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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.
This week Let's count them down.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
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four two seven six six Monday five. McDonald's, of course
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is number one here in America, but guess where its
second place? This one surprised me.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Japan, France brands, Yeah, French Fries. Okay, well French Fries.
I think we're actually made in America. But that's I
think they're actually Belgium. But that's neither here nor there.
Or Agami was started in China, not Japan. I always
thought it came from Japan, but it came from China.
It actually made its way into Japan in.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The sixth century thanks to Buddhist monks.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Do you ever see a vulture on the side of
the road eating something that is decaying and just grows
and you think, man, how could they eat that. It's
because the stomach acid inside their bellies is so corrosive
that vultures can even digest anthrax and it won't hurt.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Them and thracks. Are you serious, man?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
They are over sixteen two and fifty one full service
restaurants in the vicinity of NYC, So you could visit
one every single day for forty years and still not
have visited them all. And this doesn't even count like
counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
That's insane.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
If you are a board member of the San Francisco
Municipal Transportation Agency, you are required to ride public transit
at least once a week.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You got to get on that truck so that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know what it's like, so that you know how
to fix any problems you might see.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't have a problem with right neither.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Correct me if I'm wrong firefighters, But in the US,
fires are categorized into five classes. A is ordinary combustibles,
B flammable liquids and gases, a C is electrical fire.
Thank you Jerry Pybus for preventing those d is metals,
especially like alkali like lithium and potassium in k is
cooking oils and fats. The word mob comes from the
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Latin mobile vulgus, which sounds weird, but it actually really
means fickle common people mobile vulgus v u l g
u s number three. Okay, tell me your favorite color blue?
What's your favorite number?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Four?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Okay? There's a psychological theory called the blue seven phenomenon,
where the average person will say that their favorite color
is blue and their favorite number is seven, But no
one knows why those two are so populsh lucky. You
know that's true, but blue. You said blue, and you're
part of that. I thought it was interesting. Nicholas Cage
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has a stage name. You see, Cage isn't really his
last name. He picked it based on the superhero character
Luke Cage. His real last name is Coppola. Why does
that sound familiar? Francis Ford Coppola, the director who made
The Godfather.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh, they're like kN to each other. You think uncle,
his uncle.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
The Earth contains so much gold that there's actually enough
of it to coat the entire planet, but ninety nine
percent of it can be found in the Earth's core.
Molten at the Earth's core, so that's where most of
it is and then everything you find on the surface
that we wear is just a tiny one percent.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Of all the gold the earth actually contains when you
dig into the scientific stuff. I love it. That's my favorite.
Oh Tennessee girl brings one to the top every.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Dye, every now and yes you do Wednesday, I thought
we do something different today and make all five random
facts about our favorite trash pandas the raccoons.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The trash pandas.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
By random facts about raccoons About coons, the original of
the origin of the name raccoon stems from their most
prized possession, which is their hands.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, the word raccoon comes from a racoon, which is
a poa Hotan term which means animal that scratches with hands.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
There you go, and you're clean too. I like raccoons.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
They're part of the prio on a prio PSCIONI day family,
got it right, which includes both cowatis and ringtail lemurs.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Oh yeah, right, The ringtail lemurs is the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
They're part of the same family, the raccoon. All right, three,
Did you know that we only had raccoons in the US.
They didn't exist in Europe until we began shipping them
to Germany back in the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I wonder why we were shipping them though, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
They were using them to populate fur farms. Oh ood,
they were taking them to fur farms to harvest them
for their pelts. So raccoons then began living in the
European wild after an accidental bombing allowed a lot of
them to escape.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's good, and I've never heard of any of this
about raccoon.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Raccoons racons, you know, they've got their black eye masks,
but they're not meant to be scary. They basically serve
the same purpose as the eye black that you see
on athletes. See the dark fur helps them absorb light
and reduces glare, making it easier for them to see.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So it's a real thing. They're not just mask bandits number.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And we also know that raccoons will wash their food
or wash their hands before they eat, and that's basically
what they do. Their hand sensitivity, which is so important
to them, they use it as a tactile. The right
hands are actually better at sensing things than their noses,
but their hand sensitivity increases when it's wet, So if
it ever looks like they're washing their hands it's actually
because they're getting ready to eat or hold an object.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I love it. I love they are extremely clean. I
mean they're going to take anything they can and take
it down to the creek or the river whatever, wash
it before they eat it. I mean, I love raccoon.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Aren't they fun?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
This was a great five Now.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You know a lot about raccoons today.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
This is a good five Thursday.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You know how to play guitar Shane really well, so
this should make it easy for you if you're ever
trying to play the song High Voltage by a CDC.
The cord progression in the chorus is a c d C.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Look at you Go, girls, easy to remember, look at
you go. That's my sister, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
After a curling match, you know curling in the Olympics,
everyone thinks they can do it, but it's actually really hard.
The winners are supposed to take the losers out for
a round of drinks, even at the Olympics. That's part
of the culture and the history of it, and it's
been around for over five hundred years.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And that's that's what you do. Take them out for drinks.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You gotta take the losers out for a drink.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
We need to start that with bowling and pool and
darts and everything else to drink.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
While we do it. Thousand Island dressing is named after
the Thousand Islands region in the Saint Lawrence River that's
between the US and Canada. And it was created by
a fisherman's wife. So she came up with the idea
while he fished in the river, and she said, we
need something to eat with this fish. So she came
up a thousand miles why And.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I got to I wish I had that recipe. Now,
everybody I think has a Thousand Island you can, you know,
recipe in their mind that you can mix up at home.
Do you ever do it?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It isn't it like Mayo and Italian dressing or something?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Catch up? So I could three. I think it may
be Mayo, ketchup and must I don't know. I don't
wait to look into it. Yeah, I love it. I
love it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
A horse can have more than one horse power. Do
you know how much a horse power is? It's a
unit of measurement, basically to compare the output of steam
engines with the power of draft horses. So it's basically
how far a horse can lift five hundred and fifty
pounds by one foot per second. Oh god, so that's
one horsepower equals seven hundred and forty five point seven watts.
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But there are horses that are stronger than that. So
one horse, actually, the record could actually produce amounts up
to twenty four horsepower. Twenty four one horse could have
more than one horse power.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh, horse is a horse? Of course? Corse grow a horse,
all right? Up to number one? Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
What during the hot summer, your nails grow faster?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I wonder why that is.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's a weird fact about the human body because the
increased blood flow to our fingertips helps produce more growth.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
And oh, well that makes this, It makes sense. I'm
always learning Friday alright.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Samuel Morris, the guy who invented Morse code, really wanted
to be an artist, and he only got into electromagnetics
in his forties once he finally declared that his art
career was a flop.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It was a flop.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you for convnting more school came in handy.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Number four.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Do you know that the idea of detectives using a
magnifying glass came from Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Holmes, Yeah, he.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Used one in the book A Study in Scarlet. This
was back in eighteen eighty seven, and this was the
first time anyone ever described a detective using a magnifying
glass and the image stuck.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But that's where we got a study in Scarlet.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
College football. It's back and the first college football game
that ever happened involved a Canadians.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
The game was between McGill University from Montreal and harvode
in eighteen seventy four. You got to say it like that.
It was in eighteen seventy four and it ended in
a zero to zero tie. No, so not very exciting.
I don't think too. There has been one high school
dance at the White House, just one. I guess it
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helps if your dad's the president when you're in high school. Daddy,
can you throw our high school dance? It was the
Holton Arms Schools prom in nineteen seventy five when Gerald
Ford was president and his daughter was a senior at
the school. So they held the dance at the White House.
But she and her boyfriend apparently broke up right before
the dance. Secret Service get on him. You don't break
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the first daughter's heart.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And have you ever wondered which animals pass gas? Because
some do and some don't. Okay, here's the list of
ones that do. Hyenas, manatees, dogs, bobcats, and American cocker
just all pass gas just like, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I mean, wouldn't that propel them across the room, like
shoot them across the floor or in.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
This proportion I'm sure to their body size. But even
some fish like herring, pass gas, but they use it
more to communicate. But that's besides the point. Here's the
ones that do not to communicate. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, there's a whole story on it. We won't get
into it today, but we got to talk about herrings
and fooling the navy. But here's the animals that do
not pass gas. Birds, and neither do most amphibians, like
your frogs, they don't pass gas. Bats don't pass gas,
but that's possibly because they digest their food too quickly,
and neither do sloths. But here's the problem with sloths.
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They digest their well, they digest their food so slowly.
Their gut microbiome does produce methane. But look at this.
If sloths are gonna pass gas, it's absorbed and then
they breathe it out.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh no, no, they'll never get a good morning kiss
from a slot.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Are you serious? There's no way, Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'm sad.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
There you have it, all the facts.
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