Daily Facts (19 May 2023)

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Today's facts:

In 1982, Larry Walters tied 24 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet
The first known American novelist to hand in a manuscript that was typed was Mark Twain. His typewriter was a Remington No.1, which was invented by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific
You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called "Hell." They even have a post office
Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids
The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, was actually built for use as a tomb by Mogul ruler Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum
The most popular chocolate bar in the United Kingdom for the last 15 years has been Kit Kat
In an episode of the 1962 cartoon The Jestons, Jane Jetson is talking through a video phone. The phone number of The Jetsons was VENUS-1234

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

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