# 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:** 356
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7111 "2023-08-02T14:40:06Z")
Is that where the grand juries meet? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7112 "2023-08-02T15:57:25Z")
Hickory and Dickory intersect with Dock some 500 feet apart: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211srUeUPjG66JUkC5xiKpaBgQ%212m2%211d29.9663142%212d-90.2065198%213f310.56%214f9.305%215f0.15 https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sEWXtVMRpC-5GlYOSMu08WA%212m2%211d29.9663232%212d-90.2050419%213f152.09%214f9.516%215f0.244 There used to be a Mouse Lane nearby but I believe that area has been developed into a gated community and the name changed. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7113 "2023-08-02T23:38:21Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I always liked St. James-Bond United Church (on Bond Street in Toronto). You remember when airport announcements would say “Smith, John Smith, please pick up the white courtesy phone?” Perhaps it was a joke, but one my Wife and I heard was “Bond, James Bond please pick up the white courtesy phone” Got peoples attention, that’s for sure. Bond, James Bond. We are all initially kinda looking around and I just broke up laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7114 "2023-08-03T00:35:45Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > > [@Sunspace](#): > > > > Reminds me of the village of Bath, Ontario, which has the Bath Water Filtration Plant. > > I always liked St. James-Bond United Church (on Bond Street in Toronto). The chuch closed/merged in 2005, but the name “St James-Bond United Church” dates back to the 1928 merger between St James Square Presbyterian Church and Bond Street Congregation al Church. [St. James-Bond Church - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James-Bond_Church) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7115 "2023-08-03T03:52:43Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > You remember when airport announcements would say “Smith, John Smith, please pick up the white courtesy phone?” Followed by “Fusco, Rolf Fusco, please pick up a gold courtesy saxophone and wail, man, wail!” (From a memorable Fusco Brothers comic strip I saw some years ago.) ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7116 "2023-08-03T04:16:13Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > You remember when airport announcements would say “Smith, John Smith, please pick up the white courtesy phone?” In the movie _Choke_, there are several scenes where the mother is quizzing her son on what the coded message that comes over the PA means. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7117 "2023-08-03T04:30:04Z")
Remember the hollow flying saucer candies holding a few dots of more candy from the 50s and 60s? Catholics recognized the saucer itself was very similar to the Communion wafer. It turns out the candy was invented _ **by** _ a company that made Communion wafers. Demand for the wafers had been declining, so they decided to try making a candy that uses them. The candy can still be purchased on the web. > **[Flying saucer (confectionery)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_saucer_(confectionery))** > > Flying saucers (Flemish: Zure ouwels) are small spheroidal capsules of sherbet-filled rice paper. > The first flying saucers were produced in the early 1950s when an Antwerp-based producer of communion wafers, Belgica, faced a decline in demand for their product. Astra Sweets now owns the Belgica brand and continue to make the product. Flying saucers are officially registered as a traditional product of Flanders. Their popularity in the United Kingdom from the 1960s to the 1970s was attributed t... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7118 "2023-08-03T12:09:23Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Perhaps it was a joke, but one my Wife and I heard was “Bond, James Bond please pick up the white courtesy phone” “That was fiendishly clever trick to blow my cover, Blofeld.” ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7119 "2023-08-03T12:27:55Z")
We have a regular client in our store named James Bond. He does not look like 007 🙂 being somewhere between 50 and 70, and having the demeanor of a very good CPA. He’s a nice guy. And I have been a good person and never once made any reference to his name - I figure he’s has a lifetime of it! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7120 "2023-08-03T12:56:32Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@enipla](#): > > > > Perhaps it was a joke, but one my Wife and I heard was “Bond, James Bond please pick up the white courtesy phone” > > “That was fiendishly clever trick to blow my cover, Blofeld.” It worked for George Kaplan. Or so they thought. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7121 "2023-08-03T20:27:42Z")
Martin Sheen’s initials (birth name) are RAGE. _maybe not all that interesting, but at least random_ ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7122 "2023-08-03T21:11:44Z")
Totally brilliant fact! As the wiki notes, there has been a significant resurgence in the popularity of Flying Saucers in the UK over the last few years. j ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7123 "2023-08-04T12:14:10Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > It worked for George Kaplan. Or so they thought. Rocky: That trick never works! Bullwinkle: This time for sure! ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7124 "2023-08-04T19:37:16Z")
We were at Nyman’s Gardens in Sussex today. From an info board I learned that, in the early years of the 20th Century, an extension to the house there had been designed by the splendidly named Norman Adolphus Evill FRIBA. So - I wondered - A Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects - but did he have a PhD? Sadly not, so far as I can tell, but once you’ve fallen down _that_ rabbit hole… Doctor Evill #1 - Dr. Frederick Claude Evill - here’s [his obituary](https://www.bmj.com/content/1/3558/528.4) Seems to have been anything but evil(l) Doctor Evill #2 - Dr. Charles Evill, [currently practicing](https://www.healthshare.com.au/profile/professional/184306-dr-charles-evill/#overview) in Queensland, Australia it would seem. I wonder if anyone ever mentions… j BTW - Norman Adolphus Evill has his own wiki - [Norman Evill - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Evill) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7125 "2023-08-04T20:10:24Z")
“Interesting” can also mean “Kind of weird”, right? [Video Man in custom-made dog outfit gets taken for a walk - ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/man-custom-made-dog-outfit-gets-walk-101961552) That just seems hot and uncomfortable to me but to each their own. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7126 "2023-08-04T22:55:02Z")
Back when he was a senior in high school, one of my offspring got a temp job dressing as Tony the Tiger for a single-day promotion. He said the inside of that character costume really smelled. And he was sealed in with it. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7127 "2023-08-05T00:27:04Z")
Yeah, I used to work at Hershey Park, and those mascot costumes were _horrid_ on the inside. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7128 "2023-08-05T00:49:56Z")
Those hot-air balloons that you see floating softly across the sky - the burners on those things are LOUD. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7129 "2023-08-05T02:50:27Z")
I have usually tried to do the same, if a person has an interesting name like that, or I believe they look like a well known person. Only once, back in the late eightied, did I break this habit. I was working at MSU in East Lansing and a maintence man came to work on one of the big ovens in our Central Bakery. The guy looked SO much like a young Paul McCartney! I aske him “has anyone ever told you…” and he spat out “Yes!” I never even mentioned the name and didn’t finish the question. Since then I haven’t let temptation get to me. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/7130 "2023-08-05T13:05:40Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Those hot-air balloons that you see floating softly across the sky - the burners on those things are LOUD. Yeah. Went to a balloon festival. It must have been zero degrees. My beer kept freezing. The balloons where anchored to the ground and they kept the crowd meandering around somewhat warmer by blasting those burners. They where also, of course keeping the balloon from collapsing. I’m rather stunned a balloon didn’t ‘escape’, especially in that cold heavy air. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=355) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=357)