Daily Facts (26 Mar 2023)

Today's facts:

During the high feeding season, it has been estimated that an adult blue whale can eat up to 40 million krill in one day. (Krill are shrimp like creatures)
There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue
Peladophobia refers to the fear of bald people
Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls appeared for sale in the June 1, 1954 issue of the Wall Street Journal
In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet
Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963
In 1905, Chapman and Skinner in San Francisco invented the first portable electric vacuum.
Each year all of the Hostess bakeries combined bake 500 million Twinkies a year. (A twinkie is a sponge cake with a creamy filling.)
Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste

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Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT.

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