Daily Facts (28 Mar 2023)

Today's facts:

Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character
On April 4, 1974, John Massis of Belgium pulled two New York Long Island railroad passenger cars totaling 80 tons with a thick rope, with a small bit attached, using only his teeth
In humans, the epidermal layer of skin, which consists of many layers of skin regenerates every 27 days
93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women
Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate
The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds
Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous
The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours
The word vaccine comes from the Latin word "vacca," which means cow. This name was chosen beacause the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner

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Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT.

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