# 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:** 474
**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:** [May 14, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9473 "2024-05-14T18:10:08Z")
An estimated six people a year die from drowning in the United States while attempting to noodle the flathead catfish" ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9474 "2024-05-14T18:12:42Z")
I had to look that up: > **[Texas Men Noodle Potential Record-Breaking 98-Pound Catfish](https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/noodling-record-catfish-texas/)** > > Justin White and Drew Moore say they pulled the flathead catfish out of a 14-foot-deep hole. It could set a new noodling record. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9475 "2024-05-14T18:28:32Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > An estimated six people a year die from drowning in the United States while attempting to noodle the flathead catfish" Is that like practicing animal husbandry until they catch you at it? Stolen from Tom Lehrer ---
**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:** [May 14, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9476 "2024-05-14T18:32:35Z")
It’s against the law to have sex with animals…in this State. But before there was a law there had to be a problem. -Lenny Bruce doing a routine in the South. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9477 "2024-05-14T20:22:22Z")
I wonder what @gatopescado makes of you calling him “cabeza plana”? Not to mention the noodling thing. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9478 "2024-05-14T21:27:37Z")
From your article. "It was very rewarding to know we’ve busted our asses for years and it finally paid off.” But there’s still a chance. “Our goal has always been to beat the 100-pound mark. We often joked that if we beat it, we would just retire. Luckily, we didn’t beat it. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9479 "2024-05-14T21:41:28Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I had to look that up: > > [Texas Men Noodle Record-Breaking Catfish | Field & Stream](https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/noodling-record-catfish-texas/) Go check out YouTube videos, it’s wild. They dive down, convince the catfish to eat their fist, and then hope they can drag the catfish out of their burrow and back up to the surface before drowning. Something weighing a few dozen pounds might be entertaining, but going one-on-one against a 100-pound fish, in his element, sounds pretty damn hazardous. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9480 "2024-05-14T22:18:54Z")
I discovered this week that my great-grandfather was a patient of Dr. Michael DeBakey, noted cardiac surgeon. My mom told me that he was one of the first patients to receive open heart surgery, but that can’t be because this took place in about 1970 (he survived the surgery but died of complications soon after). The interesting part is that recently my mom was helping my aunt move some things and they found a little spiral notebook in which my great-grandfather kept notes for weeks before the procedure, detailing not only mundane things about scheduling and such, but also his feelings and fears. I’d love to read it. The only thing I remember about the man is that no one was allowed to sit in his chair and he always had a glass of scotch in his hand. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9481 "2024-05-14T22:30:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I discovered this week that my great-grandfather was a patient of Dr. Michael DeBakey, noted cardiac surgeon. My mom told me that he was one of the first patients to receive open heart surgery, but that can’t be because this took place in about 1970 (he survived the surgery but died of complications soon after). My grandfather was an early patient of DeBakey and also got the surgery from him. He died from a heart attack a few years later. He had a heart attack on the airplane on the way to see DeBakey for a follow up and died in the hospital. My mom has the condolence letter that DeBakey wrote to my grandmother. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9482 "2024-05-15T00:32:44Z")
Today I learned about mountain chickens, an incredibly endangered species of giant… > **[Mountain chicken conservation | ZSL](https://www.zsl.org/what-we-do/projects/mountain-chicken-frog-conservation)** > > The mountain chicken is one of the largest frogs in the world and can weigh over 40 times as much as a European common frog, reaching up to 1kg in size. We're creating routes to recovery through cutting-edge scientific research and breeding at London... ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9483 "2024-05-15T13:57:31Z")
The first thing that strikes me about this is the age-old thought that there had to be some brave soul who thought that this was a good idea for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9484 "2024-05-15T14:14:15Z")
Brave and hungry, I’ll bet! ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9485 "2024-05-15T14:28:07Z")
Could have been an ordinary fisherman. There’s a well known video of a fisherman pulling a beauty of a fish out of a river and a bear jumps out of the bushes, grabs the fish and starts to run off. Like any real fisherman the guy chases after the bear to get his fish back. So I assume some guy saw a big catfish he wanted dive into a hole to get away and he stuck is hand in the hole to try to grab it and pulled it out with the fish latched onto his hand. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9486 "2024-05-15T18:34:48Z")
TIL: In “Give us this day our daily bread” the real word that daily is being translated from is actually unknown word _ **Epiousion** _ (ἐπιούσιον) , and unlikely to actually mean daily. It doesn’t occur in any other written greek, and only twice in the Bible - both instances being the Lord’s Prayer > **[Epiousion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiousion)** > > Epiousion (ἐπιούσιον) is a Koine Greek adjective used in the Lord's Prayer verse "Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον"\[a\] ('Give us today our epiousion bread'). Because the word is used nowhere else, its meaning is unclear. It is traditionally translated as "daily", but most modern scholars reject that interpretation. The word is also referred to by epiousios, its presumed lemma form. > Since it is a Koine Greek dis legomenon (a word that occurs only twice within a given context) fou... ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9487 "2024-05-15T18:44:07Z")
That’s interesting. The most likely interpretation (to me after reading the article) is more like “Give us enough bread to get through today”. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9488 "2024-05-15T18:58:18Z")
“Our ration”, “our issuance”, etc. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9489 "2024-05-15T19:11:11Z")
As long as we are discussing the Lord’s Prayer, Pope Francis has changed “Lead us not into temptation.” to “Let us not fall into temptation.” since God is not the instigator of temptation but rather strives to protect us from it. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9490 "2024-05-15T19:15:38Z")
So why did that need 2000 years to figure out? And what does the original text best translate to? ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9491 "2024-05-15T19:28:57Z")
Kathleen Madigan does a bit on [Catfish Noodling](https://youtu.be/Cux05gOi-vc?si=GZBvH6kFEppiZF31), which is where i learned of the practice. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9492 "2024-05-15T19:35:08Z")
I’m told (correctly? who knows) that it’s something like “Please spare us from a time of trial”. Which make sense with the follow-on “but deliver us from evil”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=473) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=475)