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to funfactfridayware podcast where we discuss facts running a different topic each week. And today's been a mess. This hurricane came in and was just like, hey, hurricane came. We're just gonna knock a bunch of limbs out of your trees. Rained cause a big old What are you singing? Hamilton, Oh, gotcha, gotcha, yeah. And we were like, You know what, let's
just do a random facts episode. Those are always fun. Yeah, we can always find enough random facts to talk about and but yeah, this, this hurricane Helene is, is doing a number on western North Carolina. It knocked out a big section of highway 40 or Yeah,
it not for us, yeah, specifically, like in the part that we are in, but in, like, Asheville in the mountains,
yeah. So, you know, pray for them. Yes. It's rough. We got some friends out in Nashville and ash, I think I kind of pronounce it, Nash. We
do have friends in Asheville, though.
We do friends in Nashville, yep, and yeah. So you know, keeping, keeping them in our thoughts and prayers and hoping they're they're doing all right. Asheville is pretty flooded. We got, we got a little tornado scare earlier, and the lights flickered a little bit. But we've got underground wiring here, so our lights are pretty, pretty robust. But yeah, yeah. So that's, that's what's going on, and we're running a little late today, on account of all that,
on account of all that count, all that wait, check the weather, make sure it's okay to come out here.
And right at the top of the show, a couple of things. I was looking at our PayPal, because I need to get and make sure that Leila gets her, you know, full third of the money that comes in. And we were getting it. I was getting all that figured out, and I noticed that couple of months ago, there were some donations from Sherry Laurie, and I wasn't sure if we mentioned them on the show, because I didn't get emails
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let's do the V for V segment. We got one boost from just listening. And it's a topic idea. And I'm actually very interested in this topic, 847, SATs from just listening an episode on grounding slash earthing would be fun. Yeah, you familiar with what that is? Yeah, yeah. That's something I've wanted to look into, so that gives me a reason to look into it, yeah? And I can just, you know, copy links and talk about it. That'd be awesome. We'll do that soon. Yeah, I'm
gonna turn my mic down. Why don't you get them? Get get started.
Oh, yeah, okay, so today's a random fact. Oh, today is a random facts episode. I want to start off with this fact, Scotland,
Scotland? Yeah, that wasn't a Scottish accent. Go ahead.
It was not, oh my gosh, that was terrible. And it's Scotland has 421 words for snow.
421 words for snow. So do you think that they all came about naturally, just a whole bunch of different people came up with the word for the word for snow. Or do you think somebody was like, Hey, let's just make up as many words for snow as we can and write them all down as the official word for snow. Well,
they're all like snow in different contexts.
Oh, okay, so like, gotcha
a light snow, a swirl of snow, just start snowing
like snow on top of the roof. Yeah, probably has a different name, eating
snow, a snowy field snowflake.
That's a whole lot of words for one, one concept. But you know, to each their own right, to each their own. So I've got one. Would we just both just went hog wild on a couple of websites and just started finding fun, fun ones we like. And this one, I've got a little story couple,
as if it's not the one website that we're like, I've got two.
I've got three websites, because I haven't put them in the show notes yet. Leila,
maybe she get on it. Need to
calm down. That was a calm down in a while. Yeah, we've got, we've got a nice little
show. There's a fact on the Reader's Digest, if peanuts aren't technically nuts, oh my God. Never said that one on the show before, a peanut is not a pee, nor a nut, is it? Thank you. And
so, yeah, we were using a new software called collectives to replace one note. So it's pretty neat. It's pretty neat stuff, but I was going to tell about some hippos, and then I had a little something to say about hippos. Hippos sweat blood, but not really. That's just a click bait title they
have. Instead of just having sweat glands, they have mucus glands, and it releases like this oily sweat kind of and it's referred to as blood sweat because it's red and it's combination of of two different acids that they quote, unquote sweat. So it's not really sweating. Yeah, it's it does the
same. It has the same, same effect. But hippos, if you are using a podcasting 2.0 app that has the chapters feature, go back to the last couple of episodes and scroll through the chapter art that dreb Scott puts in if you're not, if you're not getting coming back to our episodes after dreb puts the art and you're missing out, yeah, waiting to because some of the he's, he's stuck on hippos right now because of our our hippo episode, or hippo episode where we talked about unintention
ventions, yeah, mentions, and he's just got like, and he's got me as a hippo, when I was talking about updating our network, oh my gosh, look at that. Oh, I love it. It's a hippo plug in, plugging the cable into a server rack somewhere, and it's got my name tag, and I'm like, Oh, I'm not that big. I got a belly, but I'm not a hippo. But no, it's, I understand this. It's just messing around. But, yeah, the
art, the art is fantastic. And, um, we love drub for that adds, it adds a whole nother, whole nother thing to our to the show. Yeah, it's fantastic. So, okay, Leila, are you familiar with the game known as soccer? No, no, okay, well, it's this game.
I know what soccer
in in 1969 the soccer teams of Honduras and El Salvador, El Salvador were competing for a spot in the 1970 World Cup. Tensions mounted as the teams were tied one to one and went into a third match when El Salvador won the playoff, riots erupted. The riots boiled over into a full scale war with over 2000 casualties on each side. After four days of fighting, the 100 hour war ended. So a soccer match caused
a war between El Salvador and Honduras. I'm like, Wow, that's some that's some super fans right there.
Yeah,
you got another good one?
Oh yeah. Wait, we talked about this one before, but the octothorpe,
octothorpe, that's the the hashtag, yeah. Hashtag, pound,
hashtag, pound, tic tac toe. Tic tac toe. Yeah, the sharp, pound tic tac toe tag sharp,
that was the other one. I was like, yeah, there was another one that it stands for. Yeah. I can't remember the episode we talked about that on, but I can pull it up on the I think it was another, right? I'm sure octothorpe is a unique phrase. I could search in the transcript, search two out of three emails that this sent is spam. I don't really get spam. I know that's a very John C Dvorak thing to say. But, I mean, I get, I get marketing emails, but only from companies that I've
actually signed up for. No, I get phishing. I get a few phishing emails here and there, but that's because I've had my email in our in our RSS feeds before. May actually still be in there. So, yeah, no.
So no number before. 1000 contains the letter A Oh,
that's the Oh, hold on a second. I'm so Brian Brushwood of Scam School, and he's at a other podcast. He had a podcast with his daughter. Actually, he had this episode of Scam School where he went to these two people at the bar, because that was, that's always his setup. Yeah. And he says, I will, I bet you that I can or no, he says something like you you can't name. How many words can you come up with that don't have these letters in them in one minute? A, B, C, j, k, m, p. And
the guy sits there, and he comes up with, you know? He comes up with 10 or 11 words, right? I. And then Brian's like, Okay, now I'm gonna, I'm gonna say, in one minute, I can come up with five times as many words as you did, and spout them all off right away. And the guy was like, oh, you know, maybe you memorized it, maybe, whatever. But he was basically, he just went, 1-234-567-8910, because those letters like you said, a doesn't appear, yeah, um, B doesn't appear until you get to billion.
I don't know when c appears. J I don't think ever appears. Yeah. So those letters you can, you can get somebody with that one at a, you know, you're like, in a party or something. You can be like, ABC, JK, MP, those are the letters that they have to avoid, yeah, and yeah, you can. You can be like, I can, yeah, I bet you. I can name twice as many as you can.
I looked up big what are the big number names? And the first one up here is one, what, and then 10, what. One is?
What is it? I mean, one is a big number. One is the loneliest number. I was gonna say, maybe that's why he's so lonely, because he's so big. Sicilian is probably where the C comes in. Oh yeah, there's a decilion and couture dazillion. Yeah, I can't think I'm thinking of all because we played Cookie Clicker, and it goes through all of the silly and alien Google things and Google, I was just trying to think of anything that
ever had a j. And I don't think there is one. I don't think J is used, but, uh, yeah, and go ahead and I'll talk about why you're typing the QWERTY keyboard. Yeah, it was designed to slow you down. Think
we said that one before, have we? Yeah,
I'm sure we have. We got 203 episodes. But you know what? We got new listeners. Welcome.
Yeah, the
So, for the for the folks who haven't heard this, yeah, j and k are the only two letters. Oh, there you go. There you go. But the other ones are so high in the list that you would never really need to get to them in a minute anyway. So the QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Scholes in 1874
no
is Brenda invented in 19 what? 1967 7819 78 I can't believe that that slipped my brain. 1978 by Joseph Corty keyboard,
and he pulled the key he's out. It was like, Oh, dang it, or they went into he shoved him back in there. He
had a bunch of keys for his house, and he had 20, he had 26, of them, and he had a letter written on each one, and when he went to put one in, he dropped, and then they all fell on the ground, and that's just how they landed. And yeah. Anyway, that was lame. Unfortunately, the keys were prone to jamming, as the story goes. Scholes designed the keyboard to slow typist down by placing the most commonly used letters far apart. This may be a myth other sources. Why are you putting it on a fax list?
Now I've heard I've heard this my whole life. In our first like typing class and stuff, there was an old placement that was much faster, but since the typist would jam up their keyboards by, you know, typing too fast, they had to slow down. And now, since that's not a problem because we use keyboards that are that can handle the speed, we really should have switched back to the faster one when we went to computers
instead of typewriters. But we didn't, because people were already like, I already know Qwerty me and me and Christopher Shoals, we were buddies back in the 1870s what else he got? Theodore
Roosevelt had a pet hyena named Bill. Bill, yeah,
if I ever get a vicious, murdery pet. I'm naming it something
like Tom. He had a he also had a one legged rooster, a badge or a pony and a small bear. That
guy, that guy, that's the that. That guy right there. He
more like theater, one legged rooster, belt. What? It's a bit of a stretch. But you get what I'm
saying, got a bit of a stretch that was
no, get a one legged rooster theater. One Legged rooster belt. You get it? Yep, I get it. Rooster belt. All right,
what's, what's the world's largest desert?
Probably pretty big, probably like at least a mile. What is what is it?
The Sahara? Maybe wrong. Okay, the dead air for comedy, the answer Antarctic pole. Desert, south the South Pole.
Oh, does it got sand in it? That's cheap, exactly.
People, yeah, it's just, it's one of those play out where, like, people don't think of it as a desert because,
yeah, it's just deserted. So bad, you know. So
yesterday, I made a pack of the the Bulldog, absolutely ramen. I have some chicken. It always so good. I want one of them. But I added a bunch of sesame seeds, like I was just, it's good, and I didn't know that sesame seeds were once worth more than gold.
Yo. Wait, yeah. Cuz that one dude, Mansa Musa, or whatever his name is, was, like, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, and it, like, lowered the price of it.
Oh, did somebody find a big old gold vein?
No, this dude named Mansa Musa,
masa moon. Masa Moon's from Chrono Trigger. That's the No,
hold on. It's he's, we're learning. We learned about him in history, like, a month ago. Oh, okay, he was this dude. He was the richest man in history, and he went around and was, uh, trading with gold, and he put so much gold in circulation that it lowered in price. Everybody
was like, Man, this guy's got a, he's got a, he's, got a big old stash of gold. Yeah, I
think it's Mansa, Musa and samusa, but he's from Mali, so I don't know.
So here's a fun little fact, I actually just found I was scrolling Twitter and or x.com um, no, there is a pizza shop in Alaska that prints targets on their pizza boxes so that people will take them out for target practice and reuse them instead of just throwing them away. Dope, yeah, so like, you buy the you buy the you buy the pizza, you get a, get a free
target. Ideal thing, yeah, it's
a perfect size, perfect size. And, you know, you just just staple it to the tree, or whatever you're Yeah, that's pretty awesome. I like that one. There's
only one US state capital without McDonald's. Is it? Markiplier Vermont?
Markiplier Vermont. Yeah,
Mark Montpelier. I
don't know how to say it. Montpelier, yeah, I
should do one of those memes where I circle it and point the picture of Markiplier.
Wait, what?
Have you not seen this? Oh, no,
I'm looking at this. This other fact that I just scrolled past. I was always looking for another fact. So we wouldn't have any dead air between facts. That's fake. It says the Las Vegas Strip isn't in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Strip is probably the most famous thing about Nevada, but the strip is misnamed. It's actually in the unincorporated city of Paris, Las Vegas. It's Las Vegas because the borders Right, exactly whatever. Man, you know, whatever. No, that's just like,
your opinion. Man, that's somebody's opinion. It's not like it's written down in, uh, you know, yeah,
border there books. So humans aren't the only animal the dreams,
really. How do they do that? Um, rats,
you know how they do a whole bunch of tests on rat brains, right? Yeah, they've found out that most mammals go through REM sleep, huh, yeah.
And, but does that mean they're dreaming,
hypothetically, right?
Like, until they actually get the probes into the brain and into the visual centers of the brain and see if they're actually lighting up while they're doing that, because just because the eyes are moving doesn't necessarily do that, but, but on a on a observational note from me, are All dog chewy. And actually, most dogs I've had while they're sleeping, they'll be like barking or like, like, like, you can tell that they're in their dream. They're like, running and chasing something
and doing little barks. So that's just anecdotal, but I, I believe it. Yeah, I believe it. This, this site says there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the galaxy by a factor of like 10,
this is the galaxy? Yeah, yeah,
just the Milky Way. Yeah, that makes sense, yeah. 3 trillion trees on earth, but only three to 400 billion stars in the Milky now, I'm gonna pull out my calculator. Wait, what? Go ahead, there's
this fact on here, and it says Frankenstein's creature is a vegetarian. How do we know he's fake? Wait,
what is there? Is there words from the book that say this specifically, or,
yeah, actually, okay, okay. Quote, my food is. Not that of a man. I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to gut my appetite. Acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. All right, so cool. Well,
there you go. Yeah, good. Good for him. Good for him. You know,
I guess maybe he's just cool like that, and he likes to eat acorns.
Acorns sounds like a terrible food to eat. Maybe
they're delicious. We should go start eating. I
want to say I have eaten an acorn. I think you can make because when we used to live on base, we had a acorn tree in the backyard, and it like everywhere. And one day, I was like, an acorn is just a nut, and I see all these other animals eating them. I should eat it. So I cracked one open and ate it. I was like, I didn't like that Jessica tree, which most a lot of nuts, if you eat them without, like, cooking them or roasting them or salting them or something. So, okay, so this,
this back to this 3 trillion trees on the earth, right? I've been told that one humans carbon dioxide output can be off. Offset by four trees. So basically, four trees can get rid of my contribution to the CO two on the planet. That's what I've heard. Right? So what I'm doing is I'm taking this 3 trillion trees on earth. I'm taking that number and I'm dividing it by 8 billion, which is about the world current
population, if you believe popular, popular consensus. So there are 375 trees per person on the planet.
I love my 375 trees. Yep.
I want to know where they are real. I
need, I need, like, my plot of 370 on
our property. We've probably got about 420 or 30 before our property line. More for Yeah, yeah, because you got to think the very back of our property has, like a stream on it, and it's technically our property. Yeah, that's our so we've got, like, a little section of little strip of trees back there. It's kind of nice, but, yeah, so 375 trees per person, and it only takes four or five to negate each person's
carbon footprint. So, you know, trees for thought, food for thought, whatever you want to, however you want to, uh, whatever you want to say about that. Captain
Crunch's full name is her rod. How
many H's does that Horatio Horatio
Magellan, Magellan.
Horatio Magellan. Crunch.
Okay, Captain.
That's why he's captain, because that's just too much to say. Yeah. Oh, Captain, crunch sounds fantastic. Oh, we should go to the store and get some.
We need bread. We do need
I ate all the bread. We have no bread. We're almost out of tortillas.
Mom's in there making bread. We can just go out and eat bread.
Let's go up and buy some. But she's in there making it. I know, right? Oh, she, she's got a really good, uh, good recipe. It's a, what's that? What's that thing called a Dutch oven? She found a recipe for Dutch oven bread, and it's really good, really good.
It's just a pot. It's called a cast iron pot with ceramic on it.
I don't know why it's called a Dutch oven. We could, we could look it up, and that would be a fun fact. It might not be fun, but it would be a, you know, you could look it up like, well, I'm talking
about London.
So the City of London, not London. The City of London only has a population of 9000 London is one of the world's largest metropolises, but only 9000 live in the city of London. It's a very small area within London proper that's called the City of London. Oh,
it's because it's a Dutch i Yeah. Well,
I figured that, what?
But it's just a, it's a cast iron pot, yeah, well, because it's Dutch, so they were just like, hey, we made this and we're Dutch, maybe we should call it a Dutch oven. But
do they call it a Dutch oven in Dutch land? Yeah, they're like, so like, when you go to China and you've got your nice plates, do they call it your chinaware, or do they just call it your your dishes? They call the call this. They're called the cheap, the cheap little corner Cornell, where plates that we get at Walmart. Do they call that America? Wear America,
where I love it, speaking of which you need to bring your America wear back out here.
Oh yeah, I took a plate and I got to clean it up. Clean it so anyways,
it's Dutch. It's Dutch.
Good, good, good research. This is what. People come here for Oh, bumblebees. Okay, no bats. Bats will be bats. The bumblebee bat is the world's smallest mammal. Oh, yeah, I read that one weighs 0.05 ounces, and it's about an inch long, the wingspan of about five inches. So that's, that's, that's a tiny mammal. It's, it's just tiny. We have bats. We have bats around here. Then we've been going to events where that have, like the big lights, you know, that have all the bugs
flying around them. And sometimes I'll just watch the lights and just watch the bats just having a big buffet. I
know they're just like around too.
It's dinner night Exactly. Oh, boy. Speaking of dinner, dead skin cells. Oh, dead skin cells make up most of the dirt in your house, like when you're dusting, that's just you. You're just you're just pushing tiny little particles of you around, yeah, and well, me and your mom and I guess the cat probably too, but most household dust is mostly skin cells. So if you've got a nice, sealed up house, and nobody goes in it for a while, which I guess, if it's sealed, I'm not going to dust.
Get dust from anywhere. You know what? Forget I said that where. I'll cut that out. I'll edit it out. Nobody will know that I started a a bad statement. Absolutely. What do you got? Okay,
Beethoven. Beethoven, yeah, yeah, Beethoven, he didn't know how to multiply or divide,
all right. He Oh, I
gotta sneeze. But no, no, gonna fade out. No, um, he once one time. He needed to multiply 62 by 50. So he wrote down 62 dental line and then added it up 50 times. Oh, no, poor guy.
Well, if nobody's taught you, he did it. It just took a little work. It's like when you're it's like when you're you got a little piece of metal, and you're like, cutting a tiny hole in something, and somebody comes along with the drills. You know, if you don't have the tools to do it, you do it whatever way you can. Yeah? So he just added 6250, times. All right, good to go, whatever. Good to go, whatever you get. It. Beat Evan
Abraham Lincoln was a bartender,
huh? All right, that's, uh, that's interesting. I've never heard that one. I don't know much about Abraham Lincoln. I need to learn more about Abraham. Like, heard that
he, like, did something for the government or something he,
yeah, he was, he was a socialite who just went around watching plays.
Yeah, I heard that he died, Yeah,
nobody's still around. That was, that was internet hoax. That was one of them. Did you find out about it on the internet? Yeah, was it a.com.org I don't know.co. Oh, yes, yeah. Only. Only trust information from the internet. If it's from a.com any of the other top level domains you can't trust it,
or especially.gov because that has all the right information on it.
Anything on a.gov website is 100% true and
I 100% endorse it. No, no, no, no. This
episode brought to you by the government. No. Go to No, no, don't finish. No, we are
not endorsed by the government. We do not um, we're okay with the government. Hi, hi, Kamala Harris, hi, Trump. Drop
the Yeah, there was a there, uh, Kamala. Kamala. Did they one of those, what was, who's the company? Does it wired? Wired, auto complete things, where people Google stuff, and she answers the questions. And, uh, anyway, her name was. One of them was, how do you pronounce it and it's Kamala. Okay? Kamala. I always thought was Kamala. But whatever I was, I was like Caramello, calamaro versus drum 2024, fight.
So I learned one that the firefighters that put out fires obviously make Water Wetter to fight fires. What they use wetting agents to make the Water Wetter, and they call it wet water. Wait,
which number is this? Um,
it's on Reader's Digest. They
don't have numbers and they don't have a link. I'm gonna find this. No, it's like fire. Firefighters, okay, here we go. Boom. Firefighters use a wetting agent to make Water Wetter.
What is a wetting agent? Is it just water? They add more water to the water to make a Water Wetter,
wet. Wet is a binary. It's either not, yeah, it is, or it isn't
a wedding agent just makes it wet. Which what makes it wet? Water. Okay?
It says, Oh, I see. Okay. So if you read the little one sentence snippet underneath, it's a chemical that reduces the surface tension. What surface tension is water? Water has a lot of surface Yeah, you do. You've seen it. Okay. So with the less surface tension, it soaks into things better. That's neat. I didn't know that, so that must be why they one of the reasons that they run, because when they they tap a fire hydrant, they run a hose into the truck and then back out of
the truck. And not only is that a pump, it's probably adding that whatever that additive isn't to it. Yeah, we
need to get some never wet. Oh, yeah, that stuff's
neat. Yeah, you coat something with it, and then it doesn't ever like it. The water just rolls off. It's like Rain X. You ever seen Rain X on a car? No, I haven't. We used to put Rain X on our windshield. You don't have to turn your wipers on. That's dope. The water right off of the car. It's really neat. But, um, I don't know why we stopped using that. It was so good.
Thanks. I'm never wet for my saxophone.
Yeah, yeah. Because if you're out there in the rain, you know, peanuts aren't technically nuts. They're legume really. It's on every list, every single random facts list. Hey, did you? Here's a funfactfriday, combc, science focus. They value our privacy, and I have to accept it. I have to, oh my gosh. There's like, okay, reject all cookies.
There's a million buttons. Oh
my gosh. I
hate when websites do that. Like, a million of them are except the cookies and like, one of them is, don't wait. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. This is a really good one. I like this one. Okay,
so All right, some Hold on. Let me prepare myself,
and I'm ready. Okay, some fun guy create zombies, cordyceps. They're so cool. It's really it's really cool. I really like it. Tell wasn't you? So it's a tropical fungus. It's like, Oh, ophio. Cordyceps and cocoa. Cordyceps, they infect an
ant central nervous system. And once it has been inside an insects body for nine days, it has complete control over the host movements, so, like, it'll force the ants to climb the trees, then, like, fall into the in this dirt, and it'll, it'll feed on, on the on the ant.
It's really cool. It's really neat. I saw an animation of it one time, but, yeah, like, crawled up on the grass, blade of grass, and then bit onto it, and then hung off of it. And then a rabbit came along and ate the ant. And then poo, you know, happened. And then that poo was eaten by a snail, which is the actual target of the parasite. Yeah, I'm like, so cool. Why don't you just, like, evolve to where you just get eaten by the snail. That's a whole lot of extra steps. Maybe it likes the
extra stuff. Maybe like waiting. It's like a part. It's like a water slide for it. It's just fun water slide. Anyway,
lemons float, but limes sink. What? Because limes are denser than lemons, huh? We need to do a fact check on this one. We
have. We don't have any I use. We used them
up. We could pretend. Yeah, right, wait, wait, okay, we're gonna go inside real quick.
Oh, I guess, yeah, it did it. Yeah, it did it. We didn't fact check. We just went quiet for a second,
pretending like we paused so
talking about doing stuff in your sleep. Deaf people are known to use sign language in their sleep. Sleep signing. We did that. We did that on a previous I already said that one, no
in your sleep, no arsenic.
I'm saying we did remember. We did the sign language episode with Kyle a bear, yeah, and I think we mentioned that one on there. Oh, cool. So, yeah, so there you go. What? Oh, man. I was just wanting to say something. I can't remember. Starfish don't have bodies.
Starfish were meant to fly. This says
their entire body are technically classified as their head. Nope, so like a starfish is so Wait, Patrick, he's walking around on his head. You're. This using his face, no face, to grab things,
dude, that make it super easy to go somewhere. I could just, like, do a cartwheel the entire the entire way, and my head would still be on top. I did a cartwheel at school the other
day. Oh, goodness, in the hallway, kick somebody. Oh my gosh, there was no room in the hallway when I was
absolutely there's no room in the hallway there still. So
you just made it happen. Yep, just made it happen. I was like, we're finished
at cartwheel right now. And my friend was like, do it. I dare you.
I didn't know this. Most ginger cats are male. Yeah, three. Three out of Wait, three to one. So, yeah, that's interesting. I hear orange cats are crazy. I love they're like, the craziest. Yeah, interesting. Do you know platypus sweats milk? What? They don't have the normal gland that produces milk, you know, like in other animals, so they sweat the milk out. Oh, all right, wait, milk appears. Wait, they're not platypus, but it's an aquatic mammal, so it doesn't actually sweat. They lay
eggs. Hold on, well, hold on, platypus, they're just wrong. They're radioactive. They glow in the dark. They they wear they wear hats. They wear hats. They're super poisonous. They're Dr Doofenshmirtz
has to catch the sky. I swear. Okay,
oh, man. So basically, the milk just oozes out of the surface of their skin to make it look like sweat, but they're actually lactating. So that's just weird. That's just so weird to me. Okay, are they?
Are they mammals?
They are aquatic mammals, but they lay eggs? Yes, that's what I'm saying. Like, they're like all of the rules that apply to every other animal. Like, you know how there has to be an exception to every rule? Well, that's there. I want to apply platypus was just like all of the exceptions in one you might be
I'm gonna go to the ocean and figure it out. The entire one, the
entire ocean. So new car smell is a mix of over 200 chemicals.
You're saying all of the ones we've already said before. My
my list. Oh my gosh. Are we out of facts? We said every random facts? No, you can say, maybe we've just, I just came to this site before I could probably say, maybe show notes. Maybe we're done with the facts. Well, this is from February, February, February.
Pronounce every single letter in every single
word. Well, this is what happens when we don't prepare properly. We had another topic. No, we had another topic lined up. Not gonna say what it is, because we might still do it. But we had another topic lined up, and we're like, this topic deserves more research than the 15 minutes that we can give it before we have to start recording. Yeah. So there you go. There's a country with no capital noir, norru, yeah, n, a, u, r, u, yeah, huh, no capital city. The government offices of,
oh, it's, it's a tiny little island nation, okay? They're located in the yarn district, but there's only five countries. There are only five countries with no airports in the world.
What do they do? Swim, just go to the
neighboring country and use their airport. Yeah, I guess San Marino, Morocco, no, sorry, Monaco Lichtenstein, Andorra. Where is and or and or is landlocked between Spain and France, huh? It's a micronation.
Yeah. The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels.
The cornea is the colored part is that that's the clear part of your eye. Clear part, okay, that covers the pupil. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, I always get the parts of the eyeball confused. Always why? I don't know. I just maybe, I just don't care. Yeah,
there's parts of Africa in all four hemispheres.
I was gonna say that one, not anymore. Oh yeah, well, I guess not. Yeah. Africa's just got, it's got little bit in the the Southwest hemisphere, yeah, like, barely any, right, just that little corner there. It got in there, yeah, yeah. Like, the 0000, um, latitude, longitude is just right off the coast of Africa, in that little, that little that little spot right there. You know where it is. It's a zero. If you look at the if you look at the map, all the zeros are right there. I love
it. All next, All right, next to each other. Okay, I think I'm done with my facts. Are we? Are we got to save some for the next random facts episode. We're out. Yeah, I think. Yeah, we're getting there. Said every fact ever,
and I put a photo for the cover
art. Oh, okay, cool. Found it. Found a good one. Awesome.
Well, co pilot found me good one. Oh, no.
Oh, I had one more. I had one more. The world's oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5000 years. It was found in 2002 in Slovenia, and it's at a museum now. Radiocarbon dating, which, you know, I don't know how, which is totally accurate, ma'am, I don't know. I don't know about that puts it between 50 153 50 years old. So that's, yeah, that's kind of that's old, that's older, that's slightly older than me, but only slightly, yeah, only slightly. All right.
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