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September 17, 2024 1 min
Why did we use SOS? 
Can you open an airplane door while in the air? 
Is it illegal to break out of prison in Germany? 
How much money did the guy who invented the upside ketchup bottle make?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go ahead today and take a look at your
random facts. So the old distress signal SOS doesn't actually
stand for save our souls or save our ships. The
letters SOS were chosen because they're the easiest Morse code
letters to remember and use. Three dots, three dashes, three dots,
no idea. Airplane emergency exit doors are basically impossible to

(00:23):
open mid flight because due to pressure, it would take
like twenty four thousand pounds of force to open the door. Now,
assuming all the bolts aren't missing. In Mexico, Germany, Chile,
and a few other countries, it's actually not illegal to
break out of prison. Germany says it's just human nature
to try to escape. The guy who invented the upside
down ketchup bottles, you know at the opening at the

(00:44):
bottom instead of the top soldest company to Hines in
nineteen ninety five for thirteen million dollars. That's like one
of those ideas where we're like, man, why didn't I
think of that? And last, there are actually seven ski
resorts in Africa. Might not have known that. That's a
look today at your random facts.
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