Episode 127 - Water!

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whether our show had value or not. And we received value back. So we know that the show is valuable to our listeners. Speaking of the convention. First off, I'm making a costume. Oh, yeah. Super cool. And then second off, the stupid website for the convention. Doesn't have barely barely has any information. Right now. It just has like a countdown for when it's going to happen. It doesn't have any information about the contests or anything. That's a long way out in Yeah, it's like,

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like so if they're listening, it's on the way. And then we got a couple of letters from Kay Warner James Corden, and it's been a while since we been to the post office had a lot going on be in second all. But we got two letters can't stand it up. And one of them is for Veterans Day. If you're unaware case and just letters with fun facts on payments that week, which is another way you can provide value for the show. We had Veterans Day is an American

holiday celebrated every November 11. To honor the service of veterans in the US military. My dad was in the military. He is now retired from the Air Force. It was originally called Armistice Day to commemorate the end of World War One when Germany signed an armistice, a war truce with the allies. The armistice ended or ending World War One was on the

11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Decades later, World War Two veteran Raymond weeks sought to honor of all all veterans on this day, not just those who served in World War One, which was called the Great War that's not in the letter, but it was called The Great War because they didn't know there was going to be a World War Two. So they see us I know call it Yes, but our listeners may not know our listeners may not know she does this to me all the time.

Every single time we talk about it. In 1946 back back to the letter and 1946 He wrote a letter to then General Dwight Eisenhower promoting the idea of a national veteran. Stay in 1954. Now President Eisenhower signed the bill changing the name and making Veterans Day a national holiday. And British come. Yep. Eisenhower David Dwight Eisenhower, David Eisenhower, who named it was renamed Dwight Eisenhower because David was also his dad's name. Yeah. And

it got confusing in their house. Yeah. So the British Commonwealth countries UK, Canada, Australia and 49. More. Number. November 11, is known as Remembrance Day is the day to honor members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. A moment of silence is observed at 11am to mark when the armistice went into effect. And America those who died on the line of duty are honored on the Memorial Day are honored on

Memorial Day, the last Monday of May. Rumours. Remembrance Day is also known as Poppy Day in the Commonwealth countries due to the tradition of wearing red poppy. This tradition was inspired by the poem in Flanders Field written in 1915 that describes poppies growing throughout so a soldier cemetery. Paper poppies are now sold to raise funds for veterans

charities in the days leading up to Remembrance Day. Cool. That's a good a good sum up Yeah, right there learned all kinds of solid facts in there. We have a moment of silence every morning at school, after we're done with the Pledge of Allegiance. Well, that's, that's good, because there used to be like prayer in schools, but then some people got upset about that. And then they're like, Oh, you're Catholic schools and Christian schools,

right. But they're the moment of silence is like, okay, you can pray if that's your thing. But if it's not your thing, it's still good to have just a moment of reflection. where nobody's talking at you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, the whole school day silent. No, the teachers usually yell at us. Well, yeah, I know. I get a moment you get a minute to take a break from your teachers yelling at you. Isn't it goes right back to yelling and then it goes right

back to you on that. Yeah. Good old public school. Heck, yeah. So do you want to say your school to do you want to save the next one? Or do you want to go ahead and read it? I'm gonna do a teaser for the next episode. Yeah, we'll do a teaser. On the next time on Fun Fact, Friday on the next time, bioluminescence. So yeah, so we will do a bio luminescence letter from K we got that we're gonna stick it in the next episode, or next one

depending on it. We're gonna see if it like fits in. If we decide to use something, something which I guess it? Yeah, go ahead because we're doing water tomorrow. Okay. Yeah. Okay, forget to forget that. We're professional. podcasters pretend we didn't say that. Okay, we didn't we never said it. And 382 BC, Aristotle described Coldfire found in the woods, fallen trees made of light made, fallen trees made light, but they were called

to the touch. We we call this Foxfire and we now know that this bioluminescence caused by fungi growing on the decaying wood. bioluminescence is the ability of living organisms to create light using a chemical reaction. They do this for various region reasons. It can be used to attract mates, lower prey to food and other times can help the animals hide from predators. Living in North Carolina, you're probably most familiar with the flashing fireflies night, if you ever

caught some of the jewelry or carrying an old tradition. In the past jars of Fireflies were used to eliminate coal mines such as candles carried at the risk of causing fire or explosions. 71 species of fungi including the ghost fungus in the jacalyn are mushrooms glow in the dark. 1500 species of fish make their own light 75% of all deep sea animals do as well. The light is mostly a blue green, but some animals glow red or yellow. The angler fish uses an appendage growing out of its

forehead to track curious prey. While a vampire squid uses violet bioluminescence to release a cloud of glowing fluid instead of ink that distracts the predator while it swims away. bioluminescent bacteria, light, light up beaches and bodies of water all around the world, causing an outwardly glow in the water. The bacteria glows when there's disturbed by the surf the wave or the boat, or even by splashing your hand in

the water. Mosquito Bay and Puerto Rico has the Guinness World Record for the brightest voluminous bioluminescent Bay. Even the human body is bioluminescent. The skin glows mainly around the forehead, cheeks and neck. Unfortunately, the light we produce is about 1000 times lower than we can see with our eyes. We are the Navi from Avatar. You haven't seen avatar you know? Like you can watch it. Just don't Don't believe the hype. It's okay movie back. Oh,

that's the the bay. The Bay in Puerto Rico. I think it's pretty cool. I like bioluminescence. Thank you, Kay for your time. And dang it. Okay, I was gonna say the little fact about us glowing. Did you have that one? Yeah, it was gonna be like, you know, we produce light. We just can't see it. It's just a little bit, but the light was in you all along. It's

so, so funny. Fun Facts this week are about water. Water. But should we should we go ahead and do some facts or do you want to do news you want to news at the end? Let's see. It. was June is the end of this time. Yeah, it was fun. Because we've gone we've gone 15 minutes here. We haven't even got to our topic. So. Yeah. All right. So what do you got for me for water facts? Okay, let me wait. I forgot to prepare. Okay. And average human

body is made of 55 to 85% water. I never believe that. Oh, yeah. I don't believe that in fact. Okay, so let's get a hydraulic press. What? And we'll squish the hydraulics with me. No will squish you down flat and dry out. See how much masculine Do we just want to squish? It just got to squishy down flat to make it a quicker process of drying you out. All right. You know like if you squish if you get like a sponge, newborn babies. Okay, go ahead. have even more ringing get in at

78% water. How much water do I have? If I'm a deep I'm like a preteen five to 60 what it is I see 55 to 65. Yeah, so I do. Yeah. Okay. So that meant a newborn baby. But like, I guess you could say that I'm a newborn baby. Well, like, think about it like, we really all are. Here's what's really crazy. Let's say you weigh 100 pounds. Okay, and you drink one pound of water, which is like a standard. No, it's 99. But you did it wrong. Oh, yeah.

If you weighed 99 pounds a joke wrong if you met weigh 99 pounds and then you drink one pound of water. When we say on wire you just gained 1% more water. You know? Yes. That is a fact. And a fun fact that one time? I was 1% Nachos. Oh my gosh. No, you weren't you were just making a funny joke. No, it was because I ate like two pounds and nachos. It's a yes. Get an attitude. No. No, it's just because you've heard it. 100 times? Yeah. Yeah, I'm like Carlos min. Sia or Amy

Schumer just stealing jokes. Yeah. So water they talk about the earth being 70 71% water, but that's the surface. Yep. What? Yeah, sure. Okay. Well, 71 Yeah, yeah, you've got it right there on your fact sheet also. Yeah. 70.9 versus water. X is seven 70.9. So how much of that water is carbonated? of the surface water? The surface water? Like in the ocean? Yeah. Or lakes or streams? How much is carbonated? thing? I can't read none of it. Oh,

none of it is carved. Yeah. Do you know what that means? What do you mean it's the earth is flat? What? Know, if it's not carbonated? It's flat. Right? Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. So that is 326 splaining million cubic miles of water on the planet. 326 million. That's a large number. I hate cubes. Here's another video off. Cute. Three dimensional shapes are the worst at worst. I hate them so much. When you're in math class, right? And they're like, You got

this 2d shape. I'm like, Yeah, I love 2d shapes. Several circles, but we'll get to that later. When you get a 3d shape, you got a whole whole nother dimension. Yeah, you got a depth. The D in 3d is dimension. No, wait, yeah. No, no idiot. So, there's your rant about the three dimensional world 97% of the shape of the I didn't know this. This statistic before we started reading tonight 97% of the Earth's water is found in its oceans. I'm trying to make sense. Does It's too salty for

drinking growing crops and most industrial uses. Cooling. Did you know that one? Yeah. I mean, I know is a lot right now is like 97%. Well, I also know that like 97%, which I guess it's out. Yeah, it's not usable. Well, it's usable. You just got to desalinate it first. Yeah. And you can also there's companies that pull salt water in and extract the salt. So you can have sea salt to like have on food. Which is, is good. We have sea salt and the chili we ate.

a gallon of good. a gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds. And a cubic foot I hate cubes of water weighs 62.4 pounds. Okay, what's a cubic meter of water? Why is that on your sheet? No. It's, it's like extremely less now. It wouldn't be times three. There's more math involved. It would be right out a ton. cubic meter of water is right at a ton. Which is kind of neat. If you ask me. Because it's like the universal because it's because of it's because of the metric system. And it's better.

Oh, this is where we're gonna go with it. Yeah. You just set it right at a ton of bits right at a time. It's a meter, but it's better. It's a rounded number. Not 62.4. I like 62 by four. So, point 5% of the Earth's water is freshwater. point five. Yeah, that's yeah. And that means like available freshwater like we can we can grab it and do stuff with it. Yeah. It's not very much percentage wise. And then 2.5% is unavailable freshwater.

Yeah. Have you ever looked at a globe? Yeah. That Pacific Ocean man. Yeah, it's pretty big. Pretty big island in Hawaii. Yep. Been there. Been there done that and in there. So got a ukulele that didn't work. But it got you interested in ukuleles? Yeah. Now I know how to play like a master. You're the Grand Master of all ukuleles? Yes, I am. If the Earth were a globe, 28 inches in diameter. Okay. Okay. How would you how would use that? Okay, so

28 inches is just over two foot. Okay. And that's the diameter. So that's from one side to the other side. Right. Okay, so, if it were 28 inches in diameter, just over two foot ball, right? Yeah, you're looking at all of the water on the planet would fill less than one cup. So think of like a eight ounce cup. And then how big that would be? It's kind of hard to do without a visual. That's what I'm trying to do it my hand is like holding your hand. Because I'm really bad. Thinking of stuff.

Oh, wow. So it water use in the US. 8% is domestic use meaning Show your hands? Your pets. For your pants, what do you How much are you washing? How much are you washing your pants or your your pet? Like domestic? Like domesticated like pets? No, no domestic meaning at home. Not for your pants. A person is like showers cooking, brushing your teeth. 33% Ding ding ding is agriculture. So you know watering plants. 59% is used in

industry. And over 600 gallons per day per person in the US is being diverted from farm Irrigation and Livestock use from natural aquatic sources. More than half of the people in the US get their water from groundwater. Cool. So just pumping it right out of the ground. Which is really cool. If you ask me, you just dig a hole and then like, create some negative pressure in the in the tube. And boom, you got water coming out of your little faucet. sneak

away. I could have just answered your question. The one metric ton one, okay. A liter of water weighs one kilo. And a cubic meter of water weighs one metric ton. And then there's about seven parentheses. Now here's the question when they were devising the metric system. Is that how they came up with it? Yeah, yes. So water is the basis for the metric system. Water is the basis of everything, man. We came from water. Great toady song right there. I come from the water and Bobo

obscure reference. So I found a site called water is awesome.com. And there she goes with our clicky Clicky. My other keyboard isn't work. And it's tall tales from the towers of Texas. Yeah, so it's a Texas website. Yeah. And it's got a bunch of fun facts about what our whole article called water is awesome,

fun facts. That's like they wrote it just for us. A few of the things on here we've already already said, but there's some interesting stuff like water makes up 83% of our blood 75% of our brain 90% of our lungs Sabri was made of gray matter. Yeah, but that contains water. Oh, oops. A tomato is about 95% water and Apple pineapple and an ear of corn are each about 80% water. And a living tree is about 75% water. I don't believe in water. You don't believe in

the basis for everything. But you don't believe in it. Yeah, gotcha. Read a little a little inconsistent. Water is fake. A person can live about a month without food but only about a week without water. He really don't want to go more than like three days without water. You start getting a lot of bad effects from being that dehydrated. And if you're ever in a survival situation, remember what Les Stroud said, don't sweat. So you don't want to you don't want to sweat.

Oh, okay. So you let me see. Let you see. What are you reading reading to see what I've already said. A lot of these facts on here are neat where they're specifically for North Texas. Yeah, average total home use for each person in North Texas is about 100 gallons a day per person. Texans man in during medieval times a person used only five gallons of water per day. And then we're probably stinky. Yeah, two thirds of the water your family uses indoors is in the bathroom.

Yeah, two gallons of water when you brush your teeth. Flushing uses about two gallons per flush. It used to be a lot more than two gallons. Brush your teeth. Well, if you're brushing your teeth for two minutes. Yeah. Okay, turn the tap off. Well, I do. Sometimes I forget. But you just okay. Here's what you do. You take your toothbrush, get here comes here comes your Fun Fact, Friday, your Fun Fact Friday teeth brushing lessons, take it

take a toothbrush. All right. And you you rinse it off you go. So that gives you like, a tablespoon of water. And then you take your toothpaste, you go on your thing, you put the toothpaste away, and then you rinse it and you go, which gives you like another let's just say two days once you just use three tablespoons of water and you turn off your job, and you brush your teeth for like two minutes and then you rinse it off real

good. That gives you about a cup of water. So who's using two gallons of water to brush their teeth, people who just leave the water running the whole time. If you do that twice a day. Then it's like only three cups of water. Give or take. Yeah, a lot of people just leave it run. You couldn't see but I was using a sharpie and my pen for so the when I lived in West Texas in the desert, we were very mindful of how much water we used. So we definitely turn the

water off anytime we weren't actively needing the water. And here it's less of an issue I've been living in in eastern North Carolina since 1990. So here's waste all the while you want it's gonna we don't really Yeah, we don't really have drought here that often because we live by the water two or three times yeah, when they come from the water we've got a major river running through our our county

and a stream right behind her house right. So we kind of got all the all the water in unless we get into serious drought conditions. They don't really push conserve water conserve water too much around here, because we're just flush with the stuff as an eyesore right there. Why are we already said that one, there is no river in Texas that gets less than 15% of its flow from groundwater. So we're just Talking about Texas water now. Let's use more brawlers there is more water. I keep interrupting.

There's more water in the atmosphere than and all of our rivers combined. Yeah, this is treehugger.com This is not his texas.com or something like that. Water is awesome.com Water Texas, Texas water.com So, I hope you're nervous if you're living in Texas, so what you know that you're living in Texas. What's your favorite water? My favorite water? Dasani. This is this is controversial. But I like Lacroix

Leko that's flavored bubbly water. That's not just water. Do you like just any do you like it with any brand colonic water? tonic water is just bubbly. It's carbon dioxide. Yeah, no, but like, do you like to there's so many brands of water that are just wrong. Okay, regular water. Okay, I like the vos. Vos was $3 for a cup. Fiji water is pretty good. Fiji waters really? We're just talking about the expensive brands gas. Water. What's your favorite cheap water?

The gas station brand? Whatever. They have open circle K. Members Mark water. Oh, members, member members. Most critics the best to Sam's Club one. Yeah, you gotta be careful when you're doing bottled water, though. You don't want to do distilled like a salt in it. Yeah, no, is the opposite. Whichever one has a little bit of salt and minerals. That's the one you want spring water. That's what you want. Because Because it comes over the rocks you need. You need

some of that. Some get some water on the rocks. You need a little bit of trace minerals in your water is all I'm saying. So you can actually you need it. You need that? You need it. It's all the water vapor in our Whoo. My voice was when you first like if all the water and our vapor in our planet's atmosphere fell as water. What if all the water into vapor in our planet's atmosphere.

If all of the water vapor in our planet's atmosphere fell as water at once in spread out evenly, it would only cover the globe with about an inch of water. Sorry, you just clicked a link clicked through and all the way away from what you're looking at. So if you took all the water vapor and made it all fall instantly, yeah, so you get an inch of rain. You get an inch of rain, you know globally. Yeah. Which would probably cause some problems. Na, na, na inch the entire planet though. No. See?

No, I just didn't know. I'm gonna give that as a button on the, on the soundboard. More than one quarter of all bottled water comes from a municipal municipal municipal municipal water supply as the same place that the tap water comes from. Yep. Yeah, just tap water. Yeah, they they they hook up the water hose out front to a bottling machine. Essentially, I have been spoiled by that stupid refrigerator. What do you mean refrigerator water is filtered. Oh, it's so good.

Yeah. And whenever I drink tap water I'm like now though, that's, you know, I know is what's in the pipes. So speaking of water, I got a one of those bottled waters that you put on the water coolers at work, but I bought them and brought them home. And I got this little pump for the top of my gosh, this is so funny. Mom wasn't home. So she couldn't help. So just just keep telling your story.

So I get this pump and what it has is like this, this push button thing on top of it and you push it down and it pushes air into the the water container. And then there's this long straw that goes down to the bottom of the container. So as you're adding air pressure into the top, it pushes the water up the hill tube and it comes out of spigot. Super cool. Simple right? It's really neat little piece of equipment, right? Yeah,

well I didn't secure the tube fully. And when I was screwing the top onto it the two part fell into the water bottle. So he was like her going out here Get on out Yeah, because I was out in the shed which I've got got pretty nice now last last update. I was just getting started but I've got a pretty nice now on there. Got lights and battery backup thing and turn the lights a little cooktop so I can make some coffee. It's pretty, pretty cool setup. But

um anywho I call Leila and like bring me some chopsticks. We're gonna fish this thing out. It took us a solid five minutes of panicking Yeah, like I'm tipping the bottle to get the tube to move where I want it to and I got the chopsticks. I'm like, jamming them in there and trying to get it. Oh my gosh, just slips under the lip. And we spent another like five minutes trying to get it out from under the lip. But we did it. We did it. We did it, like 10 minutes.

And then I secured another and then apparently I didn't I didn't screw the lid on tight enough. So there wasn't a nice airtight seal which needs it's almost like pumping the thing for like five minutes and getting a couple of and he's like it's defective. And I was like, well, let's just take it off and put it back on. It might look like that did and it worked. Because I'm always, you know, Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'm always right. Yeah, yeah, I am. No, you can say that about yourself. More

than one quarter. Or you said that one. You already said that approximately 322 billion gallons of water were used each day in the United States in 2015. All right. I don't know why we need to know that. But you say they say used, right used, but it's like, it's not like it's gone. Yeah, it was used. It went down a drain somewhere, or evaporated. And then it's filtered via natural or manmade processes and then used again, so it's not like we

run out of water by using that much of it. What's up? You look like you're thinking real hard. I don't think naturally filtering water is real. Oh, really? Because I've done it. All right. We're gonna have to make make a filter. No. Now there are some vines out in the woods that you can use as essentially a water filter. You can filter water through a tree, plant vine, and it comes out clean. Isn't those like the the art arcane, Arcane? Katie, Katie is the sticks.

This arcane kts I don't think that's the thing. Agriculture's that. What am I? What are you talking about? Do you remember that vine we cut when we were going down to the stream that kept tripping us so we cut it to get away? What does that is? It pours so much water out. I can't remember. Our cane Katie is agriculture's. Are you talking about the kudzu, kudzu? Yeah, yeah, we got the kudzu here it Do you know the story behind kudzu? No, it doesn't. It doesn't have a natural predator

here in America. It came over from Japan. I believe. I'll have to dig into that. I believe it was Japan. Send us an email if I'm wrong mail at FunFactFriday.com. And that does it since it didn't have anything to curb its growth. It has taken over you go down into Georgia. And there's kudzu everywhere. Yeah. constant battle against this plant. Because it just grows like crazy. It's like a watermelons. It's like watermelon. Yeah, they do grow pretty watermelon plants

get huge. Yeah. We couldn't stop that watermelon plant. We had that one time. It just kept growing more watermelons. What are we gonna do with all these watermelons? We didn't eat that many watermelons. In a year. The average American residences residency uses over 100,000 gallons of water I'm assuming because it just doesn't go into facts about water. good assumption. Yeah, I'm so smart. The average fat FOSS Foss, it releases two

gallons per water per minute. Hold on, let me restart that says the average faucet releases two gallons of water per minute. You can save up to four gallons of water every morning by turning off the tap while you brush your teeth. I thought that this was just common knowledge to turn your faucet off. While you're brushing your teeth. You'd think that now here's a question for you. What? When you go to brush your teeth. Do you rent your toothbrush with hot water or cold water? Cold?

Who does it? Who does it with hot? That is disgusting. I do it's more comfortable poop. Like what? When will it is like boop. The toothpaste. It's like minty poop. It's It's warm. It's warm. I redo it if I get the hot water by accident. If I rinse it off with hot water I stick in my mouth and like you spit it out and then redo it I like alright everybody send us a message and tell us Oh water cold water when you're brushing your teeth. We're have to do a poll on the mastodon.

Yeah, those are anonymous, so I don't think they are on Mastodon or not. May or may not be I don't know. I haven't done one. So there might be a way to make it anonymous. But yeah, keep an eye out for that. So yeah, I think I think we've we've gone through enough water facts. You got a whole bunch more you want to do. I think I have 30 3434 I kinda want to do some more because these are fun. Hey, we can do. Yeah, so go ahead.

All right, I forgot what number I was on. Okay, since the fossil releases, okay, running a toilet can waste up to 200 gallons of water each day. See, how does that work? Doesn't want to just sit there? No. Okay. So if you have a not great seal in the back part of the toilet, where it lets water down slowly throughout the day, so like a leaky toilet, but it's leaking into the bowl, it will constantly just just run water out. So like the school toilets are so,

so crappy. My headphones fell off again. Oh, man, I gotta get some hair. So the hinges on the door is in the bathroom. You know? It's just a stick in it goes through all the hinges like it like a door. And it fell out. So now it's just sitting there on the floor like going in. Yeah. It's like halfway through the door. But it just stops halfway through. And it's like, below the door. I've tried to pull it out one time. It didn't work.

That's a way in the floor. Get out of a room that you're locked into of the hinges on the inside, like in here. You can pop those little pins out and pull the door off its hinges. Yeah, but it's like all the way through. So it kind of just like fell. They weren't like glued in or anything. So I wonder per second, a faucet can leak 3000 gallons in a year. One drip per second. Does that 3000 seconds in a year? No. Oh, wait. No. Because the drop is a gallon. 60 per minute. 60 minute.

So how much is 60? Drops? Okay, yeah, a calculator. How many drops? How many drops? In a towel and Nope. That was I was trying to turn you down but I turned the jingles button down or slider down instead of you. gallon is 15 Okay, let me 15 140 times 3,000x Three, three. Okay. 31234 That's 30,000 There you go. All right. All right. So we got 4542 and then four zero. How do I say that? I can't I can't tell how many zeros you have because your mics in the way. So there's there's zeros

4545 45,000,042 for 20 100,004 45,420,000. Okay, and then let's see how that compares to how many seconds are in a year. What was an E mean? What Okay, so one year is 3.154x E? Yes seven. So like the little seven? No, not plus seven? It says yes exponent seven exponents seven so like the you know, little seven you draw exponent. It means that there's seven zeros after that. No, yeah. What do you think what does it eat me? What did you What did you What did you type into Google?

I said what does he mean? Now? I don't know before that. Just a second. Certainly a year. And it gave you did it give you a? Give me 3.154 e plus seven. Oh, my beads. No worry. It's all good. Hey, Leila. What? Are you asking? How many seconds are any year? Yeah. How many seconds are in a year? 12? What? January 2, February 2, march 2. How many what? How many seconds are in a year? 12? What does that mean? What was the President trying to try?

There's 12 of them January 2, February 2, march 2, April 2, and so on. You get it? seconds. How many seconds? Well anyways, I got my answer. Okay. It's 30 31,536,000 seconds a year. Give me know let me ask you a question. Right. After the three of you just said how many zeros Are there? I mean, no, they're not 03 There's three zeros. I don't know. Okay, how many place? Three? Uno, dos three. I don't speak Spanish. I don't even I don't even know how many zeros there are six,

seven. So IE 71234567. But that doesn't count because those aren't zeros. The E seven means there's seven places. Now what doesn't? What is an E mean enough? Exponent constant? Yeah, that's a constant. Constant. Okay. Haha. Okay, so let's what great is this? Hello. Welcome to Fun Fact Friday new with your lead anchor Leila, and doesn't know how to do. millions of sharks could be saved of the fishing hooks could be saved from the fishing hooks with use

of a new pulsing device. Oh no, it's my first time reading it. millions of sharks can be saved from being caught on fishing hooks with a recent invention that acts like a car's hazard lights. called Shark guard. The device fits onto the long lines used by fishermen and creates an electrical field around the beta node with sharks and rays. Pick up with their electro scepters

electro receptors. That's pretty cool. Tests have shown that it can reduce the bycatch of these animals by 91% for sharks and 71 for the rights. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's pretty neat. They put little little warning lights on hooks. Yeah. sharks don't often get these conservative conservation attention that they deserve do their rate but the occasional

percentage per JSHint for nibbling on swimmers. The inventors say that this technology could reverse the dramatic decline in the endangered sharks around the world. Well, that's super cool. I like that. So my news story comes to us from Fox News. I don't think it has a political slant. So we'll just we'll just continue on with it. I'm gonna turn this off here because it has an audio clip I want to play. Is it gonna be like, in the middle of it just be like, Oh, by the way, go vote for Trump.

So a man was searching to the sand on a Florida beach when he discovered something so I'm gonna play this little 32nd clip here. Live in 12 Guys reviews waving his nose or take over some sand. And he's got some weird shoes on. Let's see some gold. All right, we're gonna see some gold. Yeah, look. No What? No way. Whoa, ring. Whoa, whoa. Look at that bad boy. I loved his reaction is it reminds me of the listen to that horn.

Horn. So this guy was he was on the Florida beach doing some metal detecting and he found a $40,000 This is titled A Florida man. No, no. Says diamond ring worth 40,000 is found on a Florida beach. So yeah, he's doing his metal detecting pulls a $40,000 diamond ring out of the sand. His name is Joseph cook. And it was in October. And it was set in platinum. Cook posted a video on his social media saying he was shocked. And then you know he they got the whole video quoted here, which is funny

because it's just like, bad boy. So he found it. And then he went to a jeweler and high end diamonds have serial numbers etched into them. With lasers. Yeah. So they they looked at the serial number and they found the owner of the ring. And cook tried to contact them. And they didn't answer his calls. So anyway, they finally finally got in touch with each other. And they did like a FaceTime call. And I guess they proved to him that it was there. I don't know how the whole thing worked. But

basically, the couple was very happy to get their ring back. He said Cook said it's not the first time he's found someone's missing jewelry or hugely coveted item. And he has returned over $60,000 worth of items this year alone. I love when people like something. Yeah, he said karma is always good. Every time I return an item I find something better so I'm happy I could give it back. So you know at some point he's gonna find something good and not be able to find the owner of

it and get to keep it so That's pretty cool. Yeah, you always try and try and find remember, we found that money out in front of the dollar store that one time? Yeah, yeah, we found a large sum of money largish. It was like 180 bucks or something like that out in front of the Dollar Tree. And I stood around for what? 2530 minutes looking for somebody? Yeah, looking for money. And you know, I mean, we didn't see anybody or anything

like that. And so yeah, we had a nice little nice little unexpected money. And guess who found it? Lou? Me? Yep, she found it. So can I got it? I got it a few years later. Well, not yours. It was couple of months. Long story, long story. But anyway, that was like when we moved in as a house. Yeah, we always try and pay it pay it forward. When we have some, some good luck like that. We always try and pay it forward somehow. Hey, yeah, she ended up buying a bass with that. Because

we paid it forward. And then we had it was long story. Not important, this guy, real stand up guy if he's gonna return a diamond ring. Of course, if he tried to sell it, and it's got the barcode on it, and it's listed as missing. I wonder how that works. I wonder if they had it insured, and they had already received the insurance money? Hmm, maybe this is an insurance scam. What? Anyways, imagine that. Well, unless you've got anything else, so I think we'll go ahead and wrap this episode.

I have more but Oh, yeah. If you want to read some more water effects, or do you want to go ahead and just say Happy Thanksgiving to everybody in and call it a day? No. I said 15. So, okay. You suddenly 15 is good. Do you think is a good amount? Well, we're probably gonna release this tonight, which is a day earlier than we normally release. So if folks want to listen after Thanksgiving dinner, they'll have it sitting in their podcast player. Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. We're excited. We're gonna have turkey and what else we haven't been grateful those year. What am I thankful for. I'm thankful for a lot. That a good year. Had a good year. And I'm thankful for obviously my family and good health and thankful I got my new truck. Thankful I got my shed to where I can go out there and get away from you for a few minutes. No, I like having a little space where there's not any like

electronics or screens or anything. I can go out there and clear my brain a little bit. Have a have a cup of coffee or tea. Just chill. It's nice. I'm thankful for that. And all of our listeners and supporters. We love you all and and we really appreciate y'all swinging by and downloading all that. What are you thankful for? Music, Music Oh, I've got a list of new artists that somebody work thinks you would like, based on what we've already talked about that you do like so. There you

go. Yeah. She's the one who gave the Rob Zombie shirt. So it's it's pretty good. All right, everybody. Maybe we'll get some good music recommendations on upcoming episodes. I have so many oh my gosh, y'all are gonna love it. Yeah, well, maybe you can start making playlists on Spotify and share them or something. I'll just say the artists. Okay. Folks, have a fantastic weekend. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Black Friday, and we will see you next time listen to Well, would

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