# 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:** 120
**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:** [May 17, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2381 "2025-05-17T21:00:02Z")
Yeah, it just means “colored” or “red” (depending on the context) in Spanish, and I imagine that there are quite a few “Red Rivers”, in the local language, in the world. ---
**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 17, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2382 "2025-05-17T21:22:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just now: I found out there’s a Colorado River in Texas. In addition to the one in Colorado - Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California have a Colorado River also. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2383 "2025-05-17T21:36:21Z")
Jolly joker! ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2384 "2025-05-18T01:00:14Z")
Canyonlands National Park in central Utah contains a broad desert basin wherein the Green River merges with the Colorado River. This is _not_ the same Green River that is featured in the John Prine song _Paradise_, nor is it the one with which a serial murderer was tagged. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2385 "2025-05-18T01:12:37Z")
Also not the Green River mentioned in the Credence Clearwater Revival song, which is not based on a river at all, but on a [soft drink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_(soft_drink)). ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2386 "2025-05-18T01:29:54Z")
you appear to [be](https://genius.com/Creedence-clearwater-revival-green-river-lyrics) misinfoamed ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2387 "2025-05-18T01:56:07Z")
It’s true that I am making the perhaps wild assumption that John Fogarty knows what inspired the song that he wrote. > **[John Fogerty Came Up with ‘Green River’ when He Was 8 Years Old](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-fogerty-green-river/)** > > John Fogerty recalled how he'd got the idea for Creedence Clewarwater Revival song Green River long before he could play a musical instrument in August 2019. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2388 "2025-05-18T02:09:09Z")
The man is an icon – not only can he plagarize himself, but he can also contradict himself. ---
**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 18, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2389 "2025-05-18T02:09:38Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > It’s true that I am making the perhaps wild assumption that John Fogarty knows what inspired the song that he wrote. Maybe that song belongs [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-insist-have-a-different-meaning-than-the-writer-claims/993725). ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2390 "2025-05-18T02:37:25Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > In addition to the one in Colorado - Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California have a Colorado River also. Wyoming and New Mexico? The Colorado River rises in Colorado, flows through Utah into Arizona, creates part of the border between Arizona and Nevada, and creates most of the border between Arizona and California. It doesn’t flow at all in either Wyoming or New Mexico. Are the other rivers named Colorado in those states? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2391 "2025-05-18T03:54:55Z")
Hm, I suppose it’s possible to reconcile Fogarty’s two stories, if the picture he saw in the drug store was actually a photo of Putah Creek. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2392 "2025-05-18T06:08:17Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > It doesn’t flow at all in either Wyoming or New Mexico. But the Green is a very major feeder that rises in Wyoming and another major feeder, the San Juan, rises in New Mexico. They are not literally the Colorado, but they are non-small contributors to the flow that _almost_ makes it to the Gulf of Calfornia. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2393 "2025-05-18T08:38:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > They are not literally the Colorado, but they are non-small contributors to the flow that _almost_ makes it to the Gulf of Calfornia. By that definition, then, the Mississippi River flows in Pennsylvania. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2394 "2025-05-18T14:40:44Z")
Or that the Ohio river system flows out of Minnesota and Montana and Colorado and Texas. To me, the Ohio looks like the dominant river at Cairo. ---
**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 18, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2395 "2025-05-18T16:47:40Z")
[This is the source I used](https://cwcb.colorado.gov/colorado-river-basin#:~:text=The%20Colorado%20River%20flows%20for,Arizona%2C%20California%2C%20and%20Nevada.). ---
**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 18, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2396 "2025-05-18T16:50:34Z")
The well known Rubicon in Italy is also a Red River. Some debate over what specific river was the Rubicon crossed by Julius Caesar in ancient Rome. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2397 "2025-05-18T18:44:59Z")
And. . . Mariska Hargitay has recently confirmed that Nelson Sardelli was indeed her bio-dad. This comes as no surprise to anyone who’s ever seen a pic of him. She looks like him more than she looks like her mom (Jayne Mansfield), although, it’s hard to see what _she_ really looks like thru all the make-up. BTW. . . SDMB member Eve has mentioned this numerous times that it was a long-held suspicion, and she has recently written the most researched bio on Jayne that wasn’t just based from press releases. Unfortunately, it went to print before this came out. I have a copy, but haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2398 "2025-05-18T19:10:01Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > This is the source I used The basin of a river includes all the area that drains into that river, not necessarily where the river itself flows. Which is why the basin of the Mississippi River includes parts of both Pennsylvania and Montana. ---
**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 18, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2399 "2025-05-18T19:36:13Z")
I’ll rephrase: In addition to the one in Colorado - Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California have a Colorado River Basin also. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2400 "2025-05-18T20:56:27Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California have a Colorado River Basin also. Weird way to say that all or parts of these states are in the Colorado River basin, but okay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=119) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=121)