# 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:** 447
**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, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8931 "2024-02-10T17:14:24Z")
Not my pun (I think it’s not uncommon in the CofE - I was once at a dinner where we were led to expect sole meunière which never appeared, and a clergyman present volunteered to pray for the lost sole) - but by all means, but have at it. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8932 "2024-02-10T18:29:39Z")
Not according to this website: > **[Who Eats the Most Pizza in the World? The Answer May Surprise You - Pure Travel](https://www.puretravel.com/blog/2020/04/06/who-eats-the-most-pizza-in-the-world-the-answer-may-surprise-you/)** > > Everyone knows pizza originated in Italy, but surprisingly Italy does not have the lead on consuming it. We have to travel much farther up Northwestern Europe to the small country… ---
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8933 "2024-02-10T18:34:20Z")
Nrs 1 and 2 are the same on both lists… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8934 "2024-02-10T18:48:10Z")
The 1910 model is a Norelco triple-header shaver. They were the best electric razors until they stopped offering adjustable depths. However, the simplest solution may be, of course, Occam’s Razor. > **[Amazon.com: Occam's Razor, 2-in-1 Vibrating Razor, Complete Body Shaver, Face...](https://www.amazon.com/Occams-Vibrating-Complete-Personal-Massager/dp/B0CQZCP57X)** > > This vibrating razor and personal massager is the perfect tool for a smooth and comfortable shave. The razor has a flexible head that adjust to the curves of your face, neck, and body, providing a close and precise shave every time. The massager is... ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8935 "2024-02-10T18:51:45Z")
> [@kwintenstraler](#): > > Nrs 1 and 2 are the same on both lists… My apologies. I didn’t notice that the one list went from least to most. I didn’t expect that and didn’t read it carefully. ---
**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 10, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8936 "2024-02-10T19:23:07Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > If there’s a murder at the The International Butler Academy, how does the detective know who did it? do they have a … gardener? ---
**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 10, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8937 "2024-02-10T19:48:37Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > do they have a … gardener? Call Rosemary and Thyme. 😁 ---
**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 10, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8938 "2024-02-10T20:06:05Z")
what happened to Mr. Parsley and that Sage lad? ---
**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 10, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8939 "2024-02-10T20:12:47Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Not my pun (I think it’s not uncommon in the CofE - I was once at a dinner where we were led to expect sole meunière which never appeared, and a clergyman present volunteered to pray for the lost sole) - but by all means, but have at it The only worse “church” pun I know is “Gladly The Cross-Eyed Bear”. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8940 "2024-02-10T20:13:12Z")
That was a weird way to list the countries. “We’re going to list the 25 countries that eat the most pizza, but we’ll do it in Miss Universe fashion” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8941 "2024-02-10T20:34:20Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > but we’ll do it in Miss Universe fashion Read to you by Steve Harvey. ---
**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 10, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8942 "2024-02-10T21:49:51Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > what happened to Mr. Parsley and that Sage lad? “I’m Sir Celery. I’m Miss Parsley. We are the Onion Twins.” Name that product from the 70’s ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8943 "2024-02-10T22:50:25Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I personally want the 1904 version. My dad used to sharpen pencils using a knife, that’s like a knife holder for his version. ---
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8944 "2024-02-10T22:56:06Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I personally want the 1904 version. I’m a little surprised that the “1904” model uses a Gem-style single edge razor blade. Did those exist in 1904? I’m having trouble googling an exact date, but it 1904 seems within a few years of when they were first marketed, in one direction or the other. ---
**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 11, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8945 "2024-02-11T01:40:42Z")
TIL about Anatoli Bugorski, a Russian physicist and the only person who knows what it’s like to be zapped by a particle accelerator. > **[Anatoli Bugorski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski)** > > Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski (Russian: Анатолий Петрович Бугорский; born 25 June 1942) is a Russian retired particle physicist. He is known for surviving a radiation accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his brain. > As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Russian SSR, Anatoli Bugorski worked with the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union, the U-70 synchrotron. On 13 July 1978, Bugorski was checking a m... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8946 "2024-02-11T01:48:07Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > and the only person who knows what it’s like to be zapped by a particle accelerator. Not true-- People are often deliberately zapped by particle accelerators for medical reasons. Not usually in the brain, but I wouldn’t be shocked to find out that that’s been done, too. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8947 "2024-02-11T03:47:23Z")
And is it really worse than this?: > **[How Jimmy Carter Saved a Canadian Nuclear Reactor After a Meltdown](https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html)** > > Before he was the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was a nuclear power expert with the U.S. Navy. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8948 "2024-02-11T15:19:29Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > If there’s a murder at the The International Butler Academy, how does the detective know who did it? Maybe it’s like “Murder on the Orient Express” – they _all_ did it. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8949 "2024-02-11T15:24:22Z")
Aren’t you supposed to blur spoilers??? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/8950 "2024-02-11T15:31:04Z")
For a 90 year old book /50 year old movie? Seriously? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=446) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=448)