# 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:** 446
**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 9, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8911 "2024-02-09T16:20:09Z")
TIL about the The International Butler Academy. It sounds both exhausting and oddly satisfying. ---
**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, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8912 "2024-02-09T16:36:20Z")
Supposedly, an above avg. number of members there go by the name of … Alfred ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8913 "2024-02-09T16:59:56Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > he “Frozen Cod Chunks” at the grocery store. The company must have been hitting the thesaurus heavily to think of a good name. > > And failed. what is difficult about “frozen pieces of Cod” ? ---
**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 9, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8914 "2024-02-09T17:02:10Z")
I think “chunks” was the issue. It’s an unappetizing word. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8915 "2024-02-09T17:03:25Z")
which is why I suggested “pieces”. And I didn’t even need a thesaurus. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8916 "2024-02-09T17:03:27Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > what is difficult about “frozen pieces of Cod” Cod pieces would look odd. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8917 "2024-02-09T23:50:51Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I think “chunks” was the issue. It’s an unappetizing word. Canned tuna comes in chunks. And a chunk of cheese is still appetizing. Chunky peanut butter on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8918 "2024-02-10T00:09:35Z")
Some Chunks get better with age. [![](https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/79/590x/The-Goonies-star-Jeff-Cohen-has-transformed-over-the-last-30-years-582696.jpg) ](https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/79/590x/The-Goonies-star-Jeff-Cohen-has-transformed-over-the-last-30-years-582696.jpg) ---
**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:** [February 10, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8919 "2024-02-10T01:59:33Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > Supposedly, an above avg. number of members there go by the name of … Alfred Even more go by Jeeves. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8920 "2024-02-10T03:23:45Z")
If there’s a murder at the The International Butler Academy, how does the detective know who did it? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8921 "2024-02-10T03:39:21Z")
TIL (well, actually it was yesterday) that there is such a thing as plastic razorblades. I needed to get some stickers off a small wooden CD/DVD cabinet. I soaked them down with adhesive remover and started to remove the first one with my thumbnail. I mentioned to my husband that I wished there was some sort of tool that could do this job - something rigid but not so hard or sharp that it would damage the wood or the finish. He had learned of the plastic razorblade solution to remove decals/stickers from cars and purchased a few for that reason. Perfect. Pretty sure you can’t shave with 'em though. ---
**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 10, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8922 "2024-02-10T04:42:33Z")
[Evolution of the Pencil Sharpener](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQBNsIaFbU&pp=ygUQcGVuY2lsIHNoYXJwZW5lcg%3D%3D) video. The 1950 model especially. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8923 "2024-02-10T05:03:03Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > The 1950 model especially … looks more like a modern pencil sharpener than the 1980 model, which I’m sure is much older than that. WWI vintage maybe. I personally want the 1904 version. ---
**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 10, 2024, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8924 "2024-02-10T07:43:29Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > what is difficult about “frozen pieces of Cod” The piece of cod that passeth all understanding? ---
**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 10, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8925 "2024-02-10T14:37:40Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > > > The 1950 model especially > > … looks more like a modern pencil sharpener than the 1980 model, which I’m sure is much older than that. WWI vintage maybe. Exactly, but I would guess WWII or shortly thereafter rather than WWI. My German grandfather had one like that, probably the same exact model if my recollection is right. And they are using it wrong, the hole in the middle front bottom is to fix it to a table, you shuld not have to hold it with the other hand but they seem to have lost the part that fixes it. Pity! It is not well lubricated either by the way it seems to offer resistance to the turning of the lever. But it is nice to see what modern over-engineer’d solutions are offered on the videos the algorithm proposes after watching this one. I, of course, can only recommend this classic, and not for the first time, I believe: > **[How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal...](https://www.amazon.com/How-Sharpen-Pencils-Theoretical-Contractors/dp/1612193269)** > > How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants \[Rees, David, Hodgman, John\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on... ---
**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:** [February 10, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8926 "2024-02-10T14:41:21Z")
Today I learned it’s not obvious how you’re supposed to eat sunflower seeds. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0inncLgv8es/maxresdefault.jpg "Irish People Try Sunflower Seeds For The First Time") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0inncLgv8es) ---
**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:** [February 10, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8927 "2024-02-10T14:45:54Z")
[can’t edit or it will mess up the YT link] ETA: Sorry, I know that’s incredibly frustrating to watch. ---
**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 10, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8928 "2024-02-10T15:06:23Z")
Frustrating? It is bloody annoying to watch people boasting their ignorance and ridiculing those who are not as dumb and ignorant as they are proudly displaying to be! Too dumb to eat sunflower seeds? I wonder what else they are incapable of despite being allowed to use both hands. They are faking it, right? It’s just a show, innit? And taco flavoured sunflower seeds? Weird… I wonder where on earth that would sell. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8929 "2024-02-10T16:13:39Z")
May I use your pun? Please? ---
**Author:** ![kwintenstraler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kwintenstraler/32/10698_2.png) [@kwintenstraler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kwintenstraler)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8930 "2024-02-10T17:12:14Z")
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