Fun Fact

Arik Devens and Allen Pike

Once a month, Arik Devens and Allen Pike take turns sharing fun facts. Practical, historical, technical, and trivial facts all deserve their fair shake.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Fun Fact episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Fun Fact for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Fun Fact episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Both Jaunty and Cool

Fun Fact

06/28/23 • 39 min

Allen explains why summer exists, Arik outlines a trademark scheme, and Allen betrays Arik with a fishy biology fact.

Seasonal lag
List of genericized trademarks
Cladistics, the effort to recategorize living things into clades

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Final Fact

Fun Fact

10/12/24 • 41 min

Arik shares buttloads, Allen has too many facts, oxygen is heavy, strangeness is strange, moons cause issues, and we hit max fact capacity.

This show has gone as all good things do. Thank you so much to all the Factors, we love you!

You can follow Allen’s work and Arik’s. ❤️

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A Quadrillion of Yourself

Fun Fact

03/28/22 • 64 min

We have a bridge to sell you, as do renaissance philosophers, before we discuss some life forms that earth has an unreasonable number of. In the post show, Allen finally gets an EV.

For You, Half Price – the NYT on George C. Parker’s schemes
Kurzgesagt on the world war of ants
Preformationism
The messed up drawing of tiny grown adults in a sperm, as drawn in 1695 )
A nice example of a Hyundai Ioniq 5 Review

Ridiculously Ridonkulously Large

Fun Fact

04/29/23 • 36 min

Our sun proves a nuisance, the former Soviet Union makes a trade, we consider pepper seeds, Isaac Newton considers an apple, mice consider some cheese, rats get exonerated, and we share a superior alternative to implausible.

What would the sun sound like?
List of common misconceptions
It Shipped That Way #6, where Arik and Allen talk about engineering leadership, software architecture, and Netflix’s culture

Astronomically Unlikely

Fun Fact

03/23/23 • 45 min

Women handle backward buttons, Allen handles a lot of feedback about very improbable things, and Arik handles digested asparagus.

We Gotta Blow It Up

Fun Fact

02/21/23 • 49 min

Allen saves us from asteroids, Jack Black’s mom saves some astronauts, Allen offends Arik’s sense of probability, and Arik sets the record straight on streetcar conspiracies.

We're Off Track

Fun Fact

12/29/21 • 59 min

Romans hunt for spies, retailers participate in a scheme, Arik and Allen get a bit off track. Okay, a lot off track.

Unicorn Blaster

Fun Fact

02/23/22 • 37 min

Allen lays out a wine scheme, Christa Mrgan explains the wonders of temporal resolution, Allen checks in on creatures’ dangerousness, and we learn a couple things about George Orwell.