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October 14, 2024 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Tess's five Random Facts podcast with all of
the facts from the Doctor Shane and Test Show this week.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let's count them down.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
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four two seven six six Monday Number five. Did you

(00:28):
know we call letters uppercase and lower case for a reason.
That's because when type setters at printing presses, that's where
they would keep the letters. You see, the smaller letters
were kept in a lower case that was easier to
access because you use them more often, and the upper
case letters were kept in the upper case. The reason
why baseball and basketball teams where dark jerseys for road

(00:50):
games is because the away teams originally wouldn't have access
to washing machines, so they would need darker jerseys to
conceal the dirt.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, that's lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Number three.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
The Oval Office has pressure sensors in the floor. That way,
the Secret Service can monitor exactly where the president is
in the room. Even when they're not allowed inside, they
always know where he is. N two. NBC originally divided
its programming into two networks. They had a Red one
devoted to big budget shows, and then a Blue one

(01:22):
that sold cheaper airtime to advertisers. After an anti trust suit,
the FCC ordered its owner RCA to divest into a
single network, so the Blue network spun off and later
became ABC And finally on the rubber Ducky song from Ernie,
performed by Jim Henson on Sesame Street, peaked at number
sixteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred charts in the

(01:45):
year nineteen seventy.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Rouber Ducky, You're so fine and I'm lucky that Tuermine
prober Ducky, I'm awfully fond of you Tuesday number five.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
There are two football players two that have worn a
triple digit number, but only two come. A kicker at
the University of Kansas. His name's Bill Bell, wore the
number one hundred. This was back in nineteen sixty nine
to honor the one hundredth anniversary of college football, and
then another kicker. They were both kickers at West Virginia
University named Chuck kinder war the number one hundred in

(02:20):
nineteen sixty three for the state's centennial.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
They did it for a reason, that's wild, pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Contrary to popular beliefs, sitting up straight all the way straight,
shoulders back just out.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
It's bad for the back. It puts pressure on the spine.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, the position with the least amount of pressure they
found would be leaning one hundred and thirty five degrees backwards.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh really backward.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
But that puts me away from my microphaves. So I
gotta sit up straight. I gotta sit forward.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Here, I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Number three onions are toxic to dogs, super toxic.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Are you serious?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
If they ingested, there's a compound in them that causes anemia,
basically attacks their red blood cells, so it has an
eighty percent fatality rate in dogs. If you he's asking
for an onion ring, don't give it to him.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Are you serious? That's new on me. I didn't know what.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
In NASA's Vehicle Assembly building where they build the rocket ships,
where they build these things, it's so big that it
needs about ten thousand tons of air conditioning equipment, and
they use that to prevent rain clouds. From forming inside
the building on humid days.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Can you imagine a building that big that rain can.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
It creates its own rain clouds from the humidity.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow Wednesday five.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
There was a man in Germany named Matthias Bootschinger. I
probably said that wrong, but it's German. And he was
born in sixteen seventy four, and he was one of
the most famous men in Germany and Nuremberg at the time.
But he was only two feet tall two feet tall
five inches. He was born without hands or feet. But

(03:57):
he was really famous. He was a magician, a musician
of carver, and he had many other vocations, and it
was pretty cool he was. He did these teeny tiny
illustrations made out of texts, so the picture itself will
be made out of this tiny, tiny text, and so
there were words that made up the picture. But here's
something else notable about this man. He had fourteen children

(04:17):
by eight wives and up to seventy mistresses.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Round, round, get it around, He gets the round.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
He gets it around.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
An average tree is made up of ninety nine percent
dead cells, and only one percent of the tree is
alive at any time, consisting of the leaves, root tips,
and the flow in, which is the thin layer under
the bark that acts as their food delivery system.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Trees are cool.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
My granddad taught me how to count the rings to
know how old the tree was.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
If you ever need to go into the US Federal
Witness Protection Program, oh yeah, scary situation if you have
to do that, but you're probably going to be pretty safe.
More than nineteen thousand people have been relocated with the
Federal Witness Protection Program and not a angle one of
them has been tracked down by the criminals that they
were hiding from.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well that's the point, right, that's you webert too.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Your ear drums can rupture at one hundred and fifty decibels,
which is slightly louder than a jet engine going off
right next to you, and your lungs would rupture at
two hundred decibels. But luckily, it's impossible for a sound
to be louder than one hundred and ninety four decibels
because the air can break down the sound right waves,
so you don't have to worry about your lungs rupturing
from a loud sound. Number one, have you ever heard

(05:27):
of the phrase seven year itch? Oh yeah, it's a
metaphor for a situation with no hope or relief, including
like a boring marriage or a bad date. Was speaking
of a bad date. It was actually used to describe scabies. Scabies, Yeah,
back before they could treat scabies, they lasted for seven years,
so you would be itchy for seven years if you

(05:47):
ever had scabies back then, a seven year itch No
thanks Thursday. You know, a slot's long nails aren't actually nails.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
What are they?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
That protrude from the skin and then they're wrapped in
a layer of keratin. But yeah, those are those are bones.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
They are still cool to me when I come back
and I want to come back as a slough.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
You're not already I knew.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
See that's just not right.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know when you go to open a loaf of
bread and it's got that kind of U shaped plastic
clip that holds the bag together.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
I hate that little clip.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, they are produced by one family owned company in Yakima, Washington.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
The clip is made by a family.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yep, it's a quick Lock Corporation and they have almost
a complete monopoly. They are the only ones that make
those little plastic flips.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yes, that's crazy, I know that's crazy. A family that
has bread clips, and they.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Have monopoly on it. Nobody else makes them.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
They make them all smart.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Let's talk about a big puppy dog, the heaviest dog ever,
a Saint Bernard. A Saint Bernard named Benedictine, weighed three
hundred and fifty seven pounds. The Domino in that Domino's
Pizza loone. You know how it's got three dots. Well,
those three dots signify the company's three locations. When they
started in nineteen sixty nine, they had planned to add

(07:09):
a dot for every new store, but they expanded way
too fast to keep up. Because they have more than
twenty thousand locations now worldwide.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
That makes sense, all right, umber One.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
They say lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice,
but not when it comes to Martha Stewart.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
She's been struck by lightning three times.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't wait to laugh up.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Sorry the series struck by lightning three times. I know.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
She got off the ground all three times and made
a cast role.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
No wonder she's friends with Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Baby not louds Friday.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
The Statue of Liberty used to be a functioning lighthouse.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I realized it was a real lighthouse.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
From eighteen eighty six to nineteen oh one. It could
be seen by ships twenty four miles away, but they
eventually closed.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
It down because it was just too expensive operational.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Costs all that light up baby.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
The Harlem Globe Trotters were found it in Chicago, and
their offices are now in Georgia. In fact, they've never
been based anywhere in New York, let alone Harlem itself.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I know, I know, but I got to tell you.
As a kid, I love to watch it. I love
to watch it this day.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's so much fun. It is three.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
The phrase you're familiar with it 'tis better to have
loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
It comes from a Lord Tennyson poem from eighteen forty
nine called in Memoriam. Ahh, you see, it's not about
romantic love.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
It was morning of friend's death. That's what the poem
is about.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh, I didn't realize that.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
The first self made female millionaire in the United States.
I'm not talking about heiresses that you know inherited money.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
She was black.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Her name was Matt Copra.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
No, much much earlier than Oprah, even though Oprah's been
around a long time.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Her name was Madam C. J. Walker.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
She died in nineteen ninety nineteen nineteen, shortly after becoming
a millionaire. She was selling beauty and hair products specifically
designed for black women.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
There you go, There you go, ver one.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
And the guy who invented washing your hands with soap
was called scientifically unsound and he was confined to an
insane asylum where he passed.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Away because he washed.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Because he believed in these little things on your hands
called germs, and that washing your hands would keep you
from getting it yourself and other people sick.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
It's for real, wash your hands, y'all. I know, I know,
but it's the same time. I'm telling you, he's hung
up on the same theory as you raise your kids.
You believe in letting your kids play in the dirt.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
God made dirts.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Dirt don't hurt, so dirt don't hurt, and of course
it strengthened, strengthens their immune system.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
My dad said, if you don't eat pound of dirt
by the time I think you're five years old, you
won't grow right or something like that.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
You dirt eating girl, I love it. That's my sisters.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
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