Underwater Superlatives - Under the Sea Theme

This week, we're continuing our Under the Sea theme with Quizmaster Sups going to the deepest depths to find the four best facts about superlatives underwater! But one of the facts is truly the worst. Think you can guess which fact is a lie? Join hosts Andi and Tanner as they try to stay afloat and do their best to figure it out! 

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Tanner 0:01

being the biggest is kind of surprising to me. Cuz 12 meters doesn't sound that big. Doesn't Not really. I

Sups 0:07

mean, I,

Tanner 0:08

I

Andi 0:08

That's like 40 feet.

Tanner 0:09

Yeah. Was it always underwater or has it gone

Sups 0:14

underwater? right. right. Very good question.

Andi 0:17

so how long's the channel? Because that's really like, that's the only way I could know if this were a lie or not.

Sups 0:23

Right?

Andi 0:25

hate the hot, I hate sand and I hate being wet. So the beach is the worst Hello and welcome to this episode of the I Should Have Known podcast, the trivia podcast that can't be trusted. Each week our Quizmaster presents you with four big facts on a topic, but one of those facts is a lie, and we're continuing to dive under the sea for this month. And our, host today is Sups.

Sups 0:46

Hello.

Andi 0:47

Sups is going to be presenting us with four superlative facts. under the sea. So all of his facts will have a kind of s or best or most But we have to remember that one of those facts is a lie. So join me, Andi, and our other host Tanner in figuring out which one it is.

Tanner 1:03

let's suit up.

Sups 1:04

Let's get started with the low hanging fruit of the week. which ocean is the deepest?

Andi 1:11

Oh, like average depth? Mm-hmm. Or like has the deepest point.

Sups 1:14

Deepest point.

Tanner 1:16

So that's the Marianna's trench. Yeah. Where the Challenger deep

Sups 1:19

Correct.

Andi 1:19

Which is in the Pacific.

Sups 1:21

It is Pacific. It's 11,022 meters.

Andi 1:25

Yeah.

Tanner 1:26

deep. pretty deep.

Andi 1:26

deep.

Sups 1:27

Yeah. Pretty

Andi 1:27

deep. Deepest point on the earth. We did an episode on like. Earth superlatives And that included some fun facts about the challenger.

Tanner 1:35

Yeah. Some terrifying. Yeah. Deep, deep

Andi 1:37

Oh yeah.

Sups 1:38

All right. Fact number one, hanging Ocean Kingdom in China has the world's largest underwater viewing dome.

Tanner 1:49

Whoa.

Andi 1:49

Oh boy.

Tanner 1:50

Underwater viewing dome. That sounds really scary.

Andi 1:55

it's just a dome under the water. Exactly. Like an aquarium.

Sups 1:58

Yeah. So this one's situated in the Quang. Province in China, it's actually a part of a theme park, which opened in 2014 actually has five Guinness world

Tanner 2:10

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Sups 2:11

The theme park also has a total water volume of 48.75 million liters of water. Whoa. If you can't imagine how much

Andi 2:21

at a certain point, those numbers just become nonsense. It doesn't

Tanner 2:24

just a big bucket.

Sups 2:26

And that also makes it the world's largest aquarium. Wow. there is the whale shark exhibit, which features the underwater viewing dome has an external diameter of 12 meters.

Andi 2:38

Okay,

Tanner 2:39

so now we have some size to it. Yes.

Andi 2:41

So the dome's diameter is 12 meters.

Sups 2:43

Mm-hmm. Exactly.

Andi 2:45

All right, Sounds pretty cool. Yeah. The fact that as in China, Fits. Cause I feel like they had built a lot of very superlative kind of things like this now. Mm-hmm. Dubai would've been my other guess from my fake location if I were to invent this. Yes. I had originally thought that like they just built a dome under the real ocean, but I'm not realizing that's way harder than building a dome and then putting a tank over top of

Tanner 3:10

that. That was gonna be my question. How do you build a dry dome

Andi 3:15

You build the dome and then you fill it with water. Yeah. that makes sense. Yeah. Also, the whale shark thing. This is like a thing in East Asia. I don't know if a lot of know that. They're like pretty common in aquariums in East Asia Yeah. To po whale sharks,

Tanner 3:31

But it's really hard to keep them alive in an

Andi 3:33

aquariums. Yeah. They hate it. Yeah. Yeah. The island we lived on in Korea, they built an aqua park and their big draw was Aw. whale shark and they had put the whale shark on all the ads. Mm-hmm. it's the logo, like the mascot is a SW shark and I think it lived like a month. Yeah. It was very sad. But this tank is much bigger. I guess that's maybe,

Sups 3:52

yeah. So this Guang province is actually just off the coast off the island of Macau. Okay.

Andi 3:57

it fits the vibe of that region.

Tanner 4:00

believable that it exists, but 12 meters for an underwater dome being the biggest is kind of surprising to me. Cuz 12 meters doesn't sound that big. Doesn't Not really. I

Sups 4:10

mean, I,

Tanner 4:11

I

Andi 4:11

That's like 40 feet.

Tanner 4:12

Yeah.

Andi 4:12

So I guess that would be the thing. The other, one would probably be someplace that he thinks we would know. Yeah. So like, does Epcot have a dome road? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, oh, you should know it's in Disney or something. So like that's maybe where it is. Yeah.

Tanner 4:27

I could totally see that. But otherwise it sounds perfectly believable.

Andi 4:31

Yeah. It sounds like US theme park humans were built.

Sups 4:34

Okay, so we move on to fact number two. Mm-hmm. The only underwater post office in the world is in Vanuatu.

Tanner 4:44

Whoa.

Andi 4:44

So the most underwaters post office. Oh, to make it a superlative, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Tanner 4:51

I know Vanuatu is one of those island nations that's really at risk of like You know, going underwater because of climate change. Was it always underwater or has it gone

Sups 5:00

underwater? right. right. Very good question. So this opened in May, 2003 in the Hideaway Island Marine Sanctuary. And they opened it to show as a symbol that for that country, the ocean life is so important for

Andi 5:15

the survivor mm-hmm.

Tanner 5:16

And how

Andi 5:16

a post office.

Sups 5:17

Yes which

Andi 5:18

fish can send those letters. Yeah, I like that.

Sups 5:21

So the post office is submerged 10 feet below, and divers and s snor killers can leave waterproof postcards. So they have a special postcard. It has a special emblem so that it doesn't get smudged. opening hours are posted every day. At the beach with like a flag is flown to know that there is someone

Andi 5:41

Oh yeah. It's like, like at your mailbox, you put your flag up when there's a letter in size. So the flag is up, means that the postmaster is, on duty. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Sups 5:49

And, If the postmaster isn't on duty, then there's also a post box, so you can just go and leave your postcard there

Andi 5:58

I also like the idea of like, Two people going underwater and being like, no, you need this stamp. Because you never go to the post office and it's like you're trying to mail something and it never actually works. You're like,

Sups 6:08

no,

Andi 6:08

need this kind of stamp, but then you can't say that. So you have to like sign about

Tanner 6:12

it. I would definitely go there to mail packages cuz when they weigh them, isn't it gonna be cheaper?

Sups 6:17

different.

Andi 6:18

Yes.

Sups 6:18

That's, that's one way to look at it. And, and there's a lot of cruise ships that go around the area, and that's like their biggest customer base.

Tanner 6:26

from Vanuatu.

Sups 6:27

Mm-hmm. That's awesome.

Andi 6:28

Do we think it's the only one?

Tanner 6:31

Hmm. probably, it's kind of a unique idea.

Andi 6:34

Honestly. I don't think it's even that. no. I feel like the moment people went underwater, they were like, what can we put down here? They were like, this is okay. This is boring. What do we put down here?

Tanner 6:43

Well, they have fish, so there's schools. post office though. That's gotta be one of the boringest buildings to build.

Sups 6:51

Yeah. Underwater. But it's not really a building, it's just like a one, structure. Yeah. Let's

Tanner 6:56

just

Sups 6:57

is just

Andi 6:57

submerge, like a I mean, I think it's like, it's like a fun idea. Mm-hmm. But I could also see other places doing it. Like

Tanner 7:03

This totally sounds like it could be in the Florida Keys. any beach place, you know, anywhere that there's a resort. This could be like a draw, Yeah. But I do like that they used it as like a symbol of like, we're tied to the water. It's part of our life. Yeah. So we even have, part of our government is in the water. Yeah,

Sups 7:23

Okay. Moving on. Fact number three. Maldives has the most underwater restaurants.

Tanner 7:30

Wow.

Andi 7:30

There's the highest number on her water. Restaurants. What, like

Tanner 7:33

There's so

Andi 7:34

many that

Tanner 7:34

have the most.

Sups 7:35

Okay. It's seven.

Tanner 7:37

Seven. Okay. Yeah.

Andi 7:39

right? Yeah. Yeah. Like definitely.

Sups 7:41

yeah. Okay. So the first underwater restaurant opened in 2005 as part of the Conrad hotels chain. The restaurant can take in like 14 people and has 270 degrees. Panoramic view. Just a year later in 2006, they built, the world's largest underwater restaurant called 5.8,

Andi 8:03

is it 5.8 meters under underwater? Oh yeah.

Tanner 8:07

Creative.

Sups 8:07

Very creative. It has a 360 degree panoramic view and is made of glass walls and ceilings. Maximum of 10 couples can dine there and the restaurant has a barefoot policy.

Tanner 8:20

it's not for swimming? No, it's like a basement. Right, right. It's like another level below. And then it's just the fact that it's surrounded by water. Mm-hmm. And so there's windows all over. You can see out into the water.

Sups 8:31

Correct. Okay. But

Andi 8:32

when you look, see you. You are not wet. Yes. I think is what people, that's what I You're not wet, you're dry, you're like in, in a

Tanner 8:39

Right? kind of thing. Yes.

Sups 8:40

And when I look office, you're wet. You're, you're wet cuz you are Yeah. Diving there is no What they did is they built it on the ground and then they

Andi 8:47

They just submerged it.

Sups 8:48

Yeah. okay. Okay. Yeah. As if this wasn't enough. Maldives is also home to the world's first underwater wine cellar, and

Tanner 8:58

does that even work?

Sups 9:00

What is the and they also have a underwater nightclub,

Tanner 9:04

Oh my God.

Andi 9:05

Just do everything underwater there. I mean, So like if you were to just build something on the actual ground, it would be partially submerged. So like, I guess that makes sense. Yeah. They have a lot of water to

Tanner 9:16

right? Yeah. Everything is

Sups 9:18

Indian ocean out there. Yeah. Yeah.

Andi 9:21

okay, I'm not a fan of the beach. I don't know if we've ever talked about this, but I hate the

Tanner 9:25

Well, you hate the hot.

Andi 9:27

hate the hot, I hate sand and I hate being wet. So the beach is the worst also. It's so boring. What do you do? I don't

Tanner 9:32

understand.

Andi 9:32

my other gripe with the beach mm-hmm. Is that they're the same everywhere.

Tanner 9:36

Right. The

Andi 9:36

We have sand, we have water, we have probably palm trees cuz humans have put them everywhere. Yeah. So like, At a certain point, this is why I don't understand these kind of resorts, cuz aren't they kind of all the same thing? Yeah. Right. So I get that. Like this is what they do to try to make their thing different is mm-hmm. but we have an underwater hotel or an underwater restaurant we're different. So then it's like worth going there. Exactly. So like that kind of makes, that

Sups 10:00

makes sense.

Tanner 10:01

Underwater restaurant.

Andi 10:02

And we think the most is in the Maldives, I mean, probably right.

Tanner 10:05

Some Island Nation.

Andi 10:06

Yeah. Make

Tanner 10:07

sense.

Andi 10:07

I'd rather be in a dry underwater restaurant than at that post office. So

Tanner 10:13

Yeah, because you don't have to get wet.

Sups 10:15

fact number four. The longest underwater rail and road tunnel will be between Germany and Denmark.

Tanner 10:24

Okay,

Andi 10:25

Will be.

Sups 10:26

Will be. So yet? No. Currently under construction, but when it eventually opens in 2029 between Germany and Denmark. the Fairmont Bell Belt. Tunnel will become the largest underwater rail and road tunnel It's going to be an 18 kilometer tunnel with double lane highways and two electric rail tracks. Mm-hmm. It'll link put garden in northern Germany to rpi Har on the Danish island of Lola land across the Fairmont belt in the Baltic Sea.

Tanner 10:58

So it's going to a Danish

Sups 10:59

island. Yes.

Tanner 11:00

It's not even going to.

Andi 11:02

Yeah, but No, But like denmark's, mostly islands. So like it's not a remote island. Right. It's probably

Tanner 11:07

connected with a bridge. Bridge, yeah.

Sups 11:09

the only way to navigate this route today, which is used by millions, is by ferry. Okay? And this tunnel will reduce the travel time by more than an hour. So, for example, Hamburg to Copenhagen. Will take about three hours by train as opposed to more than five hours today. And one can go through Denmark in about 10 minutes by car, or seven minutes by train, avoiding a 160 kilometer detour. Wow. So you can just cross the whole country. The current longest undersea road tunnel is the tunnel in Norway. It's about 14.3 kilometers, and it's also the deepest road tunnel, oh, wow. Yeah,

Andi 11:47

I mean, the location kind of makes sense. I could believe it. I haven't heard nothing about this. I know nothing about this, but like, it does kind of make sense that region There's a lot of water.

Tanner 11:57

I know there's a lot of fairies.

Andi 11:58

Yeah. It can be kind of annoying, like if you're going by land, cuz like we've thought about driving from Poland to Denmark and it is kind of annoying because you have to go like around, you have to sweep around through Germany. Mm-hmm. so like I get that. That would be useful. Mm-hmm.

Tanner 12:11

So the only other underwater tunnels I know about are the tunnel.

Andi 12:15

That's like the very famous one between the UK and France.

Sups 12:19

yeah.

Andi 12:20

I don't, is that longer? I don't know. Mm-hmm. You know, so like to try to figure out the lie. Yeah. He's saying this one will be longer than that. He's saying this other one is 14 kilometers, so how long's the channel? Because that's really like, that's the only way I could know if this were a lie or not. Right?

Sups 12:35

Right?

Tanner 12:36

And I know that there's, a rail because you can take a train Yeah. to France from Britain

Sups 12:41

it's not a road in rail tunnel. so they have three tunnels. These are for rail services. And then you have like a service lane for the trains. So it's not like you can just take a car and just drive across the tunnel. And so those were my four facts about underwater super

Andi 12:57

Yeah. Very interesting. All these things under the water. but one of them is a lie. can you repeat the four of them for us before Tanner and I try to take a guess at which one it is?

Sups 13:17

fact number one, Hank Ocean Kingdom in China has the world's largest underwater viewing dome Fact number two, the only underwater post office in the world is in Vanuatu. Fact number three, Maldives has the most underwater restaurants, and fact number four, the longest underwater rail and road tunnel will be between Germany and Denmark.

Tanner 13:42

All right, one of those is taking on water. Hmm.

Sups 13:45

I,

Andi 13:46

like It's really hard to guess or to know, like,

Tanner 13:49

right.

Andi 13:50

Oh, do I think it's in China? Okay. Where else would it be? Yeah, okay, I can name a few places where maybe it could be, but like, I wouldn't have known that.

Tanner 13:58

Yeah, I think that's true for a lot of them And the thing about them is that they've all been built by people, so it's just where do you build it? Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's not like, oh yeah, I know the tallest mountain is here. Or it would naturally be here. You know, this is constructed by humans, so it could be anywhere. Humans are.

Andi 14:14

Right. What humans do you think made it, it's more of the question than

Tanner 14:17

then,

Andi 14:18

what did humans make? Right. I would probably go with something like maybe number two, There are other post offices like, you know, there are post offices in like surprising weird places that are just like cutesy for fun and kind of like this one. And I can imagine people in other parts of the world would make them

Tanner 14:34

Yeah. And that one's so easy to be false. It could just be somewhere else,

Andi 14:39

Yeah. You

Tanner 14:39

could be another one Another one, Yeah, I do agree with you there, but I actually think it might be the restaurant's one. I think any place with Coast could have more, you know, maybe Australia has

Andi 14:49

cause it's, I don't think it's about the coast though. I think it's about who has the incentive to make money off of such a thing. You think

Tanner 14:56

it's the luxury

Andi 14:57

thing? Yeah. It's gotta be luxury because I mean like even the first one, because otherwise like the US would have a bunch and the US doesn't have a bunch. Right. the US doesn't really have a ton of luxury

Tanner 15:07

Mm-hmm.

Andi 15:07

could

Tanner 15:08

be on Hawaii. Maybe. China,

Andi 15:11

Maybe It's India right next door.

Sups 15:14

Yeah, Yeah. Who knows? yeah,

Tanner 15:16

Yeah.

Sups 15:17

Yeah.

Andi 15:17

some Yeah.

Sups 15:19

sure. Check.

Andi 15:20

I don't know. I don't know. No, that's what he's playing with. He's like, you guys should have known. How did you, I'll think of India. Yeah. I don't know. Mm-hmm.

Tanner 15:27

So

Andi 15:28

I think maybe I'll pick number two.

Tanner 15:30

Okay.

Sups 15:31

Okay. it's the Okay. So fact number two, and fact number three, One of you is right. It's actually fact number two. Vanuatu, the underwater post office is the first one.

Tanner 15:44

one.

Sups 15:44

And when they did it, there were several copycat

Andi 15:47

Mm-hmm.

Sups 15:48

post offices in Japan, in Norway, and in Malaysia. The world's deepest is located more than 130 feet underwater. Wow. But the one in Vanuatu is the first in the history. Yeah. Of underwater

Tanner 16:02

post And that one you can like snorkel to, right.

Sups 16:04

yes. yes. You

Tanner 16:05

below water. Just Nice. Wow. yeah,

Andi 16:08

see, yeah. It's too cute and easy of an idea. Yeah. Right? Like you can't just build a luxury dome. You can't build another water dome. You can't build a tunnel and you can't build a restaurant just real quick. Yeah.

Tanner 16:18

But

Andi 16:18

could put a post

Sups 16:19

office Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

Tanner 16:21

post offices, north Pole, Boston

Andi 16:23

and mountains.

Sups 16:24

I mean, they're everywhere. Well, China has a post office in the space, so

Tanner 16:28

Sure.

Andi 16:29

wow. Okay. Yeah. See.

Tanner 16:31

There you go. Cool. Nice way of figuring that

Sups 16:33

out.

Tanner 16:33

Easiest one to build. Hmm.

Andi 16:35

that's definitely what I was going for. I should have known.

Tanner 16:41

I should have known.

Andi 16:42

Thanks for listening to this episode of the I Should Have Known podcast. We'll be continuing with our under the sea theme for the rest of the month. and if you like this episode, could you please leave us a review And as always, thanks for listening. the fish is like, that's my cousin. You