Fun Fact

Fun Fact

By Arik Devens and Allen PikeComedySociety & CultureTechnology
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Fun Fact episodes

  • A Poorly Rendered Plow

    Arik punks pirates, Allen flogs flags, and we fail horribly at evolving infrared vision.

    • Pirates and their eyepatches
      • According to Quora, MythBusters, and The Fact Site
      • The yearly 21 cannon salute
        • The esteemed City Flag of New Westminster and its own description of its city symbols
        • State Flag of Washington
        • CBC’s Justin McElroy ranks every BC municipal flag from worst to best
        • The infamous Liberia County Flags
        • Lexical Ambiguity
          • James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.
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          • Garden Path Sentences
          • Reasons we can’t see infrared
          • Previous fun facts
            • Fun Fact ep 1: Cheese Scheme, wherein we discuss how to wash a broom.
            • Fun Fact ep 9: Evolutionarily Deprecated, wherein we discuss how to MC an event.
              • 58 min
            • More of a Facty Fact

              Arik sells snake oil, Allen extols the virtues of rags, and things get very serious in rural North Dakota.

              • Telsa Model Y
              • The BMW i3’s not-sealed frunk
              • Rag paper
                • A Scientific American article from 1869 on the rag paper process
                • Genuine Snake oil
                • The Canadian film rating system
                  • Example of a “Restricted Cougar” trailer: Bijou
                  • Rugby claims victory in center of North America trademark dispute
                    • 55 min
                  • 3 Ways to Make Your Butt Bigger

                    Allen ruins koalas, Arik ruins guys, Canada ruins its airport codes, and WikiHow was already ruined when we got there.

                    • Unfortunately, koalas sound like this
                    • australianwebsites.com.au
                    • Some dazzling photos of ships including the RMS Olympic
                    • All the airport codes
                      • – Thanks to Dr. Lauren Florko for the excellent fact suggestion on airport codes.
                    • Hey guys
                      • Guy Fawkes
                      • The origin of “guy”
                      • Guido
                      • The illuminati and the Titanic
                        • Robert Ballard, the USS Scorpion and the USS Thresher
                        • The Titanic’s route
                        • Party Monster, the app that refused to play Nickleback
                        • The most popular pages on WikiHow
                          • 51 min
                        • Evolutionarily Deprecated

                          Allen offends some marsupials, Arik disproves Jesus, and we discuss a scheme for getting rich.

                          • The toxic culture at Revolut
                          • The “In case you missed it” regex for Tweetbot:
                            • (?i)(in.*case|if).*you.*missed.*it
                            • The “Mother of the bride dress”
                            • The day there was no news
                            • Jesus’ name:
                              • Jesus’ language
                              • Yeshua
                              • Yeshua to Jesus
                              • The Great Vowel Shift
                              • Index investing
                                • Buying One of Everything
                                • Why Warren Buffett recommends index investing
                                • Canadian Couch Potato
                                • Woolly Mammoths and the pyramids
                                  • 1 hr 8 min
                                • A Scandal Hydra

                                  Arik shows up the Titanic, Allen mutes everything, and we share some key bird facts.

                                  • How not to lead a startup
                                  • Lyle’s studfinding video
                                  • How to use advanced muting on Twitter
                                  • A recent tale of cougar defense from Colorado
                                  • The Olympic
                                    • The Titanic’s Ghostly Twin
                                    • The RMS Olympic
                                    • Why a turkey is a called a turkey
                                      • 1 hr 10 min
                                    • One Fact at a Time

                                      Arik defends himself from Facebook, Allen defends himself from cougars, and Arik doesn’t know what a hot hatch is.

                                      • The original Facebook FTC settlement
                                      • Victory for Lemonaid
                                      • Cougar safety
                                      • Cinco de Mayo and the Battle of Puebla
                                      • The glass delusion and Charles VI
                                      • Why it sounded like Grover dropped an f-bomb
                                      • Click consonants
                                      • The Chevy Celebrity wagon and the much more preferable 2019 Toyota Corolla wagon
                                        • 1 hr 7 min
                                      • Nobody's Getting Scurvy

                                        Allen goes deep on Nutrition Facts, we recap multiple culinary schemes, and Arik drops a history bomb.

                                        • A brief tour of chairs:
                                          • World Market’s Eero Saarinen Chair
                                          • Knoll Saarinen Chairs and Tables
                                          • The infamous Aeron chair
                                          • The more reasonable Mirra 2 chair
                                          • No More Oppatoo
                                          • Ariana Grande’s new tattoo
                                          • Don’t draw the teeth
                                          • The Rolls Royce of toilet levers
                                          • You are now subscribed to Nutrition Facts:
                                            • The Canada Food Guide
                                            • The 1990s Canada Food Guide
                                            • The American MyPlate
                                            • The new nutrition facts labels
                                            • Lemonaid is not bad enough for you (translated)
                                            • Taco Bell’s Seasoned Beef lawsuit
                                            • Pirate Joe’s
                                            • Supreme’s minimal website
                                            • Samsung’s collab with Supreme Italia
                                            • Cultural Depictions of Napoleon, and his units of measure
                                              • 1 hr 1 min
                                            • I Made This Be Good

                                              Arik continues his tour of the Pacific Northwest, Allen tries not to get drafted, and we crack open more critical adulting tips.

                                              • Say hello, new logo on the Slack Blog
                                              • Brand New’s take on Slack
                                              • How to pronounce Schlage
                                              • Do By Friday 56: On Fleck
                                              • Shuswap Lake
                                              • 2018 BC Electoral Referendum
                                              • Single Transferable Vote
                                              • Point Roberts, Washington
                                              • Enclaves and Exclaves
                                              • The Hala’ib Triangle
                                              • WikiHow: How to Find a Wood Stud in a Wall to Hang Pictures On
                                                • 1 hr 3 min
                                              • Adulting Life Hack Fact

                                                We do some mass follow-up, Allen has a reckoning about movies, Arik ‘splains Sesame Street, and Allen encounters Hamilton.

                                                • Using Dual SIM with an eSIM - Apple Support
                                                • WikiHow: How to clean a bathtub with a broom
                                                • Accidental Tech Podcast ep. 300
                                                • Planet Money 670: The Santa Suit
                                                • Nicola Romeo’s moustache
                                                • The sound of silent film
                                                • The Musical Notation podcast
                                                • Rechov Sumsum and Sesame Street around the world
                                                • Zeliboba
                                                  • 1 hr 8 min
                                                • Caligulember

                                                  Google News tortures Allen, Paris battles garbage barricades, and the Romans ruin our calendars.

                                                  • Google News
                                                  • The Salmon Arm Love Triangle Murder
                                                  • The Renovation of Paris
                                                  • BC’s Proportional Representation Referendum
                                                  • The Balls of Amazon
                                                  • The worst hoodie ad of all time
                                                  • The Months of the Year
                                                    • 56 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.