Leila: Hey,
David: howdy everybody. This is Fun Fact Friday we would
broadcast were discussed on facts running different topic
each week. I am your host na. Host. David,
Leila: I'm the host.
David: I'm the host. What are you?
Leila: The host?
David: gotta kinda making that s sound kind of funny.
Leila: I look I know. I promise you I know.
David: Leila is avoiding s sounds right now. Yeah. All
right. So first off, we apologize for being late this
week. It was unavoidable. There's a new Mexican restaurant
opened up.
Leila: We had to go out and then I couldn't eat the stupid chips.
were
David: delicious. Last night we got home and it just wouldn't
happen. To work. Yeah, Leila had a pile of homework this week.
And with our well okay, let's let's get started real quick.
Welcome to Fun Fact Friday. Welcome. Real quick. We're just
gonna go into what's been going on with us this week. Good news,
bad news. Fun, fun stuff. We won't make it too long. Feel
free to jump forward in the podcast a little bit if you
don't care about our lives. And you just want some fun facts.
What are our facts going to be about this week? Leila? I don't
know. Exactly. With random facts. Every once in a while we
do this we hop around. Like we collect random facts over time.
And they don't fit a particular topic. Or there's not enough
facts in that topic to make a whole episode. So we just we we
keep track of sites that we find and random mind blowing facts or
facts you wouldn't believe things like that. So random
facts. This episode was always fun. We always have some good
conversations.
Leila: But not recently.
David: So last week, we recorded on Tuesday, super early stay and
released on Friday, like normal, but Leila had to have a major
procedure. So why don't you tell us all about your fun times. At
the orthodontist. It
Leila: wasn't major. They put this little thing in my mouth
and I stretched out my cheeks and held my tongue back. And
they cleaned up my teeth dried off my teeth, put some glue on
them. They put these little metal things on there. And I put
a wire on the metal things. Yeah, these are called braces,
obviously.
David: So like, how did it all How did it all How did it go?
How did it go?
Leila: Oh, the plan was fine. So
David: I mean, like I've never gotten braces. What was the
whole process like you like did you just go into like a super
private room? Like why don't you talk we'll talk about the whole
the whole situation
Leila: so they got me from the waiting room? I sound
disgusting. By the way. My mouth is so like lispy I don't know
how to explain it. You have a lisp
David: it's fine. All I gotta take a sip of water do a little
bit of clicking noises bothers me more. But we can I might be
able to put a filter on you. That will get rid of the
clicking noises from the braces. But they may also not be
noticeable to anybody but me because I click I can I can hear
something
Unknown: I don't know what okay
David: I don't know we're not touching each other. No, I know
they're not but like your lips are touching them. Anyway we're
getting in the weeds about production stuff so anyways
Leila: they brought me back I had to brush my teeth in front
of them that was scary
David: I wouldn't want an audience will push exactly
Leila: they have like a little little sink in the procedure
room which is just a big ol room with like six chairs in it that
like everyone gets their braces on at the same time apparently
it was so weird.
David: It was like a it's an open room it was like a conveyor
belt type factory setting it looked like there was like it
looked like a I don't know there was just all these people in
there getting all their braces on at the same time in the same
room getting
Leila: cleaned or checked out. Yeah. But they had like little
prepackaged toothbrushes with toothpaste already on them. So
you just had to wet it and brush your teeth but that was still
scary man.
David: Yeah, that's that's crazy. And this orthodontists we
go to did a good job yeah, they're very well well received
in our area and they their marketing game is on point like
they give you a T shirts and pins and all kinds of stuff with
their name and emblazoned all over it there they got to get
their given about promotional items all over the place. Yeah.
And if I understand correctly, if somebody who works there. See
outlet Yeah, what is it?
Leila: I think it's either like a McDonald's gift card or like
100 bucks.
David: Yeah, if they happen to be out and about and see you
with one of their shirts on, you get you win a prize,
Leila: you win a prize. So, marketing man. Yeah. So
David: it's pretty cool. And of course, they don't have to like,
Oh, crap, I'll just act like I didn't see him. You know, they
can just do. But yeah, so that's what that's what Leila that's
why we did and then on. I'm glad we didn't do the show because we
weren't thinking about doing the show after she got the braces.
And like, right after she got the braces.
Leila: She was a pain man. Yeah. Yeah, so like my teeth were very
sore. Like the braces didn't cut me up or anything. Like I
thought they would. My My mouth is very strong, apparently.
According to the orthodontists.
David: But yeah, so like, we but that evening, when we would have
normally recorded she was just kind of sore from like, having
to hold her mouth open and just the everything tightening
Leila: around Yeah, everything. Yeah, and they don't move
around. So it's a weird experience. My mouth was like,
and
David: you were talking real funny the next day, just cuz you
know, you got a whole lot going on there. But it's gotten better
now at play practice, because the Center Stage Theatre here in
Goldsboro is doing A Christmas Carol and we're both in it. And
Leila has a speaking role. She has to say a word with S, isn't
it? She was like adding all kinds of sounds into the words.
It was very funny. But yeah, let me I know we do have some local
listeners. If you are in the Goldsboro, Wayne County, even
eastern North Carolina area, we will be having the play. I'm
pulling up the calendar right now the eighth through the 10th
Yeah, eighth ninth and 10th and Goldsboro at the paramount. It's
a Christmas carol and it's got a little bit of a funny twist on
it. So yeah, come on. See it. It's fun. We're having a we're
having a good time putting it together. I forgot how much fun
theater can be. Especially once everybody gets into goofing off
mood during rehearsals. Because everyone's already got it down.
Yeah, people are people are getting getting to the point
where they know their parts and other just we're all just having
fun and stuff. Yeah. So So yeah, we're having now I'm normally on
our will show here. We like to do this little segment called
called good news. Right? We we play our player. That's the
That's not it. We play our little jingle. And we Oh,
welcome to Fun Fact Friday. Good news. Guess what? This other
little tiny show with like eight listeners? Yeah. Called no agenda.
Leila: I mean, who's even heard it? No agenda, man. Right. So
like,
David: now this is a massive show. They've actually, you
know, they talk we've talked about us before, and we've we've
talked about them before. But they this this, this is what
happened. I'm going to turn it down a little bit because I'm
not sure how long this is gonna be. I've been playing with the
audio settings.
Leila: So for example,
John C. Dvorak: beginning and we need a jingle for this. Oh, the
good news of the week that you specifically requested. I
requested it. Yes, I did. Shall we
Leila: start with the three by threes. So, so you stole our
segment. That's our segments, our segment. They're still in
our bit. You're still in our funniness
David: John and Adam, if you continue this we are going to
cease and desist. Yeah, I'm gonna send a super official
cease and desist legal
Leila: action.
David: Yes. Now I'm just kidding. It's not it's not like
we're the first people to do good news thing I think that guy
from the office place jam had a whole good news thing when the
parent when the Paramount started when the pandemic
starts. Now Yeah, so
Leila: yeah, like some some good news, I think was what was
things called it
David: was like, yeah, it was like him and his kids. Yeah,
just you know, goofing off. Like, like, we're doing exactly
what we're doing. Yeah, except we're doing you know, fun facts.
Not on that. So speaking of fun facts, Ill Leila me. What's your
favorite random
Leila: snails. Oh, wait, we already did that one on here.
David: Did you do a snails one already?
Leila: Yeah, we did. Um, snails will have teeth. It has like,
teeth in their throat almost. Yeah.
David: 1000s of 1000s. We just did that like last week.
Episode. I found out this sleep 20 hours a day. Yes. They're
very lazy. They're almost as lazy as lions. rats
Leila: don't have a digestive system. Well, they do. It's just
like, something goes in and just immediately comes
David: out are all of your random facts about animal
biology.
Leila: I like biology
David: gross animal biology can
Leila: live without their frontal lobe and their
hippocampus. What's the hippocampus? hippocampus is
where? What
David: what they call the, the college living area. For
Leila: hippos. The hippocampus is where your brain stores all
your short term memories.
David: All right. Oh, so like, like on that movie 51st dates?
Yeah, her hippocampus got all jacked up. Yeah. So fun movie.
It's a fun movie. Um,
Leila: I like family movie. You like that? Oh, frontal lobe is
decision making as well as why 25 year olds and younger, their
frontal lobe isn't fully developed. That's why they can't
make decisions. Yes. You
David: got to you got to make sure people 25 And under have a
good, solid support network for decision making. Yeah, not
saying there's no, there's no judgment in this. This is not
I'm saying people under 25 are dumb, or anything like that. But
Leila: there is proof there. Yeah, they're not fully
developed, not fully
David: developed. So yeah, there you go. So did you know we're
talking about animals? Humans are the only animals with chins.
Leila: Did you know that there's a phobia against chins?
David: There's a chin phobia. I actually find that.
Leila: I just learned about this on a Good Mythical Morning the
other day genial phobia
David: is the fear of 10s Well, then you can only be afraid of
other humans then because humans are the only Yeah, I wonder if
like when I read this fact, I was like, Wait a minute. Hold
on. I'm thinking of every animal right now.
Leila: Yeah. Your abs have chins. I was like,
David: cats have chin what's defined as a chin. Yeah, what's
the so I'm like, man, yeah. Um, so there's, there's a whole
article about it in audiology.org. And it says
humans have a few biological advantages compared to other
species. Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, correct. There are only we
are the only animals on earth with true chins. While we are
filled familiar with scratching our pups or kittens on their
chins, that is not what we're really scratching at all. We are
scratching their mandible, or the lower part of their jaw, a
true chin, which humans have is a bony part that juts out at the
bottom of our face. It is specifically a lump of bone that
protrudes forward from the lower jaw. Even our extinct relatives
Homo erectus, as well as chimpanzees and gorillas do not
have chins. I was on. Hold on. All right. All right. Elephants
have and manatees have chin like protrusions on their lower jaws.
But they don't quite qualify as true chin still reading from
audiology.org You
Leila: know, I know some humans that don't have gents. I am
David: at your date. I was gonna say how he fold towels though.
How does agitate fold towels? Oh my gosh. Yeah, no, there's a I
was like, when I read that. I was like, I've seen a chin. I've
seen a chin on an animal but no, it's just their job. They don't
have a specific bone sticking out there. So I was like, Okay,
well, if we're getting real technical II moves. No, not emo
emu.
Leila: I know Hold on. I think it moves have chains now they
have beaks nevermind. Another
David: another fact. And this. This one's kind of always blown
my mind how this how this all works. Harriet Tubman was alive
at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan.
Who's
Leila: Harriet Tubman.
David: So you don't know who Harriet Tubman is? Girl?
Underground Railroad?
Leila: Oh. Yeah, I think a little bit. We learned about
this in like fifth grade.
David: Yeah, fifth grade, right? So it just always like blows my
mind when you hear like this historical figure. And then this
historical figure, we're only this many years apart. You know,
and you're you think Ronald Reagan Oh, that's in the modern
times. Because I I remember when Ronald Reagan was president
who's Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was president. Yeah, in
the 80s.
Leila: In the 80s. Yeah, Harriet Tubman wasn't in the 80s. She
David: was still alive when Ronald Reagan was alive.
Leila: So he was born in 1911. Yes,
David: he was very old. So to go into this one a little deeper.
Let's see. Tubman was born in the early 1820s. However, an
exact date did not appear to be nailed down by historians.
Jefferson, the third president died on July 4 1826. Reagan was
born February 6 1911. Tubman died in 1930 on March 10. So
Tobin was born Like before Jefferson died and died right
after Reagan was born. So her lifespan, but like, I don't
know, it's kind of tough. When you look at people that were
everything before you were born is like lumped together in your
brain as the distant past. Yeah, the way I, the way my brain
works anyway. And then you find out that certain people were
like, alive contemporaneously, or obviously, the other were
alive at all at the same time. You're like, wait a minute, I
thought this guy was like the, like 300 BCE, and this guy was
No, no, it was 1800. But it's all the same to me as before I
was born. It's before anything mattered. Right? Yeah.
Leila: Okay, so Cuca melons are mouse melons look like a grape
size watermelon and they have a citrus flavor. They don't look
like a grape size watermelon on the outside they do. But on the
inside, they look
David: like a cucumber looks like a lime alive and cucumber
mix.
Leila: And you shake it all up.
David: But the lime and the cucumber and check it out. They
don't it doesn't work. Because it does. Okay, so, so good to
taste like
Leila: tourists. Usually added to salads, or made into salsa.
Okay, weird.
David: So here here's one that we can tasty. Here's here's a
fact that we can try right here on our audio podcast to annoy
our listeners. It is all is impossible to hum while holding
your nose. So let's let's give it a go. Let's let's hum let's
hum a Christmas song or something.
Unknown: Ah ha ha ha ha ha. No.
David: I'm just grunting
Okay, so this humming only count when your mouth is closed. Or is
humming count if your mouth is open.
Leila: I think I counted those because I can hold my mouth
open. And I just forgot to close it. Sometimes
David: you forget to close your mouth. Yeah, just hangs there.
Agape. Your nose is always visible in your field of vision.
Your brain just filters it out.
Leila: Well, this new world could fit inside candidate
eight, ad 1975.
David: What kind of effect is that?
Leila: If you wanted to know how many Walt Disney worlds will fit
inside Canada,
David: what if it means that it's like it can only like go
into. Like, the way that that's worded is like if you moved if
you picked up Walt Disney World and moved it into Canada and
then back out. You could only move it in and out before it
explodes. Oh, speaking of explode. Elon, Elon Musk sent a
spaceship up and one of the one of the rockets seems to have
exploded. But they didn't want to call it that. Oh my gosh, one
Leila: of the bathrooms in school has something written on
the wall and it says just like I love Elon Musk, and I think it's
hilarious. I see I love Elon Musk.
David: Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, it's funny. But yeah, one of the
starship boosters. This just happened a couple hours ago. And
they it had a, quote, rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Leila: It's like people, critical homeless people on how
are the people experiencing unhealed? Yeah, they're
David: just, they're adding words to a word that is
perfectly, but they say that on that one. They say that it's
become Yeah, I dropped my phone. It's become like derogatory to
say someone who's homeless, I'm gonna know it's a descriptive
term. They don't they don't have a home to go to. How is it
derogatory? It's just explaining their state. But we're not here
to get into political definitions. So it's like
Leila: the people in my class that don't want to be called
band kids. They want to be called Kids in band because band
kids have like a negative connotation.
David: Band of nerds, maybe Oh, hold on, I gotta pick my phone
up and squeaky chair.
Leila: Spending a few months in Antarctica can shrink your
brain. What?
David: What?
Leila: I don't know. Well, doesn't
David: give any explanation.
Leila: There's a lot of words, but I'm gonna try and read them
all. Some of these words are useless. But if you ever take a
trip to Antarctica, be sure to do as much socializing as you
possibly can and come with stimulating ways to keep
yourself busy. Research published by the New England
Journal of Medicine in December 2019 explained to the brain
imaging in eight polar expeditioners before and after
14 months of isolation showed that the volume of the
hippocampal dentate gyrus was lower than that in controls. Oh
Okay. So it can shrink your hippocampus.
David: All right, just being there, or not interacting with a
lot of people. No.
Leila: I mean, those can Oh, no,
David: hold on. I wonder. I would kind of like to dig into
that. Or you could dig into it because you're into Brain Stuff.
Yeah. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that there's not a
lot of stimuli there because like, everything's just white.
Everything white snow, white
Leila: and mountains and cold, right. No fluctuation in
temperature.
David: Yeah, there's no there's no, yeah, there's no colors. I
know. I've read somewhere that the color green, especially
seeing green of the color green plants. Yeah. Just seeing them
even if it's just an image improves your mood. Yeah. So
like, it's good to have plants around the house or like your
wallpaper on your computer to have like, oh, yeah, it's mine.
Green green scenery. I know I like having, having like,
outdoor landscape type scenery. Speaking of landscape, Plymouth
Rock is not anywhere near as big as I thought it would be. Oh, my
Leila: gosh, we had a whole conversation about this the
other day. Yeah. And
David: it's just like a little rock. It's, it's just like,
Yeah, it's like a rock that you would buy from the landscaper
because you have a spot in your yard that needs a feature, you
know, like, sick, maybe maybe five foot wide by three foot or
on it, and somebody chiseled a number into it. And I'm like,
this isn't 20 this is Plymouth Rock. This is like the big deal.
I don't know if it like I saw a cartoon. And when I was a kid
that made me think it was bigger, but I thought it was
like like, it's
Leila: like the size of an average person. Yeah, like
that's it. Plymouth
David: Rock is not that impressive is what we're saying.
It's not at
Leila: all. It's just a little bolder. So
David: Leila, yeah.
Leila: Am I a nerd or a cool guy? Both. Okay. Cool. Nerd guy.
Yeah, like me. My
David: new show nerd to talk with the cool guys is coming up.
We're getting started. I've got my first guest lined up. Getting
a rollin anyway, the word nerd. Do you know who invented it? Me?
Leila: Now, you know,
David: Joseph 1978. Yes. No, it was actually Dr. Seuss. Dr.
Seuss.
Leila: invented the word nerd because I'm not going to use the
word narrative doc. According
David: to Merriam Webster. There are many origins in the word
nerd. Okay. And Dr. Seuss's 1950 composition of whimsy. If I ran
the zoo, zoo, yeah. We have to seem what to be is the what to
be. We have what seems to be the first occurrence of nerd in
print and quote from the from the book, or, yeah, and then
just to show, I'll sail to cut through and bring back and it
cut a probe and approve a nickel 100 and a seer sucker too. So in
October of the following year, Newsweek carried an article
about the latest slang that include the word nerd in
Detroit. It notes someone who wants someone wants who, like
someone who wants would be called a drip or a square is now
regrettably a nerd. Or in less severe cases, US curve. So who
is somebody who's kind of a nerd is a skirt?
Leila: A skirt? I love it.
David: Oh, gotta make a skirt shirt. Hold on. I gotta get my
notepad. Where's my notepad?
Leila: I just gave it back to you because we were writing
levels.
David: I can't find my pin.
Leila: It's right here. Why is it dropped it when I was trying
to give it back to you? Okay,
David: I have my pin I have my bed skirt.
Leila: I asked for AI. The word nerd has a rich and interesting
history, and its origins can be traced back to the early 20th
century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary. The word
nerd was first used in 1950s to describe a foolish or inept
person and it's believed to have originated from the third
nerdling which was used in the 1930s to describe a foolish or
awkward person.
David: What see now we're good. We're going deeper. We're going
deeper. I asked AI nerd Ling or Jen. We're
Leila: going to trace this back to like
David: years zero. We're in a we're in a nerd. Okay.
Etymology, the first documented appearance of the word nerd
that's just what I was looking at. Okay, nerd Ling. Word. Word,
noun, plural Nerdlings I
Leila: got more however, the word nerd gained popularity in
and took on different meanings in the 1950s and 1960s,
particularly among teenagers and young adults. During this time,
the word nerd began to be used to describe someone who was
highly intelligent, enthusiastic and passionate about a
particular subject or activity, such as science, mathematics or
technology. So that's just telling you the word nerd means.
Okay, I'm on AI.
David: Come on AI. AI has gone downhill. Like it was more
impressive. It was more impressive a year ago than it is
now.
Leila: This is AI dot not the art the arts getting Yeah,
because I asked about AI. Okay, I use this a lot. So getting
David: going back to the nerd thing.
Leila: Yeah. Anyways, here's
David: the here's three nerds for you. Right? What do Donald
Trump, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have in common? Other
than they were all presidents? I don't know. They're all been
they were born in the same year?
Leila: What No, I don't believe what year was Who are they? What
do you see? George W. Bush,
David: I can just pull up the article that has all the
information that you're about to find. Oh, what is this?
Leila: What do you mean?
David: Oh my gosh, I'm using I'm using a browser that doesn't
have an ad blocker, and it's like, oh, you can't read this
unless you give us $1 Why don't you have? Oh my gosh, I don't
know I opened it in Chrome for some reason. That's weird. You
said Brave is your is my default. But I opened it in
Chrome for you open it and I was I was pulling up a YouTube
video. And I use Chrome for YouTube. Because it's logged in
to my account because we have YouTube premium. Yeah.
fingernails grow three times faster than toenails Yeah, no.
Leila: No, even though it doesn't seem like oh my god look
at all what
David: in Germany Mr. Clean is known as Mr. Proper. Oh my gosh.
Mr. Proper. Oh, my gosh.
Leila: I've told you other than Mr. Clean law before
David: Mr. Clean has lower. He has a whole thing.
Leila: Yeah.
David: Oh my God, that's hilarious. Son can fit a million
times inside the Earth. Wait a minute, once because it'll get
destroyed.
Leila: It's extremely humongous. How many earths will fit into
the sun? We ask that you eagles. How many earths? Because I know
this answer. Eats says a million fit in the sun. But you said the
Sun fit into the earth. No, no.
David: Third fits inside the sun.
Leila: So okay, well, you said it wrong.
David: I said it wrong. I apologize. It does happen
occasionally. No. Did you know that? Do you know Barbies full
name? Barbara
Leila: Millicent Roberts. Yes. Yes. Yeah.
David: How about the Cookie Monster's real name? I don't
know. Sid said
Leila: I know Barbara Millicent Roberts because of glory Life in
the Dreamhouse. She was like motivating herself to like go
change the batteries in the city in like heels. And she was like,
I am Barbara Millicent robbers and I was like, Oh, okay.
Roberts. I need to pronounce the T. I sound like like I'm saying
robbers.
David: Yeah, that's because of the whole braces thing. I'm
Leila: guessing. Yeah. The longest bicycle in the world is
over 150 and 135 feet long. I need to make a longer bicycle.
Yeah,
David: we could just make another bike and make it a foot
longer and then win the award. What do you get if you get a
Guinness World Record? Don't you get like $100,000
Leila: Just gotta get one record.
David: Lame. All right. All right. I got it. I got a
question. Statistically, should you be more afraid of sharks or
vending machines? Vending
Leila: Machines vending machine like sharks only killed like
what five people a year less?
David: It's a low number. Vending machines are twice as
likely to kill you as a shark is yes twice as likely and that
means because most they are more likely to kill you. Yes. How
often? Are you in the ocean? Like Like, like the average
person so there are so many people on this planet who never
ever get in the ocean?
Leila: Yeah, like think of like people that are inland Yeah.
David: So yeah, there is a whole we got we could do a whole
episode on misplaced fear. Yeah, there's some things that people
are so afraid of. That are so unlikely to harm you but like
movies and and movies and TV in the news have like, gotten
people to think that these things like the scariest things
in the world actually
Leila: like you if you're in the ocean with a shark you can just
like move it out of the way well, it'll be fine. Pretty much
David: it's there's ways to handle sharks. They're very
machine like creatures like they have like a certain they don't
have emotions. They don't get angry. It's like the room It's
like a robot. If you do this,
Leila: they'll do this. No. hippopotamuses are way more.
David: I'm not saying try this stuff now saying this is not.
This is not healthcare advice. No, it's
Leila: not at all.
David: Oh my gosh. So,
Leila: hold on, I have one.
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David: barely audible.
Leila: Okay, um,
David: I can turn your mic up or you can hook to Bluetooth. I
Leila: don't know how to hook up reviews. I'm just gonna turn on
my phone or put it towards my Okay, thanks. I could do this.
That's easier. They're gonna Rios or even my close to him.
Okay, so there's this couple that tried to change to name
their baby this. Okay.
Unknown: VRF XXCCXX mn PCCC CLL lmm NPR. XVCLMNCKSSQLBB 11116
Leila: It didn't work very well. But they tried to pronounce it
Albon. Think Vsauce actually made a video about this. So go
watch that if you want. But
David: did you know there's only one number? What? That has the
same amount of letters as its numerical value?
Leila: Oh, wait. Yeah, I think four.
David: Yeah, because there's four letters. And that's the
only one.
Leila: Yep.
David: Oh, I forgot about this one. I think we've talked about
before wombats poop is shaped like a cube. Wait
Leila: a minute.
David: They poop cubes. Carefully. I don't want to see a
picture. There's a picture. Oh my gosh. It's crazy. Okay, so
Leila: Tara Misu ever measured? Was 809 D seven feet long and
three inches?
David: Why are people making these big old desserts? Oh, it's
so when you get done with your bike ride on that huge bike. You
have something to eat? Yeah, three regain your calories you
burned off.
Leila: How do you see that long. Okay, so
David: talking about presidents. Did you know that there are
multiple presidents in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame?
No, including Abraham Lincoln.
Leila: I love that. Oh my god, I could see him as the wrestling
David: is a Abraham Lincoln legendary wrestling story. He
was a county wrestling champion at the age of 21. I love it.
That's fantastic. Oh my gosh, there's a there's an artist's
rendition of him wrestling. Oh, man. So
Leila: there's just like a really obvious factor on here.
There's no computers for the Amish.
David: What? That's the whole. Exactly.
Leila: That's the whole point of being Amish. There are no
computers for the Amish, which have no internet videos or
music. Amish people tend to reject modern ways. But despite
that, there's still a computer made specifically for the tech
weary group.
David: Hey, what real quick. Can you can you point your mic down
a little bit. It's not pointing directly your mouth and it's
Yeah, your levels are off. There you go much clearer. Do you know
what the national animal of Scotland is? Us. Got? What?
There's an animal called the Scott. I don't know. Maybe it's
a unicorn.
Leila: Oh, yeah. I feel like I need
David: Yeah, I feel like we've said that on the show before
we've got 190,000 episodes under. Oh, wow.
Leila: How many facts we said on each podcast episode. There's
David: a couple of geographical facts that kind of like they
kind of blow your mind a little bit because just how you've got
the idea of what the globe looks like in your brain. New York
City is further south than Rome, Italy.
Leila: Clams have feet?
David: Of course they do. I thought they had pseudo pods.
What fake sour says on here.
Leila: says while it might look like clams have a big tongue.
They sometimes retreat to Michel to poke out the ocean floor.
We're actually seeing is a foot the appendage relatively long in
comparison to the overall size of the creature is used to dig
in the sand. I've seen like clans propel themselves through
the water and it's so funny looking. Oh my gosh, Leila what?
David: There's such a thing as a double king sized bed. It's
called an Alaskan king. This might have a bed. I need that
embryo that would take our whole route would take up my whole
room. That would be amazing. then you just walk in you're in
bed
Leila: so all of the water on earth fell as rain once it oh
no, if all of the water on earth fell as rain at once the entire
planet would be What? What? Everything
David: would get wet,
Leila: obviously, the entire planet would get one inch of
precipitation effect. Then it turned into that one piece world
where like everything
David: what was the speaking of pyramids and then like spreading
things out over the world? Oh, I had to find it. There's a I was
watching this thing about like facts about the pyramids and how
its dimensions are like so intricate with and they they
interact with, we could do a whole episode on the pyramids.
So it's like if you take the cap of the, the the Great Pyramid,
the big one of where it was when it was built, because you know,
you can figure that out because it used to have like a lime
coating anyway. It takes that exact measurement. And if you
were to take all of the land on Earth, and average out its
elevation, it would be exactly the height of the pyramid. And
I'm like, That's neat. is a coincidence? I don't know.
Leila: So the phrase, uma up at this done is upside down spelled
upside down.
David: Speaking of upside down, I used to have a buddy. I've
talked to him forever, but he had a band called Who knows? And
it was sound flipped upside down. And backwards. Yeah. That
wasn't as interesting.
Leila: What if you folded a piece of paper? 42 times it'd be
thick enough to reach the moon.
David: That's okay.
Leila: 40 or you're not? Are you not excited about this suite of
photo paper? times? Yeah,
David: if you double things they go they go quick. Oh, yeah,
pretty quick.
Leila: It's like a metric paper.
David: Oh, no. What? There's an image on this website and it
says this is what the inside of a bag of popcorn looks like. It
was disgusting. That looks gross. That's it's probably like
coconut oil. Yes, coconut oil and like salt. And whatever
flavorings the flavor is it just looks like it looks gross.
Leila: Oxymoron is an oxymoron. What? How? According to Merriam
Webster, an oxymoron is a combination of contradictory
words or incongruent words are used. They use cruel kindness to
illustrate their point. But the dictionary could also could the
dictionary also could have used the word oxymoron as an example,
since it turns out the word is an oxymoron itself. Oxymoron is
derived from the Greek words Oxus meaning sharp in marranos,
meaning dollar stupid.
David: Oh, that's neat. That's really neat.
Leila: Things do that?
David: There's another shirt. Oxymoron is an oxymoron. Yeah,
hold on. I put the pad down in the pen now I gotta find them.
Skirt, we got skirt.
Leila: Oxford. The Oxford University is older than the
Aztecs.
David: Oxymoron is an oxy moron. So what I'm thinking is like
when we have a fact like that. What we can do is, and this this
will be episode. On the merch, we can actually put the episode
that that factors in on the shirt, because we put
FunFactFriday.com So we can be like oxymoron is an oxymoron
episode 141 4164 FunFactFriday.com
Leila: 164. We're on 160.
David: We've done this 164 times. No more than that.
Because we've got stuff that we've never published published.
We we've recorded sometimes, yeah, we will. We will get like
25 minutes almost done with an episode and be like, that was
not good. Let's redo it. Yeah. And because like we're not in
the mood or something. Yeah, yeah. We just sometimes it just
it's not working. That's sometimes what we're
Leila: late. Like, we haven't even done that in a while. And
then a while. Yeah, so we're getting pretty good at this.
Yeah.
David: I mean, the fact that we've done a lot of so many
times and we've never had to restart a Live episode was good.
Yeah. Hopefully we'll we'll get back to live eventually. It's
just not in the cards right now with all this stuff we've got
going on. So
Leila: the Aztecs civilly civilly
David: restart. The
Leila: Aztec civilization in central Mexico began in 1325.
But the Oxford University was built in 1249. So the Aztecs
We're after the Oxford University was built. The Oxford
University is older than the
David: MC yet see all of that is just all so far before I was
born that might as well have all happened in the same year.
Leila: People used to think that some lambs grew on trees. What?
The vegetables what was thought to be an animal that grew from
the lamb tree in a region of tartare? Oh,
David: yes, hearts. Oh, my God does keep going. Keep going,
Leila: an area that eventually became Europe and Central Asia.
The special plants came in two different varieties. And
according to the medieval texts, the myth has been traced back to
the year 436. One grew newborn lambs inside of pods, and
another produce a lamb that is attached to a stem by its belly
button. The lambs were apparently hunted for their
flesh, which tasted like fish and sweet blood. So apparently
they thought the lambs were growing on trees.
David: Well, oh, no, hold on. No, hold on.
Leila: You got very excited when I mentioned dark hairy. Okay.
David: So I went down a rabbit hole at night. Of course you
did. Oh my gosh. Tartary. Touch Haria has a oh, oh. Okay. I
almost pulled my microphone off the ceiling. I've got my
microphone mounted to the ceiling and be like, screw it
in. Yeah, I need to make a little hole. Yeah. So um,
Tartary. Tart. Haria. Sorry. Used to be a huge area. Yeah.
And I don't want to I don't want to talk too much about it.
Because it is like a long time ago that I went down this rabbit
hole. And I don't remember. But like, there's a lot of people
who think that it was like a super advanced civilization. So
maybe they did genetically engineer plants that grill him
on him. That tasted like fish. I'll dig into that. Maybe we'll
do a special on it or something. Because it's, there's a lot of a
lot of information about Tartary out there. tortilleria Tartary,
whatever it's called. But I don't want to speak too much
about it. Because I don't remember everything that I've
I've, you know, dug down that hole to the word. So oh, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, before we go into that.
Talking about water you're talking about if all the water
fell at once, it would be an inch of rain. The probability
that you are drinking the probability of you drinking a
glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also
passed through a dinosaur and was expelled. You know what I
mean? Yeah, yeah. PP. is almost is almost 100% I love it. That's
well, there's, there's also a thing saying like, it's almost
certain that you have breathed the same oxygen molecule, as
Alexander the Great it picked, pick a person in a distant
distant past from their last breath. Because those, you know,
when n came back out and floated around the planet, yeah, yeah.
So they're so spread out in the way that the stuff spreads. Kind
of like the Tootsie Roll thing. Like 1% They leave 1% of the
Tootsie Roll in the vat that they make it in. Like they don't
just they don't get every you know, scrape of Tootsie Roll
material out of that vast that tastes like yeah, medically
modified don't I don't like him. There's so artificial tasting.
It's like gum, but chocolate, right? And then it goes away.
But they don't go in and like clean scrape the VAT every
single time, there's still some left from the last bet. So
there's like 1%, give or take. But then the next time, only 1%
of that 1% is left and then the next time only 1% of that. So it
like the chances of you getting from the first batch out of a
batch of 10 is just so astronomically low. It's just
the way the big numbers work. It's neat. It's neat, talking
about big numbers. How many ways are there to arrange a deck of
cards? A bunch, so many that there are less atoms on Earth
than there are ways to arrange a deck of cards. That's cool.
That's crazy. Also a deck of cards. Every king except the
King of Hearts has a mustache. King of Hearts and they all have
beards. Which you know there's so many card designs, your
standard deck of cards. And there it's interesting because
there's there are like standards that have just been traditional.
Like one king always has the sword behind his head will say
that three of them have swords. One of them has an axe, there's
all these different different things on cards. If you look in
different decks, they get carried over. It's interesting
stuff. Yeah. Cards are very cool. I have what 70 decks of
cards. Yeah. I like finding cool decks of cards and collecting
them. And we oh my gosh, like
Leila: every Christmas, we try and buy him a new deck. But we
had to look at his shelf for like a solid 10 minutes to
figure out which ones he already
David: had, you know, they have these mystical things, right?
It's this little rectangle that you can put in your pocket that
you can you can take the rectangle out of your pocket and
touch the black part of it in a certain way, the glass part and
it will actually capture a still am I know, but he's out of it.
And then later, later, you can you can look at that image. What
to look at it and reference it. No one's already have. Did you
know goats have accents?
Leila: I'm trying to say one. I've been
David: getting excited because some of these are so funny.
Good.
Leila: So the word Shimoni Shama is a gourd Garyun got Georgie in
Gregorian know, Georgia, Georgia and word meeting I accidentally
ate the whole thing.
David: She, she right down. That's another shirt. And if we
could have a funny image of somebody sitting there in front
of an empty plate, crying, crying, emoji mom. Oh, well, a
little chubby little cat or something in front of a plate.
That'd be funny. So I came to the article to see the goats
with accents. Right? It's in. It's on npr.org. And it talks
about the goats bleed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They
have different accents. Blah, blah, blah. But then like, it
just says sound bite of goat. It doesn't actually have a link to
this just says in parentheses. A sound bite of goat. I
Leila: think someone was editing it and was like, well add that
later. Yeah. Well, I didn't post Well, I didn't post but they
didn't. They forgot. That's what it looks like.
David: Okay, I had an email. I thought it was important, but
it's not
Leila: the world's most expensive hotdogs cost. $169
David: See, why don't we just make a hot dog and charge 170
Leila: It's made of wagyu beef. With men talking mushrooms.
Butter teriyaki. Grilled onions. smoked cheese brought worst.
Foie gras, Flora flora. Fogra. Shave black truffles, caviar and
Japanese mayonnaise on a brochure. Rios been that. I
don't think that'd be very good. I think that would just make me
cry. Because I spend so much money on it. Yeah,
David: that's dumb. Yeah,
Leila: I mean, if you're rich, I guess.
David: I love a good hot dog. We got a hot dog place nearby. Oh
my gosh, it's so good. They're so friendly in there. So you
know who you know what Pluto is? Right.
Leila: Yeah, the beautiful planet. Well, it's tiny. It's a
planet tiny. It's a planet. Yes.
David: But it's not big. You said a big old planet. I mean,
it's big in relation to like me. But it's not big in relation to
the other planet. I said big ol for like everything. Pluto never
made a full orbit around the sun. From the time that it was
discovered, to the time that it was declassified as a planet by
Neil deGrasse Tyson. Okay, this
Leila: hot dog is like, it's like as big as a footlong sub
yet, but it's pretty much a sob. But still. Yeah, but still, if
you're rich, do whatever you want. I guess. There's a desert
in Canada. Yeah, there's, I feel like there's a desert
everywhere.
David: It's all over the place.
Leila: It's not very surprising. Okay, so Okay,
David: I got I got one for you. Yeah, this is this is always
this is always fascinated me. 1000 seconds is about 16
minutes. Okay, a million seconds is 11 days. That tells you how
many million is right. People say Oh, million dollars, right?
Once if you got $1 for 11 days, right? A billion seconds. Is 32
years. It's that's ridiculous. So if somebody gave you $1 Every
second of your of for it would take 32 years to be a
billionaire to have a billion dollars.
Leila: And you think about like Elon Musk.
David: He has more than $1 billion. Like
Leila: at least a million dollars.
David: Right? A billion. Well, let
Leila: me look at his net worth. Okay,
David: so net worth is an interesting thing. Because I
know Yeah, it's not like he has that cash on hand. 223
Leila: point 7 billion. Yep. If this may gave me $5 million,
that would change my life. And he wouldn't
David: even it wouldn't even it wouldn't even notice, like when
I noticed, and I saw a video, this guy took notepad, like
Windows notepad, and he typed in 100,000 and then put a space and
typed in 100,000 And did that 10 times. So it was a million,
right? So it was 10 100 1000s. And he copy and pasted that 1000
times down the page, to break up a billion dollars into 100
million or $100,000. Stacks, with $100,000. That's life
changing money for most of the world. Right? The vast, vast,
vast majority the world $100,000 would change your life. So
excuse me, he would scroll down into it. And he like, somewhere
in the middle, he would delete one of the $100,000 and see it,
there you go. I just I just put, you know, I just bought a
Lamborghini. And then he would scroll down some more and
delete, delete, like five of them. And say I just bought a
half a million dollar house. That's that's a mansion most
places. Not these days. But that's a mansion in most places.
So but then he scrolled back to the top, and he was like,
Alright, now I'm just gonna casually scroll down this and
look for where I deleted those. That $600,000. And it took
forever to find where and I'm like, wow, yeah. Wow.
Leila: Like there's this website called by spend Bill Gates
money. Oh, yeah. Oh, fun. Was
David: that in the end? But then the notepad real quick. Yeah.
Leila: And it's just hold on. Nope, that's Ctrl B, not Ctrl V.
There you go. So it has a bunch of stuff. That's just you would
buy and then has a bunch of ridiculous stuff that you
wouldn't buy. So if you wanted to buy an NBA like a full NBA
team, a cruise ship? And the Mona Lisa. It would just take
off. You can
David: buy the Mona Lisa. Yeah, sure you can, if you build it.
No, because if you could just buy the Mona Lisa, somebody
would have done it. One of these millionaires would have
Leila: been you'll find a pretty interesting website. I like a
lot of their stuff. Yeah,
David: that when you when you get into those really
ridiculously big numbers, like you don't even think of money as
a thing anymore. When you get over $10 billion or something
like it you don't even think about it. So it's you know, it's
interesting some of
Leila: these numbers are kind of off though because of inflation.
Like it says the Big Macs two books and I cook pack is five
bucks.
David: Where are you getting a Big Mac for $2
Leila: a year of Netflix is only 100 Video games are only 60 or
70 Now in most places, most places, smartphones only 700 700
pretty well. My
David: money getting worth less money for a kitten is $1,500 I'm
spending 15 There's I can go get a free kittens anytime behind
the van. Regardless or Burger King. They got free kittens
every day.
Leila: You want to buy a Ford F 150 30? No.
David: I mean, it completely stripped down one maybe but
completely no net 150 I think they started
Leila: McDonald's franchises only a million million half
dollars for 150 new price. Yacht? yachts are human right?
David: new instock ford f 150s. On the lot stripped down 39,000.
That's a stripped down. Crazy. Got him on this one lot, all the
way up to 100,000. So yeah, I think we've been going for 53
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Leila: will get a British person on here the person I know
British people.
David: You gotta get you to get your British person to come on
the show and talk about the metric system. I
Leila: will all right, it comes down to this. I will.
David: Why don't we? Why don't we do a metric versus Imperial?
Like a whole episode? We could we actually yeah, we should. I
will get an imperial system advocate and you get a metric
system advocate and let them argue and we'll just make fun of
the whole thing. We'll figure we'll get we'll get we'll get
something worked out. That'd be fun. Oh, they
Leila: could physically fight. We could have an Epic Rap Battle
history.
David: Epic Rap Battle of math or not a math measuring system.
That'd be fun. All right, everybody, we just hit over an
hour. Everybody have a fantastic rest of your weekend. Have a
fantastic Thanksgiving giving
Leila: because this episode, The next episode will probably be
out there on actually
David: what yeah, what will actually you know what we'll try
and do we'll try and get an episode recorded. And we'll
release it Thanksgiving morning. So when you are done eating, and
you're just lazing about doing nothing, because you're so full
of all your delicious food. You can listen to an episode of Fun
Fact Friday, and maybe we'll maybe we'll do a Thanksgiving
like what was Thanksgiving all about? You know, yeah.
Leila: Or like the history of it, or?
David: Yeah, I know. John C. Dvorak and Adam curry stole our
bit about good news. We can steal their bit about
Thanksgiving because John always does a history of Thanksgiving
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