Did You Know? Random Facts, Big Laughs

This week on 3 Wise Ducks, we kick things off with our Duck Moment of the Week, where we each share a little moment that made us laugh, roll our eyes or simply stop and think, because life always gives us something to talk about.

Then it's on to this week's topic, "Did You Know?" A collection of completely random, mindless facts that serve no real purpose other than making us laugh, surprising us with the unexpected and sparking conversations that head in directions none of us saw coming.

Some facts are interesting, some are bizarre and some leave us wondering who even discovered them in the first place. Join us for another fun, relaxed conversation filled with laughter, curiosity and plenty of "I had no idea!" moments.

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 https://www.blissfulconnections.com.au

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Nilu Noble
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SPEAKER_04 0:02

Are we really about to say this out loud? We probably shouldn't. And that's never stopped us before. Fair point.

SPEAKER_03 0:09

Let's get into it, shall we?

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Hello and welcome to the Three Wise Duck podcast where we call it how we see it, talk about the stuff that matters to us women, and of course, we're having a good old laugh along the way. And right beside me, as always, are the two other ducks, my fabulous women, beautiful Neilu. Welcome, welcome, welcome. And the gorgeous Jan, who is our wellness guru, as you probably already gathered. So welcome girls. Welcome, welcome. Look, I want to jump straight into duck moment of the week, if I may, okay? Now, our duck moment of the week is just something that's made us laugh for the week, or you know, an eye roll. This particular one I want to share with you is a really big eye roll. Or something we think of, please tell me I'm not the only one who's experienced this, okay? It's a quickie, but you'll all just know what I'm talking about when I share this, okay? Alright, so stay with me. All right. I have worked out the difference between the younger generation and the older generation. And it's staring in front of me. So visualize a shopping centre, okay? The younger generation. They walk down the middle of the roll row, of the road, you know, the the the aisles, the roads of the shopping complex, you know, and you're going in. Just like Chadson, you know, you're going in. If they're a young couple, they're walking down the middle of the road, holding hands, just daydreaming and just walking, and here you are, slowly crawling, waiting for them to choose left or right, just get off the frigging road. But they're walking. That's the younger generation. The older generation, no, no, no, no, they're smarter than that. However, they push the shopping trolley diagonally down the road diagonally until they get to the car. And you're still crawling, going, just cross straight. I mean, you're halfway there, just cross straight. Not diagonally. So, my duck moment of the week, if you hadn't already worked that one out, younger people, middle of the road, older people diagonally. And you know you've done that, and I suspect it's diagonally, people. I suspect it is. So there you go. There's my duck moment of the week. Can I just do this, please? I've got so many of them.

SPEAKER_03 2:24

There.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

I love how you know how to work those things. I've got it written down, but it's yeah, anyway, that's fine. They're colourful, colourful buttons. Yeah. Oh, you know, and just in case, um I thank you for your laughter. And if I don't get laughter from you, I'm doing it myself. All right, let's jump into today's show, shall we?

SPEAKER_04 2:46

Nilu, do you want to introduce it? Absolutely. So, for those listening, did you know that human tears contain different chemical compositions depending on why you're crying? They are basal tears for moisture, reflex tears for onions, and a highly specific third category reserved exclusively for when you drop your freshly opened expensive makeup compact face down onto the time.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

So if you hadn't already worked this one out, our beautiful listener, we're doing did you know questions today, and we've got a whole list of them. And I'm going to just say this: they're going to go in one ear and out the other, but one will stick. There will be one of these did you know questions that you will be able to share at your next dinner party while you're sitting down talking. I I did you all know this? And people are going to think, oh, that's just absolutely worthless and useless, and you go, Well, I got it from a three wise person. Jane, do you want to read a did you know, please?

SPEAKER_02 3:43

I do. Um so, did you know that women are up to twice as likely to experience depression or anxiety compared to men? These higher rates are largely driven by hormone shifts across life stages, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and predimory, many pores, as well as societal, societal and caregiver pressures. So prioritizing rest, having trouble speaking, mental health check-ins and a connected support system is crucial. I I would agree with that.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

Yeah, I agree with that too, Jen. In fact, I think we all did know that. I think, yeah, I mean it's all situational, but yeah, our hormones just play havoc, don't they? Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh my gosh. Okay, I've got a a a really good did you know, and this is according to the Australian Women's Weekly, right? So it must be true. Did you know that on average women actually sleep about 11 to 20 minutes longer than men at night? Apparently, according to the Australian Women's Weekly. Women, and I got this, I'm gonna say this. This is not me, I got this on Google, okay? These are from Google, so they must be right, okay. I'm just saying. Women log more total time in bed, mm-hmm, because we don't want to get out because we know what we have to deal with once we get out of bed, really quite frankly. However, sleep experts note that extra time does not mean we are more rested. I mean, thank you, expert.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

Yes, yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

Thank you for stating the obvious. We stay in bed longer for very obvious reasons, and I know our listener will absolutely understand why. Because quite frankly, we know what's ahead of us. And yes, it doesn't mean that we're actually going to be more rested. We're sitting there stressing about what we have to do for the day. Oh my goodness. Neilo, have you got another one?

SPEAKER_04 5:36

Yes. Did you know that according to linguistic studies, women speak about 20,000 words a day compared to a man's 7,000 words?

SPEAKER_02 5:45

Well, we know that too, don't we?

SPEAKER_01 5:46

That's more than triple. Wow. Women speak more than because Google told us this, it has to be true. Really?

SPEAKER_04 5:53

And what the study forgets to mention is that at least 13,000 of those words are just women gently repeating the exact same instruction over and over and over to their partners, to their kids, to themselves, who are nodding blankly while staring directly at their phones or screens.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Oh yeah. Blows my mind. Yeah, and true.

SPEAKER_04 6:17

Yeah. Wow. That's like you said, three times as much.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Yeah, yeah, three times, nearly three times as much. And you know what the the pro I reckon the primary words would be, have you? Were you not listening?

SPEAKER_04 6:32

Yes, yes, yes. Did you know who me?

SPEAKER_01 6:36

I will tell you again. Don't make me repeat that.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

How many times do I have to? And that's why it's three times the most.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Oh, I like that. Oh yeah. All right, I've got another one here. Go, Jen. Did you know that the layout of a modern Kmart is scientifically designed to test your emotional endurance? Yes. Yes. I didn't know that. Putting the checkout directly in the dead centre of the store rather than at the exit is a psychological master stroke. It forces you to do a literal walk of shame past hundreds of people while clutching a giant plush-weighted koala and three pairs of fluffy slippers you don't need. How true is that?

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Yeah. Do you know I actually read the other day that Kmart is going to bring the checkouts back to the front again? Are they? They're testing them in certain stalls at the moment, but yeah, that's the intention. Um, I think probably because of theft, I suppose. I don't really know. But yeah, having it in the middle, it's just my head in, I have to say. Oh, yeah. And I often wonder what you know, yeah. I okay, I'm just gonna own it. I reckon a man invented that idea.

SPEAKER_04 7:48

I love that's in the middle, because that means I must go around and see what I need, what I don't need. Oh, that's on clear answer. Oh, I didn't know that was here. Great. How many of these do we need?

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Particularly as you go into the line. Oh, and there's things on either side as you go into the line. How do you go with the kids? I mean the kids.

SPEAKER_04 8:07

Oh no, they're just they know they're allowed one thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 8:10

Oh, so they're still allowed to have one thing. Ah, of course. I I have a very clear, clear instruction. I repeat only once. You can have absolutely anything you want.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

No, you've repeated that ten times. Yeah, a hundred times, remember?

SPEAKER_04 8:21

You can have absolutely anything you want, but just one thing. Yeah. That's and everyone enjoys it, and it's not can I have this, can I have this, can I have this? Can I? It's you pick whatever you want.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

And then at the end, everyone's happy. Oh, I love that. I love that. All right, here's another one. Did you know that researchers found that women have a significantly significantly, oh, I've got Jan's disease, significantly better sense of smell than men. I would agree with that. How did you go, Jan, that other day when you had your duck moment of the week? Those who didn't listen to the previous podcast, Duck's Jan's duck moment of the week was she was in yoga and she's very relaxed and she let loose, literally infarted, quite loudly, apparently. I don't know why I'm whispering this.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

No, I don't know why you're whispering it either. Listener is listening.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Um, sense of smell. Let's go back to that. Back to the question. Did you know? Did you know? Yes. So a sense of smell. So scientists claim that is it an evolution evolutionary trait for gathering food. Wow. Isn't that amazing? So it's a biological thing. I never knew that, Julia. But you know what? I can walk in anybody's house and including my own, and I can absolutely tell you without a word of a lie, if you have a mouse in your house. Can you really? Absolutely. How? I sense the smell. Absolutely. I can tell you. I walk in and I and I'll go, no, this there's mice here, you've got a mouse in here. It's absolutely there there is this sense of smell there.

SPEAKER_04 9:45

Wow, that blows my mind.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

That's a special gift.

SPEAKER_04 9:48

I can tell if people use chemicals because I'm so sensitive to smell, and I've always had quite a heightened sense of um smell. So in our home, we don't use anything that is like could you smell it in my house?

SPEAKER_01 10:00

Because I'm I'm a bleach girl. No. I'm Gen X, so I'm a bleach person.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

Maybe you didn't do it today.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

No, I didn't do it today, yesterday.

SPEAKER_04 10:07

But sometimes you walk in and you're like your eyes start watering, it's like, oh, start sneezing. So sensitive. You're so sensitive to that. I'll keep that in my next home. Did you know that walking past a mirror while wearing a high ponytail is Jan's? It's Jan's turn again. You go, Jan's. No, no, no, no, you do it. You don't know. No, no, it's yours. Did you know that walking past a mirror while wearing a high ponytail gives women a temporary plus 50 boost to their confidence and main character energy?

SPEAKER_01 10:41

Really? You put your hair in a high ponytail today.

SPEAKER_04 10:45

I didn't know. Now I know. Psychologists have noted that a high ponytail instantly transforms a woman from an exhausted person trying to remember if she turned off the iron into an elite, unstoppable action movie hero who is out about to take over the world.

SPEAKER_02 11:05

What?

SPEAKER_04 11:05

I'm so interested. Is that why like the mum bun is so like let's get shit done?

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Because you just elevated it. Isn't it because I'm thinking from a yogi, you know, and get me a like a ban quick. Just give me a dude.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Just give me an order. Just put it straight out and make a white. Give me the luck of the band. Let me go, Jen. Put everything in the log and I'll put my headphones down. Turn off the recording.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

Right, okay. So I was thinking if you put your hair up energetically, I'm thinking it raises your awareness and you're kind of lifting it upwards, going up towards the crown, the crown chakra. So energetically, being a yoga teacher, I'm thinking it must be something, what do you think?

SPEAKER_01 11:55

So, Jane, this is where you and I are different again. The high bun actually raises the face. True. And the wrinkles. Yeah, true. And you're going to a higher energy. I'm just simply going to a younger generation. What happens if you don't have long hair?

SPEAKER_04 12:10

Does that mean that you can't get a plus fifty boost on your confidence and mean character energy?

SPEAKER_01 12:15

It explains everything. I've got short hair.

SPEAKER_04 12:19

So do we all.

SPEAKER_01 12:20

Oh, I really put this to the test this week. Yes, put your hair up in a high. You will look younger, five years younger. Because you know, any wrinkles, not that you haven't, but any wrinkles will raise, and you'll get to the higher energy for Jane. And you're going to put your heels on and you're just going to strap your stuff. Cannot wait.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

I will report back. Please do that. Please do that. I've got one here. Did you know that honey never spoils and can last for thousands of years? No, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

I did read that one before I'm thinking, oh, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

What? So I've been throwing out all this honey that says best before. As Neil always says, it's best before, babe. I'm like, yeah, but I only want the best.

SPEAKER_02 12:59

Oh sorry, Chuck. Well, it lasts thousands of years. Well, research gives you grandkids. Research shows that uh it's because it it is because of its low moisture contact and high as acid acidity. Bacteria cannot survive in it. Archaeologists.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Oh god. Okay, okay, Jen, get it together.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

You can do it. Honey. In other words, honey lasts thousands of years.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

No, I'm gonna read it. Okay, go for it. So archaeologists exploring ancient Egyptian tombs have uncovered pops of honey that are 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

Oh, there you go. Wow. Well, I wonder if they found any in Pompeii. Yeah. I wonder. Look, I've just got to do this one, Jenny. I've got to do this one. Now, because this one, when I s when I read this, I thought, oh my gosh, this is so true. So did you know that your smartphone's front-facing camera has an evil setting called the accidental accus accusatory? Oh gosh, Janet, Santa Just. Up angle. So do you know when you're looking? So when you turn your phone on, do you ever get that image that pops up with your double chin? Yes! And you're looking like you're three years old, like you've sucked on honey for the whole time. Do you know what I'm talking about? What is the worst? That's apparently that is this front camera, the evil camera that goes on that gets and I don't know about you, but it happens to me all the time. And I it's a face that comes back to me that I don't recognise. And it's me. You can't unlock your phone. Oh yes. And I kept going, nope, nope. And you move on. And it's like this automatic um it just has to happen. You've got to get rid of it straight away because it is this person that you don't know that looks so ugly. A thousand years old. So nasty. Yeah. How amazing. Yeah, amazing. Anyway, I just wanted to read that. So that's a did you know? So that is actually an actual thing. And can I just also add to that one, which I absolutely love? Did you know? And I know this just off the top of my head, I don't know why I know this, it's just stupid things that I know. Did you know the very first iPhone came on the market in 2007? Wow. So it's 19 years. Does it not feel like it's been around for 40 years? Yeah, forever. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

So 2007, Steve. But Joy, but Joy, you would remember the old fashioned phones. Oh, quite that old. I remember.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

What was dig yourself out of that whole Jan. What was your first phone, though, Joy? So I remember the brick phone. So um the car phone. Yes. Uh Maxwell Smart All Over. Yes. The car phone, right? I'm just waiting for the shoe phone. So we had the the the dial, the round the dial. Yeah, the dial, the black one on the head. Did you really Do you remember the it was the the one on the wall that had the really long leaves? The long leaves, and you'd be talking on it for pages. Yes, yes, yes, yeah. And you'd be in the corner and you're trying to hide from your mum and dad. Yes, and you've got the back, you're sort of looking into the corner and you've got your back. That's hard.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

And you couldn't phone um, I had a boyfriend who lived up in Melbourne and and you couldn't, my mum and dad could be a few. It was S T Did I put on the water. Or was that a disease? No. No, it was S T D. Was it S T D? I'm sure it was. Yeah. It's an S T D Google it.

unknown 16:30

Google it.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Was it is it S T D? No. Oh, I can't remember.

SPEAKER_02 16:34

S T card? No.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

No, it's an actual special food disease chair. It was anyway. Um. And so then it came out as cordless. Of course, you could walk around the house then. That was magic. Oh my goodness, me. And Nilo's just got no idea. You're getting a lesson in history, darling. Um, and then then because the car phones, the mobile, and of course it was the brick, and then it was the car phone car phone and then the brick, which was the portable. And I remember we we actually had to take out a car a loan for our because it was thousands and thousands of dollars and to get this, you know, for for work and things like that. So, and then obviously the the you know the flip phones and the you know the the Nokia's. Do you remember the phone?

SPEAKER_04 17:12

I had a 5110, a 3210, or 3220, or 33. I don't know what it's called, but I remember one of our family friends, he came over with a briefcase and he had that pull up. Oh yes, he opened the phone, and the pole came out of the phone, then the other bit came out and it was like bigger than his face. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

I love that. That's fantastic. So, yeah, 2007 was when the first iPhone came out, which is just amazing. And because I don't know if you remember the cues for people wanting to get the smart the first smartphone, well the first um iPhone, I should say, it wasn't the first smartphone. They came out in the 60s or something, the first smartphone, apparently. Yeah, apparently had a room full of computers behind it. Yeah, yeah. Very smart. Oh my goodness. Oh, well, I look, I think we've we've given everybody enough information to the other one. If there's one thing that you, our beautiful viewer, can take away, just you know, by all means, um choose one and then next dinner party go, did you know? Did you know? I hope I hope you've enjoyed the show. I know we've enjoyed taking it. I certainly have. Yeah, it's been great. Thank you, ladies. Thank you, thank you. And thank you to our beautiful, our beautiful listener, because we know there's still only one. If you have a question, if you have a question for us, DM us. We would love to hear from you because this is also your show, and you might have a duck moment of the week as well. And we want to hear it, and we'll read it out. Because I mean, we all experience the same thing, but we would love to love to hear from you. So absolutely DM us. Our social is Three Wise Ducks on Instagram. All right. That's it for today's show. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. Thank you. Bye. Bye.