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The human heart weighs less than a pound (+ 9 more facts)

Published 2 years, 7 months ago
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Daily Facts (25 Jul 2023)

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Today's facts:

  • There is enough water in American swimming pools to cover the whole city of San Francisco seven feet deep
  • Post-It Notes, which are adhesive notes, were invented while looking for a way to improve the acrylate adhesive found in tapes
  • Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side
  • 99% of the blueberries that are produced in the United States are produced in the state of Maine
  • A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
  • In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art
  • Mummy powder was once thought to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they went
  • Other than London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city, and was used to film more than 140 films in 2002
  • The human heart weighs less than a pound
  • No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses

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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