Let Me Google That

"Word fossils" are words that we don't really use anymore, except as part of an idiom or expression: "What in 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?!" "Good 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚!" & "Moral 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚." But how do words become "fossilized" & how long does it take? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Thanksgiving is coming and it's a great time for infection-prevention trivia to share 'round the table? So, we wanted to know: can sterling silver really keep itself germ-free? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Like many great inventions, Silly String was an accident: it was meant to be spray-on casts. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Is this creepy abandoned park full of presidential busts in Virginia a symbol for our crumbling democracy?! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

In 1924, a pair of sailors died aboard the S.S. Watertown and were buried at sea. Then, the crew started seeing spectral faces in the water. In response to cries of "photographs or it did not occur" the captain snapped A SPOOKY-ASS PIC --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Did you brew your coffee in a paper filter this morning? You have a fed-up German housewife named Melitta to thank for that! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

So, when did humans start in with the whole "rinse, lather, repeat" nonsense? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Robert Recorde invented the equals sign (=) because he got HECKIN' TIRED of having to write "is equal to" over and over again when he was creating mathematical texts for non-Latin reading folk in the 16th century England. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Why do we do this THING with our ONE EYE (that is ... those of us who can wink). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Will you get ice cubes faster if you fill the tray with hot water? 🤔 Learn more: http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/mpemba_effect.html --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

The entire colony of Roanoke ghosted over 430 years ago, and we still don't know what happened to them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

The phenomenon of "angel's glow"—a centuries-old mystery—was solved by...a group of high schoolers. 💅✨ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Turns out yellow school buses have quite a history. And only require seat belts in one state! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

7UP wasn't just ANY lemon-lime soda, it wanted to be *the* lemon-lime soda. Adding lithium probably helped. As did the enduring mystique around its name. Oh, and the whole "upside down" thing in the early 2000s. . . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

The #atomicbomb gave radiation a bad name, so scientists made "gamma gardens" a thing. ☢🌻 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Since August is #NationalCrayonCollectionMonth this seems like a good time to talk about FICTIONAL COLORS. 🖍 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

The optimum number of Os (of which there are *4* different sizes) per can is 1,750. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head in a particle accelerator and LIVED — but that's not even the strangest part of this story. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

Wobbegong sharks ("wobbies") are also known as carpet sharks because they literally just chill on the ocean floor like a rug. A rug with an extremely powerful jaw, lurking in the shadows . . . waiting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

What IS the difference between 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘵 and 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘵? Well, it depends on where you live. Oh, and it's not *SHER𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏* (you can thank the Big Band ditty "Shoot the Sherbet to Me Herbert" for that mispronunciation). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support