Lets talk - the Octothorpe became the Hashtag, No peeing in Portugal's ocean, golf tees - plastic or wood?

The octothorpe was created by scientists working on the telephon, became the hashtag 2007. Golf tees have an official length. Portugal gets mad if you pee in the ocean

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Episode Transcript

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Hi, I am Jeff, andthanks for joining us on Let's Win Your
Beer, the companion podcast of theHistory and Factoids About Today podcast. Now,
we are not here to save theworld. We're just here to literally
help you win a beer or helpyou win a conversation stalls and turn south
and you have nothing to talk about, all right, let's just get to
it. The hashtag everyone, they'vebecome familiar with it, dude, is

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social media. It is officially calledthe octothorpe. Now, growing up,
we call it the pound sign orthe number sign at least dur in the
United States and Canada. Over inBrittany and Europe they called it the hash
octathorpe, though it's just a madeup word. In nineteen sixty eight,
scientists at Bill Laboratories they added itto the telephone when the telephone started going
from rotary dial to push buttons,so they added the octathorpe and the star

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button. They did it to allowaccess to telephone computer systems. That's why
it's still on the number pad today. Now. Since there wasn't a name
for it, the sciences came upwith octo because of it had eight ends,
and then they added thorpe. Well, just because it sounded cool.
That's how he got octall thorpe.Computer programmers in the nineteen seventies started using
the sign the octoport, but theycalled it a hash Chris Messina, he

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was the first to use the hashtag, used it in two thousand and seven
on Twitter. He tweeted his fellowhis followers ask him if anyone would like
to use the pound symbol to helpmake it easier to follow conversations about specific
topics. Well, the hashtag itwas often running. Today, the hashtag
is universal on all social media.Now you can win a beer by saying
the hashtag is officially called the octalthorpe within another bear the fact that the

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octa thorpe was just a made upword. All right, let's go for
nerds, let's go the golf guys. Any guesses how long a golf tee
can be? Four inches? Yeah, golf te officially cannot be longer than
four inches. Most popular golf tees, though, are two point seventy five
three point twenty five inches, Butyou can use any t size as long
as it's under that four inches.Pros they easily use two te's one for

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woods, and then one for ashorter one for irons. Now, the
head of a golf tea, itcan't be any bigger than point four to
four inches. Now, if you'veunder wondered, no, there's absolutely no
difference between a plastic or wooden golftee. Plastic teas they just last slumber.
Actually, this will win you anotherbeer. A plastic golf tea takes
four to fifty years to decompose.Give me back my freedom, Let me

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live this line and drive. Seeif we're not harming any one would give
you a sorty. All right,we're gonna end with our stupid lave of
the day, So let's go toPortugal. Now, in Portugal, it
is illegal to pee in the ocean. I'm not sure how they catch you

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if you're out there swimming, butokay, now, if they do catch
you, you can wind up injail or have to pay a fine.
Now I'm guessing the reasoning is thatbeing in the ocean would contaminate it.
Wow, that is factually untrue.Human urine does not harm the ocean or
sea life in any way. Infact, scientists say that it actually is
beneficial to marine life. Well,thank you for being here now. Don't

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