Hello, hello, hi, welcome. We're both here. I
was waiting to see what you would do,
yeah, one day you're just gonna let go silent in the intro. And people would be like, Leila, here today,
yeah,
we were almost not here today. Yeah, we'll tell you about that after the intro music. This is Fun Fact Friday, weekly podcast. Sometimes we're light on facts
time. We're light on fun
sometimes we don't usually release on Friday. You know what? We always have at least one element. Yeah, of the Fun fact, we're
pretty consistent.
We're pretty consistent at our inconsistency. Yeah, so what are we talking about today?
I don't know. Yep, what's your favorite? I don't know. What's
my favorite? I don't know is when somebody asks me, who ate the last something, wow, like who ate the who ate the last bit of popcorn in the there's just, there's popcorn that we found. Oh my god, it's got chocolate on. It's pretty good. It's really good. It's like, who ate the last of popcorn? I don't know. That's my favorite. I don't know. So, yeah, we don't really have a topic this week, except for some from, from some of our comments that we received through boosts,
boosts our way that you can support the show. And we actually received a couple of we received a couple of boosts. And we're going to go ahead and do our value for value segment. Right off the bat. This is a value for value podcast. We put the show out for free. We do the show for free. We have a good time doing it. And if you receive value from the show. Feel free to send that value back, however you see fit, whether that be monetarily art topic ideas, just sending us a
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send us a note, I'm gonna pause for a second. All right, I didn't, I didn't have, I could have just muted myself. I guess you could have. I could have been talking, yeah, well, you would hear it, because I'm like, right behind you. That's true. So yeah, we did receive some boosts, and that has actually led our show content for the day, we received 12,345 SATs and says, I like trains too, talking about a train episode last episode. And while this episode may or may not have been loaded
with facts, it wasn't. We didn't have we didn't know there was a lot, but, like, someone was kind of lame, right? Anywho. Back to the note, it had at least 1000 hippos of fun. Absolutely, that's our new unit measurement for all metrics, like getting rid of the metric system, the imperial system. Yeah, we're talking about hip like, how much, how much water am I going to drink today? Oh, 1/100 of a hippo. You know, that's just, that's our metric. From now on, we need to figure out a
conversion rate for Satoshis to hippos. We'll get it figured out. We got it. I hope David is feeling better by now. I am. I am feeling better. The ear infection has gone away, and my pain from falling off of the stairs is gone too. I have re hurt my hands, but we'll talk about that in a minute. Okay, back to the note, sorry. As a child, I had a train full of plastic explosives. Where did you get that? As a oh, wait, it continues. I had a train full of plastic explosives blow up
across the street from my house. What? Oh, wow. Mushroom clouds are ominous, but flying train cars are just wrong. Even more, you know, even more so they fall, and as they fall, okay, I'm starting this sentence over. Mushroom clouds are ominous, but flying train cars are just wrong even more. So as they fall in impact, all those hippos making big thuds, that's insane, like, like, so it you're just sitting there. I don't know when this happens, so you're just sitting there playing, playing Super
Mario Brothers on Nintendo. Just think back to my childhood. Just do boom, and then, like the whole house shakes and the glass breaks in the windows. And then, and then, and then, train car, train cars just falling in the front yard. Got
a hippo in your front yard.
You got. Just got 1000s of hippos just falling out of the sky, 1000s
of hippos with these various specific numbers of pounds, right?
That's a That's a crazy story. And thank you for sharing that. That's really interesting. Yeah, um, I've never had anything like that, anything like that happen. I mean, close as I've has, like, tornadoes throwing tractors and stuff near our house, but he used to live in a tornado, tornado alley. Yeah, live down in Tornado Alley, and I've seen extremely heavy farm equipment. It chucked around like it's just a toy. But
thank you so much for the boost. There's a really excellent, excellent boost that's, yeah, appreciate that so so much. Thank you, Kevin. Next, we have 847, SATs from just listen. Okay, so have we gotten any clues on the ARG yet? Maybe the note says something boost. And this is from the US versus UK with Claire, wait Brown, thank you for coming on, Claire. I'm wondering where, where the difference between tomato and tomato comes from, I got you just wait. We got the facts. We
definitely appreciate the boost. Thanks so much. We're we're watching that bitcoin price go up. And we appreciate all the, all the the Satoshis we appreciate. Yeah, and, oh, I went on a show called in and around podcasting and talked about value for value, if anybody wants to go listen to that. Wants to go listen to that episode, talk about like that. It's not just about Satoshis. It's not just about the Bitcoin stuff. It's about the philosophy of it. And I had a good time
going on the show, and thank them for having me on. So we are not doing like a main topic this week, we are about to head out. We've got the the we're going to a convention this weekend. Yep, we got a lot to do get, yeah, we still get squared away. Get everything. We're just going for one day. Yeah, we got, you got to take a lot of stuff when you go to a con. You gotta, you gotta have water, you gotta have deodorant. You gotta have nose
plugs. You gotta have. I gotta go scrape up see if I can find my random $1 bills around the house that I pull out of my pocket and just drop wherever an emergency kit you gotta have, yeah, little emergency kit. Little
there is repair station there, but it's all
glue and glitter, because, you know, and so and so sewing stuff. But yeah, we are. We're excited to be going to that, and we have something we have to go take care of today. Yep, I spent this week real quick about my hands being all cut up. The Ethernet that comes out of the studio is just direct burial cable. It was buried six to 10 inches, depending on how deep the trench was at the time. And apparently a root had pushed and split or not split, but damaged the wire enough to where
I was getting very slow speeds. And so I was like, Oh, I gotta run a new cable. But I was like, I'm not gonna dig 150 foot trench, but with a shovel. And I'm not gonna pay money to go rent a trencher. So I'm trying to figure out ways to do this. And I'm like, that looks like I'm gonna have to dig at least enough to get I'm gonna put a metal pole in the ground and run it through the metal pole. And then I was like, wait a minute,
we have a fence.
We have a chain link fence. It's got a metal pole running across the top of it. Yeah. So I only had to dig a few feet worth of trench to get the wire from where it was coming out to the fence, and then ran the cable through the top wire, top top post, what's called pole, the top pole of the chain link fence. So I just ran it just and I thought it was just me like, Yeah, let's just pull it right through. Nope. Anyway. Long story short, it took us, took me most of a day, um,
Leila. Leila helped out a lot. But with the chain link fence, when you're untying those little twisties to move, remove the pole off the top to get it anyway, I sliced up my hand quite a few times with those little metal pieces on the chain link fence. And they're pretty gnarly, pretty gnarly cuts. So that's what I was complaining about this week. Yeah, but yeah, we're going to, we're gonna go check out. They're having, like a little mini Harry Potter, Harry Potter festival somewhere
near us. So we're gonna go check that out this afternoon and then get all packed and ready to go. Yeah, tomato. Tomato. I was curious too, so I went to a site called 12 tomatoes.com which is most likely the best source of information when it comes to tomatoes, because I can only think of 10 tomatoes, and they have 12. So 12 tomatoes.com links in the show notes, basically it says that there was this thing that happened called
the Great Vowel Shift. Yes. The pronunciation of tomato and potato tells us a lot about the history of English and its irregular spelling. There's a video on the site. Also. It's like 18 minutes long. I'm not going to just play it, of course, that would pad out our time for this week. In the video, take a look. They. Take a look at the Greater Vowel Shift and other influences on English pronunciation. The great shift
took place between the years of 14 117 100. So this happened over 300 years, forever changing the manner in which we speak some words. Words existed outside of the shift with no major changes made. This explains why certain words are said one way, while others are not. So basically, it comes down to the upper class said potato or tomato, and the lower class said tomato, huh? And it just kind of stuck like that. So if you want to sound hoity, toity, you'd be a tomato, you know?
Because, like, if you think about tomato, right? Yeah, it sounds hoity toy. Sounds like something, something somebody named Bartholomew would say, Yeah, you know? Well, he's got his Ascot on, you know, I'd like a tomato on my salad. But there's a decent article about it. Let's see. Says there's something that our instructor is happy to go into great detail about. Looks like it was written by AI. So before the Great Vowel
Shift, that's a completely different thing. So before the Great Vowel Shift, it would have been pronounced potato, for a potato after the Great Vowel Shift, it'd be potato. But what about Tomato? Tomato came in English from Spanish in 1753
that's I'm gonna start calling a potato.
Yeah, I'm fine with that. No, I have some mashed potatoes.
Some mashed potatoes, absolutely.
But we can, we can cook them in the microwave. So that's too late. The the word for tomato came in after the Great Vowel Shift. So there was, like a, there was a second mini Vowel Shift. I have to make sure I say vowel. Yeah. Anyway, it was an 18th century in and around London. So really it comes down to those Londoners. What it really comes down to, remember, the Vows are always changing to a lesser or greater degree, and this is changing. I mean, this even happened today with like,
different dialects, different accents. As a Studer of accents, I can tell you, like vowels. Is it like that's how you that's how you make an accent. So is it there? Apparently, that's that's what it was. That's what 12 tomatoes.com has to say about now, 12 tomatoes.com the link in the show notes, if you look at the URL, when you go to the site, they miss tomato, tomato. They put in Tom, a lot. Tom
a lot. They switch the T and the O, the end, at the end of the word.
But in the article, it's fine every time. But I know how these platforms work once you've created the title for the for the page. It locks in that URL. It becomes like a permalink. So you like, if they changed it, it would wreck all of the SEO for this page, and all the search results would be messed up. And so they have to leave it. URLs are forever. And then that got me thinking, why don't I tell the folks some tomato facts,
straight from the tomato source, Campbell's what? Campbell's owns the patent and copyright on tomatoes.
So make tomatoes.
And just messing around. Yeah, tomatoes are not always red. None of that seen all kinds of tomatoes. There's white tomatoes, black tomatoes, purple tomatoes, pink tomatoes and yellow tomatoes, but most of the time they're just red. Yeah, around, around these parts anyway, there are over 10,000 varieties of
tomato. Is this just gonna be tomato episode?
No, okay, a tomato episode to moe episode, tomato episode didn't work. I thought I was gonna go somewhere with that, but it didn't happen. There are, yeah, there's, there's more than it says. This is. What is this? Come on, Campbell's. There are over 10,000 varieties of tomato. There are thought to be more than 3000 varieties of heirloom and heritage, of heirloom and heritage tomatoes currently being grown globally, and more than 15,000 known varieties in total.
So how many? How about how many hippos? Do you think that is? Um.
How many tomatoes will fit in a hippo? Let's ask AI, how many hippos will fit in a tomato, or the other way around? What? Yeah, here we go. Oh my gosh. Okay, so what is the ratio of hippos to tomatoes? I'm going gonna see what a co pilot has to say about this. It's probably something about dancing, but, um, ah, delightful and unexpected combination of hippos and tomatoes. Let's dive into this quirky question, hippos to tomato ratio. Well, my friend, I must confess that there isn't a
standard ratio of hippos to tomatoes. You see, these two creatures inhabit vastly different ecosystems, one in water and the other in the soil. But let's have some fun anyway. Number one, hippo to tomato tango. For some reason, I'm very interested in dancing lately. Imagine the tomato salsa party where hippos were a VIP guest. Oh my gosh, for every one hippo will toss in 10 tomatoes. Why? Because hippos are hefty and tomatoes are Jew. Tomatoes are juicy. Seems like a fair trade
picture. Hippos doing the Cha Cha with tomato vine, tomato vines, tomato nutrients, number two, tomato nutrients. Now, if we're talking about tomatoes nutritional value, they're rich in vitamins like C and K, antioxidants and lycopene, which gives them the vibrant red hue. Hippos, on the other hand, prefer a diet in aquatic plants, grasses and occasional watermelon, which is sort of like a giant tomato cousin, my God, number three, garden Safari. Imagine the garden where
hippos roam freely among tomato plants. They'd be the world's most unconventional gardeners. Harpo harbors, harpos. Oh, my hippos munching on cherry tomatoes. Now that's a sight,
okay? In all serious so many emojis.
In all seriousness though, hippos are fascinating creatures, known for their semi aquatic lifestyle. Well, tomatoes are beloved fruits. Yes, they're technically fruits. They're gray sauce, salad sandwiches, pasta sauces. So whether you're a hippo or tomato enthusiast, keep grooving to your own rhythm. And hey, if you ever need more unexpected ratios or garden dance. Moe, just ask. I'm here. Got any other curious pairings? Let's explore together. What does it feel like
it has to put dancing in every topic? I
think it thinks that all humans do is dance.
Oh my gosh, we're off on a tangent. But I'm wondering if something I said earlier has to do with dancing. Like, yeah, see, um,
so what exactly did you type into the thing? Oh, I've
had the same Why does discussion go? What's the thing? The prompt for this one was, what is the ratio of hippos to tomatoes? So, I have one one co pilot conversation, like I haven't started new conversations for each topic that I do. So maybe I asked something about dancing. I'm scrolling bad. No, there's nothing. Mine
didn't have dancing crap in it. Mine's just about science.
What is yours say with a tomato? What do you have? It's got a whole bunch
of elements. Hold on. Oh,
is it going into like, how
many? How to make a tomato?
This is okay. Did you know tomatoes have been to space and I want to talk about it. Tomatoes seeds. Anyway, we're so interested in tomatoes. 600,000 tomato seeds went to the International Space Station before being grown in classrooms all over Canada as part of tomato sphere, 123, and four experiments. Now I got curious. I'm like, so they sent 600,000
tomato seeds. So they could send these seeds around to classrooms in Canada, so they could plant some seeds, and be like, Oh, I put these seeds were in space, and now I grow a tomato, you know, which is kind of neat. If my kid was doing that, that'd be really cool. I didn't know why I did that in a mocking voice, um, but then I got to thinking, it doesn't cost a lot of money to send stuff into space.
I looked it up. Throw it upward, yeah, you'd have
to throw real hard, like hippo strength, hard. I. See how
many hippo strengths, 40. Okay, that's a lot. 40
hippos per second is how fast you have to go. You get it in space. So tomatoes, how many seeds you get per gram of weight? It's between 220 and 500 so I was like, Okay, so let's say we get 500 so like, we get the lightest seeds possible to send up there. So I did the math on 600,000 seeds divided by 500 you know, ended up with 1200 grams. Okay, so then I did a grams to pounds conversion. So it comes out 2.440925 pounds, so a little under half a pound. And then I looked up, what does it
cost to send one pound of anything into space? And they calculated the cost at $43,180 per pound to send stuff into space. So they sent, they spent like, $21,500 to send these, these speeds, these tomato seeds, into space.
So you could have given that to me.
You could have taken that money and given it to Leila, yeah. And you could have given tomatoes to me, yes, because we've been making salsa and stuff, yeah. And, tomato sauce, some pasta sauce last week, and it was mediocre. Space
doesn't need the tomatoes. What are they gonna make up their space
soup? Space soup?
What? Maybe some space soup? I can figure that out. Yeah,
we'll have to get one of those airplanes that goes up and down so you lose gravity for a few minutes. Yeah, the puke planes, whatever they're called, the first tomatoes were gold, oh, back in the 16th century there. That's when they were first introduced to Europe. I'm pretty sure tomatoes have been around for like, you know, Earth. China is the largest producer of tomatoes. China's largest producer of a lot of things. There's some Guinness Book of worlds records for
tomatoes. These the most tomatoes harvested from a single plant over one year. That's 32,000 tomatoes from one plant.
Shoe, wow.
And then let's see they're known for good heart health. Tomatoes, good stuff. It's good stuff.
Tomatoes, good stuff. Yeah,
I think that's not enough. Enough tomato facts. Oh, I
just Googled tomato facts. You just look up more tomato facts. Yeah, so you can turn this around. I mean, we don't have to. I got facts about Illinois. Okay,
hit me with some Illinois facts.
So I looked up random fun facts. And I was like, You know what? We've probably looked through the first page of this so I flipped to like page three. Its first thing on page three was illinois.gov, and I was like, Okay, I'll go with it. So it has fun facts about Illinois. The capital is Springfield. The state abbreviation is IL. It has two US senators, 18 you know, I know us. It has 18 US representatives. Illinois has 20 electoral votes. Leila, what
I'm gonna stop you right there. These are not fun facts. I know these are facts, though barely facts.
It says Fun fact, I've
got two senators. Look at Illinois over there, where there's two senators, like every other single state,
oh my gosh.
Are there any actual fun facts?
There's the Illinois State pie. Is pumpkin pie.
Oh my gosh, is the Illinois State Dance? A square dance? Yes.
The Illinois State snack is popcorn. The Illinois State fruit is gold rush apple. The Illinois State tar tan is the Illinois St Andrews society. Look at the Illinois State pet. What's the Illinois State pet? Shelter dogs and shelter cats, that
is and, well, I am all about, I am all about shelter animals going in and rescuing animals. Deal mate, that's not your state pet. That was a that was, that was what we call virtue signaling. Whoever made that decision,
the state slogan is The Land of Lincoln, Illinois,
the Land of Lincoln.
That's pretty late.
So it says Land of Lincoln, Illinois, yeah, where do you see that state slogan? Huh? That's interesting. I always heard it was just Land of Lincoln. I interesting. I
don't know, interesting, weird.
I mean, it's from the.gov That's the official stuff. Totally they can't make mistakes on government websites. We know that that's the truth. Internet will lie to us. Internet and government wouldn't
lie to us. Japan has 23 vending machines per person.
Wow, yeah, that's crazy. The ratio like that doesn't even make sense. Yeah, it doesn't.
The ratio. Was the same per cap per capita in Japan has the highest amount of vending machines in the world. I believe it. They have vending machines for literally everything over there.
That's if cake 23 per person. Yes,
that doesn't because, like per recapture,
that isn't out here. I mean, I believe it, because I've seen the videos,
how many vending machines is there?
No, you're not. You're asking
brave in Japan,
how many hippos? How many hippo vending machines? How many hippo vending machines,
with over 5,000,520 100,000 Yeah, 5,520,000 Yeah.
How many people are there? How
many people are there? Okay, hold on, how many people are there? Let's see. Let's see. Hurry up. That is not 23 vending machines per person. We got 122,000,631
so where did 1000? The fact vending machine, facts.net, facts.net Japan vending okay, go to facts.net/random-facts/okay. Facts.net/random-facts, dot,
maybe it meant that there was a vending machine per 23 people.
Maybe that, because that's the number. Sounds more, that
sounds about right. It's
just about right, yes. What does the what does it actually say? Japan
has 23 vending machines per person,
so it's really 23 I'm not seeing it. 23 people. Where am I open? Japan has
23 vending machines per person. Yeah?
See, that's not right. Fact check.
Facts.net check
something. They just got it backwards.
Yeah? Ish. And
then it says the ratio is the same per capita. Well, saying per person, that is per capita is facts.net just AI. Now
it might be
just on the on the how many hippo vending machines are there? It gave me an extremely long answer with lots of emojis. I'm not going to do the whole read through thing, but it basically doesn't answer my question. That's the
little hippie vending. What are you talking
about now? Hippo vending?
No, the number two on the AI, little
hippie vending. Okay, there's, you
don't have to read it. Okay, actually, that was funny. It's a little hippie vending
I bet you that there is a little hippo toy in some vending machine somewhere, probably, well, I think we're gonna, we need to, we need to go ahead and get off of here. So we had one
random fact, a bunch of facts about Illinois, and a bunch of facts. We
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