Daily Facts (05 Apr 2023)

Today's facts:

With winds of 50 miles per hour, The Statue of Liberty sways three inches and the torch sways five inches
On April 6, 1925, the first in-flight movie was shown. It was a silent film and appeared on a Deutsche Luft Hansa flight
Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer
In the first century, people used to drink goats milk to sweeten their breath
A surfer once sued another surfer for "stealing his wave." The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on "pain and suffering" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride "his" wave
In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coins
The Nobel prize was first awarded in 1901
Central air conditioners use 98% more energy than ceiling fans.
Queen Elizabeth I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere she went
John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for Van Wormer to come up with the idea.

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Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT.

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