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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Tests 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):
Five Random Facts is brought to you every day on
ninety two five WPAP by Jerry Pybus Electric, serving Panama
City and surrounding areas nights and weekends, Always.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Available, truly open twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Prompt experienced, trustworthy electricians Jerry Pibus Electric eight five oh
seven eight four to seven sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Six, Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Five. A baker's dozen is thirteen and not twelve like
a regular dozen, and this is because bakers sometimes were
accused of making their loaves too small, therefore cheating people
out of bread when they would sell a dozen loaves,
and this could result in a fine or a flogging
in England at the time, so they added an extra
loaf for their own safety, and that's how the baker's.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Dozen was born.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Four.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Have you ever noticed how you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Get a lump in your throat when you're crying or nervous, Well,
that's because it's the enlarging of the glaws, which is
used to help provide you with more oxygen in when
you're distressed. In times, like I said, when you're crying
or nervous Umber three. The word barbecue has been around
for over three hundred and seventy years. It's held the
meaning outdoor meat or roasted meter fish as a social
(01:17):
entertainment since seventeen seventy three. If you ever make it
to the top of Mount Everest, you can send a tweet.
You know, they have three G coverage up there. Tony
is that? And here's a little Panama City history for you. One.
You know the mosquito fossil that is encased in that
amber resin in the movie Jurassic Park and the cane
(01:39):
that David Attenborough carried, and that's where they got all
the dino DNA from. Well, that mosquito actually came from
right here in Panama City. The film crew got it
for a fifty dollars donation to the Panama City Public
Health and Entomology Research Center, So that famous mosquito actually
came from right here in Panama City, Florida. In that
famous movie Jurassic Park.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Tuesday number five.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know those gondolier rides that you can take down
the Canals of Venice. Being one of those gondolier guides,
the person that guides the boat is one of the
most sought off after jobs in Venice. In order to
be one, you have to be born in Venice, go
through over four hundred hours of training, and be lucky
enough to get one of only four hundred and twenty
(02:22):
five licenses in the city. You basically have to wait
for someone to retire or goodness or pass away in
order to apply for the license, and then, of course
there's a whole bunch of people that want them as.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Nasha coveted position Really.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Number four, there's a snake called the sonor and coral snake,
and when it's threatened, it will toot.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Oh really, yes, it will toot. A snake that will
too What don't we just look for dust?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Or what I do? You just gotta watch out for.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Its horn, my goodness. Number three.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The farthest point on the planet that you can be
from civilization in any direction is this little blip in
the Pacific Ocean called.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Point Nemo Point Nemo.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
If you're stranded at Point Nemo, you would be thousands
of miles away from help be very unlikely you'd be
seen or rescued. Cargo ships don't go near it. And
to put that distance into perspective, The closest people to
you would be the crew on the ISS.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh we got to do Look, you gotta make a
movie about that. That's right. Number two, that's great.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You know right now they are currently growing lettuce on
the ISS.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah. Yeah, not going to smoke it, are they?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And if they get stuck up there long enough they might.
I mean they've been up there for a while.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So about those people up there, anybody seeing Willie? We're
just wondering.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Number one Bruce Wayne the Batmobile, the car, the type
of car he drives. I'm gonna say this wrong, probably,
but it's a Lamborghini merci Alago and in the dark night.
The murci Alago is Spanish.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
For bat Wednesday, number five.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Nineteen out of the twenty most common surnames in Mexico
and in either an S or a.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Z an s or a zaying I'm saying it in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The only outlier is Garcia, which is the second most
popular last name. But that is the only one that
out of the most popular twenty domes and I got it.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Number four.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Cheerios or cheery oats.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Cheerio's well, they were cheery oats when they first debuted
in nineteen forty one, but they did change it four
years later nineteen forty five, to cheerios.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But they used to be cheeriots.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Let's just change it to what everybody's calling it, cheerios.
So that's what we said. Number three.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, if you're in the Vatican City and you need
to get some cash out of the ATM, I hope.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You know Latin.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh really, yeah, it's the only country in the world
where the ATMs offer services in Latin.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
My goodness, and.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I took Latin in high school. I think I had
to cheat to get a C. I mean I did
not cheat.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's bad.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yes you did. Number two, Yes you did.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Neil de Grasse Tyson is one of the most famous
astrophysicist in the world, and it turns out he's also
a fantastic dancer.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh really.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He won a gold medal at a dance meet in
nineteen eighty five doing Latin ballroom.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
He danced for the University of Texas dance team.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
There you go. Hey, there's step and Jamm who has
been on She's wanted to learn to dance like ball
road dancing for weeks now.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He is.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I know if you've got the rhythm.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You got the budget and the rhythm. All right, We're
up to the top of the list.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Here. The most common name for counties in the United
States is Washington County. We have thirty one Washington Counties,
including right here in northwest Florida. And Jefferson County is
the second. There are twenty six Jefferson Counties here in
the US.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
There you go, and we got them both.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Right here, right here.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Thursday. Number five.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The dog that play Toto in The Wizard of Oz
was actually a female. It was a Cairen terrier named
Terry and she made twenty three total movie appearances.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I thought you were going to say twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Thousand, including three that were playing in theaters at the
same time that The Wizard of Oz was out, The
Women and Bad Little Angel as well.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I thought Toto was a part of the Jackson five too,
That that was.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think that was to o.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Number four.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The US Constitution is four four hundred words, which makes
it the shortest constitution of any major country in the world.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It's always nice to have a short constitution. Number three.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The three most valuable film industries in the world are
the United States Hollywood, Yeah, and then you have India
and they call it Bollywood and yeah, and then Nigeria
has a bustling film industry and they call that, seriously, Nollywood, Nollywood.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh, come on. Number two.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The first script for e T was a horror movie.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I can see that happen.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, But Steven Spielberg got a hold of it to
direct it, and he decided that he liked it better
as a family movie. So the horror script for ET
got rewritten and it became Poltergeist.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh no, that was Poultergeys No.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Bees have little tiny hairs on their eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Now, I wonder why a bee would have hairs on
their eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, if they're useful, it helps them determine speed and
wind direction.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Shut up, are you, Sarah?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Eyeball hairs?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Eyeball hairs?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I wonder how they use nascara though, I mean, that's
gotta be tough.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That is, well, be careful bees putting on your makeup
this morning?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Here watch how you fly Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
The most common street name in the United States is
Main second Street.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Second.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The theory is that a town will name its first
street either First Street or Main Street, but they're pretty
much always go with second Street after that, and if
you're in the cove, they have second Street, second Court,
second Ave. I mean, it's it's real fun to drive
around the cove sometimes if you just know your way around.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Spend a week in the cove one night.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, bear with me.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
We all currently have hemorrhoids, like everybody's got him. Really,
they're just not currently in flame, so you don't know
about it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It's like having that first cousin. He's not currently mad
at you, right no, not right now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But number three, did you know at that?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
In the United Kingdom, speed limits don't apply to cyclists.
You can go as fast as you want.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But you could get ticket. You might get charged for
cycling furiously. Oh he's cycling way too furiously. You must
calm down watching.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I think he's in flame.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Male gators Okay, gators are just scary.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But they can create a bellow, like a noise that
is so strong but quiet that humans can't hear it,
but the water around them will rumble.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
No, no, I'm not I can't do gatings.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Number one and Freddy Mercury wrote Crazy little Thing called
Love in ten minutes. I was getting it right there,
and he wrote it as a tribute to Elvis. If
you ever listened to it, it sounds like an Elvis thing.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
This thing called the.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I like that for Bano.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You got ready a little thing called loose right.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
There yet, sir, there you have it all the facts.
Tune in with Doctor Shandon Tests weekdays four five Random Facts,
the iHeart Country, minute news.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
You need, and a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Mornings on ninety two five w p AP
This is Tests 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):
Five Random Facts is brought to you every day on
ninety two five WPAP by Jerry Pybus Electric, serving Panama
City and surrounding areas nights and weekends, Always.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Available, truly open twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Prompt experienced, trustworthy electricians Jerry Pibus Electric eight five oh
seven eight four to seven sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Six, Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Five. A baker's dozen is thirteen and not twelve like
a regular dozen, and this is because bakers sometimes were
accused of making their loaves too small, therefore cheating people
out of bread when they would sell a dozen loaves,
and this could result in a fine or a flogging
in England at the time, so they added an extra
loaf for their own safety, and that's how the baker's.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Dozen was born.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Four.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Have you ever noticed how you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Get a lump in your throat when you're crying or nervous, Well,
that's because it's the enlarging of the glaws, which is
used to help provide you with more oxygen in when
you're distressed. In times, like I said, when you're crying
or nervous Umber three. The word barbecue has been around
for over three hundred and seventy years. It's held the
meaning outdoor meat or roasted meter fish as a social
(01:17):
entertainment since seventeen seventy three. If you ever make it
to the top of Mount Everest, you can send a tweet.
You know, they have three G coverage up there. Tony
is that? And here's a little Panama City history for you. One.
You know the mosquito fossil that is encased in that
amber resin in the movie Jurassic Park and the cane
(01:39):
that David Attenborough carried, and that's where they got all
the dino DNA from. Well, that mosquito actually came from
right here in Panama City. The film crew got it
for a fifty dollars donation to the Panama City Public
Health and Entomology Research Center, So that famous mosquito actually
came from right here in Panama City, Florida. In that
famous movie Jurassic Park.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Tuesday number five.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know those gondolier rides that you can take down
the Canals of Venice. Being one of those gondolier guides,
the person that guides the boat is one of the
most sought off after jobs in Venice. In order to
be one, you have to be born in Venice, go
through over four hundred hours of training, and be lucky
enough to get one of only four hundred and twenty
(02:22):
five licenses in the city. You basically have to wait
for someone to retire or goodness or pass away in
order to apply for the license, and then, of course
there's a whole bunch of people that want them as.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Nasha coveted position Really.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Number four, there's a snake called the sonor and coral snake,
and when it's threatened, it will toot.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Oh really, yes, it will toot. A snake that will
too What don't we just look for dust?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Or what I do? You just gotta watch out for.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Its horn, my goodness. Number three.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The farthest point on the planet that you can be
from civilization in any direction is this little blip in
the Pacific Ocean called.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Point Nemo Point Nemo.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
If you're stranded at Point Nemo, you would be thousands
of miles away from help be very unlikely you'd be
seen or rescued. Cargo ships don't go near it. And
to put that distance into perspective, The closest people to
you would be the crew on the ISS.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh we got to do Look, you gotta make a
movie about that. That's right. Number two, that's great.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You know right now they are currently growing lettuce on
the ISS.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah. Yeah, not going to smoke it, are they?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And if they get stuck up there long enough they might.
I mean they've been up there for a while.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So about those people up there, anybody seeing Willie? We're
just wondering.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Number one Bruce Wayne the Batmobile, the car, the type
of car he drives. I'm gonna say this wrong, probably,
but it's a Lamborghini merci Alago and in the dark night.
The murci Alago is Spanish.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
For bat Wednesday, number five.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Nineteen out of the twenty most common surnames in Mexico
and in either an S or a.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Z an s or a zaying I'm saying it in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The only outlier is Garcia, which is the second most
popular last name. But that is the only one that
out of the most popular twenty domes and I got it.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Number four.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Cheerios or cheery oats.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Cheerio's well, they were cheery oats when they first debuted
in nineteen forty one, but they did change it four
years later nineteen forty five, to cheerios.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But they used to be cheeriots.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Let's just change it to what everybody's calling it, cheerios.
So that's what we said. Number three.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, if you're in the Vatican City and you need
to get some cash out of the ATM, I hope.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You know Latin.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh really, yeah, it's the only country in the world
where the ATMs offer services in Latin.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
My goodness, and.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I took Latin in high school. I think I had
to cheat to get a C. I mean I did
not cheat.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's bad.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yes you did. Number two, Yes you did.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Neil de Grasse Tyson is one of the most famous
astrophysicist in the world, and it turns out he's also
a fantastic dancer.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh really.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He won a gold medal at a dance meet in
nineteen eighty five doing Latin ballroom.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
He danced for the University of Texas dance team.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
There you go. Hey, there's step and Jamm who has
been on She's wanted to learn to dance like ball
road dancing for weeks now.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He is.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I know if you've got the rhythm.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You got the budget and the rhythm. All right, We're
up to the top of the list.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Here. The most common name for counties in the United
States is Washington County. We have thirty one Washington Counties,
including right here in northwest Florida. And Jefferson County is
the second. There are twenty six Jefferson Counties here in
the US.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
There you go, and we got them both.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Right here, right here.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Thursday. Number five.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The dog that play Toto in The Wizard of Oz
was actually a female. It was a Cairen terrier named
Terry and she made twenty three total movie appearances.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I thought you were going to say twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Thousand, including three that were playing in theaters at the
same time that The Wizard of Oz was out, The
Women and Bad Little Angel as well.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I thought Toto was a part of the Jackson five too,
That that was.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think that was to o.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Number four.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
The US Constitution is four four hundred words, which makes
it the shortest constitution of any major country in the world.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It's always nice to have a short constitution. Number three.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
The three most valuable film industries in the world are
the United States Hollywood, Yeah, and then you have India
and they call it Bollywood and yeah, and then Nigeria
has a bustling film industry and they call that, seriously, Nollywood, Nollywood.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh, come on. Number two.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The first script for e T was a horror movie.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I can see that happen.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, But Steven Spielberg got a hold of it to
direct it, and he decided that he liked it better
as a family movie. So the horror script for ET
got rewritten and it became Poltergeist.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh no, that was Poultergeys No.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Bees have little tiny hairs on their eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Now, I wonder why a bee would have hairs on
their eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, if they're useful, it helps them determine speed and
wind direction.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Shut up, are you, Sarah?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Eyeball hairs?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Eyeball hairs?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I wonder how they use nascara though, I mean, that's
gotta be tough.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
That is, well, be careful bees putting on your makeup
this morning?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Here watch how you fly Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
The most common street name in the United States is
Main second Street.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Second.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The theory is that a town will name its first
street either First Street or Main Street, but they're pretty
much always go with second Street after that, and if
you're in the cove, they have second Street, second Court,
second Ave. I mean, it's it's real fun to drive
around the cove sometimes if you just know your way around.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Spend a week in the cove one night.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, bear with me.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
We all currently have hemorrhoids, like everybody's got him. Really,
they're just not currently in flame, so you don't know
about it.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It's like having that first cousin. He's not currently mad
at you, right no, not right now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But number three, did you know at that?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
In the United Kingdom, speed limits don't apply to cyclists.
You can go as fast as you want.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But you could get ticket. You might get charged for
cycling furiously. Oh he's cycling way too furiously. You must
calm down watching.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I think he's in flame.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Male gators Okay, gators are just scary.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But they can create a bellow, like a noise that
is so strong but quiet that humans can't hear it,
but the water around them will rumble.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
No, no, I'm not I can't do gatings.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Number one and Freddy Mercury wrote Crazy little Thing called
Love in ten minutes. I was getting it right there,
and he wrote it as a tribute to Elvis. If
you ever listened to it, it sounds like an Elvis thing.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
This thing called the.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I like that for Bano.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You got ready a little thing called loose right.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
There yet, sir, there you have it all the facts.
Tune in with Doctor Shandon Tests weekdays four five Random Facts,
the iHeart Country, minute news.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
You need, and a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Mornings on ninety two five w p AP
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