August 15, 2026 • 6 mins
It's not often we get "ind-blowing facts" that actually blow your mind but there's definitely something in here for everyone.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You tapped it, so we're playing it at SR and
Clint the podcast Brooks here filling in. I saw this
thread today which was a list of common facts that
aren't so common. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The common like knowledge is becoming less and less common anyway,
So I'm worried.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I guess common sense not being so common. And so
I was reading it and I was like, oh, well,
obviously I'll know all of these facts because I'm no dummy.
M I felt so stupid, oh so stupid, because they
were all like most of them were like revelations to me.
So I've got this list here, I know, Laudia even
me shocked. I know so smart. I've pulled some of
(00:40):
my fames out and I want to give it to you. Guys.
I want you to tell me honestly if you already
knew this fact.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Or you also tell us honestly whether this was affect
you or not.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Okay, And the first one I did not know. But
I feel like this is not common, Okay, I feel
like this is really all blown buzzy g common knowledge.
So okay, Crudia isn't a pub quiz team.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So yeah, this is a good gauge of common.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't think this is common and I did not
know this. So we'll start with a biggie. Did you
guys know that a day on Venus is longer than
a year on venus? No, that's not common either. That's
not common. I did know that, did you. Yeah, a
day on venus. Venus takes two hundred and forty three
(01:26):
earth days to rotate once, but only two hundred and
twenty five days to orbit the Sun.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Can you wait? Can you say that common fact?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Again? A day on venus, A day on Venus is
longer than a year on venus. I don't call that
a common fact.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It rotates fast, slower than it goes around the sun, because.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You go, Yeah, because a year, a year is one
full rotation of the Sun, right in A day is
one pivot of the Earth.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, okay, now not common though I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Claudia, you have to say that's not common common. Next one,
far more simple. Claudia knew this one, but I didn't,
And I'm keen enough. You guys did Bananas are berries
and strawberries aren't berries. I did actually know that, I
did you? Yeah, Claudia, I knew that yeah, just me
and you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Surely people would at least know half of that, that
the berries on the outside, the seeds on the outside
of a strawberry.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think I tuned that that a strawberry wasn't the
berry and botannically speaking, bananas qualify as berries. Yeah, buzz
eg Okay, here's one you can tell me if you
knew before you try. Okay, you can't hum while holding
your nose. No, yeah, do you know that? Did you
know that?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You can't. Did you know that? I knew that once,
But now I'm thinking about it. Maybe I didn't know that.
Give it a go. There's no their to go. I
can probably do it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's like how you can't sneeze with your eyes open,
and then some people really really try and then they explode.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh oh, you just fill up with air. There's nowhereffort
to go this no Mastard. The Eiffel Tower gets taller
in summer. I didn't know that, but it makes sense to.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Me because the metal gets hot, Yeah, and it grows.
That's just kind of like if a thing, if you
thought about it, you could probably logistically go.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But because I know that all my rings, I've got rings,
I know in the summer that they get they swell up.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The heat causes the metal to expand. The Eiffel Tower
grows by around fifteen centimeters. Oh that's pretty impressive. Significant.
It's a grower, not a shower. Yeah. We we sharks
are older than trees.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
What.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, you do that? Yeah you knew that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yes, because no.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't say you knew it now that Coudia and
you're sharks have been around for roughly four hundred and
fifty million years. The earliest trees appeared on Earth three
hundred and eighty five million years ago. That's a cool fact.
Are you telling me that some dinosaurs never got to
see trees? What? Yeah? Man, what was growing out of
(04:04):
the earth?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, weren't we a whole bunch of just underwater and
there was a whole bunch of fish and then fish
came on to land. I think that's still argued, isn't it?
Is that the order of things? That's crazy because in
the in the documentary The Land Before Time, there's definitely shrubs.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah right, you told me that The Land Before Time
may not be historically I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Starting to think there's a few floors zoologically accurate.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, a couple more for you. These are apparently common
facts that are not so common. Oxford University is older
than the as Tech Empire.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I knew that, but only because I saw it on
a TikTok video. Okay, right, I didn't know that because
I don't and I still don't know what the as
Tech University is?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What what as Tech University?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's some most crap? Wait can you well, I want
this to be common knowledge.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
What is the as Tech University.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
As Tech Empire as? What's that as ticking posts? As
techs the ancient civilization musk is modeling. There are more
possible games of chess, like moves that you could make
in jest the way that a game of chess could unfold.
There are more possible games of chess than atoms in
the observable universe.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh that blow. That's not even not common, but that
blows my brain to smothering.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Blows And it's so buzzy that I'm not sure if
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yes, it's the same with there's more stars in the
sky than grains of sand on Earth. To me, I
know that that's true, But to me that still blows
my mind that there's more stars be true.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Way, I know bonkers. The number of possible chess games
is estimated to be around ten to the power of
one hundred and twenty. Well, the number of atoms in
the observable universe is estimated to be ten to the
power of eighty.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So are you saying that you're more likely to come
up with a new chess move than find a new atom.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
No, you can't come up with a new chess move
like that number that exists.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yea, yeah, the number exists more than it feels like
there's more possibilities.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I guess you could do one that no one's done yet. Yeah, yeah,
and the last one to finished it on a fun one.
Did you guys know that a group of flamingos is
called a flamboyant? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I did, because that's funny. It's funny and it makes
sense because they're kind of flamboyant, like a feather bowler.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Anyway, made me feel stupid, and now I feel smarter because.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You've been asking stupid people the question.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This apart from that as Tech University, but as TACKI Brith,
play Zims brim Clint on Answer, Facebook, TikTok and Live
weekdays from three on Zim
You tapped it, so we're playing it at SR and
Clint the podcast Brooks here filling in. I saw this
thread today which was a list of common facts that
aren't so common. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The common like knowledge is becoming less and less common anyway,
So I'm worried.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I guess common sense not being so common. And so
I was reading it and I was like, oh, well,
obviously I'll know all of these facts because I'm no dummy.
M I felt so stupid, oh so stupid, because they
were all like most of them were like revelations to me.
So I've got this list here, I know, Laudia even
me shocked. I know so smart. I've pulled some of
(00:40):
my fames out and I want to give it to you. Guys.
I want you to tell me honestly if you already
knew this fact.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Or you also tell us honestly whether this was affect
you or not.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Okay, And the first one I did not know. But
I feel like this is not common, Okay, I feel
like this is really all blown buzzy g common knowledge.
So okay, Crudia isn't a pub quiz team.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So yeah, this is a good gauge of common.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't think this is common and I did not
know this. So we'll start with a biggie. Did you
guys know that a day on Venus is longer than
a year on venus? No, that's not common either. That's
not common. I did know that, did you. Yeah, a
day on venus. Venus takes two hundred and forty three
(01:26):
earth days to rotate once, but only two hundred and
twenty five days to orbit the Sun.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Can you wait? Can you say that common fact?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Again? A day on venus, A day on Venus is
longer than a year on venus. I don't call that
a common fact.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It rotates fast, slower than it goes around the sun, because.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You go, Yeah, because a year, a year is one
full rotation of the Sun, right in A day is
one pivot of the Earth.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, okay, now not common though I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Claudia, you have to say that's not common common. Next one,
far more simple. Claudia knew this one, but I didn't,
And I'm keen enough. You guys did Bananas are berries
and strawberries aren't berries. I did actually know that, I
did you? Yeah, Claudia, I knew that yeah, just me
and you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Surely people would at least know half of that, that
the berries on the outside, the seeds on the outside
of a strawberry.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think I tuned that that a strawberry wasn't the
berry and botannically speaking, bananas qualify as berries. Yeah, buzz
eg Okay, here's one you can tell me if you
knew before you try. Okay, you can't hum while holding
your nose. No, yeah, do you know that? Did you
know that?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You can't. Did you know that? I knew that once,
But now I'm thinking about it. Maybe I didn't know that.
Give it a go. There's no their to go. I
can probably do it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's like how you can't sneeze with your eyes open,
and then some people really really try and then they explode.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh oh, you just fill up with air. There's nowhereffort
to go this no Mastard. The Eiffel Tower gets taller
in summer. I didn't know that, but it makes sense to.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Me because the metal gets hot, Yeah, and it grows.
That's just kind of like if a thing, if you
thought about it, you could probably logistically go.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But because I know that all my rings, I've got rings,
I know in the summer that they get they swell up.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The heat causes the metal to expand. The Eiffel Tower
grows by around fifteen centimeters. Oh that's pretty impressive. Significant.
It's a grower, not a shower. Yeah. We we sharks
are older than trees.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
What.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, you do that? Yeah you knew that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yes, because no.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't say you knew it now that Coudia and
you're sharks have been around for roughly four hundred and
fifty million years. The earliest trees appeared on Earth three
hundred and eighty five million years ago. That's a cool fact.
Are you telling me that some dinosaurs never got to
see trees? What? Yeah? Man, what was growing out of
(04:04):
the earth?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, weren't we a whole bunch of just underwater and
there was a whole bunch of fish and then fish
came on to land. I think that's still argued, isn't it?
Is that the order of things? That's crazy because in
the in the documentary The Land Before Time, there's definitely shrubs.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah right, you told me that The Land Before Time
may not be historically I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Starting to think there's a few floors zoologically accurate.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, a couple more for you. These are apparently common
facts that are not so common. Oxford University is older
than the as Tech Empire.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I knew that, but only because I saw it on
a TikTok video. Okay, right, I didn't know that because
I don't and I still don't know what the as
Tech University is?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What what as Tech University?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's some most crap? Wait can you well, I want
this to be common knowledge.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
What is the as Tech University.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
As Tech Empire as? What's that as ticking posts? As
techs the ancient civilization musk is modeling. There are more
possible games of chess, like moves that you could make
in jest the way that a game of chess could unfold.
There are more possible games of chess than atoms in
the observable universe.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh that blow. That's not even not common, but that
blows my brain to smothering.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Blows And it's so buzzy that I'm not sure if
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yes, it's the same with there's more stars in the
sky than grains of sand on Earth. To me, I
know that that's true, But to me that still blows
my mind that there's more stars be true.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Way, I know bonkers. The number of possible chess games
is estimated to be around ten to the power of
one hundred and twenty. Well, the number of atoms in
the observable universe is estimated to be ten to the
power of eighty.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So are you saying that you're more likely to come
up with a new chess move than find a new atom.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
No, you can't come up with a new chess move
like that number that exists.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yea, yeah, the number exists more than it feels like
there's more possibilities.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I guess you could do one that no one's done yet. Yeah, yeah,
and the last one to finished it on a fun one.
Did you guys know that a group of flamingos is
called a flamboyant? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I did, because that's funny. It's funny and it makes
sense because they're kind of flamboyant, like a feather bowler.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Anyway, made me feel stupid, and now I feel smarter because.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You've been asking stupid people the question.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This apart from that as Tech University, but as TACKI Brith,
play Zims brim Clint on Answer, Facebook, TikTok and Live
weekdays from three on Zim
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