Fred's Fun Fact: Corn

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fread show is on my friend's Fun Fact Fred's Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
So my friend Finance Casey sent me this Casey who
also is a book She's my book dealer. She's like
a drug dealer but with books. Uh. This woman can
read like a book a day, almost like a book
every couple of days. I don't. I mean, apparently she's
a gamefully employed way too. It's extremely sexy, like I'm
tingling in certain areas right now, my ankle, my left elbow,

(00:31):
you know those kind of areas. But then she I don't.
I wish I had that ability if I had a
super I have a few superpowers. I wish I could
like see people's thoughts as like a pop up above
their head. Yeah, I wish I could really know what
people were thinking. I really do. No, you don't. It
would make I think it'll make my life easier because
sometimes it's like anyway, But really, what I wish I
could do, honestly is I wish I could like just

(00:53):
ingest information, like just look at a book and be
like and it just goes in my head and I
retain it. I would love to just have like just
be so smart and just know everything and like just like,
I like this topic over here, I want to learn
about this, and then just go boo boo boo boo boom,
and it just downloads into my head. And I know, yes,
like the mats just like that anyway, but I can't.

(01:15):
It takes me forever to read a book. For whatever reason. However,
she sent me this. Have you ever heard of corn sweat?
Corn sweat? With temperatures heating up in the Midwest, you
might hear the term corn sweat thrown around this week.
It's from the Weather Channel. By the way, refers to
a process by which plants exhale water called evappo transpiration.

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This process peaks in corn between mid July and late August,
so corn will give off about three thousand to four
thousand gallons of water every day. That added moisture in
the air that increases dew points and humidity. The corn
itself will make the place more humid where the corn is,
which is crazy anyway. So corn sweats. I just wanted
you to know that it gets hot and steamy, and

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it gets turned on and it gets moist and it
sweats in the same Yeah, wake up more Fred Show, next,
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