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Episode 192 - Misconceptions!

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David

What's up, everybody? Welcome to mcburnie weekly show where we discuss tax taxes. No taxes.

Leila

We could.

David

I mean, I don't want to get depressed. Yeah. We talked about fat. And we talk about them weekly. Most most times, sometimes we talked about silly stuff like last week. Yeah. So it's speculation Saturday. And this week, we're going to be talking about facts.

Leila

That aren't facts. Yeah, common misconceptions, common

David

misconceptions. I like these. But then, like, you read the debunking of the common misconception you're like, huh, I don't know about that either. But yeah, you hear all these little things over Bucha squeaky chair. Oh, I'm David. I'm David that's Leila over their way across the studio. Now. She's right. She's right here next to me so she can mess with the road caster. Yeah. But yeah, if we I would love

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Fun Fact Friday. Leila enddate. Is all rights reserved, unless otherwise stated. Fun Fact Friday with Leo

Leila

can Yeah, I can touch the road. Turn

David

down the turn down the jingle button. Slider. So yeah, that. Okay. On this episode, I want to hear some feedback from you. When you when you hear this one, get in touch with this on x where Fun Fact Friday one on Twitter, where Fun Fact Friday, one male at FunFactFriday.com or on Mastodon or one of your other fediverse things. We're at Fun Fact Friday at social dot meet

us media.com. That's me, D us, me, DIA. And we want to hear like a what's your favorite, you know, common misconception and be of the ones that we quote unquote debunk from these websites. I want to hear like your debunking of the debunking. So, in the next episode or two, I want to hear I want to hear from you all, and we want to talk about talk about that. You know, yeah, I feel like that would give some some audience engagement on this one because, like, okay, for example, the

first I'm gonna I'm jumping right in Leila. All right, good. Let's you got some what's your favorite

Leila

misconception? My favorite misconception?

David

Yes. I think that 10% of the brain thing. Yeah, they're like, oh, yeah, you'll only use 10% of your brain. I get the point that you

Leila

know, you, you'd like to believe that you could become a great plant charter and you have great potential. But you're just not quite there because you can't possibly, right? It's not true. Yeah, you're using your

David

brain, most of your brains active most of the time. However, everybody, you should always strive and push yourself to be better. Yeah, absolutely. And you can work out different parts of your brain in different ways. The what do they call the logic puzzles that you get, that have like a grid, and they're like, you know, Sally is 17 years old, and has red hair. And Billy is younger than Sally but older than Tommy. And the person

who's the oldest has brown hair, you know? And there's all these little clues and you have to figure out the grid of who has what color hair and what their ages, you know, those kinds of puzzles are really good for keeping mental acuity. I saw I've heard the person selling the book. So those loads are puzzles told me so. So you know, but now those are those are good, because you have to think in ways that either think sideways sometimes on this, but still remain within pure logic.

You can't make guesses. So I like that. And Sudoku, Sudoku is good for your brain. Yeah, things like that. But it's always good to want to, to look at you know, I'm not reaching my full potential. Anyway, that's my favorite out of them. Yeah. And that's number three on this list, which I don't think the list is like their favorite are the best ones. But just I think they just listed them. Yeah, links will be in the show notes, obviously, for everything that we're talking about. So what

when which one is your favorite? Which one gets your goat when somebody's like, Hey, did you know that and you're like, Oh, no.

Leila

I mean, mine's a bit nerdy. That's alright. It's when people say the hot today make who is holding a leak? It's a spring again. I didn't really get my goat. Because it's so like, common at this point. Right.

David

Most people I didn't know what a leak was. We totally interchangeable maybe like five years ago. That's really funny. I thought it was just a big ol onion sometimes. Didn't know is a separate thing. But it looks the same. Yeah. And, you know, it does look like a leak. I gotta say it does. So she I mean, where did she get it? Did she? Did she take it? Probably she she did what? What took a green onion? You got it. Nevermind,

Leila

you keep making these jokes.

David

Take a leak. You've never heard us trying to get you to get you to know I don't have the critical thinking. You need to do some Sudoku. Goldfish have a three second memory. Hate that one is another one. That's a made for some funny scenes in like, what's that goldfish movie? Clown Fish movie Nemo finding, with Dory with her short, short, short memory. Gold. I know. But fish in general. You know, this guy says

goldfish has a reputation for having bad memories. But it turns out the idea of an orange aquatic creatures can only remember for three seconds is a myth. Not only has this fact been debunked, and there's a link. By several studies throughout the years, some research indicates a goldfish could have a memory span of up to five months long. Wow. What I found fun and interesting about goldfish, I didn't know that goldfish just keep growing. And growing and growing. Like

basically, there's a set number of a set volume of water. And like, they like know what their environment is their body does, and they'll grow based on the size of their environment. So the bigger the fish pond, the bigger your goldfish will grow. So you can go to his little goldfish from the from the fair that you win by throwing the ping pong balls. Yeah, and if you put it in a little bowl, it stays a goldfish size. But if you put it in a pond, it grows to like koi goldfish sized. And

also didn't then pigs are similar. Also, there's not. They basically grow based on how much you feed them. So that's those little small pigs can get a lot bigger, if you feed them on.

Leila

It's disproved that different parts of your tongue detect different tastes. Your whole tongue is your tongue. What?

David

Yeah, what? I don't believe that.

Leila

It was scientifically disproven by research found, which found that all taste sensations come from all regions of the tongue. But

David

I've put back when I was in elementary school, and we were learning about the tastebuds. I put sour stuff. Like, right? Yes, I was in elementary school one time. One time. I was in elementary school. So but we tested it. We put different flavored stuff on different parts of our tongue and we couldn't taste them. No, Joe. Ha. All right, hold on. I'm pausing. Okay, we're getting creamer. We didn't have anything sour. We didn't have anything sour in the in the matches, and

the studio matches aren't sour. They're all sort of you know, because yeah. And as a general rule, if you know what something smells like, you kind of know what it tastes like. Yeah, so as a general rule,

Leila

if you look at something, you know what it feels like to lick it? What? Yeah, like, look, look at anything in this room right now. If you if you like, think about it, you know exactly what it feels like to like that thing.

David

No. Yeah, you're right.

Leila

I've discovered that it's really weird. I don't like it. But

David

no, I specifically remember putting salt or a chip or something salty, on a specific part of my tongue and not being able to taste the saltiness. Well might have just been might have just been with sour, so maybe only sour? I don't know. But I remember being like, wow,

Leila

different parts are more sensitive to certain tastes.

David

Maybe that maybe that's it, maybe. And it's probably like a sliding scale of how sensitive and then there's some spots that are like really insensitive to sour. One of the other little experiments we that I remember from that class was showing how different parts of your body are way more sensitive to touch than other parts. Yeah, so like we took two regular pencils, like the little hexagonal orange pencils collapse

Leila

every single time someone touches my side, right? That's happened to me before, right? But I'm in school too is really embarrassing. You take

David

two pencils and put them side by side and touch the tip of your finger and you can feel the two distinct points touching your the end of your finger. But if you take the pencils in the same configuration and touch the points to the back of your neck, you only feel One point of pressure. So you don't have to feel anything on your neck. Right? Your neck doesn't have the sensors. Yes, it does have all the I tell you wish it. I wish it had more because I felt something a little tickle in the

back of my neck the other day, and it was a big ol fire. And did you smack it? Yeah. Yeah, smash it real good he did. I've been working on the screening in the patio, almost done, just got to put in the screen, put in some silicone gel to waterproof it. And then paint that we got to do touch ups for some of the areas that had to rework. We got to repaint them. But the patio is almost done. And we're very excited about this. So

Leila

humans do not have five senses. I mean, they do have five senses. But they're more there's more, at least at least five senses. But there's at least nine senses and most Reacher's researchers think that there is more like 21 Okay, so, I mean, no, I can look it up. The main five senses are sight, sound, touch, taste. No, that's touch. Smell, smell. Yeah.

David

sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Yeah. That's how we experienced the world. But what else is what are all of?

Leila

Like, sense? Balance? Balance is

David

like, that's your detecting gravity. I don't want the five traditional senses. Because like, I know if I'm upside down 20 census. I

Leila

mean, yeah, there's also one. I can't remember what it's called right now. But I'm probably light, motion, chemicals. Temperature. But that's all like touch.

David

Yeah, see? I would. Do you have got the list there. Okay, so temperatures is this is this is a weird what? I consider a temperature touch because you're just touching the air. Yeah, or whatever is the heat

Leila

of the sauce was talking about? And he was like, where are your fingers? I remember what it was. There

David

is a an image. I'm talking about this sensory perception. There's an image of like your how your body sees itself on like a nerve level. And like your hands are huge. And your face is huge, because like all the nerve endings, and it was what was really neat. I don't remember. I can't remember. But it's alright, that people can look it up. If we can, if we can find it while we're talking. Then we'll

Leila

be I'll put in the show notes balance proprioception. That's the one I was. Proprioception perception is the ability to sense the position and movement of our body in space. So you know, where you're like, what your hands are doing and where they are in relative in relation to other things. Hmm, yeah,

David

um, I just thought that was. I don't know, but I guess Yeah, I guess that's a sense of sense where things are. So talking about like senses. You know, you can you can be blind, and you can be deaf. And so, those other senses like the one you were just talking about, I bet there's people who have no concept of where their limbs are in relation to each other. And that like, Yeah, makes them clumsy. So I bet yeah, the proprioception has something to do with clumsiness and

coordination and whatnot. Yeah, got to Oh, thermo

Leila

ception the ability to sense temperature which kind of goes along with Touch, touch. Magneto ception, is found in some animals, but not us. Electro ception is the ability to send electrical signals.

David

So not found in animals. Magneto ception is magnetism.

Leila

Yeah. Like the ability to sense maybe for some, okay, so

David

I haven't ever tested this like to see if, like, you know, blind test with with a control and everything. But I feel like I can sense whether there's a magnet, like a strong magnet nearby. And I don't know, maybe I've got high iron content in my blood. You're just a magnet. And it's also possible that I've just, I always know, there's a strong magnet and like, my brain is like, oh, I should feel that because Berberine my blood Maroubra iron and my blood. So it might be

psychosomatic. Yeah, I should try that. You think it's trying to, like get a really strong magnet like the one out in the garage? Sure. And see if we can, if I can tell whether you're like holding a I don't know something about the same amount of metal on a hard drive. Like hold a hard drive near my head or the magnet behind me with my eyes closed and see if I can tell. Let's do it. We'll do it. Right now. Do we want

Leila

to or No, no, I want to do The thing where we went quiet and we came back. Okay, well, I

David

did that. Okay, you ready? Yeah. Oh, wow, that was a

Leila

neat. That was weird.

David

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Leila

make sure to ring that bell. We

David

don't have a bell. I know we do pod bean so it's automatic. Oh boy anyway cramping when you go swimming we were just talking about this other day Oh yeah, it's like I was always always told do not eat

Leila

in the pool before do not swim

David

within 30 minutes of eating commonly held belief was that your muscles will cramp should you swim right after eating? This just isn't true no matter how many times your parents said it was? Yes, the body requires blood to die in order to digest but not nearly enough to prevent muscles in your arms and legs. I don't think

Leila

I was ever really told that by y'all or anyone else. I just always saw it in like

David

movies and crap. Yeah, I think they mentioned it and there was something about it in The Princess Bride. Miracle Max was wait at least an hour before he goes swimming.

Leila

I was like, Oh, good. I've never waited. Right.

David

And well, to be fair, most of the times we go swimming. It's in a pool that we're like, you can stand up and, you know, in you're not really in the deep end and yet a lot of people watching you and stuff like that. Yeah. So Oh, okay.

Leila

This one reminded me of something. All right. Number 19. When in London, you're merely six feet away from a rat. Which is really funny to me. That whole thing? What's

David

in London? Yeah,

Leila

it's disproved. There's one that could well be true but hasn't been proven and has is just a rough estimate, as rodents are not evenly spread apart. I like to think that there's a guy in London just like making sure that all the rats are evenly spread apart six feet apart.

David

And if you get too far away from what just chuck when the rat Bureau

Leila

I wanted to there was a thing about a part in Canada, a whole lake city where rats are illegal. Canada, rats don't care about your law. No, there's people on the outside of the city or country. Oh, hold on, I need to figure out which one it is. Alberta is rap fee rent free for over 70 years. And the Providence has a zero tolerance policy towards rats. Oh, that's people outside of the city that if a rat tries to get in, they'll shoot it. Yeah. And

David

then Hawaii? Is snake free? Because there's no there are no snake predators on the island, so it's good. So it would completely Yeah. If they let snakes on the island, it would just become overcome by snakes, just like the south with kudzu,

Leila

and they're considered an invasive species, right? That's so crazy to me.

David

The rat Simpsons episode about that, where they brought a frog to Australia. And it didn't have natural predator. And it just kept multiplying and multiplying. There's frogs everywhere. There's like a plague of frogs. But the rat one reminded me there's a myth. You're always within three feet of a spider. Yeah. And I think about where we live. I can believe it. Yeah, I can believe it. I can believe it. Because there's just

Leila

the spiders here kind of harmless. Yeah. Most of Yeah, most.

David

Most of the spiders that live in this area that are harmful. You got the brown little girl No, brown recluse. The beauty of a brown recluse is that they are reclusive. They don't want any they never Yeah, they're never out and about like or like in the forest. Or they're well they're like under the house. Yeah. And like as long as if you're going into an area that you don't go into a lot. Make sure and look around, but there'll be like in the very back corner of the cabinet.

They're not like out walking around. Yeah, we're going they don't want the bedroom. Yeah.

Leila

They're just kind of chillin. And then

David

we've got black widows here also, yeah, which cool, those are creepy.

Leila

And those are like, relatively small, you can get relatively small. It's

David

just a matter of if you're if you're going into the woods, in eastern North Carolina, you want to wear a long sleeve. shirt and pants. Yeah, and good boots. And you know, especially

Leila

because there's a lot of poison ivy and crap. Yeah, especially in our backyard. Living here. I know what it looks like, and I can avoid it. Right. But

David

we've got a lot in the woods behind the house. We do need to go and clear it out. But anywho that's another myth. Obviously, they're not equally spread out. Of course, but when they, when they say stuff like that they're talking about averages. Yeah, so like you take any 10 mile or kilometer in Britain, and or what were well wait, they were in Canada, right? Yeah, yeah, they use the metric in Canada. So if you're within 10 kilometers of X amount of rats in the field and spread

out the no rat. Oh my gosh Leila, London it was, but okay, it's okay. So London was saying that there are rats. Okay, so yeah, I was right. Yeah. No you weren't in Britain. Yes.

Leila

You weren't the first time. Okay,

David

let's just start over from scratch in Britain in London, London, if you're, you take any random 10 kilometer square there's going to be enough rats in that 10 kilometer square to even out to Yeah, you're within six feet or

Leila

six feet. They'll probably be like, two meters. Not kilometers.

David

But yeah, I'm just saying if you take any chunk Yes, London. Yes. There's gonna be a rat. There's gonna be enough rats. Spread just forget about it. We're spending way too long on this. I

Leila

know. I'm making you I'm trying to make you

David

Oh, dogs only see in black and white. Have you ever heard that?

Leila

I have. And I know it's not true. Um, wait,

David

he says they don't see all the colors we see. Or they do see all the colors we see. Wait,

Leila

I see. It's like less saturated. Okay, I'm

David

gonna read the whole paragraph because I'm confused. No, your pup isn't seeing the world in black and white veterinarian Barbara royal explained to HuffPost that dogs quote, don't see all of the colors that we see. But they can actually distinguish between colors. Yeah,

Leila

someone may like a filter. Somebody made a filter. Yeah. Where you can see like what your dog see? That's mainly like blues and yellows and greens. Or reds. I can't remember. I can't remember. That's okay. So

David

it's just slightly off. Talking about boiling water? No, why are you? No, I'm moving. I'm moving subjects. I'm moving subjects. The difference between boiling water was salt and boiling water without salt. What do you think the differences?

Leila

have salt in it? Well,

David

I see, that's why we don't edit with with that, that we're right. There was a perfect example. A lot of podcasts will go through and do a silence remover. Yeah. The silence is needed sometimes.

Leila

Especially for our podcasts.

David

Because that's the gag. That's the bit is the

Unknown

Oh my gosh. Yeah, exactly.

David

Timing. Because we're a parliament comedy podcast. So okay,

Leila

how much iron is on the Mars?

David

I'm not done talking about salt. You and your mother. Always want to put salt when we're boiling.

Leila

Noodles live so much salt and it makes it tastes so much better.

David

Okay, so you do it for the taste? Yes. Okay. You can't taste a difference. Oh, I could taste the difference. But I didn't know if you were doing it for the taste people's people have said and this is the misconception that we're debunking. That saltwater gets hotter faster. And I don't know. Since like something fell. Did you hear that? Did our listeners hear that? Pause. Okay, anyway, thanks. I just fell on the roof or whatever it was just sound like it was right behind me. Okay.

Leila

As long as the TV doesn't fall off the wall, we're good.

David

So the salt doesn't really heat up much faster. I mean, it's like very, very small percent faster. However, saltwater does retain

Leila

heat or cold and it also makes noodles taste better

David

better than yes of course. Yeah. But it retains heat and cold better. Its absolute temperature is higher, which means that it takes more energy to change the temperature of it. So if you put salt in your cooler it will stay colder longer. Like the ice in it. Have you ever seen that? They did an experiment of it might have been Mythbusters it might have been something else but they did a cooler with ice. And then a

cooler with salt. water and ice are cooler with water and ice a cooler salt water and ice and then the fridge and then a cooler or just ice and they found the best way to cool your drink is a ice salt ice bath. Yeah, a salt water ice bath. That will cool off your drink the quickest.

Leila

So number 24 on this website I'm looking at the Daily Mail dako UK this says the same like 10% of your brain. But they did set it like 10 per cent. Like they put a space in between par and cent. So you got you got 10 per cent of your brain. Is that valid?

David

set of valid way versus per cent? Let's see if that's a two word spelling is more common in Canada and Britain.

Leila

So it's the EU. It's the UK website.

David

And speaking of which, don't you think that there's a lot of little things that are different between America and Britain? A lot of little cultural things like this percent. And saying,

Leila

let's talk about that. Yeah. Next week.

David

Next week, we have a very special guest. It's going to be Claire. Yeah. From the creativity found podcast. I met Claire down at pod fest. I believe I've talked to her talk to her talk to her. Talk about her on the show before I'm here. I believe so because I think she may have sent in a boost or something. Anywho she's going to join us for an episode. And we're going to talk all about the differences between Britain and America. Like little cultural differences, fun little

differences. I'm not going to talk politics of course, because this show. But yeah, well I look forward to that. And we'll we will be blasting out all of the socials once we get it posted.

Leila

So bats are not blind. Well, yeah,

David

they just they hear better than they see.

Leila

I was taught they were blind. In kindergarten. I like to say kindergarten like it's a garden instead of the garden.

David

So what you're telling me is the public school system has failed us and

Leila

but it was all okay. Because we played we played a game with it. Where we go around the classroom and we bump into crap. Your eyes closed. What? You

David

bump into crap. No. Not literal. Not

Leila

proper crap. Not proper crap.

David

Speaking of crap, Napoleon Bonaparte. Yeah, he wasn't actually short. Yeah, he was like five seven, which is he was average. Yeah. Which is like, one inch shorter than me. So he's like about my height. Okay, who thought

Leila

this was real? Who thought what was real? Blood is blue before it's oxygenated. Okay, that makes sense. No, it doesn't. No, no. What? No, no.

David

Have you ever shined a flashlight through your arm? No powerful flashlight. It looks blue. Yeah,

Leila

I can see that. Look. This humongous vein, because I have a wonky thumb. Oh, yeah, you're weird thumb. Yeah, you can see the vein because my bone is right there. You can see my bone. Well, there's veins

David

and there's arteries. Yeah, so like Yeah, but if you if you look at some of them, they look blue. So keep reading keep reading keep okay.

Leila

Why? While many believe that deoxygenated blood is blue, it's actually a myth because human blood is always red. Although the level of redness does differ but depending on how oxygenated it is

David

all right, so why look blue

Unknown

this literally

David

you gotta ask AI Why is it blue? Why is

Leila

he asking brave? Why is my bone No.

David

Why? Why does new

Leila

in the vein question mark question mark, question mark, question mark blue flash.

David

Oh, I misspelled blue.

Leila

Better than how I spelled Philadelphia.

David

Okay, I'm asking I'm asking absorb Microsoft co pilot rents.

Leila

You're gonna get a totally correct answer there. Yeah, go

David

ahead. Say your thing. Red light

Leila

scattering. haemoglobin what is hemoglobin Oh, it's sort of responsible for carrying the oxygen in your blood Yeah. I knew that used

David

to watch that show. Yes. cells or whatever it was at work cells at work. Yeah. So okay. Why veins look blue according to co pilot says wavelength says yes. Lame skin scatters and absorbs light blame. I like the other one better, where it turns red when it has. Let's go with that. We're

Leila

gonna go with that.

David

Because what is who does it hurt? Voting to believe that I'm not voting based?

Leila

Does it hurt for me to believe in the wrong thing? As long as

David

you're not voting on it, or voting based on the

Leila

political musical preference, you know, that?

David

I like? I've started when somebody is just very, very wrong and doesn't seem very intelligent on their social media site. I've just started muting him. Yeah, I just don't want to. I just don't want I don't want to deal with mine don't engage with Yeah, just I'm done.

Leila

So the capital of Australia is not Sydney, Canberra, which the reason I went Wait a minute when I read this is because Canberra is a villager and Animal Crossing. Oh yeah, yeah, she was actually one of my first two villagers on my new island Opala which is Hawaiian for garbage.

David

So your garbage island called Chuck

Leila

Yeah I didn't want to call it garbage or trash I thought that was on original so I like it into a different language and call this garbage. Like

David

on Dragon heart. He He names the dragon and the names and Draco because he wants to stop calling them dragon. Yeah. And he named them Draco. And he's like, that's just dragon in a different language.

Leila

Why not? Why not? Tomatoes are a vegetable. No, they're not. They're a fruit. Bless you.

David

Sorry. Um, we've we've gone over that conversation. We can't

Leila

wait to go over it again. Listen to other episodes. How about this good. Going out in the cold with wet hair will make you ill. You

David

know what makes you ill? Me? Germs. That's it, though. Yes. So now your temperature may affect how well your body fights the germs. So there's the that's the thing. What is this? What

Leila

does the article say? There is no evidence for this.

David

Wow. All right. sugar causes hyperactivity in children. What do you think about that one?

Leila

I don't think so. I don't think it does. And I'm sure that says it doesn't. Okay,

David

says there's no actual evidence that supports these claims. Okay. So here's the thing. We tested this. Because somebody somebody told us that it's not the sugar that makes the kid act up. And okay, so it's you telling them that it does. No, no, no, no, listen, let me let me go through the whole thing without you interrupt. Okay. So hyperactivity is a like, that's a diagnosable thing. Right? No, so we're not talking about that. Yeah, attention deficit

hyperactivity disorder in part of it. Right. Well, that's I'm saying it's a thing that, yeah, it's a medical thing that they say, right. It's a medical thing. proper medical term. Yeah. Now I'm talking about the kid just acting up being right? hyperactive? Am I being hyperactive? So somebody had said, Well, it's not necessarily the sugar, that's making the kid hyperactive. It's the fun that they're having, by eating a cake or the ice cream, or they get excited because they got candy

or whatever. So we tested it by adding sweetness, adding adding sugar to stuff when you were a kid. But like, why? Just to see.

Leila

Just experiment, okay?

David

And it totally affected how much sugar you got? Because I mean, sugars, carbs, it's energy. Right? And it's highly available energy, so your body is going to burn it. And kids, when their body starts burning energy, they start raw, you know, and that's when they go insane.

Leila

insane in the membrane, if you if you would, but it

David

was saying sugar and children's diet does not affect their behavior. It's I beg to differ. I really beg to differ on that one. And you know, it's anecdotal because it's just you. And I don't know you're a little different than other kids.

Leila

eating cheese before bed will give you nightmares. This says cheese is believed to give you more emotionally charged dreams, but not necessarily nightmares. I disagree. Yeah,

David

but you're lactose intolerant.

Leila

To know that they don't have to know that. I love eating cheese. Well, I love cheese. I don't enjoy eating cheese. Sometimes it can be unpleasant. Because it doesn't have great textures most of the time.

David

It depends on the cheese. Cheese. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying I very rarely just eat cheese. Yeah, long time a long time. That was actually a really good episode. That was that's the one I recommend to people right when people are like, what episode should I start with? Because there's so many we have 192 episodes now. cheese and eggs. Cheese, top two eggs. I really liked the we had a really good time on the USPS episode also. That one was fun. I remember thinking that was

really fun. Nice.

Leila

spirits can help you see in the dark.

David

What I have never heard that. Well, like I've heard the carrots is good for your eyes. balls,

Leila

your eyeballs, but everything's good for your eyeballs. Everything's good for you. Most things that you eat are good for your app. Okay?

David

Yeah, cuz I was like, I'm never go look at a welder doing this thing. Do bear eyeballs. Oh my god. So I'm driving on the road one day. And there's this farmer dude on the in on in his little shed. Right? Yeah, I glanced over him because he, he looks like somebody I know. I'm like, I wonder if that's him. And right as I look, uh, maybe 4050 foot away from him. I glance over and he fires up his his welder and starts, you know,

doing some welding. And I'm close enough that it like, burned my retina.

Leila

And I had great for a couple of days, I

David

had a little spot in my vision right near the center of my vision that was just like, glowing at all times for a couple of days. And then it slowly faded over the course of about six months, that was like six months of my life.

Leila

You should go over his house and be like, Hey, man,

David

let's punch him in the throat.

Leila

That's too good. Without explanation.

David

No further explanation. But

Leila

it's like if you're talking about going over to the neighbor, and be like, What are you doing? And then just walking away as there's?

David

Oh, well, actually, I'm planning plugging something out in the yard. Yeah, our neighbor was doing putting solar lamps in. Yeah. So he has like some light on his on his heart. And he was over there. I was trying to see what he's doing.

Leila

What's he doing? What's he doing?

David

Let me just walk over there. Hey, what you're doing and as he starts to explain, just

Unknown

walk away, turn around, walk away.

David

And never go back. Never speak about it again. Now, our neighbors, our neighbors cool. They, they got free pizza from them one time. So they the pizza people dropped the pizza off at our house instead of theirs.

Leila

Oh, he did give us free pizza. And it was very nice. If they

David

left it on. We have a little table up front. Yeah, they left it on the table, which is normally what they do, and then delivered to us. And then they left. Well, the neighbor didn't know that they had delivered to us. So we called him and he was like, Hey, man, where's the pizza? So they made them old new pizzas and brought them over to the neighbors and he walked

Leila

us out. He was like, Oh, he walked over and he just like, hey, take this take this job.

David

I want this job. One don't want these pizzas. And I was like, Well, I mean, you can take me on his leftovers. It's like two days where the leftovers? And he's like, No, you're gonna have it. That was very nice of him. Yeah, it was very nice. Free pizzas. Hannover, Cambridge.

Leila

Although I do freak out every single time I hear the doorbell ring. I'm like, I like hide under my desk.

David

Alright, this one's about eggs. But we already know, we already know what do we know? brown eggs are more nutritious than white eggs. It's just the just the shape. And

Leila

the color of your eggs. I like the triangle egg.

David

Yeah, go back and listen to the eggs episode. There's some very, very good facts about eggs talks about their ear lobes. Oh, yeah. So I like the brown eggs. Because the shells seem a little thicker like and I'm just a flavor. I can't tell the difference. How they cook. I can't tell the difference. But cracking them open. The white shells tend to break into small pieces easier than the brown shells. So when I go to crack open the egg. It's easier to not get a piece of shell if I'm

using the brown X. And that's just from me. I don't know. I don't know.

Unknown

All right, yeah.

David

A peanut is a p and neither neither P nor a nut. It's a legume.

Unknown

Like you

David

there's a show called Third Rock from the Sun. And the character that Laurie Metcalf plays. She was she's been on lots of stuff. You've seen her character she plays every time her characters on screen pretty much goes the main one of the main characters. She's like, did you know that a peanut is neither a P nor a nut. It's a leg you she says just one of those people that has like that's her one piece of information that she feels to share with everybody she meets.

Oh my gosh. That was a really, really funny show.

Leila

So this one says that Mars isn't read. It's a result of the iron oxide on Mars. But like but it read iron oxide is read is Oh most of the time I like arm it's actually not red because that's actually the iron. I don't understand

David

what that means. Exactly. So when I look at it, when I look at it with marbles, it's red with my ball is red. When cameras look at it with their lenses is red. And you're telling me it's not rigged? And I'm supposed to believe you. Literally, I don't understand that. We're what side is that? Daily?

Leila

mail.co UK

David

Daily Mail. Daily Mail. A toilet? Did you take misconceptions? Yeah,

Leila

life's top 50 misconceptions. Got it?

David

I want to see how this is written. You continue. I'm gonna read

Leila

Okay, oh, my hair. My hair. Oh, no, no, our hair. Crap. Where was it?

David

That's all they said. They just say the red color with a you okay? You because

Unknown

we see.

David

Oh my gosh.

Leila

It says a toilet flush will change direction depending on which hemisphere it's in. Now, I was a non believer. But I went to the Australia. Never. And what are you reading?

David

I'm gonna just talk.

Leila

Why does it change direction depending on which hemisphere you're in? Do you turn up down there?

David

I have seen recently people saying that that's debunked.

Leila

I hope it is because that's dumb. Well, it's like, good. Which ways as opposed to like, it's just the just the way that that's made?

David

I don't know. Does water spin different differently at the equator? at the equator, there is no net swirling effect. This is from The Guardian caused by the differential accelerates accelerations in the ocean acceleration of the northern and southern halves of the fluid. Because the north and south accelerations there are equal and the same direction so Okay, Scientific American. Here we go. That's supposed to be a reputable thing. January 28 2001. Can somebody finally

settle this question? Does water flowing down a drain spin in different directions depending on which hemisphere you're in? And if so why? Now, this is Scientific American, and this is from 2001, which means they've had 23 years to fix the two.

Leila

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Leila? Yes.

David

There's two typos in the title of this article. And they've had 23 years to fix it. I don't trust the scientific american.com. Well, good. Go ahead.

Leila

So the same the same thing on this website says underneath it, a real cause of backwards flushing toilets is just that the water jets point in opposite direction. So I was right. They just point in different directions. What if it was all a ruse and a prank done by the toilet companies?

David

Does that make sense? Because my we don't have jets.

Leila

We don't have jets and our toilet. They just go straight down falls. Yeah, just like just goes down. Do y'all have like, gravity thing?

David

All right. We got people, we got people in the audience of this very show that have toilets that have toilets. At least half of our listeners have put

Leila

half of our listeners have toilets. So hey, guys, go flush your toilet right now.

David

No, no, no, I want to test it on a test set like in a saint go to your sink. If you have the ability to make your sink fill up with water. Some people's sinks don't have plugs, right? You can't block them. Right? If you have the ability to fill your sink up with water, fill it up halfway. Okay. And then and then pull the drain. Put in something that you can determine which way the water is spinning. If it's not a like a real deep vortex so you can just look at it and see straight

down. The water in your sink goes

Leila

straight. Yes, it goes straight down the drain.

David

It doesn't swirl.

Leila

No, ever. I mean not ever

David

hold on. What is this after you d clog it? What do you mean? Because unless it has a certain level of snickering not clogged. If it doesn't have a certain level of speed, this won't work. If it's because it's so clogged.

Leila

Look, I cut my bangs a lot.

David

You can put it in the trash. I usually do.

Leila

Okay. There's a couple of things that I don't catch and they go down the drain. Oh Morning, guys, we gotta get like a thing to pull out the thing in my drain so I can go in there and clean it out.

David

I can show you how to do that. It's just kind of a pain. Yeah. So I'll just have a clogged bed until it gets back until till you reach that spot. We're just no more. We're done. We're full. It's full up. Anyway, do we do we figure out whether it actually swirls differently? Oh, no. Because like we were like that. Yeah, let's leave it. Let's leave it. We wanted to hear from you. I want you to go fill up your sink, put a leaf or something in the top of the water so you can

watch the spin of it. And I want to I want to hear whether you're in the north Northern Hemisphere, the southern hemisphere and which way it spins. This is a listener assignment.

Leila

This is your your call to

David

action. Oh, we're doing we're doing all the algo stuff call. Our thumbnail needs to have one like me with like a big ol like, ah face you know, do we do let's do that. Oh my gosh. I would love it. We're audio punk. No, but

Leila

we have like things to cover our cover art that's sort of gone.

David

Well, we have our rant pictures. Yeah, we could could use those. Yeah, we were not ranting that much. Yeah, we're talking about toilets and drain but we don't have an algo though. We don't have we're not algos like Yeah, but if our distribution platforms don't base anything on coming back Friday

Leila

at 3am gone wrong. Not clickbait not

David

clickbait. 100% true. Doctors hate

Leila

among us potion.

David

Oh my gosh.

Leila

All right, well, for him that makes gray water. And he calls it the among us potion. He mixes the pink, like Crystal Light and the blue crystal light and it makes gray Crystal Light. Oh,

David

he made this gray colored water. Yes. It was gray water. It's no gray water is the water like let's say you've got an RV. You have a freshwater tank, a grey water tank and a black water tank. The black water tank is you know that's the one you don't want to deal with. That's the one that that you use the bathroom in. Yeah, that's black water. gray water is the water that you're like, wash your dishes in. So like you don't want to drink it. But you could use it to like you know, wash it

more dishes. Yeah. So when he said he makes gray water, and I'm like what? Anyway, do you have any more? I've got one one interesting thing here. Every living thing dies is a common misconception.

Unknown

What do you mean?

David

Well, yes, most living things do eventually die. There's one species of jellyfish that doesn't technically perish. I believe we've covered this before, however, known as the term trip tow pus trip. ptosis Torgny. Anyway, this essentially immortal sea creature reverts back to a juvenile state after adulthood. So it can live out yet another life alongside its offspring.

Leila

Hmm, you said that completely wrong, but

David

it do die though. Yeah. How did I say well, should I've said it? Alright,

Leila

let me let me get up. Let me let me see it and hold on. It's on.

David

It's on best life. online.com/common-myth sir

Leila

tapas for Topsis there Dorney Dorney, yeah, there you go. Very official. Well, it's good to see. Oh,

David

I thought you were gonna read the whole paragraph. Like I didn't put the emphasis on the correct syllables. No. Okay. The name. Gotcha. G. All right, everybody. This is a value for value podcast. That means we put the show out for free every week we do the show for fun. We hope you get some kind of value out of it. If you're listening in that may just be that may be enough value given back to us. It's just listening. We like

having an audience. It's fun talking to you. But if you do feel like you want to return some value in another way we do accept boosts through lightning enabled podcast apps. We got a boost from

Leila

like, just listen and wasn't just listening.

Unknown

Whoa, there you go. Boom,

David

just listening. And we still don't know what 847 is. You should tell us. We should we should find out what 847 senses. Any Oh, we got 847 SATs from just listening using the app fountain and for some reason the helipad on my bed and I get into it. And just listening says I thought that Philadelphia Experiment was just supposed to be a fancy way of making cheese. I hate Philadelphia cheese. Cream cheese is just They don't like it. They put it in sushi. And they put it in the crab

Rangoon. They don't want to actually put crab in there. The local Chinese place has even gotten rid of the word crab and the crab Rangoon they now call it cheese ranking, because it's just saying cheese with some crab seasoning. And they put it in a wanton and deep bread. And it's just there's no crab. Like they're just imitation crab. Wow. Sorry. What? I just I don't know, I just got the Philadelphia cream cheese has no business. No, I

Leila

love it. society without bagel cream cheese.

David

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Leila

I remember when that became a thing. Yeah, I can't remember when it was. Oh,

David

it was it was a long time ago, three years ago. Right. Right when the whole SATs thing, right if we built our note. Yeah. But yeah, we definitely appreciate all the help from everybody. Also, the merch store is still up. I've got to get some more shirts and stuff more designs up there. And it's at store dot FunFactFriday.com.

Leila

Should tell us what y'all want on a shirt. It will make it Yeah. And

David

it doesn't even have to be Fun Fact, Friday related if y'all just think of a cool thing we can we can sit I like playing with different art programs and whatnot. It was something from the show would be really cool. But anywho links will be in the show notes for everything and it's getting really hot out here in the studio and we're on our end. And we'll we'll see y'all next week. Everybody have a fantastic weekend.

Leila

But

David

I wonder if Kyle's gonna show up because it's so hot. Hey, you know what? He is cool. Go ahead and go turn the AC on. It can play while we're doing the outro

Kyle Hebert

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