Lets talk - the Octothorpe became the Hashtag, No peeing in Portugal's ocean, golf tees - plastic or wood?

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Hi, I am Jeff, and
thanks for joining us on Let's Win Your

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Beer, the companion podcast of the
History and Factoids About Today podcast. Now,

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we are not here to save the
world. We're just here to literally

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help you win a beer or help
you win a conversation stalls and turn south

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and you have nothing to talk about, all right, let's just get to

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it. The hashtag everyone, they've
become familiar with it, dude, is

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social media. It is officially called
the octothorpe. Now, growing up,

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we call it the pound sign or
the number sign at least dur in the

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United States and Canada. Over in
Brittany and Europe they called it the hash

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octathorpe, though it's just a made
up word. In nineteen sixty eight,

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scientists at Bill Laboratories they added it
to the telephone when the telephone started going

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from rotary dial to push buttons,
so they added the octathorpe and the star

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button. They did it to allow
access to telephone computer systems. That's why

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it's still on the number pad today. Now. Since there wasn't a name

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for it, the sciences came up
with octo because of it had eight ends,

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and then they added thorpe. Well, just because it sounded cool.

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That's how he got octall thorpe.
Computer programmers in the nineteen seventies started using

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the sign the octoport, but they
called it a hash Chris Messina, he

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was the first to use the hashtag, used it in two thousand and seven

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on Twitter. He tweeted his fellow
his followers ask him if anyone would like

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to use the pound symbol to help
make it easier to follow conversations about specific

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topics. Well, the hashtag it
was often running. Today, the hashtag

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is universal on all social media.
Now you can win a beer by saying

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the hashtag is officially called the octal
thorpe within another bear the fact that the

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octa thorpe was just a made up
word. All right, let's go for

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nerds, let's go the golf guys. Any guesses how long a golf tee

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can be? Four inches? Yeah, golf te officially cannot be longer than

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four inches. Most popular golf tees, though, are two point seventy five

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three point twenty five inches, But
you can use any t size as long

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as it's under that four inches.
Pros they easily use two te's one for

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woods, and then one for a
shorter one for irons. Now, the

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head of a golf tea, it
can't be any bigger than point four to

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four inches. Now, if you've
under wondered, no, there's absolutely no

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difference between a plastic or wooden golf
tee. Plastic teas they just last slumber.

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Actually, this will win you another
beer. A plastic golf tea takes

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four to fifty years to decompose.
Give me back my freedom, Let me

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live this line and drive. See
if we're not harming any one would give

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you a sorty. All right,
we're gonna end with our stupid lave of

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the day, So let's go to
Portugal. Now, in Portugal, it

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is illegal to pee in the ocean. I'm not sure how they catch you

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if you're out there swimming, but
okay, now, if they do catch

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you, you can wind up in
jail or have to pay a fine.

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Now I'm guessing the reasoning is that
being in the ocean would contaminate it.

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Wow, that is factually untrue.
Human urine does not harm the ocean or

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sea life in any way. In
fact, scientists say that it actually is

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beneficial to marine life. Well,
thank you for being here now. Don't

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