Daily Facts (01 Aug 2023)

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Today's facts:

• Babies that wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to get a diaper rash than babies wearing a cotton diaper
• The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
• The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie "Free Willy") from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998
• The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82
• Even though a polar bears fur looks white it is actually colourless and is made with hollow tubes. The reason the bear looks white is because the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance
• The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: HASsenfeld BROthers
• The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893
• The longest town name in the world has 167 letters
• Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use
• The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger

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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