November 7, 2024 • 9 mins
Find out how old the oldest whales are and some facts about pumpkins in this week's round up of all of Tess' 5 Random Facts from the Dr. Shane and Tess show on 92.5 WPAP!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Tess's 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 him Down.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Five Random Facts is brought to you every day on
ninety two to five WPAP by Jerry Pybus Electric, serving
Panama City and surrounding areas nights and weekends, Always available,
truly open twenty four to seven, prompt experienced trust Forthy
Electricians Jerry pibus Electric eight five oh seven eight four
two seven sixty six Monday. But it's hard to imagine now,
(00:29):
but just forty years ago in nineteen eighty four, the
US had its second largest landslide in a presidential election.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh here we go election landslide.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Ronald Reagan was re elected for a second term with
five hundred and twenty five electoral votes, carrying every single
state except Minnesota and Washington DC. Minnesota was the home
state of his opponent, Walter Mondale, so this is the
last time any candidate won the popular vote by double digits.
Reagan had fifty eight point eight percent of the vote,
while Mondale had forty per point six percent.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The Gipper.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
There are eleven teams. Let's talk football in the NCAA's
Ohio Valley Conference. But none of them are from Ohio.
They're from Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. There
you go, right, Janet Lee, she's the woman in that
famous shower scene in Psychome that but she never took
another shower after that. It traumatized her. She only took
(01:25):
baths for the rest of her life. Blame her, No,
not at all. Astronauts in space can't do laundry. How
you're gonna wash your clothes?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So what they do?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The dirty clothes from the International Space Station get sent
out into space to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh maybe AT started doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I I wish I did three loads of laundry yesterday
Ottawa Space. And speaking of space at, NASA has offices
in a lab in a building in New York City.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
In a lab in New York City, they.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Have offices there. And guess where it is. It's right
above Tom's restaurant, which you would recognize as the diner
from Seinfeld. Really, NASA's got offices in the lab right
above there.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Now, girl, now mine is blown. I had no clue.
I had no clue.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Tuesday, So the scrolling text at the beginning of the
early Star Wars movies, you know, the original ones from
the eighties. It was done by printing out the entire
thing and having a camera just slowly roll over it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh so that's how they own that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
That technology, right. The mascots on kids cereal boxes like
Tony the Tiger, you think about them, They're drawn so
that their eyes are looking slightly downward. And that's a
trick to make sure that if the boxes are up
high on a shelf at the grocery store, the mascot
is making eye contact with the kids.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh absolutely, because if that youngun screams, Mama, Mama, I
gotta have that I got all that one, that one,
Mama's going to get that one. Oh yeah, two can sam.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Fruity pebbles all the way. The word tragedy comes from
the Greek word word tragoda, which literally translates to goat song,
goat song. Tragedy translates to goat song, and no one's
quite sure why, but the best theory is that it
refers to actors that would dress like goats and mythical
creatures during place. The original reels of Gone with the
(03:18):
Wind and the Wizard of Oz and a lot of
other classic movies and TV shows. They're actually stored in
an underground salt mine in Kansas.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That makes sense to me, makes sense to me. You
put them in covernment salt with the elements can't get
you know, erode it in decay it Kansas though, Like
why Kansas? Well, who's going to go to Kansas? That's
what I'm saying. I mean, that'll keep them safe. Absolutely,
there you go, not in Kansas City. Morning Up the
number one. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
There are a lot of states that do not allow billboards.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine. There are four states
in the United States that do not allow billboards.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm just not a fan of billboards. I can't. I
can't think of one time that I bought something because
I saw it on a billboard. I cannot.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But I grew up watching and they would do like
radio DJs on billboards to advertise the morning show, and
I always wanted to be on a billboard.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's kind of why I got into radio. You've never
been on a billboard, never been on a billboard. You
need to call Perry and Young Perry. You need to
call Christians. They're so big. They do the biggest ones
in town. And just ask them if you can stand
beside them on a billboard. Just if I just stand
beside you know, Chris Young, Larry Perry, I'd be that tall.
I can't be talling going next to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Them on a billboard. No.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Wednesday, The most checked out book of the New York
Public Library since it opened back in eighteen ninety five
is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Have you read that one? I have not either. I
don't know why that's so popular. I've never even known
either Snowy Day.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, Anderson Cooper doesn't have any formal journalism training. His Yeah,
he got his degree in political science from Yale and
did his summer internships at the CIA.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Did you study mass media journalism, Communication studies, that's it
medic at Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yes, That's where I got my undergrad and comm studies.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Three.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The opposite side of the world from where you are
is called the antipode.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I would just call that where you are, that's the opposite.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Side of the world. So for most of the continental US,
it's somewhere in the Indian Ocean, between Southern Africa and Australia. Okay,
so there are whales alive today that have been alive
since before Moby Dick was written, and that was back
in eighteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah? They're bowhead whales off the coast of Alaska, and
they're over two hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They swim real slow, retired, and they so tired. And
a little election knowledge for you.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The number of electoral votes is not just randomly five
hundred and thirty eight. It's based on the four hundred
and thirty five representatives and one hundred senators from the
fifty states plus three electors from Washington, d C. They
were added with the twenty third Amendment in nineteen sixty four.
So that's why three is the minimum number of electoral votes.
The sixth least populous states get Alaska, Delaware, both Dakotas,
(05:57):
from and Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's interesting to make Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The person who is considered the inventor of the saxophone,
his name was Sax, Adolph Sax, And did you go ahead?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I took a guess. I don't know what it was good.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I took a guest and they actually belonged to the
woodwind family of instruments, even though they're made of brass.
It's because they use a single reed of wood to
produce the sound, kind of like a clarinet.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hang on, let me wet my reed.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Only one person has been a US Senator after being President,
Andrew Johnson. Andrew Jones elected a Senator by Tennessee six
years after his term ended. You wouldn't then, yet, where
do we get the name a white elephant gift? It
actually goes back to an old practice by kings in Asia,
where if they were upset with a subject, they would
(06:47):
give them a rare albino elephant, a white elephant, which
they were very expensive and difficult to maintain. Archaeologists have
found that Civil War soldiers used to dye their hair
to make themselves look better in photos back in the
Civil War.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Really, it's all about that look, baby. Forget about thee
about the black powder and the bullets, the ramrods. We
need to fix that hair.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you may know this one gatorade created in nineteen
sixty five at the University of Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's why we call it gatorade.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But they were looking for a formula to rehydrate the
athletes there, and it's considered the earliest mixture of water, sodium, sugar,
potassium phosphate, and real lemon juice back in the.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Day lemon jee a Tennessee Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The name dorito is a contraction of the Spanish words doredito,
which roughly means little fried and golden thing or little.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Bits of gold, little bits of gold.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And I think I can agree with that. Every time
I've eaten a dorita, I'm like little bit of gold.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Of a mouth, little fried, golden thing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
If you want to become a citizen of Bulgaria, all
you have to do is in at least five hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in the country and park it
there for five years and.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They'll make you a citizen. So you buy your way
into that country.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You don't even have to live there, invest some money there.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Just to slip under the fence to get in here. Huh.
But anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Three, there is a German word specifically for the weight
that you gain from overeating when you're depressed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It's called comer speck, and it literally translates to grief bacon,
grief bacon, commerspect. The astronomer who came up with the
Big Bang theory was also a Catholic priest. His name
was Monsignor Jorges Limitaire. His name was what Monsignor Jeges
(08:45):
pretty good? I'm not going to say his last name again.
And did you know that they were playing college football
at the same time as the gold rush in Alaska?
The Alaskan Gold Rush, the head football coach actually at
the University of Michigan from eighteen ninety seven to eight
eighteen ninety nine quit coaching Michigan football to prospect for
gold in Alaska, and he was actually successful. He struck
(09:06):
it rich in nineteen oh eight, way up nor His
name was Gustave Fairbert, Fairbirt or Fairburg. I'm not sure
is the tea silent.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We're sounding it down today? Ferbert like the chef on
the Muppets who It's basically all.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
We're doing here.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'll own it. There, You have it, all the facts.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Tune in with Doctor Shandon Tests weekdays four five random Facts,
the iHeart Country, minute news.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You need, and a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Morning's on ninety two five WPAP
This is Tess's 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 him Down.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Five Random Facts is brought to you every day on
ninety two to five WPAP by Jerry Pybus Electric, serving
Panama City and surrounding areas nights and weekends, Always available,
truly open twenty four to seven, prompt experienced trust Forthy
Electricians Jerry pibus Electric eight five oh seven eight four
two seven sixty six Monday. But it's hard to imagine now,
(00:29):
but just forty years ago in nineteen eighty four, the
US had its second largest landslide in a presidential election.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh here we go election landslide.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Ronald Reagan was re elected for a second term with
five hundred and twenty five electoral votes, carrying every single
state except Minnesota and Washington DC. Minnesota was the home
state of his opponent, Walter Mondale, so this is the
last time any candidate won the popular vote by double digits.
Reagan had fifty eight point eight percent of the vote,
while Mondale had forty per point six percent.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The Gipper.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
There are eleven teams. Let's talk football in the NCAA's
Ohio Valley Conference. But none of them are from Ohio.
They're from Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. There
you go, right, Janet Lee, she's the woman in that
famous shower scene in Psychome that but she never took
another shower after that. It traumatized her. She only took
(01:25):
baths for the rest of her life. Blame her, No,
not at all. Astronauts in space can't do laundry. How
you're gonna wash your clothes?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So what they do?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The dirty clothes from the International Space Station get sent
out into space to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh maybe AT started doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I I wish I did three loads of laundry yesterday
Ottawa Space. And speaking of space at, NASA has offices
in a lab in a building in New York City.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
In a lab in New York City, they.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Have offices there. And guess where it is. It's right
above Tom's restaurant, which you would recognize as the diner
from Seinfeld. Really, NASA's got offices in the lab right
above there.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Now, girl, now mine is blown. I had no clue.
I had no clue.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Tuesday, So the scrolling text at the beginning of the
early Star Wars movies, you know, the original ones from
the eighties. It was done by printing out the entire
thing and having a camera just slowly roll over it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh so that's how they own that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
That technology, right. The mascots on kids cereal boxes like
Tony the Tiger, you think about them, They're drawn so
that their eyes are looking slightly downward. And that's a
trick to make sure that if the boxes are up
high on a shelf at the grocery store, the mascot
is making eye contact with the kids.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh absolutely, because if that youngun screams, Mama, Mama, I
gotta have that I got all that one, that one,
Mama's going to get that one. Oh yeah, two can sam.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Fruity pebbles all the way. The word tragedy comes from
the Greek word word tragoda, which literally translates to goat song,
goat song. Tragedy translates to goat song, and no one's
quite sure why, but the best theory is that it
refers to actors that would dress like goats and mythical
creatures during place. The original reels of Gone with the
(03:18):
Wind and the Wizard of Oz and a lot of
other classic movies and TV shows. They're actually stored in
an underground salt mine in Kansas.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That makes sense to me, makes sense to me. You
put them in covernment salt with the elements can't get
you know, erode it in decay it Kansas though, Like
why Kansas? Well, who's going to go to Kansas? That's
what I'm saying. I mean, that'll keep them safe. Absolutely,
there you go, not in Kansas City. Morning Up the
number one. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
There are a lot of states that do not allow billboards.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine. There are four states
in the United States that do not allow billboards.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm just not a fan of billboards. I can't. I
can't think of one time that I bought something because
I saw it on a billboard. I cannot.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But I grew up watching and they would do like
radio DJs on billboards to advertise the morning show, and
I always wanted to be on a billboard.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's kind of why I got into radio. You've never
been on a billboard, never been on a billboard. You
need to call Perry and Young Perry. You need to
call Christians. They're so big. They do the biggest ones
in town. And just ask them if you can stand
beside them on a billboard. Just if I just stand
beside you know, Chris Young, Larry Perry, I'd be that tall.
I can't be talling going next to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Them on a billboard. No.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Wednesday, The most checked out book of the New York
Public Library since it opened back in eighteen ninety five
is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Have you read that one? I have not either. I
don't know why that's so popular. I've never even known
either Snowy Day.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, Anderson Cooper doesn't have any formal journalism training. His Yeah,
he got his degree in political science from Yale and
did his summer internships at the CIA.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Did you study mass media journalism, Communication studies, that's it
medic at Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yes, That's where I got my undergrad and comm studies.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Three.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The opposite side of the world from where you are
is called the antipode.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I would just call that where you are, that's the opposite.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Side of the world. So for most of the continental US,
it's somewhere in the Indian Ocean, between Southern Africa and Australia. Okay,
so there are whales alive today that have been alive
since before Moby Dick was written, and that was back
in eighteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah? They're bowhead whales off the coast of Alaska, and
they're over two hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They swim real slow, retired, and they so tired. And
a little election knowledge for you.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The number of electoral votes is not just randomly five
hundred and thirty eight. It's based on the four hundred
and thirty five representatives and one hundred senators from the
fifty states plus three electors from Washington, d C. They
were added with the twenty third Amendment in nineteen sixty four.
So that's why three is the minimum number of electoral votes.
The sixth least populous states get Alaska, Delaware, both Dakotas,
(05:57):
from and Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's interesting to make Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The person who is considered the inventor of the saxophone,
his name was Sax, Adolph Sax, And did you go ahead?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I took a guess. I don't know what it was good.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I took a guest and they actually belonged to the
woodwind family of instruments, even though they're made of brass.
It's because they use a single reed of wood to
produce the sound, kind of like a clarinet.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hang on, let me wet my reed.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Only one person has been a US Senator after being President,
Andrew Johnson. Andrew Jones elected a Senator by Tennessee six
years after his term ended. You wouldn't then, yet, where
do we get the name a white elephant gift? It
actually goes back to an old practice by kings in Asia,
where if they were upset with a subject, they would
(06:47):
give them a rare albino elephant, a white elephant, which
they were very expensive and difficult to maintain. Archaeologists have
found that Civil War soldiers used to dye their hair
to make themselves look better in photos back in the
Civil War.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Really, it's all about that look, baby. Forget about thee
about the black powder and the bullets, the ramrods. We
need to fix that hair.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you may know this one gatorade created in nineteen
sixty five at the University of Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's why we call it gatorade.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But they were looking for a formula to rehydrate the
athletes there, and it's considered the earliest mixture of water, sodium, sugar,
potassium phosphate, and real lemon juice back in the.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Day lemon jee a Tennessee Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The name dorito is a contraction of the Spanish words doredito,
which roughly means little fried and golden thing or little.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Bits of gold, little bits of gold.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And I think I can agree with that. Every time
I've eaten a dorita, I'm like little bit of gold.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Of a mouth, little fried, golden thing.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
If you want to become a citizen of Bulgaria, all
you have to do is in at least five hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in the country and park it
there for five years and.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They'll make you a citizen. So you buy your way
into that country.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You don't even have to live there, invest some money there.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Just to slip under the fence to get in here. Huh.
But anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Three, there is a German word specifically for the weight
that you gain from overeating when you're depressed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It's called comer speck, and it literally translates to grief bacon,
grief bacon, commerspect. The astronomer who came up with the
Big Bang theory was also a Catholic priest. His name
was Monsignor Jorges Limitaire. His name was what Monsignor Jeges
(08:45):
pretty good? I'm not going to say his last name again.
And did you know that they were playing college football
at the same time as the gold rush in Alaska?
The Alaskan Gold Rush, the head football coach actually at
the University of Michigan from eighteen ninety seven to eight
eighteen ninety nine quit coaching Michigan football to prospect for
gold in Alaska, and he was actually successful. He struck
(09:06):
it rich in nineteen oh eight, way up nor His
name was Gustave Fairbert, Fairbirt or Fairburg. I'm not sure
is the tea silent.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We're sounding it down today? Ferbert like the chef on
the Muppets who It's basically all.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
We're doing here.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'll own it. There, You have it, all the facts.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Tune in with Doctor Shandon Tests weekdays four five random Facts,
the iHeart Country, minute news.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
You need, and a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Morning's on ninety two five WPAP
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