Fun Fact

Fun Fact

By Arik Devens and Allen PikeComedySociety & CultureTechnology
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Fun Fact episodes

  • Sounds Made Up

    We talk about how rice is grown, how eyes are colored, how time is told, and, of course, a scheme.

    • The System of Rice Intensification
    • Eye color percentages around the world and what causes eye color
      • Eye Color Percentage for Across the Globe
      • The World’s Population By Eye Color - WorldAtlas
      • World’s littlest skyscraper - Wikipedia
      • The Thai six-hour clock
      • The World’s littlest skyscraper
      • 47 min
      • Sorry, Scientists

        We consider too much rain, too many dinosaurs, too much bad stuff happening, and too many MIDI notes.

        • Carnian pluvial episode - Wikipedia
          • Ornithosuchus - Wikipedia
          • The Worst Time in History to Be Alive, According to Science
            • Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
            • Volcanic winter of 536 - Wikipedia
            • The Nocturnal bottleneck
              • Photolyase
              • 2013 nocturnal bottleneck study
              • Black MIDI examples
                • Wrecking Ball
                • Bad Apple going wrong
                • Rush E
                • 41 min
                • It's All Colonialism

                  A new border appears, and an old new fish appears; we measure stars, and measure aging. Bonus: a special frog fact.

                  • Hans Island
                  • Holland vs the Netherlands
                  • Extinct Fish Species That Predates Dinosaurs Found in Indian Ocean
                  • Stellar parallax
                  • Huge Fish, Once Believed Extinct, Isn’t the ‘Living Fossil’ Scientists Thought
                  • Study “confirms” some people age more slowly
                  • 39 min
                  • Paid for with Pee

                    Vespasian pays for a colosseum, the bible describes angels, frogs jump into the air, and cities tell us how to compost.

                    • Was the Colosseum Paid for with Pee?
                      • Vespasian: The Emperor Who Gave His Name to a Public Toilet
                      • Emperor Vespasian and the Urine Tax - Lessons from History
                      • Ezekiel 1:15-21, which describes ophanim
                        • Biblically accurate cherubim
                        • Attempts to depict ophanim
                        • My girlfriend is a (biblically accurate) angel
                        • Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful At Jumping? - Defector
                          • Belly-flopping frogs, and fattening marmots - Discover Magazine
                          • Toad vs. Frog: What’s the Differences and Similarities?
                          • 44 min
                          • A Little Round Blob

                            Allen reveals why pills are the way they are, Arik reveals why trucks are the way they are, and we catch up on followup.

                            • Episode now fixed: Episode 57, Butt-Water Air Adventure Tourism
                            • Discussion of cold meds on Ep. 29, This is Not Medical Advice
                            • The Capsule
                            • The Colorful History of Pills Can Fill Many a Tablet
                            • How CAFE Killed Compact Trucks And Station Wagons - The Truth About Cars
                            • How do they determine wheel base and wheel track of a vehicle? - Quora
                            • Allen’s article on How to Buy a Family EV
                            • Thowing stuff into a lava lake
                            • Wikihow: How to Clean a Razor Blade
                            • 52 min
                            • Butt-Water Air Adventure Tourism

                              Turtles breathe in a very peculiar way, nut butter makes a mess, bacteria get crushed, and Arik goes on a quest for carbonation.

                              • Turtles breathing through their butts
                                • The potential future of butt-breathing
                                • Some specific examples of High Pressure Processing on YouTube
                                  • Fun Fact ep. 1 on the dairy cartel
                                  • Ripple brand pea milk
                                  • 1 hr 7 min
                                  • A Hippo Astronaut

                                    Allen attempts to throw things into a volcano, Arik attempts to clean his dishes, and hippos attempt to get around.

                                    • The volcanoes Kīlauea and Nyiragongo
                                    • A GoPro in a dishwasher
                                    • A GoPro that falls from a plane and gets blanked by a blank
                                    • Hippos walking – not swimming – under water
                                    • 40 min
                                    • A Quadrillion of Yourself

                                      We have a bridge to sell you, as do renaissance philosophers, before we discuss some life forms that earth has an unreasonable number of. In the post show, Allen finally gets an EV.

                                      • For You, Half Price – the NYT on George C. Parker’s schemes
                                      • Kurzgesagt on the world war of ants
                                      • Preformationism
                                      • The messed up drawing of tiny grown adults in a sperm, as drawn in 1695
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                                      • A nice example of a Hyundai Ioniq 5 Review
                                      • 1 hr 5 min
                                      • Unicorn Blaster

                                        Allen lays out a wine scheme, Christa Mrgan explains the wonders of temporal resolution, Allen checks in on creatures’ dangerousness, and we learn a couple things about George Orwell.

                                        • How Wine Bricks Saved The U.S. Wine Industry
                                          • Vine-Glo
                                          • The Flicker fusion threshold
                                          • Spider deaths in Australia
                                          • George Orwell
                                          • The Emperor’s New Groove
                                          • 38 min
                                          • They All Have Goats

                                            Allen shares some puzzling genetics, Arik shares some puzzling puzzles, we go back to the ’90s, and forward to the ’30s.

                                            • There is no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
                                              • The fascinating graph of plant evolution
                                              • The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman
                                              • The Potato paradox
                                              • ATP 464, featuring a post-show on reducing our consumption of animal products
                                              • Fun Fact 20: Lil Nas 10
                                              • Y2K22 bug in Microsoft Exchange
                                                • Exchange 2019 Anti-Malware - Bad Update?
                                                • 53 min

                                                About Fun Fact

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                                                Once a month, Arik Devens and Allen Pike take turns sharing fun facts. Practical, historical, technical, and trivial facts all deserve their fair shake.