# 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:** 445
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8891 "2024-02-05T16:18:25Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Imagine someone pulling money out of there in a store? I saw a sign online that said “Due to the summer weather, we will no longer accept currency pulled out of bras” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8892 "2024-02-05T16:19:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Send me the box. If you have a way to safely package active neutronium, I want to study that. The secret is 2 layers of duct tape. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8893 "2024-02-05T16:22:23Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > This may be something everybody but me already knew, but I just found out that Creed from _The Office_ (US) was also lead guitarist for The Grass Roots way back in 1967. And wasn’t his character in _The Office_ someone who had assumed the identity of Creed Bratton from Grass Roots? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8894 "2024-02-05T16:42:09Z")
They left it kind of ambiguous ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8895 "2024-02-05T18:54:41Z")
Interesting meta-fact: This is the only thread in the SDMB which is by definition impossible to hijack. Paradoxical interesting meta-fact: Which I hereby am officially attempting. Waiting for your refutals. Wonder whether the mods will slap my wrist for this. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8896 "2024-02-05T18:57:36Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > This is the only thread in the SDMB which is by definition impossible to hijack. Only if you tell uninteresting facts…(not directed at you and your post 😉) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8897 "2024-02-05T18:59:35Z")
Interestingness is in the brain of the reader. Or gets there eventually. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8898 "2024-02-05T19:11:04Z")
Wouldn’t a great debate that isn’t primarily about facts but their interpretation that monopolized the thread so that no other interesting random facts got posted be a hijack? ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8899 "2024-02-05T19:15:59Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > so that no other interesting random facts got posted I don’t think that can be achieved, but you could try to drown them in [noise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq8aXdJzSUE). ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8900 "2024-02-05T20:37:05Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > that lost fashion accessory that I know everyone misses: the codpiece. When fish fingers were first made, they were nearly launched as “battered cod pieces”. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8901 "2024-02-05T20:49:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > An interesting article from the BBC about that lost fashion accessory that I know everyone misses: the codpiece. Imagine someone pulling money out of there in a store? Every now and then someone in the world of fashion tries to re-introduce it, and it promptly gets laughed off the runway. I saw a production of Shakespeare’s _Twelfth Night_ once (it has a lot of lines about women disguising themselves as men and wearing codpieces) that had period-appropriate costumes, complete with (rather small) codpieces. It looked weird. I suspect they kept them small in the production because otherwise they’d look ridiculous to modern eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8902 "2024-02-05T21:08:38Z")
I remember thinking about that when I saw the “Frozen Cod Chunks” at the grocery store. The company must have been hitting the thesaurus heavily to think of a good name. And failed. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8903 "2024-02-06T03:17:15Z")
TIL: that among the Holocaust deniers, the term “ **Fauxlocaust** ” is commonplace. Disgusting, to be sure, and yet it set me afire. “D’hohlocaust” targeted, systematic elimination of Homer Simpson. “Brolocaust” “first they came for the young men in white ball caps and cargo shorts, and I said nothing…” “Miracle-Growlocaust” must we treat the weeds so harshly? “Coca-Colocaust” this place only has Pepsi Prolecaust: kill the workers Volvocaust: kill the liberal middle class Polocaust: kill the millionaire do-nothings ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8904 "2024-02-06T17:52:09Z")
There is a deleted scene where he meets the reporter who wrote the obituary for Creed Bratton of Grass Roots (he doesn’t say _The_ Grass Roots, if it matters). Creed explains, “About ten years ago for tax reasons, I faked his own death. I’ve been collecting benefits as my own widow ever since.” > **[Deleted Scene: Creed's Obituary | \*searches records for Creed's obituary\* |...](https://www.facebook.com/TheOfficeTV/videos/1615279275339770/)** > > \*searches records for Creed's obituary\* ---
**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:** [February 8, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8905 "2024-02-08T18:46:41Z")
Two types of crocodiles have been recorded using lures to get yummy birds within reach. > **[American Alligators, Mugger Crocodiles Use Lures to Hunt Their Prey | Sci.News](https://www.sci.news/biology/science-american-alligators-mugger-crocodiles-lures-hunt-prey-01611.html)** > > US researchers have found that mugger crocodiles and American alligators use twigs and sticks to lure birds, particularly during nest-building time. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8906 "2024-02-08T20:23:20Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Two types of crocodiles have been recorded using lures to get yummy birds within reach. “Here, birdie, birdie, birdie…” ---
**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:** [February 8, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8907 "2024-02-08T20:25:00Z")
Now I’m imagining the Road Runner zooming up to a practically comatose alligator with a stick in its mouth and going “Meep,Meep!”, then holding up a sign that says “Roadrunners don’t collect sticks!” before racing off. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8908 "2024-02-08T20:43:39Z")
That prompted me to look it up. According to > **[Greater Roadrunner Life History, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Greater_Roadrunner/lifehistory#)** > > A bird born to run, the Greater Roadrunner can outrace a human, kill a rattlesnake, and thrive in the harsh landscapes of the Desert Southwest. Roadrunners reach two feet from sturdy bill to white tail tip, with a bushy blue-black crest and mottled... > Male Greater Roadrunners bring twigs to the female, which she fashions into a compact platform with a nest cup about 4 inches deep. A male that pauses for too long in his stick-gathering may get reminded with a whining call from his partner, prompting him to get back to work. The finished nest can reach over 17 inches in diameter and 8 inches high, lined with leaves, grasses, feathers, smaller sticks, snakeskin, and flakes of cattle and horse manure. Hey, I didn’t know either! ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8909 "2024-02-09T02:54:11Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Two types of crocodiles have been recorded using lures to get yummy birds within reach. That’s cool, but have you seen **[the snake with a tail shaped like a spider](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WRXAVjaM-Ac?feature=share)**? ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8910 "2024-02-09T11:59:28Z")
This is an official election ballot in Perú … [![](https://www.telesurtv.net/export/sites/telesur/img/multimedia/2016/01/14/cyitx-owqaalkkm.jpg_949572519.jpg) ](https://www.telesurtv.net/export/sites/telesur/img/multimedia/2016/01/14/cyitx-owqaalkkm.jpg_949572519.jpg) Parties are represented by ICONS - the photos of candidates are there as well … most likely due to the historically (?) high illiterate numbers in rural (and non-rural) areas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=444) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=446)