# 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:** 78
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1541 "2025-02-05T11:38:13Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Sometimes, when it seems important to make it clear whether it is his or her house it can be said “su casa de él” (his house) or “su casa de ella” (her house). It sounds stilted, legalistic and pedantic, but sometimes it is necessary. I don’t know whether this is a Spain-Spanish thing or LA-Spanish thing too In my práctica experience that would be: LA CASA DE ÉL… And never heard SU CASA DE Él… But then again… Spanish use differs a lot by country… E. G. GUAGUA in cuba means Bus, wheras in chile it means baby… And dont get me started on the dangers of Pico here ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1542 "2025-02-05T14:25:45Z")
Several countries separated by a common language… ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1543 "2025-02-05T14:29:49Z")
…and random Capitalization. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1544 "2025-02-05T14:33:21Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > An icy road at 32f is much more dangerous than one at 0f. We live in Ohio. Our gravel driveway is _very_ long, and has a nasty hairpin turn & hill. After a snow, I pray the temperature plunges into the teens, or less. Because I have observed that, the lower the temperature, the more traction the tires have. The driveway is most dangerous when the temperature is up around 25 °F to 35 °F. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1545 "2025-02-05T21:23:49Z")
As of last year, Zak Starkey has been playing drums for the Who twice as long as Keith Moon and Ron Wood has been playing with the Rolling Stones _seven times_ as long as Brian Jones. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1546 "2025-02-05T22:02:12Z")
So Steve Jordan will have to play with Stones until he’s 123 to equal Charlie Watts’ tenure. Seems doable. (Steve has played with Keith Richards’ side band since the mid 80s though.) ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1547 "2025-02-05T22:26:57Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > So Steve Jordan will have to play with Stones until he’s 123 to equal Charlie Watts’ tenure. > > Seems doable. If Jordan has the constitution of Keith, sure. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1548 "2025-02-05T22:37:02Z")
Undead don’t have a constitution score. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1549 "2025-02-06T00:29:29Z")
Never mind ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1550 "2025-02-06T00:34:31Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > …and random Capitalization Tablet with spanish screen keyboard, freaking out in english and throwing wrenches into things ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1551 "2025-02-06T08:48:53Z")
That explains it. I find it funny, and I did hardly mention the accents! I have found that many tablets can be pre-set to several languages and you can flip easily between them by, for instance, swiping the blank key left or right. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1552 "2025-02-06T14:12:47Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > So Steve Jordan will have to play with Stones until he’s 123 to equal Charlie Watts’ tenure. > > Seems doable. (Steve has played with Keith Richards’ side band since the mid 80s though.) Steve Jordan was the original drummer in the Blues Brothers. He was also the drummer for “the world’s most dangerous band”, David Letterman’s house band when he was on NBC. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1553 "2025-02-06T14:14:29Z")
As Charlie Watts was dying, he told his bandmates that Steve Jordan was the only drummer that could take over for him. I saw them at Mile High last summer. OMG I wish I could move like Jagger and he’s 20 years older than I am. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1554 "2025-02-07T11:22:50Z")
Brazil has a program where prisoners can get time shaved off of their sentences by reading books and writing reports on them. I like this idea. I hope it’s restricted to nonviolent offenders, though. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1555 "2025-02-07T12:17:16Z")
“My report is on OJ Simpson’s ‘(If) I Did It.’ I found this book informative and instructive…” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1556 "2025-02-07T12:43:58Z")
I liked Paul Brickhill’s _The Great Escape_. It was even better than Pat Reid’s _The Colditz Story_ or Eric Roberts’ _The Wooden Horse_. Many excellent ideas, clearly presented in an easy-to follow form. I’m going to read Stephen King’s _Different Seasons_ next. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1557 "2025-02-07T13:29:24Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Many excellent ideas, clearly presented in an easy-to follow form. When you’re done with those, I would recommend _Papillon_, followed by _The Count of Monte Cristo._ ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1558 "2025-02-07T18:48:48Z")
The life and career of Harry Houdini is always popular. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1559 "2025-02-07T20:06:52Z")
Indeed, I just “read” (on audiobook) William Kalush and Larry Sloman’s _The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero_. Lots in there on breaking out of prison cells. Only some of it requires collaborators. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/1560 "2025-02-08T01:16:58Z")
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