The Stupendium - A Matter of Facts lyrics

JT set a challenge i’m here to answer it
You want facts? Boy, well you asked for it
I'm gonna give ya' 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 3 2 1

Facts

Black-thighed falconet
World's smallest bird of prey
Giraffe's neck may be long


But only seven vertebrae
That's the same as you
Would find in anybody, you or me
But can you eat 75 pounds of leaves a day?

The opposite of Deja vu is Jamais vu
When something familiar seems 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 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 that it was built
Forts were obsolete
But since the 90s you will find
It's been in use constantly
As the setting of a game show 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 the 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 ‘til you
Get up to a billion
An ice-cream tester had a
Tongue insured for millions
Ninety-nine zeroes in a duotrigintillion
Ninety-nine sides is 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
But my granddad once taught him
How to build a ship
J is 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 make VFX a dream
But did you know that years 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:
Suoicodilaipxecit'siligarfilacrepus

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 (8 times)

Coca Cola sell so many drinks worldwide
That measuring profit just won't suffice
So 'Share of Throat' is
A scale they 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 flamingos
Than there are 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 5000 statuses are updated
(It's a matter of fact)
4000 new stars are created
(It's a matter of fact)
Every single second takes hours when animated
(It's a matter of fact)
I'm gonna stop now or I'll
Never ever make it

If you set a challenge I am 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