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Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day (+ 9 more facts)

Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones.

December 1, 20247m 25s

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Daily Facts (01 Dec 2024)

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Today's facts:

  • On average, Americans eat one hundred acres of pizza a day. This amounts to about three hundred fifty slices per second
  • Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day
  • A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
  • A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring
  • There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants
  • When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment
  • Dolphins hear by having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear region
  • In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later
  • There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios

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