# 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:** 3
**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:** [July 31, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/41 "2024-07-31T15:45:31Z")
Besides equipment modern medical care and rehabilitation has greatly improved for athletes. Major and minor injuries which affected performance are now treated and with proper physical therapy athlete’s may function even better then before the injury. Many see physiological therapy even without injury to maximize their potential. And we have a lot of PEDs also. They aren’t always detected. ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/42 "2024-07-31T15:51:06Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > And we have a lot of PEDs also. They aren’t always detected. But today they are controlled and tested for (to a degree, I admit), while back then (some) athletes took anything their “doctors” gave them to be faster, stronger or more persevering without a second thought. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/43 "2024-07-31T15:56:06Z")
Certainly no longer the heyday that PED usage was in the past. At the same time we know far more about to use them effectively now and they are part of the improved medical treatment. I wouldn’t call them PEDs so much in those circumstances since there will be sound medical reasons to use them for recovery and rehabilitation from injury instead of while performing. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/44 "2024-07-31T22:19:39Z")
Don Novello’s brother was married to Antonia Novello, Surgeon General of the US from 1990-1993. I guess I missed this tidbit in Father Guido Sarducci’s column in _L’Osservatore Romano_. ---
**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 31, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/45 "2024-07-31T22:42:59Z")
I wonder if Lazlo Toth ever wrote her a letter with suggestions for a new uniform. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/46 "2024-07-31T22:57:48Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Lazlo Toth Pietà? I thought you said piñata. ---
**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 31, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/47 "2024-07-31T23:13:47Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > Lazlo Toth > > Pietà? I thought you said piñata No. Lazlo Toth, American! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/48 "2024-07-31T23:58:26Z")
“You send out letters, you get back letters, that’s for sure!” ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/49 "2024-08-01T10:58:22Z")
> **[Sama-Bajau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama-Bajau)** > > The Sama-Bajau include several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia. The name collectively refers to related people who usually call themselves the Sama or Samah (formally A'a Sama, "Sama people"); or are known by the exonym Bajau (/ˈbɑːdʒaʊ, ˈbæ-/, also spelled Badjao, Bajaw, Badjau, Badjaw, Bajo or Bayao). They usually live a seaborne lifestyle and use small wooden sailing vessels such as the perahu (layag in Maranao), djenging (balutu), lepa, and vinta (pilang). Some Sam Th... From the article, bolding mine: > Sama-Bajau are noted for their exceptional abilities in [free-diving](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-diving).[[92]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama-Bajau#cite_note-Lane-94) Divers work long days with the “greatest daily apnea diving time reported in humans” of greater than 5 hours per day submerged.[[93]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama-Bajau#cite_note-pmid21560982-95) **Some Bajau intentionally rupture their [eardrums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eardrum) at an early age to facilitate diving and hunting at sea. Many older Sama-Bajau are therefore hard of hearing.**[[24]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama-Bajau#cite_note-Guardian-24)[[92]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama-Bajau#cite_note-Lane-94) ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/50 "2024-08-01T18:38:42Z")
The Sama-Bajau have spleens much larger than average “letting them store more haemoglobin-rich blood, which is expelled into the bloodstream when the spleen contracts at depth, allowing breath-holding dives of longer duration” (Quoted form Wiki article and Sama-Bajau above) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/51 "2024-08-01T20:05:37Z")
Sapporo Diet Water exists. ---
**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 1, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/52 "2024-08-01T20:58:40Z")
Is it literally called “diet” water? Because the “Diet” is the name of Japan’s national legislature. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/53 "2024-08-01T21:13:34Z")
A Diet is in general an obsolete term for a deliberative assembly: [cite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_(assembly)). The Japanese bicameral National Diet is just one of those, and it is called _[Kokkai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Diet)_ in Japanese. Diet is just a translation. In Spanish it is called _Dieta Nacional_ (probably via English), in German it is called _Kokkai_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/54 "2024-08-01T21:27:38Z")
It is literally called “Diet Water”. Here is a Reddit link: [Reddit - Dive into anything](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/z3cn3n/diet_water_thats_right_diet_water_in_2004/?captcha=1) ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/55 "2024-08-01T21:35:30Z")
And if you thought Kosher was weird, there’s those Lutherans with their Diet of Worms ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/56 "2024-08-01T21:39:44Z")
You made me spill my whisky though my nose! 🤣 In reply to the previous post ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/57 "2024-08-01T21:41:25Z")
Today I learned you can see ancient river beds (a.k.a. “ghost river beds”) on Google Maps. As an example, go to Google Maps, switch to satellite view, and look at the area between Chillicothe, Ohio and the Ohio River. You’ll see a light-green old river bed snaking its way from Chillicothe down to Wheelersburg. Pretty cool. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/58 "2024-08-01T22:36:39Z")
I could fill this tread with just the stuff I learn from [Andrew Hickey’s podcast.](https://500songs.com/) This one is from a Patreon bonus episode. This obscure B-side from an obscure band may well be the most sampled record in History. The drum break around 1:25 turns up in: “I Desire” by Salt n Pepa “Straight Outta Compton” by NWA “Do You Know What I Mean?” by Oasis “Little Wonder” by David Bowie The themes for _Futurama_ and _Powerpuff Girls_ and hundreds of other places. One YouTube commentator notes that the drummer on the record, Gregory Coleman “died homeless and destitute in 2006.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GxZuq57_bYM/hqdefault.jpg "The Winstons - Amen Brother") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZuq57_bYM) ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/59 "2024-08-02T07:02:40Z")
Deleted redundant ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/60 "2024-08-02T17:10:22Z")
The Amen break has its own [Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785.md?page=4)