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August 14, 2024 • 10 mins
Who knew a little 'ole guinea pig could jump that far. Find out that and the rest of Tess' fascinating facts from the week on the 5 Random Facts Podcast from the Dr. Shane and Tess Show on 92.5 WPAP
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to five Random Facts, the weekly podcast featuring all
of Tessa's random facts for the week. Time to learn
something new.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
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sixty six Monday five. You know Freddy Mercury and Michael

(00:30):
Jackson were actually supposed to record an entire album of
duets together.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I did not realize that.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yeah, they were planning it.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It was back in nineteen eighty three, but Freddy backed out.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
You want to know why?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Why Because Michael Jackson kept bringing his lama into the studio.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh yeah, you can't. You can't bring the lama.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
In into the recording studio.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Please, they wanted llama. It was a monkey. You never
knew what Michael Jackson's Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Did you know that modern day toothbrushing up was first
started out in Europe and it didn't get popular or
take off in the United States until after.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
World War Two.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I did not realize.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Doctor Lister would know this.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
But that's when soldiers came home and brought the habit
with them because it was required in the military service.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
But it didn't get really popular.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's interesting to me.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I like, there's a Guinness World Record for the most
prolific cannibal.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Ah, yeah, I expect you to save that.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's a tribal chief from Fiji, and it was around
the eighteen hundreds. I cannot pronounce his name, that's all right,
but apparently he ate somewhere between eight hundred and seventy
two and nine hundred and ninety nine people.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
My goodness, right, they go.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Drowning in cold water gives you a better chance of
survival than in warm water.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, I guess it slows the body's tamp
down your heartbeat.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, and that gives you up to an hour to
be resuscitated. But in warm water you're basically done in
about six minutes or less.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Got it, all right?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
And Walmart gets sued approximately twenty times a day.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Twenty times a day, somebody's seeing Wallyworld. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Most of them are employees filing discrimination claims or lawsuits
about overtime pay.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
But yeah, about about twenty lawsuits a day from more
pay to do their lawyers good gracious.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I mean I knew iHeart had lawyers, but not like
Wallyworld lawyers. That's crazy. Tuesday over five.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Almost all Arctic predators, from wolves to eagles, rely on
squirrels as a food source. Yep, little old squirrels, Poor squirrels,
law Huber four. The post it note was invented by
accident by a scientist at three M who was actually
trying to create a really strong adhesive.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
And even the yellow color was by accident as well.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
The lab next door only had yellow scrap paper for
them to use, so that's what they ended up using.
Er three. You know, Coca Cola was offered the chance
to buy pet see three times between the years nineteen
twenty two and nineteen thirty three, and they turned it
down every time. And the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina,

(03:11):
if you've ever been there, it's really beautiful. That's where
they filmed a lot of the Game of Throne stuff.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
It's really cool. But the flag is blue with a
yellow triangle and white stars. Now what's the symbolism on that?
We know flags are full of symbolism.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, it's actually an intentionally random The ethnic groups in
the country couldn't agree on a compromise, so the flag
actually has meaningless colors and symbols.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's just that's what they ended up with. And all
the way down to.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Electric Light Orchestra, the band has the record for the
most Top forty hits without a number one. They had
twenty songs make the Billboard Top forty, but no number
one Wednesday over fuck. You know, there hasn't been a
female while jaguars spotted in the entire United States since
the nineteen sixties. Up until recently, though many thought there

(04:02):
was only one male who lived in the Santa Rita
Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, but the Center for a Biological
Diversity said that there was a jaguar spotted back in
December that had not been previously seen in the US.
So they think the population was wiped out in America.
But there are about four thousand in Mexico, so that's
where it might have come from.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, you know, Americans throw away approximately sixty eight million
dollars in change every year.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, they just chuck it away. I don't know whether that's.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Intentional or unintentional, but I know a lot of it
gets sucked up in my vacuum sometimes from my couch cushions.
Number three, the US has nearly as many cars as people. Specifically,
we have nine hundred and eight cars for every one
thousand people. But there's only one car per one thousand

(04:52):
people in North Carolina. That's or sorry, North Korea, not
North Carolina, North Korea. That is the lowest ratio of
any country. Jethrow Toll. We know of them as the band,
but Jethro Toll was actually a real person. He was
a British agricultural pioneer in the seventeen hundreds. The band
actually picked the name when a guy in the Brooking

(05:14):
Agency suggested it because he was a big history buff
and somehow it stuck. And that takes us all the
way to number one. The single American Idiot by Green Day.
Do you remember that one from back in the two thousands.
It only made it to number sixty one on the
Billboard charts in America, but it was a top ten

(05:34):
song in Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Scotland, Croatia, New
Zealand and Austria.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
That means almost like they were trying to tell us.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Something Thursday, number five, all right, speaking of five, Only
five people died in the Boston massacre in seventeen seventy.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I realized I thought it was a whole lot more
than that.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now now they were innocent civilians killed by British troops.
So it is awful, but it's still a relatively small
number for you to call it, I guess, a massacre.
But it was kind of one of the kicking off points,
starting points for you know, the Revolutionary War.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Absolutely number four.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
There's a term for the inability to remember the right word,
you know, like it's right on the tip of your
tongue and you can't think of the right word.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I suffer from it.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Whatever it is, letho logica.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I've got the letholgical.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
We can't even try to remember that one.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Now, there's also a word for the inability to recall
the right name, and you can't just can't think of
that person's name. I know that's lethanomia I got.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I got the lithium ammonia.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
You definitely got the.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Number three.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Disney has not added a new country to Epcot's World
Showcase since.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
There's time for an update.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
That's when they added Norway, but they have room for
six more.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well yeah, originally Israel, Equatorial Africa and Spain were supposed
to be included, but they were cut.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
So come on that still, Come on, Come on number two.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
John Quincy Adams, it was a member of five. I
have different political parties during his career, and remember he
was one of our presidents. He was part of the Federalist,
the Democratic Republican, Democratic Republican, the National Republican, Anti Masonic,
and Whig Party. But he was Democratic Republican, which is
I guess you could be both when he was elected president.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I did not know you could be both. I had
no clue you could back then wild.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Number one and remember the old TGIF lineup. I guess
this was from when I was a kid. But a
guy named Jesse Frederick wrote and performed the theme songs
for Fuller House, Family Matters and.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Step by Step.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh really.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
He also wrote the Perfect Stranger's theme song, but he
didn't perform it. But if you can remember those songs
in your head, they do all kind of sound the same.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Do you want to give us a little tips?

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Like Fuller House was like.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Whatever happened to predictability news ma'am, the paper boy news whatever,
and then step by step was like step by step,
day by day. I like that.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
This has got it going on. You hear me.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
They were taking you back. I'm just taking you back.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
You've got a concert at the end of Friday five.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Super Mario was originally a carpenter, not a plumber.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
A carpenter.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Goodness, I guess you know it's okay to start over
switch careers at some point.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
A yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
If you go all the way back to nineteen seventy five,
the very second episode of Saturday Night Live, the second
one ever, was almost all music and no comedy.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Which is hard to believe.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
It had eleven.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Musical performances, and it included a reunion between Paul Simon
and Art Garfunkle, Art Garfuncle.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah. Back the day.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Presidential debates used to be very, very different. At the
Lincoln Douglas debates in eighteen fifty eight, one candidate spoke
for sixty minutes, and then the other one spoke for
ninety and then to make it fair, the first one
got to finish up with a thirty minute rebuttal Wow,
that's when.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Like you ain't got nothing to do but the debate.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, they just sit and listen to the other person
make their points and then you.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Know, I like it.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
I got.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Stella Artois has the oldest logo in the world.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's been used since the brewery was founded in Belgium
in thirteen sixty six.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Wow, thirteen sixty six and.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Twinings or twinings tea anyway they have. They have the
second oldest logo, coolber What The Guinness World record for
the longest jump by a guinea pig, yes, is one
point five to seven feet.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
That's a pretty good little stress for a guinea.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
They got a little bit legs. They was set by
a guinea pig named Truffles.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
This was in England and twenty twelve he broke the
previous record of one point three feet. My good, So
it's been what fourteen years since a guinea pig has
broken that record. There you go, Time for a challenger.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
To all the guinea pigs listening.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
You can do it, you could do You can beat
Truffles one point five to seven feet.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Y'all get up, each cereal hat, your spinach, Come on there,
you have it.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
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Speaker 3 (10:09):
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
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