WeirdBankSubscribeWeird true stories in short animated videos: history, science, animals and the people behind famous brands. Every video opens with a surprising fact, then tells how it really happened, in under two minutes. No jokes and no guessing: every fact is checked against two independent sources, and every video lists them.
▶ 1:25Case #004 · October 2, 2026
Brain cells playing Doom: about two hundred thousand human brain cells, grown in a lab and spread across a computer chip, are playing the video game Doom.
▶ 1:49Case #003 · October 1, 2026
Who was the richest dog in the world? Gunther, a German shepherd, was said to have inherited a fortune from a German countess, Karlotta Liebenstein, who died in 1992. In 2000, a company in his name bought Madonna's Miami mansion for $7.5 million.
▶ 1:54Case #002 · September 30, 2026
Do daylight saving time heart attacks really jump after the clocks change? A famous talk on sleep says heart attacks rise 24% the day after the clocks spring forward, and fall 21% when they go back.
▶ 0:50Case #001 · September 29, 2026
The oldest cat ever, Creme Puff, lived to 38 in Austin, Texas. Most pet cats live well under 20.
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Updated October 2, 2026 · youtube.com/@weirdbank