Platypuses mate in the water | + 9 more facts (now with more detail!) | 18 Mar 2023
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.
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