# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1) **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 315
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6291 "2023-03-25T22:59:40Z")
The best parting comment I heard, in a movie, the Mitchum character gets up, puts on his jacket and says to the bartender, “_I’ll see you all of a sudden, Sam._” ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6292 "2023-03-27T23:40:42Z")
Today, I stumbled across: Into the Jungle! A Boy’s Comic Strip History of World War II > **[Comics Brut-al - The Comics Journal](https://www.tcj.com/comics-brut-al/)** > > In 2021, Paul Karasik introduced the world to the ultraviolent 1940s homemade comics of child artist James Kugler. Now, on the occasion of those comics receiving a scholarly presentation from the University Press of Mississippi, Karasik reflects... ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6293 "2023-03-27T23:51:32Z")
TIL Jimi Hendrix’s hair style was inspired by Bob Dylan’s afro on the cover of _Blonde on Blonde_. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6294 "2023-03-28T10:56:30Z")
So you’re saying the Jewfro predates the Afro? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6295 "2023-03-28T11:16:18Z")
During WW2, four brothers from the same family, joined up to fight Nazis. Only one returned. His grandson is today President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6296 "2023-03-28T19:30:56Z")
Only man to ever eat plutonium? > **[Donald Mastick | Manhattan Project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Mastick#Manhattan_Project)** > > By the time Mastick graduated, the United States had entered World War II. Mastick was studying radioactive carbon. He told Professor Wendell Latimer that he could not stand by while there was a war on, and that he was leaving. Latimer suggested that he instead join a secret project, which would lead to a commission in the United States Navy. He introduced him to Robert Oppenheimer, who recruited him for the Manhattan Project. Initially, Mastick's job was to draw up lists of equipment required by... ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6297 "2023-03-28T21:05:22Z")
But still lived to be 87, amazingly. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6298 "2023-03-29T07:00:09Z")
Likely not to come as a surprise to some of you, but ISO doesn’t stand for International Standards/Standardization Organization. The official name is International Organization for Standardization, which, if you’re paying attention, doesn’t seem to fit the organization’s actual name of ISO. The latter name was chosen by its founders in reference to the Greek word _isos_, which means equal, so that the same name can be used in any language. What a wild and coherent bunch they are. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6299 "2023-04-01T14:48:49Z")
TIL there was a small chain of drive-in restaurants in Texas which provided in-car air conditioning. [![](https://res.cloudinary.com/graham-media-group/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_scale,w_900/v1/media/gmg/6NJW7R5GTFDADHW7Z6JC423PPE.jpg?_a=AJARNWIA) ](https://res.cloudinary.com/graham-media-group/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_scale,w_900/v1/media/gmg/6NJW7R5GTFDADHW7Z6JC423PPE.jpg?_a=AJARNWIA) > **[Prince's Hamburgers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%27s_Hamburgers)** > > Prince's Hamburgers is a chain of hamburger restaurants. The business was founded in Dallas in 1929 and expanded into Houston, peaking at 18 locations. The last location in Houston closed in 2018, but the restaurant was revived in 2020. > > This US-based restaurant or restaurant chain article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This Texas-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. > **[31 Houston-area eateries that have stood the test of time](https://www.click2houston.com/features/2021/01/07/31-houston-area-eateries-that-have-stood-the-test-of-time/)** > > In Houston’s restaurant scene, high value is often placed on innovation, novelty and newness -on the trendiest restaurant, the most unique dining experience or the latest foodie fad. It is no wonder, then, that so many of the city’s oldest eateries... ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6300 "2023-04-03T11:15:10Z")
Morocco is the only primarily-Muslim country, and the only country not in Europe, East Asia, or North America, to have a national pavilion at [Epcot](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ride/DisneyThemeParks). Hassan II sent Moroccan artisans to help design and build the pavilion, and it was the only Epcot pavilion actively sponsored by the host country’s government until 2020 when Disney took ownership of the pavilion. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6301 "2023-04-03T15:19:11Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > A quarter of your bones are in your feet. Most of the bones in your body are in your hands and your feet. Unless you are pregnant. In that case most of the bones in your body could be in your uterus. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6302 "2023-04-03T15:32:42Z")
There are no natural lakes in Maryland. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6303 "2023-04-03T15:50:56Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > It sounds just like ragtime/boogie woogie. I used to have this a long time ago and the first time I heard it I was absolutely floored for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6304 "2023-04-03T16:56:44Z")
Actually, in that case, you are carrying around someone else’s body and, technically, the bones are within its body. Not that any body cares. 😈 ---
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> [@TriPolar](#): > > Most of the bones in your body are in your hands and your feet. Unless you are pregnant. In that case most of the bones in your body could be in your uterus. Or recently eaten a bunch of sardines? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6306 "2023-04-03T17:29:40Z")
“Your bones” and “the bones in your body” are not synonymous. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6307 "2023-04-03T18:06:55Z")
Yes, would only apply to human bones. Don’t know what the boniest animal you might eat would be but sardines would be up there. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6308 "2023-04-03T19:27:45Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > There are no natural lakes in Maryland. It’s also been said that Ohio has no natural lakes. (Well, other than Lake Erie. But it is not entirely within Ohio.) However, I know that Ohio has a number of [kettle lakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_(landform)). Have always wondered if they “count.” ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6309 "2023-04-03T19:32:53Z")
It might depend on size. I did find a **[thread elsewhere]**([Ohio's 7 natural lakes | Ohio Game Fishing](https://www.ohiogamefishing.com/threads/ohios-7-natural-lakes.22842/)) discussing Ohio’s very few natural lakes. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/6310 "2023-04-03T20:03:11Z")
Apparently there’s a minimum size for a natural lake to distinguish them from ponds. According to one source the minimum is 20 acres but I’m not sure that’s the number used in the case of Maryland. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=314) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=316)