→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why Do We Toast Drinks? http://bit.ly/1VzF6od The Origin of the QWERTY Keyboard http://bit.ly/1SYgTnj In this video: The year was 1809. Famed English author, Theodore Hook, made a bet with one of his close friends, the noted architect and writer, Samuel Beazley, that within one week, he could make any house in London the most talked about place in the city. The house he ended up choosing was the home of the widow Mrs. Tottenham on 54 Berners Street, London, which was the same street that Earl Stanhope and the Bishop of Carlisle and of Chester, among other wealthy and well-to-do individuals, lived on at that time. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/10/one-of-the-great-practical-jokes-of-the-19th-century-the-berners-street-hoax/ Sources: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1848541996?ie=UTF8&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1848541996 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_Hoax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beazley http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_berners_street_hoax/ http://my.opera.com/Nerak/blog/the-berners-street-hoax Image Credit: