7 Weird Facts About Russia

did you know that in Russia dogs ride. trains and cats have a show in a theater. what let's talk about. [Music]. that good mythical morning thank you for. being you you are special to us you're. not just a view um you're also a like. and a comment if you do that just. kidding uh we're glad that you watch it.

we counted a privilege to be able to do. this show for you we do and you know if. you didn't watch we we couldn't keep. doing it in addition to Good Mythical. Morning you're going to be watching a. lot of broadcasting from Russia over the. next couple of weeks say athletes. descend upon Sochi to compete for their. country if you're a normal person you're. going to be watching invigorating but. how much do you really know about Russia. nothing huh basically and don't you want. to have some cool Russian facts to. impress friends at Russian parties or. just regular parties yes how about. Russian friends at parties I'd also just.

American friends at Parts I just like to. have friends or just friends can I make. a friend because I have a Russian fact. Pluto is smaller than Russia would you. believe that Russia is the biggest. country on Earth with over 17 million. square kilometers Pluto only has. 16.6 Square 16.6 million square. kilometers on its surface so if we bald. Russia up yeah if you walked around. Russia it could be a planet yeah if you. wrapped Russia around Pluto there would. be a little bit you have to cut off with.

the big Galactic scissors that helps you. picture it yes it doesn't there is a. radioactive Lake of death who doesn't. Pluto is not even a planet PLO is. nothing so I Pluto is a former Planet. yeah they have a radioactive Lake of. death not on Pluto in Russia uh this is. Lake karate I don't know how you say it. I'm going to say karate because it looks. like karate but different uh it's so. radioactive that it's it is said that it. can kill you within one hour if you. stand near it really and the Soviet.

Union used this Lake as a dumping site. for radioactive waste from mayak the. nearby nuclear waste storage and. reprocessing facility according to the. world watch Institute on nuclear waste. this is the most polluted spot on earth. and this is where uh everyone is. competing no no no no no it's like jump. in the lake opponents they do not have a. water skiing uh competition well that's. not that's water ski anyway that's um. that's summer so yeah this is this is.

the most polluted spot on earth so this. is not like a tourist attraction had you. I've I've not heard of this place no but. I'm signing up I'm going be the first. one there I'm going to wear a shield and. everything well it is sad let's not. let's not make like um they have a cat. theater the Moscow cat theater is a. traveling cat circus we got cats on. tight ropes cats walking across the. stage balancing on balls cats walking. upside down not the kind of thing that I. would personally be into but apparently. it is the stuff in Moscow people are. into this how how do they train cats you. can't train a cat yeah you have to you.

have to speak Russian to it mhm that's. that's what they figured out if you. speak English to the cat it's stubborn. and seems like a diva but as soon as you. start speaking its language it's like oh. I'll walk on anything for you all cats. are Russian it seems like that's a. dangerous statement um no I don't the. guy just train you can train cats but. you have to just be really disciplined. have to whisper uh but cats aren't the. only thing uh when it comes to animals. in Russia that is interesting in fact. this is this is going to blow your mind.

there are over 500 feral dogs in Moscow. who know how to ride the subway. system so this is kind of a big deal in. Moscow to. see uh these feral dogs and this is in. several Russian cities to see these. feral dogs running around just stray. dogs you know we've got stray dogs here. too but these dogs are so smart that. they have learned to every single day on. a schedule get onto the subway and take. it to a certain place to get food and. there's all these theories as to how do.

they they know the stops and everything. yes people say that they uh know how. long to be on the train or maybe they're. getting off with a particular person or. maybe they actually can hear what the. announcer is saying and they learn I. mean they're smart they're smart mammals. right so they're going and then uh. debatable they could be just I I think. they were just peeing and marking the. territory and they could smell their oh. Yep this is where I got off last week I. smell myself you know that's how dogs. that's the dogs they pee you say it's.

like a. system uh kind of I'm I'm familiar a. little bit with this but it seems that. you're on thin thin ice with your theory. all right most Russian cars have a dash. cam you may have seen uh heard Russian. dash cam compilation videos there's a. lot of them this is a very popular genre. of YouTube vide and I'm thinking how how. did they get this. video footage I you know and then I. realized Nick our friend said I'm going. to get a dash cam you know because for.

insurance purposes they do it in R. that's how they get all the footage in. Russia well and most people have them in. Russia because of all the denied uh. insurance claims all the hit and runs. the crazy stuff that happens on the road. they want a way to substantiate it and. it's the only way you can substantiate a. claim in a court of law is you can. better look at the dash cam footage well. they also want uh to be able to create. their own YouTube channel right well I. think I don't know if those people are. making much money off of that I think. the compilers are the ones doing that oh. Peter the Great once issued a tax on.

beers this guy you remember him right. you remember him right oh good old Pete. he was great yeah uh he's the Emperor of. Russia from 1682 to 1721 he's a very. Progressive thinker he thought that. beards were uh too oldfashioned and he. wanted to modernize Russia and if you. paid your beard tax in order to be able. to walk around with a beard you got a. beard token to be like nope I've got the. beard token don't put me in jail or. don't tax me I've got the beard token.

how much would you pay in order to keep. that beard in in current Society you. cannot put a price on it no well if you. really what price would you put on it to. carry to have this beard monthly I would. pay $1,000 a month in order to have this. beard really yes I mean I couldn't pay. the price of itchiness to to keep my. beard honestly $1,000 a month and it. trust me it pays for. itself all right what else do you have. okay a Russian woman holds the world. record for the most children birthed by.

a single woman this woman who is the. wife of Fodor vasel V vas I don't care. what his name is I care she she gave. birth to 69 children one woman gave. birth to 69 children but she only had. kids 27 times it's still like a super. highway down there 16 16 pairs of twins. seven sets of triplets and four sets of. quadruplets between 1725 and 1765 and. then listen she died probably from.

giving birth well we don't we don't know. though right and uh well I'm assuming. and then her husband Theodore goes on. and marries another woman and he makes. her have 18 children makes her have them. think about this guy he was involved but. he was going for 100 and he only got to. 87 total good for you Theodore you've. don't don't make him the star here she's. the star no I'm I'm I'm patronizing F he. doesn't care anymore your genes have. infiltrated most of the world because. you're crazy.

you g the political Point yes I like. that okay I hope you know more about. Russia and you can impress impress or. impress all your Russian friends at's. trying to speak Russian Russian parties. all right leave a comment like this. video it makes a difference you know. what time it is hi I'm Jacob v c. Australia and it's time to spin the. world of Mythic make sure you watch Good. Mythical More today where I'm going to. tell you five things that you should. never do or say in. Russia oh I hit myself with the wheel.

are you okay yeah you need to file an. insurance claim cuz it's on the dash cam. no just go to facebook.com and like us. that'll make me feel better exclusive. videos link tells a stupid joke and. can't stop. laughing hey man. hey what I got a joke for you really. what yeah you usually don't tell jokes. you usually just make observations what. did the elbow huh say I like this to the. pasta what the elbow say to the.

pasta yeah H I don't know I can usually. figure these kinds of things out but. we're both we're both. [Laughter]. pasta don't. underdress Russians dress up on more. occasions than Americans do even for a. casual walk a Russian woman will. sometimes put on heels and a dress for a. casual walk.