Episode 65: Baby Koalas Eat Mom's Poo

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to five Random Facts, theweekly podcast featuring all of Tessa's Random Facts
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seven eight four to two seven sixtysix Monday, Ancient Egypt. That time
period was so long that ancient Egyptianarchaeology was actually a career back in ancient
Egypt. It's that old. Well, that's how long the time period lasted.

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Crazy, So Ancient Egypt lasted solong that ancient Egyptian archaeology was a
career in ancient Egypt. Well,Black Egypt. Number four, you know,
the overage of the lineup of theBeatles that we love so much.
They were only together for a littleover seven years before they broke up.
I know, you know, that'sas long as it takes some bands to
get their first record. And thewhole thing only lasted seven years. Seems

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like it was like this huge era. But number three, there were only
twenty five episodes of the original ScoobyDoo Where Are You in nineteen sixty nine
the TV series that there were onlytwenty five episodes. I feel like,
again, there's a ton of them. Are you a Scooby Doo fan?
Of course, how could you not, Baggie, I would have gotten away
with that if I wondered for youmedals again number two? That was good.

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Macho Man. Randy Savage, heplayed minor league baseball for several years
before moving on to wrestling, didrealize that the Macho Man did interesting And
we really don't have to worry aboutleprosy that much. They say that more
than ninety five percent of people arenaturally immune to leprosy. That's according to
the CDC. Okay, let's goodto know. Yeah, but thank you

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for that. I appreciate it.You can sleep well tonight. I wouldn't
have to worry about leprosy. Youjust do something about these the rickets,
remember rickets. Oh jeez, scurvysare making it come back, and that's
not good. I don't know wherethere's stuff's coming from. The got cicadas
crawling out of the ground. It'scrazy Tuesday. Those stackable white plastic patio

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chairs, you know the ones I'mtalking about. They're actually called Mona block
chairs and they were actually once bannedfrom public spaces in Switzerland because they thought
they didn't look nice. They saidit was to preserve the beauty of the
city scape. Really, Ming's fancyand Andy's mints, you know the kind
I think that's the kind they liveon, like your hotel pillow. They

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aren't named after the Andy's Mountains,even though they're spelled that way A N
D E s. They're actually namedafter the guy who invented them. Their
founder, whose name is Andy Canalos, said, they give you those at
Olive Garden. Yeah, they're likekind of soft and they have a mint.
One of my favorite ye even thoughStrangers in the Night with a giant

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hit for Frank Sinatra. Strangers inthe Night, Yeah, he actually he
actually hated it. He never playedit, almost never played it live.
Anytime I called Frank he would play. In the early nineteen hundreds, before
alarm clocks were popular, people inEngland would hire people to knock on their

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windows with a pole to wake themup. Knock three times on my window.
Well's yeah, but they would usuallywould do it with a long stick,
because most people people's bedrooms were onthe second floor, and so the
person who did that would be calleda knocker up. Okay, somebody that
does it this day in time wouldbe shot. I'm saying, you just
don't do that. Cultured Christmas treeshave to be shaped as they grow to

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produce fuller foliage, so to slowthe upward growth and encourage outward branching.
They're hand clipped in the spring,and trees grown in the wild have sparser
branches and are known in the industryas Charlie Brown trees. All every road
has to be trimmed, every oneof them. Wednesday over five. There
are four state capitals named after presidentsJackson, Mississippi, Lincoln, Nebraska,

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Jefferson City, Missouri, Madison,Wisconsin, of course, Washington, d
C. Obviously named after a presidenttoo, so very good. I got
that one number four as well.And did you know that if you get
struck by lightning, you're not necessarilya goner. Actually, nine out of
ten lightning strike victims survive nine.I don't want to I don't even want

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to think about it this way.Think about this way. Lightning strikes actually
killed twenty four thousand people worldwide eachyear, but two hundred and forty thousand
people every year are injured by lightningand survived. I just, I just
I don't want to mess with it. I'm scared of it. I'm not
going to be outside in it.I just I'm not. Did you know
that orcas are a natural predator ofmoose oorca wales moose because moose will a

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really good swimmers actually, and theywill just swim across a body of water
if they need to get from pointA to point B a straight line.
But because orcas can sometimes be inthat same water as the moose up there
in the north, you know,orcas are predators. They'll they'll eat it
if they see it. Orcas arethose are killer whales, big teeth.
Yeah, just don't mess with those. On average, cats spend two thirds

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of every day sleeping, which meansif you have a nine year old cat,
it's only been awake for three yearsof its life. Oh goodness,
beat now, I've got six catsat the house. Five baby, I
know you, five babies and onemama. And oh my goodness, precious,
precious, are we up to numbertwo? Number one number one already.
Huh girl, all right, thisis going to gross you out,

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fair warning, that's all right.So koalas eat eucalyptus tree leaves. It's
basically their whole diet. But they'reincredibly toxic, and so baby koalas aren't
born with any immunity to these toxins. So how do they become immune to
what's going to be their main diet. I'm going to a feeding off of
mom's milk, mom's pooh oh,yeah really, yeah, it's really gross.

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But they're marsupials. So the babywill stick its head out of mom's
pouch towards her rear end, andthen she gives them. This is what
they call PAP. A protein richsubstance called PAP helps the baby grow full
of mom's gut bacteria, which willhelp prepare the baby for its adult diet
of those eucalyptus leaves. But babykoualas eat their mom's poots. You know

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what. But see, that's nature, and I enjoy it. I love
to learn stuff like just Thursday.By the fourth century BC, the Chinese
were drilling for natural gas and usingit as a heat source. This precedes
Western natural gas drilling by about twentythree hundred years the Chinese fourth century BC.

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Yeah. Wow, giant pandas havea really good sense of smell.
Really, they can even find thebest bamboo stalk by cent even at night.
There you go. I love goodbamboo. In the eighties, weird
Al Yankovic turned down a five milliondollar commercial commercial endorsement deal with a beer

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company because a lot of his fanswere young and impressionable at the time.
And he still says that he hasno regrets when he came back to that.
I mean it was eighties, fivemillion dollars. That's a big deal.
It's a lot. But he wasbig. He grew up. I
blew up really really fast and fadedaway. I remember he's still around.
Sony sold twelve million floppy discs inthe year two thousand and nine. Now

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the peak year was two thousand andtwo. They sold forty seven million.
But they stopped producing and selling floppydiscs all together in twenty eleven. Can
you believe we haven't had floppy discsin thirteen? And it has been a
while. One and about half thecereal brands that come out are discontinued within
five years. Really, they don'tmake it. They just come and go,

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Thank god, we're not cereal.It's a bet a minute. What
you enjoy it every morning? Righthere with you, Friday. So we
started looking at cellophane and uses forit as early as the early nineteen hundreds.
When they were first starting to inventcellophane, they were originally intending it

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to be used to protect tablecloths fromwine spills. Oh I'm actually going out
to a fancy restaurant, a nicewhite tablecloth and you spill wine on it.
Well, you've just got some celifhane. But think about also, like
all of your glasses and your platesand everything that would stick to it,
happened to touch it while you're tryingto eat dinner. Rip off a sheet

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of saran wrap, Siran wrap,and then just place it over your face.
Just hold it up to your face. You can see throat and then
you suffocate and die. No,No, that they don't tell me telling
children to know. No, No, I'm saying you that would be your
Halloween mask. Ah. I didn'teven get it. But okay. There
were chryslers that had built in recordplayers. This is between nineteen fifty six

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and nineteen fifty eight. But ofcourse, imagine a record player in a
vehicle. Every time it hit aboveit would skip. Yeah, they malfunctioned
so often that Chrysler dropped it justafter a couple of years. But they
thought about it. They tried shoulduse cell fight three. Sixty one point
two percent of the Americans who foughtin World War Two were drafted. Yeah.

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Yeah. Could you imagine having towatch a TV waiting for your birthday
or your year to be called toknow you had to go fight in a
war. It's real. Or alot of them got letters in the mail
from the US government welcome to UncleSam's side. You know, broccoli has
almost twice as much vitamin C asoranges. I love broccolike. Broccoli is

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one of the best foods on theplanet that you can put into your body
in terms of health wise. Isit more healthy if I cook it or
raw? It doesn't matter that much. I didn't think so. See,
I can go either way, butI really like it raw, really do
One. Astronauts can vote from space. Yeah, and it's not just by
absentee ballot. They actually have acomputer on board that sends an encrypted message

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to the County clerk where they live. They just smoke. It's great,
that's awesome. Let them vote fromspace and this. As long as you
vote, that's as you're American.Rite even if you are not even on
the planet. Go away, headMemphis, Go ahead, Memphis. You
show us what it's about. Getout of vote. Vote, vote red,
white, and blue over here.I like it. What's there?
You have it? All the facts. Tune in with Doctor shaneon tests weekdays

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