# 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:** 17
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/321 "2024-08-28T01:43:06Z")
I agree that attraction is certainly correlated strongly with sexuality. However, attraction can have a wide range of meanings, from merely finding attractive to wanting to have sex with. Without context that quote doesn’t say much of anything about the speaker. Possibly, as a minister and devout believer, he was just making a comment about how he viewed humanity. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/322 "2024-08-28T01:55:18Z")
We’re told that the context of the quote is sexuality. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/323 "2024-08-28T02:28:25Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > can have a wide range of meanings, from merely finding attractive to wanting to have sex with. I find that there are two very different meanings to “attractive” that you are using here, and that difference actually comes from different parts of the brain. I can look at some women and think they’re attractive, but it’s the same as me finding a piece of art attractive. I don’t say I’m attracted to them. When I say I am attracted to someone, that is definitely coming from the part of the brain that involves sexuality. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/324 "2024-08-28T02:35:11Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > we will refrain on the grounds of _WFC_ What is _WFC_ here? Neither googling or ‘search the web’ came up with anything except Wells Fargo Co. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/325 "2024-08-28T02:36:33Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > What is _WFC_ here? I was going to ask but I was in the middle of eating an ear of corn. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/326 "2024-08-28T02:40:04Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > was going to ask but I was in the middle of eating an ear of corn. Dang, _now_ that’s a dilemma I wish I had! ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/327 "2024-08-28T02:44:10Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > WFC “Who freaking cares”, maybe? > **[WFC - Slang/Internet Slang](https://www.acronymfinder.com/Slang/WFC.html)** > > 6 definitions of WFC. Definition of WFC in Slang/Internet Slang. What does WFC stand for? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/328 "2024-08-28T02:51:02Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > maybe? Thank you. That site lists 188 (!) possibles for WFC. How were we supposed to know, even from context? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/329 "2024-08-28T02:54:10Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > How were we supposed to know, even from context? We’re gettin’ old. I bet all the younguns here knew it. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/330 "2024-08-28T03:04:16Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I bet all the younguns here knew it. Out of 188 possibles? 189 including Wells Fargo Co. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/331 "2024-08-28T03:11:41Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Out of 188 possibles? 189 including Wells Fargo Co. I love the scene in Modern Family where the dad brags about how he’s up on all the latest teen lingo, like WTF - “why the face?” as his family tries not to smirk too obviously . ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/332 "2024-08-28T03:13:04Z")
I knew what WFC meant. Me, the world’s oldest teenager now that Dick Clark is dead. Random fact: Dick Clark used to be the World’s Oldest Teenager or WOT. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/333 "2024-08-28T03:38:55Z")
Sorry, I tell people I am 29, but in my head I am still 12 (and Nixon is still President). ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/334 "2024-08-28T13:58:13Z")
Mr. Rogers (the character) to me just always seemed a little creepy. JMO, for another TLA. Anyway. . . Jack Kirby was involved with the “Thundarr the Barbarian” cartoon, which might explain why Gemini has a passing resemblance to Darkseid. Not sure if he cribbed one of his own 4th World creations for Thundarr, but Ariel could be a downsized Barda, and Ookla. . . maybe a repurposed Big Bear. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/335 "2024-08-28T20:36:58Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > After Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he suggested “Ahoy” be used as the standard greeting when answering it. OK. This one isn’t that interesting but: in the Netherlands people commonly answer the phone by saying “Met (name)”. ‘Met’ means ‘with’. Do other countries have phone salutations that start with ‘with’? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/336 "2024-08-28T21:02:10Z")
I’m reading a rather obscure book about accidents and mysteries in the Great Smokies. One story involves a Tennessee physician who enjoyed recreational flying. One day in 1955 he took his Piper up for a spin, developed engine trouble and was forced to crash-land in a forested area. Miraculously he came to rest in the top of a tree causing only minor injury to the pilot and scant damage to the plane. He had to spend the night in the woods and survive an encounter with a bear, but made it back to civilization. The pilot’s name was Samuel Sullenberger. Earlier, he was visiting family and met a 3-year-old cousin, Chesley Sullenberger, who would later go on to have a more publicized unscheduled landing with fortunate outcome. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/337 "2024-08-28T21:41:44Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Mr. Rogers (the character) to me just always seemed a little creepy. JMO, for another TLA. The really crazy thing is, there is no “Mr. Rogers (the character)”. What you see on screen is the authentic, actual Fred Rogers. He’s really like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/338 "2024-08-28T21:47:39Z")
Although by every single account Fred Rogers was a profoundly kind and gentle human being, I too was squicked out by his show. I was probably too old for it when I saw it though. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/339 "2024-08-28T22:39:10Z")
Napoleon’s army in the late 18th century called Egypt “the land of menstruating men” because so many people were infected with schistosomiasis which causes bloody urine. Also, schistosomes have two bodies – a female which is like a roundworm and a male which is curled-up fluke – that are combined permanently (a condition called in copula) to make up individual adult worms. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/340 "2024-08-29T04:16:06Z")
I beg your pardon, I’m over 70, and I got it! So there! Okay, I confess: I’d read this thread a few minutes earlier: [How to succinctly respond to a JFK assassination conspiracy proponent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-succinctly-respond-to-a-jfk-assassination-conspiracy-proponent/1006246). Some variations of “WFC” are mentioned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=18)