David: Hello, hello, hi, welcome. We're both here. I
Unknown: was waiting to see what you would do,
David: yeah, one day you're just gonna let go silent in the
intro. And people would be like, Leila, here today,
Unknown: yeah,
David: we were almost not here today. Yeah, we'll tell you
about that after the intro music. This is Fun Fact Friday,
weekly podcast. Sometimes we're light on facts
Unknown: time. We're light on fun
David: sometimes we don't usually release on Friday. You
know what? We always have at least one element. Yeah, of the
Fun fact, we're
Unknown: pretty consistent.
David: We're pretty consistent at our inconsistency. Yeah, so
what are we talking about today?
Unknown: I don't know. Yep, what's your favorite? I don't
know. What's
David: my favorite? I don't know is when somebody asks me, who
ate the last something, wow, like who ate the who ate the
last bit of popcorn in the there's just, there's popcorn
that we found. Oh my god, it's got chocolate on. It's pretty
good. It's really good. It's like, who ate the last of
popcorn? I don't know. That's my favorite. I don't know. So,
yeah, we don't really have a topic this week, except for some
from, from some of our comments that we received through boosts,
boosts our way that you can support the show. And we
actually received a couple of we received a couple of boosts. And
we're going to go ahead and do our value for value segment.
Right off the bat. This is a value for value podcast. We put
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we received two boosts, excuse me, since our last show, one
from Kevin Hollis, for 12345, Satoshis, which is biggest boost
we've gotten a while. Yeah, as bitcoins price goes up, the
donation amounts go down, which we're fine with, because it's
all, yeah, if it's three sets, if you're wanting to send us an
send us a note, I'm gonna pause for a second. All right, I
didn't, I didn't have, I could have just muted myself. I guess
you could have. I could have been talking, yeah, well, you
would hear it, because I'm like, right behind you. That's true.
So yeah, we did receive some boosts, and that has actually
led our show content for the day, we received 12,345 SATs and
says, I like trains too, talking about a train episode last
episode. And while this episode may or may not have been loaded
with facts, it wasn't. We didn't have we didn't know there was a
lot, but, like, someone was kind of lame, right? Anywho. Back to
the note, it had at least 1000 hippos of fun. Absolutely,
that's our new unit measurement for all metrics, like getting
rid of the metric system, the imperial system. Yeah, we're
talking about hip like, how much, how much water am I going
to drink today? Oh, 1/100 of a hippo. You know, that's just,
that's our metric. From now on, we need to figure out a
conversion rate for Satoshis to hippos. We'll get it figured
out. We got it. I hope David is feeling better by now. I am. I
am feeling better. The ear infection has gone away, and my
pain from falling off of the stairs is gone too. I have re
hurt my hands, but we'll talk about that in a minute. Okay,
back to the note, sorry. As a child, I had a train full of
plastic explosives. Where did you get that? As a oh, wait, it
continues. I had a train full of plastic explosives blow up
across the street from my house. What? Oh, wow. Mushroom clouds
are ominous, but flying train cars are just wrong. Even more,
you know, even more so they fall, and as they fall, okay,
I'm starting this sentence over. Mushroom clouds are ominous, but
flying train cars are just wrong even more. So as they fall in
impact, all those hippos making big thuds, that's insane, like,
like, so it you're just sitting there. I don't know when this
happens, so you're just sitting there playing, playing Super
Mario Brothers on Nintendo. Just think back to my childhood. Just
do boom, and then, like the whole house shakes and the glass
breaks in the windows. And then, and then, and then, train car,
train cars just falling in the front yard. Got
Leila: a hippo in your front yard.
David: You got. Just got 1000s of hippos just falling out of
the sky, 1000s
Leila: of hippos with these various specific numbers of
pounds, right?
David: That's a That's a crazy story. And thank you for sharing
that. That's really interesting. Yeah, um, I've never had
anything like that, anything like that happen. I mean, close
as I've has, like, tornadoes throwing tractors and stuff near
our house, but he used to live in a tornado, tornado alley.
Yeah, live down in Tornado Alley, and I've seen extremely
heavy farm equipment. It chucked around like it's just a toy. But
thank you so much for the boost. There's a really excellent,
excellent boost that's, yeah, appreciate that so so much.
Thank you, Kevin. Next, we have 847, SATs from just listen.
Okay, so have we gotten any clues on the ARG yet? Maybe the
note says something boost. And this is from the US versus UK
with Claire, wait Brown, thank you for coming on, Claire. I'm
wondering where, where the difference between tomato and
tomato comes from, I got you just wait. We got the facts. We
definitely appreciate the boost. Thanks so much. We're we're
watching that bitcoin price go up. And we appreciate all the,
all the the Satoshis we appreciate. Yeah, and, oh, I
went on a show called in and around podcasting and talked
about value for value, if anybody wants to go listen to
that. Wants to go listen to that episode, talk about like that.
It's not just about Satoshis. It's not just about the Bitcoin
stuff. It's about the philosophy of it. And I had a good time
going on the show, and thank them for having me on. So we are
not doing like a main topic this week, we are about to head out.
We've got the the we're going to a convention this weekend. Yep,
we got a lot to do get, yeah, we still get squared away. Get
everything. We're just going for one day. Yeah, we got, you got
to take a lot of stuff when you go to a con. You gotta, you
gotta have water, you gotta have deodorant. You gotta have nose
plugs. You gotta have. I gotta go scrape up see if I can find
my random $1 bills around the house that I pull out of my
pocket and just drop wherever an emergency kit you gotta have,
yeah, little emergency kit. Little
Leila: there is repair station there, but it's all
David: glue and glitter, because, you know, and so and so
sewing stuff. But yeah, we are. We're excited to be going to
that, and we have something we have to go take care of today.
Yep, I spent this week real quick about my hands being all
cut up. The Ethernet that comes out of the studio is just direct
burial cable. It was buried six to 10 inches, depending on how
deep the trench was at the time. And apparently a root had pushed
and split or not split, but damaged the wire enough to where
I was getting very slow speeds. And so I was like, Oh, I gotta
run a new cable. But I was like, I'm not gonna dig 150 foot
trench, but with a shovel. And I'm not gonna pay money to go
rent a trencher. So I'm trying to figure out ways to do this.
And I'm like, that looks like I'm gonna have to dig at least
enough to get I'm gonna put a metal pole in the ground and run
it through the metal pole. And then I was like, wait a minute,
Unknown: we have a fence.
David: We have a chain link fence. It's got a metal pole
running across the top of it. Yeah. So I only had to dig a few
feet worth of trench to get the wire from where it was coming
out to the fence, and then ran the cable through the top wire,
top top post, what's called pole, the top pole of the chain
link fence. So I just ran it just and I thought it was just
me like, Yeah, let's just pull it right through. Nope. Anyway.
Long story short, it took us, took me most of a day, um,
Leila. Leila helped out a lot. But with the chain link fence,
when you're untying those little twisties to move, remove the
pole off the top to get it anyway, I sliced up my hand
quite a few times with those little metal pieces on the chain
link fence. And they're pretty gnarly, pretty gnarly cuts. So
that's what I was complaining about this week. Yeah, but yeah,
we're going to, we're gonna go check out. They're having, like
a little mini Harry Potter, Harry Potter festival somewhere
near us. So we're gonna go check that out this afternoon and then
get all packed and ready to go. Yeah, tomato. Tomato. I was
curious too, so I went to a site called 12 tomatoes.com which is
most likely the best source of information when it comes to
tomatoes, because I can only think of 10 tomatoes, and they
have 12. So 12 tomatoes.com links in the show notes,
basically it says that there was this thing that happened called
the Great Vowel Shift. Yes. The pronunciation of tomato and
potato tells us a lot about the history of English and its
irregular spelling. There's a video on the site. Also. It's
like 18 minutes long. I'm not going to just play it, of
course, that would pad out our time for this week. In the
video, take a look. They. Take a look at the Greater Vowel Shift
and other influences on English pronunciation. The great shift
took place between the years of 14 117 100. So this happened
over 300 years, forever changing the manner in which we speak
some words. Words existed outside of the shift with no
major changes made. This explains why certain words are
said one way, while others are not. So basically, it comes down
to the upper class said potato or tomato, and the lower class
said tomato, huh? And it just kind of stuck like that. So if
you want to sound hoity, toity, you'd be a tomato, you know?
Because, like, if you think about tomato, right? Yeah, it
sounds hoity toy. Sounds like something, something somebody
named Bartholomew would say, Yeah, you know? Well, he's got
his Ascot on, you know, I'd like a tomato on my salad. But
there's a decent article about it. Let's see. Says there's
something that our instructor is happy to go into great detail
about. Looks like it was written by AI. So before the Great Vowel
Shift, that's a completely different thing. So before the
Great Vowel Shift, it would have been pronounced potato, for a
potato after the Great Vowel Shift, it'd be potato. But what
about Tomato? Tomato came in English from Spanish in 1753
Leila: that's I'm gonna start calling a potato.
David: Yeah, I'm fine with that. No, I have some mashed potatoes.
Leila: Some mashed potatoes, absolutely.
David: But we can, we can cook them in the microwave. So that's
too late. The the word for tomato came in after the Great
Vowel Shift. So there was, like a, there was a second mini Vowel
Shift. I have to make sure I say vowel. Yeah. Anyway, it was an
18th century in and around London. So really it comes down
to those Londoners. What it really comes down to, remember,
the Vows are always changing to a lesser or greater degree, and
this is changing. I mean, this even happened today with like,
different dialects, different accents. As a Studer of accents,
I can tell you, like vowels. Is it like that's how you that's
how you make an accent. So is it there? Apparently, that's that's
what it was. That's what 12 tomatoes.com has to say about
now, 12 tomatoes.com the link in the show notes, if you look at
the URL, when you go to the site, they miss tomato, tomato.
They put in Tom, a lot. Tom
Leila: a lot. They switch the T and the O, the end, at the end
of the word.
David: But in the article, it's fine every time. But I know how
these platforms work once you've created the title for the for
the page. It locks in that URL. It becomes like a permalink. So
you like, if they changed it, it would wreck all of the SEO for
this page, and all the search results would be messed up. And
so they have to leave it. URLs are forever. And then that got
me thinking, why don't I tell the folks some tomato facts,
straight from the tomato source, Campbell's what? Campbell's owns
the patent and copyright on tomatoes.
Unknown: So make tomatoes.
David: And just messing around. Yeah, tomatoes are not always
red. None of that seen all kinds of tomatoes. There's white
tomatoes, black tomatoes, purple tomatoes, pink tomatoes and
yellow tomatoes, but most of the time they're just red. Yeah,
around, around these parts anyway, there are over 10,000
varieties of
Unknown: tomato. Is this just gonna be tomato episode?
David: No, okay, a tomato episode to moe episode, tomato
episode didn't work. I thought I was gonna go somewhere with
that, but it didn't happen. There are, yeah, there's,
there's more than it says. This is. What is this? Come on,
Campbell's. There are over 10,000 varieties of tomato.
There are thought to be more than 3000 varieties of heirloom
and heritage, of heirloom and heritage tomatoes currently
being grown globally, and more than 15,000 known varieties in
total.
Unknown: So how many? How about how many hippos? Do you think
that is? Um.
David: How many tomatoes will fit in a hippo? Let's ask AI,
how many hippos will fit in a tomato, or the other way around?
What? Yeah, here we go. Oh my gosh. Okay, so what is the ratio
of hippos to tomatoes? I'm going gonna see what a co pilot has to
say about this. It's probably something about dancing, but,
um, ah, delightful and unexpected combination of hippos
and tomatoes. Let's dive into this quirky question, hippos to
tomato ratio. Well, my friend, I must confess that there isn't a
standard ratio of hippos to tomatoes. You see, these two
creatures inhabit vastly different ecosystems, one in
water and the other in the soil. But let's have some fun anyway.
Number one, hippo to tomato tango. For some reason, I'm very
interested in dancing lately. Imagine the tomato salsa party
where hippos were a VIP guest. Oh my gosh, for every one hippo
will toss in 10 tomatoes. Why? Because hippos are hefty and
tomatoes are Jew. Tomatoes are juicy. Seems like a fair trade
picture. Hippos doing the Cha Cha with tomato vine, tomato
vines, tomato nutrients, number two, tomato nutrients. Now, if
we're talking about tomatoes nutritional value, they're rich
in vitamins like C and K, antioxidants and lycopene, which
gives them the vibrant red hue. Hippos, on the other hand,
prefer a diet in aquatic plants, grasses and occasional
watermelon, which is sort of like a giant tomato cousin, my
God, number three, garden Safari. Imagine the garden where
hippos roam freely among tomato plants. They'd be the world's
most unconventional gardeners. Harpo harbors, harpos. Oh, my
hippos munching on cherry tomatoes. Now that's a sight,
Unknown: okay? In all serious so many emojis.
David: In all seriousness though, hippos are fascinating
creatures, known for their semi aquatic lifestyle. Well,
tomatoes are beloved fruits. Yes, they're technically fruits.
They're gray sauce, salad sandwiches, pasta sauces. So
whether you're a hippo or tomato enthusiast, keep grooving to
your own rhythm. And hey, if you ever need more unexpected ratios
or garden dance. Moe, just ask. I'm here. Got any other curious
pairings? Let's explore together. What does it feel like
it has to put dancing in every topic? I
Leila: think it thinks that all humans do is dance.
David: Oh my gosh, we're off on a tangent. But I'm wondering if
something I said earlier has to do with dancing. Like, yeah,
see, um,
Unknown: so what exactly did you type into the thing? Oh, I've
David: had the same Why does discussion go? What's the thing?
The prompt for this one was, what is the ratio of hippos to
tomatoes? So, I have one one co pilot conversation, like I
haven't started new conversations for each topic
that I do. So maybe I asked something about dancing. I'm
scrolling bad. No, there's nothing. Mine
Leila: didn't have dancing crap in it. Mine's just about
science.
David: What is yours say with a tomato? What do you have? It's
got a whole bunch
Leila: of elements. Hold on. Oh,
David: is it going into like, how
Unknown: many? How to make a tomato?
David: This is okay. Did you know tomatoes have been to space
and I want to talk about it. Tomatoes seeds. Anyway, we're so
interested in tomatoes. 600,000 tomato seeds went to the
International Space Station before being grown in classrooms
all over Canada as part of tomato sphere, 123, and four
experiments. Now I got curious. I'm like, so they sent 600,000
tomato seeds. So they could send these seeds around to classrooms
in Canada, so they could plant some seeds, and be like, Oh, I
put these seeds were in space, and now I grow a tomato, you
know, which is kind of neat. If my kid was doing that, that'd be
really cool. I didn't know why I did that in a mocking voice, um,
but then I got to thinking, it doesn't cost a lot of money to
send stuff into space.
Unknown: I looked it up. Throw it upward, yeah, you'd have
David: to throw real hard, like hippo strength, hard. I. See how
Leila: many hippo strengths, 40. Okay, that's a lot. 40
David: hippos per second is how fast you have to go. You get it
in space. So tomatoes, how many seeds you get per gram of
weight? It's between 220 and 500 so I was like, Okay, so let's
say we get 500 so like, we get the lightest seeds possible to
send up there. So I did the math on 600,000 seeds divided by 500
you know, ended up with 1200 grams. Okay, so then I did a
grams to pounds conversion. So it comes out 2.440925 pounds, so
a little under half a pound. And then I looked up, what does it
cost to send one pound of anything into space? And they
calculated the cost at $43,180 per pound to send stuff into
space. So they sent, they spent like, $21,500 to send these,
these speeds, these tomato seeds, into space.
Unknown: So you could have given that to me.
David: You could have taken that money and given it to Leila,
yeah. And you could have given tomatoes to me, yes, because
we've been making salsa and stuff, yeah. And, tomato sauce,
some pasta sauce last week, and it was mediocre. Space
Leila: doesn't need the tomatoes. What are they gonna
make up their space
David: soup? Space soup?
Leila: What? Maybe some space soup? I can figure that out.
Yeah,
David: we'll have to get one of those airplanes that goes up and
down so you lose gravity for a few minutes. Yeah, the puke
planes, whatever they're called, the first tomatoes were gold,
oh, back in the 16th century there. That's when they were
first introduced to Europe. I'm pretty sure tomatoes have been
around for like, you know, Earth. China is the largest
producer of tomatoes. China's largest producer of a lot of
things. There's some Guinness Book of worlds records for
tomatoes. These the most tomatoes harvested from a single
plant over one year. That's 32,000 tomatoes from one plant.
Unknown: Shoe, wow.
David: And then let's see they're known for good heart
health. Tomatoes, good stuff. It's good stuff.
Unknown: Tomatoes, good stuff. Yeah,
David: I think that's not enough. Enough tomato facts. Oh,
I
Leila: just Googled tomato facts. You just look up more
tomato facts. Yeah, so you can turn this around. I mean, we
don't have to. I got facts about Illinois. Okay,
Unknown: hit me with some Illinois facts.
Leila: So I looked up random fun facts. And I was like, You know
what? We've probably looked through the first page of this
so I flipped to like page three. Its first thing on page three
was illinois.gov, and I was like, Okay, I'll go with it. So
it has fun facts about Illinois. The capital is Springfield. The
state abbreviation is IL. It has two US senators, 18 you know, I
know us. It has 18 US representatives. Illinois has 20
electoral votes. Leila, what
David: I'm gonna stop you right there. These are not fun facts.
I know these are facts, though barely facts.
Unknown: It says Fun fact, I've
David: got two senators. Look at Illinois over there, where
there's two senators, like every other single state,
Unknown: oh my gosh.
David: Are there any actual fun facts?
Leila: There's the Illinois State pie. Is pumpkin pie.
David: Oh my gosh, is the Illinois State Dance? A square
dance? Yes.
Leila: The Illinois State snack is popcorn. The Illinois State
fruit is gold rush apple. The Illinois State tar tan is the
Illinois St Andrews society. Look at the Illinois State pet.
What's the Illinois State pet? Shelter dogs and shelter cats,
that
David: is and, well, I am all about, I am all about shelter
animals going in and rescuing animals. Deal mate, that's not
your state pet. That was a that was, that was what we call
virtue signaling. Whoever made that decision,
Leila: the state slogan is The Land of Lincoln, Illinois,
David: the Land of Lincoln.
Unknown: That's pretty late.
David: So it says Land of Lincoln, Illinois, yeah, where
do you see that state slogan? Huh? That's interesting. I
always heard it was just Land of Lincoln. I interesting. I
Unknown: don't know, interesting, weird.
David: I mean, it's from the.gov That's the official stuff.
Totally they can't make mistakes on government websites. We know
that that's the truth. Internet will lie to us. Internet and
government wouldn't
Unknown: lie to us. Japan has 23 vending machines per person.
David: Wow, yeah, that's crazy. The ratio like that doesn't even
make sense. Yeah, it doesn't.
Leila: The ratio. Was the same per cap per capita in Japan has
the highest amount of vending machines in the world. I believe
it. They have vending machines for literally everything over
there.
David: That's if cake 23 per person. Yes,
Unknown: that doesn't because, like per recapture,
David: that isn't out here. I mean, I believe it, because I've
seen the videos,
Unknown: how many vending machines is there?
David: No, you're not. You're asking
Unknown: brave in Japan,
David: how many hippos? How many hippo vending machines? How many
hippo vending machines,
Unknown: with over 5,000,520 100,000 Yeah, 5,520,000 Yeah.
David: How many people are there? How
Leila: many people are there? Okay, hold on, how many people
are there? Let's see. Let's see. Hurry up. That is not 23 vending
machines per person. We got 122,000,631
David: so where did 1000? The fact vending machine, facts.net,
facts.net Japan vending okay, go to facts.net/random-facts/okay.
Facts.net/random-facts,
dot,
Unknown: maybe it meant that there was a vending machine per
23 people.
David: Maybe that, because that's the number. Sounds more,
that
Leila: sounds about right. It's
David: just about right, yes. What does the what does it
actually say? Japan
Leila: has 23 vending machines per person,
David: so it's really 23 I'm not seeing it. 23 people. Where am I
open? Japan has
Leila: 23 vending machines per person. Yeah?
David: See, that's not right. Fact check.
Unknown: Facts.net check
David: something. They just got it backwards.
Unknown: Yeah? Ish. And
David: then it says the ratio is the same per capita. Well,
saying per person, that is per capita is facts.net just AI. Now
Unknown: it might be
David: just on the on the how many hippo vending machines are
there? It gave me an extremely long answer with lots of emojis.
I'm not going to do the whole read through thing, but it
basically doesn't answer my question. That's the
Unknown: little hippie vending. What are you talking
David: about now? Hippo vending?
Leila: No, the number two on the AI, little
David: hippie vending. Okay, there's, you
Unknown: don't have to read it. Okay, actually, that was funny.
It's a little hippie vending
David: I bet you that there is a little hippo toy in some vending
machine somewhere, probably, well, I think we're gonna, we
need to, we need to go ahead and get off of here. So we had one
Leila: random fact, a bunch of facts about Illinois, and a
bunch of facts. We
David: just talked about tomatoes for 20 minutes, all
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Unknown: Yeah,
David: there you go. We'll have our links in the show notes, and
we'll see you next week.
Unknown: Bye, Illinois.
David: Only only goodbye to Illinois. People that live in
Illinois get a good buy this time and let us know if you like
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