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Daily Facts (26 Mar 2023) Today's facts: During the high feeding season, it has been estimated that an adult blue whale can eat up to 40 million krill in one day. (Krill are shrimp like creatures) There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue Peladophobia refers to the fear of bald people Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls appeared for sale in the June 1, 1954 issue of the Wall Street Journal In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963 In 1905, Chapman and Skinner in San Francisco invented the first portable electric vacuum. Each year all of the Hostess bakeries combined bake 500 million Twinkies a year. (A twinkie is a sponge cake with a creamy filling.) Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (25 Mar 2023) Today's facts: Annually a thousand people are killed by scorpions in Mexico Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapes Wherever a person is standing in the state of Michigan in the United States, they are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid The only animals that are capable of turning their heads 180 degrees are from the genus Galago, such as the Tarsier One in five Americans move homes every year Telephonophobia is the fear of telephones The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs The average Super Bowl party has 18 people Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (24 Mar 2023) Today's facts: The Kraft company produces enough Cool Whip, a brand of whipping cream, in one year to fill the entire Grand Canyon Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker Armadillos can be housebroken Everyday, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear The only popcorn museum in the world is lcoated in Marion, Ohio, USA In the U.S., over 35 million people have used some sort of illegal drug in the last year The word "comet" comes from the Greek word "kometes" meaning long hair and referring to the tail Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (23 Mar 2023) Today's facts: The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel 66% of wedding cards are hand delivered by people Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without beingable tomake change for a dollar. Sharks can sense a drop of blood from a mile away The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean There are 40 official jelly belly flavours The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat. There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (22 Mar 2023) Today's facts: A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted The first spacecraft to visit the planet Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962. Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War Fried spiders taste like nuts The body of the average baby is 75% water Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres. When playing competitive darts the player must be 7 feet 9 1/4 inches back from the dartboard. Also the board must be 5 feet 8 inches above the floor Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (21 Mar 2023) Today's facts: On average, an American family sends and receives 28 Christmas cards each year A person would have to drink more than 12 cups of hot cocoa to equal the amount of caffeine found in one cup of coffee In WWII, when allied armies reached the Rhine River the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it). Gen. Patton had himself photographed in the act Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second Turkeys can have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys dropped dead because of heart attacks Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A Research on pigs led to the development of CAT scans. If all the Oreo cookies ever sold were stacked on top of one another, they would be as high as 13.3 million Sears Towers People in low-income homes spend 50% more time playing video games than people in high-income homes Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (20 Mar 2023) Today's facts: The human liver performs over 500 functions It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year'ssupply of footballs. Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas leak, some gas companies add a chemical that smells similar like rotten eggs. Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" In 1996, toy company Mattel released a "Harley Davidson" Barbie. This dolls distinctive feature is a birth mark on her face that changes position with every new release of the doll The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days The first time there was an instance where they had a separate toilet for women and men was in 1739 at a ball in Paris The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (19 Mar 2023) Today's facts: There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half-caused cancer in rats The biggest religious building in the world is a Hindu Temple, Angkor Wat, located in Cambodia. It was built at the end of the 11th century There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since it came out in 1952 Elvis Presley used to be a truck driver before he started singing France is known as the perfume capital of the world The name "Lego" came from the Danish word LEg Godt, which means "play well." The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk Some Chinese chopsticks contain gold as on of their materials In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch The Olympics were originally held for the Greek god Zeus Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (18 Mar 2023) Today's facts: If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them Rice is thrown at weddings as a symbol of fertility The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin Platypuses mate in the water The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as isnecessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the ste of Virginia stillhad segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks andwhites. The length of brink of the Canadian "Horseshoe" Falls located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada is 2600 feet Babies that wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to get a diaper rash than babies wearing a cotton diaper Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (17 Mar 2023) Today's facts: A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9 The stapler was invented in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice In 1958 the United States sent three mice into space named, Mia, Laska and Benji Finnish folklore states that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound The country of Bolivia is named after a fighter Simon Bolivar A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists. Singer Alice Cooper once had a live chicken thrown at him during a concert in Toronto. He threw the chicken back at the crowd and all the publicity surrounding the incident skyrocketed his singing career The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Facts (16 Mar 2023) Today's facts: The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk In 1917, Margaret Sanger was jailed for one month for establishing the first birth control clinic Slugs have 4 noses The name "Tonka" trucks was named after Lake Minnetonka located in Minnesota. Tonka means "great" in Sioux The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch The largest ice cream sundae was made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream, was 12 feet high and had 7000 pounds of toppings on it. This was made in Anaheim, California in 1985 The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839 TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet, which can complete one revolution in less than ten hours Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas. Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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