# 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:** 142
**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 1, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2821 "2025-07-01T22:26:27Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Another interesting fact is that Canadians eat 55% more Kraft mac-and-cheese than Americans, per capita. I had no idea what a “Kraft Dinner” was when I heard it reference in a Bare Naked Ladies song. It’s apparently just Canadian for Kraft M&C. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2822 "2025-07-01T22:30:38Z")
That’s how the company itself brands the product, and I have encountered it in the US. Usually just “Mac and cheese”, though. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2823 "2025-07-01T23:32:55Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I don’t understand how any living being could swallow it after putting it in their mouths. I feel the same about Krispy Kreme “donuts”, which are apparently made from Playdough. I literally could not finish the first and only one I tried. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2824 "2025-07-01T23:54:34Z")
Interesting. Who makes donuts you like? ---
**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 2, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2825 "2025-07-02T00:51:17Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Even as a little kid I despised that crap. I don’t understand how any living being could swallow it after putting it in their mouths. Me too, which is rather strange considering that I learned to love cheesy pasta in the form of lasagna later. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2826 "2025-07-02T01:04:39Z")
Back when I used to eat such stuff, there were one-off vendors in places like the Easter Show (I guess like a State Fair in the US). There they were fresh and hot and light, delicious! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2827 "2025-07-02T01:14:26Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Easter Show > **[Sydney Royal Easter Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Royal_Easter_Show)** > > The Sydney Royal Easter Show, commonly shortened to The Easter Show or The Show, is an annual show held in Sydney, Australia over two weeks around the Easter period. First held in 1823, it comprises an agricultural show, an amusement park and a fair and combines the elements of each, showcasing the judging of livestock and produce. The Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales is responsible for the event. Queen Victoria awarded the society and its show the right to use the word "Royal" in... ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2828 "2025-07-02T03:39:40Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > > > Another interesting fact is that Canadians eat 55% more Kraft mac-and-cheese than Americans, per capita. > > I had no idea what a “Kraft Dinner” was when I heard it reference in a Bare Naked Ladies song. It’s apparently just Canadian for Kraft M&C. I’ve heard Canadian kids call it “KD” for short. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2829 "2025-07-02T05:34:15Z")
Because of their Constant Cravings? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2830 "2025-07-02T05:41:02Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > I’ve heard Canadian kids call it “KD” for short. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iOnP5gPPybI/maxresdefault.jpg "Kraft Dinner "Gotta be KD" Commercial 2000 (Glowing Guy)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOnP5gPPybI) ---
**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 2, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2831 "2025-07-02T12:22:24Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Because of their Constant Cravings? 👏 ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2832 "2025-07-02T13:11:43Z")
Our kids liked those little Kraft triangles until they discovered Mini Babybels: [Mini BABYBEL® ORIGINAL - Babybel - UK](https://babybel.co.uk/product/mini-babybel-original/) ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2833 "2025-07-02T14:20:07Z")
Make sure to avoid confusion at Christmas time [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2aqr7Ykxc4Y/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgSyglMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCmfWoqlYTrGHE9Gu4AHr7T7ojnoQ "Kath and Kim: The Little Baby Cheeses") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aqr7Ykxc4Y) ---
**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:** [July 2, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2834 "2025-07-02T14:28:47Z")
😂 👍 That’s really funny! ---
**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 5, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2835 "2025-07-05T19:46:58Z")
I’m not quite sure how I didn’t know this but… Today Brighton’s 19th annual Naked Bike Ride was held. > **[Brighton Bares All for the Annual Naked Bike Ride](https://sussex.news/sussex-news/brighton-bares-all-for-the-annual-naked-bike-ride/28612/)** > > A Bold celebration of Climate Action, Body Positivity, and Cycling Freedom > > > > Brighton is once again ready to bare all as hundreds of cyclists gather for the 1 The reason I’m surprised I didn’t know about it, is that I don’t live that far at all from Brighton and (it would appear) I’ve had 18 previous opportunities to hear about it. Related fact - it turns out that there is a World Naked Bike Ride; I assume the Brighton event is in some way related to this. > **[World Naked Bike Ride](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Bike_Ride)** > > The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international clothing-optional bike ride in which participants plan, meet and ride together en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, but some on skateboards and inline skates), to "deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world." > The first naked ride happened in Zaragoza (Spain) in 2001. In 2003, Conrad Schmidt conceived the World Naked Bike Ride after organizing the Naked Bike Rides of the group Artists for Peace/Art... j ETA: I see that has cropped up in the past in _other_ threads on the dope ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2836 "2025-07-05T20:10:50Z")
There’s an earlier tradition for naked bicycle rides, going back to the mid 90s in Seattle. > **[Solstice Cyclists](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice_Cyclists)** > > The Solstice Cyclists (also known as The Painted \[Naked\] Cyclists of the Solstice Parade, or The Painted Cyclists) is an artistic, non-political, clothing-optional bike ride celebrating the summer solstice. It is the unofficial start of the Summer Solstice Parade & Pageant, an event produced by the Fremont Arts Council in the Fremont district of Seattle. > The event was started by streakers who crashed the parade. The first people to do so were a small group of friends and roommates from the ad... It started out as unsanctioned streaking but quickly became an annual thing and the authorities gave up. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2837 "2025-07-05T20:51:50Z")
This was actually posted in this forum when it happened, but I either missed it or didn’t remember, but. . . In 2004 the Dave Matthews Band tour bus driver [dumped sewage from a bridge](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_Band_bus_incident), landing on a bunch of tourists who were underneath in an open top tour boat. ---
**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 5, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2838 "2025-07-05T21:12:43Z")
Famously he gave them all free tickets to a future concert and the obvious reply was, haven’t they suffered enough already. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2839 "2025-07-06T18:04:08Z")
Cemeteries don’t necessarily keep permanent records of who’s buried where, so of the family and descendants forget exactly where the grave is, that knowledge may be permanently lost. An ancestor of mine died in 1849 and I know which cemetery he was buried at. FindAGrave has this tool where you can submit a request for someone living nearby to upload a photo of a grave. I submitted a request but they couldn’t locate my ancestor’s grave. I’ve been on the other end, too. I accepted a request to upload a photo from the oldest cemetery in these parts, but the cemetery office didn’t know where the grave was. And these old cemeteries tend to be huge; it could take days to examine every legible marker. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/2840 "2025-07-06T20:40:53Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Cemeteries don’t necessarily keep permanent records of who’s buried where, so of the family and descendants forget exactly where the grave is, that knowledge may be permanently lost. Two cemeteries in my home town in New Jersey not only don’t have records, they don’t have markers. Over the past couple of years they used ground-penetrating radar to find out where the graves were, and one of the cemeteriues, not surprisingly, has several layers of burials atop one another. Some have been identified, but there are still a lot of question marks. The other one has a huge mass burial of people from the 1918 influenza pandemic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=141) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=143)