Episode 64: Some Ticks Can Make You Allergic to Meat

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Welcome to five Random Facts, theweekly podcast featuring all of Tessa's random facts
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eight five oh seven eight four twoseven sixty six Monday charting with number five.
Every year, Americans throw out enoughsoda, pop cans and bottles to
reach to the moon and back.My goodness, twenty times, twenty times
twenty us we're throwing away. That'swrong, y'all, that's wrong. Have
you ever heard of the Railroad Commissionof Texas. Well, they don't have

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anything to do with railroads. Whatthey do is they regulate the oil and
gas industry plus surface coal and uraniummining. Now, it used to regulate
railroads dating back to the eighteen nineties, but those duties were taken over by
the Texas Department of Transportation and startingin nineteen eighty four, so they just
kind of kept the name, butnow do different stuff. It's different stuff.
Three number two? Okay, nothree, you're right. Sorry,

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lost count Hawaii is the only statewhere McDonald's still serves fried apple pies.
Everywhere else they're baked. Yeah,yep, yeah mix in. Well,
Disney invented and closed garbage cans tokeep Disneyland from smelling bad. Up until
that point, public trash cans werewire mesh that didn't block out any of
the garbage smells. So he's sowe're going to keep that trapped inside.

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Just close the lid, girl.What George Washington was the only president who
never lived in the White House.Every other president since then has because it
wasn't even built when he was president. Ah, there you go. I
forgot about it. I had toget that thing built, got it.
I don't want to move in untilit's built. Actually, he closed the

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lid on it so it didn't stink. I think about those wire trash bags,
those trash bans, I remember those. I remember see them in the
boats Tuesday five. The most commonsurname in the United States, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and GreatBritain is sick Smith Smith. Oh wow.
In Mexico, it's Hernandez. InChina it's Wang, in Brazil it's

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Da Silva, and in India it'sDebbie. Well, no we go.
It's good. You know my wifeJinn's maiden name was Smithy. It's all
right, very common. Journey neverhad a number one hit, Are you
kidding me? As big as JourneyWise? Seriously, their closest with Open
Arms, which made it to numbertwo on the Billboard Hot one hundred chart,
that was in February of nineteen eightytwo. Three. This one shocked

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me. The legal drinking age inEngland is five years old. As long
as the kid is drinking alcohol athome, at home with their parents,
it's a it's a europe thing.I don't know. It's nuts. I
went to Europe like Russell's Belgium,Germany, Holland Austria when I was fifteen
years old, and there was nodrinking age over there. I wrote fourteen
songs and got three number one.Uh huh. Only three mammals go through

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menopause, okay, orcas, pilotwhales and humans. I didn't expect that.
That's what I'm here for. I'mstill over here drinking under age.
John Quincy Adams was the first presidentwith a middle name, John Quincy Adams,
none of the five presidents before himhad one. It was his first

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name, last name. There yougo one. And George Lazenby back in
the day. He may not knowhis name, but he was offered a
seven movie deal to play James Bond. Never heard of it, but he
won. He only played him onceon Her Majesty's Secret Service, and that's
because his agent convinced him that Bondwould be quote archaic in the liberated nineteen

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seventies. Oh, he's just okay, but he's been around ever since.
They're still making Bond movies. It'sso cool that crazy Jacon not stirred Wednesday.
Well, Scotland has the highest portionof redheads thirteen percent of the population,
followed by Ireland with ten percent.The United States has the largest population
of redheads in the world, withbetween six to eighteen million redheads. That's

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between two and six percent of thepopulation. My husband Brett and my son
Finn being two of those cute,adorable little redheads. Oh let's get that
back up. Well, there wego. Nearly two thirds of all meteorites
discovered on Earth are found in Antarctica. Of course, Antarctica is basically just
an empty white sheet in which almostall of the population is scientists. But

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you know that's where they find allthe meteorites. Number three Ronald Reagan was
a lifeguard in high school. Bythe way, he saved seventy seven people
from drowning. Waiting, Go RonaldReagan. I wonder you went on to
be president. Michael Jordan got hisdegree in cultural geography from the University of
North Carolina. That's because his backupplan after basketball was to be a weather

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man. I guess it's a goodthing that worked out for him. Huh
What And the math problem that MattDamon solved? Remember the movie Good Will
Hunting and he solves the math problemup on the board that nobody else could
figure out. Apparently it's not avery hard problem, according to a mathematician
from Cambridge, and even someone whoisn't a mathematician could probably solve it.
But that person would not be me. Definitely not me. I can't do

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maths. That's why I'm in RadioThursday. Number five. Yes, the
term fruit is recognized botanically as anythingthat contains a seed or seeds. Seed
or seeds is brutal yeah, butthere's no potanical definition for a vegetable.
We've just come to use vegetable asthis like broad umbrella term for many types

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of edible plants, or even partsof those plants, including roots, stems,
leaves, and even immature flowers likebroccoli and artichokes. Those are actually
flowers. Anyone likes that. That'sinteresting, good stuff. Number four Beer
is made by converting the starch ina grain to sugar and then fermenting it
to turn it into alcohol, whichmeans sucky. Is technically a beer.

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They call it rice wine, butit's technically a beer because that's exactly how
it's made with rice, just likefrom rice, and we get beer from
pops and barley, that type ofAll right, up to number three?
Alrighty going number three Ripley's believe itor not, and Guinness World Records have
the same owner. I didn't realize. Yeah, it's a Canadian company called
the Jim Pattison Group to own bothof them. All right. Number three

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Toronto and Montreal, both in Canada, are both farther south than Seattle,
are they? Really? I hadto picture that in my mind. Washington
State's pretty far up there. Itis number one, and the only number
one song that has the same wordrepeated more than three times in the title
is shake, Shake, Shake,Shake, Shake Shape Casey in the Sunshine

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Bed. There are two hundred andforty two ways to make change for a
dollar using just quarters, dimes,nickels, and pennies. How many different?
With two and forty two safe,that's way too much time on our
hands. Grapefruit got its name becausethey grow on trees in bunches, so

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they look like large yellow grapes grapefrapefruit up bird three. Nike's Air Jordan
logo did not come from the wayMichael Jordan looked when he dunked. It
actually came from a photoshoot where heexaggerated his jumping style by doing a ballet
move. Oh, and you seethat the Air Jordan logo, right,

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he's doing a ballet jump. It'sa ballet jump. Three. In South
Korea, tattoos are considered a medicalprocedure, so only doctors can legally do
them. Oh, you have tobe a doctor to do a tattoo.
There's been talk about changing that though, but as of stands right now,

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only doctors can legally. I'm suresome people are doing it under the table,
but you know what I mean.And lone star tics can give you
an indefinite allergy to red meat.And I think this is number one,
by the way, lone star ticscan you give you an indefinite allergy to
red meat if they bite you.They're found mostly in the Eastern US and
Mexico. They're also called turkey ticksor Northeastern water ticks. But they can

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make you allergic to red meat.Ooh, I would not be no,
no, no no. I lovered meat. I like mistake my burg.
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