I do love good facts. You never know when you'll end up on 'Jeopardy.'
Come and Knock on Our Door
Confused Threes Company GIF by MOODMANGiphy"Between 1913 and 1914, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Emperor Franz Joseph, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Leon Trotsky lived in Vienna within 4km of each other. Talk about sitcom idea!"
plan3s
Purr...
"Baby kittens and puppies can’t urinate and defecate on their own. Their mothers lick their genitals to prompt them to do so and then also cleans it up. Most people don’t know this if they happen to be taking care of an orphaned young kitten or puppy so this it ends up being a cause of death for a lot of them."
"If you ever take care of an orphaned kitten/puppy or know someone who is you must use a damp paper towel or wash rag to wipe their bottoms until they urinate or defecate. 🌈 The More You Know ⭐️."
DetectiveBennett
Below
"German submarine U-215. Sank during WW2. Didn’t decompress though. It’s still sealed on the bottom of the ocean with 49 people inside. I’ve always wondered what went down in there…"
toigz
"Death by asphyxiation most likely."
Lord_Dreadlow
The Water Buried
"Lake Superior does not give up her dead. The waters of Lake Superior are so cold that the bodies and the majority of stuff from shipwrecks is preserved. The Great Lakes (all of them) are basically just giant ship graveyards."
Pranksterette
"It’s true, in fact people training to dive for sunken ships and other items come from around The world to train in the Great Lakes. I love this about Michigan, I live here and hear about it from time to time. I desperately want to get into one of those programs. But they are $$$$."
Hour_Carpenter8465
H20 Shots
Summer GIF by krima&isaGiphy"Dragonflies suck water up their butts and shoot it out like jets when they get tired."
Killerjebi
Dragonflies are weird. I run from them.
AHHHH!!!
Good Morning GIF by Taco BellGiphy"When a rooster crows it partially pinches shut its ear canals so it won't deafen itself."
KlutzieKelpie
So Many Parts
"Kangaroos have three vaginas. I forgot how I learned that."
DreadHead-Jedi
"And two uteri! They can be perpetually pregnant. That’s why sometimes you might see a mother kangaroo ditch her young Joey when in danger because she’s almost got two more on the way already."
rosie848
"They can also halt pregnancy until the time is right."
NerJaro
Unsinkable Sam
"On 1939, February 14th a German battleship was launched and was sank with only 118 of the 2,200 crew members surviving. Among them was a black and white cat named Oscar which was found floating on a board and was picked up from the water by a British ship."
"On October 27th, 1941, the ship sank to the west of Gibraltar and Oscar was found clinging to a piece of plank and was later brought to the shore establishment in Gibraltar. When British officers learned what happened they named him 'Unsinkable Sam.'"
"After that he was adopted by the crew of the HMS Ark Royal and in 1941, November 14th, a torpedo hit the ship. Sam was AGAIN found clinging to a piece of plank and was described as 'angry but unharmed.' By this time it was enough for the por cat and remained its days on land hunting mice in Gibraltar and then being transferred to the UK where he lived his final days."
"And this was the story of 'Unsinkable Sam.'"
WeeabooButWithASmile
The Binge
"There was a Finnish soldier named Aimo Koivunen who got separated from his unit. He had no food or weapons, and to avoid dying, took enough methamphetamine for 30 men. During his insane drug binge, he skied about 250 miles, passed over a landmine and survived, and caught and ate a bird raw. That's just a few details, I recommend actually reading about this absolute legend yourself."
AbsentLabRat
Good Ole Abe
abraham lincoln animation GIF by weinventyouGiphy"Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestling champion. In 300 matches, he only lost one. Bonus fun fact: He was also a licensed bartender."
thatirishguy0
Well those aren't so bad. Good Abe sounds cool.
Did you know dolphins sleep with one eye open? How is that possible? I sleep with an eye mask and curtains drawn in complete darkness. But they do it to be ready for sharks. They can actually turn off half of their brains one side at a time. Crazy.
Slow Down!
Driving Biff Tannen GIF by Back to the Future TrilogyGiphyHere is one "The first ever person convicted of speeding was going 8 mph."
Bless You
Approximately 20% of people in the world can make themselves sneeze by looking into the sun.
I'm more surprised by the fact it's only 20% of people. I remember having a conversation about being able to do this in grade school and everyone agreed that looking at the sun causes sneezing. Hell, if it's during allergy season and I focus enough I can create a genuine sneeze on command.
ZAPPED!!!!
Frank Zappa was playing a show with The Mothers Of Invention at a casino on a lake in Switzerland when an audience member shot a flare off causing the place to catch fire and burn down, destroying a ton of their equipment. A week later they played in London with rented equipment and Frank was pushed off the stage by a jealous fan who thought Frank was f**king his girlfriend. Frank was messed up really bad and never toured with The Mothers of Invention ever again. In fact for 6 months he was in a wheelchair and couldn't tour at all. These two events really changed the trajectory of his musical career.
At the same time as the infamous Switzerland show, a band had arrived at a hotel across the lake to record an album. They watched the casino burn from the hotel and it inspired them to write a new song right there in the hotel. The band, Deep Purple, then recorded what would become their most famous song "Smoke on the Water".
I don't know why I know this because I'm not a fan of either of them.
Tardigrades
Water bears (Tardigrades) can survive a few minutes near absolute zero. They can also survive being boiled. They can also lose like 99% of the water in their body and live for years as a dehydrated nothing. Then return to normal form when/if they end up in a better environment.
I read about them in in a science magazine when I was like 11. They seemed like the most bad@ss creature on earth so I never forgot about them.
Former Flat Earthers Explain What Finally Made Them Come Around | George Takei’s Oh Myyy
Science is science. Fact is fact. Truth is truth and simple is simple. These are things we must now attest to in 2021. Can we please all get onboard with wha...What about Carrots?
season 2 episode 10 GIF by SpongeBob SquarePantsGiphyWhen threatened, the sea cucumber will eject its digestive system to scare its predators.
So far, so very interesting. I never look into the Sun and know I have to to see if I'm part of the 20% of sneezers. And 8 miles an hour? That's petty...
Super Baby
Baby Success GIFGiphyBabies can hold their entire body-weight suspended from a stick for several seconds up to a minute. Current thought is that it's an ability left from when we were a lot hairier.
Equate it All...
81 x 81 = 6,561. In middle school, me and one of my friends were convinced we could memorize all math equations and this is the only one that stuck with me outside of the standard multiplication table.
Measured...
Music charts in the US is measured in 'Top 40' because standard jukebox machines in the past held 40 records.
Interesting, I heard something similar, but not jukebox limits but radio play time limits. Ie they wanted the "most popular countdown" show and 40 was the number of songs they could reliably fit into that format without making the show too long (three hours or something).
Secrets
The White House only got the ability to print double-sided documents in 2016.
The amount of ancient technology our government uses is staggering. You'd think the pentagon would be filled with super computers, but up until like three years ago, the Pentagon was having custom floppy disks made and paying a crap ton of money for it because...
1- No one made floppy disks anymore and...
2- the computers they were using were so old that they didn't have cd imports.
Sweat it Out
Sweating Hot Dog GIFGiphyCows sweat through their nose.
Dogs sweat through their nose and paws.
The Timing
Despite what you see in movies and TV, the effects of chloroform don't kick in for another 5 minutes or so after it's been administered.
That's just when you start feeling the effect. It takes a lot longer for what you see in movies. In fact a lot of people use chloroform to get high.
Manic Mondays
President James Garfield died on a Monday. His assassin, Charles Guiteau, when shopping for a gun, decided on one with an ivory grip because it would look better in a museum. He also tried touring the facility where he expected to be incarcerated, but was turned away.
Pounds Away
Anthony Anderson Reaction GIFGiphyCrying helps you lose weight,
Told this to my friends every time they cried, sometime it helped.
And most weight loss (practically all of it, actually) is lost through breathing.
Granted, there's only a minuscule amount of waste CO2 expelled in each breath from you burning your energy reserves to stay alive, but think of how many breaths you take in a day, and over the course of weeks to months.
So Cute
Cute Aggression is a feeling you get when you get overwhelmed by positive emotion so your brain tries to counterbalance that with negative emotions. So there can be things that are so cute you wanna kill them.
I remember reading somewhere on the internet (so it has to be true) that the reason people squeeze cute small animals is because the human brain literally cannon comprehend how cute it is and therefore instinctively wants to make it stop being so cute by squeezing it to death.
The Dust
The difference in size between a grain of dust and the Earth is the same difference in size between a grain of dust and an atom. furthermore, the difference in size between the Earth and an atom is the same difference in size between an atom and 1 plank length.
Hey Flipper
Dolphin GIFGiphyDolphins get high on pufferfish 🐬.
Apparently girls have more tastebuds than boys.
There are no clocks in casinos in Vegas.
3
I have three
- You are special, in that you are almost guaranteed to know something that someone else doesn't.
- By the age of 40 you probably still won't have heard the funniest joke you will ever hear, and over 40 you will probably already know the funniest joke you will ever tell to someone else.
- The number of possible ways to shuffle a pack of playing cards is 52 factorial - or 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000
If you were to make every person on the planet shuffle a deck of cards every second of every day for the entire life of the universe there would still be a one in a trillion, trillion, trillion chance of the two decks being in the same order.
Birth
Most of my random facts come from QI but the chain saw was invented to cut through the pubic bone and open the birth canal to air in child birth. It was on a pocket watch type chain that was pulled back and forth. So ya.
The Calvary
That a cavalry unit once captured a fleet of enemy ships.
Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder to cross on horse back.
Basically the Dutch fleet was anchored between the 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) stretch of sea that separates the mainland port of Den Helder and the island of Texel.
That stretch of sea was frozen trapping the ships in position and it just so happened to thick enough to cross.
After a quick charge across the ice the French horsemen surrounded the 14 dutch ships.
It seems both sides were in capable of any kind of military action, the french couldn't bring across their heavy guns and the Dutch prepared to destroy the ships but it both sides decided to wait for orders.
The Dutch were ordered to surrender, there were no casualties on either side. The French took ownership of the ships but later returned them to the Batavian Republic in May 1795 under the Treaty of The Hague; one of its other provisions was an indemnity of ƒ100 million.
Listen Up
Listen GIF by The Maury ShowGiphyWhen you lose your teeth for good, the bones in your ears shift and your hearing gets worse. Brush those bad boys!
Ok. I'm taking noted because like I said... who knows when "Millionaire" or "Jeopardy" will call? Also... snails sleep for three hours at a time... just so you know.
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Hey J....
Michael J Fox Waiting GIF by Back to the Future TrilogyGiphyMichael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew.
I before O
Confetti is the plural word, the singular is confetto.
Oh, like how macaroni is plural and the singular is macaronous.
Say what you Mean
The term "third world country" refers to countries not allied with NATO or the USSR during the Cold war, not developing nations.
Like the word "literally" literally meaning "figuratively," and only figuratively meaning "literally."
Or "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" originally being a saying to demonstrate how impossible something is, but now being considered (by some, at least) the standard for how hard-working a person should be.
What about a Hiney?
sexy the simpsons GIFGiphyA "butt" is a unit of measurement equivalent to 126 gallons. So if you claim that you have a buttload of something, you better have 126 gallons of that something.
Thanks Bill
Bluegrass music isn't named after the type of grass.
It's named after Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (the original blue grass band the category comes from)
It's interesting... but I haven't found a use for it.
Dumbo is Lucky
timothy q mouse disney GIFGiphyElephants can move their skin to crush mosquitoes between their rolls.
Wish I could do that. Lord knows I have the rolls.
The List is Long...
Oh boy do I have a few! I collect these!
- A chinchillas fur is so thick it can suffocate fleas
- Cows have best friends and accents!
- The human nose is one of the best predictors of when its going to rain because it can pick up its scent
- The reason zebras are black and white is for camouflage! Their main predators are lions which are black and white color blind! Seeing a moving wave of stripes makes it harder to single out one sole zebra to focus on!
- The human brain has the consistency of soft butter and is mostly water which is why staying hydrated is so important
- There are such things as underwater lakes. Water meets another liquid which has a different density creating the illusion of a lake under water. Think oil and water. You should honestly look up pictures they look amazing.
- Squirrels have been known to adopt other squirrels babies if they have been abandoned!
- The reason dogs look to their owns when they poop is because they feel scared and vulnerable and like knowing your keeping an eye out
- Albino plants exist! However, they are really rare and often don't survive due to the chlorophyll (which makes plants green) being necessary for photosynthesis
- Popcorn was an accident! I don't remember the details but essentially they were trying to eat the kernels but couldn't so they said they were useless and threw them away into the fire. Boom. Popcorn. Honestly_Done
Go Fish
sushi GIFGiphy'Sushi grade' fish isn't a real thing.
Fish grading is a real process, but it's to do with weight and size, and it doesn't go C, B, A, Sushi.
Here comes the Sun
The diameter of the sun is roughly 400 times that of the moon but it's also approximately 400 times farther away from earth. These two things cancel each other out and, with astronomical odds, they end up looking the same size from earth.
King Shot
elvis love GIFGiphyI learned this yesterday that Elvis was asked in 1956 before going on the Ed Sullivan show if he'd get a polio vaccine in front of cameras, that photo was put in newspapers nation wide. There was a vaccination gap in teens of the time they were not getting it, that photo caused I believe a 15+% increase in the total vaccinated population of the US.
Centered
- The center hole of a CD/DVD/BD is based on the Dutch 10 cent coin called dubbeltje.
- The dubbeltje was the smallest coin in the world until it was replaced by the Euro. AncientMumu
Twisted
Death Becomes Her 80S Movies GIF by absurdnoiseGiphyIt takes a full three rotations to remove the human head due to the elasticity of skin.
So Much Knowledge
You're more likely to die on the way to buy a lottery ticket than to win the jackpot.
You're nose is always in view but your brain blocks it out.
Homosexuality occurs in 90% of known species, none more than spiders who are predominantly homosexual rather than heterosexual like most species.
In Harry Potter all pure blood wizard families follow naming schemes and are closely related and accidental incest was caught on an official family tree JK Rowling made for Pottermore.
Following Dinner
Crows are symbols of death because they followed the soldiers to war because they knew that there would be something to eat afterwards.
Cars Then?
easy rider motorcycles GIFGiphyIt's illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle in London.
The Family Süd
The store Aldi was founded by two brothers in Germany. At one point, they had a falling out, and the store was split into two different corporations - Aldi Nord (north) and Aldi Süd (south). As you might guess, you can find Aldi Nord in northern Germany, and Aldi Süd in southern Germany. The Aldi that exists in the US is owned by Aldi Nord. For trademark reasons (I believe), Aldi Süd was unable to come to the US and call itself Aldi. However, Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi Süd.
In Time
A second is called a second because it is the 2nd division of the hour by 60 (pars minuta secunda), the 1st division being a minute (pars minuta prima).
Mhmmmm.....
GiphyThe phrase "I told you so".
- It is a fact since you told me.
- The fact that you told me doesn't help me at all which makes it a useless fact. Boring_Youth3531
How about Bare?
Bears were not always called bears. The word bear was used as a placeholder name for the animal; as medieval folk thought that saying the real name of the animal would cause one to appear. The original name for a bear has since been lost and no one knows what it was.
Falling
squirrels GIF by CheezburgerGiphySquirrels can fall from any height and not get hurt. It something to do with their terminal velocity.
Squirrels can fall from any height up to about 4800 miles, because they are able to spread out their body, which slows their terminal velocity to a slow enough fall that they survive. The only reason they can't survive from 4800 miles is that they will starve to death (assuming they were somehow managing to fall at terminal velocity towards earth, since that is in the frigid cold that is space).
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Small Diets....
haters GIF by GIPHY Studios OriginalsGiphySquid can literally give themselves brain damage by eating something too big. Their brain is a donut shape and the esophagus runs through it.
Fur Baby
Furry artists can make upwards to 35-50USD an hour doing paid commissions, that's why industry graphic designers usually ends up going down that rabbit hole.
I mean hey there's human artists who do Caricatures and the whole Uncanny valley stuff of Nightmarish Will Smith zombies.... people with eyes too big or being denounced and boycotted on twitter. If you draw a fluffy bunny, what's the worst that can go wrong?
That Rolling Rock beer ........
That Rolling Rock beer almost went bankrupt in the 1990's. As a last ditch effort they hired a new marketing exec to turn their fortunes around. In their big meeting with all the board members waiting in anticipation for his big reveal he told them to just raise the price. They were ready to fire him on the spot, because they couldn't sell any at the cheapo price. Then he told them why - their price point was less than Budweiser at the time and that was the standard by which people judged the quality of a beer. He reasoned that if they increased the price to the next tier above Bud and did nothing else, people would believe it was a better beer, even though it was the same as it ever was.
It turned into their ad campaign and they thumbed their noses at all the yuppies who drank it by the case in college in the 70's and 80's who started buying it again because it was now a "better" beer. It was wildly successful and saved the company.
Ummm....
buffy the vampire slayer coffee GIF by Pop TVGiphyIn order to make a dagger out of the blood of your enemies, you'd have to kill 559 people in order to get the amount of iron you need.
Death Details...
Valery Khodemchuk was an engineer working the Night Shift at Chernobyl's Reactor 4 the night it exploded. He was the very first person killed in the accident, as he likely died instantly when his body was vaporized by the blast. His remains were never recovered, and the ruins now serve as his tomb.
Since it was a steam explosion rather than a nuclear explosion, it probably wasn't an especially quick or pleasant death, too.
The Grain Say so....
Crayfish (or lobster?) have a sort of open channel like an ear that helps them balance. A few grains of sand sit in it and because gravity is pulling the grains down they always know which way is up. However if you put magnetic metal shavings into the holes and hold a large strong magnet above them they'll start to swim upside down.
What about Frosted?
John Kellogg (inventor of corn flakes) was a huge advocate for circumcision because he believed it would prevent us from masturbating.
He also had a chair that delivered a high pressure enema to clean his bowels. He would use it many times a day, and several rich and famous people of the time also used it (henry ford, amelia earhart, jc penny).
First Position.....
Dolly Wells Starz GIF by Blunt TalkGiphySome foot fetishes occur because the part of the brain that controls feeling in the feet is positioned right next to the part that produces libido, and sometimes the wires within the brain become crossed.
Waste...
Sean Solomon Reaction GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphyThere's enough arsenic trioxide dust to kill 21 billion people or everyone 3x over hidden underground. All they did was trap it in concrete for someone else to fix it later.
Damn, just read up on this, it's basically worst than all the nuclear waste they're storing away to 'deal with later': https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100027413/1100100027417
Walter White?
Leave a human body soaking in a solution of lye and water for several months and it will dissolve into liquid and soft bone dust which can be washed down a drain, leaving no evidence behind. If you need to speed the process up you can heat the water up to just short of boiling and dissolve the body in ~6 hours.
Hey Bud...
PAL (Permissive Action Link) controllers for nuclear weapons work by removing small varied amounts of explosives from each detonator package, and adjusting detonation timers by nanosecond-scale intervals to compensate accordingly. Any nuclear weapon equipped with PAL cannot be detonated without knowledge of these timings, which are encrypted by constantly changing codes.
Veggie Posh
check out beverly hills 90210 GIFGiphyBeverly Hills California has the best soil for growing cucumbers.
The Length
Planck length is the smallest length at which space can be defined.
The entire observable universe is naturally the largest thing we can observe, and the largest thing we know of currently.
So silt is in the between those 2 in terms of size.
So, if you consider just how large space is, and how small a grain of silt would look to a human, that should give you an indication of just how small a planck length is, and the fact that one of the smallest observable objects on earth are in between the largest and smallest things we can currently define, it almost seems unbalanced.
Like you'd think that maybe our solar system would be in between the size of the observable universe and the smallest definable length, but nope. A grain of silt.
I'm Pretty
hipster beard GIFGiphyI'm a bearded man. I know a thing or 2 about makeup. This is because of a very realistic character creator in a game. And my aristocrat character kept looking like a skank. So I actually googled how to do makeup. People are usually very surprised that I know do much.
Capillary Action
The force necessary to compress the arteries going into your brain is smaller than the force gravity exerts on your head, so you can technically hang yourself while lying down.
There is also something called Capillary Action. Water (and blood) is super "sticky" because the hydrogen bonds in water molecules can attach to other molecules. Using this natural adhesion, water can push itself up the stems of plants and trees.
Build and Fall
well done love GIF by LEGOGiphyLego at one point in the early 2000s was the bestselling toy brand in the world, and also months from bankruptcy.
See, they had such spectacularly bad communication inside their company they had sets that cost them more to produce than they sold them for.
The Ways to Go
You don't need big fancy expensive chemicals or lethal weapons to kill people. simple things like injecting a small amount of distilled water into the blood stream or administering too much blood pressure medication can kill someone within 24 hours and there would be no signs pointing to murder when the time comes for an autopsy
edit!!! i meant distilled water not sterile water. very very sorry.
Retina Angles...
googly eyes GIFGiphyThe human eye captures the images of everything you see but receives it literally turned upside down, it is your brain that accommodates it so that everything is in its place.
Worthless data, but it is interesting.
Soup's On....
Cannibalism, while outlawed in a few states is not actually illegal in much of the US.
However, because of other laws and regulations, its nearly impossible to legally obtain human flesh.
It has been done though. You would probably be charged with desecrating a body, and possibly disturbing a crime scene. It would depend heavily on the circumstances. Basically, you'd have to have consent to eat it, or very extenuating circumstances.
Here's a link Today I Found Out
It explains it a lot better than I could.
Fleshed Out
Human meat looks like beef but taste more like pork. A human heart, if cut open while pumping blood, can squirt a distance of 30 feet. Not sure if these are weird enough since I just searched them up a while back.
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Ever since she met her current wife when the two competed against each other on the trivia game show, Emily Therese Cloyd, one half of the happy couple, is a clear fan of all things Jeopardy! and Alex Trebek.
Her Twitter thread love story details the entire journey from that first audition to appear on Jeopardy! and winds all the way to the wedding day.
As Cloyd mentions in her first tweet, the post comes on the heels of a ABC News Special featuring a long form interview with Trebek, who is currently battling pancreatic cancer.
Cloyd kicks off her story with a proud photo featuring her and Trebek on that fateful day of trivia competition.
It’s coming up on my 10 year (!) tape-i-versary for @Jeopardy, and with this week’s #JeopardyGOAT and last week’s A… https://t.co/aRkDXy0kaI— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578524772
She then walks through some behind-the-scenes moments of all that goes in to applying, auditioning, and appearing on Jeopardy!
After taking the online test, Cloyd was called in to audition along with other game show hopefuls.
Upon finishing the audition Cloyd pretty much returned to her life, nearly forgetting the thing that would eventually lead her to a soulmate.
@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity And then I waited…. I thought I did okay at the audition, but to get on the s… https://t.co/kIOAcLvyq8— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578524864
When she finally--unexpectedly--was called and invited to compete the in January 2010, Cloyd was obviously stoked.
@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity https://t.co/VAFk9EoI51— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578524911
When Cloyd arrived for her episode taping, she recognized a familiar face from that audition 18 months before.
@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity She didn’t recognize me. Or maybe she did, once I said I’d briefly met her at… https://t.co/4Hr7vYVGOc— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578525131
Cloyd spends a couple more tweets recognizing the fate of the moment. It wasn't a sure thing that the two would be faced off directly against one another that day.
"Remember I said that J! tapes 5 shows in a single day? You don't know which show you'll be on until they pull your name from a hat just before it is time to head into makeup before each show."
"And then my name was drawn. I'd be playing against Manny Maldonado III, who had just vanquished 4-time champion Regina Robbins, and Stacy."
Stacy utterly demolished her future boo that day.
@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity At the end of Double Jeopardy! It was clear that the game was a run-away: Man… https://t.co/iWDEZ81RXX— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578525521
Despite Emily only winning $50 during competition, she still went home with $1000, the minimum given merely for competing.
It was during the time back home in Washington, D.C. where Emily and Stacy both lived that sparks really flew.
They eventually had a joint viewing party when the episode was aired.
@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 At the viewing party, we each invited friends and family in the area. Sin… https://t.co/L6tjYJD0Zj— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578525616
After about 2 years of hanging out as friends, dating, and then moving on towards a relationship, Stacy and Emily got engaged.
And there was one obvious addition needed on that guest list.
@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 @UMich And a week or so later, we got the response card back. Alex Trebe… https://t.co/67NgMBOBCp— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578525751
And even though Trebek didn't make the wedding, the couple looks happy as ever.
@Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 @UMich #ThankYouAlex - @StacyCloyd and I can honestly say that you change… https://t.co/pSgLcErhXI— Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️ (@Rese (Emily Therese) Cloyd 🏳️🌈🌻🥾🚣♀️) 1578525844
Twitter thought the whole thing was down right adorable too.
@EngageClimate @Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 @UMich @StacyCloyd ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/OnPvfP1OpU— Elyse Aurbach (@Elyse Aurbach) 1578529306
@EngageClimate @Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 @UMich @StacyCloyd What?! This is the BEST story! I love i… https://t.co/orzaXXhC1x— Dr. Becky Mackelprang (@Dr. Becky Mackelprang) 1578534813
@EngageClimate You two *are* the greatest of all time! Crying for your happiness.— Glenn Fleishman (@Glenn Fleishman) 1578611510
@EngageClimate @Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 @UMich @StacyCloyd It sounds like to me you both won Jeopardy!— Timothy S. Brannan - Working the NIGHT SHIFT! (@Timothy S. Brannan - Working the NIGHT SHIFT!) 1579800753
It didn't take long for some news outlets to grow interested in the uniqe story.
@EngageClimate @Jeopardy @UMichLaw @BreadfortheCity @350 @UMich @StacyCloyd Hi @EngageClimate! I'm a reporter for B… https://t.co/1L43zevBF7— Anneta K (@Anneta K) 1578608788
@EngageClimate Hi there! I’m reaching out on behalf of Global News, a news organization in Canada. We loved this st… https://t.co/Vp9KFculhY— Jessica Maxwell (@Jessica Maxwell) 1579799943
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