# 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:** 134
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2661 "2025-06-16T20:46:46Z")
Eh, I dunno. It seems that so many supergroups turn out to be disappointments. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2662 "2025-06-16T20:59:52Z")
Yeah, you’re right, that’s the other side of the coin. But “The Best” lineup seems so full of talent and came from bands with so many different approaches that they just must have sounded interesting IMHO. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2663 "2025-06-16T21:53:42Z")
The Best released a DVD of a 1990 concert in Yokohama, which is available on Youtube. Search on [The Best 1990/9/26 @ Yokohama Arena](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL57jXdvba9muxlk49DGf-WSs6odJJwkZ7). They’d played a selection of old songs associated with them. The world’s best garage cover band. Seriously, they sounded terrific and even the solos were pure greatness. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2664 "2025-06-17T14:10:01Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Often called ‘sunnies’ or ‘crappies’ Crappies are a different fish all together. They are a panfish like sunfish, bluegills, pumpkinseeds, and yellow perch. In Minnesota anyway. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2665 "2025-06-17T14:13:13Z")
Like the sunfish @Chronos described maybe? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2666 "2025-06-17T14:27:26Z")
Yes! We would catch them off the dock when we were kids. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2667 "2025-06-17T14:38:56Z")
So how does that make crappies a different fish altogether? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2668 "2025-06-17T14:59:04Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Crappies are a different fish all together. They are a panfish like sunfish, bluegills, pumpkinseeds, and yellow perch. In Minnesota anyway. Sidejack: When I was young our family rented a cabin on a lake near Birchwood WI for a week. The lake was well stocked with bluegills, and while we were there Birchwood had their annual Bluegill Festival, with a parade, fish fries, and fireworks. Also, during that trip I caught my first fish, which my mother fried up for me to eat all to myself. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2669 "2025-06-17T17:58:43Z")
Speaking of fish: The beautiful white sands of tropical beaches are parrotfish droppings. The fish eat corals, absorb the nutrients, and pass the indigestible calcium carbonate. The whiter the beach, the purer the fish poop. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2670 "2025-06-17T18:17:00Z")
From the Increasingly Inaccurate Identity Department: originally one day, Prime Day is being expanded from two to four this year. > **[Amazon's Prime Day event will expand to four days this year. Here's what to...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-prime-day-2025-july/)** > > Amazon's Prime Day will run for four days from July 8-11, doubling the length of the annual sale event. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2671 "2025-06-17T19:00:44Z")
The acorn ant is so-named because an entire colony - the queen, the workers, the larvae, the whole lot of them - live in a single acorn shell. They are about 2 mm in length. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2672 "2025-06-17T20:00:13Z")
Yep. When you put your ears underwater at many Hawai’ian beaches, you hear a constant crackling sound. That’s all the parrotfish chomping on the coral. The sound travels well underwater. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2673 "2025-06-18T11:46:44Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The beautiful white sands of tropical beaches are parrotfish droppings. The fish eat corals, absorb the nutrients, and pass the indigestible calcium carbonate. The whiter the beach, the purer the fish poop. Oolites are roughly spherical concretions of calcium carbonate that gather around some nucleus, which can be a bi of sand or seashell. But a lot of oolites form around fish poop. Or, in the Great Salt Lake, brine shrimp poop > **[Oolite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolite)** > > Oolite or oölite (from Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión) 'egg stone') is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 millimetres; rocks composed of ooids larger than 2 mm are called pisolites. The term oolith can refer to oolite or individual ooids. > Ooids are most commonly composed of calcium carbonate (calcite or aragonite), but can be composed of phosphate, clays, chert, dolomite or iron minerals, including... ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2674 "2025-06-18T14:18:06Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > So how does that make crappies a different fish altogether? A crappie is a type of panfish like a sunfish is a type of panfish. Crappies are bigger and usually dark in color. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2675 "2025-06-18T14:42:46Z")
Several sources including [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crappie) say they are both in the informal category of Sunfish, as well as Bluegills and other fish. I’ve heard both names ‘sunnies’ and ‘crappies’ used interchangeably at times up and down the east coast. There may be no solid answer here. I can see that the distinction may be made in your locale and the wiki notes the naming may be different between Michigan and the Midlantic and New England states. Nice to know if I ever do any fishing in the Great Lakes area. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2676 "2025-06-18T15:14:55Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Didn’t Ricardo Montalbán once talk about those rich Corinthian raisins? Speaking of Ricardo Montalban and his “Rich Corinthian Leather” catchphrase–“Corinthian Leather” is simply a marketing term invented to market Chrysler vehicles and has no meaning as to the type of leather used. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2677 "2025-06-18T15:29:13Z")
That’s correct. I know someone who worked on that advertising campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2678 "2025-06-18T21:45:11Z")
Today I learned about Crossroads Graves. Until well into the 19th century in Great Britain, people who died by suicide were often buried at crossroads. It was said to that because suicide considered a crime against God, the crossroads would confuse the soul of the deceased and keep them from entering a peaceful afterlife or stop the soul from haunting the living. > **[Why were people who died by suicide historically buried at crossroads?](https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/why-were-suicides-supposed-to-be-buried-at-crossroads/)** > > Suicide used to be regarded as shocking and blasphemous, and a coroner's verdict of 'felo de se' – literally crime against oneself – usually resulted in the body being buried at a crossroads, with a stake through the heart, and with no religious... > **[Crossroad Burials – Independent Liverpool](https://independent-liverpool.co.uk/blog/crossroad-burials/)** The map of the UK has a few spots around ancient crossroads where the grave is marked. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2679 "2025-06-18T22:31:37Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > stop the soul from haunting the living. Now they just haunt the crossroads where the majority of fatal traffic accidents take place. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2680 "2025-06-19T01:08:00Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Now they just haunt the crossroads where the majority of fatal traffic accidents take place. So the logical thing to do is to build roundabouts with large grassy leas in the middle to use for burial grounds – that would confuse their souls even more, without leading to more accidents. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=135)