John Green has some Olympic trivia he’d like to share with the class

John Green seems like an incredibly busy guy. In addition to writing books like Paper Towns and The Fault In Our Stars, both of which have been turned into feature films, he is also a hyper-prolific YouTuber, presiding over the popular Vlogbrothers channel with his real-life sibling, Hank, and hosting a trivia-based webseries called The List Show for Mental Floss. Green’s dance card is full, that’s for sure. This week, in honor of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio De Janeiro, Green presents a fast-paced and often surprising video called “39 More Facts About The Olympics,” jam-packed with weird little historical tidbits about this time-honored athletic tradition. For the most part, broadcasting from his toy-filled “salon,” Green keeps things lighthearted, with anecdotes about such lovable losers as Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards and the Jamaican bobsled team. But there are more sobering moments, too, as when Green says that Jesse Owens was snubbed by the White House after the historic 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On a lighter note, Usain Bolt sure did eat a lot of Chicken McNuggets.