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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to five Random Facts, the weekly podcast featuring all
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Time to learn something new.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Five to one, number five.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Did you know that the guy who invented Tabasco sauce,
he really didn't consider his sauce to be like a
major accomplishment, and he made no mention of it in
his autobiography, Like towards the end of his life, it
wasn't even mentioned in his obituary.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I love Tabasco.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I put it on my eggs every morning.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
His name, by the way, Edmund Mackelhenny I might be
mispronounced h e n n y Macklelhenny.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Tabasco sauce man.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
There number four of him. So everybody's talking about the
big biscuit basin a yellowstone, that the big explosion like
that geyser that happened but did you know that sixty
three percent of geysers in the whole entire world are
in Yellowstone.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yes, it's a major hot it's a major hotspot.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
It is that it is a hotspot. No pun intended,
But I like where you were going.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Number three. Did you know that the guy who his
name is medical, he's a medical doctor. His name is
Donald Unger. He cracked the knuckles of his left hand
every day for more than sixty years, my goodness, to
prove he only did it on one hand, though he
proved that no arthritis or other ailments formed in either hand.
It earned him a Nobel Prize in medicine.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
I've always heard if you like crack or pop your knuckles,
it would make your knuckles like really big.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, they said it would give you arthritis or make
your hand. I'm doing it right now on the microphone
so that you know.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
But no, this medical doctor did it for sixty years.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And he only cracked the knuckles in one hand and
not the other, and both and both hands were finding
it again.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
He got a Nobel price for it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
That's cool. Number two.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Did you know that Maine is the closest US state
to Africa?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
No? Yeah, there's no Why how does you figure that?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well? So because most of the maps that we look
at are flat right right, like they're one dimensional, But
if you look at it in a different way, it's not.
We always think that like like Maine is closest to
like Europe, but it's not that way. But like geographically
miles wise, US Maine is the closest state to Africa.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
That's all learned something today, all the way to the top.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He renumber one.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Uh, this may be hard to believe, but on April eighteenth,
in nineteen thirty, a BBC news announcer said that there's
no news.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There's no news. Nothing happened.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
He said nothing to announce.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
He simply said there is no news, and then the
station played piano music for the remainder of their fifteen
minute news segment.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
And we have like a twenty four hour news cycle now.
But it happened.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
There's no news.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
April eighteenth, nineteen thirty BBC. They were like, hey, there's
no news.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Hey, everybody behaved themselves, nobody got a run, nothing nothing
going on, no broke, no broken.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Nothing going on.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No Tuesday five.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Did you know that on a clear day, three of
the world's ten tallest mountains can be seen from Pocara,
which is Newpaul's second biggest city, so they've got a
pretty impressive mountain range over there. You might have heard
of Mount Everest, but yeah, three of the world's ten
tallest mountains you can see them. But it's pretty gorgeous.
Number four the movie Beatle Juice.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
It's kind of like a cult classic. It's ninety two
minutes long.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But the actual guy Beetlejuice I played by Mike Michael Keaton.
At the time, he was only on screen for seventeen
minutes and thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
That's it out of a whole movie. They named it
after him.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Number three The Boston song more Than a Feeling is
about a girl named Mary Anne. And this is really weird,
but she was the lead singer's older cousin who he
was secretly in love with as a kid and wrote
the song for her.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Yeah, Boston's more Than a Feeling.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Here's a gross one. When hippos have to go number two.
When they got a pooh, they will actually spin their
tails around so that their feces will fling all over
the place, and they do this to mark their territory.
Hm ver one. Did you know that the little button
on top of a baseball cap it has a name.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
It's called a squatchy. Yep, that little button on your
head is called a squatchy.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No, you get to say that word because it's kind
of fun to say squatchy Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Number five.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Did you know that there's only one species of frog
that goes ribbit? Yeah, but it's become a national and
global cliche. We use it for everything because that frog
lives in the Pacific Northwest, a Pacific tree frog or
also known as the Pacific chorus frog. But it's the
only one that ribbit. So that's what the Hollywood people
used to make movies, and then that's how we became
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to know it worldwide. But yeah, oh, there's only one species.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Just ribbit ribbit.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Number four.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
The para in Paralympics. It does not come from the
word paralyzed or paraplegic. It comes from the Greek word para,
which means beside, because the Paralympics stands side by side
with the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
There you go. Number three.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
This one's pretty cool. We'll keep going with Olympic stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
A Hungarian fencer named Pat Zeckers won a bronze medal
at the nineteen eighty eight Olympics, but then he became
disabled after a bus accident, and then he went on
to win six medals in wheelchair fencing at the Paralympics.
So he is the only person who's won a medal
at the Olympics before a disability and won one at
the Paralympics when he was disabled.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Now that's impressive. That's impressive.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Er two cool the chuck and chuck Norris does not
stand for.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Charles really, I really thought it'd be.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I did too.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
It's Carlos.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Oh, it's Carlos. Teach me something, that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Number one, Yeah, whales are mammals.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yes, mammals make milk, right, so you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Could, technically if you were able to get your hands
on drink whale milk.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well milk.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Really it's really high and fat and it's about the
consistency of toothpaste. So bust that one out while people
are brushing their teeth this morning.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Whale milk past.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
To whale milk Thursday.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Girl.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You can't sneak up on an octopus really, because they
don't have a blind spot.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Are you sure they're going to see it coming.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
All the way around three sixty pretty much just crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
People wouldn't know that.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
The first movie that had a cgi character was the
lead as the lead rolled was Casper in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Five, The Friendly Good I love that movie.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
We watched it every Halloween.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Great Canada has almost four times more coastline than any
other country in the world.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
It's because of all the little lakes.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
That they have all over the place there. They have
one hundred and twenty five thousand, six hundred miles of
coastline and Norway is second place with only thirty six thousand,
one hundred miles of coastline.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You know, Canada is still close, you know, to us,
it seems like it's around the world.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It's not. But I've never done Canada and I've always
wanted to. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The photos, Yeah, they say that it's a lot of
like Vancouver, is a lot like European cities, and you
can get there a lot cheaper, of course than flying over.
Ernest Goes to Jail and The Green Mile were both
filmed at the same abandoned prison in Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Walking in Mile Ball, I think that's the same.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
One that they also used for the scenes in Walk
the Line.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The Johnny Kesh movie, and they use that jail for
a lot of prison sere you go. What and the
reason why karate belts, you know they go white, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, red, black, right,
the order is for a reason, and it's because the
fighters used to be only able to afford one belt,
so they would keep eyeing it darker and darker as
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they progressed.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Are you serious? So that's how we got eventually to
the black belt?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yes, so that those are the color of the order
of the colors.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I think it's great, So cool it learn Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Did you know that forty percent of people will never
experience a nosebleed? Yep, sixty percent of us will have
a nosebleed at some point in our life. Only about
ten percent of them are serious. But good news is
they're rarely fatal, accounting for only four of the two
point four million deaths in the US. And this was
from a statistic back in nineteen ninety nine. Let's move
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on to four. The first pass that Brett Farve ever
completed in the NFL was to himself. The pass was
tipped by a defensive lineman and Brett caught it and
he lost seven yards in the process. We had to
start your career there, buddy number three. Speaking of athletes,
Usain Bolt's world record in the one hundred meters sprint
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has stood for fifteen years, which is longer than anyone
has held record in history. Huh, I wonder if anyone's
going to break it this Olympics. Lberto Manfred Albrich Friar
von Richtofen aka the Red Baron. He was a German
fighter pilot and he was killed because of a single bullet.
It hit him while he was in the air, but
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he managed to land his plane without damaging it before
he passed away. M Olber What Gandhy arrived in London
right before Jack the Ripper started his killing spree and
then there was no more murders after Gandhi left, so
he can't be ruled out as a suspect. We need
to get some of those true crime podcast people on
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that pans.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
There you have it, all the facts.
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