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09/26/24 • 5 min
Daily Facts (26 Sep 2024)
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Today's facts:
- When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse
- The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war
- Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth
- The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
- The TV show "Saturday Night Live" made its debut on October 11, 1975
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
- Annually 7 million tons of textiles and clothing is thrown out. Out of this, only 12% is used again or recycled
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08/17/23 • 7 min
Daily Facts (17 Aug 2023)
[Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website.
Today's facts:
- The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years
- Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg inthe air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horsehasall four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee
- There are more than 640 muscles in the human body
- A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea
- The first British ship to use the SOS distress signal was the Titanic
- An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
- One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons
- The long fibres that are found in bananas are excellent in making paper. The long fibres that are found in the banana plant can make the banana fibre paper approximately 3000 times stronger than regular paper
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02/10/25 • 7 min
Daily Facts (10 Feb 2025)
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Today's facts:
- Lightning strikes the Empire States Building about seven times a year
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class
- In the U.S., over 35 million people have used some sort of illegal drug in the last year
- Another word to refer to old age is senectitude
- A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine
- In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love
- The strongest gust of wind was recorded at the Mount Washington Observatory on April 12th, 1934, and measured 231 miles per hour.
- The Super Bowl is broadcast to over 182 countries in the world
- Steve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all across the world
- There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same
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09/30/23 • 7 min
Daily Facts (30 Sep 2023)
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Today's facts:
- In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring
- Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs
- Before soccer referees started using whistles in 1878, they used to rely on waving a handkerchief
- In the 18th century, potatoes were given out as a dessert. They were served in a napkin, salted and hot
- Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century. During that time it was provided in the form of a drink and since drinking wine during lent was a sin, so was drinking chocolate
- In 1923, the first neon sign was introduced in the U.S. Two neon signs were sold to a Packard car dealership for $24,000 which read, "Packard."
- The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."
- An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes kissing in their car in a lifetime
- On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day
- The name of the popular sports drink Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was developed
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11/14/23 • 5 min
Daily Facts (14 Nov 2023)
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Today's facts:
- The most popular treat for Halloween trick-or-treaters are candy bars with Snickers being the most popular
- When Burger King introduced the Whopper Sandwich in 1957, it cost only thirty-seven cents
- Shirley Temple was considered to play the role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."
- Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River
- In the movie "Gandhi" 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free
- The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk
- Most American car horns honk in the key of F
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09/23/23 • 7 min
Daily Facts (23 Sep 2023)
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Today's facts:
- Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas
- More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year
- The word "laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation."
- A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days
- A myrmecologist studies ants
- The longest punt return for a touchdown was 103 yards
- In 1976, fourteen banks merged to form a bank credit card called "Mastercharge." This was later renamed to what is now know as "Mastercard."
- The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year
- JELL-O was declared The "Official State Snack" of Utah in January 2001
- Less than 1% of the women in the world will ever be able to wear a diamond that is the size of a carat or more
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01/08/24 • 5 min
Daily Facts (08 Jan 2024)
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Today's facts:
- On September 3, 1970, a hailstone was found in Coffeyville, Kansas that was eight inches in diameter and weighed 1.67 pounds.
- The reason why locusts swarm are because when they are in groups, a "hot-spot" behind their hind legs is stimulated, which in turn causes their destructive nature. A large swarm of locusts can eat eighty thousand tons of corn in a day
- Corals take a long time to grow. Some corals only grow one centimeter in one year
- George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory
- Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836
- Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living
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02/12/25 • 7 min
Daily Facts (12 Feb 2025)
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Today's facts:
- From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain
- Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920
- The name of the character that is behind bars in the Monopoly board game is Jake the Jailbird
- It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States
- During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles
- Mexican jumping beans jump because of moth larvae inside the bean
- In 1871, horse cars were introduced. It was simply a car that was pulled over a track by a horse.
- The largest ketchup bottle in the world is a 170 feet tall and is located in Collinsville, Illinois, USA. It was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company as a water tower
- The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed
- Florida has twice as many lightning injuries and deaths than any other state
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02/11/25 • 7 min
Daily Facts (11 Feb 2025)
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Today's facts:
- The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark
- Men are more likely to be colorblind than women. About one of out of 12 men are colorblind
- Thailand used to be called Siam
- One million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop.
- The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined
- In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and "Go."
- According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water
- Just like fingerprints, every cats nose pad is different
- A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon
- Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste
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02/14/24 • 7 min
Daily Facts (14 Feb 2024)
[Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website.
Today's facts:
- The A.A. Milne character of Winnie the Pooh made his animated film debut in 1966 in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
- Eighty percent of the Vanilla Beans which are used to make ice cream is grown in Madagascar
- The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards
- Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone
- The city of Argentia which is located on Newfoundland's southwest coast, is Canada's most fog-bound community. It has 206 days of fog each year.
- In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders
- On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament
- The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance
- February 17th, 1930, was the first flight by a cow in an airplane. The milk that was produced by the cow during the flight was put into containers and parachuted over the city of St. Louis
- The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Daily Facts have?
Daily Facts currently has 757 episodes available.
What topics does Daily Facts cover?
The podcast is about Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Podcasts and Education.
What is the most popular episode on Daily Facts?
The episode title 'The Bible has been translated into Klingon. (+ 6 more facts)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Daily Facts?
The average episode length on Daily Facts is 7 minutes.
How often are episodes of Daily Facts released?
Episodes of Daily Facts are typically released every day.
When was the first episode of Daily Facts?
The first episode of Daily Facts was released on Feb 7, 2023.
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