# 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:** 54
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1062 "2020-12-12T11:42:49Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > When I went to London, I found out that fast-food chicken in the style of the Colonel, Popeye’s, Church’s, etc is called American Fried Chicken. Once upon a time an immigrant from somewhere worked very hard at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in New York City. He did so well that he opened his own Kentucky Fried Chicken. He did not ask anyone, he just opened it. Red & white stripes, biscuits the whole nine years. KFC found out (I would like to think it was many years later). He had to change the name to Kennedy Fried Chicken. He opened one or two Kennedy Fried Chickens locations in the city. He hired hard-working immigrants who went on to open their own locations without asking him. Now there are probably a hundred or more Kennedy Fried chicken places all over the world. Including London. He is trying to get them to pay royalties. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1063 "2020-12-12T12:54:19Z")
I read an article yesterday. A nurse got the second COVID vaccine shot and woke up with a fever of 104.9. [article](https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/942133) That made me wonder: whats the highest fever anyone has ever survived? Here’s your multiple choices: A) 108 B) 110 C) 112 D) 115 E) higher than 115 115F. Scroll down. [You Might Be Surprised When You Take Your Temperature : Goats and Soda : NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/11/14/364060441/you-might-be-surprised-when-you-take-your-temperature) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1064 "2020-12-13T23:08:18Z")
I was looking for cooking oil on the Costco website and discovered that one can purchase four 55-gallon drums of olive oil for just under $4,000. Who on earth can use that much olive oil before it goes rancid? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1065 "2020-12-13T23:27:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I was looking for cooking oil on the Costco website and discovered that one can purchase four 55-gallon drums of olive oil for just under $4,000. Who on earth can use that much olive oil before it goes rancid?  Could be a company that produces flavored olive oils (like the ones you see at farmers’ markets and specialty stores). That’s only 1760 pints. Or a soap manufacturer. It says at the website: > - Industrial use for food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical manufacturing ---
**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:** [December 13, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1066 "2020-12-13T23:30:15Z")
We always hear about how the monarch of the Commonwealth countries (Elizabeth II) would never refuse royal assent and likewise her governor-generals wouldn’t. Today while prowling around Wikipedia, I found out that Royal Assent has been withheld in Her Majesty’s name in 1937 by Alberta Lieutenant-Governor John Bowen using his vice-regal perogative. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1067 "2020-12-13T23:35:51Z")
I don’t know what Royal Assent is, but I just imagined it showing up as the name of some high-end weed variety in a dispensary somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1068 "2020-12-14T00:24:52Z")
Royal ass scent is the queen farting. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1069 "2020-12-14T00:36:40Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Royal Assent has been withheld in Her Majesty’s name in 1937 by Alberta Lieutenant-Governor John Bowen And although the high court declared the bills unconstitutional anyway, the government removed Bowen’s official residence, car and staff. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1070 "2020-12-14T01:50:48Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I was looking for cooking oil on the Costco website and discovered that one can purchase four 55-gallon drums of olive oil for just under $4,000. Who on earth can use that much olive oil before it goes rancid?— _insert ex-wife joke_ ---
**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:** [December 14, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1071 "2020-12-14T01:57:46Z")
> [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](#): > > The presidential library of U. S. Grant is at the Mississippi State University at Starkville. I’ve long felt that presidential papers ought to be in University libraries, rather than in a separate Presidential Library. > **[Presidential library](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_library)** > > A presidential library, presidential center, or presidential museum is a facility either created in honor of a former president and containing their papers, or affiliated with a country's presidency. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1072 "2020-12-14T15:39:27Z")
The World’s Oldest Hotel Has Been Operating Since 705 A.D. The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, Japan, holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest hotel in the world. The hot-spring hotel sits at the foot of the stunning Akaishi Mountains and has been in operation since it was founded by Fujiwara Mahito in 705 A.D. Since then, it’s been in the hands of some 52 generations of the same family for more than 1,300 years. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1073 "2020-12-14T16:41:44Z")
If you haven’t used your paypal account for a year, you will be charged 9 british quid. > **[PayPal will charge you this week if you haven’t used your account in the last...](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/paypal-account-fee-inactivity-dormant-b1773211.html)** > > ‘Inactivity fee’ can be avoided without spending or receiving money ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1074 "2020-12-14T17:29:47Z")
Apparently only if you have a positive balance though. Also, you should have already received an email notice if it applies to you. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1075 "2020-12-14T17:46:24Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > If you haven’t used your paypal account for a year, you will be charged 9 british quid. There are strict rules about what _banks_ must do with balances in dormant accounts. I wonder if the regulators will take a look at this? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1076 "2020-12-14T19:44:48Z")
I just learned that in baseball, the American League almost dissolved in the wake of the Black Sox scandal. The Yankees, Red Sox, and White Sox (called “The Insurrectos” because they hated League President Ban Johnson) had all agreed to join the National League and there were plans to put a National League team in Detroit if no other AL team joined. However, they changed their minds when the other teams met with them without Ban Johnson. Even after the crisis, other AL teams refused to trade players with the Insurrectos. It why Babe Ruth went to the Yankees; no other AL team other than the White Sox would trade with them (interleague trades were very difficult to set up, since players had to go through league waivers). The White Sox also negotiated a trade for Ruth – giving up Shoeless Joe Jackson but less cash. The rumors of Jackson’s involvement with the Black Sox Scandal made the Red Sox wary. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1077 "2020-12-14T20:21:51Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > We always hear about how the monarch of the Commonwealth countries (Elizabeth II) would never refuse royal assent and likewise her governor-generals wouldn’t. Today while prowling around Wikipedia, I found out that Royal Assent has been **withheld in Her Majesty’s name** in 1937 by Alberta Lieutenant-Governor John Bowen using his vice-regal perogative. My bold I know jack shit about the royal family, but even I know this is wrong. In 1937 Liz would have been 11 or 12 (had to look that up) - the withholding would have been in **His** Majesty’s name (knew it was a George because I watched The King’s Speech [reluctantly, with Mrs Trep]), but got the number wrong. I guessed IV, it’s actually VI. j 😄 (British) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1078 "2020-12-15T18:51:28Z")
Right Turn On Red was mandated in the US in 1975 [as a fuel saving measure.](https://www.pressrepublican.com/opinion/did-you-know-right-turn-on-red-history-explained/article_233f41c6-d3b7-11ea-bd1a-afacd1b6bb5d.html) ---
**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:** [December 15, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1079 "2020-12-15T19:08:01Z")
We’ve had Left Turn on Red here in Massachusetts for years. Thing is, it’s not legal. I’m not completely joking. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1080 "2020-12-15T19:23:10Z")
Close to thirty years ago, I was visiting a couple of friends in the Cambridge area. We were on the road someplace late one evening and watched another driver make a right turn on red, a _very_ immediate U-turn followed by a second right turn on red, effectively jumping the light, kind-of, sort-of legally. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/1081 "2020-12-15T19:55:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > We’ve had Left Turn on Red here in Massachusetts for years. > > Thing is, it’s not legal. > > I’m not completely joking. Left turn on red is legal in New York – under certain circumstances. It’s allowed when two one-way streets meet. Doesn’t happen often, but I have used it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674.md?page=55)