# 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:** 498
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9953 "2024-07-19T13:47:31Z")
Chad is the stereotypical preppie name from the 1980s, right? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9954 "2024-07-19T13:55:01Z")
Chad is also the space between the anus and the scrotal sac, according to the [Urban Dictionary](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chad). ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9955 "2024-07-19T13:59:14Z")
T’aint not. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9956 "2024-07-19T14:24:55Z")
I just learned that ribs can regenerate after major damage. [One detailed report on this here.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489251/) Unlike other bones which have some regenerative ability ribs can return to near original shape and size following major damage. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9957 "2024-07-19T16:31:29Z")
That explains the number of times The Punisher has completely lost a rib. 😛 ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9958 "2024-07-19T17:11:12Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > T’aint not. Do **not** look that up on Urban Thesaurus. Rule 31 clearly states that the most disturbing thing you can imagine is described there (UD, by extension), in the most inelegant language. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9959 "2024-07-19T20:29:09Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I thought Chad was lynched in Florida back in late 2000. Seemed to be all over the news. One of my grandsons was born right after the 2000 election and I _begged_ his parents to name him “Dimpled Chad”. No dice. (Nobody liked my idea of naming my granddaughter who was born on May 5th “Margarita” either.) ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9960 "2024-07-19T23:41:43Z")
Beats Hanging Chad. That’s what the news shows in our area were going on about. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9961 "2024-07-20T12:33:59Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Chad is the stereotypical preppie name from the 1980s, right? I recall Biff and Muffy. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9962 "2024-07-20T20:36:36Z")
All of the major voice actors from the Flintstones died of smoking related causes. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9963 "2024-07-20T20:41:27Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I recall Biff and Muffy Sounds like you are mashing up Marty McFly with Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston. Are you out of your timespace? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9964 "2024-07-20T20:55:50Z")
I think Biff was a deliberate choice to give him that "I’m better than you because I’m waspier than you " preppie aura ---
**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:** [July 20, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9965 "2024-07-20T21:29:38Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Owsley Stanley, was the great acid chemist of the psychedelic era. Around 1965 he acquired a new nickname: White Rabbit. Also around 1965 Grace Slick wrote the acid anthem White Rabbit. So was Stanley named after the song? Or was the song a homage to Stanley? Or was it just a coincidence? I found one seemingly solid source. > **[About a Girl | Los Angeles Review of Books](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/about-a-girl/)** > > On the sesquicentennial of Lewis Carroll's famous story, Alice remains vaguely countercultural, obscurely intellectual, somewhat feminist — and absolutely vital to modern culture. > THE COUNTERCULTURE claimed _Alice_’s _Adventures in Wonderland_ right around the time of its 100th birthday in 1965, when young people re-interpreted the book’s 19th-century fantasy of disorder as a trope for altered mental states. At the time, Lewis Carroll’s jubilant celebration of chaos seemed to have been in waiting to become a subversive rallying point — most famously by Grace Slick; her 1965 song “White Rabbit” referenced not only Carroll but also Owsley Stanley, the chemist known by that moniker, who provided the musicians of the day with LSD. All the other hits hedge their bets, though, with the phrase “White Rabbit has also been described as a nickname for counterculture era figure Owsley Stanley”. You’d think there would be something firmer than that in biographies. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9966 "2024-07-20T22:25:06Z")
Yeah, frustrating ain’t it? Thing is - as your cites point towards - it would be a fairly unsurprising coincidence. j ---
**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:** [July 21, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9967 "2024-07-21T01:48:32Z")
I keep misreading the guy’s first name as Oswald- which was also the name of [a cartoon rabbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit). Would that be at all significant? ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9968 "2024-07-21T02:50:58Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > You’d think there would be something firmer than that in biographies. > If you remember the '60s, you weren’t really there. In other words, how would you figure if the song or the nickname came first when time wasn’t even flowing in a consistent direction for the people involved? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9969 "2024-07-21T13:09:00Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Sounds like you are mashing up Marty McFly with Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston. Are you out of your timespace? Oh, I’ve been out of my timespace most of my life. But in this case, I didn’t see _BttF_ until long after it came out (the Younger Ottlet subjected me to it at some point during her two-month initial hospital stay). And the other two names don’t ring a bell. To me, Biff & Muffy are the quintessential [yuppie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie) names. A phenomenon best described, IMHO, by Dave Barry: > If you’ve been reading the trend sections of your weekly news magazines, you know that “yuppies” are a new breed of serious, clean-cut, ambitious, career-oriented young person that probably resulted from all that atomic testing. They wear dark, natural-fiber, businesslike clothing even when nobody they know has died. In college, they major in Business Administration. If, to meet certain academic requirements, they have to take a liberal-arts course, they take Business Poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9970 "2024-07-21T18:06:14Z")
**Interesting**! Some toilet bowl cleaners contain chlorine bleach. I knew that. Some toilet bowl cleaners (Lysol brand) contain hydrochloric acid. I did not know that. When chlorine bleach is mixed with an acid, chlorine gas is given off. Which is irritating and can cause death. Experts say don’t mix pool chlorine with hydrochloric acid: don’t even store them together. MfM says don’t add a little bleach when scrubbing the toilet without checking the ingredient list of the cleaner. Don’t do that for many years. Mixing bleach and ammonia is also bad but I knew that. > **[A Simple Chemical Reaction Caused Injuries And Evacuation at a Hotel in...](https://www.sciencealert.com/pullman-hyde-park-sydney-hotel-chlorine-gas-pool-hydrochloric-acid-evacuation)** > > Guests at a hotel in Sydney, Australia had to be taken to hospital after a staff member cleaning the pool mistakenly mixed pool chlorine with hydrochloric acid - creating a cloud of poisonous chlorine gas that seeped through the hotel building. (Hydrochloric acid in a household product that isn’t drain cleaner? The hell?) ---
**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:** [July 21, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9971 "2024-07-21T18:41:01Z")
The number of things you don’t mix with bleach is nearly endless. Basic rule of thumb don’t mix it with anything. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/9972 "2024-07-21T20:47:26Z")
Leading question: how well is British actor Nicholas Lyndhurst known in the US (and wherever other Dopers live for that matter)? Best known in this country for Only Fools And Horses. My reason for asking will quickly become apparent. Today in Shoreham (south coast of England, due south of London) we walked down a street we haven’t walked down before, saw a plaque we haven’t seen before, and fell down a rabbit hole. The plaque commemorates Shoreham’s leading role in the nascent British movie industry (who knew?) Shoreham offered the promise of more sunny days than anywhere else in the country - ideal for filming. Movie studios set up there. Francis Lyndhurst (grandfather of Nicholas) had a glass-walled studio building, the better to use the sunlight. Here’s an account: > British movie-makers soon began to recognise the attraction of our part of Sussex, and the first of these was the scenic artist Francis Lyndhurst, grandfather of the actor Nicholas Lyndhurst. He founded the Sunny South Film Company and made his first professional movie film on Shoreham Beach in 1912, followed by a further four titles over the next two years. > In 1915 he purchased land at Shoreham Beach to build a giant 75ft by 45ft glass film studio, which relied on sunlight rather than electricity for lighting, after hearing Sussex’s reputation for more hours of sunlight than elsewhere in Britain. Although the business failed, The Progress Film Company arrived in 1920, with Walter Morgan as its Principal Director. His daughter Joan Morgan, one of the leading stars at the Glasshouse Studio in the 1920s, is commemorated on Shoreham Beach at the Sustrans Portrait Bench near to the Adur Ferry Bridge. [Source:](https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/regeneration/filming/) [More info](https://sussexfilmoffice.co.uk/shoreham-britains-answer-to-hollywood/): j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=497) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=499)