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I we talked about stuff I've just run around the soundboard
he does almost everything
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What do you when was that we turned my compressor? Yeah, we're
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we've had a lot of guests on recently we have like to have more guests if anybody's an expert in something or he can sound like an expert in something come on. And we thank all of our all of our folks who've been coming on lately it's been been really cool talking to other people because I gotta tell you, Leila gets a little boring. getting kind of tired of her. So, yeah, this week, this week, what are we talking about?
inventions, accidental inventions,
accidental inventions. I think I think this is a really fun subject. And I had a good time reading about a lot of accidents that turned out to be you know, very useful things that you use in your daily life or don't because hopefully you're not using like penicillin in everyday life. But before before we get started, this is a value for value podcast, we put the show out for free for everybody. We don't charge for it. We don't have a paywall. We don't have special content if
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So do we have any good news?
I do not have any good news. But I You had an interesting thing happened today had
a story. Okay. So we're going to school. Okay, now I read the bus. On the bus there was there was a little bit of a squabble. So I was looking behind me at the squabble and then I hear
somebody peed on the bus
and I'm like I turned around from the squabble and the squabble had stopped at this point, because I was looking at the you know, yeah, so I thought you're gonna do for a long time again. So apparently, the tire popped. And we're all on the bus like, Oh, we're gonna make it to school. Because we were only like a half. Like, we are in walking distance from the school. Oh, yeah, that if we stopped we could be able to walk like a 10th of a mile. Yeah, pretty much. But she was like
speeding. She was speeding all the way to school. And I was like, This is hilarious.
That's funny. Yeah, that's very fun.
I think. Okay, there has been so many fights at school this year. And I have not seen a single one of them I have been missed them all. I have missed them all. I have been in the same room as every single one of these fights and I have not seen any of them. It is I think it's like a sign from God because like I started seeing this little squabble and the tire pop so I think it's not meant for me
it's not meant for you to see fights. Yeah, apparently. That was always the case with me too in school if I wasn't in the fight, like if somebody was not attacking me because I never started a fight. If it was not, if I was not in it, then I
missed it. I never got to see any other fights there's quite a few of the fights and you know, I don't know how it is now but back in when I was in back in my day the fight would start and then a group would like a circle would form around Yeah, and like almost like lock arms do not let any teachers through but yeah, pretty much I was always outside the circle and I was short so I couldn't see it. But
I guess I'm gonna teachers want to be Yeah,
I got to I got maybe three times I got into a fight in school it was always me getting attacked I never did the attacking
if you record a fight at school you get the same punishment as people that were in the fight.
I think that's good. I think that because like the to me and you know we're getting off the the fun facts for for a second but like the cloud chasing the wanting wanting to get cloud off of a fight video or something like that. Almost eggs on the fight in such a way that like people might start trying to pick get people to fight so that they can get the video you know, so it's it's something that should personally I think it should be discouraged. Not that I don't
enjoy a good fight video. But you know, it's not it's not a good thing to it's not a good thing to encourage a squabble they call them they call them squabbles now nerd, like saying
the funny words for stuff,
right? So I think that our topic tonight 10 minutes in is that's not too bad. I listen to podcasts. They don't get to the point for 30 minutes.
Awesome. We may or may not have a fly infestation on our school.
Yeah, that's fine. I gotta I gotta call the exterminator out there. Yeah. But yeah, accidental inventions. is a is a fantastic topic.
Did you know that chocolate What?
What? We had audio glitch there? Chocolate, chocolate,
chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip cookies.
So weird. Thank you. Alright, so what's up with chocolate chip cookies?
There an X will make accidental invention,
an accidental invention. Okay, so that's what we're talking about. Yeah, I know. But yeah, you act like you didn't know we're talking about well, like, explain how it was an accident, because like it's a cookie, and there's chocolate chips in it.
So this says that on the day, the cookies were created. The co owner of Toll House in was preparing some good chocolate chip cookies for her guests, when she realized that she was out of baker's chocolate. So she chopped up a block of semisweet chocolate. And she thought it was melt evenly through the batter. And it just had the chunks in it.
Oh, so
so she just she did oopsies
she didn't know that the chocolate wouldn't melt. Yeah, apparently. That's okay. So
this was whole house in was like a hotel
owner owner the total house and I didn't know there. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know that either. That's kind of neat. That's neat. Ruth graves Wakefield, you can take her for chocolate chip cookies. Dynamite. Okay, dynamite rods.
I was gonna ask you what you had.
But dynamite rods were invented by Alfred Nobel. That's right.
About Joseph dynamite. Mr. What about Napoleon dice?
Oh, we haven't been doing the Joseph thing.
Let's not for this episode. Yeah. Since
we are talking about inventions. We don't want to confuse our listeners
and confuse people.
So dynamite. When I say Alfred Nobel you ever heard the Nobel Prize? Yeah.
So oh, I've heard of this guy. Yeah, I love this guy. So
here's the thing it was he made he made dynamite. However it tells me you know the story? Yeah. Are you ever gonna just read the story? No. Okay. I know the story. So tell the story. So
he made dynamite. And then he was so terrified that he created dynamite that he made the Nobel Prize. I'm like, show how good people are. Right.
Well, maybe he liked it. Maybe he like regretted it later. Yes, but this this is the way that the story went? As is my understanding and I've got a little help from this article. So my man scsl No, so bear sobrero Embera sombrero Sabra Seb sober at Ro And Villa nitroglycerin, an 1847. He combined glycerol and nitric and sulfuric acids to produce an explosive compound. It was far more powerful than gunpowder and more volatile. Volatile like we were watching last. With the
dynamite they had the dynamite that they had lost. Yeah, it was unstable.
How many valence electrons would have Oh,
valence electrons. So sobrero was opposed to his use. But Alfred Nobel was like oh, we can use this to make profitable explosives and weapons. So he saw the Prophet and then about 20 years later, Nobel ended up creating dynamite which they he stabilized the nitroglycerin with silica powder although in the process of that, of that whole thing he blew up two of
his factories Oh, trying to get website makes sense. He's best remembered now for his prize which was established which recognizes humanitarian contributions but the wealth that so the money when you get Nobel Prize, you get money when when you get the Nobel Prize. I don't I don't understand the question.
When I don't understand something and something like what I like to say like where when
you say the wrong wrong one word question. Gotcha. Okay, so
I didn't know that you got money when you want to know movies? Yeah.
And all of that money came from the creation of the weapons and explosives and explosive, you know, dynamite stuff is used for mining and landscape, not landscaping, but like terraforming essentially, like ripping through mountains
and whatnot. So yeah, sobrero is discovery led to Nobel's creation, something that he had never intended and he deeply regretted so sobrero regretted it from the get go sobrero once said, When I think of all the victims killed during nitroglycerin explosions, and the terrible havoc that has wreaked, which in all probability will continue to
occur in the future. I'm almost ashamed to admit that I to be its discoverer, which I get, you know, you make something you make something that ends up hurting a lot of people and, you know, so going from hurting to helping do you wanna talk about penicillin?
Yeah, of all Yeah. All right. Over here, okay. Discovered in 1978 by Joseph, penicillin. I'm coming. Discovered a nice Sunday, we're gonna do it. It was discovered in 1928. And penicillin was one of the world's first antibiotics. But the man who discovered it, Dr. Alexander Fleming never actually meant to revolutionize all medicine, as
he later discovered it. Rather, Fleming came across the antibiotic entirely by chance when he left out cultures of Safa locusts in his lab for two weeks, so remember, and then remembered growth.
So basically, what you're saying is having a messy life and not cleaning your workspace and not cleaning up after yourself, invented that lead to kill chemistry has killed literal inoculum safety saved literally millions of lives.
lab safety number two, keep it clean,
keep it clean, keep your work area clean. And one is don't catch on fire. That being said, trying to I'm trying to dish out some excellent life advice here over here. Which don't catch on fire to be
good. Last advice. Don't
look at me as a t shirt right there. Rule number one, don't catch on fire.
Rule number one have chemistry.
Now just that's just rule number one. That's just rule number one. Don't catch on fire. Yeah. Oh, wow. So yeah. So he just left some stuff out and started growing mold on it. Right? Yeah. Well, he was like tasting what went from there. I know what went from there. What went over there. He went looked at it. And he noticed that there was no bacteria anywhere near the mold. And he's like, hold on a tick. Let's
smoke 28.
Hold on there chap. Dateline. 1920 man doesn't clean his lab up and discovers that there's no bacteria around this certain mold. The mold and one of his sores goes away. Oh, well. Don't eat mold. Mold. Don't eat mold. Please. Rule number two.
Number three.
Excuse me. Oh, yeah, sorry. Keep it clean. Don't get so fired. Keep it clean. Don't eat mold. Got it. So So yeah, so he's he started doing some tests on it about 25 years later, they were actually using it. Like, actually using penicillin to help be an you know, be an antibiotic for all the stuff he used antibiotics for. All that useful stuff, you know. So that's a good one. That was that was always always one of the ones that anytime you talk about accidental inventions or
discoveries, that one always pops up. One of my favorites is matches. And man I started reading about matches. I love like, I like matches. I like the way they smell. I like striking them. So the box is my my mom has been looking for a VCR because she's got a bunch of VHS tapes that she wants to watch, right. And I found one thrift store. And I was like, Oh, cool. Well, she was coming over to get it. That whole long story just to get to this part. Now sitting out in the garage. Have one of
those big box of matches. Just sitting there just waiting for him to come over to pick the VCR up and I was just like just lighten matches and letting them burn.
matches on the masses come
from and be like Oh yeah, and they're all burnt. Just burnt just burn a bunch of matches. What
a waste of matches.
It's a box of 1000 and we have like five long ones. No, they're just medium sized ones. We still have a promise we still have plenty of matches. Okay, so matches were were invented in 1978. My job is no no, no, no, not gonna do it. You've already done Lucifer matches were straight copy of John Walker's original friction lights of a Between 26 Or seven, they're not quite sure. The next development in matches with a CES this is just that's like jumping into the middle. Where was the other
one? I was reading the different articles all the rest of the L and all the rest of the L. There's two. There's two things. There's two articles about matches. Let me find the other one.
One of them small loans.
Here we go. Yeah. 1926 chemists John Walker discovered what are now matchsticks when he accidentally when he accidentally scraped a stick coated with chemicals across his hearth, and found that it caught fire. Call them friction lights, Walker's friction lights, as they were called, were originally made out of cardboard, but eventually switched over to using wooden splints and sandpaper. And that's still not what I was looking for. Here it is, this
was early matches relied on chemicals. They were like they were called the Prometheus match.
Oh, that's neat. I like that name, we should call it but
the Prometheus match is something different and you can't really get them, you can't really get them now. That was 1929. It contained a glass vial of sulfuric acid wrapped, wrapped in paper. The match was lit by crushing the glass vial. Darwin himself was a fan of these. Of course, he was the old Chuck and would entertain others by biting the matches to ignite Darwin. He's about to win a Darwin Award look into that
sometime, as one might imagine. However, as one might imagine the match a match that people are tempted to light in their mouths have some safety drawbacks. Whoopsie I'd like
to imagine that they're talking about Darwin from the amazing was like on ball. Oh. But I think that's pretty funny. And just think of Darwin like eating matches
was one of the things about matches. You can't get the strike anywhere matches anymore. Yeah, because they can they bad stuff. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that you know,
boom, boom. Pals, girl. Yeah, Scrabble.
So about the same time Walker, who we talked about earlier, was experimenting with chemicals when he accidentally scraped coverage. So he called this is this is cool. He called the matches that he created. Con Greaves. That's it was selling them at this pharmacy. I know I'm gonna start calling matches con Greaves. Good rock on. I know, right. It was named in honor of the inventor of that type of, of a type of rocket.
Walter Walker's con Greaves were cardboard sticks cutter with a mixture of potassium chlorate, and antimony sulfide, which would ignite when struck against a piece of sandpaper. Though Walker's invention was instantaneous, not instantaneously, instantly. Popular, he did not patent it. Oh, as a result, others copied his design and began selling their own versions obscure obscuring his role as the inventor It wasn't long until after his death in 1859, that he
was acknowledged as the creator of the first friction match. So he didn't patent it. If he had patented it, we might not call them matches, we might still be calling them concrete. Yeah, so I, I am going to try real hard to remember to call them Congri from now on.
That's awesome. So on the topic of Fire, fire, don't fire. But smoke detectors. Were an accident.
Oh, yeah. I've heard about this one. Go ahead.
So there's this dude. And he was trying to make a poison gas detector, you know, as you do as you do in your free time, and he discovered that instead it like, registered the smoke from a cigarette instead of the poison gas.
Had a bit of an incident. What did you do? Did you go I took a drink. I took a drink of my my soda. Which I shouldn't be drinking this late. took a drink of my soda and some of the bubbles formed and started to come up as I was about to speak. And cause a little bit of an issue with me but I'm good now. I'm all good.
All right.
Almost almost coughed really loud. They're like you've been doing okay, so smoke detectors. He was he was making a he was like I'm worried about poison as he sits and smokes cigarettes. And
so I like the way it says it. He's a Swiss physicist,
Swiss physicist, Swiss physicist, a Swiss visitors. They that five times fast that that that that that.
Right there his name is Walter Yeager
purple burglar alarm.
Pub Pub above Galala. Yegor Yegor, it's like Jagger. You know,
yeah, there's there's an alcoholic drink called a Jaeger Jagermeister. So, just automatically with the J. Yeah. Yeah, so that just thought was funny because he was looking. She was making a poison detector while he was smoking a cigarette, and then it went off.
Yeah, they were apparently like, really high cost.
Oh, yeah. I mean, anything new. Until you get a good a good manufacturing process for it. And you can get costs down that way, then it's going to be expensive.
So I thought that was neat. I didn't know that. Those are.
Yeah, that's some of the other neat things that were accidental was Velcro. Yeah. You told me about this one. Swiss engineer. What's the name? Swiss physicist. Swiss engineer. It says George de Mestral. But it might be your dog might be pronounced your dog? I don't know. Or is it? Hog your dog? Your head? I
think it's just George.
No, it's It's your a new some some folks anyway. It didn't set out to invent a fastener that would someday be ubiquitous on spacecraft. This is back in 1941. He was on a walk with his dog. And they both got covered in those tiny little BB cocklebur plant. You don't know my little stickers. We call them stickers when I was kid, the little
spiky glands. What are those even? Okay, let
me look it up. cocklebur plant is what you're looking for. So he saw that the burrs were shaped like little hooks, which snagged on the loops of the clothing and then also snagged on his dog's fur and was fascinated so he tried to create his own hook and loop a fabric which is what you call that type of fastener if it's if you're not using the brand name velcro because you know, there's other brands. The name combines French words valores and crochet crochet, which means velvet and
hook. Despite the moniker, the creation was not well it was made from nylon was not crocheted. It took a while for the for the fashion world to catch on. But NASA was an early adopter using Velcro on spacesuits and shuttles. I love Velcro. And I'm gonna say something and people pick on me for it. And they make fun of me and they call me names. But I will I wear velcro shoes.
Because I can tell you right now who does
my daily walkers,
he has two little straps of velcro my little velcro shoes.
I got him because I just needed some cheap tennis shoes that I didn't care if they got messed up. And these shoes have been fantastic. And they've been comfortable. And I don't have to sit there and tie my shoes. And it saves me i It saves me four hours a day trying to tie my shoes.
Totally. I like Velcro because it's so much easier to like put and so on to stuff to fasten it. Then like the hook, the snaps and the hook and loop.
I like the one of my favorite uses for the hook and loop is the the wire wraps. So instead of using the twisty ties, or rubber bands or something like that, I like to wrap around the wires.
Yeah, Velcro Velcro. I'm not saying who can loop like Velcro. I'm saying how can loop like the little little hook in the loop. Middle wire on like clothing. Oh,
you're talking Okay. Yeah, so you're not talking about Velcro? fastener. Okay, so that I was confused
Velcro. You can just sew in with a sewing machine. Yeah, pretty easy. Yeah, I like
the the wire wire strap so you can get I got like 100 Pack. Yeah, everything in this. Everything in the studio is wrapped with things. That's fantastic. And I love it. So
yeah, I get when we're here.
So, let me see it. Is it hooked on something? Nope. Okay, so check it out. If you hate that, if you hate that noise, you might want to skip a few seconds because I'm going to do it right into the mic. Asthma. Oh, okay, so it's kind of loud. They have come out with quieter versions. What? Yeah, there's a no, they they came out and made it quieter back in 2021. So this this is how this is how I make sure that nobody hears me when
I'm like unfastening some Velcro. Yeah, I take it you got it and I can actually explain how this isn't like a video thing you can actually talk about your grab. You know the the piece that you grabbed to pull off the whichever side it is. And right when you go To pull it you just see, you barely heard the Velcro. You just could just scream while you're opening the velcro and nobody. Yeah.
Ah, you definitely heard it.
Yeah, you gotta scream real loud and I didn't want to do it on my mic. Okay, you know what, it's a bad joke and it does work better in person. So they can't they can't all be winners. I can't all be winners.
I'm gonna look at the silent vulgar stuff.
Yeah, look it up. waste your time. Okay, popsicles? Popsicles popsicles.
Are those excellent. Oh, yeah.
There was an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson who simply mixed some soda powder and water and left it out overnight with a stir stick Still. Still in the in the mixer, like in the cup that he was mixing it. Still got to stick in there. When he woke up in the morning he decided to lick his frozen soda blend. It doesn't say that he put it. He left it out
overnight. Maybe it's cold.
Right? Yeah, maybe you left it outside. Yeah. Like cannabis. Yeah. Because it's cold in Canada sometimes. Yeah.
We're not the only people on earth
when he woke up in the morning. Let's see. So it tastes it tastes pretty good. That this story is not written very well. Like it's like, more questions than there are answers sounds like
me trying to explain something. It's like, hey, so there was a dude and he left something outside with his stick in it. And he came out and he was like, it's pretty good.
Oh, boy,
it's me trying to summarize these things on the test today. We had to read a passage and summarize it. And I tried my best to like be professional.
That's fine. So so like there's this guy, guy, and like he the covalent. Still just coat covalent bonds just then there's this guy. Okay, so, safety glass, safety glass. On one fateful day in 1903, scientist Edward Benedictus was working on his own lab when he accidentally knocked over a flask. However, when Benedictus looked down, he noticed that rather than breaking into a million little pieces, the glassware had actually just crapped slightly while my taint maintaining its
shape. After looking into it a bit further, scientists learned that what had kept the glass together was a cellulose nitrate coating on the inside of the glass and safety glass was created. Whoa,
did you like my little Yeah, my little reality television called stingers stingers to get someone the soundboard so I can do that whenever you
It's better when you do it with your face. No. All right, so so that that one is another one he had. So cellulose nitrate coating the inside so he didn't clean out his is number two, number two, number two, we wouldn't have saved the glass you've kept clean.
Number two, keep clean. Don't get too far. What was the third one? What? Don't eat more.
Okay, so this, this wasn't this is actually a very intentional, very intentional invention. But one of the stories like I learned a long time ago and I bring up when it comes to intention vention intention,
intention vention
WD 40. Like we used it all the time when I was a kid to like spray bike parts and whatnot with and I thought that it was like a type of grease or oil, right? It was like, oh, yeah, grease it up. But then I found out that it's a water displacement formula. It's Oh displaces water. And it was the 40th attempt to get it right. So that's why it's called WD 40 has water displacement formula. 40
Well, that took a little while. Yeah.
Was 3939 Yeah, before it Yeah, obviously wants some shelf somewhere in the 40 there's WD one. I want to try whatever you do to we're doing these ones probably he's like sugar water. Or like, just oil just strictly Yeah, we used motor oil. Oh, wow.
So I kind of made my fingers stick together with a piece of thread. And I didn't think about how I'm gonna get them off when was this, like two minutes ago? Why don't you try my fingers together?
Why would you do such a thing?
I was bored. I was talking. I was talking about the unintentional engine. We're gonna call the episode that and we're just gonna have to watch it or listen to it. I keep saying Watch it. Watch it. We
don't do video.
I know. That's why I'm like confused myself. You're supposed to do it on intention mention
on intention vention is that what we're naming it? Yeah, so I gotta go back. Look at the one now I gotta go back and redo all of the all of this stuff that I've already put accidentally? No, it's fine. I'll just do a find and replace. outs to Find Replace easy. Yeah, just Ctrl F and then you type it in and then hit the Replace button. And then let's see. It might be Ctrl H to do to go ahead and pull up a find and replace I don't know. Using VS code, I don't know like shortcut
keys for it. So it is it is what it is. Um, I think oh, the microwave oven. Oh, well tell me about it and science oven. Yeah, Percy LeBron Spencer was working on a magnetrons high powered vacuum tubes that generate shortwave radio, short radio waves called microwaves. When he accidentally discovered microwave cooking, you accidentally, he accidentally made some microwave cooking. The engineer was doing his job. Usually when he noticed that a candy bar he had in his pocket
had melted. Quickly spent to realize that it was magnetrons that were causing the phenomenon. By 1945, he had filed a patent for his metal cooking box powered by microwaves. So here's a fun fact. And pro tip. If anybody's ever getting rid of an old microwave, if it still seals up, it is a it is a Faraday cage. It's
so you can what am I crazy?
Yeah, microwave. Microwave is a Faraday cage because think about how it works. The outsides of it block the microwaves inside from getting out. Right?
Yeah, so you don't get cancer,
right. So if you put something inside of it, it also blocks the outside stuff from getting in.
So cancer from getting a fared,
if you need a Faraday cage cancer proof cage. That's not what I said. And this is not medical advice. Rule number four. Never listen to anybody about microwaves. Know, if you have like you see an old garage sale or you see somebody who's about to throw one out, or you hear about it be like, Hey, let me get that and you just put it in the garage. You put a couple of walkie talkies, some extra batteries, some stuff, electronics that you don't want to get messed up, if there's
some kind of EMP. Or, you know, the, what are they called? Solar flares can cause problems electronics. Yeah, I'll just we'll we'll, we'll fun fun fact. Also, if you don't want to do that, you can actually rip an old microwave apart and there's like five pounds of copper in it. What? Yeah, there's a there's a coil in there. About five pounds of coiled up copper in a microwave. That's nice. Which I mean, yeah, pure copper.
It's, it's worth something. Not a lot. Not a lot. It's kind of cool to have a big ol ball of copper.
I mean, if you want not my thing, but
another one that a lot of people talk about is post it notes. He was he was just trying to come up with some adhesives. And he had gotten some on a piece of paper and then found out that hey, it was really weak adhesive and like he could restrict it to other things, you know, without leaving any residue on whatever he stuck it on. Oh, cool. Cool. Cool. I like this neat. So we learned about penicillin. Chocolate chip cookies, microwaves dynamite Mulgrew, mold. Don't catch it on fire.
Don't catch on fire and don't eat it.
Don't eat fire. No,
don't eat mold.
Don't catch on. Don't catch on mold. Or mold. Don't eat. That's it right?
Keep your workspace clean.
Stay in school. Stay in school. The more you know.
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