Interesting Facts: Volume 4

Get ready for an a brand new episode of mind-blowing, hilarious, and downright bizarre facts! In this episode, we dive into some of the most unexpected tidbits about history, science, animals, food, and language. Whether you want to impress your friends with weird trivia or just love learning something new, this episode is packed with fun.

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Episode Transcript

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Hi, I'm Robin and I'm Chris together. We're the Gen X couple

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Hey guys take one hello everyone
Welcome back everyone. We are so happy you're here. Yep. So today
You can I was just reiterating you are you so today we're gonna
The next part of my interesting fact series for you
We're gonna fill your ears with the most bizarre

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Hilarious and mind-blowing facts. You've never known you needed. Yeah, that's right
So grab a snack sit back and get ready to wow your friends with some absolutely ridiculous trivia
Let's start with the animal kingdom. Did you know that the womb at poop is cube shape?
What so you're telling me there are little dice shaped poops rolling around in Australia?

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Exactly scientists believe it helps keep the poop from rolling away
So one maps can mark their territory more effectively. Oh that is one way to make a statement
And here's another wild one for you guys
Octopus's have three hearts and blue blood
That sounds like a punk rocks rocks a rock song waiting to happen three hearts

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I could barely manage with one, but that would give me more love to give to Marsha
I knew you're gonna say that
Then we talk about octopuses in the previous episode
Yeah, I think so actually now that you mentioned it
But I think we got into more detail in that episode and I figured since we were talking about marine life
It would fit nicely in here and here's another one for you guys

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Did you know that sea otters hold hands while they sleep to keep from drifting apart?
That's the cutest thing I've ever heard right imagine falling asleep and waking up still holding hands with your best friend and
Speaking of animals with weird habits. Did you know that sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins?
Wait a sloth the slowest animal how they can slow their heart rate so much that they can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes

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Wow
Now we're gonna move on to history
Did you know Napoleon was once attacked by a horde of bunnies?
Napoleon the military genius defeated by my rabbits. Yep
He ordered a rabbit hunt, but his men gathered hundreds of tame bunnies instead
And when they were released instead of running away, they charged at him thinking it was feeding time. That is absolutely

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Amazing. Can you imagine his troops trying to defend him from a bunny ambush?
Here's a wild one for you guys in
1518 the city of Strasbourg was struck by a bizarre event known as the dancing plague
Where hundreds of people started dancing uncontrollably for days
Some even danced to their deaths from exhaustion or heart attacks

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Authorities believing the cure was more dancing hired musicians to encourage them
Unsurprisingly this only made things worse
Historians still debate what caused to this mass hysteria
Ergot poisoning which is a hallucinogenic mold on rye or something even weirder
That is wild and you know what it reminds me of what the scene in hocus pocus

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Yeah, all the parents were at the party and they stopped the spell exactly
It was definitely something like that
Now let's move on to my favorite topic food. Oh, I would have thought you would have said your favorite topic was marshmallow
That's what should be unsaid
Did you know that honey never spoils like ever seriously? Yep

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They even found jars of honey in ancient Egypt tombs. There is still perfectly edible
So basically what you're saying is if there's an apocalypse stuck up on honey and you'll be all set. Yes
Here's another weird one ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1800s
What were they treating bland food?

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Good one
Apparently it was marked for as a cure for indigestion
Oh imagine taking a spoonful of ketchup like cough syrup. No, that's not so gross
I like ketchup but not by the spoonful and
Speaking of weird food history
Did you know that during a world war two British spies used garlic to explain why their breath smelled bad after a secret underwater missions?

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Well, that's a sneaky tactic and oh no, I wasn't swimming in enemy waters. I just had too much garlic bread
And get this one bananas are actually classified as berries, but strawberries aren't
Okay, that just broke my brain. My brain. How does that even make sense?
It all comes down to botanical definitions

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Bananas fit the scientific criteria for berries, but strawberries don't because their seeds are on the outside. I
Just feel like my whole life has been a lot
And speaking of fruit, did you know that watermelons were once so prized in ancient Egypt that they were placed in tombs?
So someone thought I can't take gold with me to the afterlife, but a watermelon now. That's important

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Now let's talk about words. Did you know what the longest English word has?
1008
Wait, I can't read this number
1000 no
I'm blown up Chris. Oh my god. I just pulled a u. It is a math. Yeah, I know that got me all confused
189,819 letters

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Please please you're not gonna make me pronounce it. Yeah, no way we know you
It's the chemical name for a protein and it actually takes over three hours to say it
I'm just gonna stick to supercalifragile
Phasers expialidocious. Thank you very much. I feel like a lot of the kids listening wouldn't even get what that's from

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We should watch that later. Did you just make me watch that a few weeks ago? That's enough. Thank you very much
And here's another phone one the word nerd was first coined by dr. Seuss in if I ran the zoo
Really? So basically we owe all nerds the title to a children's book
Yep, and did you know there's a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal?

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What like it doesn't die like a vampire. Yeah, that's what immortal means the
turret
Turritopsis
Dornie I know I just butchered that but it's a type of jellyfish that can revert back to its juvenile state
Essentially resetting its lifecycle. So it just keeps respawning like a video game

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If only humans had that ability is that a Gen Z word respawning?
Well, maybe okay. I don't know we know it. Yeah, we're old people and we know it
So maybe not. Yeah, we know it because of our kids one of ours specifically is a gamer
But anyway, I bet you'd go back to being 25 forever. Yes, I would and here's the last fun fact

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Did you know that Scotland has
421 words for snow. Oh, that's crazy. That's a lot of way to say cold
I think Eskimos have like a lot of words to say ice
Really? Yeah, did you just make that up? No, okay
Well, my favorite Scottish word to say snow is

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Sneasel SNESL, which means to start raining or snowing. That's gonna do it for us today
Which interesting fact was your favorite and do you have any you want to send us?
Yeah, for me it was definitely the Napoleon versus Bunny's battle that needs to be a movie
I know just think if he did die and it goes down on the history that he was killed like with bunnies like in

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life of Brian no
Money Python. Yeah money Python. Which one the Holy Grail? Yeah, that's an excellent movie by the way
We should watch that. Yeah, that's what we should rewatch. We should go on a Monty Python marathon. Yeah, I would watch that
Yeah, I would definitely watch that
And thank you to all our listeners

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You look like you're about to say something and interrupted which I did twice in a row
Don't forget to subscribe leave a review and share these facts with your friends
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And if you guys have a weird or interesting fact that you love send it our way because we might in my
Feature it in a future episode. Yeah, and we'll give you a shout out. So until next time

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See you later alligator in a wild crocodile