Here is a concise summary of the provided text:
**Title:** "10 Minutes of Useless Information"
**Format:** A video presenting a rapid-fire series of obscure facts across various domains (science, history, geography, arts, etc.)
**Context:**
* The video is a response to a viewer's criticism of the channel's content being "useless information"
* The creator had previously posted a documentary that was largely unseen due to a YouTube bug
**Content:**
* Over 50 brief, eclectic facts are shared, ranging from scientific definitions (Limnology) to historical figures (Antonin Artaud) to animal trivia (Ligers)
**Conclusion:**
* The creator defends the value of "useless information"
* Promotes the video's sponsor, Squarespace, offering a 10% discount for viewers who create a website or domain.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, excluding opinions, with each fact numbered and presented in short sentences:
**Science and Technology**
1. Limnology is the scientific study of inland freshwater systems' physical, geographical, chemical, and biological aspects.
2. Anthracite is a hard type of coal with the highest overall heating value.
3. Carlo Rubbia and Simon Vandermeer discovered the subatomic W and Z particles, earning them the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics.
4. William Ramsay was a British chemist known for isolating elemental gases from the atmosphere.
5. Ligers suffer from growth dysplasia, causing them to grow throughout their lives.
6. Perception is the process by which sensory stimulation is organized into usable experience.
**History**
7. Cadmus, a Phoenician prince, founded the city of Thebes according to Greek mythology.
8. The Hasmonean kingdom existed from 140 to 37 BC, emerging from the disintegration of the Macedonian Empire.
9. Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization, with teaching starting as early as 1096.
10. The Aztec civilization as we know it began in 1325.
11. Akima is a Native American Pueblo founded around AD 1075, considered the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the US.
12. 1,300 pounds of bronze Roman coins from the 3rd century were unearthed in Spain in early 2016.
**Geography**
13. Cochin is a city and seaport in southwestern India on the Arabian Sea.
14. Jammu is the largest city in the winter capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
15. Riau is an archipelago in western Indonesia, southeast of the Malay Peninsula and east of Sumatra.
16. The Polesia Marshes are a poorly drained lowland in southern Belarus and northern Ukraine.
**People**
17. Richard Button is a former American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (1948, 1952).
18. Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor and leading exponent of neoclassicism.
19. Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac was a British theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
20. Wassily W. Leontief was a Russian-American economist and Nobel laureate, creator of the input-output technique.
21. Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus was a German physician and chemist who defied medical tenets of his time.
22. Alicia Alonso founded the National Ballet of Cuba.
23. Henry L. Mencken was an American journalist, critic, and essayist influential in the 1920s and 1930s.
24. Maurice Utrillo was a French painter known for scenes of villages, cathedrals, and empty Parisian streets.
25. Cecil James Sharp was a British musician who awakened modern interest in English folk song and dance.
26. Raymond Lee Ditmars was an American naturalist and leading herpetologist.
**Miscellaneous**
27. Stilts are shorebirds with exceptionally long, slender legs, long necks, and long, thin, black bills.
28. Keeshonden are a breed of non-sporting dog, popular in Holland as riverboat pets and watch dogs.
29. Australian Cattle Dogs are a breed of working dogs developed in Australia for herding purposes.
30. Labrador Retrievers are a breed of sporting dog trained to discover and fetch game.
31. Popcorn usually pops at around 150°C or 300°F.
32. Fantan is a Chinese gambling game also known as Sevens in the West.
33. Gallicanism is a combination of theological doctrines and political positions supporting the relative independence of the French Roman Catholic Church and the French Government.
34. Ophites were a group of gnostic sects in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century AD.
35. The City of Ottawa, Illinois, was incorporated in 1853.
36. Walmart had $485.65 billion in revenue in 2015.