# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785 "2024-07-25T15:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1 "2024-07-25T15:06:02Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1) - #10012 by hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/10012). Previous discussions: - [Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2 "2024-07-25T15:11:28Z")
Note that PotUS must be at least 35, not 32. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3 "2024-07-25T15:11:38Z")
In the last post, @hajario said > You have to be 32 to be President. It’s 35. But I now see your point. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/4 "2024-07-25T15:20:22Z")
I’ve not stumbled across them recently but I’ll start this thread with my favourite pop music/cold war cross over random facts: - The first person in the West to learn that Stalin was dead was Johnny Cash! He was a radio operator in the US army in West Germany and took the message. - The closest Russia and NATO have ever come to direct armed conflict was in Kosovo in 1999. And the person who prevented it was irritating singer songwriter James Blunt! He was a tank commander who refused the order to contest the airport with Russian paratroopers (or at least waited until the order had been clarified by higher ups rather than immediately charging in with guns blazing) ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/5 "2024-07-25T15:48:29Z")
How is Jimmy Carter going to break the record? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/6 "2024-07-25T15:51:37Z")
He will have more Presidents who lived while he was alive than Hoover. Literally everyone alive now qualifies even babies who won’t be able to run for **35** years ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/7 "2024-07-25T17:44:51Z")
> [@Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/10010): > > Herbert Hoover lived from 1874 to 1964. That means that every President from Andrew Johnson to the present was alive for at least part of his life and that streak will continue in this election barring something crazy. Hoover died the same day that Harris was born. That’s 29 Presidents. > > Carter is already at 17 Presidents starting with Coolidge and his streak must continue for at least 32 more years which is a minimum of six more possible without a Constitutional Amendment. He will almost certainly break the record even if Hoover gets a couple more. Meaning that Hoover will get one more this year (if Trump gets elected and is counted twice), or if Harris is elected. Hoover may get another one in 2028, if somebody other than Trump or Harris is elected, and that somebody was born before Hoover’s death day in 1964. Heck, he may get another one in 2032, if that person is over 68 when elected. Or even in 2036, or even 2040. But for each additional one that Hoover gets, Carter will also get. And then he’ll get every future President born between 1964 and 2024, or whenever he dies. So @hajario is right. Carter will almost certainly break Hoover’s record, whenever it finally ends. ---
**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 25, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/8 "2024-07-25T17:52:21Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > The first person in the West to learn that Stalin was dead was Johnny Cash! He was a radio operator in the US army in West Germany and took the message. US Air Force, actually. ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/9 "2024-07-25T19:50:43Z")
James Buchanan was 8 years old when George Washington died; Warren G Harding was a 2-year-old when Buchanan died. Buchanan overlapped with the lives of the first 29 presidents. (And Carter was born a year after Harding died.) ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/10 "2024-07-25T19:58:26Z")
All very interesting, and it shows that US history is still too short. Let us talk again in 300 years. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/11 "2024-07-25T20:09:04Z")
On the calendar! That’s a Friday, you think you’ll be free? I can probably move it to the weekend if that’s more convenient, but I’ll have to ask the wife. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/12 "2024-07-25T20:11:07Z")
[Here](https://i.redd.it/k7qr9mkljfd31.jpg)is a chart showing all US presidents lifespans which illustrates it nicely. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/13 "2024-07-25T20:18:01Z")
Friday is fine, I hope they don’t mess with the leap years until then. Wouldn’t put it past _them_ (you know the ones…). > [@pjd](#): > > [Here](https://i.redd.it/k7qr9mkljfd31.jpg)is a chart showing all US presidents lifespans which > illustrates it nicely. If I read your chart correctly Jimmy Carter is dead and nobody told me. Or him. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/14 "2024-07-25T20:24:52Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > If I read your chart correctly Jimmy Carter is dead I don’t think you did… the chart only goes up to 2020. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/15 "2024-07-25T20:26:05Z")
But they put a grey square beside his name, which means died of natural causes. Still alive should be orange. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/16 "2024-07-25T20:36:48Z")
Oh yes. Maybe … I dunno ! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/17 "2024-07-25T22:15:27Z")
Speaking of Presidents and lifespans, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the grandson of Pres. John Tyler, is still going at age 95. His grandfather died in 1862. That was 162 years ago. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/18 "2024-07-26T00:05:33Z")
I was trying to respond to @Bookkeeper 's post in the other post without realizing the thread had closed while I was looking at it. Re: Steam deaths. I know how serious this issue is. I worked for a utility where a steam pipe ruptured outside the breakroom. 6 people died, and 10 were injured. Devastating tragedy. ---
**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 26, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/19 "2024-07-26T03:13:30Z")
It is as has been said on a certain series of another thread, really old people have become very good at not dying, owing to years and years of practice. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/20 "2024-07-26T03:15:04Z")
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