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🗓️ 19 January 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | The most surprising thing I learned at Surprisingly Awesome was, oh, it was like a total shocker to me that in the Circle of Fifth's episode to have revealed to us that there was a partial Circle of Fifths in our theme song. Hey guys it's me Rachel Ward from this show surprisingly awesome. |
0:32.7 | I have come to you to confess that we are a little bit past the deadline |
0:38.2 | that we set and promised to you guys to bring you new episodes, and we're sorry about that. But I'm here right now to |
0:46.2 | share some fun facts with you from the team at Surprisingly Awesome that we have |
0:51.1 | learned during our little hiatus. So, number one fact. I knew |
0:56.8 | about Fahrenheit because I'm an American and I knew about Celsius because I'm an American |
1:02.2 | who's been trying to learn Celsius since I was like in |
1:04.8 | second grade and I kind of knew about Kelvin but I did not know that there are all of these other ways of describing temperature. |
1:18.0 | So here's a list of other temperature systems and if you were looking for a New Year's |
1:22.3 | resolution maybe you could just |
1:23.2 | decide to start using one of these. There is Rankin, DeLeil, Newton, Reamurur and Romer. |
1:33.0 | I'm personally going to be measuring weather in Romer for the rest of the year. |
1:38.0 | Okay, fact number two is that the golden brushtail possum just exists. It is the most beautiful |
1:49.2 | animal I've ever seen. I would suggest, nay urge you to Google Golden Brushtail Possum. |
1:58.4 | And this is a possum, not an O possum. |
2:01.2 | They're actually two different things. |
2:02.8 | An O-Possum is a North American mammal, |
2:06.2 | whereas a possum is an Australian marsupial. |
2:11.5 | I have one more fact for you and it is that I am moving on to a new project at |
2:17.6 | Gimmlet so I'm going to be retiring from surprisingly awesome. I had a lot of fun working with everyone on this show, |
2:25.4 | especially the people you don't hear from very much like our editor Annie Rose |
2:29.5 | and Clealah Holt and Christine Driscoll and Andrew Dunn, but my biggest thank you goes out to you guys who've been listening |
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