# 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:** 159
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3161 "2025-09-07T22:19:05Z")
We had the redwoods in the first part of this thread: > [@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-1/851674/9194): > > Just learned that there are more giant redwoods in Great Britain (~ 500,000) than in California (~80,000). It seems the Victorians really liked them and planted a lot of them. Now they are starting to outgrow every other tree in Britain, but they are still juveniles and not yet self-seeding: Then I wondered: where else could there be sequoyas? So I found this map for Spain (article in Spanish, with images): [https://www.arbolesconhistoria.com/2021/09/23/mapa-secuoyas-de-espana/](https://www.arbolesconhistoria.com/2021/09/23/mapa-secuoyas-de-espana/) They write the… ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3162 "2025-09-08T04:33:52Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Actor [Creed Bratton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_Bratton) who plays the self-named character in “The Office” was once a member of the rock band “The Grass Roots” “The Office” brilliantly made use of this in the final episode in the series, when it came out that Dunder Mifflin’s Creed really _was_ the rock band dude “in real life”, a fugitive from the law laying low as an office worker and secretly living at the office. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3163 "2025-09-11T03:20:21Z")
Norway has a clone of Kitkat bars called Kvikk Lunsj. I started reading the description article and thinking “Isn’t that basically a Kitkat”, and wondering if the article would addtess that it is basically a Kitkat. It did. And Kitkat is only now beginning to be sold in Norway (in a different shape) and Kvikl Lunsj isn’t sold in the rest of the world. > **[The controversial sweet that fuels Norwegians](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250909-kvikk-lunsj-the-controversial-sweet-that-fuels-norwegians)** > > Known as 'the trip chocolate', Kvikk Lunsj has fuelled outdoor adventures for generations. So, what makes this chocolate so controversial? ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3164 "2025-09-11T09:03:20Z")
Note that Kvikk Lunsj is the Norwegian translation of “quick lunch”. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3165 "2025-09-11T11:42:48Z")
I first heard about Kvikk Lunsj in an NPR story on dynamic pricing in supermarkets. We bought a few when we were in Oslo last year and they were indeed very, very similar to Kit Kats. [https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1197958433/dynamic-pricing-grocery-supermarkets](https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1197958433/dynamic-pricing-grocery-supermarkets) ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3166 "2025-09-12T15:00:27Z")
A cubic foot of air at sea level weighs a little over an ounce (varying with temperature). While I know that air molecules have mass and therefore weight, I was a little surprised that it was that heavy. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3167 "2025-09-12T15:24:09Z")
Put into International Units, as Godott intended: a cubic meter (m³) of dry air at a temperature of 15 °C (59 °F for the heathens) and a pressure of 101.330 kPa (International Standard Atmosphere) will have a mass of 1.2250 kg (2.7 pounds). ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3168 "2025-09-12T15:27:58Z")
Og bless you **Pardel-Lux** ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3169 "2025-09-12T15:31:04Z")
Sometimes a man’s gotta do what really feels good. Aaaahhhh… 😋 ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3170 "2025-09-12T15:45:43Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > A cubic foot of air at sea level weighs a little over an ounce (varying with temperature). While I know that air molecules have mass and therefore weight, I was a little surprised that it was that heavy. Take a marker and draw a 1 inch X 1 inch square on top of your left shoulder. Right now, there is a rectangular column of air that “sits” on top of it. The dimensions of this column of air are 1 inch X 1 inch X hundreds of miles. The total weight of this column of air is around 14.7 pounds. This is true, of course, for any 1 inch X 1 inch square on the surface of your body. And anything else, for that matter. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3171 "2025-09-12T15:55:37Z")
Fluid dynamics does not work with columns “sitting” on top of things. Draw the same square inch (aargh! - two SI unit kittens died!) around your tummy button and the column will point horizontally (assuming an upright stance and a flat belly) and still the pressure will be the same. See also [Pascal’s barrel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%2527s_law#Pascal's_barrel). ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3172 "2025-09-12T18:01:13Z")
On September 12, 2015 [a high school football game](https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/13635109/pennsylvania-prep-running-back-journey-brown-720-rushing-yards-10-touchdowns-team-107-90-win) in Pennsylvania ended up with a score of 107-90. One running back had 722 yards on 30 carries. (Article says the record is 754 set back in 1950. A quarterback finished with 741 passing yards. (Article says record is 764 from 2000.) ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3173 "2025-09-12T18:22:05Z")
There is a bar in Studio City called Residuals Tavern where actors can bring in any residual check made out for less than a dollar and redeem it for a free drink. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3174 "2025-09-13T14:19:28Z")
TIL of [The Readjuster Party,](https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/rediscovering-the-readjusters-remembering-a-lost-multiracial-working-class-movement/) a pos-Civil War movement that sought to align working class whites and freed Blacks to overthrow the power of the planter class. _Birth of a Nation_ spread the bigoted myth of the jumped-up freedmen passing the bottle around the statehouse chamber, while corrupt white carpetbaggers from the North oppressed the vanquished Southerners. The first was dispelled by the biographies of dignified, educated Blacks who tried to enact Democracy until they were abandoned by the GOP in the election of 1876. But less understood was the former Confederates who were willing to put racism aside and focus on classism. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3175 "2025-09-13T18:29:19Z")
For whatever it’s worth, the bigoted myth didn’t originate with _Birth of a Nation_. Harper’s Weekly, a pro-Union and pro-Republican magazine based in New York City, contemporarily published a satirical cartoon mocking the unprofessionalism of African-American legislators in South Carolina’s Reconstruction-era legislature. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3176 "2025-09-15T18:32:41Z")
Today I learned that during Richard Nixon’s trip to the Soviet Union while Vice President, in 1959, secret service agents detected high levels of radiation. Knowing that the rooms were bugged, they responded by complaining loudly. A few hours later, the radiation levels returned to normal. > [@](#): > > The Soviets exposed then Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, to ionizing radiation during his famous visit to Moscow in July 1959, according to declassified Secret Service records posted today by the National Security Archive. Using detection devices known as Radiac Dosimeters, Nixon’s Secret Service detail measured significant levels of radiation in and around Nixon’s sleeping quarters at Spaso House, the residence of the U.S. Ambassador, during the first days of his trip. A few hours after the agents initiated what one called “a bluff” by loudly and coarsely denouncing the Soviets’ dirty tricks, the radiation levels “settled down.” [The Moscow Signals Declassified: ​​​​​​​Irradiating Richard Nixon | National Security Archive](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence-nuclear-vault-russia-programs/2022-09-22/moscow-signals-declassified#:~:text=The%20Secret%20Service%20agents%20who,high%2C%E2%80%9D%20according%20to%20J). ---
**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:** [September 16, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3177 "2025-09-16T21:56:23Z")
Today I learned that the word “skeletal,” pronounced SKEH-lə-təl in the U.S., is pronounced skə-LEE-təl in some parts of the English speaking world. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3178 "2025-09-17T11:22:26Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Take a marker and draw a 1 inch X 1 inch square on top of your left shoulder. > > Right now, there is a rectangular column of air that “sits” on top of it. The dimensions of this column of air are 1 inch X 1 inch X hundreds of miles. The total weight of this column of air is around 14.7 pounds. > > This is true, of course, for any 1 inch X 1 inch square on the surface of your body. And anything else, for that matter. You mean I drew a square on my shoulder with a marker for _nothing_? Good thing I didn’t draw it around my belly button. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3179 "2025-09-17T12:28:24Z")
Today I finally remembered to look this up. In “Athena” by The Who, they’re saying, “She’s a bomb.” I could never understand Roger because he leaves out all the consonants in his pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/3180 "2025-09-17T13:06:43Z")
I always thought he was saying, “she’s a whore.” Oops. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=158) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=160)