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Fun Facts of The Day

Nov 04, 20243 min
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Fun Facts of The Day

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Speaker 1

The fuck back to the day we make you look smart body to the.

Speaker 2

Day she would have saw Hal's eyes light up when Sammy said hat trick like a hockey reference top show. What all right? Very good? Speaking of hockey red Wings the savors this weekend.

Speaker 1

By the way, thanks for that reminder.

Speaker 2

It's the only thing I have right now. It's good at anything. Well, Bill's beat Miami, So squish the fish. You had that, at least I had that in my back pocket. Squish the fish. We did this just that. Uh. Tessa doesn't talk about it ever, but if you ever catch her with Jeopardy on in the background, she likes to jump right in as like the fourth contestant.

Speaker 1

I love it.

Speaker 2

Where did this come from?

Speaker 1

This started when I keep.

Speaker 2

Being homesick from school.

Speaker 1

No, no, I would record it. I was dating a guy who, actually, funny enough, was helping me do my accounting homework. He would do it for me, and I would hang out and watch Jeopardy while he did it.

Speaker 2

Okay, so you said two things there. Did he help you with your homework or did he do the homework for you? He did the majority of it also majority meeting.

Speaker 1

But I would play him in Jeopardy, and I would usually win, so I mean I still thought I was smarter in.

Speaker 2

Really Someone analyzed all the dates that were mentioned in the history of Jeopardy Okay, over the last forty years, and the analyze which dates were most commonly mentioned. The most frequent date mentioned one hundred and seventy one times, July fourth. Every single date was mentioned at least a couple of times, meaning date in the three hundred and sixty five calendar year. The least common were February twenty fifth, November twelfth, There was a couple like that, December eleventh.

All of them just got three mentions in forty years, but every other date got more than that. Who went through and analyzed this, I think some of you will know this. The scrolling text at the beginning of the early Star Wars movies was done by printing out the entire thing and having a camera slowly roll over it. Yeah, we didn't have We didn't have AI back then, so yeah, it's actually rolling. Someone had to write all that out. Oh here we go back to Tessa, she loves her

some Wizard of Oz. The original reels you know those were shot on film, right, we didn't have video back then either so, the original reels, the film reels of Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz, and a bunch of other classic movies and TV shows. They are stored in an underground salt mine in Kansas.

Speaker 1

Neat I'll start, should be more.

Speaker 2

I hope that's safe. That fun back to the day. We make you look smart in front of your bodies.

Speaker 1

It's the fun back to the day.

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