# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3448 "2022-01-17T08:25:07Z")
I agree.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3449 "2022-01-17T11:23:53Z")
> [@Limmin](#):
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> Of course this is true, and wasei-eigo ([和製英語]) is proper Japanese.
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> Typically, however, I hear “Japaneezu-engurishhu,” spoken ironically no doubt.
Oh, I thought when you said “the term used by Japanese” you were talking about the term Japanese use when talking in Japanese. Since I usually talk in Japanese to Japanese people then you would have more experience talking to them in English.
> [@Limmin](#):
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> This phrasing would be hard to understand to anyone whose ears aren’t tuned to Japanese pronunciation of English words. In other words, the term itself is also “Japanese English.”
[pedantic nitpick]
Actually not, if you are saying that "Japanese English is wasei-eigo ([和製英語]), or “Japanese-made English,” which are words which the Japanese themselves make up new meanings out of English words. Another such example is ｷｯﾁﾝﾄﾞﾘﾝｶｰ “kitchen drinker” meaning an alcoholic housewife.
“Japaneezu-engurishhu,” in an English sentence would be the deliberate mispronunciation of perfectly good English words which are appropriate for that situation.
[pedantic /nitpick]
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3450 "2022-01-17T14:29:01Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#):
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> Now I know that land cows also consume mass quantities of vegetation, and as a result they emit vast amounts of methane and other gases into the atmosphere. This raised an obvious -to me- question about the sea cows. After some lively family conversation about sea cow flatulence, I went to Google and typed in “do manatees fart a lot?”
Saw a manatee fart at Disney World. Or possibly poop – I don’t think there’s a huge difference between them. as The Learned Master once said, whale poop “like Top 40 radio and other effluvia, has little substance and no depth.”
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3451 "2022-01-17T16:11:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Saw a manatee fart at Disney World. Or possibly poop – I don’t think there’s a huge difference between them. as The Learned Master once said, whale poop “like Top 40 radio and other effluvia, has little substance and no depth.”
**[Iguanas fart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOwvmZSVrNU)**.
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3452 "2022-01-17T18:30:33Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> > It’s sonder.
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> Does it originate from the German root “sonder”, like in “besonders” (“special”), or in compound words like “Sonderbehandlung” (“special treatment”)?
I think it’s related to the Dutch ‘zonder’ (and ‘bijzonder’: special) which means ‘without’ in English. It’s from the Middle Dutch ‘sonder’.
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3453 "2022-01-17T19:13:12Z")
Just looked it up, and the etymologies of “lizard” and “wizard” are completely different. Specifically a lizard is not an -ard of something that is “liz”.
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### Author:  [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3454 "2022-01-17T23:36:19Z")
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> But what I learned is that when running, a human’s foot hits the ground at 7 gravities, which I think is damned impressive.
Wow. No wonder my back is so messed up. And knees. And why my feet got wide. 🤦♀️
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### Author:  [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3455 "2022-01-19T15:55:01Z")
I just found a little blog “dedicated to translating wartime Japanese newspapers.” Worth a look.
> **[Exposing Imperial Japan](https://tpjv86b.blogspot.com/2021/11/)**
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> Occupied Korea, Imperial Japan, Japanese occupation, World War II, colonialism, imperialism, militarism, fascism, shintoism, assimilation
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3456 "2022-01-19T17:05:36Z")
Today i discovered another meaning for the word [elope..](https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/elopement)
## elope
**1.** To run away secretly with a lover, esp. to marry.
**2.** To leave a hospital, esp. a psychiatric hospital, without permission.
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### Author:  [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3457 "2022-01-19T17:39:16Z")
Darn! I should have looked myself and not trusted those native speakers who wrote that elope cannot possibly mean escape.
Checks [Webster’s](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elope) and:
> **:** to slip away **:** [escape](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escape) … might have mistaken him for … some scarecrow _eloped_ from a cornfield.— Washington Irving
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> b **:** to leave a health-care or educational facility without permission or authorization …10 suicidal patients deemed ‘high risk for suicide’ eloped from the Emergency Department from October 2014 and February 2015.— Charles S. Clark Police in Ohio said this week that they gave a nursing home resident a ride and dropped him off at a gas station without ever knowing he was a dementia patient who had eloped.— Kimberly Marselas
Thanks, **pjd**!
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3458 "2022-01-19T17:49:35Z")
Just found out today, Dot Matrix from _Spaceballs_ and voiced by Joan Rivers was physically performed by Lorene Yarnell. Makes sense once you hear it.
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3459 "2022-01-19T19:13:28Z")
I just got it from [this thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-colored-things-that-come-in-multiple-colors/958048/7) - so really thanks to @whitetho
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3460 "2022-01-19T19:41:42Z")
> [@pjd](#):
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> **2.** To leave a hospital, esp. a psychiatric hospital, without permission.
Wow, I had no idea that I “eloped” following my botched appendectomy.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3461 "2022-01-19T19:50:27Z")
Hope you stopped at a good seamstress on the way home!
(to sew you back up because you eloped mid-surgery…)
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### Author:  [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3462 "2022-01-19T23:00:34Z")
> [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](#):
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> I just found a little blog “dedicated to translating wartime Japanese newspapers.” Worth a look.
Thanks, @Paul_was_in_Saudi! Both the propaganda itself and the explanatory notes are fascinating. I’d wager that not much from the Imperial Japanese press has been translated into English before.
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3463 "2022-01-20T13:47:21Z")
1. Nebraska is the only state in the U.S. that is “triple landlocked.”
2. Not withstanding, dozens of people have been bestowed the title, [Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Admiral).
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3464 "2022-01-20T22:11:49Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> Nebraska is the only state in the U.S. that is “triple landlocked.”
Hmm, I guess Manitoba counts as a “state” for this purpose? Also, I get it that the Great Lakes don’t count, but it sounds weird to call Michigan a landlocked state.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3465 "2022-01-20T23:17:39Z")
A professor asked her students at Warton School of Business what the average American earns in a year. 25% of them guessed $100,000. (The correct answer is $56,000.)
[-=Linky=-](https://www.phillyvoice.com/penn-wharton-professor-nina-strohminger-viral-tweet-average-american-salary/)
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3466 "2022-01-20T23:30:05Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> dozens of people have been bestowed the title, [Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Admiral).
Including this Doper.
AIUI, it’s thousands of admirals over the decades.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/3467 "2022-01-20T23:30:28Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> Nebraska is the only state in the U.S. that is “triple landlocked.”
I am struggling to understand what this means. I cannot come up with any definition that makes it unique.
If you count the Great Lakes, then it’s only “double landlocked”. If you don’t count the Great Lakes then there are several other States (eg Iowa, Illinois, Indiana).
And what are the rules when you hit Canada anyway?
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