Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

  1. 16:22 - "You know, you'd go for a drink somewhere to your local and they'd ridicule you." Gee, I wonder why?
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  2. Why did the trials have a maximum age of 12? Usually these sort of things have a minimum age in that ballpark, at least at first...
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  3.  @Vareiili  If that were the reasoning in place, you'd expect getting the vaccine tested and approved for 13-and-ups to be a higher priority than getting it tested and approved for 12-and-unders, since the 13-and-ups are more at risk for dangerous complications if they get the disease that the vaccine prevents than the 12-and-unders are.
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  4. FAIL, Yugoslav army.
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  5. 2:38 - External-beam therapy is also known as teletherapy, if you want help beating your friends at Scrabble.
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  6. Neither, it's all the long zigzagging lines you have to draw across the family trees.
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  7. Don't newer hospitals use accelerators rather than radioactive sources for radiotherapy, for more-or-less precisely this reason (the radiation goes away when you turn the machine off, and you don't have to deal with highly-radioactive materials if the hospital shuts down; plus, you don't have to periodically replace a decaying source)?
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  8. Minor quibble: all of these balloons (including the barrage balloons) used hydrogen, not helium, not just the Outward strike balloons. Hydrogen was vastly-cheaper-and-easier-to-get than helium (and still is, although to a lesser degree), it produces more lift for a given-size balloon, and its main disadvantage (its flammability) is basically a nonissue for unmanned balloons (especially given that the burning hydrogen rises up into the air, away from the ground).
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  9. 10:00 - (This was back before diplomatic immunity was a thing.)
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  10. 10:36 - Actually, only Germany and Austria are part of the European Union - not Switzerland. All three are, however, part of the Schengen Area, which is the important bit for not-getting-arrested-for-drifting-into-another-country purposes.
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  11. I have yet to see one that didn't.
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  12. Shot 20 times... someone must really've wanted him dead.
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  13. Huh. I'd always thought the Goiânia accident was fairly-well-known.
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  14. There are bits of France on literally every inhabited continent in the world except for Asia.
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  15.  @tape2518  Women aren't more likely to attempt suicide than men; it's just that those women who do are a lot more likely to survive the attempt and try again than men are (it has to do with the predominant methods chosen, respectively, IIRC, med overdoses and firearms).
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  16. 4:17 - "...because what entirely-sane person would attempt to remove their own eyes?" IIRC, there was once a (completely-sane) Chinese general who took an arrow to the eye during battle, and, to keep his troops from panicking at the sight of him with an arrow sticking out of his eye, actually plucked it (the eyeball) out and ate it, kebab-style. That was just the one eye, though.
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  17. And suddenly a lot of things about the British twit class seem to make a lot more sense.
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  18. For anyone who's wondering, all five conspirators went to the electric chair.
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  19. 🎝 The Brown family got devoured by the undeeeeeeeead... 🎝
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  20. 1:26 - "After the Balkan War, Serbian nationalists wanted to liberate the South Slavs of Austria-Hungary, thus unifying the Slavic peoples under one nation." I'm sure the Bulgarians would be surprised to learn that they're not South Slavs...
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  21. I'm surprised that South Africa never invaded Lesotho to get them to stop supporting the opponents of apartheid, given how willing South Africa was to send their troops into other nearby countries (coughcough Angola coughcough) in the 70s and 80s.
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  22. What's with all the "suspended and then fired"? Why not just fire someone out of the gate?
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  23. 1:16 - "...that Little is the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history" The most prolific that we know of.
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  24. Dynamite has never been widely used in warfare - even stabilized, it's still too sensitive to shock and heat to be a good military explosive. (Nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, on the other hand, are ubiquitous in war - they're the main ingredients in smokeless powders.)
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  25. 4:06 - Where do you fly where the duty-free shops aren't airside?
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  26. 0:12 - When Germany started launching V-1 cruise missiles at the U.K. in 1944, they equipped their wings with devices to cut through barrage-balloon cables so that the wing would take out the cable rather than the other way around. I've never understood why this solution wasn't used earlier, or on manned aircraft.
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  27. 8:01 - And people wonder why there was so much pro-Axis sentiment in India at the end of World War II (and still is to some extent; Kolkata's main international airport is named after a Japanese collaborator, for instance).
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  28. Given that everybody and their dog knew that the U.S. was behind the Bay of Pigs invasion anyways, it's mind-boggling that Kennedy didn't simply send in U.S. troops to topple Castro, with an attached Cuban-exile unit.
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  29. 4:26 - OK, even for a kid, that is REALLY, REALLY DUMB.
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  30. 8:50 - It's pretty amusing that both of those supposedly-vestigial things are things that feel really good.
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  31. 6:36 - "...and they quickly assumed that a clean-cut law student with no criminal record couldn't be behind the abductions." [insert evil-lawyer line here]
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  32. 11:26 - And then, a bit later, Mexico had shrinking pains. 😛
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  33. American policing at its finest. 🤦‍♀
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  34. The Pakistani government's ineffective response to the 1970 Bhola cyclone was actually one of the main factors leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan the following year.
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  35. 1:15 - Not all of Henry and Catherine #1's sons were stillborn or miscarried. They did have one live-born son, Henry, born on 1 January 1511 (what we would call New Year's Day today, but the year started in March back then rather than January), who lived for seven-and-a-half weeks before dying in late February.
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  36. 1:10 - The same purpose could be equally-well served by linking the door latch to an "occupied"/"unoccupied" indicator on the outside of the door, like in aircraft lavatories, but that would cost extra money to include and building designers and builders are cheapskates.
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  37. @YayDude123 They must be a Cyclops!
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  38. 0:16 - Actually, it works like 95% of the time; it's just that you only hear about the times when it doesn't.
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  39. 10:00 - Of course, a lot of Mengele's "experimental" records were burned without ever being read, so...
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  40. And that is why you don't try to drink a seasoned alcoholic to death.
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  41. I hope never to find out.
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