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January 24, 2025 • 10 mins
That was his only documented contribution when he was a memeber of the UK Parliament. Hear that and more amazing random facts from this week's roundup of Tess' 5 Random Facts from the Dr. Shane and Tess Show on 92.5 WPAP
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Tess's five Random Backs 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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sixty six Monday Up. Light bulbs in the New York

(00:30):
City Subway and other train systems have left hand screws. Yep,
they're backwards. The backwards design is to prevent people from
stealing bulbs for use at home.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Huh. I thought that was pretty interesting.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Bull Eleanor Roosevelt refused to let a secret Service member
travel with her when she was the first lady.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
She just carried a pistol. That's my kind of lady.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Up. Three.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
The guy who invented cotton candy, Doctor Lister would know
all about this was a dentist from Tennessee. I guess
he was trying to drum up business, but he invented
cotton candy too. The best selling video games in history
is now Minecraft, with roughly three hundred million copies sold.
The only other game to sell more than one hundred

(01:15):
million was Grand Theft Auto five at two hundred and
five million and one. Until the nineteen forties, baby boys
were actually dressed in pink and baby girls were dressed
in blue. They had pink for boys back then because
it was considered a stronger color and blue was for
girls because it was considered more delicate and dainty. I

(01:35):
need to look up when they switched that around. But
back in the nineteen forties it was flip flopped.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Interesting Tuesday number five.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
We've mentioned this before last time we had a storm,
but it's worth bringing up again that before a hurricane,
the top two selling items at Walmart.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Are I don't know, pop tarts, oh really and beer?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Isn't it correct?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
And they know this so much from the data that
if they know a storm is coming to an area,
they will actually ship extra cases of pop tarts to
the Walmarts in the area ahead of a storm.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's wild. I didn't realize that.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
It crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It is crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, And we are talking about Richard Garfield. He's the
guy who created Are you familiar with the game Magic
the Gathering. Yes, he got a PhD in combination mathematics
in nineteen ninety three, which was the same year that
the card game came out. But he's also the great
great grandson of former US President James A.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Garfield.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh, and his grand.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Uncle Samuel Fay admitted the paper clip.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
The paper clip. Where would we be without the paper clip?
My goodness, ung.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
There is no official difference between the definition of a
hill and a mountain.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh sure, No.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
The USGS used to define a hill as being less
than a thousand feet, but they got rid of that
rule in the nineteen hundreds. So if it's you know,
higher than your knees, you could call it a mountain,
you could call it a hill, you know, whatever it is.
But there's no official definition definition.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
That's number two, I think, so all right, hit it.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
There is a light on top of the Capitol Records
Building in LA It's been blinking since nineteen fifty six,
and the light blinks and spells out Hollywood in Morse code.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh that's wild. I didn't know that. That is me.
I didn't realize that. Can I do number one? We
were not planning this, but can I do number one?

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Taking my number one.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
I have number one, and it's all yours, all right,
So you get your little Tesipedia fingers over there, because
I know you're going to google this, You're going to
look it up and make sure this is correct. All right,
I'm giving it to you. This is a big deal.
This is a big deal. I'm taking number one. How
many times have you heard growing up the phrase it's
cold it's hal?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
More times than I could count.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now do you know what that means?

Speaker 5 (03:45):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Huh, well I'm cold.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
If you say it's cold as hell, do you know
what that means?

Speaker 4 (03:50):
I mean, it's just really, really really cold.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
Well, if you're compared to hell h E l l,
which is hot, which is hot? So how can that
be cold? If you'll look it up. That's not the
Rex spelling. It is h ai l something is cold
as hell, which is frozen precipitation like you get in
a thunderstorm.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Hal.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
It's cold as hal, not Hall, where the devil is
in flames, but Hall is in frozen precipitation. Interesting, so
it's hal hal cold.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is hale h a I L Hell.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
I'm gonna look that up.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's true. Mind blown.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Give it to me this morning Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Five.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
The modern Oval Office, the setup we have right now
has been around since nineteen thirty four, and it was
designed specifically so that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who used
a wheelchair, could move easily between the Oval Office and
the residence. Makes it easier for him to get around,
and that's the same way we have it today.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Umber four.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
The word turquoise is based on the word Turkish, turquoise Turkish,
and that's because it described the color of the meta
terranean sea off of the coast of southern Turkey. Number
three Mort Walker. He's the guy who created the comic
strips if you're familiar with Beatle Bailey and High and Lotus.
He came up with the idea for using random symbols

(05:15):
like exclamation points and hashtags to represent swear words in cartoons.
The official term for those, by the way, is called
a grawlicks g R A W L i X. He's
the one who created him, and that's why we have
him around today.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Still Uber two.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Did you know that before twenty twenty three, just three
years ago, college basketball players were not allowed to have
a jersey number that included six, seven, eight, or nine.
They all had smaller numbers than that, and that's because
after a foul, the reps would signal the player's number
to the scorer's table with both hands, and small numbers
made it a whole lot easier to do that. But

(05:52):
that's changed, so we have big numbers in the Jersey
numbers now. And finally number one, the Humpty Dumpty nursery
rhyme that we're also famili you're with in all of
the children's picture books, he's an egg, but there is
no mention in that nursery rhyme of him being an
egg at all. That's just how he's evolved to look
in pop culture, and I guess that's the only thing
that could fall off a wall and break like he does.

(06:13):
And thankfully all the King's horses and all the kingsmen
put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Thursday, number five.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Greenland.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's been in the news a lot lately, but it
can be a challenging place to live for your internal clock.
You see, in Greenland the sun doesn't set for two months,
oh my god, it's from the end of May until
the end of July and then so it's light all
the time and then in the winter, the sun sets
in October and doesn't rise again until February, with only
the natural light coming from the moon and the Aurora borealis.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
The aurora, I.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Said, it just fine. You're the one over there stumbling.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's just a fun word to hear. Number four.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, Cleopatra lived closer to the debut of the
iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramid.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Really.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
The Pyramid was finished back in twenty five hundred and
forty BC, and Cleopatra was born about twenty four hundred
years later in sixty nine BC, So the iPhone debuts
in two thousand and seven. It was only two thousand
and seventy six years after her birth, so there was
a lot of time between Cleopatra and the Great Pyramids.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
They're real old.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Number three.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
The words highbrow and lowbrow come from phrenology.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
You're familiar with phrenology.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Oh, it's an old pseudo silence, pseudoscience that measured people's
intelligence by the shape of their head. So people with
higher brow lines were considered more intelligent.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh, high brow me, don't you howbrow me?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Number two, Just like there are earthquakes here on Earth.
There are moonquakes on the Moon, sun quakes on the Sun,
and Mars quakes on Mars.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
They get quakes too.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
They get quakes. Tooles. They're a little hard. Number one and.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
The super Bowl, it's coming up.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
But did you know that the very first Super Bowl
was carried by both CBS and NBC.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Now that would have been a whild on both stations
their TV contracts.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
But it only happened that first super Bowl. No other
super Bowl has been on more than one network ever since.
There you go Friday five Dalmatians.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Do you know why they're firehouse dogs?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
It started back in the eighteen hundreds because the fire
engines were pulled by horses, and Downmatians were the breed
of dog that got along with horses better than any
other breed.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I thought it had something to do with the black
spots or something. I had no clues.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
No, not just their temperament and how they got along
with livestock company.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
That's good stuff. I like that.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
The underwear on the outside look for superhero costumes. Yeah,
it came after the attire of the aerial circus performers
and wrestlers from the nineteen thirties. Oh, that's when we
first started getting superheroes and superhero.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Comics and things like that.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
So they took the superhero acrobatics from the circus performers
and the wrestlers and said, that's a good look for superheroes.
Let's make their costumes look like that and put their out.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Into were only outside, you know. And I never and
I never noticed it. I mean, I just called it shorts.
I didn't call it underwear until now.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Well, it basically looks like underwear. On topic brands.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
October Fest always a fun celebration in October. But it
started off as a wedding reception for the Prince of
Bavaria back in eighteen ten, and it was so much fun.
The newly weeds enjoyed it so much that they suggested
making it an annual event. You goten Octoberfest.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Isaac Newton was a member of the United Kingdom Parliament
the UK.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
We did not know that.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah, but his only.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Documented contribution was asking someone to shut the window because
he was cold.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Play shot well down number one.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
The city of Philadelphia is known as the City of
Brotherly Love.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes, yes, but why is that?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well, that's because the Greek words for love philio and
brother Adelphos philio Adelphos Philadelphia. Combine those together the city
of brotherly love. It comes from the name itself.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Gosh, where were you when I needed you? High School? College?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Where were you? Ha Tescipedia? Where were you girls? Where
were you?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Knoxville?

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Knocksville said, all right, there you have it, all the facts.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
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