Daily Facts (19 Jun 2023)

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Today's facts:

• More than 100 professional cyclists participate in the Tour de France every year and the race is over 3,200 kilometers
• Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars
• A seven year old boy was the first person to survive the Horeshoe Falls (Niagara Falls) in just a life jacket
• In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.
• When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse
• A human eyeball weighs an ounce
• The word "diastema" is the word for having a gap between your teeth
• Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscar nominations with sixty-four
• The temperature of milk when it is coming out of a cow is about 36 degrees celsius
• African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away

Facts from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas.

Fact explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts.

This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios

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