ECR's Top 5: Get Fact'd stories for the third week of August
Are cow eyeballs really expensive?
The week was full of interesting and eye opening facts from Darren Maule.
So we have put together a top five #GetFact'd facts from the week that you may have missed out on:
Read more: ECR's Top 5: Get Fact'd stories for the second week of August
1.
The eyeballs of cows are more expensive than the fillet or rump, due to demand from scientific institutions for experiments.
Read more: #GetFact'd: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 15 August.
2.
Tupac secretly dated Madonna but broke things off due to fears of his image being hurt. The only person Madonna hasn't dated is The Pope.
Read more: #GetFact'd: The life of Madonna
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 16 August.
3.
With amniotic eggs showing up roughly 340-million or so years ago, and the first chickens evolving at around 58,000 years ago at the earliest, it's a safe bet to say the egg came first. Eggs were around way before chickens even existed.
Read more: #GetFact'd: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
4.
English speakers of Indian descent in South Africa say "y'all" with the same meaning and pronunciation as southerners in the US. It is one of the few non-American instances of "y'all" in English and is attributed to coincidence.
Read more: #GetFact'd: How do South Africans say "y'all"?
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 17 August.
5.
The ISS has an amateur radio station aboard that is used by astronauts to make contact with schools while in orbit. Occasionally, during their downtime, they also "call out" to any amateur radio operators on Earth.
Read more: #GetFact'd: What did the man who invented a microwave discover in his pocket?
Listen to the full podcast of Get Fact'd 18 August.
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