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b'One of the occupational hazards of my job is I run across all kinds of facts, bits of data, and pieces of knowledge that don\\u2019t have any immediate practical application\\u2026\\n\\nFor example, I ran across this piece of royal etiquette\\u2026the British royals are forbidden to play \\u201cmonopoly\\u201d\\u2014as in the board game\\u2026 I have no idea why, but this is apparently a hard and fast rule\\u2026\\n\\nIf you have a cat, you know all about hairballs\\u2026the technical term for one of those is a \\u201cbezoar\\u201d\\u2026\\n\\nStill with animals, there\\u2019s a psychological disorder called \\u201cBoanthropy\\u201d\\u2026this is when a person believes they are a cow and tries to live their lives accordingly\\u2026\\n\\nWhat do you think the most popular item sold at Wal-Mart is?...bananas\\u2026Wal-Mart sells more bananas than anything else in its inventory\\u2026\\n\\nAstronauts cannot burp is space\\u2026that\\u2019s because the lack of gravity means all the gases in your stomach get mixed with the liquids and the solids instead of separating out\\u2026if you tried to burp, everything would come up at the same time\\u2026so where do gastric gases go?...out the other end\\u2026\\n\\nAnd before you ask, no you cannot use that to propel yourself through the international space station\\u2026Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tried that and he reports that the thrust produced isn\\u2019t enough to produce the requisite Newtonian shift in vector\\u2026\\n\\nI have more, but I think you get the idea\\u2026this brings me to the topic of this program\\u2026when researching \\u201congoing history\\u201d episodes and my blog, I always come across pieces of information that are, if not useless, very close to being so\\u2026\\n\\nBut much of this stuff is just too weird, too fascinating, too fun to ignore\\u2026so once a year, it has become my habit to conduct a big data dump of this information\\u2026what you do with this what I\\u2019m about to tell you is completely up to you\\u2026.\\n\\nThis is the annual show I called \\u201c60 mind-blowing facts about music in 60 minutes\\u201d\\u2026.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'