Daily Facts (18 May 2023)

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Today's facts:

Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans."
On average, a whole chicken from the grocery store weighs 3 pounds 12 ounces
The skin of a shark is made up of "tiny teeth" which are called dermal denticles
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996
Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap
Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving
The company "Sony" was originally called "Totsuken." They felt the name "Sony" would be easier to pronounce. The name was invented by a cross between the name "sonus" and "sonny." The name sound and sonic are derived. Sonny was used to represent a young man or boy, which would show a energetic young company
Walmart-mart sells more apparel a year than all the other competing department stores combined

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

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