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

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Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT.

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