Daily Facts (12 Apr 2023)

Today's facts:

The only English place that has a name that ends with an exclamation mark is "Westward Ho!"
Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998
The oil that is found in poison ivy is called "urushiol."
Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission
Incas used to create pots in the shape of peanuts that were highly prized
Actress Sally Field was paid $4,000 a week for her role in the TV show The Flying Nun
On average, the American household consumes six pounds of peanut butter annually
The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away
Both Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter, U.S. presidents, were peanut farmers at one time
The Xerox company was initially called the Haloid Company

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI GPT.

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