David: Oh, I just thought I'd switch it up a little
Leila: welcome to Fun Fact Friday. I'm your host Leila.
He's David I don't know what he's here for.
David: I we talked about stuff I've just run around the
soundboard
Leila: he does almost everything
David: so so yeah, hey, oh, I don't know why I was so low
energy during the intro there you say hi.
Leila: What do you when was that we turned my compressor? Yeah,
we're
David: messing with the audio settings a little bit so
hopefully didn't sound bad like last episode so our main piece
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soon, which is going to make it it's going to do some neat stuff
for the soundboard. It's going to help us get the levels right
on stuff quicker. I gotta quit playing with a microphone here.
So welcome to Fun Fact Friday where we talk about we talk
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Leila: sometimes talk about facts
David: we've had a lot of guests on recently we have like to have
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it's been been really cool talking to other people because
I gotta tell you, Leila gets a little boring. getting kind of
tired of her. So, yeah, this week, this week, what are we
talking about?
Leila: inventions, accidental inventions,
David: accidental inventions. I think I think this is a really
fun subject. And I had a good time reading about a lot of
accidents that turned out to be you know, very useful things
that you use in your daily life or don't because hopefully
you're not using like penicillin in everyday life. But before
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Leila: So do we have any good news?
David: I do not have any good news. But I You had an
interesting thing happened today had
Leila: a story. Okay. So we're going to school. Okay, now I
read the bus. On the bus there was there was a little bit of a
squabble. So I was looking behind me at the squabble and
then I hear
David: somebody peed on the bus
Leila: and I'm like I turned around from the squabble and the
squabble had stopped at this point, because I was looking at
the you know, yeah, so I thought you're gonna do for a long time
again. So apparently, the tire popped. And we're all on the bus
like, Oh, we're gonna make it to school. Because we were only
like a half. Like, we are in walking distance from the
school. Oh, yeah, that if we stopped we could be able to walk
like a 10th of a mile. Yeah, pretty much. But she was like
speeding. She was speeding all the way to school. And I was
like, This is hilarious.
David: That's funny. Yeah, that's very fun.
Leila: I think. Okay, there has been so many fights at school
this year. And I have not seen a single one of them I have been
missed them all. I have missed them all. I have been in the
same room as every single one of these fights and I have not seen
any of them. It is I think it's like a sign from God because
like I started seeing this little squabble and the tire pop
so I think it's not meant for me
David: it's not meant for you to see fights. Yeah, apparently.
That was always the case with me too in school if I wasn't in the
fight, like if somebody was not attacking me because I never
started a fight. If it was not, if I was not in it, then I
missed it. I never got to see any other fights there's quite a
few of the fights and you know, I don't know how it is now but
back in when I was in back in my day the fight would start and
then a group would like a circle would form around Yeah, and like
almost like lock arms do not let any teachers through but yeah,
pretty much I was always outside the circle and I was short so I
couldn't see it. But
Leila: I guess I'm gonna teachers want to be Yeah,
David: I got to I got maybe three times I got into a fight
in school it was always me getting attacked I never did the
attacking
Leila: if you record a fight at school you get the same
punishment as people that were in the fight.
David: I think that's good. I think that because like the to
me and you know we're getting off the the fun facts for for a
second but like the cloud chasing the wanting wanting to
get cloud off of a fight video or something like that. Almost
eggs on the fight in such a way that like people might start
trying to pick get people to fight so that they can get the
video you know, so it's it's something that should personally
I think it should be discouraged. Not that I don't
enjoy a good fight video. But you know, it's not it's not a
good thing to it's not a good thing to encourage a squabble
they call them they call them squabbles now nerd, like saying
Leila: the funny words for stuff,
David: right? So I think that our topic tonight 10 minutes in
is that's not too bad. I listen to podcasts. They don't get to
the point for 30 minutes.
Leila: Awesome. We may or may not have a fly infestation on
our school.
David: Yeah, that's fine. I gotta I gotta call the
exterminator out there. Yeah. But yeah, accidental inventions.
is a is a fantastic topic.
Leila: Did you know that chocolate What?
David: What? We had audio glitch there? Chocolate, chocolate,
Leila: chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip cookies.
David: So weird. Thank you. Alright, so what's up with
chocolate chip cookies?
Leila: There an X will make accidental invention,
David: an accidental invention. Okay, so that's what we're
talking about. Yeah, I know. But yeah, you act like you didn't
know we're talking about well, like, explain how it was an
accident, because like it's a cookie, and there's chocolate
chips in it.
Leila: So this says that on the day, the cookies were created.
The co owner of Toll House in was preparing some good
chocolate chip cookies for her guests, when she realized that
she was out of baker's chocolate. So she chopped up a
block of semisweet chocolate. And she thought it was melt
evenly through the batter. And it just had the chunks in it.
David: Oh, so
Leila: so she just she did oopsies
David: she didn't know that the chocolate wouldn't melt. Yeah,
apparently. That's okay. So
Leila: this was whole house in was like a hotel
David: owner owner the total house and I didn't know there.
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know that either. That's kind of
neat. That's neat. Ruth graves Wakefield, you can take her for
chocolate chip cookies. Dynamite. Okay, dynamite rods.
Leila: I was gonna ask you what you had.
David: But dynamite rods were invented by Alfred Nobel. That's
right.
Leila: About Joseph dynamite. Mr. What about Napoleon dice?
David: Oh, we haven't been doing the Joseph thing.
Leila: Let's not for this episode. Yeah. Since
David: we are talking about inventions. We don't want to
confuse our listeners
Leila: and confuse people.
David: So dynamite. When I say Alfred Nobel you ever heard the
Nobel Prize? Yeah.
Leila: So oh, I've heard of this guy. Yeah, I love this guy. So
David: here's the thing it was he made he made dynamite.
However it tells me you know the story? Yeah. Are you ever gonna
just read the story? No. Okay. I know the story. So tell the
story. So
Leila: he made dynamite. And then he was so terrified that he
created dynamite that he made the Nobel Prize. I'm like, show
how good people are. Right.
David: Well, maybe he liked it. Maybe he like regretted it
later. Yes, but this this is the way that the story went? As is
my understanding and I've got a little help from this article.
So my man scsl No, so bear sobrero Embera sombrero Sabra
Seb sober at Ro And Villa nitroglycerin, an 1847. He
combined glycerol and nitric and sulfuric acids to produce an
explosive compound. It was far more powerful than gunpowder and
more volatile. Volatile like we were watching last. With the
dynamite they had the dynamite that they had lost. Yeah, it was
unstable.
Leila: How many valence electrons would have Oh,
David: valence electrons. So sobrero was opposed to his use.
But Alfred Nobel was like oh, we can use this to make profitable
explosives and weapons. So he saw the Prophet and then about
20 years later, Nobel ended up creating dynamite which they he
stabilized the nitroglycerin with silica powder although in
the process of that, of that whole thing he blew up two of
his factories Oh, trying to get website makes sense. He's best
remembered now for his prize which was established which
recognizes humanitarian contributions but the wealth
that so the money when you get Nobel Prize, you get money when
when you get the Nobel Prize. I don't I don't understand the
question.
Leila: When I don't understand something and something like
what I like to say like where when
David: you say the wrong wrong one word question. Gotcha. Okay,
so
Leila: I didn't know that you got money when you want to know
movies? Yeah.
David: And all of that money came from the creation of the
weapons and explosives and explosive, you know, dynamite
stuff is used for mining and landscape, not landscaping, but
like terraforming essentially, like ripping through mountains
and whatnot. So yeah, sobrero is discovery led to Nobel's
creation, something that he had never intended and he deeply
regretted so sobrero regretted it from the get go sobrero once
said, When I think of all the victims killed during
nitroglycerin explosions, and the terrible havoc that has
wreaked, which in all probability will continue to
occur in the future. I'm almost ashamed to admit that I to be
its discoverer, which I get, you know, you make something you
make something that ends up hurting a lot of people and, you
know, so going from hurting to helping do you wanna talk about
penicillin?
Leila: Yeah, of all Yeah. All right. Over here, okay.
Discovered in 1978 by Joseph, penicillin. I'm coming.
Discovered a nice Sunday, we're gonna do it. It was discovered
in 1928. And penicillin was one of the world's first
antibiotics. But the man who discovered it, Dr. Alexander
Fleming never actually meant to revolutionize all medicine, as
he later discovered it. Rather, Fleming came across the
antibiotic entirely by chance when he left out cultures of
Safa locusts in his lab for two weeks, so remember, and then
remembered
growth.
David: So basically, what you're saying is having a messy life
and not cleaning your workspace and not cleaning up after
yourself, invented that lead to kill chemistry has killed
literal inoculum safety saved literally millions of lives.
Leila: lab safety number two, keep it clean,
David: keep it clean, keep your work area clean. And one is
don't catch on fire. That being said, trying to I'm trying to
dish out some excellent life advice here over here. Which
don't catch on fire to be
Leila: good. Last advice. Don't
David: look at me as a t shirt right there. Rule number one,
don't catch on fire.
Leila: Rule number one have chemistry.
David: Now just that's just rule number one. That's just rule
number one. Don't catch on fire. Yeah. Oh, wow. So yeah. So he
just left some stuff out and started growing mold on it.
Right? Yeah. Well, he was like tasting what went from there. I
know what went from there. What went over there. He went looked
at it. And he noticed that there was no bacteria anywhere near
the mold. And he's like, hold on a tick. Let's
Leila: smoke 28.
David: Hold on there chap. Dateline. 1920 man doesn't clean
his lab up and discovers that there's no bacteria around this
certain mold. The mold and one of his sores goes away. Oh,
well. Don't eat mold. Mold. Don't eat mold. Please. Rule
number two.
Leila: Number three.
David: Excuse me. Oh, yeah, sorry. Keep it clean. Don't get
so fired. Keep it clean. Don't eat mold. Got it. So So yeah, so
he's he started doing some tests on it about 25 years later, they
were actually using it. Like, actually using penicillin to
help be an you know, be an antibiotic for all the stuff he
used antibiotics for. All that useful stuff, you know. So
that's a good one. That was that was always always one of the
ones that anytime you talk about accidental inventions or
discoveries, that one always pops up. One of my favorites is
matches. And man I started reading about matches. I love
like, I like matches. I like the way they smell. I like striking
them. So the box is my my mom has been looking for a VCR
because she's got a bunch of VHS tapes that she wants to watch,
right. And I found one thrift store. And I was like, Oh, cool.
Well, she was coming over to get it. That whole long story just
to get to this part. Now sitting out in the garage. Have one of
those big box of matches. Just sitting there just waiting for
him to come over to pick the VCR up and I was just like just
lighten matches and letting them burn.
Leila: matches on the masses come
David: from and be like Oh yeah, and they're all burnt. Just
burnt just burn a bunch of matches. What
Leila: a waste of matches.
David: It's a box of 1000 and we have like five long ones. No,
they're just medium sized ones. We still have a promise we still
have plenty of matches. Okay, so matches were were invented in
1978. My job is no no, no, no, not gonna do it. You've already
done Lucifer matches were straight copy of John Walker's
original friction lights of a Between 26 Or seven, they're not
quite sure. The next development in matches with a CES this is
just that's like jumping into the middle. Where was the other
one? I was reading the different articles all the rest of the L
and all the rest of the L. There's two. There's two things.
There's two articles about matches. Let me find the other
one.
Leila: One of them small loans.
David: Here we go. Yeah. 1926 chemists John Walker discovered
what are now matchsticks when he accidentally when he
accidentally scraped a stick coated with chemicals across his
hearth, and found that it caught fire. Call them friction lights,
Walker's friction lights, as they were called, were
originally made out of cardboard, but eventually
switched over to using wooden splints and sandpaper. And
that's still not what I was looking for. Here it is, this
was early matches relied on chemicals. They were like they
were called the Prometheus match.
Leila: Oh, that's neat. I like that name, we should call it but
David: the Prometheus match is something different and you
can't really get them, you can't really get them now. That was
1929. It contained a glass vial of sulfuric acid wrapped,
wrapped in paper. The match was lit by crushing the glass vial.
Darwin himself was a fan of these. Of course, he was the old
Chuck and would entertain others by biting the matches to ignite
Darwin. He's about to win a Darwin Award look into that
sometime, as one might imagine. However, as one might imagine
the match a match that people are tempted to light in their
mouths have some safety drawbacks. Whoopsie I'd like
Leila: to imagine that they're talking about Darwin from the
amazing was like on ball. Oh. But I think that's pretty funny.
And just think of Darwin like eating matches
David: was one of the things about matches. You can't get the
strike anywhere matches anymore. Yeah, because they can they bad
stuff. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that you know,
Leila: boom, boom. Pals, girl. Yeah, Scrabble.
David: So about the same time Walker, who we talked about
earlier, was experimenting with chemicals when he accidentally
scraped coverage. So he called this is this is cool. He called
the matches that he created. Con Greaves. That's it was selling
them at this pharmacy. I know I'm gonna start calling matches
con Greaves. Good rock on. I know, right. It was named in
honor of the inventor of that type of, of a type of rocket.
Walter Walker's con Greaves were cardboard sticks cutter with a
mixture of potassium chlorate, and antimony sulfide, which
would ignite when struck against a piece of sandpaper. Though
Walker's invention was instantaneous, not
instantaneously, instantly. Popular, he did not patent it.
Oh, as a result, others copied his design and began selling
their own versions obscure obscuring his role as the
inventor It wasn't long until after his death in 1859, that he
was acknowledged as the creator of the first friction match. So
he didn't patent it. If he had patented it, we might not call
them matches, we might still be calling them concrete. Yeah, so
I, I am going to try real hard to remember to call them Congri
from now on.
Leila: That's awesome. So on the topic of Fire, fire, don't fire.
But smoke detectors. Were an accident.
David: Oh, yeah. I've heard about this one. Go ahead.
Leila: So there's this dude. And he was trying to make a poison
gas detector, you know, as you do as you do in your free time,
and he discovered that instead it like, registered the smoke
from a cigarette instead of the poison gas.
David: Had a bit of an incident. What did you do? Did you go I
took a drink. I took a drink of my my soda. Which I shouldn't be
drinking this late. took a drink of my soda and some of the
bubbles formed and started to come up as I was about to speak.
And cause a little bit of an issue with me but I'm good now.
I'm all good.
Leila: All right.
David: Almost almost coughed really loud. They're like you've
been doing okay, so smoke detectors. He was he was making
a he was like I'm worried about poison as he sits and smokes
cigarettes. And
Leila: so I like the way it says it. He's a Swiss physicist,
David: Swiss physicist, Swiss physicist, a Swiss visitors.
They that five times fast that that that that that.
Leila: Right there his name is Walter Yeager
David: purple burglar alarm.
Leila: Pub Pub above Galala. Yegor Yegor, it's like Jagger.
You know,
David: yeah, there's there's an alcoholic drink called a Jaeger
Jagermeister. So, just automatically with the J. Yeah.
Yeah, so that just thought was funny because he was looking.
She was making a poison detector while he was smoking a
cigarette, and then it went off.
Leila: Yeah, they were apparently like, really high
cost.
David: Oh, yeah. I mean, anything new. Until you get a
good a good manufacturing process for it. And you can get
costs down that way, then it's going to be expensive.
Leila: So I thought that was neat. I didn't know that. Those
are.
David: Yeah, that's some of the other neat things that were
accidental was Velcro. Yeah. You told me about this one. Swiss
engineer. What's the name? Swiss physicist. Swiss engineer. It
says George de Mestral. But it might be your dog might be
pronounced your dog? I don't know. Or is it? Hog your dog?
Your head? I
Leila: think it's just George.
David: No, it's It's your a new some some folks anyway. It
didn't set out to invent a fastener that would someday be
ubiquitous on spacecraft. This is back in 1941. He was on a
walk with his dog. And they both got covered in those tiny little
BB cocklebur plant. You don't know my little stickers. We call
them stickers when I was kid, the little
Leila: spiky glands. What are those even? Okay, let
David: me look it up. cocklebur plant is what you're looking
for. So he saw that the burrs were shaped like little hooks,
which snagged on the loops of the clothing and then also
snagged on his dog's fur and was fascinated so he tried to create
his own hook and loop a fabric which is what you call that type
of fastener if it's if you're not using the brand name velcro
because you know, there's other brands. The name combines French
words valores and crochet crochet, which means velvet and
hook. Despite the moniker, the creation was not well it was
made from nylon was not crocheted. It took a while for
the for the fashion world to catch on. But NASA was an early
adopter using Velcro on spacesuits and shuttles. I love
Velcro. And I'm gonna say something and people pick on me
for it. And they make fun of me and they call me names. But I
will I wear velcro shoes.
Leila: Because I can tell you right now who does
David: my daily walkers,
Leila: he has two little straps of velcro my little velcro
shoes.
David: I got him because I just needed some cheap tennis shoes
that I didn't care if they got messed up. And these shoes have
been fantastic. And they've been comfortable. And I don't have to
sit there and tie my shoes. And it saves me i It saves me four
hours a day trying to tie my shoes.
Leila: Totally. I like Velcro because it's so much easier to
like put and so on to stuff to fasten it. Then like the hook,
the snaps and the hook and loop.
David: I like the one of my favorite uses for the hook and
loop is the the wire wraps. So instead of using the twisty
ties, or rubber bands or something like that, I like to
wrap around the wires.
Leila: Yeah, Velcro Velcro. I'm not saying who can loop like
Velcro. I'm saying how can loop like the little little hook in
the loop. Middle wire on like clothing. Oh,
David: you're talking Okay. Yeah, so you're not talking
about Velcro? fastener. Okay, so that I was confused
Leila: Velcro. You can just sew in with a sewing machine. Yeah,
pretty easy. Yeah, I like
David: the the wire wire strap so you can get I got like 100
Pack. Yeah, everything in this. Everything in the studio is
wrapped with things. That's fantastic. And I love it. So
Leila: yeah, I get when we're here.
David: So, let me see it. Is it hooked on something? Nope. Okay,
so check it out. If you hate that, if you hate that noise,
you might want to skip a few seconds because I'm going to do
it right into the mic. Asthma. Oh, okay, so it's kind of loud.
They have come out with quieter versions. What? Yeah, there's a
no, they they came out and made it quieter back in 2021. So this
this is how this is how I make sure that nobody hears me when
I'm like unfastening some Velcro. Yeah, I take it you got
it and I can actually explain how this isn't like a video
thing you can actually talk about your grab. You know the
the piece that you grabbed to pull off the whichever side it
is. And right when you go To pull it you just see, you barely
heard the Velcro. You just could just scream while you're opening
the velcro and nobody. Yeah.
Leila: Ah, you definitely heard it.
David: Yeah, you gotta scream real loud and I didn't want to
do it on my mic. Okay, you know what, it's a bad joke and it
does work better in person. So they can't they can't all be
winners. I can't all be winners.
Leila: I'm gonna look at the silent vulgar stuff.
David: Yeah, look it up. waste your time. Okay, popsicles?
Popsicles popsicles.
Leila: Are those excellent. Oh, yeah.
David: There was an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson who
simply mixed some soda powder and water and left it out
overnight with a stir stick Still. Still in the in the
mixer, like in the cup that he was mixing it. Still got to
stick in there. When he woke up in the morning he decided to
lick his frozen soda blend. It doesn't say that he put it. He
left it out
Leila: overnight. Maybe it's cold.
David: Right? Yeah, maybe you left it outside. Yeah. Like
cannabis. Yeah. Because it's cold in Canada sometimes. Yeah.
Leila: We're not the only people on earth
David: when he woke up in the morning. Let's see. So it tastes
it tastes pretty good. That this story is not written very well.
Like it's like, more questions than there are answers sounds
like
Leila: me trying to explain something. It's like, hey, so
there was a dude and he left something outside with his stick
in it. And he came out and he was like, it's pretty good.
David: Oh, boy,
Leila: it's me trying to summarize these things on the
test today. We had to read a passage and summarize it. And I
tried my best to like be professional.
David: That's fine. So so like there's this guy, guy, and like
he the covalent. Still just coat covalent bonds just then there's
this guy. Okay, so, safety glass, safety glass. On one
fateful day in 1903, scientist Edward Benedictus was working on
his own lab when he accidentally knocked over a flask. However,
when Benedictus looked down, he noticed that rather than
breaking into a million little pieces, the glassware had
actually just crapped slightly while my taint maintaining its
shape. After looking into it a bit further, scientists learned
that what had kept the glass together was a cellulose nitrate
coating on the inside of the glass and safety glass was
created. Whoa,
Leila: did you like my little Yeah, my little reality
television called stingers stingers to get someone the
soundboard so I can do that whenever you
David: It's better when you do it with your face. No. All
right, so so that that one is another one he had. So cellulose
nitrate coating the inside so he didn't clean out his is number
two, number two, number two, we wouldn't have saved the glass
you've kept clean.
Leila: Number two, keep clean. Don't get too far. What was the
third one? What? Don't eat more.
David: Okay, so this, this wasn't this is actually a very
intentional, very intentional invention. But one of the
stories like I learned a long time ago and I bring up when it
comes to intention vention intention,
Leila: intention vention
David: WD 40. Like we used it all the time when I was a kid to
like spray bike parts and whatnot with and I thought that
it was like a type of grease or oil, right? It was like, oh,
yeah, grease it up. But then I found out that it's a water
displacement formula. It's Oh displaces water. And it was the
40th attempt to get it right. So that's why it's called WD 40 has
water displacement formula. 40
Leila: Well, that took a little while. Yeah.
David: Was 3939 Yeah, before it Yeah, obviously wants some shelf
somewhere in the 40 there's WD one. I want to try whatever you
do to we're doing these ones probably he's like sugar water.
Or like, just oil just strictly Yeah, we used motor oil. Oh,
wow.
Leila: So I kind of made my fingers stick together with a
piece of thread. And I didn't think about how I'm gonna get
them off when was this, like two minutes ago? Why don't you try
my fingers together?
David: Why would you do such a thing?
Leila: I was bored. I was talking. I was talking about the
unintentional engine. We're gonna call the episode that and
we're just gonna have to watch it or listen to it. I keep
saying Watch it. Watch it. We
David: don't do video.
Leila: I know. That's why I'm like confused myself. You're
supposed to do it on intention mention
David: on intention vention is that what we're naming it? Yeah,
so I gotta go back. Look at the one now I gotta go back and redo
all of the all of this stuff that I've already put
accidentally? No, it's fine. I'll just do a find and replace.
outs to Find Replace easy. Yeah, just Ctrl F and then you type it
in and then hit the Replace button. And then let's see. It
might be Ctrl H to do to go ahead and pull up a find and
replace I don't know. Using VS code, I don't know like shortcut
keys for it. So it is it is what it is. Um, I think oh, the
microwave oven. Oh, well tell me about it and science oven. Yeah,
Percy LeBron Spencer was working on a magnetrons high powered
vacuum tubes that generate shortwave radio, short radio
waves called microwaves. When he accidentally discovered
microwave cooking, you accidentally, he accidentally
made some microwave cooking. The engineer was doing his job.
Usually when he noticed that a candy bar he had in his pocket
had melted. Quickly spent to realize that it was magnetrons
that were causing the phenomenon. By 1945, he had
filed a patent for his metal cooking box powered by
microwaves. So here's a fun fact. And pro tip. If anybody's
ever getting rid of an old microwave, if it still seals up,
it is a it is a Faraday cage. It's
Leila: so you can what am I crazy?
David: Yeah, microwave. Microwave is a Faraday cage
because think about how it works. The outsides of it block
the microwaves inside from getting out. Right?
Leila: Yeah, so you don't get cancer,
David: right. So if you put something inside of it, it also
blocks the outside stuff from getting in.
Leila: So cancer from getting a fared,
David: if you need a Faraday cage cancer proof cage. That's
not what I said. And this is not medical advice. Rule number
four. Never listen to anybody about microwaves. Know, if you
have like you see an old garage sale or you see somebody who's
about to throw one out, or you hear about it be like, Hey, let
me get that and you just put it in the garage. You put a couple
of walkie talkies, some extra batteries, some stuff,
electronics that you don't want to get messed up, if there's
some kind of EMP. Or, you know, the, what are they called? Solar
flares can cause problems electronics. Yeah, I'll just
we'll we'll, we'll fun fun fact. Also, if you don't want to do
that, you can actually rip an old microwave apart and there's
like five pounds of copper in it. What? Yeah, there's a
there's a coil in there. About five pounds of coiled up copper
in a microwave. That's nice. Which I mean, yeah, pure copper.
It's, it's worth something. Not a lot. Not a lot. It's kind of
cool to have a big ol ball of copper.
Leila: I mean, if you want not my thing, but
David: another one that a lot of people talk about is post it
notes. He was he was just trying to come up with some adhesives.
And he had gotten some on a piece of paper and then found
out that hey, it was really weak adhesive and like he could
restrict it to other things, you know, without leaving any
residue on whatever he stuck it on. Oh, cool. Cool. Cool. I like
this neat. So we learned about penicillin. Chocolate chip
cookies, microwaves dynamite Mulgrew, mold. Don't catch it on
fire.
Leila: Don't catch on fire and don't eat it.
David: Don't eat fire. No,
Leila: don't eat mold.
David: Don't catch on. Don't catch on mold. Or mold. Don't
eat. That's it right?
Leila: Keep your workspace clean.
David: Stay in school. Stay in school. The more you know.
Leila: dee doo doo doo doo. Okay, well, I think we're
David: good. Yeah, we're getting into sillies here. Yeah, if you
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