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howdy everybody. This is Fun Fact Friday we would broadcast were discussed on facts running different topic each week. I am your host na. Host. David,
I'm the host.
I'm the host. What are you?
The host?
gotta kinda making that s sound kind of funny.
I look I know. I promise you I know.
Leila is avoiding s sounds right now. Yeah. All right. So first off, we apologize for being late this week. It was unavoidable. There's a new Mexican restaurant opened up.
We had to go out and then I couldn't eat the stupid chips. were
delicious. Last night we got home and it just wouldn't happen. To work. Yeah, Leila had a pile of homework this week. And with our well okay, let's let's get started real quick. Welcome to Fun Fact Friday. Welcome. Real quick. We're just gonna go into what's been going on with us this week. Good news, bad news. Fun, fun stuff. We won't make it too long. Feel free to jump forward in the podcast a little bit if you don't care about our lives. And you just want some fun facts.
What are our facts going to be about this week? Leila? I don't know. Exactly. With random facts. Every once in a while we do this we hop around. Like we collect random facts over time. And they don't fit a particular topic. Or there's not enough facts in that topic to make a whole episode. So we just we we keep track of sites that we find and random mind blowing facts or facts you wouldn't believe things like that. So random
facts. This episode was always fun. We always have some good conversations.
But not recently.
So last week, we recorded on Tuesday, super early stay and released on Friday, like normal, but Leila had to have a major procedure. So why don't you tell us all about your fun times. At the orthodontist. It
wasn't major. They put this little thing in my mouth and I stretched out my cheeks and held my tongue back. And they cleaned up my teeth dried off my teeth, put some glue on them. They put these little metal things on there. And I put a wire on the metal things. Yeah, these are called braces, obviously.
So like, how did it all How did it all How did it go? How did it go?
Oh, the plan was fine. So
I mean, like I've never gotten braces. What was the whole process like you like did you just go into like a super private room? Like why don't you talk we'll talk about the whole the whole situation
so they got me from the waiting room? I sound disgusting. By the way. My mouth is so like lispy I don't know how to explain it. You have a lisp
it's fine. All I gotta take a sip of water do a little bit of clicking noises bothers me more. But we can I might be able to put a filter on you. That will get rid of the clicking noises from the braces. But they may also not be noticeable to anybody but me because I click I can I can hear something
I don't know what okay
I don't know we're not touching each other. No, I know they're not but like your lips are touching them. Anyway we're getting in the weeds about production stuff so anyways
they brought me back I had to brush my teeth in front of them that was scary
I wouldn't want an audience will push exactly
they have like a little little sink in the procedure room which is just a big ol room with like six chairs in it that like everyone gets their braces on at the same time apparently it was so weird.
It was like a it's an open room it was like a conveyor belt type factory setting it looked like there was like it looked like a I don't know there was just all these people in there getting all their braces on at the same time in the same room getting
cleaned or checked out. Yeah. But they had like little prepackaged toothbrushes with toothpaste already on them. So you just had to wet it and brush your teeth but that was still scary man.
Yeah, that's that's crazy. And this orthodontists we go to did a good job yeah, they're very well well received in our area and they their marketing game is on point like they give you a T shirts and pins and all kinds of stuff with their name and emblazoned all over it there they got to get their given about promotional items all over the place. Yeah. And if I understand correctly, if somebody who works there. See outlet Yeah, what is it?
I think it's either like a McDonald's gift card or like 100 bucks.
Yeah, if they happen to be out and about and see you with one of their shirts on, you get you win a prize,
you win a prize. So, marketing man. Yeah. So
it's pretty cool. And of course, they don't have to like, Oh, crap, I'll just act like I didn't see him. You know, they can just do. But yeah, so that's what that's what Leila that's why we did and then on. I'm glad we didn't do the show because we weren't thinking about doing the show after she got the braces. And like, right after she got the braces.
She was a pain man. Yeah. Yeah, so like my teeth were very sore. Like the braces didn't cut me up or anything. Like I thought they would. My My mouth is very strong, apparently. According to the orthodontists.
But yeah, so like, we but that evening, when we would have normally recorded she was just kind of sore from like, having to hold her mouth open and just the everything tightening
around Yeah, everything. Yeah, and they don't move around. So it's a weird experience. My mouth was like, and
you were talking real funny the next day, just cuz you know, you got a whole lot going on there. But it's gotten better now at play practice, because the Center Stage Theatre here in Goldsboro is doing A Christmas Carol and we're both in it. And Leila has a speaking role. She has to say a word with S, isn't it? She was like adding all kinds of sounds into the words. It was very funny. But yeah, let me I know we do have some local listeners. If you are in the Goldsboro, Wayne County, even
eastern North Carolina area, we will be having the play. I'm pulling up the calendar right now the eighth through the 10th Yeah, eighth ninth and 10th and Goldsboro at the paramount. It's a Christmas carol and it's got a little bit of a funny twist on it. So yeah, come on. See it. It's fun. We're having a we're having a good time putting it together. I forgot how much fun theater can be. Especially once everybody gets into goofing off
mood during rehearsals. Because everyone's already got it down. Yeah, people are people are getting getting to the point where they know their parts and other just we're all just having fun and stuff. Yeah. So So yeah, we're having now I'm normally on our will show here. We like to do this little segment called called good news. Right? We we play our player. That's the That's not it. We play our little jingle. And we Oh, welcome to Fun Fact Friday. Good news. Guess what? This other
little tiny show with like eight listeners? Yeah. Called no agenda.
I mean, who's even heard it? No agenda, man. Right. So like,
now this is a massive show. They've actually, you know, they talk we've talked about us before, and we've we've talked about them before. But they this this, this is what happened. I'm going to turn it down a little bit because I'm not sure how long this is gonna be. I've been playing with the audio settings.
So for example, John C. Dvorak: beginning and we need a jingle for this. Oh, the good news of the week that you specifically requested. I requested it. Yes, I did. Shall we start with the three by threes. So, so you stole our segment. That's our segments, our segment. They're still in our bit. You're still in our funniness
John and Adam, if you continue this we are going to cease and desist. Yeah, I'm gonna send a super official cease and desist legal
action.
Yes. Now I'm just kidding. It's not it's not like we're the first people to do good news thing I think that guy from the office place jam had a whole good news thing when the parent when the Paramount started when the pandemic starts. Now Yeah, so
yeah, like some some good news, I think was what was things called it
was like, yeah, it was like him and his kids. Yeah, just you know, goofing off. Like, like, we're doing exactly what we're doing. Yeah, except we're doing you know, fun facts. Not on that. So speaking of fun facts, Ill Leila me. What's your favorite random
snails. Oh, wait, we already did that one on here.
Did you do a snails one already?
Yeah, we did. Um, snails will have teeth. It has like, teeth in their throat almost. Yeah.
1000s of 1000s. We just did that like last week. Episode. I found out this sleep 20 hours a day. Yes. They're very lazy. They're almost as lazy as lions. rats
don't have a digestive system. Well, they do. It's just like, something goes in and just immediately comes
out are all of your random facts about animal biology.
I like biology
gross animal biology can
live without their frontal lobe and their hippocampus. What's the hippocampus? hippocampus is where? What
what they call the, the college living area. For
hippos. The hippocampus is where your brain stores all your short term memories.
All right. Oh, so like, like on that movie 51st dates? Yeah, her hippocampus got all jacked up. Yeah. So fun movie. It's a fun movie. Um,
I like family movie. You like that? Oh, frontal lobe is decision making as well as why 25 year olds and younger, their frontal lobe isn't fully developed. That's why they can't make decisions. Yes. You
got to you got to make sure people 25 And under have a good, solid support network for decision making. Yeah, not saying there's no, there's no judgment in this. This is not I'm saying people under 25 are dumb, or anything like that. But
there is proof there. Yeah, they're not fully developed, not fully
developed. So yeah, there you go. So did you know we're talking about animals? Humans are the only animals with chins.
Did you know that there's a phobia against chins?
There's a chin phobia. I actually find that.
I just learned about this on a Good Mythical Morning the other day genial phobia
is the fear of 10s Well, then you can only be afraid of other humans then because humans are the only Yeah, I wonder if like when I read this fact, I was like, Wait a minute. Hold on. I'm thinking of every animal right now.
Yeah. Your abs have chins. I was like,
cats have chin what's defined as a chin. Yeah, what's the so I'm like, man, yeah. Um, so there's, there's a whole article about it in audiology.org. And it says humans have a few biological advantages compared to other species. Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, correct. There are only we are the only animals on earth with true chins. While we are filled familiar with scratching our pups or kittens on their
chins, that is not what we're really scratching at all. We are scratching their mandible, or the lower part of their jaw, a true chin, which humans have is a bony part that juts out at the bottom of our face. It is specifically a lump of bone that protrudes forward from the lower jaw. Even our extinct relatives Homo erectus, as well as chimpanzees and gorillas do not have chins. I was on. Hold on. All right. All right. Elephants have and manatees have chin like protrusions on their lower jaws.
But they don't quite qualify as true chin still reading from audiology.org You
know, I know some humans that don't have gents. I am
at your date. I was gonna say how he fold towels though. How does agitate fold towels? Oh my gosh. Yeah, no, there's a I was like, when I read that. I was like, I've seen a chin. I've seen a chin on an animal but no, it's just their job. They don't have a specific bone sticking out there. So I was like, Okay, well, if we're getting real technical II moves. No, not emo emu.
I know Hold on. I think it moves have chains now they have beaks nevermind. Another
another fact. And this. This one's kind of always blown my mind how this how this all works. Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan. Who's
Harriet Tubman.
So you don't know who Harriet Tubman is? Girl? Underground Railroad?
Oh. Yeah, I think a little bit. We learned about this in like fifth grade.
Yeah, fifth grade, right? So it just always like blows my mind when you hear like this historical figure. And then this historical figure, we're only this many years apart. You know, and you're you think Ronald Reagan Oh, that's in the modern times. Because I I remember when Ronald Reagan was president who's Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was president. Yeah, in the 80s.
In the 80s. Yeah, Harriet Tubman wasn't in the 80s. She
was still alive when Ronald Reagan was alive.
So he was born in 1911. Yes,
he was very old. So to go into this one a little deeper. Let's see. Tubman was born in the early 1820s. However, an exact date did not appear to be nailed down by historians. Jefferson, the third president died on July 4 1826. Reagan was born February 6 1911. Tubman died in 1930 on March 10. So Tobin was born Like before Jefferson died and died right after Reagan was born. So her lifespan, but like, I don't
know, it's kind of tough. When you look at people that were everything before you were born is like lumped together in your brain as the distant past. Yeah, the way I, the way my brain works anyway. And then you find out that certain people were like, alive contemporaneously, or obviously, the other were alive at all at the same time. You're like, wait a minute, I thought this guy was like the, like 300 BCE, and this guy was No, no, it was 1800. But it's all the same to me as before I
was born. It's before anything mattered. Right? Yeah.
Okay, so Cuca melons are mouse melons look like a grape size watermelon and they have a citrus flavor. They don't look like a grape size watermelon on the outside they do. But on the inside, they look
like a cucumber looks like a lime alive and cucumber mix.
And you shake it all up.
But the lime and the cucumber and check it out. They don't it doesn't work. Because it does. Okay, so, so good to taste like
tourists. Usually added to salads, or made into salsa. Okay, weird.
So here here's one that we can tasty. Here's here's a fact that we can try right here on our audio podcast to annoy our listeners. It is all is impossible to hum while holding your nose. So let's let's give it a go. Let's let's hum let's hum a Christmas song or something.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha. No.
I'm just grunting Okay, so this humming only count when your mouth is closed. Or is humming count if your mouth is open.
I think I counted those because I can hold my mouth open. And I just forgot to close it. Sometimes
you forget to close your mouth. Yeah, just hangs there. Agape. Your nose is always visible in your field of vision. Your brain just filters it out.
Well, this new world could fit inside candidate eight, ad 1975.
What kind of effect is that?
If you wanted to know how many Walt Disney worlds will fit inside Canada,
what if it means that it's like it can only like go into. Like, the way that that's worded is like if you moved if you picked up Walt Disney World and moved it into Canada and then back out. You could only move it in and out before it explodes. Oh, speaking of explode. Elon, Elon Musk sent a spaceship up and one of the one of the rockets seems to have exploded. But they didn't want to call it that. Oh my gosh, one
of the bathrooms in school has something written on the wall and it says just like I love Elon Musk, and I think it's hilarious. I see I love Elon Musk.
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, it's funny. But yeah, one of the starship boosters. This just happened a couple hours ago. And they it had a, quote, rapid unscheduled disassembly.
It's like people, critical homeless people on how are the people experiencing unhealed? Yeah, they're
just, they're adding words to a word that is perfectly, but they say that on that one. They say that it's become Yeah, I dropped my phone. It's become like derogatory to say someone who's homeless, I'm gonna know it's a descriptive term. They don't they don't have a home to go to. How is it derogatory? It's just explaining their state. But we're not here to get into political definitions. So it's like
the people in my class that don't want to be called band kids. They want to be called Kids in band because band kids have like a negative connotation.
Band of nerds, maybe Oh, hold on, I gotta pick my phone up and squeaky chair.
Spending a few months in Antarctica can shrink your brain. What?
What?
I don't know. Well, doesn't
give any explanation.
There's a lot of words, but I'm gonna try and read them all. Some of these words are useless. But if you ever take a trip to Antarctica, be sure to do as much socializing as you possibly can and come with stimulating ways to keep yourself busy. Research published by the New England Journal of Medicine in December 2019 explained to the brain imaging in eight polar expeditioners before and after 14 months of isolation showed that the volume of the
hippocampal dentate gyrus was lower than that in controls. Oh Okay. So it can shrink your hippocampus.
All right, just being there, or not interacting with a lot of people. No.
I mean, those can Oh, no,
hold on. I wonder. I would kind of like to dig into that. Or you could dig into it because you're into Brain Stuff. Yeah. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that there's not a lot of stimuli there because like, everything's just white. Everything white snow, white
and mountains and cold, right. No fluctuation in temperature.
Yeah, there's no there's no, yeah, there's no colors. I know. I've read somewhere that the color green, especially seeing green of the color green plants. Yeah. Just seeing them even if it's just an image improves your mood. Yeah. So like, it's good to have plants around the house or like your wallpaper on your computer to have like, oh, yeah, it's mine. Green green scenery. I know I like having, having like, outdoor landscape type scenery. Speaking of landscape, Plymouth
Rock is not anywhere near as big as I thought it would be. Oh, my
gosh, we had a whole conversation about this the other day. Yeah. And
it's just like a little rock. It's, it's just like, Yeah, it's like a rock that you would buy from the landscaper because you have a spot in your yard that needs a feature, you know, like, sick, maybe maybe five foot wide by three foot or on it, and somebody chiseled a number into it. And I'm like, this isn't 20 this is Plymouth Rock. This is like the big deal. I don't know if it like I saw a cartoon. And when I was a kid that made me think it was bigger, but I thought it was like like, it's
like the size of an average person. Yeah, like that's it. Plymouth
Rock is not that impressive is what we're saying. It's not at
all. It's just a little bolder. So
Leila, yeah.
Am I a nerd or a cool guy? Both. Okay. Cool. Nerd guy. Yeah, like me. My
new show nerd to talk with the cool guys is coming up. We're getting started. I've got my first guest lined up. Getting a rollin anyway, the word nerd. Do you know who invented it? Me?
Now, you know,
Joseph 1978. Yes. No, it was actually Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss.
invented the word nerd because I'm not going to use the word narrative doc. According
to Merriam Webster. There are many origins in the word nerd. Okay. And Dr. Seuss's 1950 composition of whimsy. If I ran the zoo, zoo, yeah. We have to seem what to be is the what to be. We have what seems to be the first occurrence of nerd in print and quote from the from the book, or, yeah, and then just to show, I'll sail to cut through and bring back and it
cut a probe and approve a nickel 100 and a seer sucker too. So in October of the following year, Newsweek carried an article about the latest slang that include the word nerd in Detroit. It notes someone who wants someone wants who, like someone who wants would be called a drip or a square is now regrettably a nerd. Or in less severe cases, US curve. So who is somebody who's kind of a nerd is a skirt?
A skirt? I love it.
Oh, gotta make a skirt shirt. Hold on. I gotta get my notepad. Where's my notepad?
I just gave it back to you because we were writing levels.
I can't find my pin.
It's right here. Why is it dropped it when I was trying to give it back to you? Okay,
I have my pin I have my bed skirt.
I asked for AI. The word nerd has a rich and interesting history, and its origins can be traced back to the early 20th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary. The word nerd was first used in 1950s to describe a foolish or inept person and it's believed to have originated from the third nerdling which was used in the 1930s to describe a foolish or awkward person.
What see now we're good. We're going deeper. We're going deeper. I asked AI nerd Ling or Jen. We're
going to trace this back to like
years zero. We're in a we're in a nerd. Okay. Etymology, the first documented appearance of the word nerd that's just what I was looking at. Okay, nerd Ling. Word. Word, noun, plural Nerdlings I
got more however, the word nerd gained popularity in and took on different meanings in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly among teenagers and young adults. During this time, the word nerd began to be used to describe someone who was highly intelligent, enthusiastic and passionate about a particular subject or activity, such as science, mathematics or technology. So that's just telling you the word nerd means. Okay, I'm on AI.
Come on AI. AI has gone downhill. Like it was more impressive. It was more impressive a year ago than it is now.
This is AI dot not the art the arts getting Yeah, because I asked about AI. Okay, I use this a lot. So getting
going back to the nerd thing.
Yeah. Anyways, here's
the here's three nerds for you. Right? What do Donald Trump, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have in common? Other than they were all presidents? I don't know. They're all been they were born in the same year?
What No, I don't believe what year was Who are they? What do you see? George W. Bush,
I can just pull up the article that has all the information that you're about to find. Oh, what is this?
What do you mean?
Oh my gosh, I'm using I'm using a browser that doesn't have an ad blocker, and it's like, oh, you can't read this unless you give us $1 Why don't you have? Oh my gosh, I don't know I opened it in Chrome for some reason. That's weird. You said Brave is your is my default. But I opened it in Chrome for you open it and I was I was pulling up a YouTube video. And I use Chrome for YouTube. Because it's logged in to my account because we have YouTube premium. Yeah.
fingernails grow three times faster than toenails Yeah, no.
No, even though it doesn't seem like oh my god look at all what
in Germany Mr. Clean is known as Mr. Proper. Oh my gosh. Mr. Proper. Oh, my gosh.
I've told you other than Mr. Clean law before
Mr. Clean has lower. He has a whole thing.
Yeah.
Oh my God, that's hilarious. Son can fit a million times inside the Earth. Wait a minute, once because it'll get destroyed.
It's extremely humongous. How many earths will fit into the sun? We ask that you eagles. How many earths? Because I know this answer. Eats says a million fit in the sun. But you said the Sun fit into the earth. No, no.
Third fits inside the sun.
So okay, well, you said it wrong.
I said it wrong. I apologize. It does happen occasionally. No. Did you know that? Do you know Barbies full name? Barbara
Millicent Roberts. Yes. Yes. Yeah.
How about the Cookie Monster's real name? I don't know. Sid said
I know Barbara Millicent Roberts because of glory Life in the Dreamhouse. She was like motivating herself to like go change the batteries in the city in like heels. And she was like, I am Barbara Millicent robbers and I was like, Oh, okay. Roberts. I need to pronounce the T. I sound like like I'm saying robbers.
Yeah, that's because of the whole braces thing. I'm
guessing. Yeah. The longest bicycle in the world is over 150 and 135 feet long. I need to make a longer bicycle. Yeah,
we could just make another bike and make it a foot longer and then win the award. What do you get if you get a Guinness World Record? Don't you get like $100,000
Just gotta get one record.
Lame. All right. All right. I got it. I got a question. Statistically, should you be more afraid of sharks or vending machines? Vending
Machines vending machine like sharks only killed like what five people a year less?
It's a low number. Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you as a shark is yes twice as likely and that means because most they are more likely to kill you. Yes. How often? Are you in the ocean? Like Like, like the average person so there are so many people on this planet who never ever get in the ocean?
Yeah, like think of like people that are inland Yeah.
So yeah, there is a whole we got we could do a whole episode on misplaced fear. Yeah, there's some things that people are so afraid of. That are so unlikely to harm you but like movies and and movies and TV in the news have like, gotten people to think that these things like the scariest things in the world actually
like you if you're in the ocean with a shark you can just like move it out of the way well, it'll be fine. Pretty much
it's there's ways to handle sharks. They're very machine like creatures like they have like a certain they don't have emotions. They don't get angry. It's like the room It's like a robot. If you do this,
they'll do this. No. hippopotamuses are way more.
I'm not saying try this stuff now saying this is not. This is not healthcare advice. No, it's
not at all.
Oh my gosh. So,
hold on, I have one.
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don't know how to hook up reviews. I'm just gonna turn on my phone or put it towards my Okay, thanks. I could do this. That's easier. They're gonna Rios or even my close to him. Okay, so there's this couple that tried to change to name their baby this. Okay.
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did you know there's only one number? What? That has the same amount of letters as its numerical value?
Oh, wait. Yeah, I think four.
Yeah, because there's four letters. And that's the only one.
Yep.
Oh, I forgot about this one. I think we've talked about before wombats poop is shaped like a cube. Wait
a minute.
They poop cubes. Carefully. I don't want to see a picture. There's a picture. Oh my gosh. It's crazy. Okay, so
Tara Misu ever measured? Was 809 D seven feet long and three inches?
Why are people making these big old desserts? Oh, it's so when you get done with your bike ride on that huge bike. You have something to eat? Yeah, three regain your calories you burned off.
How do you see that long. Okay, so
talking about presidents. Did you know that there are multiple presidents in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame? No, including Abraham Lincoln.
I love that. Oh my god, I could see him as the wrestling
is a Abraham Lincoln legendary wrestling story. He was a county wrestling champion at the age of 21. I love it. That's fantastic. Oh my gosh, there's a there's an artist's rendition of him wrestling. Oh, man. So
there's just like a really obvious factor on here. There's no computers for the Amish.
What? That's the whole. Exactly.
That's the whole point of being Amish. There are no computers for the Amish, which have no internet videos or music. Amish people tend to reject modern ways. But despite that, there's still a computer made specifically for the tech weary group.
Hey, what real quick. Can you can you point your mic down a little bit. It's not pointing directly your mouth and it's Yeah, your levels are off. There you go much clearer. Do you know what the national animal of Scotland is? Us. Got? What? There's an animal called the Scott. I don't know. Maybe it's a unicorn.
Oh, yeah. I feel like I need
Yeah, I feel like we've said that on the show before we've got 190,000 episodes under. Oh, wow.
How many facts we said on each podcast episode. There's
a couple of geographical facts that kind of like they kind of blow your mind a little bit because just how you've got the idea of what the globe looks like in your brain. New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.
Clams have feet?
Of course they do. I thought they had pseudo pods. What fake sour says on here.
says while it might look like clams have a big tongue. They sometimes retreat to Michel to poke out the ocean floor. We're actually seeing is a foot the appendage relatively long in comparison to the overall size of the creature is used to dig in the sand. I've seen like clans propel themselves through the water and it's so funny looking. Oh my gosh, Leila what?
There's such a thing as a double king sized bed. It's called an Alaskan king. This might have a bed. I need that embryo that would take our whole route would take up my whole room. That would be amazing. then you just walk in you're in bed
so all of the water on earth fell as rain once it oh no, if all of the water on earth fell as rain at once the entire planet would be What? What? Everything
would get wet,
obviously, the entire planet would get one inch of precipitation effect. Then it turned into that one piece world where like everything
what was the speaking of pyramids and then like spreading things out over the world? Oh, I had to find it. There's a I was watching this thing about like facts about the pyramids and how its dimensions are like so intricate with and they they interact with, we could do a whole episode on the pyramids. So it's like if you take the cap of the, the the Great Pyramid, the big one of where it was when it was built, because you know, you can figure that out because it used to have like a lime
coating anyway. It takes that exact measurement. And if you were to take all of the land on Earth, and average out its elevation, it would be exactly the height of the pyramid. And I'm like, That's neat. is a coincidence? I don't know.
So the phrase, uma up at this done is upside down spelled upside down.
Speaking of upside down, I used to have a buddy. I've talked to him forever, but he had a band called Who knows? And it was sound flipped upside down. And backwards. Yeah. That wasn't as interesting.
What if you folded a piece of paper? 42 times it'd be thick enough to reach the moon.
That's okay.
40 or you're not? Are you not excited about this suite of photo paper? times? Yeah,
if you double things they go they go quick. Oh, yeah, pretty quick.
It's like a metric paper.
Oh, no. What? There's an image on this website and it says this is what the inside of a bag of popcorn looks like. It was disgusting. That looks gross. That's it's probably like coconut oil. Yes, coconut oil and like salt. And whatever flavorings the flavor is it just looks like it looks gross.
Oxymoron is an oxymoron. What? How? According to Merriam Webster, an oxymoron is a combination of contradictory words or incongruent words are used. They use cruel kindness to illustrate their point. But the dictionary could also could the dictionary also could have used the word oxymoron as an example, since it turns out the word is an oxymoron itself. Oxymoron is derived from the Greek words Oxus meaning sharp in marranos, meaning dollar stupid.
Oh, that's neat. That's really neat.
Things do that?
There's another shirt. Oxymoron is an oxymoron. Yeah, hold on. I put the pad down in the pen now I gotta find them. Skirt, we got skirt.
Oxford. The Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.
Oxymoron is an oxy moron. So what I'm thinking is like when we have a fact like that. What we can do is, and this this will be episode. On the merch, we can actually put the episode that that factors in on the shirt, because we put FunFactFriday.com So we can be like oxymoron is an oxymoron episode 141 4164 FunFactFriday.com
164. We're on 160.
We've done this 164 times. No more than that. Because we've got stuff that we've never published published. We we've recorded sometimes, yeah, we will. We will get like 25 minutes almost done with an episode and be like, that was not good. Let's redo it. Yeah. And because like we're not in the mood or something. Yeah, yeah. We just sometimes it just it's not working. That's sometimes what we're
late. Like, we haven't even done that in a while. And then a while. Yeah, so we're getting pretty good at this. Yeah.
I mean, the fact that we've done a lot of so many times and we've never had to restart a Live episode was good. Yeah. Hopefully we'll we'll get back to live eventually. It's just not in the cards right now with all this stuff we've got going on. So
the Aztecs civilly civilly
restart. The
Aztec civilization in central Mexico began in 1325. But the Oxford University was built in 1249. So the Aztecs We're after the Oxford University was built. The Oxford University is older than the
MC yet see all of that is just all so far before I was born that might as well have all happened in the same year.
People used to think that some lambs grew on trees. What? The vegetables what was thought to be an animal that grew from the lamb tree in a region of tartare? Oh,
yes, hearts. Oh, my God does keep going. Keep going,
an area that eventually became Europe and Central Asia. The special plants came in two different varieties. And according to the medieval texts, the myth has been traced back to the year 436. One grew newborn lambs inside of pods, and another produce a lamb that is attached to a stem by its belly button. The lambs were apparently hunted for their flesh, which tasted like fish and sweet blood. So apparently they thought the lambs were growing on trees.
Well, oh, no, hold on. No, hold on.
You got very excited when I mentioned dark hairy. Okay.
So I went down a rabbit hole at night. Of course you did. Oh my gosh. Tartary. Touch Haria has a oh, oh. Okay. I almost pulled my microphone off the ceiling. I've got my microphone mounted to the ceiling and be like, screw it in. Yeah, I need to make a little hole. Yeah. So um, Tartary. Tart. Haria. Sorry. Used to be a huge area. Yeah. And I don't want to I don't want to talk too much about it. Because it is like a long time ago that I went down this rabbit
hole. And I don't remember. But like, there's a lot of people who think that it was like a super advanced civilization. So maybe they did genetically engineer plants that grill him on him. That tasted like fish. I'll dig into that. Maybe we'll do a special on it or something. Because it's, there's a lot of a lot of information about Tartary out there. tortilleria Tartary, whatever it's called. But I don't want to speak too much about it. Because I don't remember everything that I've
I've, you know, dug down that hole to the word. So oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, before we go into that. Talking about water you're talking about if all the water fell at once, it would be an inch of rain. The probability that you are drinking the probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur and was expelled. You know what I
mean? Yeah, yeah. PP. is almost is almost 100% I love it. That's well, there's, there's also a thing saying like, it's almost certain that you have breathed the same oxygen molecule, as Alexander the Great it picked, pick a person in a distant distant past from their last breath. Because those, you know, when n came back out and floated around the planet, yeah, yeah. So they're so spread out in the way that the stuff spreads. Kind of like the Tootsie Roll thing. Like 1% They leave 1% of the
Tootsie Roll in the vat that they make it in. Like they don't just they don't get every you know, scrape of Tootsie Roll material out of that vast that tastes like yeah, medically modified don't I don't like him. There's so artificial tasting. It's like gum, but chocolate, right? And then it goes away. But they don't go in and like clean scrape the VAT every single time, there's still some left from the last bet. So there's like 1%, give or take. But then the next time, only 1%
of that 1% is left and then the next time only 1% of that. So it like the chances of you getting from the first batch out of a batch of 10 is just so astronomically low. It's just the way the big numbers work. It's neat. It's neat, talking about big numbers. How many ways are there to arrange a deck of cards? A bunch, so many that there are less atoms on Earth than there are ways to arrange a deck of cards. That's cool. That's crazy. Also a deck of cards. Every king except the
King of Hearts has a mustache. King of Hearts and they all have beards. Which you know there's so many card designs, your standard deck of cards. And there it's interesting because there's there are like standards that have just been traditional. Like one king always has the sword behind his head will say that three of them have swords. One of them has an axe, there's all these different different things on cards. If you look in different decks, they get carried over. It's interesting
stuff. Yeah. Cards are very cool. I have what 70 decks of cards. Yeah. I like finding cool decks of cards and collecting them. And we oh my gosh, like
every Christmas, we try and buy him a new deck. But we had to look at his shelf for like a solid 10 minutes to figure out which ones he already
had, you know, they have these mystical things, right? It's this little rectangle that you can put in your pocket that you can you can take the rectangle out of your pocket and touch the black part of it in a certain way, the glass part and it will actually capture a still am I know, but he's out of it. And then later, later, you can you can look at that image. What to look at it and reference it. No one's already have. Did you know goats have accents?
I'm trying to say one. I've been
getting excited because some of these are so funny. Good.
So the word Shimoni Shama is a gourd Garyun got Georgie in Gregorian know, Georgia, Georgia and word meeting I accidentally ate the whole thing.
She, she right down. That's another shirt. And if we could have a funny image of somebody sitting there in front of an empty plate, crying, crying, emoji mom. Oh, well, a little chubby little cat or something in front of a plate. That'd be funny. So I came to the article to see the goats with accents. Right? It's in. It's on npr.org. And it talks about the goats bleed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They have different accents. Blah, blah, blah. But then like, it
just says sound bite of goat. It doesn't actually have a link to this just says in parentheses. A sound bite of goat. I
think someone was editing it and was like, well add that later. Yeah. Well, I didn't post Well, I didn't post but they didn't. They forgot. That's what it looks like.
Okay, I had an email. I thought it was important, but it's not
the world's most expensive hotdogs cost. $169
See, why don't we just make a hot dog and charge 170
It's made of wagyu beef. With men talking mushrooms. Butter teriyaki. Grilled onions. smoked cheese brought worst. Foie gras, Flora flora. Fogra. Shave black truffles, caviar and Japanese mayonnaise on a brochure. Rios been that. I don't think that'd be very good. I think that would just make me cry. Because I spend so much money on it. Yeah,
that's dumb. Yeah,
I mean, if you're rich, I guess.
I love a good hot dog. We got a hot dog place nearby. Oh my gosh, it's so good. They're so friendly in there. So you know who you know what Pluto is? Right.
Yeah, the beautiful planet. Well, it's tiny. It's a planet tiny. It's a planet. Yes.
But it's not big. You said a big old planet. I mean, it's big in relation to like me. But it's not big in relation to the other planet. I said big ol for like everything. Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun. From the time that it was discovered, to the time that it was declassified as a planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Okay, this
hot dog is like, it's like as big as a footlong sub yet, but it's pretty much a sob. But still. Yeah, but still, if you're rich, do whatever you want. I guess. There's a desert in Canada. Yeah, there's, I feel like there's a desert everywhere.
It's all over the place.
It's not very surprising. Okay, so Okay,
I got I got one for you. Yeah, this is this is always this is always fascinated me. 1000 seconds is about 16 minutes. Okay, a million seconds is 11 days. That tells you how many million is right. People say Oh, million dollars, right? Once if you got $1 for 11 days, right? A billion seconds. Is 32 years. It's that's ridiculous. So if somebody gave you $1 Every second of your of for it would take 32 years to be a billionaire to have a billion dollars.
And you think about like Elon Musk.
He has more than $1 billion. Like
at least a million dollars.
Right? A billion. Well, let
me look at his net worth. Okay,
so net worth is an interesting thing. Because I know Yeah, it's not like he has that cash on hand. 223
point 7 billion. Yep. If this may gave me $5 million, that would change my life. And he wouldn't
even it wouldn't even it wouldn't even notice, like when I noticed, and I saw a video, this guy took notepad, like Windows notepad, and he typed in 100,000 and then put a space and typed in 100,000 And did that 10 times. So it was a million, right? So it was 10 100 1000s. And he copy and pasted that 1000 times down the page, to break up a billion dollars into 100 million or $100,000. Stacks, with $100,000. That's life changing money for most of the world. Right? The vast, vast,
vast majority the world $100,000 would change your life. So excuse me, he would scroll down into it. And he like, somewhere in the middle, he would delete one of the $100,000 and see it, there you go. I just I just put, you know, I just bought a Lamborghini. And then he would scroll down some more and delete, delete, like five of them. And say I just bought a half a million dollar house. That's that's a mansion most places. Not these days. But that's a mansion in most places.
So but then he scrolled back to the top, and he was like, Alright, now I'm just gonna casually scroll down this and look for where I deleted those. That $600,000. And it took forever to find where and I'm like, wow, yeah. Wow.
Like there's this website called by spend Bill Gates money. Oh, yeah. Oh, fun. Was
that in the end? But then the notepad real quick. Yeah.
And it's just hold on. Nope, that's Ctrl B, not Ctrl V. There you go. So it has a bunch of stuff. That's just you would buy and then has a bunch of ridiculous stuff that you wouldn't buy. So if you wanted to buy an NBA like a full NBA team, a cruise ship? And the Mona Lisa. It would just take off. You can
buy the Mona Lisa. Yeah, sure you can, if you build it. No, because if you could just buy the Mona Lisa, somebody would have done it. One of these millionaires would have
been you'll find a pretty interesting website. I like a lot of their stuff. Yeah,
that when you when you get into those really ridiculously big numbers, like you don't even think of money as a thing anymore. When you get over $10 billion or something like it you don't even think about it. So it's you know, it's interesting some of
these numbers are kind of off though because of inflation. Like it says the Big Macs two books and I cook pack is five bucks.
Where are you getting a Big Mac for $2
a year of Netflix is only 100 Video games are only 60 or 70 Now in most places, most places, smartphones only 700 700 pretty well. My
money getting worth less money for a kitten is $1,500 I'm spending 15 There's I can go get a free kittens anytime behind the van. Regardless or Burger King. They got free kittens every day.
You want to buy a Ford F 150 30? No.
I mean, it completely stripped down one maybe but completely no net 150 I think they started
McDonald's franchises only a million million half dollars for 150 new price. Yacht? yachts are human right?
new instock ford f 150s. On the lot stripped down 39,000. That's a stripped down. Crazy. Got him on this one lot, all the way up to 100,000. So yeah, I think we've been going for 53 minutes. So I think we're gonna thank some folks who helped us out gave us some support via boosts, which is a podcasting 2.0 way of helping out shows that use the boost protocol on new new podcast apps go to new podcast apps.com not an
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Click your click your fingers together. Yeah, like, hey, yeah, yeah.
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You gotta get you to get your British person to come on the show and talk about the metric system. I
will all right, it comes down to this. I will.
Why don't we? Why don't we do a metric versus Imperial? Like a whole episode? We could we actually yeah, we should. I will get an imperial system advocate and you get a metric system advocate and let them argue and we'll just make fun of the whole thing. We'll figure we'll get we'll get we'll get something worked out. That'd be fun. Oh, they
could physically fight. We could have an Epic Rap Battle history.
Epic Rap Battle of math or not a math measuring system. That'd be fun. All right, everybody, we just hit over an hour. Everybody have a fantastic rest of your weekend. Have a fantastic Thanksgiving giving
because this episode, The next episode will probably be out there on actually
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Or like the history of it, or?
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