Fun fact: Chicago wasn't the only city built on a swamp. So was Milwaukee. After the war, my parents lived in a cold water flat on 13th & McKinley. The house was so crooked that you couldn't fill up the bath much more than half way. The landlord decided that he was going to put in a cement basement floor. He dug down and struck the corner of a coffin. Turns out, the whole area was built upon a cemetery for those who had perished in a typhus epidemic. If one were to google the location today, they would find that the area is mysteriously devoid of newer homes.
@PianoKwanMan18 күн бұрын
That's an awful find. The house price must have plummeted, If you owned that house
@deborahchasteen320617 күн бұрын
So was Columbia, South Carolina. It was put in the exact center of the state because Charleston in the south and Greenville in the north both deemed themselves the only worthy site for the capital. So building it on the hottest, most humid, swampy patch available showed them both.
@artrickard4494Ай бұрын
That is not Grants tumb. That is the Washington monument.
@jeffdroogАй бұрын
It's actually my dong!
@starksandrecreation28 күн бұрын
It’s not Grant’s tomb, either 😉
@Nimbubuful8 жыл бұрын
How to leave someone in suspense, with these dying words. I have nothi........
@dennybm29 күн бұрын
“I have nothing, I owe great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor”.
@judepower442528 күн бұрын
@@dennybmThank you!
@VLind-uk6mb27 күн бұрын
Actually, his dying words were reputed to be “I go to seek the Great Perhaps.”
@davidconnell1959Ай бұрын
GRANT’S TOMB??? Grant’s Tomb!?!?!? He snowed a lot of people, good old thing.
@momotaro3728 күн бұрын
All the Americans losing their figs at the Washington Monument gaff in a non-US show, go on, tell me about Hadrian's Wall. I'll wait...
@jimmyholloway852725 күн бұрын
Built in the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Sort of divides Scotland from England but runs the width of Britain. Parts of it remain to this day. It is far older than the Washington Monument so knowing less about it might be excused.
@gabrielgreenwoodschannel3 күн бұрын
at least we’d know to show a picture of it, rather than a picture of the Shard
@markneedham7523 күн бұрын
That ice berg was French.😮
@ingredpaulson45308 күн бұрын
The dye used to color the Chicago River is a 60-year-old secret recipe, which is a low-impact orange powder. The powder is spread by two motorboats (one for dumping, one for stirring the water). It takes a crew of six about 40 pounds of powder and two hours to turn the Chicago River into a shamrock-hued paradise. This process leaves the Chicago River green for four to five hours.
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw29 күн бұрын
Luigi, I'm new to your site...Love it, man! 😊
@johanneskarlsson385911 күн бұрын
30:08 I think it is a Iron man competition she is talking about
@dcbsmt20 күн бұрын
I don't understand why the rending of cloth is forbidden. Seems very random.
@zetetick39528 күн бұрын
A few _seriously_ quibbling answers in this one, not one of the better episodes imho, comedy-wise - Although the 'anti-gravity' stuff at the end was _fascinating_ ......I do love it when they go practical on QI 👍
@wizardofoz139020 күн бұрын
Fry looks cooked on coke
@superchickenlips116 күн бұрын
The wish is the father of that thought.
@DerEchteBold12 күн бұрын
I'm pretty sure those days where far behind him at that point.
@zapkvr29 күн бұрын
Lightning goes up, not down
@mannie702820 күн бұрын
Indeed! 4th grade physics 😂
@Kim-gv5bw7 күн бұрын
😂not Down Under it doesn't!!Nothing like a summer storm in the outback😊
@zapkvr29 күн бұрын
That's Cleopatra's needle
@sgtmajvimy2 жыл бұрын
Bad cut, bad edit, need to block these, sorry.
@charlesb701927 күн бұрын
Stephen has a bit of a nerve talking about people’s stomachs expanding….
@jeffdroogАй бұрын
How did the British manage to conquer so many places,when they can't even figure out what's funny?
@zapkvr29 күн бұрын
You cant be serious. Have you heard "I'm sorry I haven't a clue"? Or any of the great British radio panel shows? The fault isnt your stars. It is you
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw29 күн бұрын
Ohh the British know what's funny, Droog...... and how to recognise the difference between 'funny-ha-ha!' and 'funny-are you out of your tiny, ignorant, deluded, pea-sized brain?' You have to be American.
@jeffdroog29 күн бұрын
@@zapkvr And they're fucking terrible lol
@stejer21126 күн бұрын
Americans can't handle surprises, which is why every funny story starts with the punchline. Don't believe it? Watch American sitcoms.
@RobespierreThePoof24 күн бұрын
You don't realize how much this comment reveals about you.