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