Fact Of The Day: Recent Episodes
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The podcast where you learn something new every day! From facts about everything from the giant cows that once roamed Europe, music that was made for plants, to the process of becoming a butterfly, and why we call it the Milky Way. It's new, fun and funny facts every weekday. ZM's got you covered.
Hot Dogs do not have any dog meat in them and never have
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A pineapple is not called a pineapple in any other language other than English
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A peanut is not a pea nor is it a nut
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What different countries call the contraceptive pill
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Owl Week: Owls spit up pellets of food they couldn't digest
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Owl Week: Texas Owls have blind snake housekeepers
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Pope Week: Pope Steven VI put the previous pope on trial
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Pope week: Pope Joan disguised herself as a man as rose through the ranks to become pope
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Pope week: Pope Benedict IX is considered the worst pope in history
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Pope Week: Sylvester the magic pope
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Upside down week: Sending a letter with the sticker upside down means 'I Love You'
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Upsidedown Week: In Syracuse New York the traffic lights are upside down
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Upside down week: Formula One cars technically could drive upside down
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14.7% of men who had a vasectomy reported pain that lasted for months
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The first vasectomy was performed on a dog
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March is the most popular month in the USA to get a vasectomy
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You'll find the same chemicular making in foot odour and old cheese
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Cats love the smell of human earwax
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There are 16 trademarked 'smells' in the USA
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Samsung started out doing fried fish and noodles
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Goat week: Goats can read human emotions
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Goat week: The goats that loved human urine
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Goat week: The term scapegoat comes from...
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Goat week: They'll befriend other goats so someone else can kill them
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Disaster Week: The world year to be alive was 536AD
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Disaster Week: The worst thing you can donate is used clothing
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Disaster Week: The largest tornado ever
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Disaster Week: A trillion kgs of water pushed the earth down 2 cms in Texas
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Disaster week: The most expensive disasters in history
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Walt Disney Week: Walk Disney has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Walt Disney Week: A businessman met Walt Disney on a flight in 1924, who designed his logo for him
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Walt Disney Week: His housekeeper got shares and became a millionaire
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Walt Disney Week: He invented the difficulty levels of ski slopes
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Different languages have different points associated to them in Scrabble
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Moon week: 12 people have walked on the Moon
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Moon week: It looks bigger when its rising
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Moon Week: The Sun is 400x bigger than the Moon and 400x further away
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When fizzy drink is on your tongue, your tongue is actually tasting the carbon dioxide
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A vagina is the same PH level as root beer
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Soda does taste different out of different vessels
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Flag Week: The Hawaii state flag has a UK union jack on it only because the king liked it
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Flag Week: The Jamaican flag is the only one which doesn't contain red,white or blue
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Flag week continued: Rainbow flags origins
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Flag week continued: There's a flag factory in Iran that makes flags to burn at protests
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Flag Week: A flag that means you are invited to have a gun with a ships captain
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Cars week: There's a lambo for free if you want it but...
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Cars week: The first commercially manufactured cars in Antarctica was...
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Cars week: To buy a car in NZ was once REALLY hard and REALLY expensive
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Cars week: USA only made 139 cars when they were busy doing WW2
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Everest Week: In 2024 it costs $98,000 to climb Everest on average
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Everest Week: The highest point on earth was once the sea floor
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Everest Week: 6000 people have summited Mt Everest
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Everest Week: The youngest person to climb Everest was 13
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Things that are banned: The 'moon pose' in official bodybuilding
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Things that are banned: Canadian pennies
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Things that are banned: High heels
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Cloud week: an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location
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Cloud Week: There are clouds made by fire called pyrocumulus
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Cloud week: 67% of the earth is covered by clouds
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Streak week: A Pakistani squash player won 550 games in a row
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Streak week: The longest carryover 'Jeopardy' contestant made up stories just so he had things to talk about
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Streak week: The current Duolingo streak leader has 4274 days in a row
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Streak week: A women rolled 154 dice in a row without hitting a seven during craps
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Fire Truck Week: In Salem, USA they have Darude Sandstorm as their fire truck siren
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Fire truck week: Russia has a firefighting tank
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Fire Trucks week: There's a difference between a fire truck and a fire engine
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The Paralympic medals are a little bit different than the Olympic medals
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NZ Native Bird Week: The wonders of the Kakapo
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NZ Native Bird Week: Fantails can have multiple nests per season
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NZ Native Bird Week: Maori kept Tui birds in cages and trained them to greet visitors
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NZ Native Bird Week: The kiwi is monogamous and can run 20kph
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On This FOTD(OTW!): Vaughan dives headfirst into a week of Paralympic Facts!
It's Time For...
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The history of cheaters in the Paralympics
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Athletes who have competed in both the Olympics and Paralympics
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A woman with birth defects from Chernobyl won a paralympics gold medal
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The Paralympics started because a Doctor was rehabing so many WWll injuries
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There is a 'CatCon' in Pasadena, California
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New York has a film festival dedicated to cat movies
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There's a cat festival in Belgium called Kattenstoet
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On This FOTD(OTW); Smorgas-Vaughan goes through plate for plate with a week of Surprising Food Origins!
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National dishes that aren't from that country: Hawaiian pizza is not from Hawaii
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National dishes that aren't from that country: Fish and Chips
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National dishes that aren't from that country: American hotdogs aren't from America
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National dishes that aren't from that country: Corona beer isn't from Mexico
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Nationa dishes that aren't from that country: Tempura isn't from Japan
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Five percent of the world will never experience a headache
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On This FOTD(OTF!); Pro Athlete Vaughan dons the tracksuit; and preps to overcome 2 weeks worth of Factual Hurdles!
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An engraver can be considered primarily responsible for the rebirth of the modern Olympics
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The first ever disqualified Olympic athlete for a banned substance
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The swimmer with the top 18 fastest ever times in her category
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If Michael Phelps was his own country, it would rank 40th all-time of countries with the most medals
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Bangladesh is the largest country to never had won an Olympic medal.
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The Olympics gets it's name from Mount Olympus in Greece
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Greece have never won a medal at the Winter Olympics
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On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan peels off the nametags and finds out what stuff & things used to be called!
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Heaps of celebrities have changed their names
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Sports teams with name changes due to offensive connotations...they're all American
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Lots of foods have received name changes due to their racist origins
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The Rolls-Royce Silver Mist and Mitsubishi Pajero had to change names in certain countries
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Joey Chestnut is the worlds greatest eater
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On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan loads up his plate with a week of Weird Eating Record Facts!
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The record for amount of kale eaten in 8 minutes
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The world record for live cockroaches eaten in 60 seconds
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This is the world record for butter eating
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A woman ate over 8kgs of food in one sitting and died from it
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Celebs at school week: High school celeb medley
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Celebs at school week: Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman
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Celebs at school week: Rami Malek, Rahel Bilson and Kirsten Dunst all went to school together
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan initiates the countdown as we blast off into Space Week!
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Space Week: The sun loses 4.7 million tonnes of mass as energy per second
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Space Week: The International Space Station is not zero gravity
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Space week: The Milky Way smells of rum, raisins and booze
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Space week: The moon is NOT spherical
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Space week: The distance between earth and the international space station
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On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan pulls out the Cat Calendar, for Calendar Week!
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Here's when you can reuse your old calendars from different years
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From 1929-1940 the Soviet Union didn't have weekends
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A traditional Japanese calendar has 72 micro seasons in a year
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Here's why the months are named what they are.
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan'll have your heart going pitter-patter, with Heart Rate Week!
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Alcohol is a banned substance the in competitive shooting world
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Tour De France Champion Miguel Indurain has a resting heart rate of 28 BPM
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Bear week: How a bear nearly destroyed the world
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Black Bears can pause their pregnancies
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Brown Bears and Grizzly Bears are the same bear
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A Romanian cave has been isolated for 5.5million years
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan goes spelunking for some Cave Facts that you Stalag'MIGHT not have heard before!
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The cave that was a tuberculosis hotel
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The cave that is now a musical instrument
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There is a cave of of giant crystals in Mexico
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On this FOTD(OTW); Vaughan investigates Inventions that were (humbly) named after their Inventors!
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Doc Martins have their origins in Nazi Germany
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Antarctica Week: There was been one successful Tinder match on the continent
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On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan builds a Snowman of Frosty Antarctic Facts!
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Antarctica week: It was originally called.....Australia
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Antarctica week: Antarctica wasn't sighted until 1820
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Antarctica Week: There's a mountain range buried under ice
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Antarctica Week: Most Meteorites are found in Antarctica
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Public Transport Week: China holds the record for fastest public transport sped recorded
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Public Transport Week: In Equdor, there's a bus-train hybrid that would climb a mountain
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Public Transport Week: The oldest continually running transport route is a ferry in the UK, running since 1150
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Public Transport Week: WW2 Jeeps left in the Phillipines got turned into buses called Jeepneys
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan pesters the driver with a week of Public Transport Facts!
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Accidental discoveries week: Potato chips were invented by an angry chef
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan races through a short week of Accidental Inventions!
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Accidental discoveries week: The slink was meant to stop instruments from breaking whilst at sea
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Accidental discoveries week: Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented the pacemaker
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan rattles off a bunch of things that turn 50 this year!
(Note: This does not include himself...)
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Liposuction was invented 50 years ago
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The UPC Barcode turns 50 this year
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Bayleys Irish Whiskey turns 50 this year
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The Rubix Cube is 50 years old today
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Television Week: 2019 was the year humans consumed more phone screen time than TV time
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On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan couch potatoes his way through a week of Television Facts!
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Television Week: Americans collectively watch around 250 BILLION hours of TV each year
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Television week: The worlds smallest commercial television was 30cm wide
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Television Week: LCD displays were discovered by an Austrian who was studying carrots
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Television Week: The cost of a flatscreen TV over time
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Incorrectly named animals extravaganza!
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It's only called 'Chinese' checkers, to give the game an exotic title
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Berries should really be called 'agregate fruits'
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Digestives are misleading in their name
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Mythical creature week: Animals that were considered mythical creatures
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Mythical creature week: Erchitu from Sardinia
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan pulls out his Monster Manual and selects a few of his favourite Mythical Creatures!
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Mythical creature week: Akaname will lick the filth and scum that collect in bathtubs and bathrooms
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Mythical creature week: The orca who can turn into a wolf
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On This FOTD(OTW); Booty ahoy! It's Pirate Week!
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If Pirates needed a bigger ship they would just steal ship
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Pirates drank grog so much because the water on their sea voyages would go off quickly
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On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan hits the runway, and takes off with a week of Pilot facts!
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In WWII a New Zealand pilot put out a fire on the wing of his plane in mid air
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56% percent of pilots have admtted to falling asleep on the flight
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The Superbowl is the 2nd highest day of food consumption for Americans
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A special coin is minted for the coin toss at the start of the Superbowl
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They Superbowl will never be played in a cold stadium
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On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan looks into things that were named after where they were invented!
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The rotweiler and leonberger are named after towns in Germany
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The name 'tuxedo' is named after Tuxedo Park in New York
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On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan & Hayley guide us through a week of Bad Parenting in the Animal Kingdom!
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Your best chance of becoming a billionaire...
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The Superbowl halftime show came about because people tuned out to watch sketch comedy
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Superbowl technically didn't have Superbowl l or ll
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Bad parent week: Never cheat on a female house sparrow
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Bad parent week: The sand goby will eat it's own kids behind the mothers back
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Bad parent week: The Quokka's awful survival strategy
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The worlds first ever billionaire was...
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Torpedos are named after stingrays
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On This FOTD(OTW); Vaughan dives into the deep wallets of the worlds Billionaires!
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The word shampoo means to 'massage'
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On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan picks up the pigskin and leads us through Superbowl Week!
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On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan dives into the Origins of things!
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How the term 'nightmare' came about
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Why we say 'resting on our laurels'
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How we started using the term 'Broadway'
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On this FOTD(OTW); Vaughan delves into the secret lives of Mushrooms!
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Mushrooms can help trees talk to each other
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A mushroom can cause it's own wind
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Magic Mushrooms did NOT arrive on the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
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Band Week: How Fallout Boy got their name
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On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan heads to Coachella and runs us through the history of band names!
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Band name week: How Eiffel 65 got their name
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Band name week! - How the band Imagine Dragons got their name
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Band name week! How the band *NSync got their name
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On This FOTD(OTW): Vaughan dons his Santa Suit, and delivers a full week of Christmas Facts!
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On Xmas Norwegians hide their brooms from the witches
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The Spanish nativity scene involves someone in the corner doing a poo
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The candy cane isn't a J for Jesus, it's a shepperds crook
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The biggest ever Christmas present was the Statue of Liberty
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On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan spends it up large on his way through Most Expensive Week!
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The most expensive bottle of nail polish cost a $250,000USD per botle
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The world's most expensive mountain bike cost 1 million dollars
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The worlds most expensive gum will cos you $1 NZD per piece
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How much extra blood a woman will carry when pregnant
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Here's how many litres of blood your heart will pump in your lifetime
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On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan taps into a rich VEIN, and spills the beans on Blood!
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Mosquitoes have preferred types of human blood
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If you juiced every human of their blood, you could extract 1500kgs of gold
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Blood has the same protein content per ml as your standard protein shake
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The best sight in the animal kingdom is...
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The animal with the best hearing in the animal kingdom belongs too...
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The most sensitive animal when it comes to taste is...
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The most sensitive animal when it comes to touch is...
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And the animal with the best sense of smell is...
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What the Kakapo will do to find a mate
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On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan takes us on a tour of the world's most impressive Senses!
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On this FOTD(OTW), Vaughan soars to new heights with a plethora of Native Bird Facts!
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The Takahē was thought to be extinct for hundreds of years until it was rediscovered recently
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The amazing evolutionary powers of the Gannet
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Global warming is causing rising divorce rates for Albatrosses
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THIS was the original theme song for Friends
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In S01E14 the numbers on the doors in Friends changed
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The 6 main cast members of Friends make approx 20 million dollars per year from reruns
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On This FOTD(OTW) Podcast, No-one told us life was gonna be this waaaaay Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap?
It's Friends Week Baby!
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The coffee machine from Central Perk on Friends is the exact same as the one on Full House
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The iconic orange couch from the set of Friends was founding rotting in a basement before it was rediscovered
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Queen Victoria wore crotchless undergarments
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On This FOTDOTW, Vaughan gets hot under the collar as he educates us on the history of Lingerie!
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'sweater girls' and their 'bullet bras' were famous before Madonna
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The monobosum was the 'look' back in the early 1900s
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A stamp caused major controversy in 1996 when a child was shown in a forward facing carseat
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On this weeks FOTDOTW, Vaughan the Postman does his rounds and leaves a lil something in your mailbox for Stamp Week!
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A stamp sale doesn't necessarily mean it's the stamp that's on sale
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The worlds most expensive stamps were owned by some pretty weird people
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Collectable stamps make the post office so much money because people buy them but never use them
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There have been 37 recorded deaths on rollercoasters in 93 years
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Vaughan buckles us in for a Loop-de-Loop through Roller Coaster Week!
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These are the fastest, longest and highest rollercoasters in the world
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Russian mountains predated rollercoasters but only worked in the Winter
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Before the rollercoaster invention, people rode a coal cart down a steep hill
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The rollercoaster was invented to steer people away from brothels and saloons
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Vaughan the Grouch walks us down Memory Lane, and takes a right turn onto Sesame Street!
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New York renamed a Manhatten street 'Sesame Street' in honour of the shows 50th anniversary
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There are over 30 slightly varied versions of Sesame Street around the world
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James Earl Jones was the first celebrity guest on Sesame Street
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Cookie Monster and Ernie are the only left handed muppets on Sesame St
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An episode of Sesame Street never aired because it didn't test well with children
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Vaughanius Caeser marches us through a battlefield of Ancient Roman Info!
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In this episode Vaughan saw a sign, and it opened up his eyes, he saw the sign!
(It's Road Sign Week Baby!)
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Vaughan dives deep beneath the waves in this episode, nautically navigating the Vast Ocean!
If you suffer from Thalassophobia, this one may not be for you...
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In this episode, Vaughan burrows through a week of Honey Badger Facts!
Buckle up, Honey Badger don't give a...
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In this inaugural episode of Fact of the Day (of the Week!), Vaughan blows through 4 wind-based facts at a rate of knots!
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Commodus from the 2000 film Gladiator was a real Roman Emporer
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The ancient romans invented luxury cruises
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101 uses for your ancient Roman gladiator
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Drive carefully due to invisible cows
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Conneticut has E.T Buckle Up signs everywhere in one of the worst decisions ever
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The first stop sign was invented by a police sergeant in Detroit
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The ocean floor is technically the worlds largest museum
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The worlds largest waterfall is actually underwater
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If you took all of the salt out of the ocean it would form a 166 metre crust of salt around earth
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A Honey Badger has one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom
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Honey Badgers have skin that is 6mm thick on average
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Honey Badgers can produce a very smelly liquid like it's cousin the 'skunk'
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Honey Badgers are called that because they dig into beehives fearlessly and gorge on honey
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The jetstream always goes West to East
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Australia holds the record for highest windspeed ever recorded
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The lines on a windsock indicates an increase in speed
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In 1910, Inmates on death row had to play baseball and would stay alive as long as they kept winning
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English churches aren't sinking, the ground around them is rising
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A Korean mayor dumped rubbish on his beach so people had something to clean on beach cleanup day
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Roosters only got this name in the late 18th century
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Why Los Angeles doesn't usually deal with tropical cyclones
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A music label receptionist made up a bunch of slang words on the spot to explain grunge to the New York post
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Why you're actually allowed to take photos in the Sistine Chapel
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The three lines on a website that drops a menu is called the hamburger button
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Having a 4, 6, 8 or even 12 pack of abs cannot be altered by your exercise
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Baked beans are actually not baked at all
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Sergio the serial marathon cheater
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A man literally nailed a million dollar basketball shot, didn't get paid out for it then Michael Jordans team did
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In South Australia it's illegal to own any part of a great white shark...unless...
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There's a Japanese beetle that can be eaten by a frog and come out the other side unscathed.
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Actor and WWE wrestler Dave Bautista would leave asthma inhalers around the ring
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There's a race where a human will race a horse over a full marathon distance and humans have won 3 times
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The leading cause for amputations in America is doors
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This is the current record holder for the 'worlds hardest tongue twister'
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The big scare about killer bees in the 1980's & 90's was all caused by Rupert Murdoch
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In 1978 Sacremento Kings Coach Clifford Ray reached down a dolphins throat and pulled out a screw
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Paua have two human-like teeth to eat seaweed
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A mother in 2017, gave birth to her daughter that was only 1 year younger than her...technically
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The sauna competition in Finland doesn't happen anymore because a man died in it
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The toy designer of 'Barbie' would choose lovers who looked like her
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Young Orcas partake in cultural trends
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In 2001, a couple got married on the deck of the titanic
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Before Beatlemania or Beiber Fever, there was Lisztomania
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The founder of the Roxy brand was once in a harem of pleasure wives to a Saudi weapons trading billionaire
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Adolf Hitlers half newphew tried to bribe his way up the Nazi party, but was rejected so fled and joined the US Navy
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The Burj Khalifa is not hooked up to Dubais sewage system
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Frostnip is the official name of the stage before frostbite
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This is the longest word in the English language
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We give our babies the bacteria that causes tooth decay
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Time Magazine originated the term 'World War 2'
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A lot of episodes of MTVs 'Cribs' were filmed using rented mansions
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America nearly became the nation fed on 'Hippo'
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A cannibalistic tribe is now immune to some brain diseases because of it
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In Sweden there is a library for sports and leisure items
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Torpenhow Hill translates to 'Hill hill hill hill' in four different languages
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It's official, on a plane the middle seat gets both armrests
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At a Singaporean crosswalk, seniors can swipe a card to receive extra time to cross
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Brunei is the only country where they have a two day weekend in two parts
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An engineer in a jetfighter accidentally engaged afterburners, survived and was ordered to fix his mistake
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Cookie monster is actually eating painted rice cakes made to LOOK like cookies
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1 out of 25 men will raise another mans child unknowingly
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There is a classical musical range called 'castrato' named because of exactly the reason you are thinking
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The average human body has 35kgs of edible 'meat'
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The worlds highest stadium is 4380m above sea level
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The largest car heist in history is held by North Korea
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In Austria, mini hamsters eat all the funeral candles
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New Zealand has the worlds loneliest tree
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The worlds most remote pub is somewhere between South America and South Africa
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The tallest known cliff is 20kms high and it would take you 12 minutes to free fall
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Using the plural 'fishes' is acceptable in certain circumstances
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The type of plural on an animals name is dependant on the animals name origins
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If you're allergic to shellfish, chances are you're allergic to insects too
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Spraypaint was invented in 1949 based on WW2 mosquito killing technology
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Things are painted at Disneyland called 'go-away green'
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In the 1960's 'anti-climb' paint was developed
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15 minutes of shivering cold with burn as much fat as 1 hour of working out
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Sloths can hold their breaths underwater twice as long as a dolphin
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In 1959-63 a society believed any animal longer than 6 inches and taller than 4 inches should be made to wear clothes!
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Why we use '60' seconds, minutes and 24 hours in a day to measure time
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The difference between initialism and an acronym
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If every human jumped in the ocean, it would barely raise the water level
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Tapping tongs before use isn't just a funny meme, you're calibrating your brain
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In 1993 Mattel unknowlingly released a gay Ken doll
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31% of burns at the Burns Center in Chicago was as a result of instant noodles
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Without tuberculosis we may never have got the cowboy hat
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Scientists cannot prove that fire exists anywhere else in the universe
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Hitlers fathers name was Schicklgruber before he changed it
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There is an opposite of 'copyright' and it's called 'copyleft'
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A man challenged an ostrich to a spaghetti eating competition and won
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The hottest man-made temperature was 250,000x hotter than the centre of the Sun
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Less than 100 years ago Syria put a ban on yoyos because they thought it mocked the rain
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Whales breastmilk has the consistency of toothpaste
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Gordon Ramsays tongue is insured for 10 MILLION dollars
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The French don't use speech marks, they use arrows
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The first time celiac disease was in the Dutch famine during WW2
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There's a fruit called 'Gac fruit' and it's the greatest thing ever
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Return to Innocence by Enigma is a drinking song in Taiwan
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The Oscars use more gold each year than the James Webb Telescope needs in it's construction
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It's been 247 years since we discovered Uranus
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You can grow rhubarb from just candlelight
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McDonalds big M was once just a single golden arch
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The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was a creep
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If you go to Kenya, all the clocks look upside down
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The origins of the name 'Mayonaise'
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The penalty for the first ever parking infringement was death and impaling
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If you start taking oxygen on a plane, it will only last for around 14 minutes
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The worlds fastest computer beats the second fastest one by double
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'V' is the only letter in the English language that is NEVER silent
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McDonalds stopped offering coffee spoons because people were using them for drugs
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When bananas were first introduced to the Western world it was considered quite immoral
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Double stuffed Oreos are only stuffed 1.86x as much
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A Irish language does not have a similar word for 'yes'
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The Hallstatt salt mine workers of the iron age, would enjoy a diet of blue cheese and beers
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The origins of how the 'grapefruit' came to be
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The first English written guacamole recipe was written by a pirate
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The Olympic record for the javelin throw is basically unbeatable
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You can use 'anymore' in a positive way, but it's tricky
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93% of adults can tell if water being poured is hot or cold based just on the sound
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America has been to war with a weather balloon before
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After 53 years of building airplane 747s, the last one was delivered to it's owner this month
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To find hydrogen leaks in fires in the 60's a man would just hold out a broom
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The word 'you' was invented by posh people who didn't want to use the word 'thou'
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90% of people that take up guitar quit within the first year
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Cats love olives and kiwifruit vines
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There are actually quite a lot of sabre-toothed animals
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Corn cobs can be used to wipe your bum
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Don't go near monkeys in Florida it's all bad news
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A man who died in 1911 became a display in a haunted house
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Longyearbyen is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000
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If a show set in L.A has palm trees in it, it's not L.A
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In the U.K you can buy 'alien abduction' insurance
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Indiana Jones is based on Scrooge McDuck
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When you don't take a photo of something you actually remember it better
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The owners of an intl airport are buried under their own runway
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Australias coal industry creates more Co2 than all of Germany
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The guy who invented airplanes got to see it evolve into a full jet
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There's a giant piece of land that NOBODY wants
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The world record for 'longest walk' is 30,600kms
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Friday Jams Live is happening this Sunday 13th November, at Western Springs Stadium!
In preparation, we've compiled all of our interviews with the artists you'll see there!
You'll be hearing your favourite ZM hosts chatting to TLC, Macklemore, Shaggy, Ashanti, Jay Sean, & Fatman Scoop!
Text "Jams" to 9696, or head to ZMonline for more Details!
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A train travelling from West to East is lighter than one going from East to West
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By the year 2100 we'll have approximately 5% more rainbows
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In medival times it was believe a man could have kittens by spewing one up
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This man has the world record for 'most greeting cards received'
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If you can make the 'rumbly thunder' sound in your ear, that makes you special
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea refers to how far they TRAVELLED underwater
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The average Swiss citzen travels 2430kms a year via train
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In South Korea, if someone has a cold they drink honey, lemon & COKE
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Ghengis Khan's grave and treasures have never been found
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Ben and Jerrys workers are allowed the tubs of ice cream A DAY as a perk
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Sperm spin like a torpedo to move around
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Jelly babies were originally called 'unclaimed babies'
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Too much hot sauce CAN actually kill you
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THIS hit song was banned from US radio for encouraging juvenile delinquency although it doesn't have lyrics
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A rat can bite with more pressure than a crocodile
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Humans have always found amazing uses for urine
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Turtles flirt by slapping each other around
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Cereal box characters always look down to catch the eyeline of children
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An Italian man broke down the algorithm in American music to score a major hit
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Antarctica doesn't have it's own phone country code
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A canning plant in Wigan, U.K can process up to 3 million cans of food a day
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'Rex' and 'Regina' is latin for 'King' and 'Queen'
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An Australian fern causes you to lose weight and potentially starve
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Ancient Egyptians would use the term "OMG Slay! Good luck is coming our way"
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Capuchin monkeys and capuchino coffee are named from the same source
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If you got caught cheating at the ancient olympics, it was written in statue
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The origins of the term 'shaving the yak'
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Despite 4 kids, you can't find any pictures of Queen Elizabeth whilst pregnant
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Your fingernails grow much faster than your toenails
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They tried to demolish the great pyramids of Egypt once but found it impossible
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This is the time of year Icelanders yeet puffins off cliffs
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The UK Royal stamp collection is worth one hundred MILLION pounds
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A college janitor found 85,000 baby teeth in a closet
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With the passing of the Queen, Vaughan gives you as many Elizabeth facts as he he can fit
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A drop of water spends approx 3000 years in the ocean before being evaporated into air
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A leech only needs to feed once every 5 years if kept at 4 degrees
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In Japan, you receive a silver sake cup on your 100th birthday
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The snooze button is set for 9 minutes because of it's origin story
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In WW2 the US navy had a ship whose sole purpose was to produce ice cream
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Two men scammed people by pretending to be a sock donation charity
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In Germany there is a mass frog grave that is the result of a giant orgy
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The longest straight road in the world is 240kms long
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New Zealand has three native species of termite
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Your bellybutton style purely depends on how you heal
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That 56k Dial up sound was the internet and your ISP agreeing to work together
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In 2013 a lady named Maria was the first person to cycle to the South Pole
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The odd nighttime behaviour in cats and dogs is very normal and is called FRAPS
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The origins of the phrase 'Close, but no cigar'
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Why is the dessert is spelt S-U-N-D-A-E
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That crack in your cats fang is actually a blood groove
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If you minced the human population, we would only fill a 1km sphere
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When collars were first invented they were removable
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The annual global cost of things going rusty is $2.5 TRILLION
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A hitman was hired to do a job, which ended up with a complete 180
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A British surgeon burnt his initials into a patients liver
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The western fence lizard does pushups to attract a mate
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Unmarried couples stopped hanky panky in the olden days with a wooden blocker board
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The Commonwealth games starts today! So it's apt to give you a fact about them games to give you a runup to watching your country compete!
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This is a dangerous fact. Because after this.it's very easy to tangent onto a few google searches around WW2 inventions and boom! 3 days passed and you're flatmates are telling you to shower as you're making the house reek. Check it out.
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Always fun to learn a thing or two about something most of us use in everyday life. Time to shine some light on 'the backpack'
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Not Jack, not Billy Zane, not Leo Dicaprio, some other man who managed to survive the Titanic sinking had what you would probably call PTSD today. Back in 1912 though, that was before WW1 even so no such thing. A fascinating fact nontheless...
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Next time you find yourself taking the choo choo, have a look and try to find the big sandbox. If it's a sunny day the train won't need it, maybe you'll get to build a wee sandcastle!
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A great twist in the musical world, bagpipes are synonmous with Scotland, they are popular in other places around the world, heck Richie McCaw can play them. But Pakistan are the big dawgs of bagpipe manufacturing
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If you missed it as well, happy butt week. Also food for thought, if your anus could be anywhere else on your body, where would you put it?
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Britain has recently had the hottest day on record, and based on their air conditioning stats, nobody was ready for it.
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Start saving those pennies. If you want to buy all the real estate everywhere in the world we've come up with a total price for you. It'll take a while to get that high but you gotta start somewhere right?
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The first ever Mcdonalds restaurant in Guatemala gets to lay claim to one of the most well known institutions in the restaurant industry.
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The fact is so mind baffling that Hayley and Fletch can't seem to get their heads around it. But dems da facts. Let Vaughan explain...
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The idea of working in your own cubicle was meant to be part of something much much bigger!
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Talk about a clickbait headline right? As a New Zealand radio station no doubt we have a few listeners pulled over from across the ditch, this ones for you!
Go play on the longest golf course ever
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Snails are everywher and they're hogging all the teeth! Next time there's a rainy day, find one, open up that chomper and start counting
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Today, June 23rd, it's Fletch's birthday! Vaughan Googles who else shares Fletch's day and the team have a clear fave
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Vaughan shares another fact, this time all about tiger beetles and how fast they can run
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The OG Tinkerbell didn't have her iconic fairy dust!! Disney had to add it in to prevent kids injuring themselves from trying to fly.
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Vaughan brings you the history of tobacco and how it came to the UK.
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New Zealand had motor cars before they had motor car laws... seems a bit backwards!
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When cup holders are done right they save the day! So when was the cup holder included in the interior design of a car?
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To quote Vaughan 'we're a weird little mammal aren't we?'
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Female porcupines are ruthless when they're in the ✨ mood ✨The team find the whole ritual quite amusing 🤣
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There's a condition called giant urinary syndrome and one man's bladder held 11 litres!
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There's so much we don't know about water, we could do a 3 hour podcast and still have more to say. So instead of doing that we'll ease you in and tell you just one fact in 3 minutes.
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A plan to catch a murderer was successful thanks to the killer falling right into the police's trap
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There are 350 officially recognised types of pasta in Italy, and the number keeps on climbing!
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In 1836 the missionary explorer William Colenso found a bell, which had been used by Māori as a cooking vessel for generations. This bell quickly became a mystery because it wasn't made locally, so how did it get here and where did it come from?
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Today's fact, from Hayley is that hippos milk is sometimes pink!
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Poor Vaughan has Covid and is broadcasting from home. This sparked the question, can pets or animals in general catch Covid from humans?
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The remaining singer from 'The Offspring,' Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology and is now dedicating his life to HIV research. More in today's episode.
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Vaughan's back & he's out the gate, sharing a fact all about earthworms (🤢) !!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today's fact is brought to you by Fletch!
The children's show, Teletubbies, was filmed on a private farm that belonged to Rosemary. When people started trespassing on Rosemary's property, she took matters into her own hand.
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Since Vaughan's away, it's Hayleys turn for Fact of the Day! She's sharing a fact about the shortest war in history. The war was between Britain and Germany in 1890, find out HOW long the war was in today's episode!
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Fletch shares the Fact of the Day and he's chosen a goodie! Today's fact follows a musician's broken guitar worth $3,500.
Let's just say, never mess with a musician or they'll write a song about you ... in this case a diss track 😲See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There's a website where you can live stream theme parks ALL day. So if you miss the rush of adrenaline this might be for you!
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In 2016 a Kiwi was detained in Kazakhstan because officials didn't believe New Zealand as country! Mind-blowingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vaughan's most fascinated by steam locomotives so much so that he found out how many litres of water one would need travelling from Wellington to Auckland!
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Yup, you read the title right, crazy aye? Learn all about in today's episode!
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Like apples? Have no teeth? Try sheep bone!
If you're not that keen, this is what Europeans used to do back in the 1600s to early 1900s 😲
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Vaughan found that a syndrome exists called beauty parlour syndrome.
Three worlds on what can happen: reduced blood flow.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you're in America, you could be fined $250,000 if you're found with an eagle or its parts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Chinese takeaway boxes was painted in 1894 for the main purpose of carrying oysters home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We live in a world where QR codes are EVERYWHERE, they're almost the new bar code. So how many ways could you arrange a QR code? (spoiler the answer is out of this world).
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There's a font out there that a tree grew!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eel blood is toxic to humans and Vaughan tells us WHYSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's international no diet day! Vaughan shares the worst diets throughout history and encourages you to treat your self today xSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's 1908, you're in France and a cheeky dog has cracked the system on how to receive more treats... just keep your kids close!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Before parks, your go to place to have a picnic would be at a cemetery... not scary at all!!
Want more? Here's a bit we love from Bree & Clint – unleashed every weekday arvo from 3PM. They're always up to something!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Corn, poison, rats, it's all go on this mornings episode!
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What country has the most diverse language? We'll give you a clue it's near Australia with a population of 7 million!
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A question many ponder but now, thanks to Vaughan and his ability to google, we have an answer!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There was a dress rehearsal for the moon landing all those years ago! On that trip a secret transcript has revealed a conversation between those on the ship... let's just say someone lied!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Assassination is the topic of the day... grim but for some reason fascinating.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vaughan shares why he won't partake in a hobby often seen in craft videos!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bamboo, you da real MVP. Looks great, feels great, grows quickly and so so handy. Matter of fact it's handy because you can literally do a million things with it. Well maybe minus one because it was the O.G gas transporter back in the day. Not so anymore.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chess is the ultimately test of AI intelligence. With millions of decisions and options that can be made on the board, a computer figuring out its best moves takes a lot of power. We used to be the best and kick those comps all over the kerb! Nowadays though...they're on a win streak that they don't look like losing anytime soon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Prince Phillip (rip) has left an enduring legacy all over the world including noneother than the world of colours.
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Leonardo da Vinci, painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, architect and WATER THIEF?!?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jet black has a history and here's where you'll learn about it!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nestled in the US a record is held, that record is of a certain island that is the smallest inhabited island in the world. It's small, someone lives there.
Hey if they've got wifi and a good bookshelf. It sounds like a dream.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Two for one fact day today! You've read the title you know what's coming for that, but there's also a little extra in the ice hockey realm too. Respect to those poor soldiers of WW1, let's all get up for dawn service this upcoming ANZAC DaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
No doubt this has been covered by Sir David Attenborough at some point but it's always good to have a refresher. Any animal facts we can slip into Fact of the Day, everybody winsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One of the classic random google searches when you're bored. 'Google what is the total population of the world?'Then bam, off you go on a fun wee statistical journey that ultimately gets confusing and back to Tiktok you go! But this wee extra stat that Vaughan has cooked up for you is a real doozy...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We've gone from waiting a literal BILLION years for something to happen on earth, to throwing tandrums when it takes too long to get your meal in the drive through. Progress.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On the surface, this fact is rather obvious. Dig a little deeper though and the reasons why and the whole history of the continent, omg it's simply delicious!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today's fact is about the causes of divorce in countries, specifically in Egypt where that had a major increase in divorce rates. To get divorced there you have to give a reason, and what a surprise it was to see Candy Crush and Playstation as noted reasons for the sudden increases!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Time is confusing at the best of ....times. And it's even making these descriptions confusing. We have daylight savings and spring forward, lean back, and time zones all over the world. And your car and microwave doesn't auto update making things even messier!
History often gives explanations of how we got to do things the way we do and this fact of the day helps explain why New Zealand is playing it's own game when it comes to our timezone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Carmel Indiana's Zip code is 46032, it's also a town that chose to use roundabouts in the 90's and it made a big difference. Now you know two things about Carmel Indiana.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Enhance your world knowledge with this juicy fact you'll be able to tell your friends at the cafe and you'll be the coolest person in the group!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Who knew video games were such big money? When you stop and think about it, it really does make sense...but did you think about how much people are spending on candy crush?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is not opinion of the day or rumour of the day. It's Fact of the Day! So we aren't offended when you hear this and question the valiidity but it's true. Based on history and research. If you see the amount of underwear being purchased by men dropping. It's an indicator that the economy is heading for a dip...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How many can you guess? They aren't specific to one little area either, they are all over the world! Have fun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Yes pokemon was referenced in this episode of Fact of the Day. All the river monsters were caught!! Not sure if the host collected all the gym badges and defeated the Elite Four though...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Outside of New Zealand this may be a little hard to explain, but EVERYBODY knows about this in the land of the long white cloud. As the world got smaller and smaller, language issues were bound to cause a few mishaps and in 2008 Whakatane struggled to get it's own name on the google map.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ancient rome had their own version of the eye test, but they didn't have the fancy machines and the chart with the letters getting smaller and smaller (or maybe they did and we couldn't find any). You wanna be an archer? you gotta pass this test first.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Same moon, different month? The moon gets a whole new name. The farmers got together and decided on a bunch of different names for the full moon depending on what time of year it is. Did they do that internationally? doubtful. But hey those farmers work pretty hard so let them have their fun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The sport of golf requires lots of land to have a proper 18 hole course. New Zealand has a decent amount of land and we can proudly lay claim to 1% of the worlds golf courses (90% are probably run with the good old fashioned 'honestly box'. The USA has LOTS of land. Hence all those coursesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you know why drinks are sometimes called sparkling wine instead of Champagne, you know where we are going with this...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Corosion is one of those words you hear about in year 9 science class along with 'biodegrading' and 'bunsen burner'. In San Franciso, a certain lamp post was always being urinated on, to the point where it coroded and came crashing down, nearly killing a poor citizen. Peeing on something to bring it down? Challenge accepted...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Insulation, you da real MVP. If going to the bottle store in Summer is your idea of fluctuating temperature shifts, it's got nothing on outer space. That puppy is jumping up and down all over the place freezing things and burning things to a crisp in seconds. So all those astronauts living on the ISS, how do they have it so comfy? Vaughan will tell you...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Are you the new King or Queen of your country? Not so keen on going by the name you're known by currently? Well well well it turns out you being all knowing all powerful, you have the ability to choose a different name.....If it's a name that already runs in your family. You know for all the power and money and fame that comes with royality, there are a lot of rules you have to abide by...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Turns out in the U.K you can have some tea and crumpets, pay cricket, have a pint, high 5 a member of One Direction and top your pets blood up all in the same day!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The bloody mary is on menus around the world. As a kid it sounds horrible, as an adult it sounds enticing....but still horrible (until you find out what it's for...and then it sounds like it might be REALLY helpful) But what is the origin story of the name? Well here you go.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As soon as you turn 25, the countdown begins, and slowly but surely your brain delegates more and more space to World War 2 facts. So here's another one.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The history of the 90's east coast vs west coast gangsta rap scene is getting further and further away from our memories. While it still has major roots in todays music with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, P Diddy and more, some legends were lost such as the likes of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, AKA The Notorious B.I.G...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Anyone over 30 loves to tell stories of times yonder, when the rules were a little looser and safety hadn't happened yet. Often you'll hear of the first time someone tasted alcohol and it was usually before the legal age limit. Turns out in many places if you're with your parents, its allowed!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The US inventor Thomas Edison is well renouned for the things he gave to the world, and not gonna lie, lately some of his actions in the history books are under a microscope for being morally questionable at best. Imagine our surprise then when a famous person with a sketchy background thinks his son isn't up to his standards! That's exactly what happened with Thomas Edison jr...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You may wonder what the United States are doing with that mega super humungous military budget everyone knows they have. Well you got the cash to spend, you buy the best of the best in every facet, to the point where they spend so much on customised equipement, it puts pretty strict rules on the user! Kind of like when your parents bought a new car and you weren't allowed to eat snacks in the back for the first 6 months...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Not gonna lie, this was a hard one to wrap our heads around. It took a few listens and it looks quite shocking from the outset looking through the lens of todays society, but when you dig a little deeper with Fletch Vaughan and Hayley it starts to make sense with a bit of context. Genetic and DNA testing shows that back in the day, a man who could provide bare human essentials like food, shelter, clothing etc would prove quite a catch in our ancient days.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A study has shown and proven that those wonderful friends and family members in society who keep our administration train ticking along, do so at a price. The people who spend more time worrying about 'what's the next thing we need to get done' as opposed to living in the moment and enjoying what's happening right here, right now, tend to have issues recalling those events in the future!
Stressing about how you have to go back to work in 4 days time? Don't worry about it! Live in the now and you'll have a much better experience.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vaughan is settling on a theme lately, and that theme is Volodmyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine. As you dig deeper into Volodmyr's history he is truly a facsinating creature, we've learnt he is a champion of Dancing with the Stars, he was in a comedy troupe that parodied becoming President of Ukraine, then it actually happened! The fun hasn't stopped there though, it turns out, Zelenskyy once provided the voice dub for the Ukrainian version of the beloved icon that is Paddington Bear.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, has our hearts in regards to how he's responding to Russia. So Vaughan did some digging on his background & found that he won the first seasons of 'Dancing with the Stars!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Located in Svalbard, Norway, the government has made it illegal to die on the island. Why??? Vaughan will tell you in today's episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You can experience uncontrollable sneezing called 'snatiation' when you're full of food! You experience this because your stomach stretches when it's full.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's scary meeting new people, especially if you think they didn't like you and the vibes were off. The good news is that you might just be reading it all wrong & they really enjoyed meeting you! Vaughan shares a study that was based of first impressions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vaughan explains what birds have the jewels. This kinda leaves us to imagine which birds don't...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1969 a documentary was the most watched TV event at the time. The doco gave insight into the royal family and was so captivating that when the commercials came on everyone used that time to go toilet. This caused a water shortage!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When did the saying 'OMG' start? It must have been when text slang became a thing right? Surprisingly the saying was said in 1917, 105 years ago.... omg WHAT?!.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The chocolate chip cookie goes all the way back to 1939. A lady known for her yummy baking started it all 81 years ago! YUMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race usually an event held in France. The day before a tour there's a team of people who go around the town painting over swear words and graphic images on the roads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Have you ever felt a headache come on and you weren't sure why? In today's 'Fact of the Day' Vaughan shares how certain people can experience headaches when there's a quick change in weather pressure. Do expect a slight tangent from the team too hahaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Humans on average were taller in 16,000 bc than we are now?! WILDSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Teachers in New York would be sent to a rubber room if they had done something that was considered bad... yet not bad enough for them to be fired. It didn't take long for these teachers to take measures into their own hands & make use of their detention time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today's odd fact is that New Zealand's national open road speed limit is 1.25 million Weet-Bix per hour. After Vaughan shares this with the team they go down a deep Weet-bix hole. You've been warned!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vaughan found a list of the top 5 best smells. Also, warning: expect this episode to be a bit looser than the others, enjoy!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today's fact is all about diabetes. Specifically the meaning behind the name & how people went about testing for diabetes years ago.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Micheal Jackson was interested to play the Star Wars character Ja Ja Binks. Due to different visions for this character between Micheal Jackson, the director & producers they didn't proceed with casting him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 2015 a narwhal got lost, leaving the arctic & swimming south. Eventually the narwhal came across a pod of belugas & they adopted this Narwhal as one of their own.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For the last 50 years Donald Duck has had a superhero alter ego.... but only in Italy!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Carrots are native to Afghanistan! While the team digest this fact, Haley starts to question how the same vegetable can be various different coloursSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
To finish off the week, Vaughan blows us away with two facts in one. We learn about the age of ciabatta bread & about the history of Italy. It's truly mind blowing!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There's a Wikipedia page listing every film & TV accident whilst filming. A silent film in 1914 was in the middle of filming a scene where the actors were crossing a river. Someone tragically capsized which resulted in the rescuer and the actor dying in quicksand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
All historical and modern tunnel boring machines are named after females. Why? Because of Saint Barbara. A patron saint of minors and underground workers. More on this in today's episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bruce Springsteen's song 'born in the USA' is about the economic hardships of Vietnam war veterans returning home & how hard it was even though they were born in the USA. The song however charted better in NZ than it did in AmericaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
WARNING: This is dark
Vaughan, half a bottle of room temperature chardonnay deep, decided this would be a perfect fact for Breakfast radio...
In the later stages of burning people on a stake, people started to question this ritual. Thus gunpowder was added to kill the victim instantly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wordle is the game the whole world is playing. It's where you guess one word a day but you have 6 attempts to guess it. It's the most wholesome game yet!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There are 16 unused starts to NZ postcodes - postcodes starting in 27,28, 29 are unused with more clusters higher up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vaughan takes you on a journey explaining the history of how a 19th century French Journalists tombstone statue came to be. Located in Paris, the statue is often visited by women who believe in the myth that by touching the statues bulge, kissing it & placing flowers in its hat will aid them in getting pregnant.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the 18th century, Botulinum toxin (best known as Botox) was found to be the causative agent of a series of devastating outbreaks in Germany all caused by suspiciously bad sausages!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dave Marks was an extraordinary man who built the New Plymouth's wind wand at 76. The amount of steps he did would euqivalate to a mighty walk from one iconic NZ city to another. Rest in peace DaveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
March 10th, a day full of many things. Two notable things worth mentioning is Jon Hamm's birthday & COVID being declared a pandemic by the World Heath Organisation a year ago (March 10th 2020).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On the day this was recorded it was Barbies birthday. Enjoy a whole bunch of Barbie facts in her honourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There's one person who has won two EGOT'S, Robert Lopez & he's on his way to win his third.
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The way boa constrictor snakes can kill you is NOT by cutting off your breathing supply but by putting you into cardiac arrestSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 1982, mechanics at a Car Rally found 3 fingers in the bonnet. This accident occurred from an old Portuguese tradition - where you would try touch the fast rally cars zooming by. If you touched one you it meant good luck.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There are many elements named after countries. Argentina, however, is the only country in the world to be named after an element!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
From October 2009 - to January 2010 Kirsten Dunst was apart of an art exhibition in London. Her role was to be dressed as Akihabara Majokko Princess & sing!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
'Ye' in the phrase 'Ye Olde' is pronounced like 'The Olde.' In this episode, the team pick apart the history of this well known and often mispronounced phrase.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Four years ago an oil rig company went broke & had to stop work immediately, meaning the oil rig working at sea needed to stop and drop anchor. The crew of five are still stranded at sea with no assistance provided to get back homeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Americans didn't regularly brush their teeth until after WW2... I KNOW GROSS RIGHT?? The US soldiers observed how regular the Europeans brushed their teeth & began to implement this habit into their own livesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Over in Switzerland rules came into place in 2013 where witches were not allowed to fly their broomsticks above the 150 meter airspace limitSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In one of the coldest countries in Europe lies the continents largest Banana plantation. A greenhouse is built where the warmth from the geothermal vents is used as a way to warm the growing fruit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In WW2 Bulgaria faced war with everyone BUT only for a period of time. Due to Bulgaria taking there time in declaring war on Germany, Russia was declaring war on Bulgaria.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Published in 1745 by polish priest Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski, was the first ever polish encyclopedia. In this first edition lies a rather humours way to explain what a 'horse' is... #moodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Excuse the hectic energy from today's episode, just go with it. The worlds only remaining 1G network is located in RussiaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In Japan the word 'Viking' means 'Buffets.' In 1957 a restaurant manager had travelled abroad and saw various ways each culture prepared and ate food. Due to the Swedish name 'Smörgåsbord' proving a complicated word to pronounce, the word 'viking' came into play. More explained in this episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The worlds rarest plant is called a Middlemist's Red camellia & there's only two in the world. One in london and the other in New Zealand!!!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dolly Parton and Buffy the Vampire Slayer share the same birthday.... however, this is no coincidence at all!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 1906 an American organisation was created with the aim to change the structure of the English language. With a big task ahead they started with 300 words - looking at what could be changed and simplified.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The word 'teenager' was first used in 1944. Why? It was all to do with advertisingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Elliptical speech is the inner speech you do all day everyday & your brain is quite capable of processing thousands of words a minute!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The oldest (known) Christmas film is 1 minute 16 seconds long. We'll let Vaughan tell you the plot!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The song 'baby it's cold outside' was written with the purpose to inform guests that it's time to go. Want your guests to leave? Maybe write them a songSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vaughan loves fruit cake, as you'll hear throughout this episode. The fact though: traditional fruit cake should have the same density as mahogany wood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There was a competition in 1997 to win an exact replica of The Simpsons house. The catch? You could take a large sum of money instead.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The third largest city, both in population and by GDP, is called David. Vaughan takes a look at city names and sees if there's any cities names Carl, Tracy, Vaughan and many more. Want to know your name? Here's the website https://geotargit.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
NASA has employed a super sniffer. Hired to smell everything in space crafts in order to avoid any dangerous situations that could occur in spaceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Have you ever wondered why Angostura's Lemon, Lime and Bitters has such a massive label? One simple mistake became a signature look for this brand! Vaughan explains it all in today's poddySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In Sweden the Gavle Yule Goat is a 42-foot-high statue made of wood and straw. Around the festive season this statue is assembled in the town square. A tradition starting in 1966, as a marketing ploy, has continued to continuously receive destruction from the public. In this episode Vaughan takes you through the years of what this poor goat has enduredSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Silly string, a fun party must-have, is used in US military to aid them in identifying if trip wires are close by.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Anders Celsius created the concept of the celsius temperature scale & never got to use it. Sadly, he caught tuberculosis and passed away. 'Who continued his work' you ask? Vaughan will tell in this episodeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Just like alpacas, having a few male donkeys or billy goats in your paddock can help bring peace when farming bulls. If not.... it looks like the weakest bull will get killed off :((((See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
To participate in this brain exercise, interlock your thumbs and rotate them. If it's a piece of cake you've got a smart connected brain.... if not then keep practising, you'll get there!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Why did Tom Hanks' character in the 80's film 'Splash' needed to get a blood test in order to get married? Is it true that after WW2 people believed you shouldn't be allowed to get married if you have an STI? Shock, confusion and utter disbelief will be felt throughout this podcast, you've been warned.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Around this time of year, leading into Christmas, families may raise their own turkeys to eat. There have been many cases reported that a particular animal find Turkeys quite yum. So, as a way to prevent them being eaten before Christmas, Alpacas share a paddock with them and become their very protective bodyguard!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
'WHO KNEW' Fletch says to Vaughn after hearing this sneaky fact. Male garter snakes are sneaky things, tricking other male snakes to cuddle up to them INSTEAD of female snakes. WHY? Listen and you'll find out!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's 1961 and you just found out it's now illegal for anyone to get a tattoo in NYC. Was it for good reason or was it simply pettiness and revenge from someone in power?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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