Fried spiders taste like nuts | + 9 more facts (now with more detail!) | 22 Mar 2023
Daily Facts (22 Mar 2023)
Today's facts:
- A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted
- The first spacecraft to visit the planet Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962.
- Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War
- Fried spiders taste like nuts
- The body of the average baby is 75% water
- Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve
- There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
- When playing competitive darts the player must be 7 feet 9 1/4 inches back from the dartboard. Also the board must be 5 feet 8 inches above the floor
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
- A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres
Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.
Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT.
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