Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

Show Name: Hyperfixation Nation

Episode Title: Weird but true

Episode #8

You are listening to Hyperfixation Nation, the podcast with your host Blake. In this episode of Hyperfixation Nation I will be talking about some questions/brain twisters and weird facts about the world. These facts will make you laugh, will leave you puzzled, and make you question everything you know, hopefully at least.

Hello! So I have been wanting to do this episode for a while because I always have these facts in my back pocket and I like starting debates with the brain twisters because it spices life up! I always enjoy learning cool little pieces of trivia that maybe will help me win a game show some day, who knows

So these are some cool facts about the world that I have found over the course of my life and thought were really cool. I actually have a note on my phone where I put new ones whenever I find one. I also did a little research for this episode but a decent amount of these are facts that I have come upon randomly.

• Scotland's national animal is unicorn
• Australia is wider than the moon - moon is 2,113 miles wide and australia is 2,485 miles wide
• The eiffel tower gets taller in the summer because the iron heats up and thermal expansion occurs making it 6 inches taller when it is hot
• Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
• An 11 year old accidentally invented ice pops
• Warm water increases dopamine so we are more creative in the shower so if you’re struggling with a problem that involves thinking outside the box, take a hot shower
• Supermarket apples can be a year old!
• Wasabi paste is often actually horseradish instead of real wasabi because wasabi is expensive
• People used to say prunes when taking pictures - how did that change to cheese?
• Competitive art used to be an olympic event
• Cat pee glows under black light - ew but cool!
• J-lo is the reason we have google images in the search engine - so many people wanted to see pics of her 2000 grammys green dress that google added the feature
• British military tanks can make tea
• A blue whales heartbeat can be detected from up to 2 miles away
• Easter island heads also have bodies - what the heck happened to them?