182 Compelling Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
Only one First Lady has ever appeared on us paper currency. Who was it? Wow,

Bob Smith 0:06
I didn’t know about that. I know. I know. And what state is home to the world’s largest temperate rainforest? You will be surprised. Will I Okay? Answers to those and other questions coming up in this half hour of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:23
Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 0:40
Welcome to the off ramp, a chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity with some fun facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, we’re back again after a week or so off, and it’s good to be here with you today. All right, Marcia, that’s an interesting question. There is a US first lady that appeared on currency, yeah, I didn’t know that either. Is this a special kind of currency? Just guess who the lady is. Okay? The lady is Martha Washington. That

Marcia Smith 1:10
is it. Ding, ding, ding, from 1886 to get this, 1957 she was the face on the US $1 silver certificate.

Bob Smith 1:21
She was on a $1 silver certificate. For how long?

Marcia Smith 1:23
From 1886 to 57 Wow, in 1896 She also appeared alongside husband George on the $1 bill in honor of her birthday for a year, I

Bob Smith 1:36
didn’t know that. Yeah, me either. Martha Washington was on a $1 bill.

Marcia Smith 1:40
Well, in 1896 she was with George as a couple. No kidding, in honor of her birthday, they appeared in tandem, but she was also on the US $1 silver certificate.

Bob Smith 1:51
Now, what’s that? That’s not something we would normally see. Was it? I think it

Marcia Smith 1:55
was tender used between banks, mostly, and it could be traded in for a silver dollar. It was a certificate, though it was paper currency. That’s

Bob Smith 2:03
fascinating. And I chose Martha because I figured, let’s go back to the original First Lady, and there’d be least controversial there. But I didn’t realize they were actually on a real $1 bill in 1896 as a couple. Yeah, that’s a couple. Two for one.

Marcia Smith 2:18
I’d like that for us for our 50th anniversary. Let’s do that.

Bob Smith 2:22
That’s a little boys down the road. Okay, thank God not, not, not, because I don’t want to be here.

Unknown Speaker 2:28
What was your

Bob Smith 2:29
younger than that? Okay, here’s my teaser. What state is home to the world’s largest temperate rain forest? Now, what does that mean? Temperate zones are the mild temperature areas located between the subtropical and the polar regions. So the world’s largest temperate rainforest is in what state you want me to give you some states, yeah, Florida, Alaska, Oregon, Louisiana or North Carolina. Which state is home to the world’s largest temperate rain forest, Florida, Oregon, Alaska, Louisiana or North Carolina, Alaska, that is exactly right. Isn’t that fascinating? Tongas National Forest, located in southeastern Alaska, is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world, 17 million acres, and has a dramatic landscape of fjords, glaciers and the snowy peaks of the coastal mountains. So who knew? Right? Alaska is just full of surprises. It

Marcia Smith 3:31
is the most veterans, yeah,

Bob Smith 3:33
the largest capital that you can’t get to by any road, right? Yeah, all

Marcia Smith 3:37
sorts of singular distinctions, exactly, okay. Bob canned food was around about 50 years before the first can opener was invented in 1858, so how do people get their cans open? Before the can opener for 50 they

Bob Smith 3:53
had to punch a hole in them and pry them open, or something like that, a hammer

Marcia Smith 3:57
and a chisel. Oh, my God, yes, honey. Hand me the hammer and chisel. I

Bob Smith 4:01
am really hungry right now. I am so hungry get to these beans.

Marcia Smith 4:05
Yep, it wasn’t easy, and the first can opener was invented by Ezra Warner. He was employed by soldiers during the Civil War, and he had to come up with a replacement to help these guys get to their food. And He came up with the can opener, which wasn’t that great because it had a series of blades to puncture the can and then saw off the top of the can, and it left a dangerously jagged edge.

Bob Smith 4:31
Sounds, yeah, you don’t want to eat your beans by bringing them up to your mouth. Oh, God,

Marcia Smith 4:36
no, but oh, the common crank can opener, commonly used today, wasn’t invented until 1925 Wow.

Bob Smith 4:44
And you’re right that the first canned food goes back to, I think, Napoleon’s army, something he gave a prize so he could have his meat for his army as it went across to

Marcia Smith 4:54
feed the troops as they paraded around the world, conquering things. Okay? Marcia.

Bob Smith 4:59
Let’s get to architecture here. What major world city is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers? Oh, my, my. What major world city is sinking under the weight of skyscrapers? Is it New York City? That’s right. Oh dear. This is new research published by the American Geophysical Union. The city is sinking under its own weight, sliding deeper into the Earth’s crust. The rate is about one to two millimeters a year. Turns out, those massive skyscrapers and that dense clustering of buildings, they weigh about 1.7 trillion tons, so they apply too much pressure to the ground, and four of the five boroughs are mostly islands, essentially, but apparently the city is rebuilding a park on Manhattan east side to try to make the city more flood proof. Last year, it changed its building codes to improve drainage. That’s good. How much a year? One, two millimeters. So it’s about, you know, point 04, inches. So it’s very tiny, but that is sinking that much every year. Yeah, that’s a

Marcia Smith 5:59
lot. It’s problematic for sure. Okay, Bob, who was the first British monarch to hold a university degree.

Bob Smith 6:07
I think that was Prince Philip, wasn’t it? Huh? Prince Charles, I’m sorry, Prince Charles, the guy

Marcia Smith 6:13
now, who’s king now, yes, that’s the answer. Good for you. The recently coronated King was the first to forgo home tutoring. The first

Bob Smith 6:21
to forgo home tutor. Yeah. Okay. So before him, all the Royals were home schooled, yeah. And with the best tutors, we might say

Marcia Smith 6:29
he had a bachelor’s degree from Cambridge in anthropology, archeology and history, and then he got his master’s of arts degree, also from Cambridge. That’s the current King Charles, yes. Okay, yes. So he is well schooled in all those disciplines,

Bob Smith 6:43
probably one of the best educated kings in the history of the world, from that standpoint, yeah, could be okay. Let’s talk about side jobs. Side jobs are important to many of us. We’ve had side jobs with our professions. Anton Chekhov was a famous Russian playwright, but what was his other job? What was his other profession? Bartender? No, it’s a profession that probably got him killed. Oh, oh. Anton Chekhov, what was his other profession other than being a Russian playwright? I don’t know. We should ask our friend.

Marcia Smith 7:16
Oh, she’s teaches Chekhov. Maya,

Bob Smith 7:18
Maya solo, vieva, our in law? Yeah. She teaches at Oberlin Russian literature. That’s right, all right. So Anton Chekhov, a famous Russian playwright. What was his

Marcia Smith 7:27
other profession? If he’s not a bartender, I’ll say bricklayer. No, he was

Bob Smith 7:32
a physician, really? Yeah. His work included treating some of Russia’s poorest, sickest people. And he died in 1904 of tuberculosis, possibly something he contracted from a patient. Oh,

Marcia Smith 7:43
dear. Yeah, she loves her check off, doesn’t she? Okay? Bob, how many pounds of edible food a year does the average American throw away? Now, why do you say edible food? Because this is stuff you could that hasn’t been made yet or isn’t eaten or still in the can or package or buy and put in

Bob Smith 8:04
the fridge is stuff we’re prematurely getting rid of. Yes, for some reason

Marcia Smith 8:08
it hasn’t been eaten. Like, you know, you got some ham slices in the fridge and you toss it before it’s ready.

Bob Smith 8:14
I’ll say, well, 100 pounds a year, that’s a lot, isn’t it? But

Marcia Smith 8:19
that is a lot, and I would have guessed the same, but it’s 325 pounds per person.

Bob Smith 8:25
Wow. Now explain this. Why are we throwing out 325 pounds of good food per person? How’s that happening?

Marcia Smith 8:31
The biggest reason is we buy too much and we misunderstand expiration labels. Okay, you know the best if used by date on the stuff that we always look at. Yeah, that describes quality, where the product may not taste or perform as expected, but we think that’s when we should consume it by, and so we throw it away. Whereas the use by date applies to only a few products, and that means it’s highly perishable, and that’s the date you have to look at. So the best by date, you can fudge on that a little bit. Yes, if used by date, you can fudge on it by a lot, because it’s probably going to still be good for it just deteriorates a little your spaghetti or your soup or whatever, but it’s still edible,

Bob Smith 9:11
so that’s what we should keep in mind as a new rule from now on. Okay, okay, all right. Marcia, speaking of waste, here’s waste of a kind of a different sort. Did you know that the United States is over parked? What was that the United States is over

Marcia Smith 9:27
parked? I know what. I don’t understand.

Bob Smith 9:29
Okay, what’s the ratio of parking spaces to cars in the United States? Oh, really, yeah. Parking spaces to cars, two to one, two to one, that would be a lot, right? Yeah. Now in the US, there are as many as six parking spaces for every car. What really as many as six now, and that’s a fact from a new book called paved paradise, how parking explains the world, by Henry grabar. He says the United States became over parked. He calls it because of rules that require new housing developments to build a minimum. Of parking spaces. Yeah. So in some cases, 53 parking spaces for only 10 apartment units are mandated, really, by municipal rules. And sometimes these rules are so onerous, apartment buildings aren’t built. But that’s the ratio today, six parking spaces for every car in America. So that’s another form of waste. Indeed it is, yeah, Marcia, have you noticed there are more and more Amazon delivery vans you see these days? Yeah. Do you know how many more there are now than there were were

Marcia Smith 10:29
when before 2022 Oh, no. Amazon

Bob Smith 10:33
built aggressively on its delivery service during the COVID pandemic. So what do you want? A number, yeah. How many do you think they have now? Vehicles around the country, Amazon vehicles

Marcia Smith 10:42
USA, I’ll say

Bob Smith 10:45
10,000 it’s 100,000 Yeah, between 2020, and 2022, the number of Amazon delivery vans on streets more than doubled in that two year period. So it’s quite a fleet delivering everyday items. That’s almost half the size of the US postal delivery fleet now, half of it. Yeah, I went online to find out what theirs were. The Postal Service says it has 236,532 vehicles. Amazon has 100,000 and it’s growing.

Marcia Smith 11:15
That’s amazing. All right, back to King Charlie Bob. You know it’s King Charles the third? Did you know he’s a third? Yes, he is okay. He was recently coronated wearing a solid gold St Edward’s crown, which weighed over three pounds solid gold. Geez, you want to take a guess how many diamonds were embedded in it.

Bob Smith 11:33
Let’s see. I would say probably 400

Marcia Smith 11:38
diamonds. Yeah, that’s a lot, yeah, 2868 diamonds, God and a delightful assortment of sapphires, emeralds and pearls. The diamonds include the famous 3106 carat cullion diamond. Can you imagine? 3106 carats? Yeah, cow, yeah. Those are some pretty hefty crown jewels. That’s a lot. Again, it’s deck. Is it time for a break? I

Bob Smith 12:06
think so. Okay, you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. Then we’ll be back in just a moment.

Marcia Smith 12:12
The crowd cheers.

Bob Smith 12:15
The crowd cheers, Okay, we’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, which has an internet radio station. After we do that show, it goes out over podcast platforms all over the world. Marcia what movie studio is credited with being the first one to start producing shows for television, in other words, the first movie studio to work with the new medium rather than against it, first

Marcia Smith 12:45
studio. It

Bob Smith 12:50
actually makes sense when you think

Marcia Smith 12:51
about it’s not Desi Lou No, no. That came after in 50s. I don’t know, Walt Disney. Oh, gosh, that makes sense.

Bob Smith 12:59
Yeah, their color show, Disneyland, that was the original show, came on the air october 27 1954 and that prompted Warner Brothers to sign a contract to produce shows for ABC, one of the most famous, of which was Maverick. So Disney started the movie studios working with television. Oh, okay, like movie studios now are working with streaming and everything else these

Marcia Smith 13:21
days. Okay, that makes sense. Canned food. Let’s go back to canned food. Canned

Bob Smith 13:25
Food one of your favorite topics, apparently today, after soup. Bob,

Marcia Smith 13:29
what are the top canned foods in American pantries

Bob Smith 13:33
after soup? Well, I’d say spam is pretty important. That’s canned meat. It’s not on the top, but it’s apparently not on the top. I will say canned fruit. No, not on the top. Really. I was thinking like pineapple or something like that. No, no, no. Canned the most. Okay, canned beans. Yeah, that’s towards the end here of the top. So canned soup to canned beans and something in between. Oh, yeah.

Marcia Smith 13:55
Number two, what is it? Tuna? Oh, my goodness, really? Yeah, I didn’t know that to be specific, Star kiss tuna, apparently, wow. And that’s followed by spaghetti and meatballs, yeah, and that’s followed by corn, green beans and tomatoes. You said beans, didn’t you? Yes, I did. These are the green beans, baked beans. I was thinking, oh yeah, but this is green beans. Okay, there you go. Wow. That’s the stuff in our pantry. Okay, actually, none of those things are in our pantry. Well,

Bob Smith 14:24
are you proud? Do you want a medal? Is that it okay? Hey, I got some more TV questions here. Okay, it was one of the most popular quiz shows. Offered very little money, but an interesting format and personalities. What was the top prize? If you were on What’s My Line back in the day. Gosh,

Marcia Smith 14:41
it wasn’t much. The top prize. I watched it on YouTube the other day.

Bob Smith 14:46
Yeah, you can see a lot of those are fun. Oh,

Marcia Smith 14:48
the top prize, $100 $50

Bob Smith 14:51
that’s all the more they offer. Okay, speaking of TV, I’ve got another thing here. How many different titles? Has the tonight show had in its history? We’re talking about the NBC series, The Tonight Show. It first went on the air, went any idea?

Marcia Smith 15:11
1952

Bob Smith 15:13
1950 so it’s over 72 years old. All right, how many titles you think it’s had?

Marcia Smith 15:19
One, six. Okay? I thought they were all the Tonight Show. No. It

Bob Smith 15:23
started out as Broadway open house, really. That was the first year at Jerry Lester and Maury, Amsterdam. That was 1958 51 Yeah, seven at 11 was the next incarnation of it. Does that mean seven at 11? Seven at 11? I don’t know seven people at 11, seven acts at 11, that was in 1951 the leftover review. That doesn’t sound like something you want to wait up. Let’s wait up and watch the leftover review. But that was a one month replacement for Broadway open house. So they went through a number of series, but these are all the same time. Okay, okay. Then the tonight show name that was adopted in 1953 who was the host of that? Steve

Marcia Smith 16:01
Allen. Steve Allen, that’s Jack par. Jack par

Bob Smith 16:05
came later. That was tonight America after dark. Was jackless, schooly. And then the Tonight Show, just tonight show without the word the came in 1957 and that was Jack par. Oh, okay, wow. Now, who had the longest? Who was the longest host? Johnny Carson, how many years 20 something, 30 really, 1962 to 1992 then, of course, Jay Leno, how many years was he on? This is hard to believe,

Marcia Smith 16:31
1522, years really, one day. Guess that and

Bob Smith 16:35
Jimmy Fallon has been on for almost 10 years now, since 2014 February 17. 2014 he became like the 10th or 11th host of The Tonight Show in its history. Jeez.

Marcia Smith 16:47
Add those up, and you got to feel really old, Johnny and Jimmy. And who’s that other? Oh, Jay Leno. Gosh. That’s 6070 years right there. There was

Bob Smith 16:59
even a year in 1962 when Jack Park quit, they had a whole bunch of other hosts, yeah, just a rotating series of hosts like Art Linkletter and Jack Carter and Joey Bishop. And I think there was like 20 of hosts over a period of summer. So you can, you can put a lot of other names in there that hosted that show, but the people who really anchored it probably about 11 people in its history, and people, some people we never heard of.

Marcia Smith 17:21
Well, those summer, people were trial runs to see if they were any good. That was part of it, sure. Yeah, it was like an audition.

Bob Smith 17:27
Even Ernie Kovacs hosted with Steve Allen for a while. They were, they were in rotation. Well, there’s

Marcia Smith 17:32
a oh, that’s an interesting too. So yeah, rotation makes sense. He was very funny. Yeah. He was Okay, Bob, you always like word questions. Why are skilled computer fanatics called geeks?

Bob Smith 17:44
Why are skilled computer fanatics called geeks? And geeks didn’t always refer to computer fanatics. It didn’t. It wasn’t that kind of voice. Somebody was a little strange, or had a strange hobby, something like that. Well, actually,

Marcia Smith 17:57
the word goes back to the 1400s

Bob Smith 17:58
Oh, my God, really, long before computers. Yeah, okay, tell me about it. All

Marcia Smith 18:03
right. Since the 15th century, Bob geek was used to describe a low life fool, a low life fool. And in carnival slang, a geek is someone who bites off the heads of chickens and snakes. Oh no, didn’t want to go out with that guy. Anyway. It’s a lost art. At the beginning of the computer age, the word geek took on a new meaning of a socially awkward intellectual who understood the weird world of computers, okay, but through accepting and celebrating their geek status, skilled computer operators managed to change the meaning of the word, so that a geek is someone to be admired. Isn’t that interesting? Yeah, kind of like Wisconsinites embracing the term cheese head. Yes, it is, which was initially a derogatory term used by jealous Chicago bear fans. That’s right, and it’s the same thing. And they say, Yeah, I’m a proud geek, and now, now it means somebody that’s really good with the computers. You know,

Bob Smith 19:01
a lot of terms in history have been derogatory terms. Originally, Methodist, that was one. And these people had a strange method the way they practiced, you know, their religion. Same thing with Protestants. Were protesters, you know, okay, they were Protestants. You know, that was a negative thing to say about somebody. And then these people, if they’re smart, just

Marcia Smith 19:20
take and say, we’ll make this a positive. Make it a positive. And that’s what the geeks did. You

Bob Smith 19:24
know the big geeks are. Bill Gates, yeah? Steve Jobs, yeah, those guys were geeks. Proud of it, okay, speaking of words. Marcia, what do shoemakers have to do with the word snobbery? Really? Snobs? Wow. Shoemakers were called snobs at one point, they were, yeah,

Marcia Smith 19:42
because only rich people had good shoes that could afford to have them repaired,

Bob Smith 19:46
something along those lines. That’s similar to that. The word snob goes back to the 18th century. Originally referred to cobblers, people who repaired shoes and luggage and belts and bags and other things. They were considered unskilled work. Dollars of relatively low rank. We think of snob as somebody who is looking down on people, but the people looked down upon were called snobs back in those days. Oh, really, yeah. One theory suggests the word snob came from the custom of writing S, period, nob, CN, a nobility without nobility, under the name of children of untitled parents in English schools. This kid is a snob because they’re not. They have

Marcia Smith 20:25
no it was the opposite. Yeah, be done, yeah. Oh, I had no idea

Bob Smith 20:29
the early 19th century sense was a person not belonging to the upper classes, not one who’s an aristocrat. They’re a snob. Where we think of a snob as somebody who is an aristocrat looking down on us. Yeah, totally different. Here’s

Marcia Smith 20:42
a quickie. What are egglets? Bob, a G, E, L e t s, small eggs, tiny eggs. Egg lits, a G, E, oh, a G, E L, E T S, egg, let’s it’s the plastic thing on the end of your shoe laces. Oh, really.

Bob Smith 20:59
How did that get that name? I

Marcia Smith 21:00
don’t know, but I threw it in because you were talking about shoemakers. One more word question. Sometimes Bob at the end of the day, we say, I’m ready to knock off work. Yes. Where does that term come from? Knock

Bob Smith 21:12
off work. This must be some kind of a profession where you would knock things or push things off. I would say that sounds like somebody works at a carnival with those little, funny, little furry things that you throw, throw, you know, balls at, and they knock off. That’s

Marcia Smith 21:26
a good guess. Yeah, this goes back to something far less fun. Oh, it goes back to the oarsmen in the ship, slave galley. Oh, dear to keep ships on course. You know, there’s always somebody keeping them in unison by a drum beat pounded on a block of wood. That’s right, different beats had different meanings. And the best one of the day was when the slaves were knocked off for the day there was a special beat. So

Bob Smith 21:50
this wasn’t a bad thing. The slaves would be happy to be knocked off for the day. They weren’t killed for the day.

Marcia Smith 21:55
No, they were knocked off for the day they could, they could stop rowing, and the next group probably came in. So you’d knock off because the drum beat was off. They had different knocks for, you know, just do your left or do your right, or do in unison and knock off

Bob Smith 22:08
for the day. So what do you do when you want to embarrass your agent? Marcia, my agent, what did Jerry Lewis do to get even with his agent when they were having a feud? Jerry Lewis, my favorite.

Marcia Smith 22:19
What did he

Bob Smith 22:23
do? He had his agent’s picture printed on rolls of toilet paper, and he distributed the rolls to his friends and encouraged them to use the paper at every opportunity. What a vindictive person he

Marcia Smith 22:35
was, distasteful to me, but France loved him. I don’t know why he

Bob Smith 22:40
was a genius in France. What the hell? How did that happen? Well, he was a filmmaker. He, you know, he did everything he was, he wrote, he directed, he starred, he acted, he produced, and he called himself a genius. Yes, he did. That’s one of the things. You have to call yourself a genius to

Marcia Smith 22:54
be one. That’s right, okay, Bob, what is the best selling candy in the

Bob Smith 22:57
world? The best selling candy in the world. Is this something that has a is a United States product, by any chance it is. Is it Hershey’s no chocolate? No.

Marcia Smith 23:07
I would have said that. Okay. Is it a chocolate? There’s some chocolate on it? Yeah,

Bob Smith 23:12
it’s not Tootsie Rolls. Is it? No? Is it Tootsie Roll? Pop? No. Sorry, I’m just focused on chocolate here. What would be have some chocolate on it. What do you mean? It has some chocolate? Well, I mean, the whole thing isn’t solid chocolate. Oh, okay, so it’s got chocolate, like a chocolate coating effect, I’ll tell you

Marcia Smith 23:30
the ingredients. It’s a mixture of peanuts, caramel, Nougat, wrapped in a layer chocolate. Yes, of course, it’s so number one in the world, that’s one of my favorite candy books. Yeah. And you know, number two in the world is something I really like, toberlon, you know, the chocolate, it’s shaped like from Europe, right? Yeah, it’s created in Switzerland, and it’s like a trying.

Bob Smith 23:51
I brought you some of those home when I came from Switzerland, and

Marcia Smith 23:55
you can get them right here at the store, that’s right, you can get them here, but back in the day, you couldn’t. And the top sellers, in case you’re wondering, in America, are Snickers, Reese’s, peanut butter cups, toberlon and Kit Kat. My favorite.

Bob Smith 24:07
Kit Kat, yeah, those are, those are from Britain, I believe. Okay, Marcia, I told you about the post office trucks just a moment. Yeah, yeah. So I thought, what other post office facts are there that might be interesting? And the post office has a website called one day in the Postal Service.

Marcia Smith 24:23
Oh, fun factoids from the postal people. It’s full of stats

Bob Smith 24:27
about what happens in a single day with the US Postal Service, but I think it’s a great snapshot of a single day in the life of America. Okay, let’s take visits to their website. Okay, now we all know the Internet and email and social media pretty much killed old fashioned letter writing, but the US Postal Service transitioned, like every other business, it built its own website, and guess what? It’s a very busy website. Most websites would kill to get this kind of traffic. How many visitors daily to the US Postal Service website? Uh, 1.5 million, 9.9 million a day. Visit usps.com No kidding. 9 million, huh, okay. Now here in America, how many address changes are there on a daily basis? Address changes? 1,000,002 not that many. Okay, 500,000 not that many. 200,000 not that many. Marsh 550,

Unknown Speaker 25:21
1000. 50,227

Bob Smith 25:25
Okay, how many mail carriers are delivering mail on foot? Old Fashioned mail carriers delivering, not in trucks, but going neighborhood to neighborhood.

Marcia Smith 25:34
Many, I don’t know, tell me, 6600 so there’s still a lot.

Bob Smith 25:39
They call them the fleet of feet, the fleet of okay, how many packages are still processed daily by the post office? I tell me, 23 point 8 million. How many pieces of mail process per second? 4877 pieces of mail each second, even though we’re not sending as much, which comes out to about 292,628 pieces. Of mail each minute, and the Postal Service says, no single operation in the world comes close to this level of connectivity for so many households and businesses. That’s laudable, isn’t it? Yeah, 421 million pieces of mail every day still processed.

Marcia Smith 26:19
Okay? Well, before I get to my quote, quick question, approximately, Bob, how many earthquakes are there each day around the world? Hmm,

Bob Smith 26:28
earthquakes? How many earthquakes per day? And these can be tiny too. These are not like major things that are shaking buildings and knocking them down. So I would say maybe 150 maybe 200 per

Marcia Smith 26:41
day around the world. Yeah, it’s 5555 to 20,000 a year, according to the National Earthquake Information Center.

Bob Smith 26:48
So much for solid earth.

Marcia Smith 26:52
All right, so I’m going to finish up with two Memorial Day Quotes. Okay, here’s a quote from anonymous one of my old boyfriends, okay? Quote, home of the free because of the brave, because

Bob Smith 27:06
of the brave. Well, that’s true. Yeah, we’re the land of the free because of the brave. Absolutely.

Marcia Smith 27:11
And Eleanor Roosevelt, she said, Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. Thank you, Marcia. Let’s go out and hang up the flag.

Bob Smith 27:23
All right, that’s all for today. We hope you’ve enjoyed our little half hour here of trivia. I’m Bob Smith. I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next time when we return with more fun facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp, you

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