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Interesting Things with JC
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Episodes vary in duration from 30 seconds to 8 minutes.
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473: "The House at the Bottom of Gardner Lake"
Interesting Things with JC #473: "The House at the Bottom of Gardner Lake" - During the winter of 1895, a family attempted to transport their home across a frozen lake, but it fell beneath the water!
472: "Black Olives"
Interesting Things with JC #472: "Black Olives" - Green table olives are made edible by putting them in lye, while black olives turn black by being exposed to air!
471: "Shrimp Hearts"
Interesting Things with JC #471: "Shrimp Hearts" - Due to the protection offered by the head over the tail, shrimp house their hearts and other vital organs in their head.
470: "Big Turkey!"
Interesting Things with JC #470: "Big Turkey!" - The largest turkey ever measured weighed 86 pounds (39kg) in London on December 12, 1989
469: "I-35 Little Czech Bakery"
Interesting Things with JC #469: "I-35 Little Czech Bakery" - They sell fresh Czech pastries, coffee, travel pillows, and tamales, and is a typical Texas rest stop too. A poster in the store says that each week, the Czech Stop bakes with more than 1,200 pounds of cream cheese, 9,000 pounds of flour, 750 gallons of milk, 2,400 pounds of butter, 1,300 pounds of sausage, 2,100 dozen eggs, and 2,500 pounds of American cheese.
They’re the home of Kolache (pronounced "koh-LAH-chee") and klobasnek (pronounced "klo-BAH-snik") which are Czech pastries that is wildly popular in Texas.
468: "Public Glass Bathroom in Sulphur Springs Texas"
Interesting Things with JC #468: "Public Glass Bathroom in Sulphur Springs Texas" - Using the restroom is typically a private activity but in Sulphur Springs Texas you can find the only public bathrooms in America, with see-through walls!
467: "1940 Houston Municipal Airport Terminal Building"
Interesting Things with JC #467: "1940 Houston Municipal Airport Terminal Building" - A sleek art deco masterpiece!
466: "The World's Largest Cowboy Boot Sculpture"
Interesting Things with JC #466: "The "World's Largest Cowboy Boot Sculpture” is 35 feet, three inches tall. It measures 30 feet long, 9 feet wide, and weighs 10,000 pounds and lives in San Antonio, Texas.
465: "Calvin Klein"
Interesting Things with JC #465: “Calvin Klein” Limited was a startup coat boutique in the York Hotel that opened in 1968 with $10,000. The original Calvin Klein collection was comprised of "young, uncomplicated coats and dresses".
464: "Dog Farts"
Interesting Things with JC #464: "Dog Farts" - All dogs fart. Flatulence is a typical sign of the digestive system processing food, but excessive flatulence may indicate a poor diet or an underlying health concern in your dog.
463: "Possible Habitable Super-Earth Discovered"
Interesting Things with JC #463: "Possible Habitable Super-Earth Discovered" - 105 lightyears away from Earth, scientists have discovered two Super-Earth planets near the star LP 890-9. They believe that one of these two planets could support life.
Delrez L. et al, Two temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022
462: "Aztec Medicines"
Interesting Things with JC #462: "Aztec Medicines" - The Aztecs are famous for their ancient pyramids and chocolate recipes, but their medicines may have been as advanced as drugs used today.
461: "Where Traditional Kampo Medicines of Japan Came From"
Interesting Things with JC #461: "Where Traditional Kampo Medicines of Japan Came From" - Researchers from Japan and China, led by Professor Toshihiko Matsuo of Okayama University's Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, conducted a thorough review of available Chinese, Japanese, and English literature in order to shed light on a long-standing mystery.
460: "Scientists Create a Miniature Universe"
Interesting Things with JC #460: "Scientists Create a Miniature Universe" - A group of physicists utilized a "quantum field simulator" to model an expanding ultracold atom cosmos, in a lab.
Viermann, Celia & Sparn, Marius & Liebster, Nikolas & Hans, Maurus & Kath, Elinor & Parra-López, Álvaro & Tolosa-Simeón, Mireia & Sánchez-Kuntz, Natalia & Haas, Tobias & Strobel, Helmut & Floerchinger, Stefan & Oberthaler, Markus. (2022). Quantum field simulator for dynamics in curved spacetime. Nature. 611. 260-264. 10.1038/s41586-022-05313-9.
459: "Crystals That Generate Electricity From Heat"
Interesting Things #459: "Crystals That Generate Electricity From Heat" - A new study shows that simple changes to a synthetic copper mineral's composition can give it a complex structure and microstructure, laying the groundwork for properties that could change the way industry generates electricity.
#RoyaltyFree #Educational
458: "Put the Rubber Band in the Fridge"
Interesting Things with JC #458: "Put the Rubber Band in the Fridge" - You’ve seen it. You go to Nan’s house, and the butter tray in the fridge is overflowing with rubber bands, which just will not work well on your biscuit. Why does she put them in there? Let’s find out! (1:07)
457: "Sneezing Can Break Your Ribs"
Interesting Things with JC #457: "Sneezing Can Break Your Ribs" - You could break a rib if you sneeze too hard!
456: "Tongue Prints"
Interesting Things with JC #456: "Tongue Prints" - Like fingerprints, each person has a unique tongue print. The tongue is an important organ inside the mouth that is well protected from the outside world. It has unique parts that are different for each person, even between identical twins.
454: "Crocodile Tongue"
Interesting Things with JC #454: "Crocodile Tongue" - A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.