Welcome to our gigantic, fact filled 100th episode!!!! Thank you, Brain Junkies, we couldn’t have done it without you! We’ve gathered together ther weirdest & wackiest bunch of 100 facts from pop culture, history, animals and science to pack your brain.
Ikea’s Game of Thrones Cape
Acrobatic Pizza Toss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQZl9e8PbI
Find those landmines. Rats hard at work saving lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbiljkkJ4NI
Cats landing on their feet. Slow motion fall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU
The tale of Hotfoot Teddy and how he became Smokey Bear. (Not Smokey the Bear you philistines).
First Cat memes. Thank you, Henry Whittier Frees
PINK DOLPHINSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
More Pink!
Lake Hillier
by Viaggio Routard (Flickr)
Creative commons
Kentucky Moonbow Skip to :55 min to get right to the moonbow.
Coke floats. Sometimes. https://youtu.be/SxX58LyX0xg
Here’s aaaallllll my 50 facts and their sources. Same order as episode for your convenience. AB
The risk of heart attack for Germans doubles when their national football team plays in a World Cup match. When the opposite team scores a goal, German football fans start dropping von by von. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0707427 https://letsgetsciencey.com/weird-science-facts/
You are ten times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark-if you’re in New York. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/compare-risk/nyc-biting-injuries/The total tension on all strings of a piano measures around 20 tons, and must be supported by a strong metal frame. https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/piano/manufacturing/manufacturing003.htmlPoint Nemo is located over 1,000 miles (1,600km) equidistantly from the coasts of three far-flung islands. Point Nemo is so far from land, the nearest humans are often astronauts. The International Space Station orbits the Earth at a maximum of 258 miles (416km). Meanwhile the nearest inhabited landmass to Point Nemo is over 1,670 miles (2,700km) away. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161004-the-place-furthest-from-land-is-known-as-point-nemoTo actually notice the shadow of a fire, the light beam that is going past the fire (e.g. sunlight) must be about as bright or brighter than the light created by the fire itself. Otherwise, the light created by the fire, which spreads out in all directions, will overpower and fill in any dim region created in the other beam of light. For example, pointing a weak flashlight at a roaring campfire will not enable you to see the shadow of the fire. Also, the smaller and cooler a flame is, and the less soot it has, the less it absorbs and redirects light, and therefore the dimmer its shadow will be. https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2015/12/01/can-a-fire-have-a-shadow/Researchers at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona have found a way to build structures with biological concrete, which allows biological organisms to grow on it, lowering CO2 in the air. They discovered how to cleverly build megastructures with a biological concrete that lowers CO2, regulates heat and is totally eye catching. Its surface grows mosses, lichens, fungi and other biological organisms.https://theplaidzebra.com/moss-growing-concrete-absorbs-co2-insulates-and-is-also-a-vertical-garden/ Hot and cold water sound different when being poured. It’s actually noticeable to the human ear if you pay attention. Water changes viscosity (aka its thickness or stickiness) depending on temperature. Long story short, the colder the water, the higher the pitch, whereas pouring something hot like, oh, say..coffee…is going to have a lower, more comforting pitch. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/As of October 2019 there was still a law on the books in Oklahoma stating that if beer is more than 4% alcohol it must be sold at room temperature. Seattletimes.comShepherds in Christmas Nativity scenes from hundreds of years ago sometimes have goiters, which are caused by iodine deficiency. Goiters were often seen in poor people because they didn’t have a varied diet to supply iodine. NPR.comIce cream cones were invented during 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, when large demand forced ice cream vendor to find help from nearby waffle vendor. Together they made history. http://www.icecreamhistory.net/ice-cream-facts/interesting-facts-about-ice-cream/In the late 1960s, the U.S. Army’s 113th Military Intelligence Unit spied on reporters and politicians using fake pizza deliveries.https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69737/46-mouthwatering-facts-about-pizzaMary did indeed have a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow, and yes it did follow her to school one day. Mary was Mary Sawyer, an 11-year-old Bostonian whose lamb followed her to school one day in 1817. https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/history-facts-weird-wonderful-surprising-medieval-georgian-20th-century/In 1985, when Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard announced he was planning a mission to find the RMS Titanic, it was actually a cover story for a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. His team finished their mission before they were due back, so they spent the extra time at sea looking for the Titanic and actually went on to actually find it! https://www.factinate.com/things/42-exceptionally-exciting-historical-facts/Genghis Khan exempted the poor, teachers, artists, and lawyers from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established freedom of religion across his empire. He also forbade the selling of women and the hunting of animals during their breeding season. https://www.factinate.com/things/42-exceptionally-exciting-historical-facts/Mining lobbyist George M. Willing presented the name “Idaho” to congress for a new territory around Pike’s Peak, claiming it was a Native American Shoshone phrase: “E Dah Hoe (How),” supposedly meaning “Gem of the Mountains.” By the time the deception was discovered, the name “Idaho” was already in common use. https://statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-official-item/idaho/state-name-origin/origin-idahoAlthough known today as a weapon used in martial arts, its original form was developed in China as an agricultural tool made out of two connected sticks shaped like a wheat, rice or soy flail – in the mid 10th century. https://www.bookmartialarts.com/news/nunchaku-historyComputer Weekly reported that these “ingenious computer systems” were no more powerful than a pocket calculator and that the ACG was “more basic than the electronics in modern toasters that have computer controlled stop/start/defrost buttons.” https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585759/apollo-11-moon-landing-factsCharles Goodyear in 1855 created the first vulcanized rubber soccer ball. Panels similar to that of today’s basketball were glued together at the seams. Before that, the soccer ball game was at the mercy of the size and shape of the pig’s bladder. https://soccer.epicsports.com/soccer-ball-history.htmlthe needle of flame, the natural gas torch producing the flame was between 40 and 50 feet tall, and it’s said to have burned enough fuel to heat 125 homes. The purpose of this was to show how we’d all be using natural gas, as well as to act as a giant “clock” for the Fair, turning on every quarter hour. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66548/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-space-needleThe first baseball hats were made of straw. They were first worn by the New York Knickerbockers on April 24, 1849. But within a few years the team began to wear a cap made of fine merino wool. It featured a crown, with an attached visor or “bill”. That soon became the prototype for one of the most popular styles of that time and still today. https://baseball.epicsports.com/baseball-hats.html
