→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q 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 Spicy Foods Cause Your Nose To Run? https://youtu.be/Lp3Oa8lvM6s?list=PLR0XuDegDqP01NqW8KRpOy-_y2m6S2VEF Why was Lead Added to Paint? https://youtu.be/SFizKdMDtEw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP01NqW8KRpOy-_y2m6S2VEF In this video: If we relied on Yukon Cornelius from the 1964 Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to teach us about dog sledding, we might be slightly misled. In multiple instances throughout the movie, Cornelius cracks the whip and hollers, “Mush, mush!!” to his dog sled team. But do mushers actually say this? You might be surprised given that they are literally called “mushers” that no, not really. So why are they called “mushers” and where did the idea that they yelled “mush” to their dogs to get them to run come from? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/02/say-mush-make-sled-dogs-go/ Sources: http://iditarod.com/about/mushing-terminology/ http://thefw.com/10-things-about-rudolph/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140308-iditarod-dogs-sled-race-alaska-willow-science/ http://www.takeourword.com/TOW144/page2.html http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushing http://sleddoggin.com/2011/04/07/dog-sledding-q-a/ http://theweek.com/articles/449492/11-amazing-facts-about-iditarod http://www.adn.com/article/20150228/how-can-iditarod-dogs-run-so-fast-so-long-scientists-probe-superdogs http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/03/06/ak-women-who-mush/ https://books.google.com/books?id=eIhfJoZEMXQC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Why+do+they+say+%22mush%22+to+make+sled+dogs+go&source=bl&ots=XqAx9S_ZvC&sig=MAr-CLONPva8