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September 18, 2024 • 10 mins
Find out why the world's longest sandwich ended up not being that long at all and more random facts from the Dr. Shane and Tess show on 92.5 WPAP and Tess' weekly 5 Random Facts Roundup.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Test is five Random Facts podcast with all
of the facts from the Doctor Shane and Test show.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This week, Let's count them down.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
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(00:30):
most destructive animals in America.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, I'm telling you they are vicious.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
They cause more than four hundred million dollars in damage
a year, and that's just in the state of Texas.
They can dig three foot deep, destroying cop crops. They
even eat lambs, calves, sea turtle eggs. I mean they'll
will eat anything.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
They will eat. They will eat you. I mean I
always if I'm hog hunting, I'm by a tree where
I can get away from those tusks.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, they will rip you about me. You know the
whale from Free Willie, not personally, but the name of
its real name was Kaiko, and he was in captivity
for twenty three years while they set him free back
in two thousand and two, let my people go.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Weeks later, the whale appeared at a Norwegian fjord, and
apparently it was seeking human contact and was even giving
rides to children on its back.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
If I saw my kid jumping on the back of
a whale, you better no.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And we're not a shipwrecked island. What's going on? Did
you know?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Just one month before seinfeld debut in nineteen eighty nine,
Jason Alexander won a Tony for Best Leading Actor and
a Musical for Jerome Robbins Broadway in a musical He
was Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
But he must have a voice, then he can see
he can do it all. Wow, didn't know that soon.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
The winner of the Indianapolis five hundred back in nineteen
eleven had an average speed of just just under seventy
five miles an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah that's running, that's moving.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
In nineteen eleven, Yeah that was, by the way. For comparison,
this year's winner averaged one hundred and sixty eight miles
per hour.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Can imagine that.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
What four percent of the sand on Normandy's beaches is
actually broken down shrapnel from D Day. I believe that
four percent four percent enough to measure. I mean, oh,
that's significant.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Tuesday Iron tried to make the world's longest sandwich. They
tried to break their record, but they had some trouble.
People started eating it before it could be officially measured,
so they filmed.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
By the way, the world's longest sandwich is about two
four hundred and eleven five inches.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh Sun a super super long super dolls.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Children in Armenia are required to learn chess in school.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's the only country in the world where chess class
is mandatory.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Very impressed by your son that plays it all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Mac is getting really good at chess. He really enjoys it.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
He's a small fella. Yeah, he is.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Three five hundred and thirty two people on the FBI's
ten most wanted list, and out of those five hundred
and thirty two, four hundred and ninety four of them
have been caught. There you got it, Jacquerger, If you're
gonna be on that list, good chance you're gonna get caught.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
There you go. Don't do it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
If you ask the US Treasury what the official name
for a penny is it's not a penny. That's not
what they call it. They call it a one cent piece.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh, it's a one cent piece.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's good to know, all right on, and you don't
want to get bit by a more eel. You see,
they have a second set of jaws and teeth that
is inside their throat. So they have their primary jaws
and teeth that's where they latch on, and then the
second set can move forward and either latch on and
pull the prey down their throat, or they can use
it to eat away at larger prey without having to

(03:46):
let it go.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
That used to be one of my girlfriends years ago
in high school. I think got dated.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
One bite onto something and then chew at the same time.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Tear you up. She's a man, Eat up Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Did you ever watched the show Are You Smarter than
a fifth grader?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Are you Smarter than a sweet Tater? Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, are you smarter than a fifth grader?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I did.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
It was actually a really cool show and the grand
prize was a million dollars. Two people won it. It
was first the Superintendent of Public Schools for the State
of Georgia Here you go, and the guy who won
the two thousand and six Nobel Prize in physics. He's
a professor at UC Berkeley. They both won the million
dollar prize. So smart guys. There are also two other
people who won the five hundred thousand dollar prize, Ken

(04:28):
Jennings from Jeopardy Game, and then Gene.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Simmons from Kiss Are You Sure? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:33):
He won the five hundred thousand Are you smarter than
fifth grade? He's actually pretty smart guy for a rockstar.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Awesome for a rock star.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
When Disneyland first opened, it had a lingerie shop on
Main Street.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
We'll see. That's some difference. They do things different on
the West Coast than we do here in the Great Studio.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
It lasted less than six months, though it did not
stick around. Launcher Fine Panties at Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
And Mickey Mouse of Ears, Now me.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
What is put Mickey Mouseie's No. We know about the
Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, who you know, the
first in flight, But they actually had a lot of siblings.
They had two other brothers, Rushlyn and Lauren. They also
had a sister named Catherine as well. They were the
children of a bishop. Yeah, and they moved around a

(05:18):
whole lot. But they had a lot of kids. They
but we only know about the two. You know, the
other kids didn't get into the whole flight. Baby James Cameron,
you know the director. Also, he's the guy who's pretty
good at submarines and the submersibles like to go to
the deep sea. But he that was his main motivation
for making the Titanic movie. He wanted to get the

(05:39):
studio to pay for him to dive down to the
real Titanic's wreckage. And it hadn't been for that, he said, quote,
he didn't particularly want to make that movie.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know, I saw a documentary just the other day
wanting to raise the Titanic, and how do we raise
it without a breaking up? I mean, it's just interesting,
you candy that.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
And the Ottoman Turks they knowingly used the Rosetta Stone
as a building slab for a military fort. They found
it and they were just like, you know what, We're
just going to use this to help build our fort.
The French captured the fort and became fascinated with the stone,
which of course unlocked the lost secrets of ancient Egypt.
It was the one that helped them decipher all the
hieroglyphics Thursday. People like to complain about narrow roads, but

(06:22):
a recent study found that engineers should make roads narrow
were to reduce car crashes and pedestrian deaths.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Is it or is it more narrow narrower?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Remember so in a twelve foot wide lane on a
thirty mile per hour road, you're fifty percent more likely
to get in an accident than you would be in
a tighter nine foot lane.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
That was number four.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
No, that was the continuation of number one. Oh, we're
ready to move on yet next Oh.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
You went back, I got its four again.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Freddie Mercury had an interesting religion that he followed, Zoroastrianism.
It's what Zoroastrianism. It's really really old. It's one of
the world's I guess oldest religions.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Penicillin for that.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
But right now they have between one hundred and two
hundred thousand global followers. But if you ever want to
go down a rabbit hole, look of zoroastrian It's been
around for a while. Speaking of being around for a while,
Scientific American is the oldest magazine in the United States.
It's been published for the past one hundred and seventy
four years without any breaks.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Congratulate. We need to work for them one day, right.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Wouldn't be nice to Fargo, North Dakota kind of cold
up there was named after William Fargo. He's also the
guy who founded Wells Fargo.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Wells Fargo break you.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Might know of that popular guy that quite a legacy
and having a second toe that's longer than your big toe.
It's called it's known as a Morton's toe.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Hang on, let me look. I've got flip flops on hanging.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
A statue of Liberty, by the way, was built with
a Morton's toe. If you go look at it.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oh, I got one, You got one. You sit the
second toe next to the big toe. Look weird. No,
don't you see your feet, Pauller. Look it's longer than
my big toe. It is. My second toe is longer.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
I haven't even had breakfast. Your feet.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Come on, I've seen your feet. A low stubby toes.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I thot the cutest little toes, but they are very small.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
They're cute to you, really, bless your heart. You can't
climb a tree or anything. Bless you, little hard Friday.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Did you know that Walt Disney holds the world record
for the most Academy awards won by one person. I
did not know that nominated more than sixty times. He
won thirty two statuettes and twelve other plaques and certifications.
Sir David cecil Low, who is a prominent political cartoonist
of the twentieth century, said that Walt Disney was the
most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo da Vinci.

(08:47):
My goodness, Wow, the green iguana is a wonderful swimmer.
And they can hold their breath and standard water for
thirty minutes. Go yeah, they can hold their legs close
beside it, and then you the tail to propel itself
through the water and can stay underwater comfortably for up
to thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Let their tail propel them. That makes sense.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Got great lung capacity for a little year.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
They do. And see they none of them smoke. That's
how they can do it. They don't.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's pretty much.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Number three.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
You know, the guy who had beented glow sticks didn't
even know that they were popular for concerts and festivals
until twenty thirteen.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Oh man, I'm just like cracking them, like snapping them
when you open them. I love glow sticks.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Okay, this is really really gross. But did you know
that on average you can produce zero point twenty eight
pounds of do do a day, which averages out that
averages out to one hundred pounds a year. Of one
hundred pounds a year that.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
You test test, I mean you could have taken all
day and found a better five random than that.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Don't you want to know how much you know you
produce it a year?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
No?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Now you do about one hundred pounds a year.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
What and did you ever notice that venus fly traps
will purposefully row their flowers far away from the actual
trap part. That's to help avoid killing their polliniers. Yeah,
so you've got the trap part that will eat the
bugs and stuff like that, but the flour itself will
be over there where they produce the pollen so they
can reproduce.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
That's interesting stuff.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Mark, that's those venus fly traps.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's that one was better than the poopy one you
did before. I'm just saying one hundred pounds.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
You're gonna per year point to eight pounds a day.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I won't forget.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
I will not forget some people more than others.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
There you have it, all the facts tune in with
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Speaker 2 (10:41):
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Speaker 1 (10:43):
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