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Daily Facts - The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards (+ 9 more facts)

The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards (+ 9 more facts)

Daily Facts

02/14/24 • 7 min

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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.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios

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02/14/24 • 7 min

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