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September 17, 2020

Random Facts of the Day

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Thanks to Mental Floss I have a new source of random facts. I love little bits of useless knowledge that I promptly forget. For the moment I enjoy and revel in the knowledge and if I write it down I can hopefully find it later. If not, oh well. Good for me I found this random fact generator at Mental Floss. So this is either good news for you or bad news if you are not into random facts. Let me share a few of these beautiful amazing facts with you today that I discovered.

On Good Friday in 1930, the BBC reported, “There is no news.” Instead, they played piano music.

Marie Curie remains the only person to earn Nobel prizes in two different sciences.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.

In the 18th century, wealthy British landowners hired ornamental hermits to live in their gardens.

At the Gettysburg reunion in 1913, two men purchased a hatchet, walked to the site where their regiments had fought, and buried it.

An episode of Peppa Pig was pulled from Australian television for teaching children not to fear spiders.

Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee does not contain nuts. It’s named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops.

The first pair of Nike running shoes was made in a waffle iron.

Murmurations are the graceful, undulating patterns starlings create when they flock together in the sky. Scientists are still unsure how the birds coordinate their movements so quickly.

Boring, Oregon and Dull, Scotland have been sister cities since 2012. In 2017, they added Bland Shire, Australia to their “League of Extraordinary Communities.”

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  1. Darlene
    September 17, 2020 at 07:30 am

    LOL!! I love all of these but how is it possible to make a pair of runners in a waffle iron?

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    1. Beth Ann Chiles
      September 17, 2020 at 07:33 am

      I have no idea, I need to do some more research on that one!

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    2. PriscillaKing
      September 18, 2020 at 04:30 pm

      Heat waffle iron, melt rubber soles to create treads, attach to shoes…

      Reply
  2. susi_snaps
    September 17, 2020 at 07:34 am

    Ha ha. Love this. Ally is famous for spouting random facts. We get a kick out of it. 🙂

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  3. jena c. henry
    September 17, 2020 at 08:27 am

    I am applying for an ornamental hermit job! Thanks for the day brightener!

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    1. Beth Ann Chiles
      September 17, 2020 at 08:30 am

      Right? You are going to have to fight me for that job!

      Reply
  4. Mama's Empty Nest
    September 17, 2020 at 10:37 am

    Having lived in Beaverton, Oregon, home of Nike, I knew that fact about the shoes. I think the co-founder of Nike, who was a track coach, was inspired to create the soles by looking at waffles and then pouring some kind of stuff into a waffle iron to see if it was plausible for a prototype for running shoes. Ok, that might be the only random fact I can think of for today! 😉 But I think our world would be so much better if all the media stations did what the BBC did in 1930. No news is good news; music is better.

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    1. Beth Ann Chiles
      September 17, 2020 at 11:44 am

      Amen!!!! Thanks for the Nike fact!

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    2. Darlene
      September 18, 2020 at 06:45 am

      Thanks for clarifying the Nike story. It makes sense.

      Reply
  5. Mark T BROWN
    September 17, 2020 at 02:15 pm

    I’ve spent time in Boring, Oregon (a satellite community of Portland)! I had friends that lived there, although they have now moved to Cove, Oregon. The community was named after William Harrison Boring, a Union soldier and pioneer whose family built a farm in the area in 1856, before Oregon received statehood. Interestingly, he donated land for the community’s first schoolhouse to be built. Ain’t Wikipedia great?

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    1. Beth Ann Chiles
      September 17, 2020 at 02:27 pm

      I love random facts!!! Thanks for sharing that Boring information. 😊

      Reply
  6. catladymac
    September 17, 2020 at 05:56 pm

    Australia does have a bunch of VERY poisonous spiders. And snakes. And platypuses. So that one probably isn’t as silly as it sounds.

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    1. Beth Ann Chiles
      September 17, 2020 at 06:04 pm

      Trust me-after living in Queensland for almost a year I got used to deadly insects and snakes! We never did see the elusive platypus although our son saw one.

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  7. Shirley Matthews Dunn
    September 17, 2020 at 06:38 pm

    They all are good but I have two favorites the Good Friday ( no news how refreshing would that be.) and The Chock Full of Nuts. Very clever how they cam e up with the name.

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  8. Priscilla King
    September 18, 2020 at 04:28 pm

    Boring, Dull, and Bland! I love it!

    Chock Full of Nuts…well, historically, the quality of coffee in the United States used not to be very good. Scorched nuts and grains were sometimes thought to have a better flavor and, theoretically, be a healthier brew as well. Postum is still full of grains, no nuts, no coffee beans…I’ve always just guessed that that was the reference in Chock Full of Nuts. I have no information on whether it was ever made with nuts, the way Coca-Cola used to be made with cocaine.

    Fun fact: Possum Pie, Mud Cake, and Cow Patties are all high-carb, high-calorie, but otherwise wholesome desserts. “Possum Pie” is so called because it’s gooey and messy, *like* the rotten foodstuffs possums lap up. (Possums like sweet things–in nature they pig out on ripe fruit–and, although it’s not good for them, most possums would probably eat the layers of chocolate, marshmallow, and cream that make a Possum Pie.)

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    1. Beth Ann Chiles
      September 23, 2020 at 11:41 am

      Thanks for your great fun facts! I love them!

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