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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Do you need more trivia capable of winning a bar bet or making you look incredibly smug at a family gathering? Fear not, people – random facts are my jam. Just sit back and pay attention, you never know when this stuff might come in handy!
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0:00.0 | What's that you say? You need more trivia capable of winning a bar bet or making you look incredibly smug at a family gathering? |
0:08.0 | Fear not, people, random facts, or my jam. Just relax and pay attention. You never know. You're listening to be amazed. |
0:26.4 | It's illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket in Kentucky. |
0:30.5 | Picture this. |
0:31.6 | It's a scorching hot day in Kentucky. |
0:33.6 | So you treat yourself to a cone from an ice cream truck. |
0:36.4 | Suddenly a woman asked you to hold her two dogs while she ties her shoelace. |
0:40.2 | With no other option, you stick the cone in your back pocket, praying that the chocolate double scoop doesn't make an embarrassing mess on your shorts. |
0:49.3 | Before you know it, you're under arrest. Turns out it's totally illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket in |
0:55.6 | Kentucky. This bizarre law actually has nothing to do with the absurdity of storing frozen treats in |
1:01.3 | stupid places and everything to do with horse theft. Back in the 1800s, scheming horsenappers |
1:06.8 | came up with a foolproof plan to lure horses back to their homes without even touching them. |
1:11.7 | All they had to do was stick an ice cream cone in their back pocket and wander past a hungry horse in the hopes that it would follow. |
1:18.0 | You can hardly be accused of any wrongdoing if the horse willingly followed you, right? |
1:22.5 | That is, until someone laid down this law to prevent such a crime from ever happening again. |
1:28.3 | Damn it! Turtles can breathe out of their butts! |
1:31.3 | During cold winters, most turtle species enter a temporary slowed down state known as brumation. |
1:36.3 | They take extended naps throughout this period in two strange ways, |
1:40.3 | either by burying themselves in mud or sleeping underwater. If humans were to do either of |
1:46.0 | these things, we'd obviously die from a lack of oxygen, but turtles have a secret weapon. Their butts. |
1:52.3 | Hear me out. I'm not suggesting that turtles just stick their butt out of the water and use it like a snorkel. |
1:57.1 | You see turtles poop, pee, mate, and give birth through one common hole known as |
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