A Matter of Facts
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Well, JT set a challenge, I'm here to answer it
You want facts? Boy, well, you asked for it
I'm gonna give you some trivia mastery
And put the facts on blast 'til class dismissed
It's the truth, ain't no party trick
I'm bringing facts to the web like Encarta did
So get your notebooks out, you can quote the track
It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
Please have your pen and paper ready
The facts will commence in three, two, one
Facts!
Black-thighed falconet, world's smallest bird of prey
Giraffes' necks may be long, but only seven vertebrae
That's the same as you would find in anybody, you or me
But can you eat 75lb of leaves a day?
The opposite of "dรฉjร vu" is "jamais vu"
It's when something familiar feels strangely new
A smilodon is what you'd really call a sabre-tooth
And they were nothing like tigers, to say the truth
A reindeer's eyes go through a range of hues
They're gold, but in the winter change to blue
There are more hats in Team Fortress 2
Than there are real forts in the whole EU
Fort Boyard took 56 years to complete
So by the time it was built, forts were obsolete
But since the '90s, you will find it's been in use constantly
As setting of a gameshow on TV
That's the sound of a Honda for Indy's boulder dash
No one really knows the etymology of "balderdash"
Escobar had so much gold to stash
He spent thousands on rubber bands just to roll the cash
A group of jellyfish is called a smack
A safety helmet was the purpose of a bowler hat
You don't feel pain if you're a naked mole rat
39 is the record for the oldest cat
Buckle up, this one's a little morbid
In the '50s, laugh tracks were recorded
So if a new show has a canned laugh audience
There's a good chance that the laughers are all dead
There's no letter B until you get up to a billion
An ice-cream tester had his tongue insured for millions
99 zeroes in a duotrigintillion
99 sides in an enneacontakaienneagon
Annually, we make seven billion zips
To dot an I is a "tittle", on a die it's a "pip"
Tommy Cooper died live in the middle of a quip
Buy my grandad once taught him how to build a ship
J's the only letter that is not in any element
The White House got power when Harrison was president
But he never touched the switches, he was scared of them
Relevant, Thomas Edison killed an elephant
There was no electricity in Ethiopia
'Til 1896 when the emperor
Ordered a brand new electric chair
And realised they couldn't plug it in anywhere
The world's first batteries may have been Roman
Three percent of all the world's cheese gets stolen
Figs use wasps to spread their pollen
But the wasps get trapped and the figs dissolve them
A strawberry is not a berry, in any way
But bananas are and share half of all our DNA
The first fruit eaten on the Moon was canned peaches
From canned peaches on to grand speeches
"We will fight them on the beaches!"
Great speech, can't be debated
Except the fact that Winston Churchill never really made it
Yeah, he wrote it and performed it for the government, of course
But the version that you've heard was made years after the war
He was Dippy Dawg before he was Goofy
Scarecrows were once called "hobbidy-boobies"
Jordan and Bugs once advertised shoes
These ads got so popular they went and made a movie
Green screen makes VFX a dream
But did you know that long ago they used a yellow screen?
Special sodium lamps on a plain white fill
Make a certain shade of yellow that's invisible on film
In Disney's "Mary Poppins", Mary Poppins says "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" backwards is "dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus"
But that's just the syllables reversed
Letter for letter, it's "suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus"
And if you think I'm saying that on the beat, you're mad
And that's a fact
There are more ways to stack a deck of cards
Than the galaxy has stars
And each year, we eat so much Nutella
That you could span the Great Wall of China with the jars (Eight times!)
Cola Cola sell so many drinks worldwide
That measuring profit just won't suffice
So "Share of Throat" is a scale they've devised
For the percentage of humanity's hydration they provide
Memetics is the study of shared ideas
And it's where the word "meme" first appeared
Johnny Cash was a radio engineer
And when Stalin died, he was the first to hear!
(It's a matter of fact)
That in the wild there are less flamingoes than plastic ones on lawns
(It's a matter of fact)
The man who invented the tube for Pringles had his ashes buried in one
(It's a matter of fact)
Every second, five thousand statuses are updated (it's a matter of fact)
Four thousand brand new stars are created (it's a matter of fact)
Every single second takes hours when animated
I'm gonna stop now or I'll never ever make it
If you set a challenge, I'm bound to react
JT, this has been my counter attack
If you saw it through, have a pat on the back
It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
You want facts? Boy, well, you asked for it
I'm gonna give you some trivia mastery
And put the facts on blast 'til class dismissed
It's the truth, ain't no party trick
I'm bringing facts to the web like Encarta did
So get your notebooks out, you can quote the track
It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
Please have your pen and paper ready
The facts will commence in three, two, one
Facts!
Black-thighed falconet, world's smallest bird of prey
Giraffes' necks may be long, but only seven vertebrae
That's the same as you would find in anybody, you or me
But can you eat 75lb of leaves a day?
The opposite of "dรฉjร vu" is "jamais vu"
It's when something familiar feels strangely new
A smilodon is what you'd really call a sabre-tooth
And they were nothing like tigers, to say the truth
A reindeer's eyes go through a range of hues
They're gold, but in the winter change to blue
There are more hats in Team Fortress 2
Than there are real forts in the whole EU
Fort Boyard took 56 years to complete
So by the time it was built, forts were obsolete
But since the '90s, you will find it's been in use constantly
As setting of a gameshow on TV
That's the sound of a Honda for Indy's boulder dash
No one really knows the etymology of "balderdash"
Escobar had so much gold to stash
He spent thousands on rubber bands just to roll the cash
A group of jellyfish is called a smack
A safety helmet was the purpose of a bowler hat
You don't feel pain if you're a naked mole rat
39 is the record for the oldest cat
Buckle up, this one's a little morbid
In the '50s, laugh tracks were recorded
So if a new show has a canned laugh audience
There's a good chance that the laughers are all dead
There's no letter B until you get up to a billion
An ice-cream tester had his tongue insured for millions
99 zeroes in a duotrigintillion
99 sides in an enneacontakaienneagon
Annually, we make seven billion zips
To dot an I is a "tittle", on a die it's a "pip"
Tommy Cooper died live in the middle of a quip
Buy my grandad once taught him how to build a ship
J's the only letter that is not in any element
The White House got power when Harrison was president
But he never touched the switches, he was scared of them
Relevant, Thomas Edison killed an elephant
There was no electricity in Ethiopia
'Til 1896 when the emperor
Ordered a brand new electric chair
And realised they couldn't plug it in anywhere
The world's first batteries may have been Roman
Three percent of all the world's cheese gets stolen
Figs use wasps to spread their pollen
But the wasps get trapped and the figs dissolve them
A strawberry is not a berry, in any way
But bananas are and share half of all our DNA
The first fruit eaten on the Moon was canned peaches
From canned peaches on to grand speeches
"We will fight them on the beaches!"
Great speech, can't be debated
Except the fact that Winston Churchill never really made it
Yeah, he wrote it and performed it for the government, of course
But the version that you've heard was made years after the war
He was Dippy Dawg before he was Goofy
Scarecrows were once called "hobbidy-boobies"
Jordan and Bugs once advertised shoes
These ads got so popular they went and made a movie
Green screen makes VFX a dream
But did you know that long ago they used a yellow screen?
Special sodium lamps on a plain white fill
Make a certain shade of yellow that's invisible on film
In Disney's "Mary Poppins", Mary Poppins says "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" backwards is "dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus"
But that's just the syllables reversed
Letter for letter, it's "suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus"
And if you think I'm saying that on the beat, you're mad
And that's a fact
There are more ways to stack a deck of cards
Than the galaxy has stars
And each year, we eat so much Nutella
That you could span the Great Wall of China with the jars (Eight times!)
Cola Cola sell so many drinks worldwide
That measuring profit just won't suffice
So "Share of Throat" is a scale they've devised
For the percentage of humanity's hydration they provide
Memetics is the study of shared ideas
And it's where the word "meme" first appeared
Johnny Cash was a radio engineer
And when Stalin died, he was the first to hear!
(It's a matter of fact)
That in the wild there are less flamingoes than plastic ones on lawns
(It's a matter of fact)
The man who invented the tube for Pringles had his ashes buried in one
(It's a matter of fact)
Every second, five thousand statuses are updated (it's a matter of fact)
Four thousand brand new stars are created (it's a matter of fact)
Every single second takes hours when animated
I'm gonna stop now or I'll never ever make it
If you set a challenge, I'm bound to react
JT, this has been my counter attack
If you saw it through, have a pat on the back
It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:07.89] Well, JT set a challenge, I'm here to answer it
[00:10.97] You want facts? Boy, well, you asked for it
[00:13.22] I'm gonna give you some trivia mastery
[00:15.50] And put the facts on blast 'til class dismissed
[00:17.85] It's the truth, ain't no party trick
[00:19.98] I'm bringing facts to the web like Encarta did
[00:22.06] So get your notebooks out, you can quote the track
[00:24.21] It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
[00:26.50] Please have your pen and paper ready
[00:28.89] The facts will commence in three, two, one
[00:33.85] Facts!
[00:34.90] Black-thighed falconet, world's smallest bird of prey
[00:37.46] Giraffes' necks may be long, but only seven vertebrae
[00:39.17] That's the same as you would find in anybody, you or me
[00:41.45] But can you eat 75lb of leaves a day?
[00:43.66] The opposite of "dรฉjร vu" is "jamais vu"
[00:45.66] It's when something familiar feels strangely new
[00:47.73] A smilodon is what you'd really call a sabre-tooth
[00:49.85] And they were nothing like tigers, to say the truth
[00:52.34] A reindeer's eyes go through a range of hues
[00:54.34] They're gold, but in the winter change to blue
[00:56.58] There are more hats in Team Fortress 2
[00:58.81] Than there are real forts in the whole EU
[01:01.05] Fort Boyard took 56 years to complete
[01:02.97] So by the time it was built, forts were obsolete
[01:05.30] But since the '90s, you will find it's been in use constantly
[01:07.69] As setting of a gameshow on TV
[01:09.81] That's the sound of a Honda for Indy's boulder dash
[01:12.09] No one really knows the etymology of "balderdash"
[01:14.46] Escobar had so much gold to stash
[01:16.30] He spent thousands on rubber bands just to roll the cash
[01:18.97] A group of jellyfish is called a smack
[01:20.98] A safety helmet was the purpose of a bowler hat
[01:23.18] You don't feel pain if you're a naked mole rat
[01:25.18] 39 is the record for the oldest cat
[01:27.57] Buckle up, this one's a little morbid
[01:29.49] In the '50s, laugh tracks were recorded
[01:31.58] So if a new show has a canned laugh audience
[01:33.89] There's a good chance that the laughers are all dead
[01:36.02] There's no letter B until you get up to a billion
[01:38.22] An ice-cream tester had his tongue insured for millions
[01:40.53] 99 zeroes in a duotrigintillion
[01:42.61] 99 sides in an enneacontakaienneagon
[01:44.86] Annually, we make seven billion zips
[01:46.78] To dot an I is a "tittle", on a die it's a "pip"
[01:48.97] Tommy Cooper died live in the middle of a quip
[01:51.17] Buy my grandad once taught him how to build a ship
[01:53.61] J's the only letter that is not in any element
[01:55.74] The White House got power when Harrison was president
[01:57.98] But he never touched the switches, he was scared of them
[02:00.21] Relevant, Thomas Edison killed an elephant
[02:02.33] There was no electricity in Ethiopia
[02:04.41] 'Til 1896 when the emperor
[02:06.78] Ordered a brand new electric chair
[02:08.77] And realised they couldn't plug it in anywhere
[02:11.13] The world's first batteries may have been Roman
[02:13.13] Three percent of all the world's cheese gets stolen
[02:15.34] Figs use wasps to spread their pollen
[02:17.38] But the wasps get trapped and the figs dissolve them
[02:19.73] A strawberry is not a berry, in any way
[02:21.74] But bananas are and share half of all our DNA
[02:24.22] The first fruit eaten on the Moon was canned peaches
[02:26.14] From canned peaches on to grand speeches
[02:27.86] "We will fight them on the beaches!"
[02:29.01] Great speech, can't be debated
[02:30.61] Except the fact that Winston Churchill never really made it
[02:32.81] Yeah, he wrote it and performed it for the government, of course
[02:35.05] But the version that you've heard was made years after the war
[02:37.66] He was Dippy Dawg before he was Goofy
[02:40.01] Scarecrows were once called "hobbidy-boobies"
[02:42.30] Jordan and Bugs once advertised shoes
[02:44.26] These ads got so popular they went and made a movie
[02:46.66] Green screen makes VFX a dream
[02:48.50] But did you know that long ago they used a yellow screen?
[02:50.69] Special sodium lamps on a plain white fill
[02:53.14] Make a certain shade of yellow that's invisible on film
[02:55.61] In Disney's "Mary Poppins", Mary Poppins says "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" backwards is "dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus"
[03:02.82] But that's just the syllables reversed
[03:04.58] Letter for letter, it's "suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus"
[03:08.25] And if you think I'm saying that on the beat, you're mad
[03:10.73] And that's a fact
[03:12.18] There are more ways to stack a deck of cards
[03:14.37] Than the galaxy has stars
[03:16.06] And each year, we eat so much Nutella
[03:18.34] That you could span the Great Wall of China with the jars (Eight times!)
[03:21.02] Cola Cola sell so many drinks worldwide
[03:23.17] That measuring profit just won't suffice
[03:25.09] So "Share of Throat" is a scale they've devised
[03:27.41] For the percentage of humanity's hydration they provide
[03:29.74] Memetics is the study of shared ideas
[03:31.78] And it's where the word "meme" first appeared
[03:33.86] Johnny Cash was a radio engineer
[03:36.02] And when Stalin died, he was the first to hear!
[03:38.06] (It's a matter of fact)
[03:38.83] That in the wild there are less flamingoes than plastic ones on lawns
[03:41.94] (It's a matter of fact)
[03:43.06] The man who invented the tube for Pringles had his ashes buried in one
[03:46.73] (It's a matter of fact)
[03:47.37] Every second, five thousand statuses are updated (it's a matter of fact)
[03:49.37] Four thousand brand new stars are created (it's a matter of fact)
[03:51.25] Every single second takes hours when animated
[03:53.70] I'm gonna stop now or I'll never ever make it
[03:56.05] If you set a challenge, I'm bound to react
[03:58.86] JT, this has been my counter attack
[04:00.73] If you saw it through, have a pat on the back
[04:02.78] It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
[04:06.62]
[00:10.97] You want facts? Boy, well, you asked for it
[00:13.22] I'm gonna give you some trivia mastery
[00:15.50] And put the facts on blast 'til class dismissed
[00:17.85] It's the truth, ain't no party trick
[00:19.98] I'm bringing facts to the web like Encarta did
[00:22.06] So get your notebooks out, you can quote the track
[00:24.21] It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
[00:26.50] Please have your pen and paper ready
[00:28.89] The facts will commence in three, two, one
[00:33.85] Facts!
[00:34.90] Black-thighed falconet, world's smallest bird of prey
[00:37.46] Giraffes' necks may be long, but only seven vertebrae
[00:39.17] That's the same as you would find in anybody, you or me
[00:41.45] But can you eat 75lb of leaves a day?
[00:43.66] The opposite of "dรฉjร vu" is "jamais vu"
[00:45.66] It's when something familiar feels strangely new
[00:47.73] A smilodon is what you'd really call a sabre-tooth
[00:49.85] And they were nothing like tigers, to say the truth
[00:52.34] A reindeer's eyes go through a range of hues
[00:54.34] They're gold, but in the winter change to blue
[00:56.58] There are more hats in Team Fortress 2
[00:58.81] Than there are real forts in the whole EU
[01:01.05] Fort Boyard took 56 years to complete
[01:02.97] So by the time it was built, forts were obsolete
[01:05.30] But since the '90s, you will find it's been in use constantly
[01:07.69] As setting of a gameshow on TV
[01:09.81] That's the sound of a Honda for Indy's boulder dash
[01:12.09] No one really knows the etymology of "balderdash"
[01:14.46] Escobar had so much gold to stash
[01:16.30] He spent thousands on rubber bands just to roll the cash
[01:18.97] A group of jellyfish is called a smack
[01:20.98] A safety helmet was the purpose of a bowler hat
[01:23.18] You don't feel pain if you're a naked mole rat
[01:25.18] 39 is the record for the oldest cat
[01:27.57] Buckle up, this one's a little morbid
[01:29.49] In the '50s, laugh tracks were recorded
[01:31.58] So if a new show has a canned laugh audience
[01:33.89] There's a good chance that the laughers are all dead
[01:36.02] There's no letter B until you get up to a billion
[01:38.22] An ice-cream tester had his tongue insured for millions
[01:40.53] 99 zeroes in a duotrigintillion
[01:42.61] 99 sides in an enneacontakaienneagon
[01:44.86] Annually, we make seven billion zips
[01:46.78] To dot an I is a "tittle", on a die it's a "pip"
[01:48.97] Tommy Cooper died live in the middle of a quip
[01:51.17] Buy my grandad once taught him how to build a ship
[01:53.61] J's the only letter that is not in any element
[01:55.74] The White House got power when Harrison was president
[01:57.98] But he never touched the switches, he was scared of them
[02:00.21] Relevant, Thomas Edison killed an elephant
[02:02.33] There was no electricity in Ethiopia
[02:04.41] 'Til 1896 when the emperor
[02:06.78] Ordered a brand new electric chair
[02:08.77] And realised they couldn't plug it in anywhere
[02:11.13] The world's first batteries may have been Roman
[02:13.13] Three percent of all the world's cheese gets stolen
[02:15.34] Figs use wasps to spread their pollen
[02:17.38] But the wasps get trapped and the figs dissolve them
[02:19.73] A strawberry is not a berry, in any way
[02:21.74] But bananas are and share half of all our DNA
[02:24.22] The first fruit eaten on the Moon was canned peaches
[02:26.14] From canned peaches on to grand speeches
[02:27.86] "We will fight them on the beaches!"
[02:29.01] Great speech, can't be debated
[02:30.61] Except the fact that Winston Churchill never really made it
[02:32.81] Yeah, he wrote it and performed it for the government, of course
[02:35.05] But the version that you've heard was made years after the war
[02:37.66] He was Dippy Dawg before he was Goofy
[02:40.01] Scarecrows were once called "hobbidy-boobies"
[02:42.30] Jordan and Bugs once advertised shoes
[02:44.26] These ads got so popular they went and made a movie
[02:46.66] Green screen makes VFX a dream
[02:48.50] But did you know that long ago they used a yellow screen?
[02:50.69] Special sodium lamps on a plain white fill
[02:53.14] Make a certain shade of yellow that's invisible on film
[02:55.61] In Disney's "Mary Poppins", Mary Poppins says "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" backwards is "dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus"
[03:02.82] But that's just the syllables reversed
[03:04.58] Letter for letter, it's "suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus"
[03:08.25] And if you think I'm saying that on the beat, you're mad
[03:10.73] And that's a fact
[03:12.18] There are more ways to stack a deck of cards
[03:14.37] Than the galaxy has stars
[03:16.06] And each year, we eat so much Nutella
[03:18.34] That you could span the Great Wall of China with the jars (Eight times!)
[03:21.02] Cola Cola sell so many drinks worldwide
[03:23.17] That measuring profit just won't suffice
[03:25.09] So "Share of Throat" is a scale they've devised
[03:27.41] For the percentage of humanity's hydration they provide
[03:29.74] Memetics is the study of shared ideas
[03:31.78] And it's where the word "meme" first appeared
[03:33.86] Johnny Cash was a radio engineer
[03:36.02] And when Stalin died, he was the first to hear!
[03:38.06] (It's a matter of fact)
[03:38.83] That in the wild there are less flamingoes than plastic ones on lawns
[03:41.94] (It's a matter of fact)
[03:43.06] The man who invented the tube for Pringles had his ashes buried in one
[03:46.73] (It's a matter of fact)
[03:47.37] Every second, five thousand statuses are updated (it's a matter of fact)
[03:49.37] Four thousand brand new stars are created (it's a matter of fact)
[03:51.25] Every single second takes hours when animated
[03:53.70] I'm gonna stop now or I'll never ever make it
[03:56.05] If you set a challenge, I'm bound to react
[03:58.86] JT, this has been my counter attack
[04:00.73] If you saw it through, have a pat on the back
[04:02.78] It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of facts
[04:06.62]