Chords for A MATTER OF FACTS | JT Music Fact Rap Challenge

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Well, [C#m] J, T, set a challenge, I'm here to answer it.
You want facts, boy, well you asked for it.
I'm gonna give ya some trivia, [C#] master it,
And put the facts on blast till class dismiss.
It's the truth, ain't no party trick,
I'm bringing facts to the web like Inca I did.
So get your notebooks out, you can quote the [F#] track,
It's not a trivial pursuit, it's a matter of fact.
Please have your pen and [E] paper ready,
The fact will commence [C#m] in 3, 2, [E] 1, Facts!
[F#] Black-thighed falconet, world's smallest [B] bird of prey,
Drafts neck, maybe long, but only 7 [C#m] foot of brain.
That's the same as you would find in anybody, you and me.
But can you be 75 pounds a litre day?
The opposite of deja vu is shame-y-vu,
It's when something familiar feels strangely new.
A smilodon is what you'd really call a sabre-tooth,
And they were nothing like [B] tigers, to say the [A] truth.
A reindeer's eyes go through a range of [G#m] hues,
They're gold, but in the winter, chained to blue.
There are more hats in Team Fortress 2
Than there are real thoughts in the whole [A] EU.
The Voyager 56 here's too [B] complete,
So by the time it was built, thoughts were obsolete.
[C#m] But since the 90s, you will find it's been in use [B] constantly,
As setting up a game [E] show on TV.
That's the sound of a Honda for Indy's Boulder Dash,
No one really knows the [C#m] etymology of Boulder Dash.
Escobar had so much gold to stash,
She spent [B] thousands on rubber bands just to [A] roll the cash.
A group of jellyfish is [B] called a smack,
A safety helmet was the [C#m] purpose of a bowler hat.
You'd do it for pain if you were a naked mole rat.
[G#m] 39 is the record [E] for the oldest cat.
Buckle up, this one's a little [B] morbid.
In the 50s, laugh [D#] tracks were recorded,
So if a new show has a canned laugh [C#] audience,
There's a good chance that the laughers are [E] all dead.
There's no letter B until you get up to a billion.
An ice cream tester had [G#] a tongue in chew for millions.
99 zeros are a duo trigonillion.
99 sides is an eniac zacky [C#m] enegan.
Annually, we make 7 billion [B] zips.
A dot on I is a tittle, on a diet to [C#m] pip.
Tommy Cooper died live in the middle of [B] a quip.
But my grandad [G#m] once taught him how to build [A] a ship.
J's the only letter that is not in [B] any element.
The White House got power when Harrison was [C#m] president,
But he never touched the switches, he was scared of them.
The most irrelevant, Thomas Edison killed an elephant.
There was no electricity in Ethiopia till 1896,
When the emperor ordered a brand new electric chair,
[E] And realised they couldn't plug it in [F#] anywhere.
The world's first batteries may have been [B] Roman,
3% of all the world's cheese gets [C#] stolen.
Figs use wasps to spread their poem,
But the [B] wasps get trapped and the figs dissolve them.
A [E] strawberry's not a berry in any way,
But bananas are [C#] and share half of all our DNA.
The first fruit eaten on the moon was canned [E] peaches,
From canned peaches on to grand speeches.
Hide them on the beaches?
Great speech, can't be derated,
[B] Except the fact that Wheatley Church [G#] never really made it,
Yet he wrote it and performed it for the [B] government of course.
But the version that you've heard was made years after the [A] war.
He was Dippy Dog, [E] before he was Goofy,
Scarecrow to ones called [C#m] poverty movies.
Jordan and Bugs once advertised shoes,
These ad slots are popular, they went and made [E] a movie.
Green screen makes the effects a [B] dream,
But did you know that long [G#] ago they used a yellow screen?
Special sodium lamps on a plain white film,
Make a certain shade of yellow that's [A] invisible on film.
In Disney's Mary [E] Poppins,
Mary Poppins, so _ [C#m] _ supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards,
Is [B] dociousally informalistic fragile calirupus,
But [F#m] that's just the syllables reversed.
Letter for [C#m] letter, it's suacodylapetitikilagalfalacrupus.
And if you think I'm saying that on the beat, you're mad.
And that's [C#] a fact.
There's more waiting back a deck of cards,
Than the galaxy has stars,
And each year we eat so much Nutella,
[B] That you could span the Great Wall of China with a jar.
[Bm] Coca-Cola sells so many [C#] drinks worldwide,
The measuring prop it just won't suffice,
So share a throat is a scale they've devised,
To the [B] percentage of humanity's [G#m] hydration they provide.
Mimetics is the [A] study of shared [E] ideas,
And it's where the [C#] word meme first [C#m] appeared.
Johnny Cash was a radio engineer,
And when Stalin died, he was the first to hear,
That in the wild there are less flamingos,
Than the plastic ones on lawns.
It's a matter of the man who invented [B] the tube for Pringles,
That has ashes buried in one.
Every second five [A] thousand statuses are [C#] updated,
Four thousand brand new stars are created,
Every single second takes hours when [B] animated,
I'm gonna stop now or I'll [G#m] never ever make it.
If you set a challenge, I'm bound to [C#] react,
JT, this has been my counter [C#m]-attack,
If you saw it through, have a pound back,
It's not [B] a trivial issue, it's a matter of fact. _ _ _ _ _
[A] Hey everyone, thanks so much for watching,
And thanks to JT [C#] as well for the awesome challenge,
I had loads of fun with it.
I've just hit sixteen thousand [G#m] subscribers,
Which is absolutely nuts, fast approaching seventeen,
So thanks so much for all your [A] comments,
Your [C#] likes and your support,
And there's loads more tracks on the way,
Dan Bull's just issued [G#] a board game rap challenge,
Which sounds amazing,
[E] And there's a lot more Game [A] Tracks coming up as well,
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