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List - 15 Crazy Facts about Everyday Things for December 6th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a you have a list. Yeah, okay, let's
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  do the list.
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  Speaker 2: It's Radio from Hell with another list, because people love
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  a good list.
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  Speaker 3: X ninety six. I have a list of fifteen crazy
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  facts about everyday objects.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy. They're just crazy, okay, not every day objects like
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  kind of you go, well, that's it's change, you might okay.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, Yeah, your dishwasher can cook salmon.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, this this is not advisable.
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  Speaker 3: Wrapping salmon in foil with some herbs and lemon and
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  running it through a normal cycle without soap result in
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  a perfectly poached fish.
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  Speaker 2: This method is.
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  Speaker 3: Called dishwasher cuisine, maintains optimal moisture levels and temperature control
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  throughout the cooking process. This technique has become popular enough
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  that there are entire cookbooks dedicated to dishwasher cooking.
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  Speaker 2: I just read something about this and helped experts advise
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  against cooking anything in the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 1: I just, I mean, just because you can doesn't mean
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  you should.
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  Speaker 3: These are crazy facts, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, that's a dangerous fact.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.
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  Speaker 2: I don't don't understand that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the poppable packing material you can't keep your hands off,
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  was never meant to protect your packages. In nineteen fifty seven,
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  engineers Alfred at Fielding and Mark Shanavers were actually trying
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  to create a textured wallpaper by sealing two shower curtains together,
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  creating a pattern of air bubbles.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's just stupid.
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  Speaker 3: When it failed to catch on as wall decors, they
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  tried marketing it as greenhouse installation. It wasn't until nineteen
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  sixty one that IBM realized it would make the perfect
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  protective packaging for their new computers.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll bet those two guys didn't get a penny
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  from that.
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 3: The number of dimples on a golf ball is not random, No,
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  it's not. Each dimple on a golf ball is precisely
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  engineered to affect its flight characteristics. The average golf ball
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  has between three hundred and five hundred dimples, with the
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  exact number and pattern affecting how the ball moves through
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  the air.
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  Speaker 1: So you could get a ball that doesn't move through
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  the air as well as another one, or.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you just you you decide which one
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  you like the best.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and can you swap balls? Mid No, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Unless you lose one, then you gotta Oh, I lost it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: The tiny dot over a letter I or a letter
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  J has a name.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's called a tittle, jot and tittle. The word has
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  been used since the sixteenth century and comes from Latin
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  meaning small, small stroke, or point. Before the tittle became standardized,
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  scribes would use various marks or no mark at all,
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  above these letters in addition to the tittle and helping
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  it distinguish eyes from similar let letters in medieval manuscripts.
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  Modern fonts still debate the perfect size and placement of
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  tittles for maximum readability.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, how big should my tittle be? Big tittle?
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  Speaker 3: Your gen's tiny pocket?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, as a watch fob, as a purpose Yeah, for your.
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  Speaker 3: Watch, the seemingly useless small pocket inside.
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  Speaker 1: Of your U. Oh you have, well, as you can see,
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  I have. The key to my mini is not a key,
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  it's just this. It's a fob. It's a fob, and
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  so the fob fits into the pocket perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Created by Levi Strauss in eighteen seventy three, of these
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  pockets were essential for minor and It's National Minor Day
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  for miners who needed easy access to their time pieces.
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  Paper Clips were used as World War II resistance symbols
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  paper clip. During the Nazi occupation of Norway, paper clips
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  became a symbol of unity and resistance. Norwegians wore paper
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  clips on their lapels to show solidarity. After other symbols
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  were banned. A simple office supply was chosen because it
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  represented binding together against depression. The practice spread throughout occupied
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  Europe as a subtle form of protests.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to start wearing paper clips again here
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  in a month or so, shall.
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  Speaker 3: We bring it back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's do that.
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  Speaker 3: Um. A barcode reader reads the white spaces, not the black,
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  not the black lines. It reads the white space.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought it was the black spaces what everybody thought.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I never thought about it one way or the other.
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  And now that you say that, I go, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: The scanner light reflects off the white space being absorbed
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  by the black bars. The arrangement creates a binary pattern
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  that contains product information.
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  Speaker 1: We know that you say it makes sense and snow
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  that the scanner would read the brighter Yeah, the light
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  emitting color or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: Your pencil can write a line that's thirty five miles long.
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  That's about I.
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  Speaker 2: Would it would that would take way too much effort.
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  Speaker 3: It's about forty five thousand words. Somebody figured that out.
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  How long will this pencil?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the person who said that said, I'm just
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  going to say say this arbitrarily because I know nobody's
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  going to check my work.
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  Speaker 1: That's you're not wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You know nobody's going to go, Oh, I don't believe that.
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  I'm going to go right to You know, you can
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  just make that up. That's just made up.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see. Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer. Toy
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  company associate with plastic bricks, actually produces more tires than Goodyear,
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  Michelin and all other tire companies combined.
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  Speaker 1: You know the little Lego tire.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well they're obviously much smaller. Lego manufacturers seven hundred
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  million tiny tires every year.
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  Speaker 2: They tire me as well.
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  Speaker 3: Your kitchen sponge is dirtier than your toilets. Oh, I know,
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  kitchen sponges are not.
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  Speaker 1: They throw those out on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 3: I always throw them in the dishwasher, not when I'm
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  cooking salmon, but of course washing dishes like at the
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  every night the sponge goes.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea. Actually, oh okay, that's what
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  I do with it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, your keyboard is probably filthier than a sponge
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  or a public toilet seat.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know, I'm sure that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy five thousand bacteria per swab on an average keyboard.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And finally this.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't say anything about cheeto crumbs.
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  Speaker 3: No, rubber bands have an expiration date.
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  Speaker 1: Yes they do.
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  Speaker 3: The elastic and rubber bands breaks down over time, making
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  them less stretchy and more brittle. I don't think they
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  stamp a little date on your rubber band.
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  Speaker 1: No, they don't last for you can tell. You can
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  tell this.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it when when people call rubber bands elastics.
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  If you have an elastic, that's not they're rubber bands.
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  Speaker 3: You can call them an elastic.
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  Speaker 2: No you can't. They're rubber bands. An elastic is the
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  stuff they put in your underwear, the stretchy stuff in
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  your underpants. Are they elastic?
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  Speaker 3: Are they made of rubber anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it some kind of rubber plastic?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know. They're made of silicon. Probably.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's your list.
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  Speaker 1: That's a list, all right, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We've hoped you'd enjoyed another list with Radio from Hell
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