Episode 58: A Grizzly's Bite Can Crush A Bowling Ball

Find out just how strong a grizzly bear can chomp and more fascinating facts from this week's round up of Tess'' 5 Random Facts on the Dr. Shane and Tess Show on 92.5 WPAP,

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This is Tess's five Random Facts podcastwith all of the facts from the Doctor
Shane and Test show. This weekLet's Count him down. Five Random Facts
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five oh seven eight four two sevensixty six Monday five. When US President
Harding died unexpectedly, remember two yearsinto his term nineteen twenty three part attack,
Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the oathof office at a precisely two forty
seven am, and then promptly returnedto bed as the President of the United

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States. Hey, wake up,you got to take over now, He's
like, cool I'm in good nightsomebody. You know. That would be
a great, great movie coming,just a great historical movie. What wow?
So de ja vous? Really,when you're in a situation and before
I feel like I've been here before. Yeah, there's an opposite of that
called zimvu. It's the experience offeeling unfamiliar with something that is actually very

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familiar to you. Okay, soyou're you're in a situation and it should
feel like it's old hat, normal, every every every day thing. But
for some reason, it feels unfamiliar, unfamiliar. I don't know if I've
ever felt that, but that's thething, anxiety, that type of thing.
Number. The largest country in Europeis Ukraine. It's about twenty two

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thousand square miles, bigger than France. I didn't realize that it was big,
but I don't know. This isnot that you exclude Russia, which
is partially in Europe, but mostof Russia, three quarters of it is
in Asia, so you don't count. It's true. That's true. We're
up to number two. Thank you. It's legal to own a flamethrower in
forty eight states. Oh yeah,you won't want to go out and get

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it. Only California and Maryland haveregulated them, and only Maryland has banned
them all together. Oh really,I just want to play with one.
I don't want to own one.I just want to play with one.
I'm sorry the village people did notcome up with the Y M C A
R. Movements that people do alongwith the wrote well, the audience started
doing it when they performed on AmericanBandstand. This was nineteen seventy nine.

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So once they saw the audience doingit, the village people decided to incorporate
it into their act. It's yourfavorite one, the Indian, the Biker,
the construction Worker, which one?When you said that, I just
like the why I think I likethe line that fuck, throw your hands
up. We'll be back tuesday.The smell of fresh cut grass is a

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distress signal. So the grass willrelease a chemical when you cut it,
and it makes that smell because it'strying to save itself from the mortal wound
that you just dealt to it.Are you a blade of grass? And
that's why it smells still good?That's that's the smell, that dress signal.
The chemical is a distress signal thatthe grass is putting off. So
it's like, I know it's Halloween, but it's like grass blood. That's

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crazy. Speaking of grass, cornis a type of grass. Corn is
a grass. Well now, well, now that I see in the stalk
in my head, the way itgrows, okay, I can see that.
It reminds me of a big tallpiece of wheats, our barley.
It's kind of like exactly same thing. That's that's good stuff. T three
three. Your head ages faster thanyour feet, and now just by nanoseconds.

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But it's because your head is fartherfrom Earth's gravitational field because it's up
and so it's having to fight againstthat gravity a lot more than your feet
do, and it ages your headfaster than your feet. That's interesting.
Oh sorry, I lost my page? Where did it go? Nixon had
a Western White House in San Clemente, California. It was because he was

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stationed over there. Actually he livedthere for a little while, but it's
a popular surfing spot and a surfingbusiness center. Nixon, Nixon was a
surfer. I did not know that. Had no clue. I thought Nixon
was a Nixon. Where are wenumber one already? Okay, you're not
the only one that loses their placeon on what. In the sixties,

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the Italian Ministry of Education did somethingreally cool. They broadcasted a TV show
titled It's Never Too Late, andthe TV show is aimed to teach older
people how to read and write.Oh, here's what's cool. An estimate
one and a half million people gottheir elementary school diploma thanks to that TV
program. This is in the sixties, see bring that stuff back, and
it may be out there now thatI just don't watch it because we don't

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have little kids in the house.But this isn't little kids. I mean
the adults. You know, backin those days they didn't get a good
education, but the fact that theythey could watch it and learn through television.
So they still have great learning showsout there. One of the ones
the mac has used a whole oddnumber. Blocks Right is a show that's
super fun, super short and fast. It's on Netflix that has really helped

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him to teach account numbers and domass Wednesday five. According to the World
Health Organization and recent studies, theaverage person will shed about one hundred and
twelve pounds of skin in their lifetime. Oh wow, skin just rolls off?
How many pounds? One hundred andtwelve. It's like a test,

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yeah, twelve wall. The Piratesof the Caribbean ride at Disneyland originally featured
real human remains. No, theygot them from UCLA. The ride was
a big investment and they thought thatfake skeletons of the time were just too

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unconvincing, so they used real it'schildren run through that. They said that
they've since replaced all the actual boneswith models. So they say, oh,
history shows that tapophobia, that's thefear of being buried alive, actually
has some degree of merit. Well, yeah, get tapophobia. Oh I

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thought it was tapped, like youhear somebody tapping trying to get that tab
yoku. So there were stories ofit that happened enough that safety coffins were
patented during the eighteenth and nineteenth centurieswhere they would have a bell above ground
that you could ring from below ifyou suddenly came back to life. It
is mostly during the cholera epidemics,so people were worried that they could be

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mistaken for dead. Woar, I'mliking this. I'm so messed up.
I don't even know what number we'reall like between my skin falling off one
hundred and twenty pounds of or twelvepounds of that and then being buried alive.
Where am I think we're a numbertwo? You want number two?
Okay? When you die? Nowhere we go. They say. The

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last sense to leave your body isthe ability to hear. That's the last
one. The ability to hear stillgonna be able to hear my wife get
to me from the last breath numberone. Number one. Owls are associated

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with Halloween because in medieval Europe,owls were thought to be witches, and
if you heard an owl's call,it meant that someone was about to die.
It was old wives tale that Ican remember. It wasn't owls,
but I've always heard if you ifyou saw crows circling and then land on
someone's rooftop, that that person wouldlikely pass in that hall omen a bad

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omen right, But owls always alwaysfreak me out the way their their next
swing because they around like that.The Exorcist birds. Yeah, it's crazy.
Spooky edition testas fyre Form put thatin a little pale and go ring
another door Thursday. The QR inQR code stands for a quick response and

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they were actually invented back in nineteenninety four. Really, we've had them
that long since ninety four, butthey were basically invented. They were originally
used to track car parts for aJapanese company. They figured it out and
they said that they could store moreinformation than a bar code and fix the
problem of having to scan multiple barcodes. So they came up with the
QR code Quick Response got it numberfour. Daniel day Lewis is the only

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actor who's won an OSCAR for playinga president. He won for playing Lincoln
in twenty thirteen, ten years ago. Six other actors have been nominated for
playing the president. Harris, hewas, he did play the president.
Yeah, that was a good one, air Force one. He should have
gotten something for that. But actionmovie, action movies don't typically get those

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those Oscar Immy nominations just because they'reaction movies, and that was an action
movie. It's usually those dramatic rolesthat get those awards. Harrison, you
know, I really thought that whilehe should be, that was a good
one. I agree with you onthat. Three alligators in Louisiana have learned
who balance sticks on their snouts,and they do this specifically during egret and
hair and nesting season. That's whenthe birds are actively searching for nest materials.

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So this is the first known caseof a predator using lures based on
seasonal prey behavior. Great like earshave been around for like millions of years,
and now they're just getting smarter.It's not really not fair to the
balance sticks on their snouts. Ontheir noses. Uh huh, Look mom,
and look what I can get mea bird? Go and snap it

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up. There it is. MisterRogers answered every fan letter. That's awesome.
He would start his day at fiveam and respond to anywhere between fifty
to one hundred daily, including youknow, those from children dealing with personal
issues like like family deaths and alot of hard things that they were doing.
Miss that. What show do ourkids follow? Like we watched mister

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Rogers. I wish there was amister Rogers this day in time for our
children that was that pure that honest, I don't know. It's lose all
we got right now. Yeah,and great white sharks have poison resistance,
and it defies all logics. Theysay that samples of shark blood shows levels
of arsenic and mercury that could beharmful, if not deadly, But the

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shark's completely unaffected. And they havereally impressive self healing abilities, so if
they get fit or hurt in someway, they're able to heal themselves in
ways that other animals. And againthat's millions of years of evolution, right,
Their sharks have been around before likeEve, we had trees. I'm
not worried about them getting bit I'mworried about them, Biden me. You
know, Friday, have you everheard the myth that the Grandady long legs

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is one of the most poisonous spiders. They just don't have the way to
like fangs to get the venom inuI heard the favorite. Yeah that's not
true. Oh it's not true.They're not poisonous, and they're not actually
spiders at all. But can theybite you. No, So they don't
even have a little mound or anything. They do eat prey. They do
come out at night to catch theirprey, but they're not they're not spiders.

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They're not They don't have a segmentedbody. You know what is it?
It's it's it's like a big otick with legs. They are a
type of an irachnid, but they'remore closely related to like a scorpion.
And they only have two eyes insteadof eight like most spiders. And they
don't have silk glands. They havedifferent mouth parts than most spiders. And
uh, and they don't have silkglands. They can't. They don't spin

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webs. You know the tan ones, Yeah, you see those, and
they're like tan or blonde looking lookjust like my grandmother's mold, like a
walking look like a walking mall.Seriously, a past scal. A mega
pascal is a unit that they usein the metric measuring system that they use
to measure pressure. Okay, soeight mega pascals is estimated pressure that a

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bite from a grizzly bear could exert, and it's strong enough to crush a
bowling ball a grizzly So if youput a bowling ball in a grizzly bear's
mouth, you can crush it.They estimate, yeah, that that's the
strength of there by eight megapascals.Is how you measure that? Like a
hippo on a watermelon? I mean, I'm just have you ever just seen
one? Just just? Jurassic Parkwas the movie that brought Richard Attenborough out

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of retirement. He placed angen CEOJohn Hammond in the movie, and he
was on a fifteen year hiatus fromacting, and he agreed to end his
retirement when Spielberg approached him because apparentlythe director had quote the charm of the
devil. Wow, think thats whatgot my job here? I don't know,
it's weird. Remember how I toldyou before that, they used to

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think that tomatoes were poisonous and theywouldn't eat them. Back in the Middle
Ages in the seventeen hundreds. Bythen the aristocrats were eating them and they
were convinced that they were poisonous.But in reality, it was actually the
acidity from the tomatoes that brought outthe lead and the pewter plates that they
were using. They were actually reallydying of lead poisoning, but they thought

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it was the tomatoes that were makingthem sick. Oh, gone all the
way up to number one, giveus one more, here we go one
and polygraphs aka lie detectors are notactually really that accurate, and in fact,
scientific assessments of them so little tono evidence that they're accurate, despite
the prevalence of their use in lawenforcement agencies for investigations. A lot of

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the false positive are people just beingnervous about questioning, as well as physical
stress being picked up as a lie, and then of course you got someone
analyzing the output, so it's subjectto human error as well. So they're
real polygraph tests really not that accurate. Yeah, I would get I'd get
nervous somebody just start asking me questionsbecause I would be scared that I wouldn't
be able to remember the right.There you have it, all the facts.

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