Daily Facts (20 Jun 2023)

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Today's facts:

• Tug of war was an Olympic event from 1900-1920
• Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death
• Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit
• An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham
• There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
• The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
• 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep
• The word Karate means, "empty hand."
• Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups

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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