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December 10, 2025 2 mins
Fun Facts of The Day
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's the fuck. Back to the day we make you
look smart, buddies. It's to the day. All right, here's
the new fun facts. Hi, hal, good morning. And then
I think like, how's gonna help me on a little bit? Absolutely,
it's like doing nothing to help here. He's making a
situation worse. I've got no buttons to push. If I

(00:22):
had to nob to turn, I could be know you
are a knob. Thank you. First fun fact for you
today the piece of metal on the end of a
pencil that holds the eraser. It's called a far rule.
It's also the metal piece that holds the bristles of

(00:43):
a brush to its handle, a far rual. Why why
are you why?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I was named after Monica Lewinsky for really sorry.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
John Rule's name was initially.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, my gosh, don't let Alex dingfunk fat.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Over half of the edits on Wikipedia are made by
less than one percent of its users. There's one forty
one year old dirt dude huh, clearly doesn't like us
because we got kicked off of Wikipedia. Stephen Pruitt, There
you go, that's his name. He's responsible for creating thirty
three thousand articles. He makes more than he has made

(01:28):
more than six million edits.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
That is no, he just does it for fun.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, he's made at least one edit to one third
of all the articles on Wikipedia. One guy. I'm sure
he's the guy that said, who's rod Ryan? Get this off?
Get this off of Wikipedia. Finally, when margarine was first created, Hal,
you were a margarine kid, Yeah, didn't they have to
make it orange or something? It was illegal to make

(01:57):
it the same color as butter, so manufacturers had to
dyet yellow. That's neat. And then back when Hal was
a kid, margarine became more popular than butter, so butter
manufacturers started dying their butter yellow. It's the funk. Back
to the day. We make you look smart in front

(02:19):
of your body. Sits the funk that to the day.
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