by the nature of the molecules in the brass silver or nickel. The same can be said for bathroom fixtures or taps on the sink Another reason you might see someone giving a new baby gift from Tiffany as a Silverspoon (antibacterial.)

Crickets man! That was astounding. And the seeing eye dog was cool

My favourites mirror yours. Thank you for these interesting and inspiring segments!

The cricket one was really interesting. We get overrun with crickets here in Texas in late summers.

the cricket orchestra is breathtaking

One of the best videos i have seen. Love your new series and all the facts are pretty amazing. Just like Vsauce, Veritasium, Minutephysics and other educational channels , this is Your identity - your specialty. Want to see more...

Never stop making these!!

Knew some of these before I saw this, i like this type of format and would like to see more, keep up the good work

Hey, I'm 59.... and it is terrifying.

Loved the dog guides(i have heard both terms:dog guides, and guide dogs used). Whem was the first animal used as a assistance animal for other needs, besides assisting those who are blind?

I knew about the Pluto thing thanks to Mr. JoCo and his beautiful song, "I'm your moon".

The cricketts fact was great and the origins of the service dog for the blind both rank high, but the first web site wins the most unknown award as I never even thought about the first web site before. I just assumed the first web sites were converted from mainframe terminal files.

Another kewl tidbit about animal aides for the disabled; now in addition to “seeing eye” dogs, there are “helper monkeys” which are capuchins specially trained to aide people with various disabilities, not just blindness. The organization is called Helping Hands.

your page is a blessed offer for anyone who loves culture. Thank you very much!

Lol they literally showed Hello Kitty on all 4’s when her “pet cat” is sitting (like a human) on her back tho....

The creation of the World Wide Web "In my opinion" is one of the most revolutionary things to ever happen to us in history.... -Peggy Hill

My favorite fact was the one about silver and copper clean themselves themselves. Could actually be useful to know in life.

thanks, great video! found the tree one pretty funny. liked the crickets most. keep up the good work, i know its a lot of work to make these videos :)

really good video keep up the good work, I'm now going to sit down and listen to some crickets

The cricket one gave me goosebumps!

I liked the seeing eye dog. They help so many people in so many ways.

You did the science of love video. You should do science of laughter, comedy, funny,... Also science of sleep: we all know it's necessary for cognitive functioning, and it's necessary for memory reconsolidation, and death will ultimately occur without it like a rare genetic disease, and other sleep disorders, but the real reason death occurs from lack of sleep would be organ failure, like the kidneys, then you talk more about the renal failure, and you segue from one topic to another just like Vsauce does. You have to be very creative to think like Michael, and continue to "question everything."

Just subscribed! Your videos are interesting and entertaining. My favorite is the crickets as well - I remember hearing that recoding for the first time about a year ago and it just blew my mind. So otherworldly, just beautiful.

The cricket orchestra was amazing!!

Those crickets sound like a beautiful orchestra

Loved the cricket orchestra! How incredible! :)

I loved the last fact about dogs helping the blind. I never knew that my fellow Germans had the idea and I never knew that Oldenburg therefore has actaual historical weight to it. That strangely reminds me about a story from WW2 from my home. It's about Clemens August Graf von Galen or "lion of Münster". It's areally interesting event happening during WW2. I know that you probably get requests like this everyday and of course you decide what makes it into the show, but I would really appreciate it if his story gets included in one of your videos at some point. Unfortunatly it's too long to post it into the comments, but there are many interesting articles about one of my personal heros. But most importantly he shows that not nearly every German was a Nazi let alone supported them and I think too few people now about this very important fact.

that god chorus of crickets was awesome , i'm definetly going to listen some more :D

Wow, I actually learned some new facts! I already knew about four of them. My fav was the crickets chirping slowed down, which I first discovered 3 years ago. I was amazed. Now, it makes me wonder what the whistling language would sound like, slowed down?

I really enjoy your facts videos! dont stop doing them :)

my favourite was a toss-up between the crickets and hello kitty.

The Crickets making music fascinating :O)

SHAAAROOOOON!

Yay new video. Good job!

I like your vids because they truly do have information that I haven't already heard about before. They really are interesting and rare facts. I subscribed!

Sharon is Ozzy’s wife, Charon (care-on) is Pluto’s moon named from the ferry man of the afterlife.

I love these 10-facts videos of you!! Very interesting 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

HOOAH! For me the most fascinating was the Seeing Eye Dogs and the Crickets.

I like a lot your videos, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us :)

Great channel. I love to see original material. Keep up the good work!

Hey Dale, Glad you're back to your old ways. The Crickets fact makes me wonder what other animal sounds could be manipulated to creative effect like this one? Language is an understanding between any two individuals . I wonder if there are any structural similarities between the whistling languages of people and the complex whistling command systems used by herdsmen to control there dogs? Always interesting. Thanks.

Brass i thought was copper and tin