What does bamboo have to do with electric light bulbs?
Let's talk about that good Fun Fact Friday. So today we're talking about light bulbs. And I like light.
I'm gonna be going into the history of light bulbs.
I'm just talking about why not?
Yeah, you're kind of freeform going freeform with it. Yeah, so I'm David.
I'm Leila. I'm Rhett.
Link apparently.
Yeah, I like red better. Even though you look more like red than you do, Link, do I get the beard and the kind of lack of hair.
So we're talking about Good Mythical Morning. Good Mythical Morning. What were the show we're talking about and we're kind of Perry Perry. Perry. Perry ailing Pierre Yang. Here, yay. Welcome, welcome. And we're gonna be talking about me apparently, lights. And I'm trying to get to my notes since due to verbal stalling while I get to them, because um, I didn't have the right
window, click it on your screen. You have a touchscreen. As we heard in the previous episode,
so talk a little bit about lights and how they got started, like, not light itself, because that's like, you know, like the first thing, right? First thing there was talking about artificial lights like humans, using like when it's dark outside having a way to light up and be able to see in the dark, the earliest way that we found that we could kind of
figure it out. Beyond just like having a bonfire. artificial light goes all the way back to 500 BC, when they had bamboo pipes that carried natural gas from volcanoes to light the streets in ancient China. Later on, the Romans lit the front of their homes with oil lanterns that had had special servants who tended to the lanterns. And 1417, the Mayor of London created a law requiring all homes to have lanterns hung from them during the winter, and the front and the front of each
building. So that's like the earliest artificial light that they were using. You know, and I guess when you when you say artificial light, it's still fire. But like not just like, hey, let's just set something on fire and use the light from the fire. Like, let's come up with an idea of purpose built which you get
the table. I'm trying to put my foot on the table tables, just like,
yeah, we're set up temporarily on a coffee table in the in the studio here. It's not a permanent solution. But it works for now.
Right? And it's a pretty crappy table. It's a pretty, pretty crappy.
No, it's good. It's a good table. It's a coffee table. But the tall has these Yes. It just needs to be maintained. Yeah. The top of it lifts up to like regular table height.
So it's a cool label. It's just old table.
Right? I just need to get I need to like grease up the joints and tighten some of the screws and we need to be like refinished to the top of it
articulate the splines
we need to articulate the splines.
Let's see. So do you want to get into the well, I was news let me
let me run back through the rest of the history of artificial lights. A little bit. So in the 1700s lighting fixtures were basically poorly made oil lamps and candles. Most of the lamps obviously, they emitted bad odours and lots of smoke. I know I've got an oil lamp. I thought you were gonna say I know I got bad. I know I've got bad Well, you know everyone does depending on what you eat. But I've got an oil lamp and when I it man, it puts out this kerosene smoke and it
Oh, it's just gets all over everything. And the 1800s the gas lights were replaced with candles and oil lamps. Sir Humphrey Davy created the first carbon arc lamp in 1809. Although the lamp was very bright, it was powered by an early battery and the battery drained very quickly. And then they moved on to filament. Or sorry, they moved on to
incandescent lamps. The first patent was introduced to Frederick de mullions in 1841. Do you know that first filament or sorry first incandescent my brain has brain because when I think of like a incandescent bulb, it's got to fill them in you know, so like anyway? Yeah, his lamp. It was made of glass and had a charcoal based filament and a partial vacuum.
But in the burning of the charcoal The bulb became dingy and then as it became dingy it dimmed so there was like, like a shelf life essentially because it was just get too, too cloudy inside of it and go late 1800s There are more strides and artificial light sources. A patent for an incandescent lamp with a carbon filament was issued to Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans. Woodward Evans was eventually sell their patent to none other than Thomas Edison. Those are some lame
names. Yeah, no, they sound like NPC names. So Henry Woodard and Matthew Evans sold to Thomas Edison, Edison began testing different materials in the bulbs and ended up using it comes back around carbonised bamboo filament that would burn for 1200 hours. Edison got a second patent for the incandescent bulb with the bamboo filament. So he didn't invent the first light bulb, but his Edison screw in lamp is the one that we still even use today, like the screw and light bulbs. That was Thomas
Edison's patent. From what I understand a lot of Thomas Edison's things that he's attributed with inventing, he basically bought he bought the patents from people. So for a lot of money, he paid for his name in the history books. Yeah, I'm sure he can make history. Yeah, well, I mean, he paid the
people for their inventions. And then in the 1900s, tungsten filament lamps came about around the whole 1911 1913 were would see another improvement, and they filled the glass part of the bulb with a gas and it had a twisting filament which improved the performance. 1925 lamps were all lamps were made of clear glass. And then I've listened to Marvin Pipkin invented a way to reduce glare by adding silica coating to the inside, thus making frosted lamps
These all sound like names that when you randomise your Sim character they'd come
up, right. You're just like random name for for NBC. Or your Yeah, just give me a random name. That was already taken roll again. Marvin Pipkin Sure. And then the 1950s halogen bulbs came around. And they were very, very bright and lasted a lot longer. And then LEDs. They were discovered by accident. The LEDs that are in everything were discovered by accident, Gary
Pittman, and James Baird. Again, these names were working on laser diode, when they discovered the first light emitting diode LED in 1961 1978. The first LEDs were used as indicator and display lights. In the early 70s. Joseph led Joseph led in 1971 of the one or more components needed develop bright white LED was invented in 1993. That was a problem with the
early days, they couldn't get them to be white. And they had to test and test and test and they finally got him to where it's about as close as you can get to white, emitting, emitting light. And yeah, so that's kind of kind of where we're at today. I remember in the late 90s I was messing with LEDs, with like a little electronics kits and little projects I was working on. And I was like, why don't they just make these brighter?
And he used them as light bulbs. You're so smart. And then people were like, like, what kind of light and you'd have to blah, blah, blah. And I'm just like, I just feel like it would be because I was powering these LEDs with like a tiny little ear with a hearing aid batteries. Yeah. And it would wash battery power forever. I mean, it was like weeks. And I'm like, why aren't we this? They just barely eat any energy. Why don't we not make the plastic around the actual light? Why don't we make
that clear, instead of frosty red? Like you get you see the little LEDs you put in projects, like make it clear, then we could use it as a light bulb. And now Oh, somebody else got rich off of it was my idea when I was 13.
Yeah.
I'm sure it was already in the works. But so that's the history of artificial lights in a nutshell. Yeah. Do you want to facts? Do you want to jump into some more facts or do you want to?
Okay, I have quick facts and I have like a little deeper facts.
Okay, well, do you want to do quick facts on it? Sure. And then we'll maybe thanks some folks.
Yeah. So like isn't these are so basic. Old Hold on. Let me find some better ones. Did you not research your facts? i Okay. Look, look. There. One of the quick facts is light is made up of energy. like, bro, everything's made up of energy, bro. I'm made up of energy.
Oh, boy.
Okay, so visible light makes up every week. I can't read because I was reading Shakespearean stuff today. And on my readings all messed up.
You got shakes your brain, Shakespeare brain?
I do. It's called the old Shakespeare brain yield, yield six. Sorry, visible light makes a very little of the electromagnetic spectrum. On the spectrum, you will find everything from infrared to gamma rays. I think you already knew that. But
yeah, that's a pretty common, but not all of our listeners may have heard that. Yeah, if you look at, if you look at a line of all of the spectrum of light, waves, frequencies, the range above is visible spectrum is very, very small on the line of light. That's why like infrared cameras and all the different sensors they have on telescopes and stuff like the the fancy telescopes they have out in Hawaii and whatnot, they can pick up more than just the visible light spectrum.
So there's a change in plans. I'm not going to read the little fast facts, because they're also boring.
All right. Anyway, we don't we don't do a lot of show prep around here.
Look, I skimmed them, I skim them to make sure that they were decent.
Well, one of the reasons we haven't done a lot of show prep for this week, and one of the reasons we're a little late this week is because of
good news. We have been receiving good news all week. Don't worry. This is all we're doing.
Okay, why don't you tell them what our good news is?
You gotta think about cats. But we also have another good news story soon. All right,
let me talk about the cat. It's like a one minute story. I came across this story about this cat and I've lost the link it did not transfer over when I synced. Nevermind. No, I've got it right here. It's in my it's in my bookmarks. And I'm, I'm just talking to make sure we don't have any dead air while I pull up my bookmarks. And Tom Bailey, the Turkish word for chubby was a cat who lived in Istanbul, Turkey. Tom Bailey would sit on the steps shown in the image above. There's an
image of Tom Bailey the cat. He was this chubby chubby cat. And he would sit on the curb and Istanbul, not Constantinople. And just kind of like leaning and pondering that look right? Well, sadly, he passed away in 2016. Due to a severe illness, he was a street cat. He didn't really belong to anybody. But after he passed away, they made a statue of him. The city the city had like so many people go in and like requested the city put up a statue so they put up a statue of this cat is fat cat
leaning on a on a bench. And then somebody stole it. And but
it was me Well,
well, no, because like I stole it. I'm trying to I'm trying to there's the mayor of the town. The mayor of the town had this amazing speech Yes speech about when it was stolen, stolen, stolen, stolen. So in on November 8 of 2016, the statue had been stolen, prompting an outcry and concern both in Turkey and elsewhere. And this is a quote from the Turkish MP. And he's got a Turkish name. I'm not even going to attempt that. Is he said they stole the Tom Bailey statue. They are. They
are enemies of everything beautiful. Tom Bailey. All they know is hate tears and war.
And Tom Bailey.
And then two days later, they brought this statue back and put it back. So oh man, I'll bet I'll bet whoever stole it thought it would be funny prank to tag or have it on their house or whatever. And then somebody came over was like, No, man, you take that back. You take it back right now. Anyway, I thought that was a fun story. Link will be this.
Don't be any fun. Bobby Lee, the right to light.
Leila. What's your good news?
Oh, my good news. I was about to talk about lights. My good news are our good news. Communism, you know.
The people's good news.
We got a 3d printer.
The 3d printer came in. And it was a refurbished 3d printer. So I knew there might be some issues within there was there was somebody Shoes. First I thought it got delivered to Florida. Because UPS said, Hey, we delivered your package today to Florida. And I was like what? So I went on newegg.com, which is where I picked up the printer. And they said, Yeah, it went right to Florida, right? We're right where we're supposed
to go. And I'm like, what? And anyway, I get a hold of the company that shipped it out because it was through a new eggs marketplace. And suddenly, like didn't really have anything to do with it. And they said, basically, what happened is they typed in a different boxes, tracking address into my new egg order account, account order, so that they were like, oh, no, see, here's your tracking number, we put the wrong one into your account. So here's your tracking number, your
printer will be here tomorrow. So I got the printer, I opened it up. And there's a screw missing. I start putting it together. And it is one of the screws not that's not just for like stability that I can kind of just like rubber banded together or whatever. It was one of the actual functional parts that without it, the printer would not function at all. So I had to run to the hardware store, match up the match up the screw, Bring, bring the correct screw back home, got it up and
running. And it was not running right. It kept the base plate kept skipping, because the belt that draws the base plate back and forth was the motor that spins the belt was not lined aligned correctly. But the piece of metal that it was bolted to to that aligned it was bent. So I'm like ah and it's really thick metal so I couldn't just like you know, he made it back
into shape. So basically I lined it all up properly and then jammed coins in between the metal as if they were washers because I don't know where my washer like the the little 11 cents box that has all the washers in it. So I jammed a penny in a dime and screwed it all together and squished opinion diamond everything's everything's working perfect now. So an 11 cent fix. Yeah, literally. Yeah. So they go that's our end the 3d printer. We have printed nothing useful
out yet. Leila has printed a cool little fidget toy.
That doesn't function correctly right now because I don't have the magnets for it. Yes,
she's gotta go get some magnets and glue them in.
But we have magnets are just too big. Yeah,
so we got to order some magnets for but the cool thing is, is that this I've seen this fidget toy on Amazon for like 20 bucks. And we printed it out for like 12 cents worth of filament. Yeah, so that's, that's pretty good. A couple a couple of magnets, maybe a bucks worth of magnets. And so yeah, a little little fun little toys like that. If you think of anything really cool for us to print, let us know mail FunFactFriday.com But we're gonna be using it for a lot of useful stuff. Leo's
gonna be using it for a lot of her cosplay. Accessories, things like that. Be fun. It'll be fun.
So do you want to talk about the shirt that we sold two weeks ago? Oh, yeah.
So let's talk about our supporters. You can support the show. We do have a merch store at store dot fun fact. friday.com. And we sold a shirt and a sticker we did. And yeah, a couple of weeks ago. We're pretty excited about it. Yeah, we got $6 found out. Yeah, he did. We talked about this. What I think we maybe did a couple weeks ago. Okay, well, well, we
did again, again, because he said it and we
got to plug the store. And if you happen to go back through any of our old episodes, and notice, oh man, we should make a t shirt about that we can make a t shirt about that. How long remind us what we were talking about at the time? Did you hurt your back? Always. While you're sitting in the chair, like sitting sideways. If you sit in the chair like a normal human person, it wouldn't hurt well. Well,
that was ready. The right to light. There is an English law called the right to light that the law dictates that if someone has received natural light in their building for more than 20 years, they're allowed to forbid the construction of buildings that would block the stream of light.
Oh, that's a it's kind of neat. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of like a grandfather II type things. It's like yeah, it's been that way forever. And we're not allowed to change that. Yeah. But there was rules about the the way that buildings were built in some cities that it can only cast so big of a shadow. So I can't ever I had to look it up but I remember them. That's why some The buildings all of the buildings in some cities are only so high or they're like tapered.
Yeah, whatever.
So any any any way the right to light anyhow right to light lows right to light.
Anyhow anywhere anywho anyhow I already said that the the light that never went out. Do you have stuff on this?
Yeah, I've got that on the century light. Maybe the centennial bulb. Maybe this was this was I had a whole thing about this. All right, well you go off. So we say so way too much.
I could talk about why you're getting it. I've got to talk about the angler fish.
No, I don't have an angler fish yet. So there is a bulb in California.
Okay, I'm gonna readjust my sitting position. Okay, I'm
gonna mute you. There's a bowl but in California that's been running for like 120 years, give or take 122 years, this thing's been running. Minus a few hours you were opposed your volume back up and you're still making moving noises. First installed at the fire department hose cart house on L Street and 1901. This bulb has been continuously running since then, minus a few hours. Shortly after it was installed in the L Street
firehouse. It moved to the main firehouse on second. And in 1903 it was moved to a new station, station one on first and Michelia OD. C was the name of so there's there's the the custodians of the bulb now, like this bold is big deal, because like it's a tourist attraction now. Really? Yeah. I mean, when it went out, let's see it was off for about a week. During the first 75 years, it was connected directly to the 110 city power 110 volt city power, which was subject to power outages. So in
75 years, the bulb was only off for about a week. And it was power outages that caused it and you can't really, you know, not much you can do about that. And they didn't want to hook it up to a backup generator because sometimes generators will surge and it would have might have caused a problem and popped the bulb. In 1976 it was moved to moved with a full Police and Fire Truck escort under the watch of Captain Kirby slate to its present station, our present site of fire station six in
Livermore, California. It was then hooked up to a separate power source. So it's on its own power source now. It's at 120 volts. And it has a UPS which is uninterruptible power supply to basically a big battery. According to Frank mole, retired city electrician, there was one interruption in May of 2013 when the UPS failed, and it was off for nine and a half hours. When it plugged back in, it shined at 60 watts for a few hours.
Normally, normally, it only shines for at four watts. In this context, the more wattage bulb has going into it the brighter it's going to be what
is a watt?
What's a What?
What is a watt? What what is a watt? What? What is? What is it he's so there's this thing, and it's funny
are you talking about who's on first? Yeah, it's
called who's on first? Okay.
It's called who's on first by Abbott and Costello. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people know what heard is on first. Yes, it was. It's always kind of been a big deal since it came out. But if you have not heard who don't who's on first by Abbott and Costello it is a classic comedy routine. And it is well worth looking up and listening to it's probably public domain at this point. So old, I could probably maybe it's not even a thing.
But I was saying what the what,
oh, what is a unit? It's, I, I'm gonna say this wrong and we're gonna get so many messages if you're gonna if you're gonna, if you're gonna correct me, you correct me with Satoshis in a boost. All right. It's the current it's it's the amount of power There's something you're getting the definition.
Yep. So you don't say it wrong. Okay, I'm gonna Yeah. What is the why in simple terms? The what is a measure of the rate of energy transfer over a unit of time?
It's how big the pipe is.
Is that why they call it a watt? What? Because you're like, Well, no, no, I know there's a dude named Joseph. What I noticed
when he accidentally when he accidentally turned on the electricity spigot on the outside of the house is still the water. What? It's always been explained to me that the like, as the simple way to explain it is like, wattage is how big the hoses? What's a joule? And the amperage is how fast the water is moving out of the hose. Or something. No, that's not right. Like, I know how to do the equations. I just can't talk about
work. I learned all of this in math class, but it went all over my head.
Well, we also learned all of this. You learned all this one. We're making those circuits. You learned all this stuff? Do you not remember? Five years ago? Yeah.
I know. That's kind of important.
I'm feeling really stupid right now. And I can't explain it. Oh, what? Smart. Okay, explain it to everybody then. Crap. No,
I don't know how to explain. Okay, so like, if there's 60 Watts, it means there's like 60 joules per second. So if you have like 40 Watts, that means there's 40 joules per se, I think. So it's just saying how many joules per second that is, that's so lame. We just
need to do a we just need to do a, a electricity episode. So I can refresh myself on how all this stuff works. The
general science Well, general math.
So the thing I knew all of this stuff at one point, when I was working with all of it, but like, now, I've done myself down with all these online calculators, like when I need to do the math on resistance, and, you know, all that kind of stuff. And I'm working with a three. And like, when I was have wiring up the the shed, I was dealing with amps on the breaker and all that stuff. And I know I'm doing I know like the rules you don't if this is this, then this is dangerous, you know?
Newton's a unit of work, right? There's some kind of some kind of, so it was a jewel. Yeah, it's all it's all. They just need to they need to condense it down as
I know who Isaac Newton is. Okay, is the unit of force for the Newton is a unit of force in the International System of Units doll. Oh my god. It's like, okay, well, yeah, it's a unit
of force. Work done. My
gosh.
I will mute my mic. Take it, take it away.
You're always interrupting me. It is defined. I
have never once interrupted you. It is default, never watching the history of this entire show.
I can see your finger going up to slider. It says defined as one kilogramme times, miles metres per second squared. This sounds so lame.
So it's the don't care about is asking question. I'm not trying to interrupt. Okay. Yeah. Is it the amount of force required to move one kilogramme of mass one kilometre? I think
one newton equals Hold on.
Let me let me look at the picture. You turned it away.
Okay. One Newton equals A equals one. metre per second. Okay, where'd pushing on one kilogramme. metre metre per metre, I think
the amount of force you'd have to move one metre, a one kilogramme, one metre in one second.
Okay, wait. Yeah. So there you go. So this is equal to one kilogramme metre per second.
We're giving away the completely wrong information. Right now, we're going on a picture on Google images.
equal equals equal to one kilogramme metre per second squared is what are you okay? You're interrupting me choke when Newton equals one oh I'm just done done.
I I want to do well we will do an episode on the new way. We'll we'll do it on the Isaac Isaac Newton, the fig newton Fig Newton, Newton, the Newton's Laws Nuit news and the newt from the cartoon show. I don't know what we'll find every kind of Newton and we're gonna do a Newton episode on Newton's
anyways, oh, before we continue, I want to talk about my Angular fish.
You've done well angler fish in a minute, we didn't talk about our support.
I thought you had that covered. I just
did the shirt part. And then
I would have talked about so
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Well hello Pat has taken forever to bring up fish.
I could have been done with my angler fish segment by now. Yes, you
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with your mouth open? Like what do you do? You're in shock. What did you just look at?
This angler?
What about him?
It's not an angler fish. I'm talking about something worse than an angler fish. It's called a stoplight loose jaw. Oh, what is their terrifying I looked up what they actually look like is it a type of fish? It's a type of fish. It's kind of like an angler fish. I'm gonna tell you about it. And we're not ending the show for the week. You might already be familiar with the angler fish that hypnotises prey with
bioluminescent light before devouring it. However, there is also the less popular stoplight loose jaw who takes advantage of its prey specially called me in high school. I'm trying to say why anglerfish back everyone okay, go ahead takes advantage of its prey phrase this really does see red light. It projects a beam of red bioluminescence to hunt with ease. So it it barely the fish that it eats cannot see red light. And it's really deep of course, so it's there's no light. So he makes red light
from himself or herself. And that's so creepy. It's kind of neat. It's kind of neat kind of gravy. I like it kind of neat. Okay, I like it because it looks
like scary. It looks like if you told a kindergartener to draw fish. And then you said make it scary. What? What a kindergartener withdrawal is what this fish looks like. It looks like just you know, the back of it is just fish. And then the front of it has this ridiculously huge jaw with these razor sharp teeth. And then it has like these red glowing eyes that apparently
match an angler fish but without the angler. And then imagine it squished and then less chubby. Yeah, it's like skinny angler. It's like a like a you know,
if you're listening in the chapter images are not up I'm sure Dreb found an awesome picture of the loose Jaw Stop at a stoplight loose jaw.
Yeah, but it's like a skinnier. I would I don't know. Fish man. Bless you.
I don't know what's going on with Pam coffin.
Everyone, I'm nice, man. Yeah.
So Leila has started saying bless you for any involuntary bodily noise. Like I cracked my neck the other day. She's like, bless you. Oh, man. So I pulled my neck. I was helping my mom move some. Like, she still had some of my stuff at her house when I was a kid. And we were going through it and there was this big box of books.
Oh, that's weird.
And can I finish my story here? I'm fine. You interrupting because I interrupt you all the time. I didn't know if you like had to tell the people right now.
Do Okay, so you did it bless you thing that I just said. Uh huh. My website I scrolled down and the thing that I see is bless you. If you find yourself with a tickle in your nose when faced with bright light, you're experiencing what a significant percentage of people experienced.
I used to work with a lady who's weird that every time she walked outside if she did not have sunglasses on, she would start sneezing uncontrollably. Yeah, whenever sunlight.
Me saying bless you, right. But anyways, continue. So yeah,
I was pretty much done with the story. I was lifting this box of my old books. Me and my brother's old books and the way I was leaning into the closet to pick it up. I strained my neck really bad. So then I instinctively cracked my neck when I got up from my computer chair the other day and Leila was like bless you. I'm like, Ah, this is like an excruciating pain. And my neck has been killing me for like three days because I was holding my neck wrong when I was picking up that
heavy box. Maybe shouldn't have done that. I know. Right? I'm not a young man anymore, apparently. Apparently. So you talked about the stoplight lose job but you haven't talked about what is an anglerfish?
bioluminescent tree. Scientists and developers are working developers, you're not gonna talk about the Anglerfish. I'm gonna well if you want me to. I mean, fishes are cool. I like Angler Fishes.
It's a fish
that has this little on it. This little cool little guys
sticking out of its forehead with a light mobile.
Okay, Wikipedia.
Didn't we talk? We talked about them in our bioluminescent episode didn't mean we had an island. Now we had an episode where we talked about bioluminescent stuff, because I'm one of our animals. Which one animal episodes probably during the fish one Yeah. Or the caves episode caves. That's probably what it was. I don't know. bioluminescence is neat, because like living things, putting off light as long as like bioluminescence. I like the ones whatever it is on that
beach. That there they only turn on when they're disturbed. So like as you walk along the beach. All your footsteps are blue behind you like glowing blue. I've seen those. That's really cool.
So bioluminescent trees
Okay, is it the tree itself or is it a fungus on the tree? Maybe Are you reading right now? As we go? Yeah.
Scientists and developers are working on extracting the bioluminescence that occurs naturally in certain jellyfish and fireflies. And if they're successful, we could soon have bioluminescent trees that will not require energy. Why do we need energy? To make trees glow? Are we trying to make trees,
they're trying to make trees glow.
Trying to make trees
so they don't have to pay for streetlights.
I found it funny that they said scientists and developers like devs and a video game.
Your brain when you hear developer go straight to video game. Kind of what world you live in.
Excuse me.
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Good Fun Fact Friday.
I don't know how they ended we.
Yeah, we kind of did a little take off on Good Mythical Morning.
We're gonna start doing that more often. Yeah, dude, we're
gonna model the beginning of the show after the beginning of other people's shows. throw you off a little bit for fun. But we are going to end the show with quiet Kyle, because they still haven't edited
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