I did.


...kept waiting for the punchline though. "True Facts About Cirque du Soleil"

zefrank's take:

*related=http://videosift.com/video/True-Facts-About-The-Fruit-Bat

True Facts About The Fruit Bat has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals.

I just resubmitted the current number one video (true facts about the armadillo), and it told me that my embed is good. I'm using Safari v7.0.

I'm not privileged for nominating this as a dupe.... but sorry, mintbbb posted this over a year ago.
http://videosift.com/video/The-Perfect-Guide-To-Holiday-Etiquette

(only difference is the message to his subscribers that appears on the plate at the beginning of the video that states "An oldie... more true facts coming soon")

It's a more sinister piece of propaganda than that though, at least in that it IS citing true facts. For all the quotes save for those from the newly elected president(which I just haven't searched) there exists written and video evidence of the attributed quotes and none of the leaders quoted would deny them.

The propaganda part is in completely leaving out the reasons for the overthrow of the Shah, who was running a brutal regime of his own over the Iranian people. If the American support for the Shah wasn't enough reason for mistrust of America, there was the American backing of Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war that saw hundreds of thousands of Iranians killed in Saddam's war of aggression. That war included some of the most prolific use of chemical weapons in, well, pretty much ever and the use was entirely against the Iranians. The public support for anti-American sentiment didn't come out of a vacuum.

That said, the mistrust cuts both ways and with Iranian leadership promising death to America and Israel for the last couple decades while steadily building up the infrastructure required to build nuclear weapons is legitimately cause for concern too.

Sorry, I think that got long and preachy.

Takes a lot of guts to publish a video like this. I think it's the first of his non-"True Facts" videos I really appreciate.

Wait... His Morgan Freeman... (which didn't sound at all like Morgan Freeman) sounded EXACTLY the the 'True Facts' voice-over guy!

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True Facts About The Tapir - zefrank has been added as a related post - related requested by Trancecoach.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/True-Facts-About-The-Tapir-zefrank

True facts are my second-favourite kind of facts.

I personally think the true facts related videos is exactly what related was created for. I do however see that the related video is sometimes abused. Maybe @lucky760 or @dag could provide some clarity on how related should be used.

Oh and dont get me started on the crazy abuse of the channel invocations. It's an absolute clusterfuck.

-edit-
from the 5.0 release siftalk - "We've added a new invocation called *related. It's very simple to use. If you find a VideoSift post (and by post I mean video, Sift Talk, or blog post) with content that is related to another post, just invoke related like this: *related=http://videosift.com/video/Crystal-Blue-Persuasion"

So its pretty wide open on what can be considered related. Maybe we could come up with a more defined definition.

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